News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Columbia, Mo., man has been convicted in federal court on charges related to child pornography and the sexual exploitation of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Decatur, Ill., man, James P. Smith, who worked as an independent insurance agent, today pled guilty to charges that he defrauded his clients of more than $250,000 from February 2011 to July 2016. Smith, 60, of the 5400 block of Traughber Road, appeared before Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid in Peoria. Sentencing is scheduled on July 20, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: A former executive of Coach USA Inc. was sentenced today for attempting to conceal and destroy documents relevant to a civil antitrust investigation and for providing false and misleading statements during the course of civil antitrust litigation, the Department of Justice announced. .
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Lebanon Junior High School teacher pleaded guilty in federal court today to downloading child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Mateo Alvaro-Arcos, 39, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on March 23, 2017, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Alvaro-Arcos was arrested in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He received time served plus 10 days, was ordered to pay...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement on the updated Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of the House Republican Trumpcare bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHRISTOPHER CERVINO, a/k/a “Smitty," and SHEIK F. KHAN, a/k/a “Abida Khan," were found guilty yesterday afternoon in Manhattan federal court after a three-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr. for their roles in a securities fraud scheme involving a publicly traded over-the-counter company called VGTel, Inc. (“VGTL").
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Florida Businessman Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Commit Tax And Bank Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that LARRY GREEN, a/k/a “Mafia," a/k/a “Maf," was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 22 years in prison, in connection with the 2006 drug-related murder of Shawn Williams, a/k/a “Showtime" (“Williams") in Paterson, New Jersey. Sentenced was imposed by U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Frances Jo Mehner, 71, of Rio Rancho, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a 207-day term of imprisonment, which she has already served, followed by a year of supervised release for filing a false claim for a federal tax refund.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Faces at Least 15 Years in Prison.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Washington - The National Park Service, in cooperation with The Trust for the National Mall, is moving the Lockkeeper’s House at the corner of Constitution Avenue and 17th Street as the first phase of the rehabilitation of Constitution Gardens. In order to safely accommodate the construction activities...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The owners of Giovanni’s Roast Beef & Pizza in Peabody, Mass., were arrested yesterday and charged in U.S. District Court in Boston with obstruction of justice for removing items from a safe deposit box following the execution of federal search warrants.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Investigation Online Led to Search Warrant at Defendant’s Residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - David A. McComb Jr., 32, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 77 months in prison for possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: FBI Boston Announces Return of Stolen Super Bowl Jerseys to the New England Patriots.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: MAR 23 - HARTFORD, Conn - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that Aaron Gyambibi, also known as “E," 26, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Following a four-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey, a federal jury has convicted Gilberto Gomez, 37, on felony drug offenses. The conviction was announced by Clyde E. Shelley, Jr., DEA’s Special Agent in Charge for Dallas and U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A Longview, Texas mother and son have been indicted on federal charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherson today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - Nakia Palmer, 34, an employee of the Social Security Administration (SSA), and her husband, Nathaniel Palmer, 29, both of Montgomery, Alabama, were arrested yesterday after being charged with eight separate offenses, all related to the Palmers’ schemes to fraudulently receive government...
