News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging ANA GUITY, 30, of West Haven, with three counts of theft of mail matter by a U.S. postal employee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - Freedom Health Inc., a Tampa-based provider of managed care services, and its related corporate entities (collectively “Freedom Health"), agreed to pay $31,695,593 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by engaging in illegal schemes to maximize their payment from...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Thirty-five (35) people were indicted in St. Louis on charges of conspiring to traffic in contraband cigarettes, conspiracy to distribute synthetic drugs and money laundering.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Gunnison, CO: Ponderosa campground and launch ramp will open for the season on Thursday, June 8. Hours of the Ponderosa inspection station and boat ramp - through Labor Day - will be 8 am to 4:30 pm Thursday through Monday. The station and ramp are closed to all launching on Tuesdays and Wednesdays due to limited staffing. Outside of inspection hours, the ramp is locked.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Bryan Fish, age 22, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty today to two counts of making false declarations before a federal grand jury investigating an arson that killed four people in Schenectady.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Raleigh - United States Attorney John Stuart Bruce announced that today in federal court United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced seven defendants to federal prison for their participation in an identity theft and credit card scheme carried out at various Walmart and Sam’s Club stores. The Court also directed that each of the defendants serve terms of supervised release, and the forfeiture of the proceeds of their crimes.
By DOE Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, and U.S. Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today expressed their strong support for a new Secretarial Order signed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke at the Alaska Oil and Gas Association’s annual conference. The order will help evaluate the vast resources ...
By Homeland Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - A local pimp who recruited a woman through a social media website and advertised her services as a prostitute in an online publication has pleaded guilty to a federal sex trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Sterling Jones, 23, of Lockport, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession of child pornography. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A registered sex offender from Kansas pleaded guilty Wednesday to picking up a 16-year-old girl in Virginia and taking her across state lines to have sex with him, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The former operations and maintenance manager of Berkshire Power Plant in Agawam, Mass., was sentenced yesterday for tampering with environmental monitors in violation of the Clean Air Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that the United States and the owner of 24 and 24.5 Cottage Street in Rutland have resolved the forfeiture action brought against this property. The property, commonly referred to as a boarding or rooming house, consists primarily of single room occupancy rental units.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Vitaliy Fedorchuk, 28, of Antelope, pleaded guilty today to five counts of mail fraud for an international scheme to sell counterfeit airbags via eBay and other internet sales sites, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Charles Raimondi, Sr., 74, Park Falls, Wis., was sentenced on May 24 by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to 10 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography. This prison term is to be followed by a lifetime period of supervised release. Raimondi pleaded guilty to this charge on March 16, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: BISMARCK - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on May 30, 2017, Shayla Left Hand, 22, Fort Yates, ND, was sentenced before Chief US District Judge Daniel L. Hovland to serve a total of 20 years in prison and five (5) years of supervised release. On February 8, 2017, Left Hand pled guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Defendant Accessed the Victims’ Personally Identifying Information while Working for a Medical Practice in Charlotte.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina----United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Aaron Vennefron of Hamilton, Ohio, pled guilty to his role in a conspiracy involving theft of government funds. Vennefron admitted that he and another man conspired to defraud the government by creating fraudulent invoices...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MONICA SYLVEST, age 52, of Marrero, pled guilty today to a Bill of Information charging her with health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment Wednesday morning charging six individuals in what the indictment alleges is an international drug trafficking organization involved in manufacturing fake prescription drugs made from Fentanyl. Hundreds of thousands of the fake pills were then distributed throughout Utah and the United States to customers who had ordered pills from their dark net online store.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Jackie Eugene Clayton, 38, Juan Carlos Lopez, 53, and Rudy Roman Ramirez, 45, were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor following their guilty pleas in February 2017 to one count of conspiracy to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
