News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee Ricardo Rivera-Ortiz was found guilty on all counts of fraud associated with Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Workers’ Compensation Program (OWCP), announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez Vélez. United States District Court Judge Gustavo A. Gelpí presided over the trial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - The former chief financial officer of a public computer-services company admitted in federal court today that he participated in a scheme to defraud a global telecommunications provider out of at least $3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U. S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dellsean Hamilton, 27, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on May 16, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has distributed to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office $1,813,575 of forfeited drug proceeds seized in connection with the investigation of a synthetic drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: The last of seven individuals associated with a string of violent armed robberies in Miami-Dade County has been sentenced to over 138 years in prison.
By State Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Michael T. McCaul, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security and a senior member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced a measure in the House of Representatives that...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Michael Volf Ol, 44, of Xenia, Ohio pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to one count of making a false statement.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy & Commerce Committee packed in quite a bit this week, holding three hearings and a subcommittee markup. #SubCommTech kicked off the week with a hearing Wednesday morning where members examined the country’s emergency alerting systems. That same day, #SubHealth reviewed four...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: The former program director of Priority: My Education, a supplemental educational service provider, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison after previously pleading guilty to federal program fraud, Acting United States Attorney Daniel Lemisch announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: Today, federal, state and local authorities arrested 26 individuals, including “TMM General" Raul Ramos, and are looking for four others in connection with a heroin/cocaine trafficking operation in the San Antonio area announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Essex County, New Jersey, men were arrested this morning and charged in connection with a scheme that allegedly caused losses of approximately $500,000 by deceiving victim banks into crediting certain customer accounts that could be fraudulently accessed by members of the conspiracy, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: Mother Sentenced to 26 Months in Prison for Taking Child from Illinois to Canada in International Parental Kidnapping Case.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - In August 2016, a federal grand jury returned nine indictments charging 14 retail store operators in the greater Baltimore area with food stamp fraud and wire fraud in connection with obtaining over $16 million from the United States Department of Agriculture by illegally trading food stamp benefits for cash. Twelve of the fourteen charged defendants have pleaded guilty, and two defendants were sentenced this week to federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee Ricardo Rivera-Ortiz was found guilty on all counts of fraud associated with Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Workers’ Compensation Program (OWCP), announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez Vélez. United States District Court Judge Gustavo A. Gelpí presided over the trial.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: The bloated U.S. tax code is a tangled web of legislative provisions, regulations, and rulings that confuses American taxpayers, impedes economic efficiency, treats similarly-situated taxpayers differently, and stifles the competitiveness of American businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A prisoner in eastern Kentucky has been sentenced to 129 months after pleading.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: A leader of the Band Crew street gang was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for his role in gang-related attempted murders, robberies, and shootings. An associate of the Band Crew street gang was also sentenced yesterday to nearly seven years in prison for his role in the gang’s criminal activities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Dana Boente, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced today that XU JIAQIANG pled guilty to economic espionage and theft of a trade secret, in connection with XU’s theft of proprietary...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: A 25-year-old Seattle man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to ten years in prison and five years of supervised release for three felony counts related to illegal gun possession, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. FRANKIE MANUEL MIRANDA survived an August 2015, gun battle inside ...
