News from November 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its report on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the third quarter of 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A member of a Lawrence-based kidnapping crew was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a 2012 kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jimmy Jivens, age 42, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on November 8, 2017, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Arizona resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on charges of coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, and receipt and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 25 during a 6-day period, ending Nov. 9 in Long Island in an enforcement effort dubbed, Operation Secure Streets.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the indictment of MATTHEW ALLEN AMUNDSON, 30, a registered nurse, for fraudulently obtaining hydromorphone, a prescription opioid pain medication. AMUNDSON, who is charged with one count of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, made his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn. earlier today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Barbara Snyder, 59, West Salem, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to four years in federal prison for engaging in a wire fraud scheme and filing a false income tax return. Snyder pleaded guilty to these charges on Aug. 25, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Roberto Carlos Puebla Saavedra, 32, originally from Cuba, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 60 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $408,596.46 in restitution for his role in a conspiracy involving fraudulent purchases in North Texas using counterfeit bank cards, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Gerardo Perez Uribe has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for coercing a minor girl in North Carolina to produce child pornography of herself and send it to him over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - David Kendall Rahim, age 41, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to one count of robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence stemming from a 2014 robbery of a Baltimore city couple.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: HELENA - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that 67-year old William Kent Ross of Whitehall was sentenced to 15 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Charles C. Lovell presided over the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on November 7, 2017, Gary Schroeder, of Janesville, was indicted by a federal grand jury of dealing firearms without a license and transferring a firearm to an out-of-state person.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that John C. Ryall, age 38, of Simpson, Pennsylvania, was indicted on November 7, 2017, by a federal grand jury and charged with armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael Munroe, a/k/a Michael Monroe, 34, previously of Raymond, New Hampshire, was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday to 11 years in prison for his role in two bank robberies and other criminal conduct in 2016, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Michael Vincent Alvarez, 32, of Fresno, charging him with aiming the beam of a laser pointer at a Fresno Police Department helicopter, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: A doctor was sentenced to 48 months in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution of $2,198,520.37 for his participation in a multi-million dollar health care fraud and money laundering scheme that involved the filing of fraudulent insurance claim forms and defrauded health care benefit programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA - Anthony Khyree Dotson aka “Ant" was sentenced today to 120 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for sex trafficking a 17-year old minor female while a fugitive for a prior federal conviction involving the same conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: New Orleans Woman Convicted for Role in $3.2 Million Medicare Kickback Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury returned a eleven-count superseding indictment yesterday charging nine men with various violent offenses stemming from several armed robberies in North Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Charlottesville man was sentenced today to seven years in prison for committing three fraud schemes that resulted in total losses of over $3.5 million.
