News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., Adam S. Cohen, FBI Special Agent in Charge and Scott J. Lampert, HHS Inspector General’s New York Office announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 166-count superseding indictment charging Dr. Eugene Gosy, 56, of Clarence, NY, with the following crimes...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owner of a business that operated parking lots was arrested this morning after being charged with bilking the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs out of more than $11 million that should have been paid in relation to a contract to operate parking facilities on the VA’s Los Angeles medical campuses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Colombian National Extradited to the United States to Face Charges for Encouraging and Inducing Aliens to Come to the United States.
By State Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today met with British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Boris Johnson. Representative Engel and Foreign Secretary Johnson shared views on policy toward Iran, with emphasis on the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Three local men have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Marco Zuniga, 25, Frank Flores, 25, Chance Nutt, 40, and Clifton Johnson, 42, all had previously guilty to the charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Ordered to pay $689,104 restitution. BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - a Casey County, Kentucky, man was sentenced today in United States District Court by District Judge Greg N. Stivers, to 12 months in prison, 3 years supervisory release, with the first 12 months spent in home confinement, and ordered to pay restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: The collaboration of local, state, and federal law enforcement under the Detroit One program has led to the investigation and racketeering indictment involving thirteen members of the violent eastside Detroit street gang, Smokecamp, a/k/a Original Paid Bosses (or OPB), Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans, announces the arrest of LUIS J. COTTO, a/k/a “Luis Pereira," age 31, of New York, following the unsealing of a Second Superseding Indictment charging an array of federal narcotics and firearm violations by members of a drug trafficking organization operating in south Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A retired Navy veteran was arrested today for the kidnapping of Ashanti M. Billie, a 19 year-old Virginia Beach woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA - On November 7, 2017, United States Senior District Court Judge James E. Gritzner sentenced Charles Jesse Beuterbaugh, 30, of Pottawattamie County, to 20 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute a fentanyl analogue that caused death or serious bodily injury, announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Karl Edward Hahn, 44, of Manchester, Connecticut and formerly of New Castle, New Hampshire was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison for participating in a wire fraud scheme that defrauded a victim of approximately $2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, a four-count indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of New York, charging Joseph P. Willner, a self-described day trader, with Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Conspiracy to Commit Securities Fraud and Computer Intrusions, Securities Fraud and Conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: ST. LOUIS - James P. Shroba, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA St. Louis Division, today announced that David Wayne Lederhos, 54, of Kansas City, Missouri, was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison after being convicted on the charges of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Lederhos was sentenced by U.S. District Court Brian Wimes, in the Western District of Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Reynaldo Martinez, 25, of Central Falls, pleaded guilty today to federal charges relating to his participation in a scheme to use the stolen identity of numerous individuals to open retail store credit cards and lines of credits, which he used to purchase tens of thousands of dollars worth of goods in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Matthew Barker (34, Jacksonville) to five years and five months in federal prison for distributing heroin and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. He pleaded guilty on May 24, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DARREN BRANDON WILLIAMS, age 29, of Oakland, California, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to alter U.S. Postal money orders.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed H.R. 4239, the “Strengthening the Economy with Critical Untapped Resources to Expand American Energy Act" or “SECURE American Energy Act." The bipartisan SECURE American Energy Act - sponsored by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shaquan M. Shingledecker, 25, of Niagara Falls, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Ordered to pay $689,104 restitution. BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - a Casey County, Kentucky, man was sentenced today in United States District Court by District Judge Greg N. Stivers, to 12 months in prison, 3 years supervisory release, with the first 12 months spent in home confinement, and ordered to pay restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman, today announced the sentencing of former Louisville business owner Lawrence P. Tatem, in United States District Court, by Senior Judge Charles R. Simpson III, to 27 months in prison and one year supervisory release, for willful failure to file federal income tax returns during a four-year period and evasion of payment of taxes, penalties, and assessments totaling $533,498 from a two-year period.
