News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Blue Springs, Mo., business owner pleaded guilty in federal court today to tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Brian Johnson has been named Structural Fire Branch Chief for the National Park Service Division of Fire and Aviation Management. He succeeds Hal Spencer, who retired earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Hannah Marie Elwell, 26, of Clarksburg, West Virginia was sentenced today to 35 months incarceration for unlawfully purchasing a firearm, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, waived prosecution by Indictment and pleaded guilty to an Information in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on a charge of Possession of a Stolen Firearm, and was sentenced to 42 months imprisonment followed by 3 years supervised release, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The leader of the MS-13 East Coast Program pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to racketeering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Brandon Kenon Rogers, 31, of Grand Rapids, pled guilty to student loan and tax fraud. Rogers’s wire fraud scheme involved aggravated identity theft and ultimately defrauded the U.S. Department of Education of approximately $150,000. His filing of false tax returns using other people’s information led to the tax fraud conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: A grand jury in Miami indicted three individuals for their alleged participation in an investment fraud scheme that targeted investors throughout the United States, defrauding them out of approximately $15 million. The main office operated out of Sunrise, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Manual Vera-Gonzalez, of Guanajuato, Mexico, was sentenced today to time served by Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Vera-Gonzalez had served over seven months in custody since his arrest in April 2017. Vera-Gonzalez pleaded guilty on Aug. 30, 2017, to failure to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Greensburg, Kentucky, attorney was charged with multiple counts of wire fraud as part of a scheme to obtain money from clients of his legal practice, by means of misappropriating funds, in order to pay personal expenses including gambling losses announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - The chief executive officer of a suburban pharmaceutical company was arrested today on a federal fraud charge for allegedly pocketing at least $1.5 million from investors and spending the cash on a luxury lake house in Michigan and golf and yacht club dues.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - On Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017, Dr. Gilberto Sanchez, 56, of Cecil, Alabama, pleaded guilty to drug distribution conspiracy, health care fraud, and money laundering charges, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. from the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of Willful Violation of an OSHA Regulation Causing the Death of an Employee, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Neal Edmond Brown, 46, of Canyon, Texas, appeared this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to a superseding information charging one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography, announced Erin Nealy Cox, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee delivered the following opening statement today at a Committee hearing discussing simplifying the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Senator Murray highlighted the importance of a comprehensive reauthorization of the Higher Education Act to adequately address all of the challenges college students’ are facing today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found EDWARD J. KOSINSKI, 70, of Weston, guilty of insider trading offenses. The trial before U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant began on November 13 and the jury returned its verdict this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: A grand jury in Miami indicted three individuals for their alleged participation in an investment fraud scheme that targeted investors throughout the United States, defrauding them out of approximately $15 million. The main office operated out of Sunrise, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Greensburg, Kentucky, attorney was charged with multiple counts of wire fraud as part of a scheme to obtain money from clients of his legal practice, by means of misappropriating funds, in order to pay personal expenses including gambling losses announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that SALVADOR ORDONEZ-MALDONADO, age 58, a native of Mexico, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to a two-count Bill of Information for possession with intent to distribute 27 kilograms of marijuana and illegal reentry of a previously removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Marshall, Minnesota, woman was sentenced to 35 months of imprisonment following her convictions for Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft.
