News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that William Gaudet, 51, formerly of Wells, Maine, was convicted today following a four-day jury trial in U.S. District Court of transporting a minor interstate intending to engage in criminal sexual activity and interstate travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Roscoe Villega, a/k/a “P Shawn," age 43, a member of a gang that has operated for a decade or more in the City of York, was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Yvette Kane for racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 16, 2017 - Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement in reaction to the appointment of Brian Steed as Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the guilty plea of ARON AVRAM SHAMILOV, 24, for impersonating a federal officer. SHAMILOV, who was indicted on Sept. 19, pleaded guilty on Nov. 13, 2017, before United States District Judge Susan Richard Nelson in Saint Paul, Minn. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 16, 2018.
By State Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks at an event highlighting the plight of Iraqi and Syrian children...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Reynaldo Cristobal Jimenez Jimenez, age 25, and a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to time served (22 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Over One-Quarter of Children Under Age 18 Live With One Parent.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017, United States District Judge Michael J. McShane sentenced Brian Keith Sunkenberg, 53, to 45 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to endangering human life by manufacturing marijuana in the form of hash oil. Judge McShane ordered Sunkenberg to pay $27,671 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging three individuals with conspiring to smuggle heroin into the State of Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) Goose Creek Correctional Center (GCCC) for distribution to inmates in April 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kewon D. Johnson, age 24, of Albany, pled guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Ronquieze Head, 35, and Seronte Newby, 29, both of Cincinnati, with crimes related to theft from gun stores in Ohio and Kentucky in an indictment returned in Cincinnati.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Four San Diego-area nursing homes owned by Los Angeles-based Brius Management Co. have agreed to pay as much as $6.9 million to resolve civil allegations that their employees paid kickbacks for patient referrals and submitted fraudulent bills to government health care programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Four San Diego-area nursing homes owned by Los Angeles-based Brius Management Co. have agreed to pay as much as $6.9 million to resolve civil allegations that their employees paid kickbacks for patient referrals and submitted fraudulent bills to government health care programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Roscoe Villega, a/k/a "P Shawn," age 43, a member of a gang that has operated for a decade or more in the City of York, was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Yvette Kane for racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) released the following statement after advancing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act tonight after a near week-long markup in the Senate Finance Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Matthew E. Boone, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 46 months incarceration for unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has returned a new indictment in a racketeering case targeting the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC) street gang that adds a murder charge stemming from a previously unsolved 2012 homicide, Acting United States Attorney Sandra R. Brown announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Dr. John Dailey was sentenced to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay $291,413 in restitution to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced the Workplace Action for a Growing Economy (WAGE) Act today to strengthen workers’ rights to form or join a union, speak...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Public Assistance in Aurora Bank Robbery.
