News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the guilty plea of ANTONIO CARLOS DE GODOY BUZANELI, 56, for his role in a $150 million investment fraud scheme involving Brazilian factoring. BUZANELI entered his guilty plea earlier today before Senior Judge Michael J. Davis in U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ANITRA SMITH, age 37, a resident of New Orleans, pleaded guilty today to a one-count bill of information with assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Former Venezuelan Official Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Charge in Connection with Bribery Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RESHAD FRANK, age 40, of Reserve, was sentenced today for charges relating to narcotics trafficking.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to examine energy-related challenges and opportunities in remote and rural areas of the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Secret Service (USSS) provides security for high profile dignitaries and preserves the integrity of the financial system, while U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) works to protect our national borders. But what do they have in common? Both use Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man was indicted today in federal court in Boston on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Chinese national was charged today in federal court in Boston with illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: MACON, Ga. - Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Arthur D. Peralta announce that the eleven defendants listed below have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in Macon and have been...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND- Marquis Medellin, 31 years old, of Hammond, Indiana, was sentenced before Hammond District Court Judge Philip Simon following his conviction for conspiracy to commit racketeering activity as a member of the Latin King street gang, announced U.S. U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A resident of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months’ incarceration, followed by three years’ supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging CAMERINO SANCHEZ-VENEGAS, age 27, of Mexico, FRANCISCO VEGA-MARTINEZ, age 35, of Mexico, EDGAR SOLIS-PEREZ, age 38, of Mexico...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. -- A Moline, Ill., man, Samir A. Patel, 49, was sentenced today for bankruptcy fraud. Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid ordered Patel, of the 3600 block of 73rd Street, to serve 24 months in prison, and upon release from prison, to remain on supervised release for a three-year term.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: As Americans finished filing their taxes this week, political leaders pointed out that this was a particularly special Tax Day - the last one in which Americans had to file under an outdated tax code. Next year, thanks to the enactment of the tax reform bill championed by Senate Finance Committee Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Locust Grove, Virginia, man was convicted today of conspiring to traffic 35 guns from Virginia into New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced a $30,000 civil settlement with DR. MICHAEL T. SCHULENBERG, a Minnesota physician. The civil settlement stems from allegations that DR. SCHULENBERG violated the Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: MONROE, La. - Five former corrections officers at the Richwood Correctional Center (RCC) in Monroe, Louisiana, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to physically assault five inmates in violation of their Constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Hatch, for convening this vitally important hearing, which gives the committee an opportunity to examine the opioid issue while it works on bipartisan legislation under the chairman’s leadership. I’m going to have some comments on that process in a moment, but here’s where I want to begin my remarks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Antonio D. Golden, 25, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to a total of seven years in federal prison for drug and gun charges. Golden pleaded guilty to possessing crack cocaine with intent to distribute and to possessing a firearm in furtherance of the drug crime on Jan. 11, 2018.
