News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Three people were indicted for illegally reentering the United States after multiple deportations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Owner of Kansas Medical Staffing Company Indicted in Employment Tax Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Today, as the Department of Justice recognizes the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the nationwide rollout of an initiative aimed at increasing awareness and reporting of sexual harassment in housing.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Rotech Agrees to Pay $9.68 Million to Settle False Claims Act Liability Related to Improper Billing for Portable Oxygen.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Miami, Florida, returned an indictment on Tuesday, Apr. 10 charging a Miami, Florida, certified public accountant with tax evasion, failing to file tax returns and failing to pay over payroll taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg for the Southern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RONALD VANTRESS, JR., age 53, of New Orleans, was charged in a three-count indictment with bank robbery, interstate transportation of stolen property, and interstate transportation of a stolen motor vehicle, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113(a), 2314, and 2312.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Florida Escort Service Owner Pleads Guilty to Underreporting Income.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon Fremin announced today the unsealing of a federal grand jury indictment arising from an extensive federal, state, and local criminal investigation into a multi-state methamphetamine drug organization operating in Ascension Parish and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Defendant Met and Groomed Victim Online, Traveled to California for Sex with Victim and Produced Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger has announced that Christopher L. Childs (age 45) of Hartford, Wisconsin, appeared in federal court today for an arraignment on multiple offenses related to sex trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Departamento de Justicia. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Texas. PARA DIVULGACION INMEDIATA. Jueves, 12 de abril de 2018. El Abogado de los Estados Unidos John F. Bash junto con Steve A. Borak, Interino Agente Especial en Cargo de la Administración para el Control de Drogas (DEA por sus siglas...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, recognized Price County Investigator Chris Jarosinski and the Price County Sheriff’s Office for their efforts in a successful international cybercrime investigation and prosecution. The ceremony today took...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger has announced that Christopher L. Childs (age 45) of Hartford, Wisconsin, appeared in federal court today for an arraignment on multiple offenses related to sex trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Liu Lauds Courage and Strength of Those Who Come Forward.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MARTHA OJEDA, age 42, of Pflugerville, Texas, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to five years in prison followed by ten years of supervised release after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. OJEDA will also have to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury convicted former U.S. Representative Stephen E. Stockman for orchestrating a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from charitable foundations and the individuals who ran those foundations to illegally finance Stockman’s campaigns for public office and to pay for his...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Darryl Jones, 36, of Jackson, pled guilty today, before Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). Jones has an extensive criminal history, which includes convictions for several drug-related felony offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging Samir Berri, R.Ph.; Anthony Cole, R.Ph.; Shamimur Rahman, R.Ph.; Ghassan Hamka, R.Ph.; Asm Akter Ahmed, M.D.; and Fouzi Ramouni with multiple health care fraud offenses, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today. Berri, Ahmed and Ramouni are also charged with distributing and conspiring to distribute controlled substances (all opioids).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: United States District Court Judge Joel H. Slomsky on Wednesday ordered Renee Tartaglione to forfeit $2.4 million in proceeds from her scheme to defraud the Juniata Community Mental Health Clinic. Tartaglione was convicted in June 2017, on all 53 counts of conspiracy, theft, fraud and tax evasion. Tartaglione siphoned some $2 million from the clinic of which she was president, and used some of that money to improve a building she owned that then appreciated in value.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Today, as the Department of Justice recognizes the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the nationwide rollout of an initiative aimed at increasing awareness and reporting of sexual harassment in housing. The announcement includes an interagency...
