News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: DETROIT - The Drug Enforcement Administration and United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan today announced that the University of Michigan Health System has agreed to pay the United States $4.3 million as part of a settlement resolving allegations that UMHS violated certain...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, distribution of and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, money laundering, possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon, and possession of a machinegun, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kenneth Earle Ewing, of Hagerstown, Maryland, has admitted to transporting a 12-year-old across state lines for sex, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OMAR VILLARREAL, 27, of La Puente, California, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to fentanyl trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment in Manhattan federal court charging...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - A local man pleaded guilty to conspiracy and embezzlement, while being employed as a branch manager at Tri-State Bank ("Tri-State") in Memphis. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A California man was arrested today and charged with making violent threats against Boston Globe employees in retaliation for the newspaper’s editorial response to political attacks on the media.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a criminal complaint charging ALEJANDRO MARIO CORTES, 45, with one count of making false statements to federal authorities after allegedly claiming he was abducted from his home in Chicago, Illinois earlier this spring. CORTES was arrested yesterday and made his initial appearance today before Magistrate Judge Jon T. Huseby in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management is hosting a field tour on Sept. 13, 2018, to share information on proposed recreation site development at the Perjue Canyon area near the Little Jacks Creek Wilderness. The area of potential development is a Hands on the Land education site and has an existing trailhead off the Mud Flat Road Scenic Byway south of Grand View.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - Archie Ned Williams was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in multiple armed robberies committed in San Francisco and Berkeley in 2016, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down today by the Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. District Judge Martha Vazquez sentenced Larry Mendoza, a former Revenue Agent of the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department, to 46 months of imprisonment for his conviction on Hobbs Act extortion charges in federal court today in Santa Fe, N.M. Mendoza will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence. Judge Vazquez also ordered Mendoza to pay $43,380 in restitution.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 100,611 metric tons of corn for delivery to Mexico during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Thomas M. Navaho, 25, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an assault charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge James Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced today that Brandon Washington, 35, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder to conspiracy to possess...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: DENVER -- Justin Manning, age 40, of Aurora, Colorado, was sentenced to serve 22 months of incarceration followed by 3 years of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y. Daniel for wire fraud and money laundering. Manning was also ordered to pay restitution of $830,000. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Steven Osborne.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: Forfeiture allegation of $583,161.25 dollars and two properties.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced PORSCHE RENEE DILLARD, 31 from Wilmington, North Carolina, to 96 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that former Reading, PA Mayor Vaughn Spencer, 71, of Reading, PA was found guilty today by a jury of one count of conspiracy to commit federal program bribery and honest services wire fraud, nine counts of bribery, and one count of honest services wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: A former City of Detroit employee, Masharn Franklin, 53, of Detroit, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, followed by 3 years supervised release, and ordered to pay $265,573 in restitution to the city of Detroit based on her conviction for embezzlement, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: Two Lorain County men were indicted in federal for selling fentanyl and other drugs.
