News from August 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said today that the insider trading charges brought against Rep. Chris Collins should come as no surprise after the role he played peddling shares of Innate Immunotherapeutics, Ltd., to family, friends and political allies, which was uncovered during the nomination of disgraced former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Joshua Peace, age 30, mother of Joshua Peace, Susan Peace, age 63, Brian Harper, age 34, and Regina Kinard, age 42, were sentenced in federal court. Joshua Peace, Kinard, and Harper pled guilty to participating in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: HONOLULU - Donna Alms, 55, a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, and formerly of the Big Island of Hawaii, was sentenced today to 33 months in federal prison for defrauding Waste Management of Hawaii, Inc. of $862,722 over the course of 4 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey announced today that Dr. Donald Chamberlain and Karen Chamberlain have paid $428,700, to resolve state and federal False Claims Act allegations. It is alleged that from January 7, 2009 through May 2, 2012, their medical practice billed Medicare, Tennessee...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment that charges the owner of Springfield’s Osaka Japanese Restaurant, 1665 Wabash Ave., with filing false income tax returns and with structuring cash withdrawals to avoid detection by the Internal Revenue Service. The indictment charges Chu Chuk Cheung, 40, with two counts of filing false income tax returns and 10 counts of structuring.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was sentenced today to 8 years in prison and 20 years of supervised release for receipt, transportation, and possession of images of child sexual abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: North Carolina Tax Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to File False Tax Returns.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: After being alerted to a deceased person seen by park visitors on July 29, US Park Rangers of Lake Mead National Recreation Area located a man’s body along the shoreline near the Callville Bay Marina in the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Feliciano Felipe Diaz-Estrada, also known as Feliciano Villas-Estrada, age 56, a Mexican citizen living in Long Island City, New York, pled guilty today to transporting an illegal alien within the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Emory Chiles, of Steubenville, Ohio, was sentenced this week to 360 months incarceration for drug and firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Timothy Brian Burnette, age 40, of Union Point, Georgia, pled guilty today to attempted possession of child pornography. Mr. Burnette entered his plea of guilty before U.S. District Judge C. Ashley Royal in Athens, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Douglas Peacock was sentenced today to 115 months in prison for traveling to a foreign country and engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge in Northern California and Northern Nevada Ryan L. Spradlin. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Charles R. Breyer, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeffrey Brown, 43, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribute, 100 grams or more of heroin, was sentenced to serve 120 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: Admitted Distributing 5.3 Pounds of Methamphetamine to Undercover Officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that EDDIE JAMES, age 40, of New Orleans, was sentenced today for a one-count Bill of Information charging bank robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today announced a new communications team: Katie Niederee will take on a new role as the majority communications director, Nicole Hager will continue on as press secretary and Brigid Ueland will serve as press assistant.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: Raleigh - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that today, in federal court, HOUCINE GHOUL, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge James C Dever III, to serve 24 months imprisonment, followed by deportation, for attempted unlawful procurement of naturalization and making a false statements on his tax return. GHOUL pleaded guilty to these charges on Nov. 13, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTON MITCHELL, also known as “Blaze," 29, of Hartford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The recent National Park Service Visitor Spending Effects Report showed that in 2017 more than 17.6 million visitors traveled to Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Muir Woods National Monument, and Fort Point National Historic Site and spent $513 million in communities near the park, supported 5,998 jobs in the local area, and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $612 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Adam W. Purinton, of Olathe, Kansas, was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the February 2017 killing of Indian national Srinivas Kuchibhotla, and shooting of two other men - Indian national Alok Madasani and Kansas resident Ian Grillot - at Austins Bar...
