News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Scott T. Carlton, 49, of Visalia, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to defraud the government and making a false statement, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANKLYN NIEVES, 63, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 28 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for allowing a Hartford apartment building he managed to be used as a drug trafficking hub.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: GRAND COULEE, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking comments on the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed modernization project for generating units 19-21 (G19-G21) in the Third Power Plant at Grand Coulee Dam.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A former Barry County, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for traveling from Missouri to Tennessee to engage in an illicit sexual relationship with a 15-year-old victim, who became pregnant and bore his child.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Kernen Construction Co. and Bundy & Sons Logging have collectively agreed to pay $9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the United States for damages resulting from a 2012 wildfire that burned more than 1,600 acres of national forest land, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced that on December 6, 2018, 36 year old Beau Croghan was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 110 months of imprisonment, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release. A jury found the Croghan guilty of Receipt of Child Pornography on Aug. 22, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Marvin Lee Foxx, 50, of Lexington, was sentenced Friday, to 43 months federal in prison, by United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A professional drummer who has served as a musical director for the United Nations and the Arsenio Hall television show has been arrested on a felony wire fraud charge for allegedly embezzling $750,000 from a charity concert for homeless children and using the pilfered money to buy his ex-wife a house in Calabasas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted a physician on fraud charges for allegedly approving medically unnecessary diagnostic tests that were billed to Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Defendant Then Sentenced to Five Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD BREGA was sentenced today to 50 months in prison for bribery, fraud, and theft from a program receiving government funds. BREGA was found guilty of these crimes on May 2, 2018, by a jury at the conclusion of a three-week trial. The sentence was imposed by United States District Judge Kenneth M. Karas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Gary Kinard (40, St. Petersburg), Martin Steele (46, Largo), and Mark Boring (47, St. Petersburg) have each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. Each faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for the wire fraud conspiracy and a minimum mandatory consecutive term of 2 years’ imprisonment for the aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul Byron has sentenced Jeffrey Noel (25, Orlando), Herichie Paul (21, Orlando), and Awetu Megersa (23, Orlando) to 25, 16, and 13 years in federal prison, respectively, for carjacking and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Defendant and Co-Conspirators Misappropriated Money Obtained To Fund Mortgage Loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Damon M. Joseph, 21, of Holland, Ohio, was charged today in federal court with one count of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, for allegedly planning an attack on a synagogue in the Toledo, Ohio area. Joseph was arrested Friday evening after he took possession of two semi-automatic rifles.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita M. Lowey (D-NY-17) released the following statement after being nominated by the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee to serve as Appropriations Committee Chairwoman in the 116th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Bernard Pinkerton, 27 years old, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - A Colombian national, and international narcotics trafficker and money launderer, was returned to his home country Nov. 26 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deportation officers. This follows a joint investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Colombian law enforcement authorities, which led to his conviction of conspiring to import cocaine as a narco-terrorism conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A citizen of Honduras who was arrested while working in Havre admitted in federal court on Monday to having illegally reentered the United States, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: For Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm.
