News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- A grand jury returned an indictment today charging three men, including two physicians, with violations of the federal anti-kickback statute as well as conspiring to commit health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
Release: DHAHRAN, SAUDI ARABIA - U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has concluded a productive visit to Qatar and Saudi Arabia, two of America’s most important strategic energy partners.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced that on December 6, 2018, 39 year-old Brian Reed was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 105 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Corporation to Pay $85 Million, Enact Compliance Reforms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael A. Spino, of Bridgeport, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 46 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Joshua Huffman, 32, a resident of Lyons, Nebraska, was sentenced today, in Omaha, Nebraska, by Senior United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp for the crime of bank fraud. Senior Judge Smith Camp sentenced Huffman to 3 months’ imprisonment, a five-year term of supervised release, and ordered Huffman to make restitution to the United Bank of Iowa and the Washington County Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: A resident of Towanda, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Defendant Stole Car, Rammed Police Vehicle Three Times and Drove at Another Officer Attempting to Place Spike Strips to Stop Stolen Car.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Also Possessed, Distributed, and Transported Child Pornography; Encouraged Another Man in the Abuse of a Nine-Year-Old Girl.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry praised the release of the final text of the 2018 Farm Bill conference report. The final bill reflects a hard-fought bipartisan, bicameral agreement on a five-year farm bill to strengthen the diversity of American agriculture and support the 16 million jobs that power the food and farm economy.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Agriculture Committee Chairmen Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Rep. K. Michael Conaway, R-Texas, and Ranking Members Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., today released the text of the bipartisan, bicameral 2018 Farm Bill conference report.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Onijah Crighton, age 23, of Chillum, Maryland, today to 57 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for the federal charges of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, in connection with a scheme to defraud...
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: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Yarai Fuentes Quinones, of Hialeah, Florida, was sentenced today to 36 months incarceration for his involvement with a gas station skimming fraud scheme, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Falsely Told Victims They Won a Lottery or Sweepstakes, but Needed to Pay Taxes or Fees in Order to Receive the Prize.
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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: A resident of Towanda, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced that on December 6, 2018, 39 year-old Richard Ortiz and 34 year-old Gerardo Alatorre Quintero were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose. Ortiz was sentenced to 60 months of imprisonment, to be followed by five...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Marena Mushero, 28, recently of Hampden, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiring to enter a marriage in order to evade U.S. immigration laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida -U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Andres Arteaga Perez (50, Casselberry) to 13 months in federal prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for theft of government funds. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $423,602.80, the proceeds of the crime, and ordered Perez to pay restitution.
