News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Douglas Edward Diekman, 55, of Mendon, Michigan, was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison for committing crop insurance fraud. He was also ordered to serve two years of supervised release and pay $488,432.86 in restitution. U.S District Judge Paul Maloney imposed the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: St. Louis - Dennis M. Suellentrop, Jr., 38, Arnold, MO, was sentenced today to 120 years in prison for production and possession of child pornography. He appeared today in federal court before U.S. District Court Judge Catherine D. Perry.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, SHREVEPORT, ALEXANDRIA, MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that nine illegal aliens arrested in the Western District of Louisiana pleaded guilty and were sentenced this week for re-entering the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - On Dec. 17, 2018, Aaron Louis Turk, 32, of Yuma, Ariz., was sentenced to 300 months in prison by Chief U. S. District Judge G. Murray Snow. Turk had previously pleaded guilty to producing child pornography involving two minors, distributing child pornography, and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RAZHDEN SHULAYA, a vor v zakone or “thief-in-law," was sentenced today to 45 years in prison by United States District Judge Loretta A. Preska. The sentence followed the June 2018 trial conviction of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan has ordered WILLIAM MAURICE SADDLER, 36, of Wilson to pay $477,618.20 in restitution to a victim of human trafficking. This is the largest amount ever ordered in our District under the trafficking restitution statute.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was indicted today on charges of striking a Kansas Highway Patrol aircraft with a beam from a laser pointer, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Jerome Ruzicka, 62, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Minneapolis by Chief Judge John R. Tunheim to 84 months of federal prison. Ruzicka and co-defendant W. Jeffery Taylor, 57, were convicted on March 3, 2018, of charges related to stealing more than $15 million from the Eden Prairie-based...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -A federal grand jury returned a seventh superseding indictment on Dec. 17, 2018, charging nine men in connection with a conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. The seventh superseding indictment adds two new defendants charged with racketeering conspiracy related to their membership in MS-13, and adds four murders as overt acts allegedly committed by the defendants charged in this indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A City of Paterson, New Jersey, police officer was arrested today and charged with violating the civil rights of a driver and passenger during a motor vehicle stop, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Dubuque Man Admitted Selling at Least 400 Grams of Heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Spring Break Promoter Responsible for 49 Kilos of Cocaine Shipped into Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today the repatriation of an Acoma Shield and several other important items of historical and cultural significance to the Pueblo of Acoma and its members. U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson for the District of New Mexico participated in a repatriation ceremony earlier ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Eight Dallas, Texas-area pharmacy owners and marketers were charged in an indictment unsealed today for their roles in a scheme involving approximately $92 million in compound drug claims to TRICARE and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), which were allegedly the product of over $9.1 million in illegal kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that it has reached a settlement agreement with Sinai Health System Inc. (Sinai) in Chicago, Illinois. Sinai serves the health care needs of the approximately 1.5 million people who reside within its service areas -- Chicago’s west and southwest sides -- and comprises ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, 20, of Missausagua, Canada, was sentenced to 40 years in prison, and a lifetime of supervised release, for plotting to carry out terrorist attacks in New York City during the summer of 2016 in support of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia today concluded an investigation into conditions at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail in Portsmouth, Virginia. The Justice Department concluded that there is reason to believe that the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a seventh superseding indictment Monday charging nine men in connection with a conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: A Suffolk County, New York, resident pleaded guilty today to failing to account for and pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. According to court documents, Scott ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: The United States filed a complaint seeking an order stopping Nancy Zak, Claud Clark III, EcoVest Capital Inc., Alan N. Solon, Robert M. McCullough, and Ralph R. Teal, Jr., from organizing, promoting, or selling an allegedly abusive conservation easement syndication tax scheme, the Justice Department announced today.
