News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Paul Leland Johnson, 28, of San Jose, was sentenced today to three years and five months in prison for two counts of making false statements to investigators, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pennsylvania resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud and damaging a computer, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) and Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) introduced a bill to expand access to evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorders for Medicare beneficiaries.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Paint a watercolor of a wagon, and build a log cabin out of pretzels and peanut butter at the California Trail Interpretive Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Cornell Lamar Abram, 38, of Gulfport, was sentenced to 157 months in federal prison today by District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., on two indictments charging him as a felon in possession of ammunition and firearms, announced U. S. Attorney D. Michael Hurst, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Defendant Promised the Contractors Future Work in Return for Bribes, and Threatened to Bar Them if They Refused.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - John T. Fitzgerald, a former vice president of the Washington, D.C. office of an investment banking firm, was sentenced today to two years in prison on federal charges stemming from a scheme in which he accepted kickbacks for construction management contracts he steered to another firm, as well as other fraudulent activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The FBI has filed federal charges against two New Mexico men for using social media platforms to post school shootings threats, announced U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson and Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division. The criminal charges arise from tips received by the FBI and its law enforcement partners since last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Cristobal Marin-Lopez, 22, of Mexico, pled guilty yesterday before U. S. District Court Judge Tom S. Lee to unlawfully re-entering the United States after having previously been deported and convicted of a felony, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Spring Creek, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on Feb. 21, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced the return of a 19-count indictment against 9 individuals for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and other offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg for the Southern District of Florida announced the largest ever coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in the Department of Justice’s history involving more than 250 charged defendants around the globe who victimized more than a million...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced that Barbara Powell, age 59, of Charleston, was sentenced in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for bribery of a public employee, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 201. United States District Judge Richard M. Gergel, of Charleston, sentenced Powell to 6 months imprisonment, 3 years supervised release, and a $12,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Timothy B. Riley, age 48, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information with conspiring to launder stolen drug proceeds. Riley was formerly employed as a Narcotics Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced today that North East Mobile Health Services (“North East"), of Scarborough, has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the U.S. in which it will pay $825,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act by providing medically unnecessary ambulance transportation. Maine Medical Center (“MMC"), of Portland, also agreed to pay $600,000 pursuant to a separate civil settlement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former police officer was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Lake Charles veterinarian and a Nebraska pharmacy were sentenced for selling an unapproved opioid drug 40 times more powerful than morphine for the purpose of improving the performance of race horses.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement following her appointment to the Joint Select Committee on the Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI)...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging MIGUEL MORALES-MARTINEZ, age 44, of Mexico, ULFRANO PEREZ-ESTEBAN, age 36, of Mexico, and JOSE OMAR LLERENA-VIZARRETA, age 35, of Peru, with Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Henry Morales, age 23; Jorge Santiago, age 19; Fernando Rodriguez, age 20; and Ronald Grover, age 23, all of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, were indicted on Feb. 14, 2018, by a federal grand jury...
