News from February 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., praised the release of Commerce Department investigation reports on steel and aluminum imports, after he personally asked the president to make those reports public earlier this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and law enforcement partners announced today the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. The cases involve more than two hundred and fifty defendants from around the globe who victimized more than a million Americans, most of whom were elderly. The cases...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and law enforcement partners announced today the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. The cases involve more than two hundred and fifty defendants from around the globe who victimized more than a million Americans, most of whom were elderly.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Marc E. Bercoon and William A. Goldstein have been convicted by a jury on federal charges that they manipulated the market for shares of MedCareers Group, Inc., a publicly traded company, and that they carried out a second investment fraud scheme using a new business corporation that they organized as the bait for investors. A third defendant in the market manipulation scheme, Peter P. Veugeler, previously pleaded guilty and testified at trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VANESSA VENCE-SMALL, 50, of New Windsor, New York, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to one count of wire fraud arising from an embezzlement scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Shreveport man previously convicted of a felony pleaded guilty Wednesday to unlawfully possessing a pistol while parked outside a Shreveport apartment.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - Deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 145 criminal aliens and immigration violators in South and Central Texas during a seven-day enforcement action, which ended Feb. 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRYCE ALEXANDER LAISTER, 25, formerly of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of armed bank robbery and admitted that he robbed a total of five Connecticut banks between November 2016 and June 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Western Pennsylvania resident has been sentenced in federal court to 62 months imprisonment, which includes 20 months already served, and five years supervised release, on his convictions for attempted robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal jury convicted San Antonio attorney and District 19 Texas State Senator Carlos I. Uresti and his business partner, Gary L. Cain, on all charges for their roles in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of millions of dollars, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and law enforcement partners announced today the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. The cases involve more than two hundred and fifty defendants from around the globe who victimized more than a million Americans, most of whom were elderly.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Crips Gang Member Convicted of Racketeering Conspiracy in Nebraska.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that AKARI WILLIAMS, age 34, a resident of Houma, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan to 188 months in prison for charges stemming from a conspiracy to mail methamphetamine from California to south Louisiana for distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced three individuals for their involvement in a marriage fraud ring operating out of Brevard County. William Matthew Tex Price (31, Cocoa) was sentenced to two years in federal prison for marriage fraud to run concurrent to a two-year sentence...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Latomba Bishop, 33 of Sacramento, was sentenced today to five years and 10 months in prison for a scheme to obtain mail through fraudulent vacation holds and mail forwarding requests and steal the identities of the mail theft victims, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. In addition, U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley ordered Bishop to pay $38,371 in restitution to the victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Stafford man last night on charges of unlawfully possessing a firearm while being a convicted domestic batterer, and possessing with the intent to distribute marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Justin Paul Crofford, of Salem, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 18 months incarceration for the unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Ryan Matthew Smith, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 36 months incarceration for a firearm charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Fadi Abbas, 32, of Canada, pleaded guilty to misuse of passport before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was immediately sentenced to time served and remanded to the Department of Homeland Security for removal proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - BMW Financial Services N.A. (BMW FS) has agreed to pay over $2 million to resolve allegations that it violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) by failing to refund certain up-front car lease payments to 492 service members who lawfully terminated their motor vehicle leases early, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today.
