News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: DETROIT - Three individuals were charged in a six-count indictment, unsealed today, which alleges capital murder, heroin and cocaine distribution, and related firearm offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of JAMES MARIO LEWIS, a/k/a/ “Lowdown," 47, to 61 months in prison for operating a years-long check fraud scheme. The defendant, who pleaded guilty on July 6, 2017, to one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, was sentenced on Feb. 20, 2018, before Senior Judge Michael J. Davis in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: A Miami-area man was sentenced to 60 months in prison today for his role in a $63 million health care fraud scheme involving a now-defunct community mental health center located in Miami that purported to provide partial hospitalization program (PHP) services to individuals suffering from mental illness.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Norma Gold, 57, of Eldred, PA, who was convicted of making false entries in federal credit union reports, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $179,939.21.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a man from Monroe was sentenced Wednesday to 120 months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), yesterday announced a hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Combating the Opioid Crisis: Helping Communities Balance Enforcement and Patient Safety."
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: St. Louis, MO - Timothy Murphy, a/k/a Mr. Black, a/k/a Colby Muhlberg, a/k/a Arthur Whitton, 34, of Phoenix, Arizona, pled guilty to one count of wire fraud in connection with telemarketing and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, before United States Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - The final two defendants charged in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud involving their former employer have pleaded guilty, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
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: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that TONYA BAKER, age 42, a resident of Houma, Louisiana, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(k).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that former Logan County Schools Superintendent Phyllis Doty, 68, of Logan, was indicted by a federal grand jury today for charges relating to a scheme to defraud the Logan County Board of Education of money and property. U.S. Attorney Stuart was joined in the announcement by officials from the FBI and the West Virginia Legislature Commission on Special Investigations.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) today issued the following statements in response to the publication of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) order repealing net neutrality in the Federal Register...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - 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: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and law enforcement partners emphasized today the importance of the fight against elder fraud and abuse as the Department of Justice announced the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. Joined by representatives of the FBI, FTC, Postal Inspection Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that six Fulton, Mo., residents were among 10 co-defendants sentenced in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute more than $6.6 million of synthetic cannabinoids, also known as K2, at Callaway County, Mo., businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Columbus man pled guilty today to a federal methamphetamine crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Joshua Gregory Richardson, 33, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team, the Ohio State Police, and the Coal Grove Police Department in Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION - Sergio Murillo, age 42, of Aurora, Colorado pled guilty to obstructing or impeding the due administration of the Internal Revenue Code on Feb. 22, 2018, before U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Gordon P. Gallagher, who recommended that the U.S. District Court accept the plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Colombian national pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempting to use someone else’s identity to obtain a Louisiana driver’s license in Alexandria.
