News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JOSE CARPIO, age 32, and LUIS ENRIQUE HERNANDEZ, age 22, both of Baytown, Texas, were sentenced after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine hydrochloride. HERNANDEZ additionally had pleaded guilty to possessing with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine hydrochloride.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Stephen R. McAllister was sworn in Thursday as U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura A. Higgins, who is handling the case, stated that on Aug. 10, 2017, officers executed a federal search warrant at the defendant’s residence at 57 Roosevelt Avenue, after previously making three controlled buys of cocaine from the defendant. During the execution of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Defendant previously deported three times. BOSTON - A Guatemalan national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston to a federal immigration charge. Selvin Danilo Herrera-Arana, 33, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin to 18 months in prison, three years of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced that Jonathan Pinson, age 47, of Greenville, South Carolina, was resentenced today in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud (Counts 12, 18), Mail Fraud (Counts 25, 26), Wire Fraud (Counts...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - After a two and a half-day trial, a jury has convicted two gang members of illegally possessing firearms. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the conviction today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced that Jonathan Pinson, age 47, of Greenville, South Carolina, was resentenced today in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud (Counts 12, 18), Mail Fraud (Counts 25, 26), Wire Fraud (Counts...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging a Shreveport businessman with scamming more than $96 million from investors and financial institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Aichu Saesee, age 30, of Visalia, California, pled guilty to Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A), punishable by not less than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $10,000,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - U.S. Attorney Scott C. Blader announced today that the Western District of Wisconsin collected $12,805,080.63 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2017. Of this amount, $2,373,882.59 was collected in criminal actions and $10,431,198.04 was collected in civil actions.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement on President Trump’s nominations to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging Phillip Hill, 32, of Benton, a former Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) database manager, with attempting to sell the personal information of veterans and VA employees.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) announcement that the agency would withdraw a punishing policy known as “once-in-always-in." ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio yesterday afternoon, a federal judge sentenced 46-year-old Reymundo Villarreal-Arelis (aka “Mundo") of Mission, TX, to 20 years imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release for his role in a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy occurring in South Texas, Central...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Gang was responsible for Seven Murders, along with Armed Robberies, Shootings and Stabbings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Yvonne Sanchez, age 40, of Chapin, was sentenced to fifteen months in jail for committing Bank Fraud, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, § 1344. Senior United States District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, of Columbia, also ordered her to pay restitution of $121,461.76 to the victim.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to Universal Service Administrative Company CEO Radha Sekar requesting the audits conducted during the preceding three fiscal years for both the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Legacy High-Cost and Rural Health Care programs in order to better understand the potential for waste, fraud and abuse in the programs.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: GAINESVILLE, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Koch Foods of Gainesville LLC for multiple safety and health violations at its poultry processing plant. The company faces proposed penalties of $208,977.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL S. WRIGHT was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer to 21 months in prison for commodities fraud in connection with WRIGHT’s operation of an investment fund, Wright Time Capital...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: FORT WORTH - Willie Thompson, Jr., 53, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to serve a total of 262 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in August 2017 to his role in the conspiracy to rob Haltom’s Jewelers in Grapevine, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
