News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County man was sentenced to federal prison for his leadership role in a “builder bailout" mortgage fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that GLENN MELANCON, age 50, of New Orleans pled guilty today to one count of conspiring to traffic methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Louisiana. MELANCON faces a maximum sentence of 20 years’ incarceration, a fine of up to $1,000,000 and at least 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: District Court Orders New York Food Distributors to Comply With Food Safety Requirements.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson delivered the following opening statement at today’s full committee hearing, “Cryptocurrencies: Oversight of New Assets in the Digital Age:".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Misty West, 41, of Olive Branch, Mississippi, appeared before U.S. District Judge Thomas L. Parker and entered a guilty plea to filing false tax returns. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: FBI in Albuquerque Arrests North Carolina Man Wanted for Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The former owner of Pinky’s Famous Pizza in Medford was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with filing tax returns which failed to disclose the cash payroll payments he paid to employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Tristan David Swim, 22, of Caldwell, was sentenced Wednesday to 21 months
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: On July 17, 2018, a Williamson County, Illinois man was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison on a methamphetamine offense, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Extended comment period will close September 6, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Daniel B. Rudden, age 71, of Denver, Colorado, was charged by criminal complaint with one count of Wire Fraud after implementing a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme, U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Calvin Shivers announced. Rudden appeared yesterday at the hearing pursuant to an arrest warrant and was released on a personal recognizance bond.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Defendant charged with unlawfully possessing firearms and making false statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Tysaun A. Pugh, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to drug charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Robert P. Halloran, age 27, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to one count of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Charles Margiotta, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DOMINIQUE WISE, age 32, of Franklinton, Louisiana, was sentenced today after having pled guilty to misprision of a felony, stemming from a Sept. 27, 2015, traffic stop, during which police seized one-half kilogram of powder cocaine from the floorboard of her car.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Two Consulting Companies and Nine Affiliated Skilled Nursing Facilities to Pay $10 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Medically Unnecessary Rehabilitation Therapy Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Tucson, Ariz. - Yesterday, former Border Patrol Agent Alex Pena was sentenced to 20 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson. Pena had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import between 60 and 80 kilograms of marijuana, and had resigned from the Border Patrol following his indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: A Homestead, Florida, man was arrested on an indictment yesterday, stemming from charges that he surreptitiously produced pornographic audio and video recordings of himself engaging in sexual activity with multiple men and then caused the videos to be posted on one or more subscription-based pornography websites without their knowledge or consent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Charles Morgan, 57, a registered sex offender who is formerly of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 40 years in prison on child exploitation charges and other offenses stemming from his sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl he picked up at a bus stop.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute an analogue of fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
