News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring with his father to file false federal tax returns for shell companies, resulting in $191,953 in fraudulent refunds, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Three people from Northeast Ohio were indicted in federal court on firearms charges.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of a contract to Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc. of Ijamsville, Maryland for Environmental Management Information Technology Support Services. This contract is a Time and Materials type contract. The contract contains a $3.5 million estimated value of services, and has a twelve month period of performance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Alleged Billings in the Eastern District of New York Exceeded $163 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jennmariey Burchell, age 25, a Jamaican citizen residing in Panama City, Florida, was indicted on June 27, 2018, by a federal grand jury on 16 conspiracy, mail fraud, and money laundering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Circulatory Centers of America, LLC, a Pennsylvania company that provided treatments for varicose veins in several states, together with related subsidiaries, its former owner and chief executive officer Thomas E. Certo, president David Gilpatrick, chief financial officer Everett Burns...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Mark Elkhorn, 58, of York, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to one month in prison and three years of supervised release for making false statements to a federal agent. Elkhorn pleaded guilty to the offense on Jan. 18, 2018.
By State Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed nine bipartisan measures, including bills to combat wildlife trafficking, improve embassy security and strengthen U.S. cyber deterrence efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Billy Wayne McClintock has been sentenced to prison for his role in a Ponzi scheme that garnered approximately $20 million and cost over 160 investors in excess of $11 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On June 27, 2018, David Marken Aikoriegie, age 23, of Des Moines, appeared before United States District Court Senior Judge Robert W. Pratt and was sentenced to 96 months in prison for three counts of stealing a firearm from a federal firearm licensee and unlawful sale of a stolen firearm, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Aikoriegie was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that an indictment was unsealed today charging a Philadelphia pharmacy employee with conspiring to distribute controlled substances, including opioid painkillers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS") Secretary Alex M. Azar III, announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action involving 601 charged defendants across 58 federal districts, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that former Philadelphia Police Department Sergeant Brian Smith, 35, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 15 months’ imprisonment, three years’ supervised release, a $10,000 fine, and a $200 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Gerald Pappert imposed the sentence. Smith previously pled guilty to two counts of soliciting a bribe.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MICHAEL LEVERIDGE, age 45, of Dallas, Texas, pled guilty today to one count of conspiring to traffic 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. For this offense, LEVERIDGE faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, a maximum life sentence, a fine of up to $10,000,000 and at least five years of supervised release. U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo set sentencing for LEVERIDGE on Sept. 27, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Josh Harry Isler, age 55, from St. Ansgar, Iowa, has been charged with one count of trade secret theft and one count of making a false statement to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The charges are contained in an Information filed today in the United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the Office is soliciting applications from qualified individuals to serve as Court-appointed monitor in connection with a proposed consent decree submitted to the Court for approval in the case of United States v. New York City Housing Authority, 18 Civ. 5213 (WHP).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that SAMUEL RAY LUCK, age 40, a resident of Raceland, Louisiana, was charged in a one-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Six people were indicted in federal court for crimes related to child pornography or child exploitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Largest Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action in Department of Justice History Resulted in 76 Doctors Charged and 84 Opioid Cases Involving More Than 13 Million Illegal Dosages of Opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jacob Charles LaFrance, age 28, Thurmont, Maryland, was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 27, 2018, for the armed robbery of two banks.
