News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Adrian Gordon (aka “Tit"), Esau Ferdinand (aka “Sauce"), and Monzell Harding, Jr., were each sentenced today for their respective roles in a racketeering conspiracy, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex Tse and FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. Gordon was sentenced...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: Cottonwood, Idaho - The Oregon State University’s (OSU) archaeology field school is underway for the season at the BLM’s Cooper’s Ferry site on the Lower Salmon River Canyon. The field school has been an ongoing cooperative effort between OSU and the Bureau of Land Management for the past decade. Through...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: Brittan Ezekiel Kettles, aka “Low Low," 26, of Nashville, Tennessee, was convicted yesterday by a federal jury of conspiracy to sex traffic a person under the age of 14 and sex trafficking a person under the age of 14, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Jordan Richard, 24, of New Vineyard, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to distribute cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and oxycodone and discharging a firearm during, in relation to, and in furtherance of, a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment this week against Dominic Raymond Orozco, 38, of Sacramento, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney McGregor Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: On June 29, 2018, Michael B. Stephens, Jr., 43, of Red Bud, Illinois, was sentenced to 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that Scott Hess, a 54-year old resident of Menominee Falls, Wisconsin, and Craig Hilborn, a 55-year old resident of Birmingham, Michigan, were sentenced by the Honorable J.P. Stadtmueller for their participation in a wire fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Beers, 68, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of making a false statement to an FBI special agent, was sentenced to serve 60 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment this week against Dominic Raymond Orozco, 38, of Sacramento, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney McGregor Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: Has a Prior Felony Conviction for Domestic Assault.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), ranking member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statements after the U.S. Department of Education announced a two-year delay of the Equity in IDEA rule.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, this week worked with Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wa., to secure passage of 11 more bills jurisdictional to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Ten of the bills will help increase the use of clean, abundant hydropower throughout the United States, while the other addresses workforce issues in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Preferred Care Inc. (Preferred Care); its Stanton, Kentucky skilled nursing facility, Stanton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (Stanton Nursing); owner, Thomas D. Scott; Preferred Care Partners Management Group (PCPMG); and certain other affiliated entities have agreed to pay $540,000...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: ALBANY: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on June 28, 2018, Senior United States District Court Judge W. Louis Sands sentenced Terrance Williams, a/k/a Tank, age 42, of Cairo, Georgia, to 57 months’ imprisonment for Distribution of Cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KEYIRA GABLE, age 31, a resident of New Orleans, was charged today by a federal grand jury with attempted access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex M. Azar III, announced yesterday the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 590+ charged defendants across 56 federal districts...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: Former Washington State Auditor TROY X. KELLEY was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to one year in prison for possession of stolen property, making false declarations in a court proceeding, and tax fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. KELLEY was convicted of eight federal felonies in December 2017, following a five-week trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: In Austin today, Nermin Awad El-Hadik, 42-year-old owner of Hope Pharmacy, Inc., in Houston, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for paying kickbacks in a health care fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - An indictment returned by a federal grand jury yesterday in Dallas charges Patrick O. Howard, 36, of Dallas, Texas, with offenses related to his role in a scheme to defraud investors and to obtain money by materially false and fraudulent pretenses, announced Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Fernando Rafael Lara Salas, age 40, who had previously used the aliases of Jesus Ruiz Vega, Francisco Garcia and Cristobal Palacios Garcia, was sentenced today, to 353 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves. In January, Lara Salas was tried and convicted of multiple...
