News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: A Pompano Beach, Florida, resident was sentenced today to 90 months in prison for filing fraudulent tax returns, wire fraud, and filing false monthly reports with the U.S. Probation Office announced U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg for the Southern District of Florida and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office reached a $200,000 civil settlement today with Hamid Mohaghegh, Fitchburg Family Pharmacy, Inc., Gardner Family Pharmacy, Inc., and Worcester Family Pharmacy, Inc., in connection with the improper dispensing of Schedule II controlled substances and flawed recordkeeping by eight retail pharmacy stores that were owned and operated by Mohaghegh in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: Investigation resulted in seizure of approximately two kilos of suspected fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Bradley Markley, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing fentanyl, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Herndon man was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for threatening to murder officials and employees of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the U.S. State Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: After receiving bribe payments that were thrown into his Baltimore City issued vehicle Defendant Wade boasted that that the source of the bribes was, “good for life with me. " and later laughed and stated, “we in cahoots now. ".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that BLAIN S. KOLLBECK, 34, of Killingly, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on March, 15 2018, Senior United States District Court Judge Hugh Lawson revoked the Supervised Release for Frederick Tyrone Calhoun, age 35, of Lakeland, Georgia and ordered him to serve forty-eight (48) months in the Bureau of Prisons.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tamika Favors, 35, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of misdemeanor bank larceny, was sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy, to a two year term of probation, and ordered to pay $8,000 in restitution.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Middleburg-based Southeastern Subcontractors Inc. for failing to protect employees from the dangerous hazards of working outdoors in extreme heat.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Yesterday, a federal jury convicted Chukwuma Jonas Osuagwu, 45, of Dallas, following a seven-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade, of several counts related to a mortgage fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: MASON, OH - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Kraft Heinz Foods Company for machine safety violations after an employee suffered a partial finger amputation while clearing a machine jam at the company’s Mason facility. The company faces $109,939 in proposed penalties.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: Comments on Geotechnical Investigation Accepted Through April 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Shreveport man previously convicted of a felony pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing methamphetamine and a pistol in his car.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: Defendant Used Purported Non-Profit to Convince Seniors to Submit to Unnecessary Testing; Paid Healthcare Providers to Falsely Claim Tests Were Necessary.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: Pocketed over $125,000 in funds for personal use.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Two Romanian nationals were sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with an ATM skimming scheme operating throughout Massachusetts and other states including Connecticut, New York and South Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: “Another lovely day, mostly solid sunshine. Took a fine and fragrant walk up the west hills with Wanda and Helen, who I am glad to see love walking, flowers, trees and every bird and beast and creeping thing" -John Muir, April 12, 1895.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Colin Germain, 20, of New Haven, Vermont has been indicted on charges for distribution of child pornography and assault on a federal officer. Germain was charged via criminal complaint and made his initial appearance in...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officers arrested 115 individuals for violating federal immigration laws in the San Diego and Imperial counties during a three-day targeted enforcement operation that ended Thursday. Fifty of the immigration violators arrested were...
