News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that EDDIE CHAN, 58, of Norwalk, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to five years of probation for filing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton has sentenced Romany Cutolo Bonente (33, São Paulo, Brazil) to four years and nine months in federal prison for conspiring to produce and use counterfeit debit cards and for aggravated identity theft. He pleaded guilty on Dec. 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 180 months’ imprisonment and eight years supervised release on his conviction of narcotics and firearms offenses, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - June Catherine Blanchek, of Petersburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 63 months incarceration for her role in a methamphetamine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: The former comptroller of a Toledo company was indicted embezzling nearly $500,000 from his employer, U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - The following is a summary of misdemeanor immigration prosecutions from March and April 2018. All defendants were or will be placed into removal proceedings, by the Department of Homeland Security, following the completion of their sentences.
By Homeland Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are seeking innovative solutions from startups to enhance security screening, through a new solicitation under S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) “Object Recognition and Adaptive Algorithms in Passenger Property Screening."
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Two South Florida stock promoters have been charged in connection with a $1 million pump and dump securities fraud scheme involving the shares of Valentine Beauty, Inc. (“VLBI").
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman announced today the appointment of Major Jeremy V. Thompson previously of the Kentucky State Police (KSP) as the U.S. Attorney’s new Law Enforcement Coordinator.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh Minkler announced federal charges against 15 individuals who are alleged to have operated a drug trafficking organization bringing large quantities of narcotics into the Kokomo, Indiana area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Stephanie W. Cowart, 59, of Grand Island, NY, who was convicted of theft concerning programs receiving federal funds, was sentenced to a two year term of probation and a $2,000 fine by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. In addition...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that the 994,537 visitors to Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in 2017 spent $56,832,500 in communities near the park. That spending supported 883 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $69,325,300.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, and Eddy County Sheriff Mark Cage announced today that Lori V. Whitaker, 54, of Carlsbad, N.M., entered a guilty plea in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a wire fraud charge. Under...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Sixteen individuals are facing drug trafficking and money laundering charges as the result of a multi-agency investigation led by DEA and HSI that targeted cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine traffickers and money launderers operating in southern New Mexico, west Texas and as far east...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Louisiana Tax Return Preparer Sentenced to Jail for Stolen Identity Tax Refund Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DANNY PRATTE pled guilty today to defrauding investors in Terminus Energy, Inc., a publicly traded penny stock. PRATTE pled guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud before U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: James Earl Tuttle, 45, of Lyles, Tennessee was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge William L. Campbell, Jr., to 30 years in prison for production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: TAUNTON - 10 individuals were charged in federal court in Boston on federal drug trafficking and money laundering offenses in connection with distributing cocaine in and around the Taunton and Worcester areas. Seven of the defendants were arrested today; three are fugitives.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Both defendants had prior misdemeanor convictions for illegally entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Southampton, New Jersey, construction company will pay $1.5 million to resolve allegations that it committed multiple False Claims Act violations by contracting for public construction jobs despite paying its workers a lower hourly wage than required under state and federal law, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced today.
