News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Geo Geovanni (49, Moultrie, Georgia) guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and three counts of bank fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years’ imprisonment for each count. His sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Feb. 25, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas resident with an extensive criminal history of hands-on sex offenses against children was convicted by a jury Wednesday of possession, and receipt or distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland today honored 40 police officers and federal agents for outstanding work in the Maryland Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN) program that resulted in significant federal violent crime prosecutions. Recipients included police officers...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Geo Geovanni (49, Moultrie, Georgia) guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and three counts of bank fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years’ imprisonment for each count. His sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Feb. 25, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Western Michigan Man Receives 30 Months for Role in Dog-Fighting Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned this week before U.S. Magistrate judges and indictments handed down by the Grand Jury were unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Wolf Point woman convicted of trafficking methamphetamine on the Fort Peck Reservation was sentenced on Wednesday to 41 months in prison and four years supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Chairman Brian Mast (R-FL). Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Hearing on “Review of Recent GAO Reports on Icebreaker Acquisition and the Need for a National Maritime Strategy. Nov. 29, 2018. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). Today the Subcommittee will hear testimony on...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of CEDRIC LAMONT BERRY, JR, a/k/a "Ced," 24, to 71 months in federal prison. BERRY was sentenced on Nov. 28, 2018, by Senior Judge Ann D. Montgomery, in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. BERRY pleaded guilty on July 19, 2018, to one count of felon in possession of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Luis Garcia-Canales, 29, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to transfer of a machinegun before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management will continue thinning to reduce accumulated vegetation posing fire hazards in the San Pedro, N.M. area through the end of December. In addition to the presence of work crews, the public will be gathering wood in the area until Dec. 31, 2018. To ensure the safety...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Upcoming Lake Mead National Recreation Area Events Dec 1 - Dec 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that yesterday in federal court, before Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle CALVIN MARK WILSON, 34, of New Bern, North Carolina pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute one thousand (1,000) grams or more of heroin and a quantity of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that on Nov. 29, the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) began its third distribution of $695.4 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. Government in connection with the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) fraud scheme, bringing the total distributed to nearly ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: A Virginia Beach man was sentenced to 120 months in prison today, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: A pharmacist licensed by the State of Florida was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for her participation in a scheme involving the payment of approximately $3.4 million in fraudulent claims by TRICARE, Medicare, and private insurance programs for compounded creams that were medically unnecessary, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: A Houston, Texas doctor was sentenced to 60 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release today for his role in a fraudulent medical clinic that ran costly, unnecessary diagnostic tests.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury in St. Louis indicted four St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) Police Officers for their conduct in connection with the arrest and assault of a fellow SLMPD police officer who was working undercover in downtown St. Louis during last year’s protests following the acquittal of a former SLMPD officer of a first-degree murder charge brought by the State of Missouri relating to the shooting death of a civilian.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Three men were charged in an indictment returned Nov. 27 for their roles in a scheme to defraud U.S. Military contracts in Afghanistan, engaging in illegal commerce in Iran, and laundering money internationally. Their conduct was in connection to two multi-million dollar contracts to provide supplies ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: The owner of a Michigan trucking business was sentenced today in federal court in Detroit, Michigan, to 33 months in prison for wire fraud and willfully failing to file a tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and Matthew J. Schneider, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
