News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: Defendant Committed a Carjacking After Escaping; Prosecution is Part of Ongoing Effort to Prosecute Federal Escapees.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: A former Venezuelan national treasurer was sentenced today for his role in a billion-dollar currency exchange and money laundering scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: Mark Irizarry Attempted to Have Sex With a Nine-Year-Old Girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Brandon Lee Curley, 26, of Shiprock, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 33 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Curley had previously pleaded guilty to one count of assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA -Timothy Cobb, 53, of Atlanta, was arraigned before U.S. Magistrate John K. Larkins III on wire and tax fraud charges for duping investors in a fantasy football lottery league.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Gino Carl von Eckstein was sentenced to 10 years in prison today for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse; Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen; U.S. Customs and Border Protection Director of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - The last defendant of a group of 16 U.S. Postal Service letter carriers and clerks from across the Atlanta area was sentenced to federal prison for accepting bribes to deliver packages of cocaine - two kilograms or more at a time - in a wide-reaching undercover operation. The defendants were willing to make the deliveries for bribes as low as $250, and received sentences of between three and nine years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Deputy United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen announced that Garret Strathearn, former Allentown Finance Director, was sentenced today for his role in a pay-to-play bidding scheme involving former Allentown Mayor Edwin Pawlowski. United States District Judge Juan Sanchez sentenced Strathearn...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: George Piro Named Special Agent in Charge of the Miami Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEVEN BROWN was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for defrauding victims of over $12.5 million by participating in a fraudulent scheme to solicit investments in feature-length films and documentaries...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Monument, Colorado, man pled guilty today to one count of attempting to evade the payment of income taxes announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn for the District of Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A child sex offender residing in Las Vegas was sentenced Monday to 135 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an Alaska woman pleaded guilty in federal court for devising multiple schemes to defraud an Anchorage medical practice through various means.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: Global Botnets Shut Down Following Arrests.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Shane Inghels, 36 years old, of Mishawaka, IN, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr., after pleading guilty to possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member was sentenced to life in prison for using social media to lure and violently murder two teenage boys in East Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Ten residents of Western Pennsylvania, a resident of Georgia, and a resident of South Carolina were charged by a federal grand jury in a 22-count indictment related to a years-long conspiracy to defraud the Pennsylvania Medicaid program, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, CA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued notices of safety violations to the U.S. Army Reserve 63 Regional Support Command at a Sacramento, California, maintenance facility.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today held a business meeting to advance three nominees:
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for selling crack cocaine, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
