News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - William L. Hale, a/k/a “Man," age 44, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 180 months for distributing crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump accompanied by members of the first family will help celebrate the 2018 holiday season by lighting the tree at the 96th annual National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at President’s Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Eight defendants are in federal custody following their arrests in October and November 2018 on federal drug conspiracy charges, announced Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Cheryl McGrath, 51, pled guilty to escaping from the Federal Prison Camp at Alderson, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Stuart commended the investigation by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the United States Marshals Service and the West Virginia State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Samuel McFarland, 55, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to two counts of smuggling goods into the United States before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charges each carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Defendants Used La Jolla and Del Mar Mansions to Defraud Lenders.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the sentencing of DAVID THOMAS ROUGIER, 46, to 88 months in prison for one count of wire fraud. ROUGIER, who pleaded guilty on July 18, 2018, was sentenced on Nov. 19, 2018, before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim, in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Intercept Corporation, d/b/a “Intercept EFT" (“Intercept"), was placed on two years’ probation and ordered to forfeit $5,928,893 in criminal proceeds after pleading guilty to one count of operating an illegal money transmitting business.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: MISSOULA, Colo. - The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Pharmacy and the U.S. Attorney’s Office have reached an agreement settling alleged pharmacy violations in which the pharmacy will pay a $95,520 civil penalty and take other steps to ensure compliance with federal law and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration regulations, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: A sexual predator from Williams County was sentenced to nearly two years in prison after traveling to Asia without permission and failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced actions it is taking to assist Americans in California affected by devastating wildfires.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOSE LUIS MERINO HERNANDEZ, also known as “Jose Mendez," 50, pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to one count of reentry of removed alien. Merino Hernandez is a citizen of Mexico last residing in Waterbury.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: South Florida Doctor Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion and Disability Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that two defendants pled guilty to federal drug charges before United States District Judge Irene C. Berger. Darla Reed, 39, of Alderson, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute a quantity of methamphetamine. Jacqueline Pauley...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Sharon, Mass., man was arrested today and charged with trying to obstruct an investigation involving time-card fraud and the potential mishandling of classified information.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-Curran Millican Manzer, 37, of Springfield, Oregon, pleaded guilty today to a single count of possession with intent to the distribute marijuana after repeatedly shipping marijuana out of state.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 102 months in prison for perpetrating a long-running scheme to defraud investment clients out of millions of dollars, forging an attorney’s signature without authorization in connection with that scheme, and preparing false tax returns for his clients, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: A Mexican man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced today to four months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Sara Beth Cummings, 36, of Boise, Idaho, and Candelaria Sanchez, 43, of Las Vegas, Nevada, were sentenced today in U.S. District Court for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Cummings to 21 months, and Sanchez to 84 months, in prison. Judge Lodge also ordered that both serve a period of supervised release after their prison sentences.
