News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Larry D. Nuckols, age 69, of Valdosta, Georgia, co-owner of Nuvision, Inc., an Atlanta, Georgia based company, pleaded guilty today before United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, to vendor kick-back charges that defrauded Rite Aid, Inc. out of $5.7 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Trenton, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for robbing Metro PCS stores in Willingboro, New Jersey, Lumberton, New Jersey, and Levittown, Pennsylvania, in September and October 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY VITO, 28, formerly of Stoughton, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for serving as the getaway driver for an armed bank robbery and two commercial robberies in December 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler today requesting documents and information about the agency’s decision to roll back policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions to address climate change.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DEAN JONES, a/k/a “Kurupt," was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 26 years in prison for robbing a restaurant in 2012, during which JONES shot an innocent customer, as well as for JONES’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: The owner of an asbestos removal and demolition business was indicted for paying cash bribes to a Cleveland employee in return for confidential information and preferential treatment regarding jobs for the city.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - A senior leader of the Aryan Circle (AC) and a gang member were sentenced today for being an accessory-after-the-fact to racketeering murder, announced U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph of the Western District of Louisiana and Assistant Attorney General Bryan A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
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: Three men from Northeast Ohio, including two former U.S. Postal Service employees, were sentenced to prison for their roles in the armed robbery of a postal carrier in which they were trying to steal packages containing marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STEPHEN T. GIONFRIDDO, 68, of Middletown, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to fraud charges stemming from a scheme in which he embezzled more than $500,000 from his former employer, and then stole nearly $400,000 from his brother to pay back his employer.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho recently completed the third and final shipment of lightly irradiated fuel elements from the DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory Site this year, supplying material needed to power a research reactor.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Former Memphis Police Officer, Kevin Coleman, 41, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for narcotics and extortion offenses committed while on duty. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, LYCURTIS QUAMAE LEON THOMPSON, 25, of Raleigh, was sentenced by United States District Judge James C. Dever, III for felon in possession of a firearm. Judge Dever sentenced THOMPSON to 48 months’ imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Nov. 16, 2018, Carl Jeffrey Campbell, age 71, of Orient, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to three years of supervised release, with four months of home confinement for making a false statement in connection with federal crop insurance...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston woman pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston for her role a scheme to embezzle more than $2.7 million from Bank of America using fraudulent donations to non-profit organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Charges allege he obtained more than $1.5 million from hundreds of victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Jerry Lynn Moore, 43, of Weiser, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to 180 months in prison followed by 10 years supervised release, for attempted sexual exploitation of children, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Moore was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge David C. Nye. Moore pleaded guilty on Aug. 14, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Cape May County, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers out of more than $4 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler today requesting documents and information about the agency’s decision to roll back policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions to address climate change.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Frankie Dejesus, 28, of Rochester, New York, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack.".
