News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that NICHOLAS JOSEPH GENOVESE pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to securities fraud for inducing investments in a hedge fund that he founded, Willow Creek Investments LP (“Willow Creek"), by misrepresenting...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sisseton, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for aggravated sexual abuse of a child and for sexual abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man was sentenced today to 26 years in prison for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a Palau national has been sentenced in federal court for carjacking a woman’s vehicle in Anchorage, which led to a vehicle chase during which he caused a collision with another driver.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a Rashawn Crule, 42, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin before U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $8,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Robert McCloud, 39, most recently of Warrenville, S.C., was sentenced today to 18 months in prison on a federal wire fraud charge stemming from a real estate scheme in which he and others used forged deeds and fake driver’s licenses to fraudulently transfer ownership of District of Columbia homes from the rightful owners.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. -U.S. District Court Senior Judge Daniel R. Domínguez sentenced José Padilla-Galarza, a former police officer who masterminded a bank robbery, to a 19-year term of imprisonment and five years of supervised release, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. Codefendant...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Martinsburg, West Virginia, residents were arraigned today in federal court after being indicted on Aug. 14, 2018 by a federal grand jury sitting in Martinsburg on drug distribution charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Dupree, South Dakota, woman convicted of Child Abuse was sentenced on Oct. 15, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ-On Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, Raymar Arthur, 31, believed to be the “Wiggin Out Bandit", was taken into custody without incident at his home in Maricopa, Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, husband and wife, and a Eureka, California, man, who is a brother to the South Dakota woman, convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former official with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) allegedly accepted thousands of dollars in bribes from a consultant in exchange for taking official acts to financially benefit the consultant, including initiating ABC enforcement actions designed to generate consulting fees, according to a federal grand jury indictment announced today by United States Attorney Nick Hanna and FBI Assistant Director in Charge Paul Delacourt.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: Ocala, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Donald Edward Smith to five years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to three years in prison for filing a false federal income tax return, the sentences to be served concurrently. In addition, the Court ordered Smith to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Dylan Robert Davison, 27, of Loxley, Alabama, was sentenced today for using, carrying or possessing a firearm during or in relation to a drug trafficking felony. Court documents reflect that Davison was stopped...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Vacaville, California, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute and Distribution of a Controlled Substance was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Oct. 15, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter today to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke seeking information about new guidance issued to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) employees restricting information released through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests specific to the Endangered Species Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL ARNSTEIN was sentenced today to nine months in prison for conspiring to forge a federal judge’s signature on counterfeit court orders that ARNSTEIN submitted to Google to get negative reviews...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: Macon - Colonel Robert McCullers, an Assistant United States Attorney in the Middle District of Georgia and Colonel in the Georgia Air National Guard, took a brief leave of absence to join National Guard troops deployed following Hurricane Michael, a historic storm that damaged homes, farms and businesses...
