News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE- A federal grand jury has indicted South Bay doctor Venkat Aachi, charging him with distributing hydrocodone outside the scope of his professional practice and without a legitimate medical need, and with health care fraud related to the submission of false and fraudulent claims regarding the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Versailles, Mo., man who stole nine firearms during the burglary of a local pawn shop pleaded guilty in federal court today for illegally possessing the firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Garden City man Monday admitted he was armed while selling a dangerous mixture of fentanyl and heroin, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Ambler, Pennsylvania, man today admitted defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of thousands of dollars after Hurricane Sandy, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Sire English, 26, was sentenced for failing to register as a sex offender. The Honorable Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced English to 15 months of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, English will being a five-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Shailesh Kothari, a/k/a Shue Kothari, the chief executive officer for Primera Medical Group, was arraigned on federal charges alleging healthcare fraud for submitting more than 4,500 fraudulent claims for allergy treatments. Co-defendant, Timothy McMenamin, the chief operating officer for Primera Medical Group, was also charged for his role in the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - One year ago, the Department of Justice announced the revitalization and enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), which Attorney General Sessions has made the centerpiece of the Department’s violent crime reduction strategy. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 43-year-old Beaumont, Texas woman has been sentenced for her part in a conspiracy targeting federal inmates and their families in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Christopher Rhodes, age 53, of Lovejoy, Illinois, has been sentenced to a total of 36 months in prison for stealing the identities of elderly residents at a senior living facility where he used to work, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Ocean County, New Jersey, woman today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Nicholas Carroll Watkins, 30, of Valley Springs, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to 25 years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release for receiving material involving the sexual exploitation of minors, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Watkins will also be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Three individuals charged in a superseding indictment with conspiracy to transport hundreds of pounds of marijuana from California to Utah and throughout the United States were arraigned on the charges in federal court Friday morning. The indictment alleges the defendants used the drug organization to generate millions of dollars in marijuana cash proceeds to support various business ventures.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: HUNTSVILLE- A task force established to prevent violent crime in the City of Huntsville held its inaugural meeting today at the Huntsville Police Department, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Huntsville Police Chief Mark McMurray.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Ocean County, New Jersey, woman today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Oct. 12, 2018, a three-count federal indictment was unsealed against Anthony C. Moore (age: 32) of Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge James Hunt and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced today that Julio Contreras, aka Blue Demon, 34, of McAllen, Texas, who was convicted of racketeering conspiracy involving five kilograms or more of cocaine, and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 121 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Five admitted members and confederates of the Old York Money Gang (OYMG), a gang that sustained itself in part through the distribution and sale of controlled substances, including crack cocaine, as well as through murder and other violent crimes, have pleaded guilty to federal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 43-year-old Beaumont, Texas woman has been sentenced for her part in a conspiracy targeting federal inmates and their families in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Erskine Simmons, a 31 year old resident of Pensacola, Florida was sentenced to 33 months for conspiring to distribute heroin followed by 60 months for possession of a firearm in furtherance of that drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - A federal grand jury indicted Kristopher Purcell, aka “K-Dawg," charging him with two counts of attempted murder in aid of racketeering; two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering; and one count of use of a firearm during and in relation to, or possession in furtherance of, a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
