News from September 2018

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted distributing thousands of pills containing heroin in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Daniel Sullivan, 35, of Manchester, was sentenced to 168 months (14 years) in federal prison for the illegal possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: Centers Plan for Healthy Living (“Centers Plan"), a Staten Island-based company that provides services to people who are chronically ill or who need long-term health care services, has agreed to pay $1,650,000 to settle civil fraud allegations that Centers Plan billed the Medicaid Program for services...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former New Jersey broker was arrested and charged today with defrauding his clients by engaging in a multi-year “cherry-picking" scheme.
By State Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Oversight of U.S. Sanctions Policy.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Terry L. Magee, 38, of Bassfield, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to threatening to bomb the Veterans Administration Nursing Home in Collins, Mississippi, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge James Ross with the Veterans Administration - Office of Inspector General.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Gilroy Stewart, age 48, of Cleveland, Ohio, was indicted by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sept. 12, 2018 - Gary Ola, 54, a sergeant at the Cheatham County Jail in Ashland City, Tennessee, pleaded guilty late yesterday in U.S. District Court to two counts of making false statements to FBI agents, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Yuriy Khalabuda, 37, of Ukraine, was sentenced to 16 months in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that, DAQUANJRA TASHA WHITE, 29, of Fayetteville, was sentenced by United States Senior District Judge Malcolm J. Howard for sex trafficking of children. Judge Howard sentenced WHITE to 144 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a Salvadoran fugitive Wednesday who was wanted in his home country on charges of trafficking illegal persons.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: FBI and Cranberry Police Seek the Public’s Assistance in Identifying Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Anthony Wayne Tavoloni, Jr., 45, of Salem, Oregon, was sentenced today to three years’ probation including three months of home detention for assaulting two Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Transportation Security Officers (TSO) at Portland International Airport (PDX).

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A brother and sister from New Jersey were sentenced today to federal prison terms for their respective roles in running a multi-million dollar fraudulent invoice scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) spotlighted the introduction of three bills that collectively build on the growing economic successes of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. These bills constitute Republicans’ Tax Reform 2.0 package and will lock in the individual...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that Zadgery Collins McNeil, age 32, of Rock Hill, was sentenced in federal court to a total of 150 months imprisonment, to be followed by 4 years of supervised release. McNeil plead guilty earlier this year to felon in possession...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment today charging MIGUEL TORRES, 38, of Waterbury, with various offenses related to his alleged trafficking of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: The Renoir Painting, Titled “Deux Femmes Dans Un Jardin," Was Looted by the Nazis During the Occupation of Paris in 1941.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STEPHEN CARBONELLA, 59, of Hamden, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to embezzling funds from his employer, Webster Bank Corporation, where he served as bank manager of the Orange branch office.