News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was charged Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in federal court in Boston in connection with drug trafficking activities involving fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A jury yesterday convicted Paul J. Elmer, the former CEO and owner of Pharmakon Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Pharmakon), of conspiracy to defraud the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and nine counts of adulterating drugs, the Department of Justice announced today. Pharmakon was a Noblesville, Indiana, drug compounding facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: FBI Recognizes 8th Grade Students at Richview Middle School with National Safe Online Surfing Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Northern District of Florida. Friday, April 12, 2019. COLIN HACKLEY PHOTO. TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - This afternoon, U.S. Attorney Lawrence Keefe took the oath of office in an official investiture ceremony, joined by staff from the U.S. Attorney’s Office; federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Thai national Apichart Srivaranon, 34 years old, was sentenced to 26 months in federal prison for a conspiracy to export arms and munitions, and for unlawfully exporting arms and munitions, specifically for exporting firearms parts from the United States to Thailand. U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs out of millions of dollars by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Scam lasted at least 35 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Carlynne L. Davis, 34, of Lompoc, California, was sentenced on April 5 to 18 months in prison for her participation in a nationwide rental listing scam. Davis worked as a telemarketer at a business owned by Michael S. Davenport, 50, of Santa Barbara, California. Davenport is the former bass guitar player for the Ataris rock band. Last month, Davenport was sentenced to 7 years in prison for his role in the same fraud scam.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - David Keith Frazier, 33, and Lauren C. Willis, 26, both members of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their role in two bomb threats and a bank robbery that occurred on the Choctaw Indian Reservation, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Today, National Park Service Southeast Regional Director Robert Vogel announced the selection of Matthew Woods as superintendent of North Carolina’s Moores Creek National Battlefield, effective April 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - United States Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that law enforcement have dismantled a drug ring operating in Asheville, charging eight of its members with drug conspiracy and drug and firearm-related offenses. The 35-count criminal indictment was returned by the federal grand jury on April 2, 2019, and was unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Antwan L. Hutchinson, 27, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to murdering two potential witnesses and conspiring to distribute narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - Two east central Illinois men have trial dates set after indictments were returned by the grand jury charging them in separate, unrelated cases with violation of the Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act (SORNA.).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-West Yellowstone resident Ann Bennett Hermanson was sentenced today to five years of probation and ordered to pay $479,730 restitution for embezzling from her employer over a seven-year period, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA) requesting documents that have been withheld for years relating to the Trump Organization’s lease with the federal government for the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis today sentenced Alonia Anderson Perkins, age 42, of Tampa, Florida, to four years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and for aggravated identity theft, in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain and charge the costs of upgraded Apple iPhones against true AT&T customers. Judge Xinis also ordered Perkins to pay restitution of $6,500.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Former Rhode Island state senator and businessman James E. Doyle, II, 47, of Pawtucket, was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for engaging in a $74 million dollar check-kiting scheme in which he wrote tens of thousands of worthless checks, and failed to report more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Two residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were sentenced in federal court for conspiracy to defraud the Pennsylvania Medicaid program, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
