News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Mariia Butina, a Russian national, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison after earlier pleading guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Bill Moos, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Director of Athletics, is making history with the likes of Pulitzer Prize writer Willa Cather, aviator Charles Lindbergh and former Nebraska Football Coach Tom Osborne.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO -Roland Aujero was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Susan Illston, Senior U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Ghanaian national was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for illegal possession of identification documents and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury recently returned a four-count indictment charging Wallace Byers, age 59, of Miami, Florida, with wire fraud and international money laundering. Byers appeared for his arraignment in court today and pled not guilty to the pending charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: SENTENCING -- Mario Melendez. On April 26, Dallas tax return preparer Mario Melendez was sentenced to 51 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and aiding in the preparation of false tax returns. From November 2013 to April 2014, Mr. Melendez, a manager at Uptown Multi Services...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: The leader of a dangerous drug distribution ring, who continued to run his drug operation after fleeing to Mexico, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 20 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. As early as 2010, JESUS ENRIQUE PALOMERA, 39, conspired with others to...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced James Adelbert Walker, II (43, Leesburg) to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: A Bipartisan Effort to End Robocalls.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Bar Shani, 27, of San Francisco, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to launder money, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Former Tax Return Preparer Sentenced to Prison for Tax and Bankruptcy Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Holland man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester in connection with a marijuana manufacturing operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Kevin Douglas Jenkins, 35, of Pelahatchie, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to 262 months in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for producing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Mike Hurst, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze, and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood. Jenkins was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $3,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former physician was sentenced today to more than seven years in prison for operating a pill mill that illegally distributed over 600,000 oxycodone pills out of a pain management clinic in Woodbridge.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Temperatures are steadily rising, snow is retreating, and warm breezes are filled with the smell of pine needles along Bryce Canyon’s roads and trails. Come and enjoy our stunning landscape during this special time.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A New York man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston for assaulting a woman aboard a cruise ship.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SEBASTIAN PINTO-THOMAZ, a former credit ratings analyst at Standard & Poor’s, was convicted today of participating in two schemes to trade on material, nonpublic information in advance of the Sherwin-Williams Company’s acquisition of the Valspar Corporation, following a seven-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal jury today found a Paterson, New Jersey, man guilty of two counts of drug trafficking offenses, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that Louie Bernard Revette pleaded guilty to federal charges related to his commission of a crossburning on Oct. 24, 2017, in Seminary, Mississippi. Specifically, Revette, 37, pleaded guilty to one count of interference with housing rights, a federal civil rights violation, and one count of using fire during the commission of a federal felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: A Dallas, Texas-area tax return preparer was sentenced to 51 months in prison today for conspiring to defraud the United States and aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox for the Northern District of Texas.
