News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was charged today in connection with a scheme to defraud numerous life insurance companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that physician PAUL J. MATHIEU was sentenced yesterday evening by U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield to 48 months in prison for his participation in a $30 million scheme to defraud Medicare and the New...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Robert Elliott Jones, 39, a/k/a/ "Lil Rob," a/k/a/ "Mac Rob" has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison on conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: St. Louis - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today against three St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) Police Officers for their conduct in connection with the arrest and assault of a fellow SLMPD police officer who was working undercover in downtown St. Louis during protests following the 2017 acquittal of a former SLMPD officer of a first-degree murder charge brought by the State of Missouri relating to the shooting death of a civilian.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Timical Hall and Tyre J. Webster of Selma, Alabama, were sentenced in federal court for their roles in an armed carjacking. In August 2019, Hall pleaded guilty to two charges-carjacking and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. A week later, Webster pleaded guilty on two counts-carjacking and conspiring to commit carjacking.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: Air travelers planning to fly from Augusta, Savannah or Brunswick could receive an unwelcome reminder if they attempt to illegally carry a firearm on board.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) led ten senators and the Chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee Carolyn B. Maloney in raising concerns with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office about Gilead Sciences’ actions related to their patent on HIV prevention medication.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statement regarding passage in the House of Representatives of legislation to lower prescription drug prices.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man found to be in possession of a loaded firearm, ammunition, several bags of crack cocaine, and a large bag of marijuana when stopped by Pawtucket Police for a traffic violation, has been sentenced to 72 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Patrick Lemuel Bass of Taylor County, was sentenced to eight years in prison for his part in methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy. Bass is the last of 25 defendants sentenced in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking organization operating primarily within Taylor and Madison counties in Florida, and Colquitt County, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former Los Angeles County resident now living in Mexico faces federal criminal charges alleging he sold millions of dollars of memorabilia that contained the forged signatures of sports stars, musicians, actors, and other celebrities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JORGE MEJIA-COLIN, age 28, a native of Mexico, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count bill of information charging him with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Cedar City Field Office will soon begin operations to gather and remove excess wild horses in the North Hills Joint Management Area (JMA) that is located west of Enterprise and jointly managed by the BLM and U.S. Forest Service. The gather will begin on Dec. 15 and is expected to last approximately seven days.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging Xavier Lee, a/k/a “X," age 40, of Elkton, Maryland, on federal charges of using a website to promote and conduct his prostitution business, sex trafficking of a minor, production of child pornography, and interstate...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released the following statement regarding the Senate confirmation of Aurelia Skipwith as the new Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Skipwith currently serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks at the Department of the Interior, where her team is responsible for ensuring the protection and stewardship of lands and waters within the national park and wildlife refuge systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Greeneville, Tenn. - On Dec. 12, 2019, Misty Dawn Bacon, 44, of Morristown, entered a guilty plea to one count of wire fraud, one count of health care fraud, and one count of identity theft in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville. Sentencing has been set for April 3, 2020, at 1:30 p.m., in United States District Court in Greeneville.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Luke Joseph Burning Breast, age 36, of Mission, South Dakota, was found guilty of Felon in Possession of a Firearm as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota. The verdict was returned on Dec. 10, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Jacqueline Maguire Named Special Agent in Charge of the Criminal Division of the New York Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Timical Hall and Tyre J. Webster of Selma, Alabama, were sentenced in federal court for their roles in an armed carjacking. In August 2019, Hall pleaded guilty to two charges-carjacking and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. A week later, Webster pleaded guilty on two counts-carjacking and conspiring to commit carjacking.
