News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of MARGURITE MARY COFELL, 62, to 96 months in prison for orchestrating a multimillion dollar credit union fraud scheme. COFELL, who pleaded guilty on April 3, 2019, to one count of credit union fraud, was sentenced on Dec. 3, 2019, before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a warning today that holiday laser-light displays aimed at houses become potentially dangerous when aimed into the sky.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Stephen Douglas Fry, 72, a Memphis-area financial advisor, pled guilty to a three-count information charging him with mail and wire fraud and interstate transportation of monies taken by fraud, U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey today delivered the following remarks at a press conference with House Democrats marking 90 days since the Trump administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) illegally ignored a statutory deadline to issue a Federal Register notice needed for Puerto Rico to access disaster relief funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Carl W. Hoecker, the Inspector General of the Office of Inspector General of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - David C. Joseph, United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, announced that Glen Arrington, 27, of Jonesville, Louisiana, was sentenced on Dec. 2, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell, to 70 months in federal prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Arrington pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 21, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Three men were charged in federal court today for their roles in a drug-trafficking conspiracy after federal agents seized 14 kilograms of methamphetamine.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - The St. Paul office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) graduated its inaugural class of Citizens Academy students this fall, including 10 metro-area community leaders from various backgrounds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: MIAMI, FL - A former Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Safety Inspector Manuel R. Fernandez, 42, of Miami, was sentenced to 75 months in prison today, after having been convicted by a trial jury of twenty-one criminal counts related to his participation in a bribery and fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: St. Louis -Jeremy L. Dickerson, 25, of St. Louis County, was sentenced to 72 months in prison for possessing fentanyl and a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime. Dickerson appeared today in front of United States District Judge John A. Ross.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: The drug pricing bill with the best chances of passing Congress is getting a makeover, as its authors and the White House try to make it more attractive in a last-ditch effort to notch a win on lowering drug costs before the 2020 election season.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Allegheny County pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that SUZANNE C. MAY, age 61, of Mandeville, pled guilty on Dec. 3, 2019 to conspiracy to alter or falsify records in connection with a federal investigation, namely, a Medicare audit of a hospice facility located in New Orleans, identified in court documents as Company 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that KACIE DOUCET, age 38, of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on December 4, 2019 to conspiring to distribute ketamine which resulted in the death of a Slidell, Louisiana teenager. The eighteen year old’s dead body was found floating in a Texas bayou.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Dec. 3, 2019, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against Kurtis L. Peters, Jr. (age: 22), formerly of Keshena, which is located on the Menominee Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Virginia Man Indicted for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Noman Thanwy, M.D., an internist in Cambridge, Maryland, associated with the medical practice known as M.S. Shariff, M.D., P.A., has paid the United States $176,686.00 to settle allegations that he submitted false claims to the United States for medically unnecessary autonomic nervous function tests and vestibular function tests.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SUNJI CRAMER, 40, of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 34-year-old Mexican foreign national who illegally resided in Houston has been ordered to prison for conspiracy and meth smuggling, announced DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. The jury deliberated for less than three hours following a three-day trial before convicting Rogelio Rivera Benito, aka Mecanico, on Sept. 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of a superseding indictment charging Alex Jared Zwiefelhofer (22, Wisconsin) and Craig Austin Lang (29, Arizona and North Carolina) with six federal offenses. In addition to the offenses of conspiracy to commit robbery...
