News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A federal jury in Boston convicted an Illinois man yesterday of defrauding insurance companies in relation to a high-priced drug made by Cambridge-based pharmaceutical company Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc., and for using the identities of physicians to carry out the fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that on Dec. 19, 2019 KEVIN CRAWFORD (“CRAWFORD"), age 34, of New Orleans, was sentenced to 77 months imprisonment by Chief United States District Court Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown for being a prohibited person in possession of firearms. Additionally, CRAWFORD was ordered to serve three (3) years of supervised release and pay a $200.00 special assessment fee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA - A jury on Wednesday convicted a Missoula man accused of trafficking methamphetamine in the community of multiple drug and firearms crimes, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three Peruvian men were extradited today to the United States, where they stand accused of operating a large fraud and extortion scheme, the Department of Justice and U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 23-year-old Joaquin, Texas man has pleaded guilty to child exploitation violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Worcester for the October 2019 robberies of the TD Bank in Worcester and the East Boston Savings Bank in Revere.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Philadelphia arrested 17 criminal aliens during a 5-day enforcement operation ending Dec. 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Manassas man was sentenced today to one year in prison for straw purchasing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - U.S. District Judge John Antoon today sentenced Daprix Devon Gadson (29, Ocala) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as an armed career criminal and for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it. Gadson had pleaded guilty on September 5, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that James Floyd Jones, 31, of Selma, Alabama, was sentenced today in federal court for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Jones pleaded guilty to the charge in September of 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Always on the lookout for better ways to measure all kinds of things, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have published a detailed study suggesting an “elegant" improved definition for the standard unit of light power, the optical watt.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Varna, Bulgaria, was sentenced on Dec. 16, 2019, in federal court in Pittsburgh to a period of time served after having served more than 39 months in prison following his conviction on charges of criminal conspiracy, computer fraud, and bank fraud for his role as a member of the GozNym malware cybercrime network, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced today that the Eastern District of North Carolina collected $8,527,783.50 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2019. Of this amount, $6,362,993.33 was collected in criminal actions and $2,164,790.17 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that PEDRO ANDRES OSORIO was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William H.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man was sentenced today to four years in prison for his role in a money laundering scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Eric Lawaun Alexander Sentenced to Six-and-a-Half Years on Methamphetamine and Firearm Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - John Woods, 57, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 41 months in prison on charges that he stole more than $560,000 from the company and paid more than $140,000 in bribes to a former D.C. government employee to facilitate his theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Oil Tanker Owner, Operator, and Chief Engineer Convicted for Obstruction of Justice and Concealing Deliberate Pollution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Amir Muhammad, age 54, was sentenced in federal court today in Omaha, Nebraska, for two counts of brandishing a firearm and two counts of robbery. Chief United States District Court Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Muhammad to 28 years of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After completing his term of imprisonment, Muhammad will begin a 5-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that David Banks, age 33, formerly of Sugar Notch, Pennsylvania, entered a guilty plea on Dec. 18, 2019, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, to charges of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. Banks was then immediately sentenced to six years’ imprisonment.
