News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that Dr. Anthony Leone, 55, of Clarence, N.Y., who was convicted of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and making material false statements, was sentenced to two years’ probation, to include three months home confinement, by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Burlington, VT - The U.S. Marshals Service arrested a fugitive wanted by the Vermont Department of Correction and the Burlington Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-A Thompson Falls man accused of possessing a firearm after having been found to suffer from a mental disorder appeared Dec. 16 on charges, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The American Red Cross has received 202 units of blood from employees with Fluor Idaho, EM’s cleanup contractor at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site, in blood drives at INL Site facilities this year. The company ranks third among government-sector companies in the state...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: The owner of a physical security school pleaded guilty today to defrauding a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program dedicated to rehabilitating military veterans with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: MIAMI - Dr. Rodolfo Gonzalez Garcia, 65, of Weston, Florida, was sentenced yesterday to eight years in prison, after previously pleading guilty to conspiring to dispense a controlled substance, Oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man today admitted participating in a conspiracy to carry out a $3.5 million scheme to use bogus information and simultaneous loan applications at multiple banks to fraudulently obtain home equity lines of credit, a practice known as “shotgunning," U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - CHAD WAYNE KASPEREIT, 34, of Duncan, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for possessing firearms while subject to a victim protective order and lying on a federal form to purchase firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging DONALD LAGUARDIA with securities fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Demario Demont Sprouse, 39, a/k/a/ "Taco," has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Issam Shammout of Jordan, 48, and Ali Abdullah Alhay of Saudi Arabia, 61, were charged with violating U.S. export laws and sanctions against Iran in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu for the District of Columbia, Special Agent in Charge Jill Sanborn of FBI Minneapolis, and Acting Director of the Office of Export Enforcement John Sonderman of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Omar Pérez Aybar, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s (HHS-OIG) Miami Regional Office, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, FBI’s Miami Field Office, and Adolphus...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: You Better Look Out for Holiday Scams!.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Curtis Tarver, 55, Spring Grove, Minnesota, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to three years in prison for wire fraud. The wire fraud charge stems from Tarver’s embezzlement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Jordan Reshard Poole, 29, of Hattiesburg, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 100 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Thomas J. Whalen, D.O., 65, of Havertown, Pennsylvania, pled guilty to charges related to his unlawful importation of foreign, non-FDA approved injectable medications that he falsely billed to health care benefit programs in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A jury today convicted 13 members of the Peoria street gang known as Bomb Squad for conspiracy to organize and operate the gang as a criminal enterprise that has plagued the Peoria community with gun violence for years. These violent acts included murder, attempted murder, arson, and drug trafficking. After presentation of seven weeks of evidence, the jury deliberated over a period of three days before returning the guilty verdicts this afternoon.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Philadelphia - National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named Cinda Waldbuesser as the new superintendent of First State National Historical Park in Delaware. Waldbuesser will begin her new assignment in January.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno resident was sentenced Monday to eight years and two months in federal prison for transporting 10 pounds of methamphetamine from California for sale in Nevada, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: SENTENCING - NELSON PABON. On December 6, Nelson Pabon, 48, was sentenced to 16 years and 8 months in federal custody for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Pabon had informed undercover officers that because of his advance knowledge of canine sweeps of luggage, he was well-positioned...
