News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Ashburn businessman pleaded guilty today to employment tax fraud and illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - On July 17, 2019, District of Wyoming Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced Lisa Marie Brown, 50, of Rio Linda, Calif., to seventy-eight months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine. Brown pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Daniel Badu, 56, of New City, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud affecting a financial institution, was sentenced to time served and 10 months home detention by U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Leonard M. (“Lenny") Falcone, 51, of Mt. Vernon, Illinois, has been sentenced to 140 months in.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 16, 2019, a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against a man and woman allegedly involved in a firearms offense on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment charged Aaron C. Smith (age: 27), formerly of Keshena, which is located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, and Keanna R. King (age: 26), of Shawano.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a White River, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Possession of a Firearm by a Felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - William Reid, age 38, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty today to two counts of distributing crack cocaine, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and James Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that VINCENT ESPOSITO was sentenced today to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero for conspiring to commit racketeering offenses with members and associates of the Genovese Crime Family...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - United States Magistrate Judge Marcos E. López authorized a criminal complaint against 33 year-old Marcos A. Rivera-Ramos, charging him with production of child pornography, transfer of obscene material to a minor, coercion and enticement, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted the investigation that led to the arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Mark Norman Hanes, 52, of Sterling, Alaska, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason, to eight years in prison, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for his role in a drug and money laundering conspiracy that distributed methamphetamine and heroin throughout Southcentral Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Ryan Russell Parks, a/k/a Dinero, age 26, of Baltimore, Maryland, for two counts of sex trafficking of a minor and one count of using the Internet to promote a business enterprise involving prostitution. The verdict was returned late on July 18, 2019, after a four-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Ahmad Jamaal Becoate, 32, of Greensboro, North Carolina, was sentenced to 75 months’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Joseph Leeson, sitting in Allentown. The court also ordered the defendant to pay $443,542 in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Ashburn businessman pleaded guilty today to employment tax fraud and illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: On July 17, 2019, Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced LISA MARIE BROWN, 50, of Rio Linda, California to seventy-eight months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine. Brown pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of methamphetamine on May 8, 2019. She had previously...
By State Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) welcomed this week’s announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Last month, McCaul...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Andrew E. Fisher, 33, of Gulf Breeze, Florida, was arraigned yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The indictment was announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett today sentenced Harold Thomas Martin, III, age 54, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, to nine years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for willful retention of national defense information.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: American Citizen who became an ISIS Sniper and Trained Other ISIS Members in the Use of Weapons Charged with Providing Material Support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
