News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On June 25, 2019, Jovante Lamar Fryson II, 20, of Gardena, California and Amauje Jason Ferguson, 23, of Inglewood, California were sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Soto to serve nine years and seven years in prison, respectively. A third co-defendant, Tysheere Traymar Ford, 25...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Adrian Gomez (20, Orlando) to 15 years in federal prison for committing armed robberies of a pizza delivery driver, a taxi cab driver, and a shoe salesman, and for brandishing and possessing firearms during crimes of violence. Gomez had pleaded guilty on March 27, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Defendant is the 51st person to be charged in connection with the nationwide college admissions investigation and prosecution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Westmoreland County has been sentenced in federal court to one-and-one-half years’ (18 months’) incarceration and five years of supervised release on her conviction of bank fraud and mail fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John B. Larson (D-CT), and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman John Lewis (D-GA) sent a letter to Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Andrew M. Saul stating their opposition...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: MOAB, Utah - Independence Day is a great day to celebrate America’s national public lands. These lands provide tangible goods and materials we rely on and use every day, as well as an amazing array of recreation opportunities. Help keep public lands healthy and beautiful by taking extra precautions to prevent wildfires when celebrating Independence Day this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: A straw purchaser pleaded guilty today to her role in a conspiracy to buy more than 150 guns for an unidentified Mexican man, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By State Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Ted Deutch, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism, today announced that the Department of State has replied to their request...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Fayette County has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By State Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
Release: No. ECON 345/2019. The Embassy of the United States of America presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of the Republic of Ecuador and refers to the Ministry’s Note MREMH-MREMH-2019-24976-N, dated June 27, 2019, which communicated a proposal by the Government of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: A 52-year-old Bothell, Washington woman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to three years in prison and five years of supervised release for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft for a five-year scheme in which she cashed 306 fraudulent checks, totaling $400,526 and drawn on the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: New Indictment adds 15 Additional Charges against John Marshall Higgins, Bringing Total to 21; Former Head Nurse Gary Hassler Still Facing Two Counts of Falsifying Documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that former Bandon School District educational assistant and coach Sean Jeffrey Haga, 33, was sentenced to 360 months in federal prison and a life term of supervised release for sexually abusing a 2-month-old infant and distributing photos of the abuse on the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Suhail Farooq, age 26, of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on June 27, 2019, by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to 15 months’ imprisonment to be followed by two years of supervised release for wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Encompass Health Agrees to Pay $48 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to its Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that ANTONIO KEVIN MCKOY, 32, of Garland, NC, TONY CHEVALLIER, 40, of Clinton, NC, and JABARR RYEHEINE RUDOLPH, 39, of Clinton, NC were sentenced by United States District Judge James C. Dever, III. MCKOY ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Trusted Employee Forged Signatures and made False Entries in Business Records.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced on June 27, 2019 that Steven M. Rader (age 37) of Muskego, Wisconsin, was sentenced to five months in federal prison for stealing more than $89,000 from the federal government via a tax evasion scheme that began in 2012. Rader was also ordered to pay more than $195,000 in restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Pecos, NM:- Pecos National Historical Park will offer two special backcountry hikes this July.
