News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: The former CEO of Palo Pinto General Hospital has pleaded guilty to defrauding three major insurance providers - BlueCross BlueShield of Texas, CIGNA Texas, and United Healthcare - out of millions of dollars, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: On March 7, 2018, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Macomb County resident Tara Lynn Lee with eighteen counts of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Barbara “Basia" Skudrzyk, a/k/a Barbara “Basia" Najarro, 38, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for three counts of mail fraud. She appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Court Judge Sippel and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $381,583.50.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Colum Patrick Moran, Jr. (40, Jacksonville) has been arrested and charged by federal criminal complaint with soliciting child pornography using the internet. If convicted, Moran faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, and up to 30 years, in federal prison. Moran was arrested on March 6, 2019, and is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Former Border Patrol Agent Sentenced to More Than Nine Years in Prison for Accepting Bribes to Facilitate the Trafficking of Illegal Drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Grant Michallyszyn, 22, of Nashua, pleaded guilty in federal court to possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Attorney General William P. Barr and U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay" Pak announced the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history, surpassing last year’s nationwide sweep. The cases during this sweep involved more than 260 defendants from around the globe who victimized more than two million Americans, most of them elderly.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO - A leader of the Westside Crips was sentenced to 82 months in prison on March 7, 2019 for his aggravating role in a racketeering conspiracy involving sex trafficking, narcotics trafficking and other violent crimes as well as possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A former police officer who admitted to engaging in sexually explicit discussions via social media and text message with a 15-year-old girl and transferring obscene material to her while employed by the Narragansett Police Department was sentenced today to 21 motnths in federal prison, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Allen Rocky Joiner, a 58 year old resident of Bay Minette, Alabama was sentenced to five years of probation for possession of a Mossberg 12 gauge shotgun after being convicted of Unlawful Distribution of a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - A Galesburg, Ill., man, Marvin Louis Davis, 28, has been ordered to serve four years in federal prison after admitting that he lied when he purchased multiple guns from a licensed firearms dealer in Galesburg. On Sept. 27, 2018, Davis pleaded guilty to providing a false address to...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Today, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced a dramatic decrease in overdose deaths in western Pennsylvania in 2018. Overdose deaths are down 43% throughout the 25 counties in the Western District of Pennsylvania. This includes significant decreases in the counties most impacted by the crisis, including of 50% in Beaver County, 50% in Butler County, 47% in Lawrence County, 47% in Allegheny County, 44% in Washington County and 37% in Westmoreland County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Robert Codrut Dumitrescu pleaded guilty to federal charges of wire fraud conspiracy, computer fraud and abuse, and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme, orchestrated from Romania, which resulted in the illegal intrusion into computer servers in the United States, deployment...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On March 6, 2019, Gregg A. Johnson, 42, of Tucson, Ariz., was found guilty by a federal jury of three counts of submitting false statements to a government agency. The case was tried before U.S. District Court Judge James A. Soto. Sentencing is set for May 20, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Jason Sfara, 44, of Concord, was sentenced to 77 months in prison for possession of fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today questioned the Army Corp of Engineers headquarters decision to grant a final permit to the Rosemont Mine, which is expected to damage water resources and wildlife in Southern Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: FBI and Tribal Police Investigate Shooting on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation: Pendleton Swat Team Assists with Federal Search Warrant.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Defendant laundered nearly $500,000 in drug proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Admitted that the Conspirators Distributed between 12 and 36 Kilograms of Fentanyl-Enough to Kill the Population of Maryland.
