News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL -U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Jennifer Samuels (47, Seffner) to 33 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit mail fraud in connection with Samuels’s role as a middleman, or money mule, in a Jamaican lottery fraud scheme. As part of her sentence, the court also entered a money judgment of $209,800.13, the proceeds of the fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: North Carolina Mental Health Company Owner Sentenced to 60 Months in Prison on Health Care Fraud and Tax Evasion Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Defendant Falsified Deductions on more than a Thousand Tax Returns over Four Years.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $51.5 million for new and innovative research of technologies for trucks, off-road vehicles, and the fuels that power them. Funded through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), ...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $51.5 million for new and innovative research of technologies for trucks, off-road vehicles, and the fuels that power them. Funded through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) issued the following statement today on Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson’s announcement that she will retire from her position at the end of July...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Joel Wendell Beckham, 32, of Brandon, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III to 84 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze, and U.S. Marshal Mark Shepherd. Beckham was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Gabino Peralta-Saucedo (43, Bradenton) to 24 years and 4 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and a quantity of heroin. Peralta-Saucedo had pleaded guilty on Dec. 14, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: For Possessing with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and for Possessing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Purchased 10,000 Fentanyl Pills on a Dark Market Website for Approximately $10,000 Worth of Bitcoin Cryptocurrency.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar demanding evidence and justifications for the Trump Administration’s final Title X gag rule, which threatens the program’s provider network and its patients’ access to care. The letter was signed by Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man, who previously pled guilty to drug and gun charges, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. In September 2018, Shawn Gilmore, 49, pled guilty to all four counts of an indictment charging him with two counts of possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Rahim Mahboob, 67, of Los Angeles, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to two years and three months in prison and a $58,500 fine for conspiring to commit bribery, identity fraud, and unauthorized access to a computer, and a separate count of identity fraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Federal Jury Found Wilson Possessed Heroin, Marijuana, and Cocaine, as well as Murder Weapon Found at his Home.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Arrest Followed Investigation in Maryland and D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A South American couple were each sentenced today to nearly two years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: On Feb. 26, 2019, a West Palm Beach, Florida, investment advisor was ordered to pay over $1 million in restitution for his involvement in a pension trust fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a Fairbanks man has been sentenced to federal prison for willfully misapplying over $300,000 from an organization receiving federal funds, among other offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyler Allen Whitacre, of Elk Garden, West Virginia, has admitted to selling methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: PETERSBURG, Va. (March 1, 2018)--The National Park Foundation and the National Park Service today announced the donation of a 3.7-acre tract of land to Petersburg National Battlefield near Poplar Grove National Cemetery.
