News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Brian D. Boyle, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Division; John H. Durham, United States attorney for the District of Connecticut; Waterbury Police Chief Fernando C. Spagnolo and Naugatuck Police Chief Sean Hunt today announced that 29 individuals have been charged with federal narcotics offenses related to the distribution of heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine in and around Waterbury.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Antoine Jamel Henderson age 35, of Hagerstown, Maryland, today to 14 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute 40 or more grams of fentanyl-as little as 2 milligrams of fentanyl...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been convicted in federal court for violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Jason Earl Hill (53, Ingles) to 15 years in federal prison for bank robbery. The court also ordered Hill to make restitution to Center State Bank, N.A., in the amount of $2,250.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Detroit, Michigan, man admitted to distributing acetyl fentanyl and fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Tyrece Ramone Phillips, also known as “Ty," 32, pled guilty yesterday before United States District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin. Stuart commended the investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: A former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and willfully violating the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) by operating fraudulent and unregistered political action committees.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration's New York Division and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. of the Western District of New York announced that Dominique McDowell, 27, of Tonawanda, N.Y., who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of butyryl fentanyl and U-47700, was sentenced to serve 42 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston-area hedge fund manager was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for running a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An Orleans investment adviser was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for defrauding her clients of more than $3 million and using those funds for her own expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-A Butte man who admitted to having methamphetamine and firearms in his pickup truck after a police officer found him asleep and slumped over the steering wheel while the vehicle was running was sentenced to prison on Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Khourtney Alexandra King, of Canton, Ohio, has admitted to using another person’s passport, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - City of Chicago Alderman WILLIE B. COCHRAN pleaded guilty today to a federal fraud charge for pocketing money from a charitable fund intended to help families and children in his South Side ward.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, acting through the University of Wisconsin-Madison (“University"), agreed to pay $1.5 million to the United States to settle the claims that it violated the False Claims Act by failing to properly account for rebates and credits to reduce costs allocable to federal grants and awards (“Federal Awards").
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A citizen of Nigeria residing in Atlanta, and a citizen of Mexico residing in California, were convicted Wednesday after a seven-day trial in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee on charges related to the part each played in an international cyber fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Rowan County man was sentenced to federal prison on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, for distributing heroin, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on March 18, 2019, Chief Judge Daniel L. Hovland, United States District Court, sentenced Dennis Allen Corwin, age 37, Minot, ND, on charges of Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance; ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Shane Corey Muse, 29, of Anchorage, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve eight years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. In August 2018, Muse pleaded guilty to a one-count indictment charging him with being felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A California resident has been sentenced in federal court to five years (60 months) in prison followed by four years of supervised release on his conviction of distributing methamphetamine in violation of federal drug trafficking laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces an Indictment charging JAMAL MOHAMMAD ELEIDY, 57, of Apex, with one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, two counts of attempted bank fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and two counts involving false and fraudulent statements in connection with his application for citizenship by naturalization.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Stephen Cometa (63, Marion County) to 17 years and 3 months in federal prison for forcibly assaulting and resisting federal employees with a deadly and dangerous weapon, and for discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. A federal jury previously found Cometa guilty of the offenses on Dec. 13, 2018.
