News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Wednesday, May 29, 2019, a Montgomery, Alabama nurse practitioner, Lilian Ifeoma Akwuba, 40, received a 10-year sentence for her part in helping run two separate “pill mill" operations in Montgomery over a four-year period, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin...
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 3,212,924 visitors to Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial in 2018 spent $203.1 million in communities near the parks. That spending supported 2,947 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $255.4 million. Visitation at Cape Hatteras National Seashore was 2,591,056--the highest in 15 years.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for stealing the identities of relatives and acquaintances to file fraudulent tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today, DAQUAN MADRID PRIDGEN, 27, of Whiteville, North Carolina was convicted in federal court following a three-day trial before Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle. The jury found PRIDGEN guilty of bank robbery...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The mother of an MCI-Cedar Junction inmate was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with smuggling drugs into the facility.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - HyperHeal Hyperbarics, Inc. (“HyperHeal") has agreed to pay $414,640.25 to settle claims that it submitted false claims to the United States for physician services that were not rendered and for medically unnecessary hyperbaric oxygen therapy. HyperHeal is a hyperbaric oxygen therapy facility that provides hyperbaric oxygen therapy to patients at multiple locations in Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that VIRGINIA BLANCO was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison for participating in the robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Yonkers, New York, in October 2013. BLANCO was previously found guilty on...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Adam Gottstein, age 32, of Kingston, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 78 months’ imprisonment and five years of supervised release by United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for conspiring to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that yesterday a federal grand jury returned a five-count Indictment against Christopher C. Gardner (age: 63), an American citizen living in Mont-Sur-Rolle, Switzerland, charging Gardner with wire fraud and causing a stolen motor vehicle to be transported in foreign commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Martinsburg, WV - The U.S. Marshals Service Mountain State Fugitive Task Force is requesting the public’s assistance in locating Corey Wise, 25, of Inwood, West Virginia. Corey Wise is wanted for violation of his Berkeley County Probation with and underlying charge for drug distribution.
By Commerce Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the Treasury Department’s failure to comply with oversight of compliance with requests for taxpayer information under section 6103 of the tax code...
By DOE Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: It was one of the great thrills of my life to return to my alma mater, May 11, to give the commencement address to graduates of West Virginia University’s John Chambers College of Business and Economics. I’m a West Virginian at heart, still live in the state, and both my husband and children attended...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Court Senior Judge Terry F. Moorer sentenced John Willis Jones on April 18, 2019 to the 57 months in prison for his possession of a firearm as a prior convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL YOUNG, 48, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to one count of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 31-year-old Texarkana, Texas, man has been convicted of federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Anh Viet Quach, 42, of D’Iberville, Mississippi, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Acting Special Agent in Charge Luis M. Quesada with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Erick Rahumid Hobbs, a/k/a Eric Muhammad, age 39, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 198 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition. Hobbs was previously convicted of a felony and was therefore prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition. A federal jury convicted Hobbs on March 6, 2019, after a three-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that VIRGINIA BLANCO was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison for participating in the robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Yonkers, New York, in October 2013. BLANCO was previously found guilty on...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Darknet Fentanyl Dealer Indicted in Nationwide Undercover Operation Targeting Darknet Vendors Who were Selling to Thousands of U.S. Residents.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Sherrod Fitts, Jr., 26, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 114 months in prison for carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a federal crime of violence. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig who ordered Fitts to pay restitution of $13,100 to one of the victims.
