News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco Deputy Sheriff April Myres was sentenced to 14 months in prison for committing mail and wire fraud, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Richard Seeborg, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that The Assistance Fund (“TAF"), a foundation based in Orlando, Fla., has agreed to pay $4 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by enabling certain pharmaceutical companies to pay kickbacks to Medicare patients taking the companies’ drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Panayiotis Kyriacou, a former investment manager at Beaufort Securities Limited, a brokerage firm in London, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit securities fraud and to defraud the United States by failing to comply with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Ever Jose Diaz-Lara (30, Honduras) to 15 months in federal prison for illegal reentry after deportation. Diaz-Lara had pleaded guilty on September 6, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Michael R. McReynolds Jr., 32, of Lexington, was indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury, on charges related to two separate robberies of the same Lexington pharmacy, in September and October 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man pleaded guilty today to a federal gambling charged and agreed to forfeit $97,600 derived from gambling proceeds, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. He was sentenced today to 12 months on supervised federal probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Steven L. Silverman, of Thurmont, Maryland, has admitted to bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairmen of the Senate Finance and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees respectively, today released a proposal to avert the collapse of critically underfunded multiemployer pension plans and reform rules for these plans to prevent future funding shortfalls within these important pillars of the American retirement system.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Reward Offered For Information. BISMARCK - United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley and FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Robert Perry traveled to New Town, ND, today and met with family members of Ms. Olivia Lone Bear for the purpose of briefing them on the status of the death investigation. The federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Kieantia Thomas-Okeke, 39, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced on Nov. 20, 2019, in District Court on count of Possession of Marijuana with Intent to Distribute, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
Release: SAN ANTONIO- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Texas Department of Public Safety (TXDPS) are reminding Texas residents that starting Oct. 1, 2020, travelers will need a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification to board a flight at all U.S. airports.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: BOISE - A federal grand jury indicted fifteen members and associates of the West Side Loma gang for drug trafficking and firearms crimes, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. The charges stem from an investigation by the Treasure Valley Metro Violent Crimes Task Force.
By State Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, praised House passage of their Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act (S. 1838) today, sending the bill directly to President Trump’s desk for signature. The amended bipartisan bill unanimously passed the Senate last night.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, FBI’s Miami Field Office, and Juan J. Perez, Director, Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) announced that on Nov. 12, 2019, Fabian Perpall, 28, of Perrine, Florida was sentenced to twenty years in prison after having been convicted at trial of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has entered an injunction ordering Miller’s Organic Farm (Miller’s) of Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, and its owner, Amos Miller, to cease violating federal food safety laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Kansas City, MO - United States Marshal Mark S. James announced today the capture of Mercer County escapee Drake Kately near New Castle, Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR-Special Agent in Charge Douglas A. Leff, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) San Juan Field Office, announced the arrest of Kevin Gabriel Oyola Santiago and Keishmarie Rivas Marcano.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Jonathan D. Larsen, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging ROGER RALSTON...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Juan Carlos Ramon, 33, of Portland, was sentenced today to 180 months in federal prison followed by a life term of supervised release after sexually exploiting two minor victims, aged six and eight, using musical.ly, a social media mobile application now known as TikTok.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Wagner Pimentel, 30, of Methuen, Massachusetts, and Luz Perez DeMartinez, 27, of Lawrence Massachusetts were sentenced in federal court on Tuesday for participating in a large-scale fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today. Pimentel was sentenced to 108 months. DeMartinez was sentenced to 132 months and a $50,000 fine.
