News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Branden Coluccio, 32, of Doylestown, PA entered a guilty plea to a one-count Information, charging him with conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The charges against the defendant stem from federal and state investigations into elaborate insurance fraud schemes involving a Bucks and Montgomery County-based addiction treatment center, Liberation Way.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Four individuals have been arrested, four locations searched, and several motor vehicles and bank accounts seized today during a series of early morning law enforcement actions in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, as part of an on-going multi-agency investigation led by Homeland Security Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: FBI Seeks Information on Disappearance, 15 Years Ago Today, of Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone, Jr.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $7.7 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to twelve airports in Mississippi. This investment in Mississippi’s airports is part of a $520.5 million national investment in America’s airports that was announced today by Secretary Chao.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Court Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced Gerald Joseph Braud, Jr., age 46, of Gonzales, Louisiana, to serve 180 months in federal prison following his conviction for coercion and enticement of a minor. Braud will also be required to serve five years of supervised release and register as a convicted sex offender upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Thomas Gleason, Commissioner of the Westchester County Police (“WCP"), announced the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that BERNARD BAKER, an Orleans Parish resident, pled guilty as charged on Feb. 18, 2020 to a one-count indictment for being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Michael Grimes, a former high-level official in the UAW’s General Motors Department, was sentenced to 28 months in federal prison today for conspiring with other UAW officials to engage in honest services fraud by taking over $1.5 million in bribes and kickbacks from UAW vendors and contractors and for conspiring to launder the proceeds of the scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: For Distribution of a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Albert Vincent Hicks (48, Jacksonville) to five years in federal prison for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -- Hector Hernandez Saucedo, a Mexican National, and Calixto Tumbaco, an Ecuadorian National, pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Possess 1,535 Kilograms of Cocaine While on Board a Vessel Subject to the Jurisdiction of the United States minutes before their jury trial was scheduled to begin...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Turlock residents Joseph Wayne Attaway, 33, and Edmond Hormozi, 51, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd for methamphetamine trafficking, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - The owner of three car dealerships in Indiana was sentenced Tuesday to 108 months in federal prison for managing a criminal organization that laundered proceeds from illegal drug sales.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $18 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to two airports in Arizona. This investment in Arizona’s airports is part of a $520.5 million national investment in America’s airports that was announced today by Secretary Chao.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert E. Tillard, 35, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, and to possessing marijuana with intent to distribute it, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Antwone Malik Coleman Booker, 19, of Moss Point, pled guilty on Feb. 19, 2020, before U.S. District Judge Halil S. Ozerden to “Hobbs Act" armed robbery, and using a firearm during a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF").
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Efrain Espinoza-Pena, 47, a Mexican national, was sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque yesterday to 120 months in prison for conspiracy, distribution, and possession with intent to distribute more than 33 pounds of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRANK MOSS, a/k/a “Jigga," a Poughkeepsie drug dealer whose fentanyl led to the overdose deaths of two women, was sentenced to almost 22 years in prison, and ARNOLD MELENDEZ, a/k/a “Frankie," another...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $26.5 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to 17 airports in Montana. This investment in Montana’s airports is part of a $520.5 million national investment in America’s airports that was announced today by Secretary Chao.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar: We write to strongly oppose the Department of Health and Human Services’ (the Department) proposed rule entitled “Ensuring Equal Treatment of Faith-Based Organizations" (RIN 0991-AC13). The proposed rule -developed under the guise of religious liberty- is actually both an attack...
