News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NY - Kyle Leeper, 36, of Palmyra, Pennsylvania, Ramon Nieves Cotto, 28, of DeRuyter, New York, and Arlene Rodriguez, 36, of Montebello, California, were named as defendants Thursday in a federal superseding indictment that includes charges of murder during a drug conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Brandi Nicole Fletcher (24, Jacksonville) with perjury, fraudulently obtaining a passport, and aggravated identity theft in connection with passport fraud. If convicted, Fletcher faces up to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Temitope Oluwa-Bakare Ogunbiyi, 49, of Bowie, Maryland, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for defrauding the District of Columbia’s Medicaid program out of more than $1 million. Yesterday, Rose Asang Gana, 40, of Greenbelt, Maryland, was sentenced to 13 months in prison for defrauding the program out of more than $400,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today, Tarik Dordoni, 24, and Xavier Malone, 22, both of Kokomo, Ind., were indicted in separate complaints for unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Dordoni was also charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana and possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. Both had previous felony convictions in Howard County Ind.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Nicholas Thames, 22, of Jackson, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to 120 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possessing a firearm after he had been previously convicted of felony crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Thames was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Eboni Siamone McMurray, age 23 of Killeen, stands charged with allegedly robbing the First National Bank Texas branch in Killeen on Wednesday, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, FBI San Antonio Division Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs and Killeen Police Chief Charles F. Kimble.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Temitope Oluwa-Bakare Ogunbiyi, 49, of Bowie, Maryland, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for defrauding the District of Columbia’s Medicaid program out of more than $1 million. Yesterday, Rose Asang Gana, 40, of Greenbelt, Maryland, was sentenced to 13 months in prison for defrauding the program out of more than $400,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Nicholas Thames, 22, of Jackson, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to 120 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possessing a firearm after he had been previously convicted of felony crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Thames was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Feb. 12, 2020, Diamond Markayla Mathis, 24, a resident of Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to 132 months in federal prison for her role in committing multiple armed robberies and violating federal firearms laws, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., FBI Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Eboni Siamone McMurray, age 23 of Killeen, stands charged with allegedly robbing the First National Bank Texas branch in Killeen on Wednesday, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, FBI San Antonio Division Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs and Killeen Police Chief Charles F. Kimble.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Defendant was a substitute teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A sales agent for a Chicago-area red-light camera company has been indicted for allegedly conspiring to pay bribes to obtain approval to install additional cameras in suburban Oak Lawn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that in Federal court, BRANDON DUDLEY, a 34-year-old resident of Duplin County, North Carolina, received a thirty (30) year sentence following his conviction before Chief United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Gaspar Leal, 49, of Albuquerque, New Mexico was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque to 30 years (360 months) in prison after juries found him guilty of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine at two separate trials.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - A Pikeville man was convicted by a federal jury on Thursday evening, for being a felon in possession of a pistol and sawed-off shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that NICHOLAS JOSEPH GENOVESE was sentenced on February 11 in Manhattan federal court to 140 months in federal prison for committing securities fraud. GENOVESE induced more than $11.2 million in investments...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to snowstorms and freeze that occurred Oct. 9-10, 2019, and Oct. 26-27, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Kokomo men are previously convicted felons, firearm used during drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Tyndall, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Receipt and Distribution of Child Pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Washington - Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, a former president of a major pharmaceutical company, said yesterday at a Senate Finance Committee hearing led by Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that the Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act would not negatively impact U.S. innovation and that a key provision does not constitute price controls. Video can be found HERE and text below.
