News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A South Carolina physician pled guilty to a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. William Earley, D.O., 63, pled guilty to distributing oxycodone without a legitimate medical purpose in the usual course of professional medical practice and beyond the bounds of medical practice.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: Daniel Davis, 44, a former major at Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) in Angola, Louisiana, was found guilty by a jury yesterday in federal court for his participation in the beating of an inmate who was handcuffed, shackled, and not resisting and for failing to intervene to stop his subordinates from...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Westmoreland County physician has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on charges of conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, health care fraud, and conspiracy to distribute phentermine hydrochloride and diethylpropion, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD")...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Havre man convicted of domestic assault after breaking his girlfriend’s nose during an argument on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 54 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: FBI Seeking Information About a Double Homicide in the Rocky River Reservation.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: Challis, Idaho- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Challis Field Office placed 54 wild horses into private care over the past weekend. Adopters traveled from as far as Utah and Bonners Ferry, Idaho, braving cold temperatures to take home a Challis wild horse. Several adopters claimed up to four horses...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - After a four-day jury trial, Victor M. Ortiz-Díaz, a.k.a. “Manolito", former mayor of the municipality of Gurabo, Puerto Rico, was found guilty of one count of bribery, announced United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow. United States District Court Judge Jay A. Garcia-Gregory presided over the trial. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Timothy J. Shea, and Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Lamont Ruffin, of the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), announced that Kyle Piunti, 31, of Arizona, pled guilty on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, to Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers or Employees, before United States District Court Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Wayne Maurice Lafitte was sentenced to 85 months imprisonment on Jan. 15, 2020 for his participation in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy. Lafitte pled guilty to the charge in June of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Eric Friccero, 29, of Arbuckle, pleaded guilty today to possessing with intent to distribute a controlled substance, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON ‐ A Houston area man has entered a guilty plea to money laundering in connection with his scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration (SBA), announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga sentenced Senthil Kumar Ramamurthy, 38, of Texas, to 121 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme that defrauded Tricare and Medicare out of more than $9.6 million. Ramamurthy and his co-conspirators tricked beneficiaries into having the federal health care programs pay for medically unnecessary compounded prescription medicines and cancer genetic tests.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - David Paul George Sr., 56, of Cherokee, N.C., was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for the sexual abuse of a minor in Indian Country, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. also ordered George to serve 15 years under court supervision, and to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for distributing fentanyl, and for carrying and possessing a firearm during multiple drug-trafficking crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Pawtucket man today admitted to robbing two banks within a span of four-weeks in mid-summer 2019, by presenting tellers with threatening notes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Roger Taylor, a/k/a Milk, age 28, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to the federal charges of conspiring to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise known as Trained To Go (TTG), and to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances. Taylor, a fugitive...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Andrea Manassa was sentenced to 123 months of imprisonment on Jan. 23, 2020. Manassa pled guilty in July of 2019 to two charges-possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and carrying a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking felony.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $720,000 grant to the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission (MVRPC) of Dayton, Ohio, to hire a Disaster Recovery Manager that will assist businesses damaged or destroyed by the severe storms...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Julian Burmado, 30, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to possessing firearms not registered to him in the National Firearms Registry, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
