News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Columbus Pain Clinic and Owner Agree to Pay $650,000 to Resolve Allegations of Unnecessary Procedures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jere Wipfli, 48, Nekoosa, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 72 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a sawed-off shotgun. Wipfli pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 16, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: As part of its efforts to implement the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public assistance in nominating lands managed by the agency on which the public is allowed to hunt, fish, or use the land for other recreational purposes...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Martell Norris, 37, Chicago, Illinois was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to two concurrent 15-year prison terms for possessing cocaine base (crack cocaine) with intent to distribute and possessing a loaded firearm as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -Jakwaan Sweeny, Jr., 21, of St. Croix, pleaded guilty in District Court before Judge Curtis Gomez, to possession with intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: California Real Estate Developer Sentenced to 15 Months for Making Conduit Contributions in Two U.S. Congressional Campaigns.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Seattle Debra Parker and U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an Anchorage man has been sentenced to federal prison for distributing methamphetamine, and for laundering drug proceeds through an auto loan for his Mercedes Benz.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - A 31-year-old Hallsville, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Eduardo A. Chavez nd U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Seth Patrick Getty, 24, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, pleaded guilty to bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Sentencing for Getty is set for May 5, 2020, before Chief U.S. District Court Judge David C. Nye.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III today sentenced Maximo Gondres-Medrano, age 35, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 10 years and one month (121 months) in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, on the federal charge of possession with intent to distribute more than 400 grams of fentanyl and heroin. Gondres-Medrano was convicted on October 9, 2019, after a three-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Richard E. Sipe, 39, of Las Vegas, Nevada was sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque on January 23 to three years (36 months) in prison for wire fraud after executing a scheme to steal money from a member of the Army by convincing her to accept worthless checks in exchange for cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a federal jury yesterday found HUBERT DUPIGNY, a/k/a “Fox," guilty of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, following an eight-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a Finding of No Significant Impact/Record of Decision for the Denver Metroplex project. The Finding of No Significant Impact/ Record of Decision, as well as the Final Environmental Assessment, are available on the Denver Metroplex website.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Stephanie Lee, a former broker who worked in conjunction with Plainview-based Elite Stock Research and Melville-based My Street Research and related companies (“My Street Research"), pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud, securities...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - The following Lake Mead National Recreation Area events are happening Feb. 1 to 29.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging CARLOS ROBERTO VAZQUEZ-MORALES, age 27, of Mexico, and JOSE PARTIDA-COYT, age 51, of Mexico with Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced on Jan. 23, 2020, that former attorney Mark A. Ruppelt (age: 50) was charged in a three-count information with devising and executing a scheme to defraud his client, in violation of the federal wire fraud statute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland-area real estate developer James Tong was sentenced to 15 months in prison today for funneling tens of thousands of dollars of his own money through straw donors into two consecutive congressional campaigns for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - Joshua Small, 52, and Joni Amber Johnson, 36, both of Princeton, West Virginia, are scheduled for sentencing on Jan. 27, 2020, for their roles in a conspiracy to assault, kidnap and rob elderly victims The sentencing hearing is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. before the Honorable Chief Judge Pamela Reeves in the United States Courthouse in Knoxville.
