News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Kyle Paul Vance, age 24, of Shelton, Washington, was sentenced today to 210 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole followed by 15 years of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from Robbery at Regions Bank in La Vergne, Tennessee.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today urging the government watchdog to conduct an updated review of the National Telecommunications and Information...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Allahjuan Calhoun, 29, of Yonkers, NY, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court in Burlington to 26 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss also ordered that Calhoun serve a two-year term of supervised release following completion of his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - On December 6, 2018, a federal grand jury indicted former Memphis Police Officer, Sam Blue, 61, and co-conspirator, Anthony Davis, for federal criminal civil rights violations which included the violent crimes of robbery and kidnapping. On Jan. 24, 2020, Blue pled guilty to conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former Northern Virginia resident pleaded guilty today to distribution of heroin that resulted in the death of a Leesburg man in March 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former attorney was sentenced today to 88 months in prison for conspiring to defraud Virginia State Senator Richard Saslaw’s campaign account, a Canadian business, and an organization intended to support college students with autism and other intellectual disabilities out of more than $1.6 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Streamwood man was sentenced today to nearly seven years in federal prison for enticing a 16-year-old boy to produce sexually explicit videos of himself.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today urging the government watchdog to conduct an updated review of the National Telecommunications and Information...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Ivan Reyes Arzate Allegedly Received Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Bribes from Mexican Drug Cartels.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Three Louisiana Residents Charged for Conspiring to File False Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Rosemont resident has been indicted on federal child pornography charges for allegedly exploiting a minor to produce sexually explicit images.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Jay Christopher Matt, 38, of Desmet, Idaho, pleaded guilty to witness tampering, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Sentencing for Matt is set for April 9, 2020, before U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the federal courthouse in Coeur d’Alene.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Rosemont, Illinois, resident was indicted Thursday on federal child pornography charges for allegedly exploiting a minor to produce sexually explicit images.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A cosmetic surgeon who oversaw a long-running health care fraud scheme that conned insurance companies into paying tens of millions of dollars for unnecessary cosmetic procedures has been extradited from Israel to serve a 20-year federal prison sentence issued while he was a fugitive.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - Today the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals filed an opinion vacating a one-day sentence that the U.S. Attorney’s Office appealed as unreasonably low in a child exploitation case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CHANNA SONTAG, LPC, and her business, CHILDREN’S BEHAVIORAL THERAPY LLC, have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments and will pay more than $39,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the federal and state False Claims Acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, La. - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced that DANIEL J. KUESPERT, age 30, of LaPorte County, Indiana, was sentenced on Jan. 23, 2020, for failing to register as a sex offender under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Craig Niedbalski, age 61, was sentenced on Jan. 22, 2020, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for Transporting an Explosive with Intent to Injure and Interstate Stalking. United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced Niedbalski to 50 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After completing his term of imprisonment, Niedbalski will begin a three-year term of supervised release.
