News from November 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Three of six defendants charged this spring with selling liquid psychedelic mushrooms online to customers all over the country have pleaded guilty in federal court in Columbus.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Convicted Fraudster Allegedly Ginned Up False Letters Of Support In Bid To Obtain Light Sentence for Securities Fraud Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Adam Arena, 44, of Little Valley, NY, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and engaging in monetary transactions with criminally derived proceeds for his role in fraudulently...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK - Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Humberto Rodriguez, aka “El Bori," pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to the April 18, 2020, murder of Jorge Miguel Cabrera. U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel accepted the defendant’s guilty plea.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Summary of 50 Million Barrel Release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Nov. 22, 2021, Senior U.S. District Judge William C. Griesbach sentenced Appleton resident John P. Fischer (age: 63) to 18 months’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release after Fischer pled guilty to Supplemental Security Income (“SSI") Fraud, in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 1383a(a)(3)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County man with a prior felony conviction today admitted illegally possessing a loaded handgun and a magazine, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Randall Johnson, Steven Mullins, Ajay Johnson, Patrick Payne All to Serve Jail Time.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and Timothy O'Shea, acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Zakaree Stelzer, 25, of Lakeville, Minnesotra, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to five years in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Stelzer pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 26, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester property landlord, Mohan Prashad, and employee, David Besaw, have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the Fair Housing Act by sexually harassing female tenants. The settlement also resolves claims against Lanaton LLC and Savton LLC, which, along with Prashad, owned the properties where the harassment occurred.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Albuquerque, N.M. - The Bureau of Reclamation will create a pulse flow on the Rio Chama next week to move sediment and help improve fish habitat, while efficiently moving water downstream.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago tax preparer has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for orchestrating a variety of schemes that defrauded the IRS, U.S. Department of Education, and U.S. Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk accepted a plea of guilty from Antwan Jones for his role in a carjacking, weapons charges and assaulting a federal officer on Nov. 22, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: SOUTH BEND, Indiana - Alfred Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson of the Northern District of Indiana announced that Jason Cochran, 44, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced to 70 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Chelsey Hunt, 30, of Jamestown NY, who was convicted of maintaining a drug-involved premises, was sentenced to time serve and three years’ probation by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Art Benavidez | Nov 23, 2021
A project dedicated to ensuring government officials follow the rules is reporting a pattern of ethical misconduct among senior members of the Department of the Interior (DOI).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HUMBERTO RODRIGUEZ, a/k/a “El Bori," pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to the April 18, 2020, murder of Jorge Miguel Cabrera. U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel accepted the defendant’s guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Benton, Ill. - Two men have been sentenced for their role in a 2018 marijuana robbery and shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Glendale, Arizona, man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor for conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Eligio Nunez, 41, of Hayward, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb to nine years in prison for being a felon in possession of three firearms, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
