News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: GREENSBORO - Vyacheslav Fyodorovich Rizhkov, age 44, born in Azerbaijan and residing in Union County, was sentenced on July 22, 2022, by Senior United States District Judge N. Carlton Tilley, Jr., to four months in prison followed by a one-year term of supervised release for one count of unlawful procurement of naturalization. Moreover, Rizhkov was judicially denaturalized as a United States citizen.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Roberto Morales Sanchez, 53, Ryan A. Bloom, 36, Rachelle N. Allison, 36, and Katie E. Calimeri, 30, all of Jamestown, NY, with narcotics conspiracy, which carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Nicholas Vassallo announced today that KOBE CURTIS TILLMAN, age 20, of Fort Washakie, Wyoming, was charged with assault resulting in serious bodily injury, assault with a dangerous weapon, and using, carrying, brandishing, and discharging a firearm during and in relation...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Daniel B. Brubaker, Postal Inspector in Charge, Postal Service Inspection Service, New York Division, and Thomas P. DiNapoli, New York State Comptroller, announced the arrest of BAKARE DOUKOURE, SANNEH TUNKARA, and LASSANA...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Caswell Richards, 55, of Jamaica, who was convicted of use of a U.S. passport secured by a false statement, was sentenced to serve eight months in prison by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
Release: Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian A. Nichols, and Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Todd Robinson met virtually with senior Haitian government officials, over 17 international partner countries, and several international...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Assumed Victim’s Social Media Identity in Project Safe Childhood Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A physician assistant is facing federal charges for his role in a genetic testing scheme that resulted in the submission of more than $10 million in fraudulent claims to the Medicare program, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Colby Edward Joyner, 34, of Monroe, N.C. is charged with one count of health care fraud and six counts of making false statements relating to health care matters.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Kelbin Tejeda (32, Tampa) to 15 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The Court also entered an order of forfeiture in the amount of $360,000, the proceeds of the wire-fraud conspiracy. Tejada had pleaded guilty on May 2, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant allegedly made threats to a grocery store in Buffalo, New York and businesses in California, Maryland, and Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on July 29, 2022, MICHAEL SIMPSON, 33, of Bloomfield, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and illegally selling a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Aasim Harps-Busbee, 22, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged by Indictment with one count of possession of a firearm by a felon, and one count of possession of ammunition by a felon. The charges stem from a series of documented posts on social media and an incident during which the defendant was found in possession of ammunition.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
There are four releases scheduled to be published on Aug. 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NASHVILLE - A Sparta, Tennessee, woman was sentenced in U.S. District Court on Friday, to 66 months in prison to be followed by a term of supervised release of 15 years, for concealing material support and resources intended to be provided to a Foreign Terrorist Organization, announced U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man who shot himself in the buttocks before being arrested was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: North Country Neurology, P.C. Admitted that it Submitted Hundreds of Claims to Medicare for Botox that had Been Paid for by Other Insurers and that it Billed at the Higher Physician’s Rate for Services Rendered by a Physician Assistant.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: An El Salvador man residing in Sioux City who sexually assaulted a child was sentenced July 28, 2022, to 30 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: GREENSBORO - A Kannapolis, North Carolina resident was sentenced on July 19, 2022, to 120 months in prison, followed by a 3-year term of supervised release for the offense of felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty to charges relating to Social Security fraud, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
