News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA -United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Brandon Segers, 34, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison, 3 years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $142,069 in restitution for fraudulently applying for and obtaining emergency unemployment...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WDC Acquisitions LLC d/b/a Wellman Dynamics located in Creston, Iowa, will pay $500,000 to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act for failing to conduct contractually required testing and falsifying test results for parts used in military aircraft, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on August 5, 2022, Den Lam, age 48, and Danny Sing, age 59, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were charged in criminal informations with various federal tax offenses and commercial bribery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MIDLAND - The Justice Department today announced that Jose Gomez III, 21, of Midland, Texas, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on hate crime charges for attacking an Asian family he believed was Chinese and therefore responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Gomez had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of committing a hate crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released a staff report entitled “Exhausting and Dangerous": The Dire Problem of Election Misinformation and Disinformation." The new findings come ahead of the Committee’s roundtable at 2:15 p.m. ET...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced today that Julius Mendez was charged by criminal complaint with assault resulting in serious bodily injury and assault of a spouse, intimate partner or dating partner by strangling. Mendez, 30...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOISE - A Nampa man was sentenced to 126 months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A federal indictment was unsealed yesterday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, charging a former private prisoner officer with sexually assaulting a male pretrial detainee during a prisoner transport and later lying to the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Dempsey Gilmore (32, Tampa) with one count of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, one count of possessing with the intent to distribute narcotics, one count of carrying a firearm in furtherance of a drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that James Clay Bexley (34, Center Hill) has pleaded guilty to a two-count indictment charging him with possessing unregistered destructive devices and firearm silencers and possessing firearms in violation of a domestic violence injunction. If convicted, Bexley faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison on each count. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO -Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the recipients for the 69th Annual Attorney General’s Awards, recognizing Department of Justice employees and partners for extraordinary contributions to the enforcement of our nation’s laws. This year, 298 Justice Department employees received awards, while 54 non-department individuals are also being honored for their work.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A federal grand jury in Texas has indicted former executives and company leaders at Electronic Transactions Systems Corporation (“ETS") for their conduct in defrauding approximately 7,000 merchant clients out of millions of dollars, announced Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, during remarks at the Trilateral Working Group on Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco announced a directive to all U.S. Attorneys and law enforcement component heads addressing public safety in Indian country, including violence directed at indigenous women, youth and children.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Former San Angelo Chief of Police Tim Vasquez was sentenced today to 15 ½ years in federal prison for accepting bribes, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Cook was serving a sentence for failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Connecticut doctor pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to receiving kickbacks in exchange for ordering medically unnecessary brain scans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Today, U.S. District Judge John A. Ross sentenced a man from Jefferson County, Missouri who is already serving a 50-year prison term for the sexual exploitation of a minor to 10 years on gun charges. The 10-year sentence will be consecutive to the present 50-year prison term for a total of 60 years confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Spokane - Vanessa R. Waldref, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that members of her office will participate in community events held as part of Spokane’s National Night Out Against Crime this evening at various events in the Spokane area. U.S. Attorney Waldref...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Joleen D. Simpson, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that KYLE J.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of McKees Rocks, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to 70 months’ imprisonment on his conviction for violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
