News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that MARGARET BOISTURE, 50, of Windsor, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to a charge stemming from her fraud against her former employer and one of its lenders.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Megan Perkins, age 33, of Ogdensburg, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 84 months in prison for possessing and distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A man who was responsible for distributing large quantities of methamphetamine from out-of-state and into Iowa during 2019 was sentenced July 28, 2022, to more than eighteen years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger joined New Jersey Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today to announce their continued commitment to ensure that women in New Jersey have access to reproductive health care services in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Louisville, Kentucky - A federal grand jury in Louisville returned an indictment yesterday charging a local man with thirteen counts of fraud related to various CARES Act financial assistance programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A South Bay man was charged today in a federal grand jury indictment alleging he used the “Desilu" name - the same name used by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s television production company famous for shows such as “I Love Lucy" and “Star Trek" - to dupe investors into giving him money for sham investments, money that was actually used for personal expenses that included trips to Las Vegas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Admitted to Armed Drug Dealing as Part of a “Street Crew" in Southeast Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A corrections officer at the Jefferson City Correctional Center and his wife have been indicted by a federal grand jury on additional charges related to video recording their sexual assault of a child victim and other child pornography offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Damien Deshaun Dennis (42, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Dennis faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison for the bank fraud and a 2-year minimum mandatory term of imprisonment for the aggravated identity theft. He must also pay restitution to the victims he defrauded.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: EL PASO - Raymundo Guerra, 36, of El Paso pleaded guilty this week to one count of conspiracy to kidnap.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS - A Lewistown man today admitted to defrauding a bank and a credit union after obtaining more than $1 million in loans for his cattle ranching business, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Today, the United States Attorney’s Office announced its immigration enforcement statistics for April 2022 to June 2022. These cases are prosecuted in partnership with the Tucson and Yuma Sectors of the Customs and Border Protection’s U.S. Border Patrol, along with Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: The Defendant Admitted Accessing the Dark Web from his Home and Work Computers to Obtain and View Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Two Ukrainian nationals who provided cash-out and money laundering services to cyber actors pleaded guilty to federal crimes, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: The Statues and Artifacts Were Sold by Antiquities Dealer Douglas Latchford to Collectors and a Museum in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Lawrence joins five other western PA counties in heightened effort to combat drug trafficking and reduce the supply of illegal drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Pleasant Hill, California, woman pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to defraud multiple state workforce agencies of COVID-19 pandemic-related benefits intended for unemployed workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Admitted Submitting False Timesheets Over Two-Year Period.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A man from St. Louis on Monday admitted involvement in a fatal 2019 attempted carjacking that was caught on tape, and could now face between 23 and 25 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Woonsocket businessman described in court documents as a “vital cog" in a tax fraud conspiracy that defrauded the United States of millions of dollars was sentenced today to three years probation, the first fifty-two weekends to be served in detention at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
