News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Franklin Keith Dotson, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - FCA US LLC (FCA US), formerly Chrysler Group LLC, was sentenced today in federal court in Detroit and ordered to pay a fine of $96,145,784; and a forfeiture money judgment of $203,572,892. The court also imposed a three-year term of organizational probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Somerset County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 46 for orchestrating a $2 million COVID-19 fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A man who discussed child sex abuse online was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison for distributing sexually explicit images of minors, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Worked on Behalf of the IRGC to Hire Persons in the United States to Carry Out the Murder, Likely in Retaliation for the January 2020 Death of Qasem Soleimani.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Aug. 3, 2022, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging 37 violent gang members from the municipality of San Juan with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, possession and distribution of controlled substances, and firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant defrauded the U.S. Department of Defense and exported technical data controlled under federal law to Turkish manufacturer without an export license.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that COI MORRIS, age 25, of New Orleans, Louisiana was indicted on July 14, 2022 for embezzling the mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Indictment Alleges Texas Car Dealer Also Tried to Have Co-conspirator Murdered.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - James Russell Loar, Jr., 40, of Washington, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to seven years and three months in prison, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release, for traveling in interstate commerce to engage in sexual activity with a minor. Loar must also register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Sentence Follows Federal Jury Convictions For Revengeful Mailings Of Two Improvised Explosive Devices, Injuring Recipients.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAN JOSE - Cardiologist John Giacomini was sentenced today to eight months in prison in connection with his conviction for felony abusive sexual contact, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds; Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General (VA OIG) Special Agent in Charge Jason Root; and Chief of Police of the Veterans Affairs Police Service Martin Sizemore. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Beth L. Freeman, United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JOHN GUILLORY III, a/k/a “Tunie," age 51, JOHN PETRIE, age 38, DEVIN JOHNSON, age 36, and SHAWN MAJOR, JR., a/k/a “G-Shawn," age 22, residents of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, and LARRY MOSES, age 37, a resident of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana were charged on July 14, 2022, in a...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA - Archie Arsenio Caldwell, 33, of Rock Hill, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and marijuana. He also plead guilty to distributing crack cocaine and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WACO - An Austin man was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for assault on law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: HONOLULU - A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment against Paul Joseph Sulla, Jr., 76, and Gary Charles Zamber, 53, both attorneys residing on the island of Hawaii (“Big Island"), on July 21, 2022. Both defendants are charged with six counts of honest services wire fraud and one count of conspiracy. Sulla is also charged with one count of money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Isabella, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 108 months’ imprisonment and 6 years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A Wausau, Wisconsin woman is charged with making a false statement during the purchase of firearms in an indictment returned on May 11, 2022, by a federal grand jury sitting in Madison. The charges are announced by Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for his role in a scheme to obtain money through fraudulently obtained refund checks issued by the U.S. Treasury, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
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, today announced that ROBERT ECCLESTON, 58, of Canton, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 108 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for distributing images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children.
