News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Medical Device Manufacturer Biotronik Inc. Agrees To Pay $12.95 Million To Settle Allegations of Improper Payments to Physicians.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Spokane - Vanessa R. Waldref, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Ronald Craig Ilg, age 55, of Spokane, Washington has pled guilty to Transmitting Threats in Interstate Commerce for his role in a scheme to hire multiple hitmen on the so-called “dark web."...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: East St. Louis, Ill. - Delvin O.E. Mills, 29, of North Lauderdale, Florida, was sentenced to 42.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Danise Maurice Fortune, 41, of St. Albans, pleaded guilty today to distribution of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Guatemalan national pleaded guilty in federal court today to entering the United States after a prior removal, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: The defendant trafficked narcotics while on probation for state drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - 22 individuals are facing federal charges resulting from an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) investigation into an alleged armed drug trafficking organization distributing methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl and other controlled substances in Middle Georgia. An indictment is only an allegation of criminal conduct. All of the defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Joseph Green (619) 546-6955 and Alexandra F. Foster (619) 546-6735.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks issued the following statement on the release of the Biden Administration's U.S. Strategy toward Sub-Saharan Africa...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A Parma man has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit arson related to the destruction of a parking booth during the May 30, 2020, demonstrations and civil unrest in downtown Cleveland.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant used Snapchat to illegally advertise firearms for sale, including a loaded assault rifle.
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 GREGORY BUTTS, 51, of Sprague, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with child exploitation offenses and making threatening communications.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Alexander Carnahan, 29, of Randolph, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to two counts of production of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that an Albuquerque, New Mexico, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on July 6, 2022, by Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - Eight individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for their alleged roles in elaborate money laundering and money transmitting conspiracies that laundered tens of millions of dollars’ worth of drug trafficking proceeds, as well as a trade-based scheme that used stolen and/or fraudulent gift cards to purchase and ship thousands of Apple products internationally.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Little Eagle, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for First Degree Burglary, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, Domestic Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, and Arson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PLANO, Texas - An Allen, Texas man has been indicted for federal crimes arising from a scheme to extract Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act using the stolen identity of others, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A federal jury convicted a Gulfport man yesterday for being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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, NICOLE STEINER, formerly known as Nicole Balkas, 32, formerly of Stratford and now residing in Edison, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in Bridgeport federal court to a health care fraud offense that she committed while awaiting sentencing in another health care fraud case.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK -Rory R. Williams, aka “Wildman," aka “Wild," aka “Man," aka “Shawn Carter," age 45, of Syracuse, New York, pled guilty yesterday to distributing N-Ethylpentylone, also known as “molly," a Schedule I controlled substance.
