News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: 3 Additional Defendants Also Charged with Operating a Door-to-Door Drug Delivery Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Solera Specialty Pharmacy Agrees to Enter into Deferred Prosecution Agreement; Company and CEO to Pay $1.31 Million for Submitting False Claims for Anti-Overdose Drug.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Charles Morgan Harrell, 58, of Charlotte, was sentenced to five years in prison today for bank fraud, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Harrell was also ordered to serve two years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Springfield, Illinois man, Thalamus Alexander, Jr., 27, of the 2000 block of Bradley Court was sentenced on July 12, 2022, to six months’ home confinement, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $50,000 for wire fraud and theft of government property.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: This defendant is the 13th and final person to plead guilty to charges originally announced as part of a 2019 federal healthcare fraud takedown.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault on a Federal Officer was sentenced on July 7, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gregory Sherrills, Jr., age 40, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for distributing heroin and cocaine base.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Federal prosecutors have charged a Round Rock, Texas man with wire fraud for embezzling from his employer, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK CITY - Several features within African Burial Ground National Monument’s outdoor memorial are temporarily closed due to safety concerns. The Ancestral Chamber is showing signs of stress and must be assessed prior to reopening. The visitor center, located at 290 Broadway, remains open.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, woman convicted of Possession of Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on July 7, 2022, by Judge Karen E. Schreier, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
There are two releases scheduled to be published on Aug. 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: FLORENCE, SOUTH CAROLINA - James Edwards Phillips, 64, of McBee, was sentenced to 8 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. -Last week, a federal jury found Jeffrey D. McHatton, 68, of Chandler, Arizona, and Robert B. Sproat, 60, of Mesa, Arizona, guilty on 10 counts of Securities Fraud. The case was tried before United States District Judge Rosemary Márquez. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 28, 2022. Prior to trial, a third co-defendant, Robert Moss, 56, of Gilbert, Arizona, pleaded guilty to his involvement in the scheme and was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A federal jury convicted a Canyon Lake man today for distribution of child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) negotiated an administrative Consent Decision and Order with Stephen Smeal and Mendy Smeal, a Texas partnership doing business as Fatted Calf Cattle Farms #6 (Fatted Calf Cattle), on June 17, 2022, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on July 7, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A federal jury returned a guilty verdict against three San Angelo tax preparers whose fraudulent tax returns cost the IRS roughly $18 million, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: EL PASO - A federal grand jury in El Paso returned an indictment today charging two men for their alleged roles in a wire fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Steven Bynum was sentenced by United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly to 18 years in prison for possessing, brandishing, and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug distribution conspiracy. On Sept. 10, 2017, Bynum shot and wounded a pregnant innocent bystander in the head leaving the victim severely disabled after firing a handgun into a group of people. Bynum pleaded guilty to the charges in February 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Reginald Lamont Thomas, 47, of Fairfield, pleaded guilty today to nine counts of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
