News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Meridian man pled guilty today to possession of an unregistered short-barreled shotgun, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: While released pending trial, the defendant hired a coconspirator to burn a car in retaliation.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
Release: EVENT: Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Mid-Atlantic Region Data Users Conference, in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jorice Williams Dennard, age 25, of Tampa, Florida, was sentenced on July 26, 2022, by United States District Judge Robert D. Mariani to 24 months and 1 day of imprisonment to be followed by a 2-year term of supervised release for the offenses of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Louisville, KY - A federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky returned an indictment today charging Roberto Soto-Mora and Hector Manuel Soto-Alvarez, both of Texas, with conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute and possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Two human traffickers have been sentenced to a combined 25 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Congressional Scorekeeper Confirms Democrats’ Reconciliation Bill Raises Drug Prices
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TYRONE BROWN, 27, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A former senior accountant for a Chicago construction company has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly embezzling millions in company funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on July 8, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Sean P. Costello, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, announced that Enrique Miranda Martinez was sentenced on August 4, 2022 to twenty years imprisonment for trafficking methamphetamine. Martinez plead not guilty and was convicted by a federal jury in April 2022 of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A project manager pleaded guilty in federal court today to misleading federal authorities about lead contamination in a Granby, Mo., city park after he was hired to conduct remediation at the site.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - Eastern Iowa Dermatology, PLC, located in Bettendorf, and Dr. Manish Kumar have agreed to pay $1.66 million to resolve allegations for violations of the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare for dermatology office visits and the destruction or removal of skin tags and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vinoth Ponmaran Allegedly Was a Leader of a Technical Support Scheme That Deceived Victims Across the United States and Canada, Many of Whom are Elderly, into Paying for Phony Computer Repair Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Gabriel Basart (33, St. Augustine) today pleaded guilty to destroying evidence with the purpose of preventing and impairing the United States’ lawful authority to take and search that evidence pursuant to a lawful search warrant. Basart faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Shawn Lamont Lane, 33, of Charleston, was sentenced today to seven years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for distribution of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two New Jersey men today admitted defrauding New Jersey state and local health benefits programs and other insurers by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant one of more than a dozen prosecuted in large drug trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ARIEL TAVAREZ, a/k/a “A," a/k/a “Mike," was sentenced to 264 months in prison in connection with his conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, and a fentanyl analogue, and to distributing narcotics...
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 James Dooly Pollock, 37, of Deming, New Mexico, pleaded guilty to production of child pornography. Pollock will remain in custody pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.
