News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Mario Villegas-Vargas, 42, pleaded guilty today in Puerto Rico to engaging in a bribery scheme for paying kickbacks and bribes in exchange for being awarded municipal contracts that benefited his asphalt and paving company.
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Madison Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Methamphetamine Trafficking
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: New York Man Sentenced to Prison for Role in Identity Theft Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was sentenced today to 7 years in prison for possessing a machine gun used in a shootout in Norfolk.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A man who was previously convicted of a 1993 kidnapping and murder in Chicago has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded handgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Melvin Gonzaga, M.D., his son Rommel Gonzaga, and their practice group Gonzaga Interventional Pain Management (“GIPM") have agreed to pay the United States $980,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the federal False Claims Act by submitting false claims to the United States for urine drug tests (“UDT") that were medically unnecessary.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A man from Fenton on Thursday admitted bilking investors out of at least $1.1 million with false claims of lucrative contracts with a Texas airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Ezekiel Fernandez, II, 32, of Highlands, Texas, was sentenced today in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska. United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Fernandez to 57 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of a mixture containing fentanyl. After serving his sentence, Fernandez will be placed on supervised release for 2 years. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Yakima, Washington - Vanessa R. Waldref, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Karla Padilla, age 48, of Yakima, Washington, has pleaded guilty to felony charges of fraudulently obtaining more than $59,000 in COVID-19 relief funds. The plea announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Natanael Alberto Montas, 33, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged by Superseding Indictment with attempted murder and assault of a federal officer, and multiple firearms and narcotics offenses, all stemming from his leadership of a...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging four defendants with theft of mail matter and the unlawful possession of postal service keys. The indictment was returned on July 21, 2022 and unsealed today upon the defendant’s arrests. Charged in the indictment are.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A 36-year-old bank robber who last resided in the Wilmington, Delaware, area has been ordered to federal prison for robbing an IBC Bank in Houston, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A used car salesman in Imperial, Missouri pleaded guilty Monday to three tax charges and admitted hiding more than $300,000 in sales commissions from the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. announced that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced Parviz Sharifrazi, age 70, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 24 months in federal prison following his convictions for mail fraud and money laundering. The Court further sentenced Sharifrazi to serve one year of supervised release following his term of imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Logan County woman pleaded guilty today to wire fraud, admitting to a scheme to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of over $42,250.00 in COVID-19 relief loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington and Duncansville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court for three counts of production and attempted production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: For Drug offense involving methamphetamine and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Maurice Johnson, 36, of Mount Hope, and Beckley residents Donte Webster, 22, and Kyla Gilbert, 25, each pleaded guilty today to making straw firearm purchases in connection with a conspiracy to traffic more than 130 firearms from the Beckley area to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Leadership of Civil Rights and Human Trafficking Unit also announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man who was among five motorists speeding through midtown has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm after fleeing from police officers in a high-speed chase.
