News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A man from Granite City on Tuesday admitted a bank fraud scheme that cost Commerce bank more than $150,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Louisville, KY - A federal grand jury in Louisville, KY returned an indictment today charging a local man with illegally possessing a machine gun and possessing a firearm after having been prohibited.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Christopher Moody, age 34, of York, Pennsylvania, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury of assault on federal employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig on Friday sentenced a man who was caught with child pornography for a second time to 10 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ATHENS, Ga. - A Georgia man was sentenced today to 230 months in prison for charges related to his filing of dozens of fraudulent tax returns on behalf of multiple sham trusts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Woonsocket man who led a crack cocaine distribution operation, and who attempted to disguise his involvement by having others deliver drugs that he had arranged to sell, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Webster, South Dakota, woman convicted of Theft, Embezzlement, and Misapplication by Bank Employee was sentenced on August 8, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Tekoa Rivers, 22, of Huntington, was sentenced today to one year and six months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A man from St. Louis was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday on charges accusing him of threatening or cyberstalking five people since October.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Covington, Georgia, resident was sentenced to federal prison today after he admitted to supplying a large quantity of methamphetamine to a Monroe County, Georgia, drug dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Nevada woman will make her initial court appearance today for allegedly falsifying records in connection with criminal charges she is currently facing in the District of New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry on Tuesday sentenced a St. Louis man who escaped the St. Ann, Mo. jail last year to 15 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Spokane, Washington - Vanessa R. Waldref, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Tyrell Wade Nault, 22, of Havre, Montana was sentenced in federal court in Spokane for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Unlawful Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A man who pointed a firearm at a woman and threatened to kill her was sentenced Wednesday in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the arrest and indictment of Darius Lopez (27, Tampa) charging him with one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. If convicted, Lopez faces up to 10 years in federal prison for the fraud count and a consecutive 2 years’ imprisonment for the aggravated identity theft count.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - American Senior Communities, L.L.C. (ASC), a provider of skilled nursing and long-term care services throughout Indiana, has agreed to pay $5,591,044.66 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to the Medicare program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MIDLAND - A Keller man was sentenced yesterday to 168 months in prison and ordered to pay $14,538,967.27 in restitution for operating a Ponzi scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found KAREEM SWINTON, also known as “K," 40, last residing in Owings Mills, Maryland, guilty of narcotics trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A former member of the National Guard was sentenced today to 4 years and 9 months in prison for unlawfully possessing several firearms while also using illegal controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a San Saba, Texas, man convicted of Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet was sentenced on July 8, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
