News published on Federal Newswire in August 2022

News from August 2022


District of Columbia Man Sentenced to 55 Months in Prison for Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach

News Release: Defendant Encountered Senate Minority Leader While Illegally Inside Building.


News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston in connection with multiple bank robberies in Massachusetts.


Fort Hall Man Sentenced to 38 months Imprisonment for  Assault

News Release: POCATELLO - A Fort Hall man was sentenced to 38 months in federal prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury.


News Release: LOS ANGELES - A third-party seller on Amazon.com was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for gaming the online retailer’s payment system in a scheme that defrauded the company out of more than $1.3 million.


News Release: A Florida man pleaded guilty yesterday to filing a false tax return that claimed a fraudulent charitable contribution relating to the donation of a conservation easement over land. The plea was entered before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart.


New Jersey Man Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Fraudulently Obtaining and Selling Three Tom Brady Super Bowl Rings

News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A New Jersey man was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison for posing as a former player for the New England Patriots, which allowed him to purchase family versions of the team’s 2016 Super Bowl championship ring - supposedly as gifts to relatives of quarterback Tom Brady - one of which was sold at auction for more than $337,000.


News Release: A man who robbed a Century cab on April 29, 2011, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.


National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants; Delegation of Authority to Arkansas discussed on Aug. 29 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a seven page rule on Aug. 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.



Pharmacy & Bank Robberies Net Nashville Man Lengthy Federal Prison Sentence

News Release: NASHVILLE - A Nashville man convicted of robbing a pharmacy and a bank in 2020, will spend 13 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin for the Middle District of Tennessee.


Florida Man Found Guilty of Hate Crime for Racially-Motivated Attack Against Black Man Driving with his Family

News Release: Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney Roger Handberg for the Middle District of Florida and Special Agent in Charge David Walker of the FBI Tampa Field Office announced that a federal jury in Tampa, Florida, returned a guilty verdict against Jordan Patrick Leahy, 29, for a racially-motivated attack against a Black man who was traveling down a public roadway with his family.


News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A man illegally residing in Garland has been sent to federal prison for his role in smuggling firearms from the United States into Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


Eastern panhandle man admits to role in “boot” distribution operation

News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Corbin Charles Linthicum, of Kearneysville, West Virginia has admitted to his role in a drug conspiracy, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.



News Release: Defendant Sexually Abused Multiple Children Over Six -Year Period.



News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Woonsocket man who admitted to being a “drug runner," delivering crack cocaine at the direction of a person who took steps to disguise his own involvement in the trafficking conspiracy by having others deliver his drug orders, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.


Boca Raton Chiropractor Sentenced To Four Years’ Imprisonment For $20 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Jonathan Michael Rouffe (49, Boca Raton) to four years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The court also ordered Rouffe to forfeit assets from several bank accounts, which are traceable to proceeds of the offense.


News Release: TREVON JONES, also known as “Buda" and “Budda," 20, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to a racketeering offense stemming from his involvement in a violent Bridgeport street gang and the murder and attempted murder of rival gang members.


News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Nector Armando Garcia Perez, 26, of Waldorf, Maryland, and Deisy Del Cid Reyes, 27, of Falls Church, Virginia, were arrested yesterday and will appear tomorrow in federal court on a charge alleging that, on or about August...