News from December 2022
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
The ninth and final defendant was sentenced this week for his role in a Macon County-based drug trafficking operation.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A federal grand jury returned two indictments Thursday charging two Fresno men with illegal possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
Michael Hampton, 57, of Vallejo, was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute at least 500 grams of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that a Watauga, South Dakota, man convicted of Larceny was sentenced on December 5, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a federal grand jury has indicted a Lake Andes, South Dakota, man for 18 counts of Wire Fraud and two counts of Theft From an Indian Tribal Organization.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A neurosurgeon was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for accepting approximately $3.3 million in bribes for performing spinal surgeries at a now-defunct Long Beach hospital whose owner later was imprisoned for committing a massive workers’ compensation system scam.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on December 5, 2022, by U.S. District Court Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a federal grand jury has indicted a Rosebud, South Dakota, man for three counts of Sexual Abuse of a Minor and one count of Abusive Sexual Contact.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
One Defendant Was a Proud Boys Leader, Other Wrote “Murder the Media” on a Capitol Building Door
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Paul Michael Astorga was sentenced on Dec. 8 to 26 years and eight months in prison. A federal jury convicted Astorga, 36, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Dec. 16 on one count each of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A federal jury convicted a Washington, D.C. woman today on multiple charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, trafficking in unauthorized access devices, aggravated identity theft, unlawful possession of 15 or more access devices, and possession of access device-making equipment with intent to defraud.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A Florida man was found guilty in the District of Columbia today of felony and misdemeanor charges for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A man who conspired to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine pled guilty on December 7, 2022, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced today that Jeffrey Alan Chavez and Estevan Antonio Ramirez appeared in federal court facing drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A federal grand jury in Topeka returned an indictment charging a Kansas woman and three Florida residents in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicare.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
The United States Attorney’s Office announced that FOUAD K. ZETON was indicted on December 8, 2022 for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A Melrose man has been charged in connection with possessing and receiving child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A New Jersey man was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday in connection with a conspiracy to convince a Massachusetts victim to convert her bank account funds into gold, claiming her accounts had been compromised by purported drug traffickers.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A Florida man was charged for his role in conspiracies to pay illegal kickbacks and to commit health care fraud that caused at least $64 million in losses to federal health care benefit programs, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced today.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A former attorney from Willmar has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, followed by one-year of supervised release and required to pay a $20,000 fine for fraudulent concealment of bankruptcy assets, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
