News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ricardo Soto-Delgado, age 48, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Dec. 15, 2022, to 18 years’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner for cocaine trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Rush City woman has been indicted for mail fraud and money laundering after participating in multiple schemes that defrauded individuals throughout the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Ramon Villalobos-Lopez, 45, of Mexico, was sentenced last week by United States District Judge Rosemary Márquez to 46 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Judge Márquez previously sentenced co-defendants Javier Garcia-Mondragon, 37, of Mexico, and Daniel Lopez-Guerra, 24, of Mexico, each to a term of 27 months in prison. All three previously pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Transport and Harbor Illegal Aliens for Profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Jefferson City, Mo., business owner has been sentenced in federal court for tax evasion and for failing to pay over more than $500,000 in payroll taxes.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
Release: Private exporters reported the following sales activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BATISE BOYCE was sentenced to 15 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman. BOYCE pled guilty on September 8, 2022, to one count of possessing a firearm after having previously been convicted of a felony and one count of possessing a firearm in a school zone.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an 18-count indictment charging defendants Cameron Lee, Michael Pryor, Shawn Pryor a/k/a Ghost, Melanie Pryor, Thomas Pryor, and Ahmadja Green with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: MOBILE, AL - Pathway, Inc. and Pathway of Baldwin County, LLC have agreed to pay $3,496,331.92 to resolve allegations that Pathway of Baldwin County, LLC wrongfully billed Medicaid for services it did not actually provide, in violation of the False Claims Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - The owner of a land and mineral acquisition company has been sentenced in federal court to five years' probation and restitution of $548,412.00 on his conviction of failing to file corporate tax returns for his company, Deep Rock Mineral Group, Inc., United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANTHONY SMALL, also known as “Whompy," 31, of Shelton, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking narcotics in Bridgeport.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Juana Armenta Mora, 28, Madison, Wisconsin pleaded guilty and was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 15 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine. The prison term will be followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The owner of the Rockstar Burgers restaurant in Kansas City, Mo., has pleaded guilty in federal court to allowing his former restaurant building to be used in a drug trafficking conspiracy that is alleged to have distributed more than 150 kilograms of methamphetamine and more than 10 kilograms of heroin, valued at more than $1.7 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Chester woman pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, and wire fraud, all stemming from her operation of a Richmond metro-area health care services company.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
Release: Private exporters reported the following sales activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced today that Gavin Wilcox, 31, of Bennington, Vermont was sentenced today to 30 months of imprisonment for unlawfully possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. United States District Judge William K. Sessions III ordered Wilcox...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Phillip Coyne, Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, today announced that JASDEEP SIDANA, M.D. and DOCS MEDICAL GROUP, INC. (doing business as Docs...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Dec. 12, 2022, Jeffrey D. McHatton, 68, of Chandler, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Rosemary Márquez to 33 months in prison. McHatton was previously found guilty by a jury on 10 counts of Securities Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: HAILEY, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management Shoshone Field Office is implementing off-highway-vehicle and conditional seasonal restrictions in the Wood River Valley to minimize impacts to wintering deer and elk. No motor vehicles are allowed in the identified areas from Jan. 1-April 30, 2023.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: CINCINNATI - A Miami, Florida, man was sentenced to 72 months in prison for conspiring in a racketeering enterprise to defraud individuals through moving companies located throughout the United States. Identified victims of the fraud lost more than $2.4 million total.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Dennen Trey George Fitterer-Usher, 24, of Spokane Valley, Washington, was sentenced this week to more than 14 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and discharge of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit.
