News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Mark Totten announced today that Kurtis James VanderMolen, 50, of Grand Rapids, Michigan pleaded guilty to bank fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme to obtain approximately $170,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP") loans for a company that did not exist. Bank fraud carries a maximum penalty of thirty years’ imprisonment; money laundering carries a maximum of ten years’ imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Christopher Daniels, 52, of Parkersburg, was sentenced today to one year in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release, for filing a false federal income tax return. Daniels previously paid the $280,088 in ordered restitution. He was also ordered to pay a $75,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Norman Wilson, 40, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today, mid-trial, to charges stemming from two assaults in which he targeted Hispanic individuals based on their race and/or national origin, announced United States Attorney Matthew M. Graves.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Private exporters reported the following sales activity.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: About this article: This article was originally published in the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Annual Report 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida -United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Jonathan Donte Rogers, Jr. (21, Jacksonville) with possessing a stolen firearm as well as not registering the firearm, which was a short-barreled rifle. If convicted of the offenses, he faces...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) to help protect the health and safety of firefighters and emergency responders from PFAS exposure...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
Release: Private exporters reported the following sales activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ANTONIO MARQUES MITCHELL, 25, of Oklahoma City, has been charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Defendant Accused of Assaulting Officer, Stealing Riot Shield, and Throwing Objects at Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: ST. THOMAS, VI - United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced today that Rammer Guerrero Morales, 31, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced to 141 months of imprisonment by Chief Judge Robert A. Molloy. In March 2022, Guerrero Morales pleaded guilty to possession and discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence and assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Defendant Joined Crowd Pushing Against Officers in Rotunda Area.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 27, 2022
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced charges against former CEO of Alameda Research Caroline Ellison and the former Chief Technology Officer of FTX Trading Ltd. Zixiao “Gary” Wang Dec. 21 for their roles in a fraud scheme that contributed to the collapse of crypto trading platform FTX Trading Ltd.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A total of 14 people are now in custody for various violations to include drug trafficking, possessing a “Glock switch" and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Jason Scott Carter, a 45-year-old former Coral Springs, Fla., police officer, must serve five years of probation and pay restitution following a federal conviction for fraudulently applying to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for a COVID-19 relief advance grant and low-interest loan.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pennsylvania resident pleaded guilty in federal court to violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Mark Totten today announced that Christopher James Masterson, 35, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina was sentenced to 30 years in the Bureau of Prisons for the sexual exploitation of minor children. In imposing sentence, U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff noted that Masterson was one of the top two or three most egregious sex offenders she had sentenced. Masterson will be on supervised release for 10 years when he gets out of prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Dec. 15, 2022, Jack D. Vicars, 49, currently of Bluff City, TN, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison by the Honorable Clifton L. Corker, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Lavar William Henderson, age 44, of Richmond, Virginia, for the federal charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The indictment was returned on Nov. 16, 2022. Henderson was arrested on related...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A Canyon Lake man was sentenced Thursday to 360 months in prison and lifetime supervised release for distribution and receipt of child pornography.
