News published on Federal Newswire in November 2022

News from November 2022


Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger announced a Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 188 months in prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and fentanyl analogue.


A 65 year-old man has been ordered to prison for trafficking in counterfeit goods, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Alejandro Gort, 39, of Denver, was sentenced to five years of probation after he earlier pleaded guilty to obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and deception.


Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced today that Perfinna King was sentenced to two years and three months in prison. King, 43, of Fruitland, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty on May 25 to assault with a dangerous weapon in Indian Country.


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 that Larry Gene Charley made an initial appearance on Oct. 28 in federal court on a criminal complaint charging him with assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country.


The last convicted in a large-scale multi-year home health fraud conspiracy has been ordered to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


A 37-year-old Florida woman has been indicted in a cryptocurrency money laundering scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston.


Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and James Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, announced that a federal jury in New Haven today found DARNELL MACON, Sr, 45, and KHARISMA BROOKS, 23, formerly of Danbury, guilty of firearm offenses. The trial before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer began on October 26.


Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and James Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, announced that CHRISTOPHER MATOS, 34, of New Britain, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 100 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for firearm offenses stemming from his participation in the burglary of a Portland firearms dealer in December 2020.


A Dubuque pharmacist who stole hundreds of doses of controlled substances from pharmacies where he worked from 2017 through 2020 and tampered with medication dispensed to patients from a pharmacy where he worked in 2020 was sentenced today to 2 years in federal prison.


Week ending Nov. 5: 7 notices published by State Department

There were seven notices published by the State Department in week ending Nov. 5, according to the Federal Register.


The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Daron Marquel Ellis, 29, of Aurora, was sentenced to 23.5 years in federal prison today after earlier pleading guilty to attempted murder in the second degree of a federal officer and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.


The city of Elyria, Ohio, has entered into a consent decree with the United States and the State of Ohio to complete a series of capital projects designed to eliminate discharges of untreated sewage from its sewer system into the Black River, 10 miles upstream from Lake Erie.



U.S. Attorney Delia L. Smith announced that Ionian Management Inc. (IONIAN M), a New York-based company that commercially manages three vessels, including the M/T Ocean Princess, was sentenced yesterday in the District of the Virgin Islands before U.S. District Court Judge Wilma A. Lewis in St. Croix, after pleading guilty to a violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.


A former resident of Edwardsville, Illinois, pled guilty on Friday, October 28, 2022, to making a series of false statements during his 2018 bankruptcy case in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Illinois. According to court documents, Kevin Kahrig, 49, a former building contractor in the area, concealed gassets from his creditors by transferring those assets to his girlfriend-turned-spouse, Catharine Kahrig, prior to filing bankruptcy.



An Eau Claire, Wisconsin man is charged with wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering in a 25-count indictment returned on October 12, 2022, by a federal grand jury sitting in Madison, Wisconsin


News Release: BOSTON - The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $1.1 million to Dean College to reimburse the college for the cost of contracting to manage and administer diagnostic testing and disinfection during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Defendant Allegedly Lied About the Source of Information Provided to the FBI During the 2016 Presidential Campaign