News from January 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: CONCORD - Robert Corson, 34, formerly of Portsmouth, New Hampshire was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for drug trafficking, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Marvin Tona, 48, of Bylas, Arizona, was sentenced on Dec. 19, 2022, by United States District Judge Steven P. Logan to 293 months in prison. Tona pleaded guilty to Second Degree Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MATTHEW X. SMITH, 28, of Stonington, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jeffery A. Meyer in New Haven to soliciting child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After deliberating for three hours, a federal jury of five men and seven women found Jamal Knox guilty of Conspiracy to Distribute Forty Grams or More of Fentanyl, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Aurelien Michel, a French national residing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with defrauding purchasers of “Mutant Ape Planet" NFTs, a type of digital asset, of more than $2.9 million in cryptocurrency. The defendant was arrested last night at John F. Kennedy International Airport. His initial appearance is scheduled for this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge James R. Cho.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that FELIX ORTEGA-PAGAN, 41, of Waterbury, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: Today, the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Palau signed a Memorandum of Understanding affirming our close and continuing partnership and reflecting our consensus reached on levels and kinds of future U.S. assistance to be requested for Palau’s economic development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Anthony Wilson, 35, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of aggravated bank robbery and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, was sentenced to serve 66 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Alexis Ransom, 25, of Logan, was sentenced today to five years of federal probation and ordered today to pay $42,250.00 in restitution for a scheme to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of over $42,250.00 in COVID-19 relief loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic City, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 135 months in prison for possessing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: MIAMI - Derek James Acree, 47, of Palm Beach County, Fla., was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for submitting fraudulent loan applications seeking more than $1.6 million in forgivable Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. These loans are guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession with the intent to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 22-year-old Roma man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens resulting in serious bodily injury, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-On January 9, 2023, a Portland man with a criminal history spanning decades was sentenced to federal prison after he was arrested for discharging a firearm into the air outside a local restaurant during an altercation with his girlfriend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: Later today, Jo-Andy Christepher Marie Balentina, Joell Charles Marie Balentina, Sheriann Ann Marie Bryan, Leon George Hall, and Edlyson Reuel Elias Sophia will be arraigned at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on international cocaine distribution conspiracy and related cocaine importation charges. Jo-Andy Balentina is also charged with money laundering conspiracy for his role in laundering the proceeds of cocaine sales generated by the trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - In a civil complaint filed today, the Department of Justice alleges that AmerisourceBergen Corp. and two of its subsidiaries, AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp. and Integrated Commercialization Solutions LLC (AmerisourceBergen), collectively one of the country’s largest wholesale pharmaceutical...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A Mariposa, California man was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison today after he abducted and repeatedly sexually abused an Oregon minor he met online.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Lazarus R. Hayes, 33, of Niagara Falls, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, which carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
