East Haddam Man Involved in Fraud Scheme Sentenced to 20 Months in Federal...
Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON TORRANCE, 44, of East Haddam, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport...
View ArticleLongmeadow Man Pleads Guilty to Tobacco Tax Fraud and Illegal Check-Cashing...
BOSTON – A Longmeadow, Mass. man pleaded guilty in two cases in U.S. District Court in Springfield in connection with evading payment of tobacco sales tax and operating an illegal check-cashing...
View ArticleBaltimore Drug Trafficker Convicted
Baltimore, Maryland – A federal jury today convicted Mario Lamar Wair, a/k/a “Unda,” age 42, of Baltimore, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine;...
View ArticleDorchester Real-Estate Broker Sentenced to Prison for Mortgage Fraud Scheme
BOSTON – A real-estate broker was sentenced today for conspiracy to defraud mortgage lenders of $4 million relating to more than two-dozen properties in Dorchester.Joan Ruggiero, 78, was sentenced by...
View ArticleWorcester Nurse Pleads Guilty to Stealing Pain Medication from Patients
BOSTON – A nurse pleaded guilty on today in U.S. District Court in Worcester to stealing pain medication from patients in a nursing care facility in Worcester.Joanna Dacri, 34, of Auburn, Mass.,...
View ArticleSentencings for November 2 - November 4, 2015
Armando Lopez-Ruiz aka Alejandro Garcia-Ramos, Alejandro Garcia-Ralu, 33, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson November 2, 2015, for illegal re-entry of a previously...
View ArticleManhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Conviction Of Michael Danilovich On...
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL DANILOVICH was found guilty today on racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud,...
View ArticleOfficials to recognize Charleston Police and Firefighters for preventing drug...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – United States Attorney Booth Goodwin, joined by Charleston Police Chief Brent Webster, Charleston Fire Department Captain Mark Strickland, Kanawha-Charleston Health Department...
View ArticleScottish Citizen Indicted For Twitter-Based Stock Manipulation Scheme
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted James Alan Craig today with securities fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and the Federal Bureau of...
View ArticleThree Bay Area Defendants Charged In False Tax Refund Schemes
SAN FRANCISCO – Carol Bryant, AKA Carol Lawson, Mark Russell, and Anyssa Hall were charged with conspiracy to file false claims, wire fraud, theft of public money, aiding and abetting, and aggravated...
View ArticleFive Former Owners of a Kentucky Clinical Laboratory Indicted for Health Care...
LEXINGTON — A federal grand jury has returned a 100-count indictment charging five men, who owned a clinical laboratory, with billing health care third-party payors for urine drug tests that were...
View ArticleNew Haven Man Involved in Drug Robbery Scheme Sentenced to 5 Years in Federal...
Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DONALD GAINES, also known as “Stretch” and “Shorty,” 35, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge...
View ArticleJustin Brouillette Pleads Guilty to Federal Carjacking and Firearms Charges
ALBUQUERQUE – Justin Brouillette, 21, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court to carjacking and firearms charges announced U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge...
View ArticleBeloit Man Sentenced to Five Years for Gun Crime
MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Byron Dewayne Kidd, 21, Beloit, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James...
View ArticleNew Orleans Man Charged with Receipt of Child Pornography
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOSEPH RIVERA, age 33, of New Orleans was taken into custody today after previously being charged in a one-count Indictment by a federal grand jury with...
View ArticleSan Antonio Man Sentenced to 135 Years in Federal Prison on Child Pornography...
In San Antonio this afternoon, a federal judge sentenced 39-year-old Carl Wade Bailes to 135 years in federal prison for production, receipt, possession and distribution of child pornography announced...
View ArticleYonkers Man Convicted In White Plains Federal Court Of Kidnapping And Sex...
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of...
View ArticleSilk Road Drug Dealer Sentenced to 9 Years in Federal Prison
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Matthew Luke Gillum, 32, of Meadow Vista, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to nine years in prison for conspiring to distribute marijuana...
View ArticleHappy Valley Woman Sentenced for Insurance Fraud
PORTLAND, Ore. – The former owner of a local auto business was sentenced yesterday to 51 months in prison for a scheme that defrauded two insurance companies and netted her $200,000. Lisa Ephrem, 40,...
View ArticleThree San Francisco International Airport Security Screeners Charged With...
SAN FRANCISCO – Three San Francisco International Airport security screeners have been arrested on charges of defrauding the government and smuggling cocaine, announced Acting United States Attorney...
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