Authorities arrest Bridgeport, WV man, seize large quantity of prescription...
WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Authorities from Ohio and Marshall Counties in West Virginia recovered large quantities of prescription painkillers and United States currency today when they arrested Suhip...
View ArticleFormer Airline Employee Sentenced in Logan Airport Sting
BOSTON – A former Delta Airlines employee was sentenced today for smuggling thousands of dollars of what he believed to be drug money past security checkpoints at Boston’s Logan International Airport....
View ArticleNew York Man Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 16 Years In Prison For...
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that CHENG LE was sentenced...
View ArticleCareer Offender from Las Cruces Sentenced to Almost Eleven Years for Federal...
ALBUQUERQUE – Jennifer Sanders, 43, of Las Cruces, N.M, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 130 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for her conviction...
View ArticleBessemer Grocer Pleads Guilty to $5 million Food Stamp Fraud, Tax Evasion,...
BIRMINGHAM – A Bessemer grocery store owner pleaded guilty today in federal court to defrauding the food stamp program of more than $5 million, structuring cash transactions and laundering money to...
View ArticleDeming Resident Sentenced to Ten Years in Federal Prison for Kidnapping and...
ALBUQUERQUE – This morning a U.S. District Court Judge sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., sentenced Jessie Hopper, Jr., 31, of Deming, N.M., to120 months in prison for his conviction on conspiracy,...
View ArticleAlbuquerque Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Serving as “Lookout” During...
ALBUQUERQUE – Reyes Lujan, 27, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 71 months in prison for violating the Hobbs Act, by participating in the armed robbery of a Walmart Store in...
View ArticleFormer Investment Adviser At Global Bank Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court...
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MICHAEL OPPENHEIM was sentenced today to five years in prison and over $20 million in forfeiture...
View ArticleLincoln County Drug Dealer Sentenced to 72 Months in Prison
EUGENE, Ore. – Zak Harris, 33, of Lincoln County, Oregon, was sentenced on Thursday, March 3, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken to 72 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute...
View ArticleMan Sentenced to Prison for Facebook Threats
EUGENE, Ore. – Timothy Loren McCoy Fleming, 24, a transient with no permanent residence, was sentenced yesterday, March 7, 2016, to 18 months in federal prison for transmitting a threat in interstate...
View ArticleU.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams Statement Department of Justice Inspector...
PORTLAND, Ore. - The Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice, in consultation with the United State Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon, is conducting an...
View ArticleWalter Porter Found Guilty of Murder-For-Hire, Faces Mandatory Life Sentence
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that this afternoon, a jury returned a guilty verdict against WALTER PORTER, a/k/a “Moonie,” a/k/a “Urkel,” for his participation in the November 2010 murder...
View ArticleNew Orleans Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Possession of Child...
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DAVID MOREL, age 32, of New Orleans, was sentenced today for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children.U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman...
View ArticleCalifornia Women Plead Guilty to Smuggling Threatened North American Wood...
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SO YI CHAN, age 29, and her aunt, SUI FAN CHIU, age 50, both from California, pled guilty today to a Superseding Bill of Information charging CHAN with...
View ArticleBard College to Pay $4 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Bard College has agreed to pay $4 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in connection with a federal grant and with regard to the receipt and...
View ArticlePeter Hoffman and Susan Hoffman Sentenced for Roles in Film Infrastructure...
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that PETER HOFFMAN and SUSAN HOFFMAN were sentenced today for their roles in a scheme to defraud the State of Louisiana out of film infrastructure tax credits....
View ArticleNew Orleans Man Pleads Guilty to Drug and Firearms Charges
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that THOMAS BROWN, age 45, of New Orleans, pled guilty as charged today to a Bill of Information charging one count of possession with intent to distribute...
View ArticleIndictment Unsealed in Methamphetamine-Trafficking Conspiracy
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced today’s unsealing of an indictment charging seven defendants in a methamphetamine-trafficking conspiracy. The indicted defendants are TYLER CONNER, age 25, of...
View ArticleChula Vista Woman Admits Stealing More Than $164,000 From IRS
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle L. Wasserman (619) 546-8431NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY– March 9, 2016SAN DIEGO – Cecilia Hernandez pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing more than $164,000 from the Internal...
View ArticleFederal Jury Finds Man Guilty of Conspiracy And Theft of Brass Shell Casings...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Janet Cabral (619) 546-8715 and Michelle Pettit (619) 546-7972NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY– March 9, 2016SAN DIEGO - A federal jury has found John Vescuso guilty of theft of government...
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