Press releases from the U.S. Department of Justice
Memphis, TN – Four defendants have been sentenced for conspiracy to defraud the Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. The EIDL program provided grants and low-interest loans to small…
Two Portland area men are facing federal charges today for running a local drug trafficking organization responsible for making and distributing hundreds of thousands of counterfeit Oxycodone pills containing fentanyl.…
SOUTH BEND – Joshua L. Metts, age 41, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty on his plea of guilty to being…
PLANO, Texas – A Dallas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug violations related to a 2019 overdose in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit…
LEXINGTON, Ky.- The owner and chief financial officer of a former business in Perry County were both convicted on Thursday, by a federal jury in Lexington, of conspiracy to commit…
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Nicholas Kirby, 45, of Philadelphia, PA, was arrested and charged by Indictment with multiple firearms and narcotics offenses related to…
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A Newport News man was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for making more than 60 threats to murder, rape, torture, and otherwise harm state…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On October 12, 2022, United States District Court Judge Silvia Carreño Coll sentenced Iván Santell-Velázquez to 13 months in prison and two years of supervised release for…
MIAMI – Mitchell A. Ellis, 34, of Okeechobee County, Fla., was sentenced on October 12 by U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon to 16 months in prison for illegally possessing…
DETROIT – An Allen Park man was convicted today by a federal jury in Port Huron on charges of possessing fentanyl and heroin with the intent to distribute them, maintaining…
The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced today that Jose Luis Maldonado, Jr., 31, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Edgar Correa, 34, of Springfield, Massachusetts,…
FORT SMITH – A Fort Smith mother and daughter were sentenced today to a combined sentencing of seven years in federal prison and ordered to pay $53,000.00 in restitution for…
EL DORADO – The final member of a South Arkansas drug trafficking organization was sentenced yesterday to federal prison for the Distribution of Methamphetamine. The Honorable Chief Judge Susan O.…
BROOKLYN, NY – U.S. Attorney Breon Peace announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded $484,034 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in the Eastern District of New…
An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Jin Hua Zhang, Gregory Armand, Chen Chen, Yanbin Chen, Yanbing Chen, Changgui Huang, Xin Jin, Jiahui Miao, Lingming Zeng,…
SAN ANTONIO – David Joseph Bolduc, Jr., 61, of Herndon, Virginia, pleaded guilty on October 12 to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in a…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – United States Attorney Will Thompson announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded $75,596 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in the Southern District of…
HAMMOND – U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded $135,036 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in Northern District of Indiana. Funding…
Seattle – U.S. Attorney Nick Brown announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded $268,192 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in the Western District of Washington. Funding…
INDIANAPOLIS – Zachary A. Myers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded $353,868 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program…
An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Central Islip charging Fernando Cooper, also known as “Pablo,” with conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute in Suffolk…
Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on October 13, 2022, BVK, Inc., agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle a claim arising…
MINNEAPOLIS – Three individuals have pleaded guilty to their roles in the $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally-funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced United States…
Jackson, Miss. – U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded $106,936 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in the Southern District of Mississippi.…
PORTLAND, Ore.—On October 12, 2022, a federal jury in Portland found a Philomath, Oregon man guilty for failing to register as a sex offender. Daniel Lynn Goering-Runyan, 37, was found…