Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 15, 2014. After a week-long trial, a federal jury convicted a trucker and Florida resident of kidnapping and interstate domestic violence.  Evidence adduced at trial showed that the defendant held the female victim captive for 10 days and inflicted psychological and physical abuse that included sexual battery.  This[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 15, 2014. A Hudson County, New Jersey, man today admitted to trying to kill a rival gang member, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Carlos Valdez, aka “Catracho,” 27, was indicted in July 2014 with numerous other top-ranking members of the international criminal street gang, Mara Salvatrucha (also[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 15, 2014. A former Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Homeland Security – Office of Inspector General (DHS-OIG) was sentenced to 37 months in prison today for a scheme to falsify records and obstruct an internal DHS-OIG inspection, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 15, 2014. A federal jury today returned guilty verdicts against four defendants charged in a loan sharking and illegal gambling ring that was run out of several Philadelphia businesses, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 15, 2014. A former university professor was sentenced today to five years in prison for traveling in foreign commerce to engage in sexual conduct with a minor, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. Walter Lee Williams, 66, of Palm Springs, California,[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 15, 2014. A Southern California physician was sentenced to 22 months in federal prison today for his role in a conspiracy to commit Medicare fraud. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Stephanie Yonekura of the Central District of California,[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 12, 2014. Brian Daniel Norton, age 59, of Cicero, New York, entered a guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Utica to two federal felony counts of conveying false information and hoaxes, according to United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.  Norton faces a maximum possible sentence of five[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 12, 2014. The former chief technology officer of Liberty Reserve was sentenced today to serve five years in prison for conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business that processed more than $16 billion through Liberty Reserve’s digital currency system.  The Court found that Marmilev understood the illegal[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 12, 2014. A citizen and resident of Costa Rica was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for her leadership role in a conspiracy to smuggle undocumented migrants to the United States.  Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A.[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 12, 2014. Former Anderson, California, police officer Bryan Robert Benson, 30, of Shasta Lake, was sentenced today in federal court to five years in prison and 3 years of supervised release for violating the civil rights of a woman he arrested by sexually assaulting her while she was[Read More…]