Investigative Press Releases
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
PLANO, Texas – A Denison woman has been sentenced to prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
Lydia Henslee, 29, pleaded guilty on March 25, 2021, to conspiring to possess and use means of identification in connection with various offenses and was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Sean D. Jordan.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
LOS ANGELES – A West Los Angeles man pleaded guilty today to federal charges stemming from a scheme that used a series of corporations he controlled to fraudulently obtain approximately $9 million in loans from COVID-relief programs, some of which he used on gambling excursions to Las Vegas and transferred to his stock trading accounts.
Andrew Marnell, 41, who resides in the Beverly Grove neighborhood, pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of money laundering.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
NEWARK, N.J. – A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 43 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to use drones to smuggle contraband, including cell phones and tobacco, into the federal correctional facility at Fort Dix, and for possessing with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
SAN ANTONIO – An Iranian national was sentenced today to 63 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – On September 13, 2021, Dr. David Newman, 61, of Maryville, Tenn. entered a guilty plea to maintaining his pain clinic as an illegal drug premises in the Eastern District of Tennessee.
Sentencing has been set for February 9, 2022, at 3:00 pm, before the Honorable Thomas Varlan, U.S. District Judge, in the United States District Court at Knoxville. Newman faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
MOBILE, AL – The U.S. District Court sentenced a Mobile woman to 6 months in prison, 3 years of supervised release and ordered her to pay the Social Security Administration over $107,000 in restitution for lying to the Social Security Administration (SSA) to get the benefits of vulnerable persons whom she overcharged for room and board in her group boarding homes in Mobile.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
BOSTON – A Swampscott financial advisor was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for defrauding an elderly victim and her bank by stealing the victim’s retirement assets.
Felix Gorovodsky, 29, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper to 33 months in prison and two years of supervised release. Gorovodsky was also ordered to pay restitution of $310,492. On May 11, 2021, Gorovodsky pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Baltimore, Maryland – Phillip J. “Jamie” Harrington III, age 50, of Dorchester, Maryland, and his company, Capt. Phip’s Seafood Inc. pleaded guilty today to unlawful employment of undocumented workers and to visa fraud, respectively, related to the employment of temporary workers employed at Harrington companies.