Investigative Press Releases
Thursday, July 9, 2020
NEWARK, N.J. – A federal grand jury today indicted four men for their roles in a massive compounded medication fraud and kickback scheme they ran out of a pharmacy in Clifton, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
Thursday, July 9, 2020
United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced that on July 8, 2020, Archie G. Overby (age 71; formerly of Waupaca, Wisconsin, and currently of Parker, Texas) was sentenced in federal court following his guilty plea to misapplication of funds by a bank officer, in violation of Title 18 United States Code, Section 656.
Thursday, July 9, 2020
ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA – Thomas Cooper, a mail carrier in Pendleton County, has admitted to attempted election fraud, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
Thursday, July 9, 2020
BOSTON – A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in connection with using the identity of a U.S. citizen.
Roberto Melo Guerrero, 39, a Dominican national who formerly resided in Lawrence, pleaded guilty to one count of false representation of a Social Security number and one count of making a false statement relating to a health care benefit program. U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper scheduled sentencing for Sept. 9, 2020. Melo Guerrero was arrested in December 2019 and has been detained since that time.
Thursday, July 9, 2020
NEW ORLEANS – The United States Attorney’s Office announced that WARREN G. TREME (“TREME”), age 55, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana, was charged July 8, 2020 with conspiracy to defraud First NBC Bank, the New Orleans-based bank that failed in April 2017.
Thursday, July 9, 2020
CHICAGO — The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago today charged a north suburban man with illegal sports bookmaking and filing a false federal income tax return.
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
WASHINGTON – An American military contractor pleaded guilty today to his role in a theft ring on a military installation in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of the Eastern District of Virginia, and Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John F. Sopko made the announcement.
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
TULSA, Okla. – United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the July 2020 Federal Grand Jury B.
The following individuals have been charged with violations of United States law in indictments returned by the Grand Jury. The return of an indictment is a method of informing a defendant of alleged violations of federal law, which must be proven in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt to overcome a defendant’s presumption of innocence.