CAMDEN, New Jersey, June 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on June 20, 2024: A New York man was sentenced today to 59 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Edgar Jesus Avila Alvarado, 46, of the Bronx, New York, previously pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Renee Marie Bumb to an information charging him with   more

NEW YORK, June 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Amaleka McCall-Brathwaite, the Special Agent in Charge of the Eastern Regional Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Inspector General ("SBA-OIG"), announced today that the United States has settled a civil fraud lawsuit against CHRISTOS SPYROPOULOS; IOANNIS GEORG  more

NEW YORK, June 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DOMINIC FRANCIS LABIRAN, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Nigeria, was extradited Tuesday, June 18, from Benin. LABIRAN was charged with participating in an international money laundering conspiracy between March and June of 2019. LABIRAN was arrested in Benin on or about  more

BROOKLYN, New York, June 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release on June 19, 2024: Anuli Okeke, the former vice president and manager of a New York branch of Popular Bank was convicted yesterday afternoon by a federal jury in Brooklyn of all four counts of an indictment charging her with conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering conspiracy. The charges arose out of a scheme the defen  more

NEW YORK, June 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that PETER KHAIMOV, ALEXANDER GULKAROV, and ROMAN ISRAILOV were sentenced to 15 years, 12 years, and seven years in prison, respectively, by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe for crimes related to their orchestration of a $40 million fraud targeting No-Fault automobile insuran  more

BROOKLYN, New York, June 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Charles Carter, also known as "Chase," was sentenced by United States District Judge Gary R. Brown to 20 years in prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl that contributed to two poisoning deaths. In November 2023, Carter pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl. As part of hi  more

NEW YORK, June 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DANZEL MACKINS, a/k/a "Putt," and DARRIN SAMUELS, a/k/a "Klepto," were sentenced today to 30 and 20 years in prison, respectively, for trafficking drugs, possessing firearms, and participating in the murder of Felton Durant, Jr. on April 25, 2021. MACKINS and SAMUELS were me  more

WASHINGTON, June 21 -- The U.S. Agency for International Development issued the following transcript of an interview on June 20, 2024, with Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC: * * * ANDREA MITCHELL: According to the New York Times, more than a thousand truckloads are waiting to be unloaded and delivered to the people inside Gaza who need them, who've been desperate for food, water, medicine, fuel for eight months. This comes after Israel implemented a humanitarian pause in fighting to help increase the   more