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PRESS RELEASE

Staten Island Woman Admits Role In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

July 31, 2014
NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Staten Island, New York, woman today admitted her role in one of the nation’s largest and longest...
July 31, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Arrests El Monte Flores And Mexican Mafia Gang Members Charged In Federal Racketeering Indictment

July 30, 2014
LOS ANGELES - More than 400 law enforcement officers this morning conducted an operation that led to the arrest of 17 members and associates of the El Monte Flores gang, an organization that takes direction from the Mexican Mafia prison gang and controls criminal activity in the cities of El...
July 30, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Pennsylvania Man Sentenced To 33 Months In Prison For Role In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

July 30, 2014
NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced today a Moscow, Pennsylvania, man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for his role in one of...
July 30, 2014
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Suffolk County, N.Y. Man Sentenced To 42 Months In Prison For Stealing Oxycodone From Manufacturing Facility

July 13, 2014
NEWARK, N.J. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Dominick Ribustello, 53, of the Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W...
July 13, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Head Pharmacist Of West Orange Pharmacy Sentenced To 37 Months In Prison For Selling Oxycodone Without Prescriptions

July 10, 2014
NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced the former pharmacist in charge of West Orange Pharmacy was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for illegally...
July 10, 2014
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Las Vegas Doctor Pleads Guilty To Drug Conspiracy Charges For Writing Unlawful Oxycodone Prescription

July 01, 2014
LAS VEGAS - - A Las Vegas physician pleaded guilty today to federal drug conspiracy charges for writing prescriptions for oxycodone for persons he did not see or treat, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada. Victor Bruce M.D., 49, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty...
July 01, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Second Brother Sentenced To Prison In Methamphetamine Conspiracy

June 30, 2014
HONOLULU - Joshua Lew, age 28, of Waialua, was sentenced today by United States District Judge J. Michael Seabright to 97 months imprisonment for being a member of a conspiracy to distribute and possess, with intent to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. Lew’s brother and co-defendant, Jacob Drummondo-Farias...
June 30, 2014
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Monmouth County, N.J., Doctor Indicted On Oxycodone Distribution Conspiracy, Money Laundering And Tax Charges

June 26, 2014
TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Monmouth County, N.J., doctor who allegedly wrote illegal prescriptions for oxycodone was indicted on charges that he...
June 26, 2014
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New Jersey U.S. Attorney Files Civil Suit Seeking Forfeiture Of $1.7 Million Seized From New York-Based Exporter

June 23, 2014
NEWARK, N.J. - The United States filed a civil forfeiture complaint today seeking to forfeit $1,742,289, previously seized from cellular phone wholesale company Cellular Next LLC, which allegedly represents narcotics proceeds laundered through the Black Market Peso (BMPE), U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. According to the complaint filed today...
June 23, 2014
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Dominican National Admits Role In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

June 23, 2014
NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Dominican national who was extradited from Canada earlier this year, today admitted his role in one of...
June 23, 2014
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