A Mississippi woman has been sentenced to serve six months in federal prison for submitting false claims to get oil spill recovery money. Federal prosecutors say 32-year-old Katisha Lombardo Deroche of Bay St. Louis was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District …
Chip Kyle Bolton, a resident of Arizona who formerly lived in Salinas, Calif., received a maximum sentence to prison for eight years and eight months. The sentence followed a verdict by jury in April 2014 where Bolton was convicted of …
A jury recently found a Honolulu man, Yun Fei Tang, 46, guilty of insurance fraud and attempted theft. He is currently out on bail and awaiting sentencing in June. Tang faces up to five years imprisonment for each count and …
A 46-year-old Gautier, Miss., man has been sentenced to prison for five months and ordered to repay $26,000 for oil spill recovery money he received by fraud. The Sun Herald reports Vester Ray Bassham also was sentenced this week to …
A South Florida doctor could get a maximum 350-year prison sentence for his conviction in an illegal prescription drug pill mill case. A Broward County jury this week found 54-year-old Dr. Thomas Rodenberg guilty of 14 charges, including racketeering, trafficking …
A Union County, N.C., man accused of selling thousands of counterfeit airbags has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Prosecutors say 27-year-old Igor Borodin sold more than 7,000 airbags on eBay that he obtained from Chinese manufacturers. Borodin pleaded …
A New Mexico man will serve five years in prison for torching the landmark Hitching Post Inn in Cheyenne, Wyo., a federal judge ordered Thursday. U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal also ordered Robert Rodriguez of Albuquerque to serve three years …
A New Orleans man has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in setting two separate fires at the same convenience store in 2010. Twenty-three-year-old Lennie Brown pleaded guilty in 2011 to arson charges. U.S. District Judge …
The former chief of a southern New Jersey fire company who helped a property owner burn down an abandoned home and masked the arson as a training exercise is now headed to prison. Patrick Foster of Quinton Township was sentenced …
A New Orleans, La., attorney has been sentenced to more than four years in jail for mail fraud. U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente says U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman sentenced 67-year-old Robert Hackett to 51 months in prison Wednesday and …