Federal Prisons News

A one-time county attorney from northeastern Kentucky has been disbarred because of his role in a vote buying scheme during the 2006 election.

As Detective Kenny Gavin drove up and down the streets of Portsmouth, each turn of the wheel seemed to spark a memory of his 23 years on the force.

Before he was a flight risk, Kwame Kilpatrick was so broke he couldn't fly without help from a female gospel singer, who prison officials outed as the source of plane tickets used by the former mayor to travel between Texas and Detroit.

Nazar Lopushansky, 30, was the operator of Engelwood Construction, a Manchester-based construction company that in 2009 was financially distressed, the release said.

The U.S. attorney's office for West Tennessee said Wednesday that Robert Gregory Dempsey, also known as Jesse Rockwell, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Jackson on charges of possession and interstate transportation of child pornography.

An Arlington man could be sentenced to life in federal prison and fined $5 million for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more, federal prosecutors said Wednesday Jermaine Duane Irvin, 41, was convicted Wednesday after a trial in U.S. District Judge John McBryde's court.

A convicted sex offender from Charleston was sentenced Tuesday to 35 years in federal prison.

A 55-year-old Longview, Texas lawyer has been sentenced to federal prison for mail fraud in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.

A federal grand jury returned multiple indictments today charging individuals with separate federal crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.

The former executive director of a Maine nonprofit that serves the poor has been sentenced to 2 A1 2 years in federal prison for stealing $900,000 from the organization.

A former federal prison officer in southern Illinois has been ordered to spend three months in prison and pay $22,000 restitution for tax crimes.

THE FEDERAL JURY that last week convicted North Philadelphia drug kingpin Kaboni Savage of 12 counts of murder began hearing arguments yesterday for his execution or for spending what's left of his life in an 8-by-10-foot cell in a "supermax" prison in Florence, Colo.

In 2008, as George W. Bush tried to gift the energy and mining industries thousands of acres of pristine Utah wilderness via a widely disputed federal auction, college student Tim DeChristopher decided to monkey-wrench the process.

A restaurant owner who got snagged in a gambling probe that grew out of the Brett Parker double murder investigation took the stand, as the trial entered its third week.

The key witness in the trial of the man convicted of killing former intern Chandra Levy had a previously undisclosed history as a government snitch, a court hearing revealed Tuesday.

BobbyLee Worm was held at the Fraser Valley Institution for Women, a multi-level federal prison in Abbotsford, B.C., designed to hold 86 women.

A 55-year-old Tyler, Texas, building contractor has been sentenced for federal arson related charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.

The Justice Department says two more Japanese executives at a major auto supplier have agreed to plead guilty and serve time in prison as part of a wide-ranging three-year FBI investigation into auto parts price fixing.

A New Iberia woman was sentenced Monday to 26 months in federal prison and for filing false claims of more than $12 million with the IRS and receiving tax refunds she was not owed.

Clarksburg, Harrison County , West Virginia The mother of a missing West Virginia girl won't be relocated to serve supervised release for welfare fraud.