Tag: Justice
Former Providence attorney sentenced for mail fraud, pension theft
PROVIDENCE – Oleg Nikolyszyn, a former city attorney who fraudulently collected pension funds in the name of a former client following the man’s death,...
Chiropractor sentenced to 3 years probation, fined $75K for tax evasion
PROVIDENCE – Leonard Marino, president of Chiropractic Associates LLC in Providence, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to three years probation and fined $75,000...
Providence man sentenced to 5 years in prison for possession, distributing...
PROVIDENCE – A Providence man found to be in possession of more than 100 grams of fentanyl was sentenced Feb. 7 to five years...
Man indicted for allegedly breaking in, setting fire to Woonsocket business
PROVIDENCE – A man has been federally indicted on a charge of arson for allegedly breaking into a Woonsocket manufacturing plant and setting fires...
U.S. Attorney’s Office for District of R.I. collects $3.3M during FY...
PROVIDENCE – The District of Rhode Island collected more than $3.3 million in criminal and civil actions during the 2019 fiscal year, U.S. Attorney...
Pawtucket man sentenced to 2.5 years in jail for role in...
PROVIDENCE – Shawn Whitfield, of Pawtucket, has been sentenced to 2½ years in prison for his role in a Jamaica-based telemarketing scam that was...
CDE, Winsor Hill Hauling owners sentenced for telling employees to falsify...
PROVIDENCE – The owners of two former trucking companies that carried waste and scrap metal through Rhode Island and Massachusetts were each sentenced to...
Did the Sackler family take money out of Purdue Pharma for...
When Purdue Pharma LP filed for bankruptcy on Sept. 15, it was in no small measure to blunt the effects of the more then...
Purdue opioid deal may be worth less than drugmaker promised
WILMINGTON, Del. – Purdue Pharma LP’s deal to escape thousands of lawsuits over its role in the U.S. opioid crisis may be provide less than...
Two-decade con yielded $450,000 until feds caught up to them
PROVIDENCE – U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell Jr. accepted the guilty pleas of a Rhode Island couple for defrauding the U.S. government...
