All USAO Press Releases

Former Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) lieutenant Shronda Covington, 49, was sentenced yesterday to 12 months in prison followed by 12 months of home confinement and three years of supervised release for violating the civil rights of an inmate in her custody and control by showing deliberate indifference to the inmate’s serious medical needs, resulting in the inmate suffering, bodily injury, and for lying to federal investigators about the offense. The inmate later died of injuries he sustained over the course of a 30-hour period spanning Jan. 9 and 10, 2021.

Shronda Covington, 49, was sentenced yesterday for violating the civil rights of an inmate in her custody and control by showing deliberate indifference to the inmate’s serious medical need.

A Springfield, Virginia, man was sentenced today to 364 months in prison for his efforts to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.

Mohammed Azharuddin Chhipa, 35, of Springfield, was sentenced yesterday to 30 years and 4 months in prison for providing material support to ISIS.

Erik S. Siebert, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, announced today case updates on seven immigration cases in the district.

Mamud Sesay, 36, of Bowie, Maryland, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.

Today, the Department of Justice announced the results of Operation Restore Justice, a coordinated enforcement effort to identify, track and arrest child sex predators.

Charles Reginald McDougald, 55, of North Carolina, the final defendant in a DMV area dogfighting ring, was sentenced to two years and three months in prison.

Credit Suisse Services AG pled guilty and was sentenced for conspiring to hide more than $4 billion from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in at least 475 offshore accounts. 

Credit Suisse Services AG pleaded guilty and was sentenced today to conspiring to hide more than $4 billion from the IRS in at least 475 offshore accounts. The guilty plea by the Swiss corporation is the result of a years-long investigation by U.S. law enforcement to uncover financial fraud and abuse.

Alphonso Page, 35, of Alexandria, was sentenced as a career offender to 14 years in prison for distributing fentanyl.

Andrew Corbman, 53, of Ashburn, was sentenced to three years in prison for fraud relating to his risky trading that lost millions of dollars of his clients’ funds while he provided them with false information.