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Springfield Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Meth Conspiracy, Illegal Firearms

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy that distributed at least 11 kilograms of methamphetamine in southwest Missouri and for illegally possessing firearms.



Foreign National Pleads Guilty to Mailing Ricin to President of the United States in 2020

News Release: A dual citizen of Canada and France pleaded guilty today to sending a threatening letter containing homemade ricin to then-President Donald J. Trump at the White House in September 2020, and eight similar letters, each containing ricin, to Texas State law enforcement officials.


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury indicted a Brooklyn, New York, man for transporting stolen jewelry across state lines, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.


St. Louis Man Sentenced to 19+ Years for Money Laundering

News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A St. Louis man was sentenced to 19 years and seven months in prison after admitting to his involvement in a methamphetamine operation in southern Illinois.


News Release: FORT SMITH - The Justice Department announced today that a federal Grand Jury returned an Indictment charging former Crawford County, Arkansas, Sheriff’s Deputies Levi White, age 32, and Zackary King, age 27, with federal civil rights offenses for using excessive force on a 27-year-old man during the arrest of that man at a gas station in Mulberry, Arkansas, on Aug. 21, 2022.


Long Island Contractor Indicted for Multi-Million-Dollar Fraud in Connection with Hurricane Sandy

News Release: Alexander Almaraz, the owner of Design Concepts Group LLC (DCG) in Freeport, New York, has been charged in a 20-count indictment with wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, and attempted wire fraud in connection with a scheme to induce individuals to hire the defendant and pay DCG to lift their Hurricane Sandy-damaged homes. Almaraz is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow afternoon in federal court in Central Islip before United States Magistrate Judge Lee G. Dunst.


USDOJ-OJP-BJA grant application closes on March 21

BJA FY 23 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program grant opened on Jan. 26.


Justice Department publishes notice on Jan. 25

The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: DENVER - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced that it has filed a civil complaint in federal district court alleging that Vernon C. Morgan, Jr., violated the Fair Housing Act by discriminating on the basis of sex when he subjected a former tenant at a property he owns in...


USDOJ-BOP-NIC grant application closes on Feb. 1

Staffing Analysis Training grant opened on Jan. 26.


News Release: Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, known by various aliases, including “Otoniel," pleaded guilty today to running a continuing criminal enterprise-the Colombian paramilitary and multibillion dollar drug organization known as the “Clan del Golfo" (CDG). Úsuga David also pleaded guilty to related drug distribution...


Former Suffolk County Legislator And Co-Conspirator Convicted Of Defrauding Mortgage Lender Out Of More Than A Quarter Of A Million Dollars

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the convictions of GEORGE GULDI, a former Suffolk County legislator and disbarred attorney, and VICTORIA DAVIDSON for defrauding Ditech Financial LLC, a mortgage lender, out of more than a quarter of a million dollars. The jury convicted GULDI and DAVIDSON of all counts following an approximately two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein.


Convicted Felon Sentenced to 15 Years for Aggravated Assault of a Federal Officer and Discharge of a Firearm

News Release: Memphis, TN - Cody James Dimmett, 29, has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for assault of a federal officer and the use and discharge of a firearm during the assault. United States Attorney Kevin G. Ritz announced the sentence today.


News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -- A resident of Covina, California, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotic laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Notice Pursuant to The National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-ODVA, Inc. discussed on Jan. 25 by Justice Department

The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: A former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional officer was arrested today in Oahu, Hawaii, on criminal charges related to his alleged sexual abuse of female inmates.


Louisiana Man Sentenced to 45 Years for Kidnapping and Attempting to Murder a Gay Man as Part of Hate Crime Scheme Targeting Users of a Dating App for Gay Men

News Release: Chance Seneca, 21, of Lafayette, Louisiana, was sentenced today to 45 years in federal prison for kidnapping and attempting to murder a gay man as part of a months-long scheme to kidnap and murder gay men.


News Release: MIAMI - Former Miami-Dade County resident Judith Dianne Paris-Pinder, 49, has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for defrauding more than 500 people out of $2.4 million through a Ponzi investment fraud scheme.