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News Release: Two Florida men were sentenced today in federal court in the Middle District of Florida for hate crime charges in connection with their racially-motivated attack against a Black man in Citrus Springs.



Attorneys And Associate Of Immigration Law Firm Plead Guilty To Participating In Asylum Fraud Scheme

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ILONA DZHAMGAROVA, ARTHUR ARCADIAN, and IGOR REZNIK have each pled guilty to conspiracy to commit immigration fraud. DZHAMGAROVA and ARCADIAN pled guilty today, and REZNIK pled guilty on Aug. 24, 2022, each before U.S. District Court Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil.


News Release: WASHINGTON-The Justice Department announced today that it has concluded there is reasonable cause to believe that the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (LDOC) routinely confines people in its custody past the dates when they are legally entitled to be released from custody, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - MAURICE FLORANT, age 34, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged on Jan. 26, 2023 in a two-count indictment for violations of the Federal Gun Control Act.


New Britain Man Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl Distribution and Firearm Possession Charges

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that RAFAEL MARTINEZ, 31, of New Britain, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to fentanyl distribution and firearm possession offenses.


News Release: Memphis, TN - Kevin G. Ritz, United States Attorney for the Western District of.


News Release: A Chinese national was sentenced today to eight years in prison for acting illegally within the United States as an agent of the People’s Republic of China.


News Release: Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, alias, “Otoniel," quién dirigía una organización paramilitar llegó a ser uno de los mayores traficantes de cocaína del mundo y a ser el responsable de ordenar que se cometieran despiadados actos de violencia contra militares, civiles inocentes y fuerzas del orden público.


USDOJ-OJP-BJA offers new grant application process starting Jan. 26

BJA FY 23 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-based Program grant opened on Jan. 26.



Dental Practice Owners Charged with Fraud and RICO Conspiracy

News Release: Multiple dental practice owners and co-conspirators were charged in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for allegedly engaging in a multifaceted racketeering conspiracy through a multi-state network of dental practices and related dental businesses.


Indiana Woman Indicted in Rhode Island in Online Romance Scam that Allegedly  Defrauded a 96-Year-Old Rhode Island Widower

News Release: PROVIDENCE - An Indiana woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Rhode Island, charged with perpetrating an online romance scam that allegedly defrauded a 96-year-old Coventry widower of approximately $80,000, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.


News Release: WASHINGTON - A Virginia man was arrested this morning on felony and misdemeanor charges, including civil disorder, for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.


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


Two Members of the Aryan Circle Sentenced for Attempted Murder

News Release: Two members of the Aryan Circle were each sentenced today to 10 years in prison for their role in the attempted murder of an inmate that occurred while they were incarcerated at U.S. Penitentiary Yazoo City in Mississippi.


USDOJ-OJP-BJA offers new grant application process starting Jan. 26

BJA FY 23 Invited Department of Justice Death in Custody Act -Training and Technical Assistance Center grant opened on Jan. 26.


USDOJ-OJP-BJA grant application closes on March 21

BJA FY 23 Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program grant opened on Jan. 26.


USDOJ-OJP-BJA grant application closes on April 24

BJA FY 23 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program grant opened on Jan. 26.


Justice Department discusses Notice Pursuant to The National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Cooperative Research Group on Hedge V on Jan. 25

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