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Clearfield Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Distribute Methamphetamine

News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Clearfield, PA pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-UHD Alliance, Inc. discussed on Jan. 24 by Justice Department

The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: PROVIDENCE - Another former bank employee today admitted to a federal judge that she stole the banking information of unsuspecting individuals and businesses and provided that information to co-conspirators, who used it to create fraudulent personal and business checks, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.


Texas Man Flew Victim to Florida for Commercial Sex, Now Serves Eight Years in Federal Prison

News Release: AUSTIN, Texas - An Amarillo man was sentenced in federal court here on Thursday to serve eight years in prison and pay $30,000 in restitution for transportation for illegal sexual activity.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, and a fugitive from 2019 to 2022, pleaded guilty on Jan. 11, 2023, in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics law in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Rochester man has been sentenced to 198 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Anthony Lombardo, 44 of Bristol, PA has been charged by criminal complaint and warrant with attempting to murder and forcibly assault, intimidate, and interfere with, a federal law enforcement officer. Lombardo remains hospitalized and in federal custody.


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Steven Reger, 46, of Morgantown, pleaded guilty today to aiding and abetting the distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.


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.


Cheswick Man Pleads Guilty to Trafficking Methamphetamine

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Cheswick, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics law, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Jury Convicts Bush Man of Attempting to Entice a Minor

News Release: BENTON, Ill. - In a U.S. District Court on Wednesday, a federal jury returned a guilty verdict for a man from Bush, Illinois, accused of traveling to entice a minor into sexual activity.


News Release: An eight-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Marat Lerner, president of the Lerner Group, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering in connection with a scheme to steal from clients of his mortgage loan modification business.


Kentucky Man Sentenced For Felony Charge Related to Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach

News Release: Defendant Joined Confrontation With Officers at Lower West Terrace.


Former Elementary School Teacher Convicted of Sexually Abusing Children

News Release: A federal jury convicted a former elementary school teacher yesterday for sexually abusing four former students.


Man Convicted of All Charges Related to One Fatal, Two Nonfatal Fentanyl Overdoses

News Release: ST. LOUIS - A jury in U.S. District Court in St. Louis on Friday found a man who provided the fentanyl that caused one fatal and two nonfatal overdoses in St. Charles, Missouri, in 2020 guilty of all charges.


Salem Man Pleads Guilty to Unlawful Possession of Machineguns

News Release: CONCORD - Kyle Morris, 23, of Salem, pleaded guilty in federal court today to the unlawful possession of machineguns, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced.


News Release: Today, the Justice Department, along with the Attorneys General of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia, filed a civil antitrust suit against Google for monopolizing multiple digital advertising technology products in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act.


New Orleans Man Sentenced on Federal Weapons Charges

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that defendant CHRISTOPHER SMITH, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced on Jan. 17, 2023 by U.S. District Court Judge Jay C. Zainey to 87 months of imprisonment, 3 years of supervised release, and a mandatory $100 special assessment fee as to Count One of a one-count indictment.


Founder and Majority Owner of Bitzlato, a Cryptocurrency Exchange, Charged with Unlicensed Money Transmitting

News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - A complaint was unsealed this morning in federal court in Brooklyn charging Anatoly Legkodymov, a Russian national and senior executive of Bitzlato Ltd. (Bitzlato), a Hong Kong-registered cryptocurrency exchange, with conducting a money transmitting business that transported and transmitted...


FBI Columbia Trains with Statewide Law Enforcement Agencies to Address Cyber Crime

News Release: FBI Columbia Trains with Statewide Law Enforcement Agencies to Address Cyber Crime.