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News Release: FARGO - United States Attorney Mac Schneider announced that on December 9, 2022, following a three-day trial, a jury returned guilty verdicts against Sharmake Mohamed Abdullahi, age 31 of Fargo, ND, for Kidnapping and Attempted Witness Tampering.


News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Michael Alan Jones, 24, of Charlotte, North Carolina, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.


News Release: The Justice Department announced the launch of the Law Enforcement Language Access Initiative, a nationwide effort to assist law enforcement agencies in meeting their obligations to provide meaningful language assistance to limited English proficient (LEP) individuals. The initiative will build on the department’s longstanding work to ensure that law enforcement agencies are complying with their language access obligations.


News Release: UOP LLC, doing business as Honeywell UOP, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., has agreed to pay more than $160 million to resolve parallel bribery investigations by criminal and civil authorities in the United States and Brazil stemming from bribe payments offered to a high-ranking official at Brazil’s state-owned oil company.


News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DIMETRI MOSELEY was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for his participation in the activities of a Poughkeepsie street gang, including the 2012 murder of Caval Haylett and the distribution of heroin.


News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - David Frazier, 42, of Huntington, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm.


Bisaror Difármén e Kanun Soñloíyallá Nuwa Zuban Lootfaíbar Monsubar Élan Goíjje

News Release: Bisaror Difármén e kanun soñloíyallá nuwa zuban lootfaíbar monsuba salúgorar élan goíjje, zíyan oílde furá decollá kanun soñloíya éjensi ókkolore iítarar zimmadari adaí goítto hom Ingilíc zanoya (LEP) maincore hamdefan zubani modot díbar kucíc. É monsuba gan difárménor daíman hamot taíbo zéne kanun soñloíya éjensi ókkole iítarar zuban lootfaídíbar zimmadari adaí gorágan tagit gorazá.


Maryland Man Arrested on Felony Charges for Actions During January 6 Capitol Breach

News Release: Defendant Accused of Assaulting Officer, Stealing Riot Shield, and Throwing Objects at Police.


News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Cumberland County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for distributing and possessing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.


News Release: A former chief financial officer and vice president of finance for a company with offices in Oklahoma made an initial appearance in federal court Wednesday for failing to pay over to the IRS $3.6 million in income and FICA tax withholdings and for embezzling more than $130,000 from the company.


News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Kelsey A. Mulvey, 30, of Grand Island, NY, who was convicted of tampering with a consumer product, was sentenced to serve 37 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.


Insider at Major Financial Services Organization and Retired Financial Professional Charged with Multi-Million-Dollar Front-Running Scheme

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that LAWRENCE BILLIMEK, a trader at a major financial services organization...


News Release: A Georgia man pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime and a firearms violation for shooting into two Clayton County convenience stores in an attempt to kill those inside because of their race and ethnicity.


News Release: Five individuals were sentenced yesterday for conspiring to defraud the U.S. Department of Education’s financial aid programs of over $12 million in federal funds.


“Text of Senate Amendment 6549” published by Congressional Record in the Senate section on Dec. 19

The Senate section of the Congressional Record published “Text of Senate Amendment 6549” on Dec. 19.


South Texan Sentenced for Trafficking Cocaine

News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 27-year-old Brownsville man has been ordered to prison for attempting to transport cocaine through a Border Patrol checkpoint, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.


News Release: وزارت دادگستری اعلام کرد که پیشگامی دسترسی به خدمات زبانهای خارجی توسط نیروهای انتظامی آغاز شده است. این یک تلاشی است در سراسر کشور برای یاری رساندن به سازمانهای انتظامی تا آنها بتوانند تعهدات خود را در ارائه هدفمند خدمات زبانهای خارجی به افراد کم مهارت در زبان انگلیسی انجام بدهند. این پیشگامی بر تاریخچه طولانی این وزارتخانه گسترش خواهد یافت تا اطمینان حاصل شود که سازمانهای انتظامی تعهدات خود را در رابطه با دسترسی به خدمات زبانهای خارجی انجام می دهند.


News Release: A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiring to participate in the affairs of a racketeering enterprise, including making extortionate extensions of credit and conducting an illegal gambling business, all while serving as the underboss of the Philadelphia mafia family.


News Release: SAN DIEGO - Dr. David J. Smith, a pain management physician, and his office manager, Julia Ann Oertle, are charged in a federal grand-jury indictment with perpetuating a long-running scheme to commit healthcare fraud and to manufacture and distribute adulterated fentanyl.


News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it found reasonable cause to believe that the State of Alaska violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide community-based services to children with behavioral health disabilities, relying instead on segregated, institutional ...