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News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty today to robbing a TD Bank branch in Boston.


News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Dena J. King announced that a federal grand jury in Charlotte returned an indictment today charging two tax attorneys and an insurance agent with conspiring to defraud the United States and helping clients file false tax returns based on their promotion and operation of a fraudulent tax shelter.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS - KENISHA R. CALLAHAN, age 45, and a resident of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, was sentenced on November 9, 2022 to five (5) years of probation and one year of home confinement by U.S. District Court Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle after CALLAHAN had pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false tax return...


Two Pharmacy Owners Plead Guilty in COVID-19 Money Laundering and Health Care Fraud Case

News Release: Two New York men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for using New York-area pharmacies to submit false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and then laundering the criminal proceeds.


News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Christopher D. Robbins, 61, of Williamsville, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 72 months in prison by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr.


Fulton Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Secretly Recording Teen Victims

News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Fulton, Mo., man who secretly recorded two teenage victims has been sentenced in federal court for attempting to produce child pornography.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Two Maryland men have been arrested on felony charges, including assaulting law enforcement officers, for their actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Their 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.


News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Saco woman pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland today to committing bankruptcy fraud, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.


News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Rochester man has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.


News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Julius Rucks, 41, of Butte County, pleaded guilty Monday to three counts of distributing fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment today charging DAVID MARSHALL, also known as “Saint," 37, of Bristol, with sex trafficking and related offenses.


News Release: BOSTON - A Stoughton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for firearm offenses.


Ten Charged with Crack Cocaine Distribution in Mount Vernon

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Frank A. Tarentino III, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Drug Enforcement...


News Release: BOSTON - The former Chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and the owner of an architecture-and-design firm in Providence, R.I. were sentenced today for bribery relating to the Tribe’s plans to build a resort and casino in Taunton, Mass.


Serial Abuser of Underage Girls Sentenced To 11 Years For Coercing and Enticing a Minor to Engage In Illegal Sexual Activity

News Release: DETROIT - A Royal Oak man who repeatedly abused underage girls was sentenced to eleven years in federal prison for coercing and enticing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity and for receiving child pornography, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.


News Release: A jury in the District of Columbia found former D.C. Metro Transit Police Officer Andra Vance, 48, guilty today of a civil rights violation for his unlawful beating of an unarmed transit rider with a metal baton without legal justification on Feb. 16, 2018.


News Release: MIAMI - Members of an international primate smuggling ring have been charged with multiple felonies for their role in bringing wild long-tailed macaques into the United States.


News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Chris Oliver, 24, of Gilbert, Arizona, was sentenced on Oct. 17, 2022, by United States District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 33 months in prison. Oliver previously pleaded guilty to Dealing in Firearms Without a License.


U.S. Attorney’s Office and FBI Present Child Protection Award to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office

News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg and FBI Special Agent in Charge David Walker announce that the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office has been presented with a Child Protection Award for its role in investigating more than 100 cases that have resulted in successful federal prosecutions of child exploitation offenses as part of the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood initiative.


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Will Thompson will join Mission West Virginia and other officials to help celebrate National Adoption Month on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, at 11 a.m. at Bible Center Church.