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Google Enters Into Stipulated Agreement to Improve Legal Process Compliance Program

News Release: The Department of Justice today filed a stipulation and agreement resolving a dispute with Google over the loss of data responsive to a search warrant issued in 2016.


California Man Agrees to Plead Guilty to Making Threatening Calls to Tufts University Campus

News Release: BOSTON - A California man has agreed to plead guilty in connection with making threatening communications to the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) in May 2021.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ADRIAN JOSEPH, 55, a citizen of St. Lucia last residing in Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sarah A. L. Merriam in Bridgeport to approximately nine months of imprisonment, time already served, for offenses related to his acquiring federal documents under an assumed identity.


News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Meccos Donta Allen (38, Tampa) with unlawful possession of a firearm. If convicted, Allen faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, and up to life, in federal prison.


News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Darron Dimitri Ross, 36, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced today to six years in prison and $696,912 in restitution for conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.


News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Tevin OBrian Oliver (29, Homestead), Jameal Kaia Phillip (30, Trinidad and Tobago), and Edward Soloman King III (31, Tampa) with conspiracy to smuggle goods from the United States. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.


News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. sentenced Juan Octavio Iribe Laveaga, 35, of Norwalk, California, to 292 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for trafficking large quantities of methamphetamine and fentanyl, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.


Federal Grand Jury B Indictments Announced—October 2022

News Release: United States Attorney Clint Johnson today announced the results of the October 2022 Federal Grand Jury B.


News Release: ATLANTA - Nagaindra Srivastav has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and kickback charges for his role in selling fraudulent doctors’ orders to his co-conspirators, who used the orders to obtain at least $25 million in fraudulent payments from Medicare.


Ottumwa Man and Woman Charged for Filing Hundreds of False Tax Returns and Fraudulently Obtaining Unemployment Insurance Benefits Payments

News Release: Des Moines, Iowa - A federal grand jury in Des Moines returned an indictment on Oct. 18, 2022, charging an Ottumwa man and woman with sixty fraud and tax charges.


News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration launched its annual Red Ribbon Campaign - the nation’s largest drug prevention effort - on October 23 to unite communities across the country in the shared goal of preventing drug use and addiction. This year’s theme, “Celebrate Life. Live Drug Free," reminds all Americans that living a drug-free lifestyle contributes greatly to the safety and health of their communities.


Local Magician Arrested for Child Pornography Offense

News Release: BOSTON - A Sutton, Mass. man who has worked as a magician for over 20 years, performing for children as young as kindergarten age, was arrested today on a child pornography charge.


News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Natalie Wight announced today the appointment of two District Election Officers to oversee the handling of complaints of voting rights concerns, threats of violence to election officials or staff, and election fraud in the District of Oregon for the upcoming November 8, 2022, general election.


West L.A. Man Sentenced to 18 Years in Federal Prison for Harassment Campaign Targeting Female Doctors at VA Facilities

News Release: Federal Judge Said He is Calling a Defendant for the First Time 'a Menace to Society'.


News Release: A Tulsa man was sentenced Thursday for shooting and killing a bicyclist in order to impress members of a street gang, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.


Chinese Intelligence Officers Charged with Using Academic Cover to Target Individuals in United States

News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A federal indictment was unsealed today charging four Chinese nationals, including three Ministry of State Security (MSS) intelligence officers, in connection with a long-running intelligence campaign targeting individuals in the United States to act as agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger and National Security Division Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen announced.


Chester County Serial Child Predator Who Produced and Collected Images of Child Abuse Sentenced to 100 Years in Prison

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Robert Dean Caesar, 60, of Oxford, PA, was sentenced to 100 years in prison and lifetime supervised release United States District Court Judge Gerald Pappert for multiple child exploitation offenses including producing, transmitting, and collecting child pornography.


News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Mark Robert Clow, 54, of Tallahassee, Florida, has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for receiving material constituting child pornography. The sentence was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.


Albuquerque woman pleads guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States

News Release: Business set up LLCs and bank accounts to assist clients in evading the IRS.


News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for robbing a bank within a month of being released from federal prison for another bank robbery.