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News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thomas Cesiro, age 68, of Rutland, Vermont, was convicted yesterday of attempting to entice or coerce a minor, following a three-day jury trial. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).


News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that FREDY RENAN NAJERA MONTOYA was sentenced to 30 years in prison for conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and possessing machine guns and destructive devices during the course of that conspiracy. NAJERA previously pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe, who sentenced Najera today.


U.S. Attorney Duston Slinkard Announces $168,085 Justice Department Grant to Support Project Safe Neighborhoods

News Release: [TOPEKA, KAN.] - U.S. Attorney Duston Slinkard announced that the Department of Justice has awarded $168,085 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in U.S. Attorney’s Office - District of Kansas. Funding will support community efforts to address the epidemic of gun crime and serious violence...



Schuylkill County Man Pleads Guilty To Possession Of A Firearm In Furtherance Of Drug Trafficking

News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Alnaldo Perez-Rodriguez, age 36, of Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, pleaded guilty on Oct. 13, 2022, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.


Superseding Federal Indictment Against Former Illinois Speaker of the House Adds Charge for Alleged Corruption Scheme Related to AT&T Illinois

News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury in Chicago has charged former Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives MICHAEL J. MADIGAN with corruptly arranging for payments to be made to a political ally as part of an alleged conspiracy involving Illinois Bell Telephone Company, which does business as AT&T Illinois.


News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two Texas men have been sent to federal prison following their convictions of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 34.5 kilograms of liquid meth associated with the Cartel Del Noreste (CDN), announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.



DOJ sends more than $268,000 to Western Washington to combat gun violence

News Release: Seattle - U.S. Attorney Nick Brown announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded $268,192 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in the Western District of Washington. Funding will support community efforts to address the epidemic of gun crime and serious violence in the district.


News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A federal jury in Portland found two longtime Hoover Criminal Gang members guilty today for conspiring to commit racketeering through various criminal acts spanning decades, including murder, robbery, and drug dealing.


Lafarge Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Foreign Terrorist Organizations

News Release: In Justice Department’s First Corporate Material Support for Terrorism Prosecution, Lafarge S.A. and its Syrian Subsidiary Admit Revenue-Sharing Agreement with ISIS and Agree to Pay $778 Million in Fines and Forfeiture.


U.S. Attorney’s Office Announces More Than $20 Million in Justice Department Grant Funding Awarded to Support Local Initiatives

News Release: CLEVELAND - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded more than $20 million in grant funding in Fiscal Year 2022 to various entities, organizations and programs in the Northern District of Ohio to support law enforcement and...


Missouri State Employee Accused of Stealing $140,000 in Unemployment Insurance Funds

News Release: ST. LOUIS - A Missouri state employee has been indicted on three federal felony charges and accused of using her position to send about $140,500 in unearned unemployment benefits to friends, relatives and others.


Guatemalan Citizen Charged With Unlawful Reentry

News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Luis Fernando Escalante, age 43, of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on illegal reentry charges.


Stevensville man admits drug trafficking, firearm, money laundering crimes after investigators seize thousands of fentanyl pills in traffic stop; find pill-making equipment, materials on property

News Release: MISSOULA - A Stevensville man admitted to drug trafficking, firearm and money laundering crimes after law enforcement seized thousands of fentanyl and methamphetamine pills from his vehicle in a Minnesota traffic stop and found pill-making equipment and materials on his Montana property, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.


Kewanee Man Sentenced to 143 months in Prison for Conspiracy to Distribute and Distribution of Methamphetamine

News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - A Kewanee, Illinois, man, Wesley K. Jacobson, 41, of the 300 block of South Cottage Street, was sentenced today to 143 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute at least 50 grams of actual methamphetamine and distribution of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine.


Member of Multistate Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pennsylvania resident pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court to violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


News Release: Two Portland area men are facing federal charges today for running a local drug trafficking organization responsible for making and distributing hundreds of thousands of counterfeit Oxycodone pills containing fentanyl.


News Release: HOUSTON - A 51-year-old man who advertised himself as the “Used Car King of New York" has admitted to conspiring to commit wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


Former City of Atlanta official convicted for accepting bribes

News Release: ATLANTA - A federal jury has convicted former City of Atlanta Commissioner of Watershed Management Jo Ann Macrina for accepting bribes from an Atlanta contractor in exchange for steering city business worth millions of dollars to the contractor’s company.