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A MIssouri man who submitted nearly $980,000 in fraudulent applications to a pandemic relief loan program has been sentenced to five years and five months in prison.
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Grossman: Fraud-scheme mastermind oversaw 'vast network of international swindlers'
A Romanian national and "suspected organized crime figure" has been arrested in California and charged with directing a scheme to steal $5 million in pandemic-relief funds.
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Kavanaugh: 'Individuals who use firearms to harm others will be held accountable'
Two men, one from South Carolina and the other from Virginia, were recently sentenced to 51 months in prison for breaking into a private Albemarle County, Virginia, home in October 2021 while carrying firearms.
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Estrada: 'We are committed to protecting our children' after California man's arrest
A California man has been arrested for allegedly soliciting sexually explicit photos from two individuals he thought were 14-year-old girls.
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Strauber: 'Correction officers faked medical documentation to take sick leave'
Three former New York City correction officers have pleaded guilty to criminal charges for fraudulently taking advantage of employee sick leave programs.
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Escalona: Tennessee couple 'preyed on countless vulnerable patients and stole tens of millions of dollars'
A Tennessee physician and his wife have been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for unlawfully distributing opioids while defrauding the U.S. and receiving kickbacks.
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Driscoll: 'There is no place in our community for anyone willing to commit murder'
A California man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for his involvement in a murder-for-hire scheme and a shooting in Poughkeepsie in 2020.
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Escalona: Prison sentence for child pornography 'sends a message to anyone who preys on innocent children'
A Birmingham, Ala., attorney has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison on federal child pornography charges, the U.S. Justice Department announced March 7.
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Escalona: Birmingham couple sentenced for 'senseless and horrendous acts of violence against young children'
Two Birmingham, Ala., residents were sentenced for kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap a minor.
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Graves: 'This lengthy sentence gets a dangerous predator off the streets' in Maryland
Two Maryland residents were recently sentenced for their part in a sex trafficking operation involving teenage victims.
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Weiss: Man's actions showed 'complete disregard for the lives of innocent people'
A man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for stalking charges.
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Williams: Man sentenced after he 'carried out a sprawling criminal scheme from Nigeria'
A Nigerian man has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a multimillion dollar fraud scheme in which he impersonated procurement officials with educational institutions as well as state and federal governments.
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Bailey: Indiana woman 'had a direct hand in pushing this poison into our community'
An Indiana woman has been sentenced to six years imprisonment for armed trafficking of fentanyl and methamphetamine.
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Polite: Florida man 'justifiably faces a lengthy prison term' for investment fraud
A Florida man recently pleaded guilty to charges in orchestrating a $55 million investment fraud scheme.
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Cornerstone Healthcare Group Holding to pay more than $21M in 'one of the largest civil health-care fraud settlements FBI Houston has seen'
A Houston medical center accused of filing false Medicare claims has agreed to pay more than $21 million in a settlement.
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Esparza: Texas man ‘is very obviously deserving of a lengthy sentence’ for injuring an infant
A Texas man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for causing serious bodily injury to an infant.
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Rollins: 'We will aggressively prosecute hate crimes and other civil-rights offenses'
A Massachusetts man was indicted Feb. 15 for allegedly committing a hate crime.
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Kanter: DOJ is 'seeking appropriate punishment for criminal antitrust violations'
A Connecticut insulation contracting firm's co-owner was sentenced to 15 months in prison following his guilty plea to bid-rigging and fraud that targeted private and public entities.
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Williams: Brothers ‘thought they could get away with stealing nearly $1 million’
A New York City man has been found guilty of wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy in a scheme to steal nearly $1 million from a tech company in which his brother was the CEO.
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Williams: Former corrections officer 'obstructed an investigation into the smuggling of a firearm'
The former corrections officer at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center was sentenced to three years in prison for smuggling a gun into the center.
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