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Five people have been arrested for allegedly stealing millions of federal dollars intended to help children from low-income families.
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Peace: Wafa Abboud sentenced ‘for betraying the most vulnerable among us’
A New York woman has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for embezzlement while executive director of a nonprofit agency that assists developmentally disabled youth.
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Grand Junction man convicted, sentenced to life for fentanyl distribution that resulted in death
A Grand Junction man was sentenced to life in federal prison for his distribution of fentanyl that resulted in death.
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U.S. attorney on sextortion indictment: 'These charges represent serious allegations'
A U.S. attorney confirmed a sextortion indictment and is seeking to identify additional victims
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Graves: Indictments, arrests target those 'peddling poison on our streets'
Eight individuals are being charged in a drug conspiracy after an indictment was unsealed Jan. 12.
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Onks: FBI Citizens Academy allows agents to 'share our work one-on-one with community leaders'
Anyone who would like to nominate someone — even themselves — to be part of the FBI's Jacksonville, Fla., field office's 2023 Citizens Academy have until the end of January.
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Estes: Historic Georgia indictment shows 'focused commitment of law enforcement agencies at all levels'
More than 70 people allegedly associated with the Ghost Face Gangsters criminal street gang have been named in a recently unsealed federal indictment that authorities are calling the "largest ever in the Southern District of Georgia."
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Rich: FBI works 'to rescue children from those who seek to exploit or prey upon them'
A San Antonio man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for receiving child sexual abuse material, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.
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Sundberg: FBI continues investigation 'as we approach two years since the attack on the Capitol'
The Federal Bureau of Investigation remains "committed to finding, investigating and bringing to justice those responsible for" the Jan. 6, 2021, violence at the U.S. Capitol.
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Nanz: 'Elder fraud is a growing problem as the country's population gets older'
A Tampa man was recently sentenced in federal court for his part in elder fraud schemes.
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Collodi: Arrests show law enforcement commitment to 'hold those accountable who put our community in danger'
Two men have been charged in Washington state in connection to the Christmas Day attacks on power substations that resulted in thousands of people losing power and millions of dollars in damage.
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Pickens: 'Postal Inspection Service will not rest when it comes to solving attacks'
Three Wisconsin residents have been charged in the Dec. 9, 2022, murder of an on-duty U.S. Postal Service letter carrier.
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Barron: 'Gangs will not be allowed to hold communities hostage'
A federal grand jury recently indicted six Baltimore men on violent racketeering enterprise charges as members of the Black Guerilla Family.
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Aber: 'Forfeiture of these illegal firearms ensures they will not be used in the future'
Virginia's Eastern District announced hundreds of illegal firearm forfeitures over the past year.
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Wray: 'There is hope and they are not alone' in minor sextortion cases
The FBI issued a public safety alert following an increase in "financial sextortion" schemes targeting minors.
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Tucker: 'Wells will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of these two men' in Alaska
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld James Michael Wells' October 2019 murder convictions in the killings of Coast Guard Electrician's Mate First Class James Hopkins and retired Chief Boatswain's Mate Richard Belisle.
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Graves: Christopher Parris 'exploited a situation like none other in our recent history'
A Georgia man, formerly of New York, was sentenced to 244 months in prison for a nationwide Ponzi scheme and trying to sell false N95 masks during the pandemic.
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Stapleton: Those who choose a criminal path will be 'identified, investigated and removed from society'
A career criminal with multiple convictions for drug trafficking is headed to prison for more than a decade after he was apprehended with methamphetamine following a car crash.
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Polite: Philadelphia sentencing demonstrates ‘commitment to eradicating organized crime from our communities’
The underboss of a Philadelphia mafia family has been sentenced to five years in prison for leading a racketeering conspiracy that engaged in loansharking, gambling and extortion.
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Williams: DOJ protects 'the civil rights of all individuals, including those repaying their debt to society in prison'
A former corrections officer at Green Haven Correctional Facility and his supervisor face charges of assaulting an inmate, then falsifying reports to cover up the incident.
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