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An New Mexico felon was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison for the 2020 shooting of an FBI agent.
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Peace: 'We will continue to investigate, disrupt and prosecute those who fuel Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine'
Five Russian nationals and two oil traders are charged in a global sanctions evasion and money laundering scheme.
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Dorsey: 'Tax evasion with this degree of trickery, dishonesty and deceit, did not go undetected'
A Georgia co-owner of multiple bars and a restaurant pleaded guilty to tax evasion.
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Peace: 'Zottola and his co-defendant will spend the rest of their lives in prison'
The son of a murder victim and his co-conspirator were convicted of a murder-for-hire committed at a McDonald's drive-thru.
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Uballez: 'Every citizen must be able to vote without interference or discrimination'
As next month's General Election approaches, an assistant U.S. attorney will be leading New Mexico's part in the U.S. Department of Justice's nationwide program to get ahead of any threats and fraud.
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Peace: New York man ‘sold and marketed counterfeit opioid pills laced with fentanyl’
A New York man has been indicted for fentanyl pill conspiracy.
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//eip//Romero: Former Philadelphia treasurer guilty of ‘a shocking level of misconduct’
A former city treasurer has pleaded guilty to naturalization fraud and failure to file taxes.
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Featherston: Texas man 'went to great lengths to defraud clients that trusted him'
A Texas man was found guilty Oct. 5 of several federal crimes related to a murder in Carrollton, Texas.
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Estrada: 'Broumand breached the public trust placed in him and violated his oath of office'
A California former FBI special agent was found guilty Oct. 4 by a federal jury of accepting bribes from a lawyer tied to organized crime.
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Young: Rochester man's armed drug trafficking sentence helps ‘curb the violence and societal harm’
A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for drug trafficking, conspiracy and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
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Rollins: Organized crime arrests mean ‘large-scale criminal enterprise has been stopped in its tracks’
Eleven people from several states have been charged in an international money laundering and drug trafficking conspiracy.
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Clarke: 'Racially-motivated hate crimes have no place in our society'
A Florida man who pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime for a racially motivated attack on a black man faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, three years of mandatory supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
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Brown: Probation for Seattle computer hacker ‘not what justice looks like’
A former Seattle tech worker has been sentenced to time served and five years probation after a federal jury in June found her guilty of stealing computer power to mine cryptocurrency and personal information of more than 100 million people.
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Waldref: 'Health care fraud and kickback schemes are serious public health and safety problems'
A Seattle-area physician pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a $18.6 million fraudulent genetic testing scheme.
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Meacham: Drug dealers guilty of 'sowing fear and agony' get decades behind bars
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham announced that 39 defendants charged in Operation "Taste the Rainbow" have been sentenced to a combined 415 years in federal prison
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Watson: 'HSI is committed to its mission' of protecting against human rights violations
Homeland Security Investigations knows its mission and role to track down human rights abuses
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Weiss: 'Today's sentence stands as a stark warning to those who prey on the elderly'
A Delaware woman was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison on federal wire fraud and tax evasion charges.
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Connors: Hawaii man 'criminally abused the special access privileges given to him by his employer'
A Hawaiian IT administrator pleaded guilty to sabotaging his former employer's computer network to get a higher salary, abusing the special access privileges he'd been granted.
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Shier: Kentucky man sentenced for 'predatory deception and sexual exploitation of a minor'
A Kentucky man has been sentenced to 240 months in federal prison for production of child pornography.
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South Florida U.S. Attorney's Office leads force to battle pandemic relief fraud
The South Florida U.S. Attorney's Office is selected to head a COVID-19 Fraud Strike Force Team to combat pandemic relief fraud.
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