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Acting United States Attorney Teal Luthy Miller has announced criminal charges and a civil settlement as part of the Department of Justice's 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown.
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Rochester man pleads guilty to coercion and enticement of minor

Jonathan Woody, a 31-year-old resident of Rochester, New York, has pleaded guilty to coercion and enticement of a minor.
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Mexican national faces federal charges for illegal reentry into Texas

A Mexican national who has been deported twice is facing federal charges in the Eastern District of Texas.
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PCP dealer sentenced to over eleven years in federal prison

Lamont Langston, a 44-year-old resident of the District of Columbia, has been sentenced to 138 months in federal prison.
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Former bank employee charged with embezzling over $400K from customer accounts

A former bank employee in San Francisco, Sixto Christopher Porras, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of embezzlement and access device fraud.
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Washington man sentenced to prison for Chinatown stabbing incident

Tanade Warsame, a 32-year-old resident of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to 66 months in prison for a knife attack that occurred during a fight in May 2024.
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Sixteen arrested in Houston on drug trafficking and weapons charges

Several foreign nationals residing illegally in Houston have been detained on charges of drug trafficking and weapons offenses.
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Department of Justice announces major health care fraud takedown

Acting United States Attorney Ellison C. Travis has announced criminal charges against two individuals in connection with alleged schemes to defraud government benefit programs.
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Beckley man receives prison sentence for escape from federal facility

Kishaun Andre Jones, a 25-year-old resident of Beckley, has been sentenced to four months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for escaping from a federal reentry facility.
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Georgia man sentenced for armed bank robbery spree

Khyri Deandre Brown, a 28-year-old resident of Dallas, Georgia, has been sentenced to over ten years in prison for his involvement in a series of bank robberies and attempted robberies that took place in November 2023.
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South Dakota authorities seize over 200 illegal firearms in crackdown

Over the course of 2024, law enforcement agencies in South Dakota seized 230 firearms possessed illegally, as announced by United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell.
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Tulsa doctor charged amid national health care fraud crackdown

Today, U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson announced criminal charges against a Tulsa doctor as part of the Department of Justice's 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown.
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Arizona defendants charged in national healthcare fraud crackdown

Criminal charges have been filed against seven individuals in Arizona, as part of the Department of Justice's 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown.
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Detroit man pleads guilty to multiple fentanyl distribution charges

Rafael Cee-Erwin Solomon, also known as "Rip," from Detroit, Michigan, has pleaded guilty to three counts of distributing fentanyl.
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Oklahoma City man charged in largest Medicare fraud takedown

Today, the United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, Robert J. Troester, announced charges against Alexander Frank, 55, from Oklahoma City.
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Webster man pleads guilty to new federal charges amid pending sentencing

Timothy Siverd, a 37-year-old resident of Webster, New York, has entered a guilty plea to charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
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Pharmacy owner sentenced over healthcare fraud involving $65 million

A pharmacy owner and an administrator from Union City, New Jersey, have been sentenced for their involvement in schemes to defraud pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and health care providers out of more than $65 million. U.S. Attorney Alina Habba...
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Justice Department sets conditions on HPE's acquisition of Juniper Networks

The Department of Justice has announced a settlement regarding the acquisition of Juniper Networks by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
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Eleventh Circuit upholds conviction in repeat child pornography case

On June 23, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld the conviction of Andrew John Ewing for child pornography offenses.
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Box Elder man receives additional seven-year sentence for distributing child pornography

United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that Branden Tyler Bernard, a resident of Box Elder, South Dakota, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Camela C. Theeler to seven years in federal prison for distributing child pornography.
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