News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: A former local district court judge in Arkansas was arrested today in Little Rock on criminal charges related to his alleged solicitation of sex in exchange for agreeing to take action on a criminal case pending before his court.

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that FILIPPO BERNARDINI pled guilty to one count of wire fraud in connection with a multi-year scheme to impersonate individuals involved in the publishing industry in order to fraudulently obtain more...

News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Lawrence Isen, a former registered broker who participated in a criminal conspiracy to promote and manipulate the price of shares in publicly traded companies, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert to 5 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy...

News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - WILLIAM JOSEPH DANIEL, 46, of Stephens County, was sentenced last week to serve eighteen months in federal prison for sexual battery, announced United States Attorney Robert J. Troester.

News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: The final sentence in a major methamphetamine trafficking operation signals the end of a prosecution that saw nearly three dozen defendants sent to prison after pleading guilty.

News Release: Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, will mark 24 months since the attack on the U.S. Capitol that disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the process of affirming the presidential election results.

News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Hagerstown, Maryland man has admitted to his role in an expansive drug trafficking conspiracy that spanned several states.

News Release: وزارت عدلیه امروز اعلام داشت که منابعی را برای اتباع افغان و اوکراین فراهم میسازد تا ایشان را در حصه آگاهی از حقوق کار ایشان کمک نماید. این منابع برای مهاجرین افغان و اوکراین حمایت های قانونی انان به اساس قانون مهاجرت و تابعیت از ایشان در محل کار را توضیح مینماید، که براساس آن تبعیض در استخدام براساس ...

News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today that Dion Williams has been sentenced in federal court to 20 years (240 months) on his conviction of violating the federal narcotics and firearms laws and for assaulting a federal agent with a dangerous weapon, and to an additional five years (60 month) for violating the terms of his supervised release for a previous drug crime conviction.

News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - Jaylan D. Quinn, 23 of St. Louis, Missouri, pled guilty in a U.S. District Court on Wednesday to fatally shooting a security guard while robbing First Bank in East St. Louis in August 2021.

News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA A resident of Wexford, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to three years' probation and 180 days home confinement on her conviction of various violations of the Internal Revenue Code, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

News Release: Memphis, TN - Daniel Kirtman, 25, and Michael Thomas, 24, have been sentenced to a total of 15 years in federal prison for federal firearms crimes. Kirtman was sentenced to eight years for being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession and transfer of a short-barrel rifle. Thomas was sentenced to seven years for possession of a machine gun and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime.

News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - WILLIAM JOSEPH DANIEL, 46, of Stephens County, was sentenced last week to serve eighteen months in federal prison for sexual battery, announced United States Attorney Robert J. Troester.

News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Faith Nicholle Sullivan was sentenced on Jan. 9 to five years and ten months in prison. Sullivan, 28, of Shiprock, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty on July 12 to assault with a dangerous weapon in Indian Country.

News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Virgil Montell-Denzel Watkins, 30, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to 10 years and eight months in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing 5 grams or more of methamphetamine.