News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: LOS ANGELES - A real estate developer was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison for offering to buy a million-dollar home for a Los Angeles County public official in exchange for the official’s assistance securing a $45 million county lease for the developer.

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSHUA HALL was sentenced today by United Stated District Judge Gregory H. Woods to 20 months in prison for making threats to kill a member of the United States Congress and impersonating family members...

News Release: A romance scammer with ties to a Nigerian organized crime syndicate was sentenced today to more than three years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.

News Release: MIAMI - Craig Goldstein, 60, of Boca Raton, Fla., former owner of a Lauderdale Lakes towing company, was sentenced to 15 months in prison after having pled guilty previously to three counts of tax evasion for underreporting income and failing to pay federal tax on money he received through a Personal Injury Protection (PIP) kickback scheme and other cash-based fraud.

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Bridgeport has found THOMAS LIBERATORE, 65, of White Plains, New York, and PAUL PROSANO, also known as “Tony Pro," 62, of Brooklyn, guilty of federal offenses in connection with the March 2020 robbery of Marco Jewelers in Stamford, Connecticut. During the robbery, the owner of Marco Jewelers was shot and killed.

News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - Eight Burlington individuals were charged by criminal complaint in federal court as a result of a joint federal and state investigation of a drug trafficking organization that operated out of Burlington.

News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with the Colton Joint Unified School District to resolve an investigation into the district’s program for students learning English.

News Release: A Massachusetts man was sentenced yesterday to 33 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for a scheme to illegally export defense technical data to foreign nationals in Turkey in connection with the fraudulent manufacturing of parts and components used by the U.S. military, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) later determined that some of the parts were substandard and unsuitable for use by the military.

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging LAMOR WHITEHEAD with defrauding...

News Release: The United States Attorney stated that Guillermo Paredes-Bobadilla, 31, of Honduras and Brunswick, New Jersey, was arraigned yesterday in United States District Court in Burlington on an indictment charging him with unlawfully transporting three individuals from Guatemala who entered the United States illegally. Paredes-Bobadilla pleaded not guilty and remains in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service in accordance with a prior order of the Court.

News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Nader Pourhassan, age 59 of Lake Oswego, Oregon, and Kazem Kazempour, age 69, of Potomac Maryland, for their roles in schemes to defraud investors in CytoDyn Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company based in Vancouver...

News Release: ATLANTA - Larry Edward Foxworth has pleaded guilty in federal court to shooting into multiple Clayton County convenience stores to kill those inside based upon their race and ethnicity.

News Release: BUFFALO, NY--Christopher A. Parris, 42, formerly of Rochester, NY, and currently of Lawrenceville, Georgia, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud related to a Ponzi scheme, as well as to wire fraud involving the fraudulent sale of purported N95 masks during the pandemic, was sentenced to serve 244 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. Parris was also ordered to pay approximately $106-million dollars in restitution.

News Release: The FBI, in partnership with Homeland Security Investigations and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, is issuing a national public safety alert regarding an explosion in incidents of children and teens being coerced into sending explicit images online and extorted for money-a crime known as financial sextortion.

News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Mariluz Arias De Gonzalez (“Arias"), age 49, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, to 12 months and 1 day of imprisonment and a 3-year term of supervised release, for distribution of methamphetamine.