News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: FBI and Partners Issue National Public Safety Alert on Financial Sextortion Schemes.

News Release: أعلنت وزارة العدل الأمريكية عن إطلاق مبادرة الوصول إلى المساعدة اللغوية في مجال إنفاذ القانون، وهي مجهود على مستوى البلاد لمساعدة وكالات إنفاذ القانون على الوفاء بالتزاماتها لتوفير مساعدة لغوية حقيقية للأفراد ذوي القدرات المحدودة في اللغة الإنجليزية. وستستند المبادرة إلى العمل الذي تقوم به الوزارة منذ فترة طويلة لضمان امتثال وكالات إنفاذ القانون لالتزاماتها المتعلقة بإتاحة فرص الوصول إلى المساعدة اللغوية.

News Release: Montgomery, ALABAMA - On Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, Harley Dakota Wambles, a 25-year-old from Samson, Alabama, received a 72-month prison sentence after being convicted of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart. In addition to imposing a 6-year prison sentence, the judge ordered Wambles to serve 5 years on supervised release and to pay a total of $18,000.00 in restitution to 6 victims. There is no parole in the federal system.

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News Release: Bộ Tư Pháp công bố việc ban hành chính sách về việc Cơ Quan Thực Thi Pháp Luật Chủ Động Trong Việc Tiếp Cận Ngôn Ngữ, một nỗ lực trên toàn quốc nhằm hỗ trợ các cơ quan thực thi pháp luật hoàn thành nghĩa vụ của mình trong việc cung cấp sự hỗ trợ có ý nghĩa ...

News Release: The Department of Justice, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), today announced a settlement that, if approved by a federal court, will require Epic Games Inc. (Epic Games) to pay $275 million in civil penalties as part of a settlement to resolve alleged violations of the Children’s Online ...

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Omar White-Davis, 28, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty today to two counts of attempted Hobbs Act robbery, one count of Hobbs Act robbery, and one count of carrying and using a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence.

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Lisa O. Monaco, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, Kenneth A. Polite Jr., the Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in...

News Release: A federal jury in the District of Maryland convicted three members of La Mara Salvatrucha - a transnational criminal enterprise also known as MS-13 - on Dec. 16 for racketeering conspiracy.

News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Dec. 13, 2022, John Bartel, age 63, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for methamphetamine and fentanyl trafficking.

News Release: Fargo - United States Attorney Mac Schneider announced Reese Anthony Ironshield, age 34 and Kyle Jordan Langstaff, Sr., age 32, both from Fort Totten, ND, appeared before Chief Judge Peter D. Welte, U.S. District Court, Fargo, ND, and were sentenced to federal prison. On Aug. 26, 2022, Ironshield plead...

News Release: PROVIDENCE - Michael Wilkerson, 38, of Woonsocket, one of eighteen individuals arrested in October 2020 as the result of a wide-ranging FBI Safe Streets Task Force Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation into the trafficking of drugs and firearms in four Rhode Island cities pleaded guilty today to federal cocaine trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.

News Release: HOUSTON -A 49-year-old former special agent with Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) has been sent to prison following her conviction of obstructing justice, making false statements and accepting money and gifts for official acts, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.

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 Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of a Superseding Indictment charging TAJ EVERLY, a former correction...

Four men were arrested for their roles in a scheme to defraud businesses, banks and individuals through business email compromise and credit card fraud schemes.