News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: A Comerica employee pleaded guilty Wednesday to embezzling more than $120,000 from the bank, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham announced today.

News Release: MIAMI - Nine Florida residents were arrested this morning by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after being charged by a federal grand jury in Miami with health care fraud and conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The fraud scheme allegedly involved tens of millions of dollars in fraudulent health care billing by 30 South Florida physical therapy clinics.

News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Irvine man has been sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for - while on supervised release for committing a prior federal felony - engaging in pimping and shooting a firearm at women on the streets of San Bernardino, the Justice Department announced today.

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Detroit, Michigan pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Romania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal immigration laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

News Release: A Comerica employee pleaded guilty Wednesday to embezzling more than $120,000 from the bank, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham announced today.

News Release: MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA - A seventh and final Verbena, Alabama, resident was sentenced yesterday for violating the Animal Welfare Act’s prohibition against animal fighting ventures in connection with an expansive cockfighting operation. This marks the end of a series of sentencings in which the Court held...

News Release: Jury Found Defendants from Pennsylvania, California, and Virginia Assaulted Officers Four Times with Pepper Spray and a Chair.

News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Loretta Jean Minor, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 46 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.

News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Joseph David Bailey, 52, of Spencer, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possessing an unregistered destructive device.

News Release: MACON, Ga. - A career offender with a violent criminal history who participated in a Middle Georgia drug trafficking network responsible for distributing approximately 16 kilograms of methamphetamine was sentenced to serve 20 years in federal prison resulting from an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) investigation centered in Warner Robins, Georgia.

News Release: Defendant Encouraged Rioters to Battle Law Enforcement Officers.

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William Grady, the District Attorney for Dutchess County, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the filing of a superseding...

News Release: The Justice Department, together with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced today the entry of a court order that resolves the government’s long-running civil racketeering lawsuit against the largest United States’ cigarette companies. The lawsuit was filed in 1999 in the U.S. District ...

News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Tillamook County, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison today after he was found driving a stolen vehicle while possessing explosive materials housed in a metal bottle.