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A California construction-company owner who participated in a bid-rigging and bribery conspiracy involving contracts for California Department of Transportation projects was given a 78-month prison term and required to pay nearly $1 million.
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Levine: 'The FTC will not hesitate to use its law enforcement powers' to prosecute firms that assist criminals

A multinational payment processing company, its CEO and its chief strategy officer have been ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to stop helping tech support scammers through credit-card laundering.
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U.S. senator from Texas: 'Our Border Patrol are continued to be assaulted by illegal aliens'

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has blamed Biden Administration policies for an assault on U.S. Border Patrol agents at the southern border.
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Ison: 'Our community deserves school systems free of corruption'

A Michigan contractor pleaded guilty to bribery and conspiracy in a half-million dollar "pay-to-play" scheme with the former school board president of Madison District Public Schools, U.S. Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced.
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Ross: Convicted Arkansas doctor 'will trade hospital scrubs for a prison uniform'

An Arkansas doctor will spend 102 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to defraud a military health insurer for $12 million.
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Muldrow: Defendants harmed program in Puerto Rico 'designed to help underprivileged homeowners'

Three American Management and Administration Corp. executives pleaded guilty on April 13 to stealing $3.7 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) federal assistance programs.
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Featherston: 'Our office is committed to ensuring that importers are transparent'

A New York-based pharmaceutical distributor is resolving allegations of False Claims Act violations.
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Deciphering China's Military Puzzle: An In-Depth Interview with Dr. Joel Wuthnow

Dr. Joel Wuthnow is a senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service.
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Brown: 'We have literally hundreds of churches and thousands of people' supporting Chinese Christian group

Members of the Mayflower Church have been granted humanitarian parole status in the United States and arrived in Texas on April 7 after fleeing persecution in China three years ago.
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Grossman: 'Mexican drug cartels cannot succeed without money launderers'

Twelve people have been charged after a two-year federal investigation of a global criminal organization that is accused of laundering at least $16.5 million for the Sinaloa drug cartel.
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Violent faction of Crips street gang charged with 59 counts; DA Donnelly: 'This Crips faction has wreaked havoc in the Hempstead area for nearly a decade'

The Justice Department announced that eight members and associates of a violent branch of the Crips called the Insane Crip Gang (ICG) have been charged with a variety of crimes in a 59 count indictment that was unsealed in federal court in Central Islip.
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Driscoll: "The defendants allegedly utilized a complex set of schemes at the expense of Polar Air"

Ten defendants charged with decade-long, multi-million-dollar scheme to defraud International Cargo Airline
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U.S. Attorney Ison: “Individuals who assault and carjack the citizens of this district will not escape"

A serial carjacker, who shot and pistol-whipped his victims, was sent to prison
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Giménez on spiraling illegal immigration numbers: 'Maybe we need a new secretary of Homeland Security'

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has refused to comment on the deliberative process of whether or not he has advised President Joe Biden on current border policies related to recent spikes in illegal immigration numbers.
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Dorsey: Louisiana 'sentencing shows that no one is above the law'

A former director of inspection and code enforcement in Kenner, La., was recently sentenced to 46 months in prison.
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Brown: Washington drug leader 'wasn’t worried about selling deadly pills'

The leader of multi-state drug trafficking group was sentenced to 9 years in prison for distribution of fentanyl, meth and heroin.
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Estrada: 'Death threats are never acceptable'

The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced a California man has been arraigned in federal court for making threatening telephone calls last year.
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Pharmaceutical company agrees to pay $765,000 to resolve False Claims Act allegations: 'Customs and Border Protection takes the marking laws very seriously'

New York-based Danco Laboratories, LLC, which was accused of breaking the False Claims Act by failing to pay certain customs duties on imported pharmaceutical products that failed to identify their country of origin, has agreed to pay $765,000 to the U.S. Justice Department.
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Justice Department Targets Activision Blizzard for Suppressing Esports Player Compensation

The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, Inc., one of the world's largest video game developers and publishers, for imposing rules that limited competition for players in its Overwatch and Call of Duty professional esports leagues.
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FTC Targets Payment Processor for Aiding Tech Support Scammers

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken action against Nexway, a multinational payment processing company, its CEO Victor Iezuitov, and chief strategy officer Casey Potenzone, for facilitating tech support scammers through credit card laundering.
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