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The former Chief Information Security Officer at Lumentum Holdings Inc. aas pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to his role in an insider-trading scheme resulting in more than $4 million in illegal profit for friends and family.
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Ihlenfeld: 'Department of Justice will continue to pursue white-collar wrongdoers'
Two employees of a Morgantown, W.V., medical facility, including its former chief operating officer, have been charged with stealing more than $650,000 in assets and funds.
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Newly unsealed superseding indictment alleges Bankman-Fried 'directed a bribe of at least $40 million to one or more Chinese government officials'
A newly unsealed superseding indictment signed by U.S. Attorney Damian Williams of the Southern District of New York and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite alleges that Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of the now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, bribed at least one Chinese government official with tens of millions of dollars in an attempt to persuade the Chinese government to unfreeze accounts associated with Alameda Research, FTX's hedge fund sister company. This new charge brings the total number of Bankman-Fried's criminal charges up to 13.
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Bulgarian woman charged for role in 'wide-ranging' multi-billion-dollar cryptocurrency pyramid scheme
A Bulgarian woman has been charged for her role in a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme and has been extradited to the United States.
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Esparza: 'SIM swapping is a rapidly growing type of fraud scheme'
A man and a woman from San Antonio were recently given sentences for using SIM swapping in November 2021 to gain access to and transfer more than $250,000 from the cryptocurrency accounts of their victims.
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Graves: 'Juries have now convicted all defendants tried to date' in Jan. 6 insurrection cases
Six more Oath Keepers members and associates were found guilty in the District of Columbia on March 21 for their participation in the Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Brown: Defendants were 'key players' in Washington drug ring
Two prominent members of a drug-trafficking organization who are also related to the cartel's ringleader have been sentenced to "significant amounts of time" in prison.
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Graves: Defendants sought goods 'that could assist Iran's military and WMD aspirations'
A federal court in the District of Columbia unsealed two indictments accusing numerous defendants of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the Arms Export Control Act for their roles in various schemes to obtain and export American technology to Iran between 2005 and 2013.
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Myers: 'Trafficking vulnerable minors’ bodies for financial gain is a despicable crime'
An Indiana man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for pimping out a 17-year-old girl online to perform sex acts at multiple Indianapolis area hotels.
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Coinbase chief legal officer: 'After years of asking for reasonable crypto rules, we're disappointed that the SEC is considering courts over constructive dialogue'
Crypto exchange company Coinbase has repeatedly asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for regulatory clarity, but the requests have gone unanswered, and the SEC has now sent the company a "Wells notice" warning of possible enforcement action, said Paul Grewal, Coinbase chief legal counsel.
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Peace: Defendant 'threatened the integrity of our justice system and the safety of government witnesses'
A former paralegal from the U.S. Department of Justice has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for engaging in witness retaliation and obstructing justice-related crimes.
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Cunha: Rhode Island woman sentenced for 'brazenly laying claim to the honor, service and sacrifice of real veterans'
A Rhode Island woman has been sentenced to federal prison for the crimes of falsifying military service, false use of military medals, identify theft and more charges related to the impersonation of military veterans.
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Rollins: Massachusetts man 'trafficked this poison into our neighborhoods in the form of tens of thousands of counterfeit pills'
A Massachusetts man was recently sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for drug offenses.
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Tarasca: 'Illegal distribution of opioids continues to have devastating effects on our community'
A Michigan man has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for drug offenses.
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Chinese businessman indicted on charges stemming from $1 billion fraud conspiracy
The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced March 15 a 12-count indictment charging Ho Wan Kwok, also known as “Miles Guo,” with wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering.
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Driscoll: 'Chiu exploited his access to facilitate a years-long scheme to embezzle'
A former New York-area bank employee is being charged in an almost two-year-long, $2 million fraud and embezzlement scheme.
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Graves: 'We will hold officers who commit civil rights violations accountable'
A Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department sergeant has been indicted with a federal civil rights violation and second-degree murder.
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Greene on the fentanyl crisis: 'Every state is a border state'
Fentanyl, a highly potent and lethal opioid, has infiltrated all corners of the country, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake.
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Alaska attorney general on spiraling drug overdose deaths: 'These drugs are traced back to drug cartels operating out of Mexico'
A letter from 21 state attorneys general requests that President Joe Biden list the Sinaloa Cartel, CJNG and other similarly situated Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorists organizations (FTO’s).
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DeSantis: We need to 'treat (fentanyl dealers) like the murderers that they are'
The alarming spike in fentanyl-related fatalities across the U.S. has been a growing concern for years, and now Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is drawing attention to a particularly chilling aspect of this epidemic: Drug dealers are deliberately targeting children as their clientele, resulting in a tragic increase in the child death toll.
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