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An eight count indictment has come down on Gal Luft with crimes related to willful failure to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, arms trafficking, Iranian sanctions violations and other offenses.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland: DOJ 'will find and bring to justice criminals who seek to defraud Americans'
U.S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe announced June 28 that a Justice Department probe has led to criminal charges against 14 people in connection with more than $1.9 billion in fraud claims against government and private health care benefit programs.
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Garland: DOJ will prosecute 'criminals who seek to defraud Americans and steal from taxpayer-funded programs'
A multi-agency law-enforcement action that stretched across the nation and lasted two weeks resulted in criminal charges against 78 individuals for alleged health-care fraud schemes.
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Nationwide investigation by U.S. Department of Justice turns up 78 suspects accused of health care fraud schemes
A two-week nationwide law enforcement action swept up 78 suspects accused of participating in healthcare fraud and opioid abuse schemes totaling $2.5 billion, a June 29 Department of Justice news release said.
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Garland: $2.5 billion health care operation shows DOJ's 'intensified efforts to combat fraud and prosecute the individuals who profit from it'
The U.S. Justice Department recently announced a nationwide law enforcement operation that resulted in criminal charges being brought against 78 defendants for their alleged involvement in health care fraud.
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Monaco: DOJ 'will continue to use every tool at our disposal to disrupt cybercrime'
A Russian national has been charged for his role in multiple ransomware and cyber attacks against computer systems in the United States and around the world.
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Thompson: 'High priority' placed on 'cases involving children'
A West Virginia man was found guilty of receiving child pornography and possessing prepubescent child porn.
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Williams: Man sentenced for helping 'cyber criminals throughout the world to spread malware that stole confidential financial information'
The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced the sentencing of a Romanian national who operated a “bulletproof hosting” service that facilitated the distribution of destructive malware.
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Abbatte: American people must 'have trust and confidence' that FISA queries are lawful
Ongoing efforts to enhance Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act query compliance were detailed by FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate June 13 during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on FISA Section 702.
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Ison: 'Today’s sentence makes our community safer'
An Iraqi-born Dutch national, in the United States illegally, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for unlawful possession of multiple firearms and ammunition, the Department of Justice reports.
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Downey: 'FBI will not tolerate financial predators living off empty promises'
The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced the sentencing of two men found guilty of defrauding multiple people in a container home scheme, leading to a combined sentence of 34 years in federal prison.
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Gupta: Law enforcement commits 'to reducing fraud using every tool at our disposal'
A three-month campaign to destroy networks used by international criminals to receive fraud proceeds had been successful.
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Appraiser in billion-dollar scheme pleads guilty for ‘inflating the value of the conservation easements’
North Carolina land appraiser Walter “Terry” Douglas Roberts II pleaded guilty on May 12 to conspiring to defraud the U.S. as part of a syndicated conservation easement tax shelter scheme.
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Clarke: Settlement will 'send a strong message regarding our firm commitment to advancing environmental justice'
Two federal agencies have reached an interim resolution agreement with the Alabama Department of Public Health and a county health department in a nearly two-year environmental-justice investigation.
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Anwar: 'Results clearly show that public defenders have a substantial impact'
A new study by the RAND Corporation found that providing defendants with legal counsel during the initial bail hearing decreases the use of monetary bail and pretrial detention without increasing the likelihood that defendants fail to appear at the subsequent preliminary hearing.
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Polite: 'Those who steal from COVID-19 relief programs for personal gain will be prosecuted'
A Louisiana man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a $1.1 million fraud scheme related to COVID-19 relief programs.
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Polite: Life sentence of former teacher 'will prevent him from abusing even more children'
The U.S. Department of Justice reported a former school teacher was sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing elementary school students on a U.S. military installation in Germany.
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Kaskell: Coach 'entrusted to mentor young people, was in actuality a predator'
A 31-year-old former high school coach in New Mexico has been found guilty of child pornography and coercion of a minor by a federal jury.
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Building Better Communities awarded FBI Director's Community Leadership Award for positive work done in South Carolina communities
FBI Director Christopher Wray gave Building Better Communities (BBC) the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award (DCLA) for its assistance to citizens of South Carolina, where the worked hard to alleviate violence, low education, economic imbalance and poor health in various underserved communities.
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Bonta: 'Google may face accountability'
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, alongside a coalition led by the U.S. Department of Justice, won a court ruling allowing a lawsuit against Google for antitrust violations to proceed.
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