Justice Department
Recent News About Justice Department
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A Brooklyn high school teacher faces up to 15-years behind bars after being convicted on sexual abuse charges.
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A former police officer from West Virginia has pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights offense for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl.
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A U.S. citizen and four Chinese intelligence officers have been charged with spying on leading human rights leaders, dissidents and pro-democracy activists.
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An Austin, Texas, man was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison May 18 and ordered to pay $5,052,366.92 in restitution for his role in a fraud scheme.
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The owner of an architect and design company and the former chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe have been found guilty of bribery, extortion and other charges in relation to the tribe’s plans to build a casino resort.
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A West Virginia man has been sentenced to 14 years in connection with a fentanyl case.
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One-time education staffer stole $218,000 from charter schools he founded
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An Alpine resident was sentenced to two life sentences for raping a minor, but officials say his crimes extended over a period of years and included the victim's siblings.
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Joshua Mac Hendon admitted to all of the charges against him related to the production of child pornography.
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A federal court has recently ordered that all rights to videos and images produced by the GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys websites be granted to hundreds of victims filmed through the use of “force, fraud, and coercion,” a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) press release said.
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Today, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Chair Hank Johnson (D-GA) led a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts and Circuit Judge Charles Wilson urging an investigation into the conduct of two federal judges for their hiring of a law clerk with a history of nakedly racist and hateful conduct.
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A Rwanda native, most recently residing in Buffalo, New York, has been denaturalized by consent and departed from the United States under an order of removal following the filing of a complaint citing his suspected involvement in the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
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A federal court in the Eastern District of Michigan has permanently enjoined a Detroit-area tax return preparer from preparing federal income tax returns for others and from owning or operating any tax return business in the future.
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Concealed more than $2.8 million in cash sales and paid employees 'off the books'
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Civil Rights Division and Office for Access to Justice to lead efforts