U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota
Recent News About U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota
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Ronnie Bila Shaka, 44, has been sentenced to 140 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for possessing firearms as a felon.
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Federal authorities in Minneapolis have charged three additional individuals—Marques Armstrong Jr., 30, Davant Moore, 23, and Jahon Lynch, 20—in connection with an ongoing case against the street gang known as the Lows.
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A federal grand jury in Minneapolis has indicted Benedict Nwana Kuah, 51, and Pascal Kikishy Wongbi, 52, both naturalized U.S. citizens, on charges related to organizing and financing violent attacks in Cameroon.
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Joseph Daniel Schultz, 43, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison and 10 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a minor under the age of nine on the White Earth Band of Ojibwe Indian Reservation.
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Mavious Redmond, a 54-year-old resident of Austin, Minnesota, has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison, followed by a year of supervised release.
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James Anthony Kroger, a former professor at Gustavus Adolphus College and practicing attorney, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of wire fraud.
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James Anthony Kroger, a former tax and accounting professor at Gustavus Adolphus College and an attorney, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of wire fraud.
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Christopher Erik Septon, a 52-year-old resident of Plymouth, Minnesota, has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly embezzling more than $1 million from his former employer, Ellis Properties.
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Dillon Alvan Reyna, 33, has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison and 15 years of supervised release for coercion and enticement of a minor.
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Hussein Mohamed Farah, executive director of New Vision Foundation in St. Paul, Minnesota, has been charged with one count of wire fraud for his involvement in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme.
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Guhaad Hashi Said, 49, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering for his involvement in a scheme that exploited the Federal Child Nutrition...
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A federal judge has sentenced Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, 36, to 28 years in prison for leading a $300 million fraud scheme that targeted a federally funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A federal jury in Minneapolis has found Randy Joe Fuller, 54, guilty of failing to register as a sex offender.
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Following a four-day trial, Matthew Thomas McGregor, 35, from Red Lake, was found guilty by a federal jury on charges of sexual abuse of a minor.
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Scott Wayne Laney, 47, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for producing child pornography.
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Three individuals have pleaded guilty to charges connected to the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson.
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A federal jury has convicted Carl Maurice Brown, 32, for his role in a large-scale drug trafficking operation that moved fentanyl and methamphetamine from Chicago to Duluth, Minnesota.
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Following an eight-day trial, a federal jury in Minneapolis has found two defendants guilty of all charges related to their involvement with the Highs street gang.
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Following a four-day jury trial, a federal jury has convicted Antonio Trevyll McGraw-Williams, 35, of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.
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Jorge Olivares, also known as “Stomper,” was sentenced to 50 months in prison and two years of supervised release for possessing a firearm as a felon.