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News Release: Ocala, FL - Robert Lashley, 52, pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime for attacking a Black man because of his actual and perceived race.
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News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 35-year-old non-U.S. citizen illegally residing in Palmview has been ordered to federal prison for obtaining child pornography and being unlawfully present in the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
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News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico - The United States Justice Department announced today the results of its efforts over the past year to protect older adults from fraud and exploitation. During the past year, the Department and its law enforcement partners tackled matters that ranged from mass‑marketing scams that...
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News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Richard Lant, 77, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty today to a conspiracy to export to an embargoed country, Iran, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. On Sept. 19, 2022, Dariush Niknia, 59, of Elk Grove, entered a guilty plea to the same charge.
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News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Shane Tobias, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted a firearms conspiracy, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
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News Release: EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI - The Justice Department announced today the results of its efforts over the past year to protect older adults from fraud and exploitation. During the past year, the Department and its law enforcement partners tackled matters that ranged from mass-marketing scams that impacted...
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News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of drug diversion and health care fraud, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
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News Release: Defendant responsible for counterfeiting thousands of fake $100 bills.
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News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Andrew Jace Larrabure-Tuma, 20, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to unlawful dealing and manufacturing firearms, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
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News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Last week, a federal judge sentenced a Birmingham teacher for transferring obscene material to a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge Felix A. Rivera-Esparra.
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News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Richard Hileman, age 39, of Marcy, New York, pled guilty today to mailing a threatening communication. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TEVIN GONZALEZ, 25, of Holyoke, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by U.S. Circuit Judge Sarah A. L. Merriam in Bridgeport to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for unlawfully possessing firearms.
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News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former associate director of a global maritime service group was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company and failing to pay over hundreds of thousands in federal payroll taxes, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
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News Release: ATLANTA - Elvis Eghosa Ogiekpolor has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering after being convicted at trial. Ogiekpolor opened and directed others to open at least 50 fraudulent business bank accounts that received over $9.5 million...
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News Release: FBI Columbia Warns of Potential Charity and Disaster Fraud Following Hurricane Ian.
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News Release: MACON, Ga. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia today announced that as part of its continuing efforts to protect older adults and to bring perpetrators of fraud schemes to justice, it is joining the Justice Department’s Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force, as one of 14 additional U.S. Attorney’s Offices.
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News Release: BOSTON - A father and son who own and operate two Woburn restaurants, Taste of Brazil-Tudo No Brasa and The Dog House, were arrested today and charged with human smuggling.
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News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jose Torres, age 27, and Luis Gonzalez, age 26, of Texas, were indicted by a federal grand jury for cocaine trafficking.
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News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DIANTE FERNANDES and MARK FRANCIS, both of the Bronx, were arrested in connection with a series of recent carjackings in the Bronx and Yonkers, New York. FERNANDES and FRANCIS had their initial appearance today before United States Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy and were ordered detained.
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News Release: BOSTON - A Texas man has been arrested and charged with allegedly staging a hoax explosion at Northeastern University in Boston in September 2022 and providing law enforcement with materially false and misleading information about the incident.