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News Release: CINCINNATI - United States Attorney Kenneth L. Parker announced today the creation of an environmental justice initiative in the Southern District of Ohio.
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News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 29, 2022, Angel Antonio Anchondo, age 20, an inmate at the Low Security Correctional Institution, Allenwood (LSCI Allenwood), in White Deer, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment by United States Magistrate Judge William I. Arbuckle for possessing a cellphone in prison.
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News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Marchese, age 30, of Swoyersville, Luzerne County, was sentenced on Oct. 3, 2022, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, to five years’ imprisonment on the charge of conspiracy to distribute more than fifty grams of methamphetamine.
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News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - Brian James Bell, age 22 of Mount Vernon, Washington, was sentenced on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, to 66 months in prison following his plea to a charge of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
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News Release: ATLANTA - Kevin M. Gregory has pleaded guilty to conspiring with ex-wife and former Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency counselor Karen C. Lyke to forge educational records and to create fake students with non-existent disabilities and illnesses, as part of their sophisticated, multi-year scheme to steal more than $1.3 million.
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News Release: The Justice Department announced today that as part of its continuing efforts to protect older adults and to bring perpetrators of fraud schemes to justice, it is expanding its Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force, adding 14 additional U.S. Attorney’s Offices. Since 2019, current Strike Force members ...
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News Release: A Canadian man was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $21,500,000 today for his role in NetWalker ransomware attacks. The Court will order restitution at a later date.
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News Release: A Vinita man was sentenced in federal court for attempting to sexually entice an individual he believed to be a 14-year-old boy, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
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News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron announced today that as part of the Office’s continuing efforts to protect older adults and to bring perpetrators of fraud schemes to justice, the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office 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: Montgomery, Alabama - Today, U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Stewart announced that Brandon Thomas Hart, 33, from Smiths Station, Alabama, was sentenced to 38 years in prison for sexually exploiting two children.
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News Release: Five current or former IRS employees have been charged with schemes to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Program, federal stimulus programs authorized as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
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News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Jonathan Kennedy, 41, of St. Albans, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
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News Release: Information for Law Enforcement Training, Community Outreach, Asset Forfeiture and Technical Assistance.
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News Release: MIAMI - Billy Joe Gann, Jr., 32, of Sebring, has been sentenced to 420 months in federal prison for producing and distributing child pornography.
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News Release: Richland, Washington - Vanessa R. Waldref, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Eric Christian, age 34, of Kennewick, Washington, was sentenced by Chief District Judge Stanley A. Bastian to serve 46-months in federal prison for conspiring with inmates...
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News Release: AKRON, Ohio - Bruce C. Murdock, Jr., 54, of Massillon, Ohio, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John R. Adams to six months in prison and was ordered to pay $8,346.96 in restitution and a $20,000 fine after Murdock pleaded guilty to delay or destruction of mail and theft of mail by a postal service employee.
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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: CINCINNATI - A Cincinnati man was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 37 months in prison for illegally possessing a pistol that had been converted into an automatic weapon, which he used in self-defense during a shootout outside a restaurant.
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News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - 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 thousands...
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News Release: CONCORD - In connection with a nationwide effort to bring attention to elder fraud scams, United States Attorney Jane E. Young made the following statement today, “It is paramount that we protect our elder adults from scams targeted to steal their hard-earned assets. A critical tool in combatting the...