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News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the results of an enforcement operation that spanned from May to September and resulted in significant fentanyl seizures across the United States.
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News Release: Defendant previously convicted of federal drug trafficking charges and faces mandatory 10-year sentence.
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News Release: CLEVELAND - Yaser Najjar, age 60, of Westlake, Ohio, was sentenced on Tuesday, September 7, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Donald C. Nugent to two years in prison and was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine and at least $503,398 in restitution to the IRS after he pleaded guilty to four counts of attempt to evade and defeat income tax.
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News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Timothy Andrew Marquez was sentenced on Sept. 27 to 10 years and one month in prison. Marquez, 27, of Bayard, New Mexico, pleaded guilty on Dec. 19, 2018, to receiving child pornography.
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News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the conviction in Manhattan federal court of STEFAN GILLIER, a/k/a “Stephan Gillier," a/k/a “Stefan R.R. Gillier," a/k/a “Roland Gillier," a/k/a “Roland Van Gorp," a Belgian citizen, for engaging in a conspiracy...
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News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Ralph Puglisi (60, Palm Harbor) to 10 years in federal prison for mail fraud. As part of his sentence, the court also ordered Puglisi to pay full restitution in the amount of $12,860,744.07 to the University of South Florida and entered an order of forfeiture in the amount of $12,800,000, the proceeds of his mail fraud scheme. Puglisi had pleaded guilty on Aug. 26, 2021.
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News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Virgil Montell-Denzel Watkins, 29, of Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty today to the distribution of 5 grams or more of methamphetamine.
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There is one release scheduled to be published on Sept. 30.
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News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department today announced that Westlake Financial has agreed to pay more than $225,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) by failing to provide qualified servicemembers with interest rate benefits for the entire period required under the SCRA and by improperly delaying approval of interest rate benefit requests.
- Justice Department Announces Total Distribution of Over $4 Billion to Victims of Madoff Ponzi Scheme
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) began its eighth distribution of approximately $372 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. government in connection with the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) fraud scheme.
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News Release: Co-defendants shot at Brockton Police during high-speed chase while fleeing the scene.
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News Release: Defendant stole approximately $1.8 million in deposit checks including for properties not for sale.
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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: Thirty-nine defendants charged in Operation “Taste the Rainbow" have been sentenced to a combined 415 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
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News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - The Department of Justice announced today that two men, Devan Nathanial Johnson, 28, and Brandon Wayne Killian, 31, pleaded guilty to committing a hate crime in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, United States Attorney Robert J. Troester for the Western District of Oklahoma, and Special Agent in Charge Edward J. Gray of the FBI Oklahoma City Field Office made the announcement.
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News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - After a six-day trial, a federal jury found Ramonchito Racion, 52, of Merced, guilty today of one count of attempted sexual abuse and one count of abusive sexual contact, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
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News Release: DETROIT - A Texas man was sentenced today to 14 years in prison after being caught transporting 286 pounds of methamphetamine, 60 pounds of Fentanyl, and 60 pounds of cocaine hidden in a truck carrying a load of wine, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
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News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Cuban national residing in Groves, Texas has been sentenced for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
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News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge yesterday sentenced a Northport man for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acting Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
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News Release: Defendant previously convicted of child pornography in 2002.