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News Release: Payments of Approximately $372 Million Are the Eighth Distribution in a Series of Payments That Together Will Constitute the Largest Payment of Forfeited Funds in the History of the Department of Justice’s Victim Compensation Program.
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News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Boston, Massachusetts, company entered into a settlement agreement with the United States to resolve allegations that it caused improper claims for payment to be made to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
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News Release: *** MEDIA ADVISORY ***. CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Will Thompson announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia is co-sponsoring “Building Bridges: West Virginia Civil and Human Rights Summit" with the City of Charleston on Wednesday, Sept. 28...
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News Release: ST. LOUIS - A man from Vinita Park, Missouri who stole nearly $600,000 in items from The Home Depot and then returned them for gift cards was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in prison.
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News Release: Defendant allegedly sent threatening letters while in state custody for carrying a hatchet knife, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, among other charges.
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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: Florida Man Pleads Guilty to $8.3 Million Pharmacy Fraud Scheme.
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News Release: Darion Harvey previously sentenced to 26 years for his role in deadly shooting.
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News Release: A federal grand jury in Pennsylvania returned an indictment today charging a local man for assaulting a reproductive health care clinic escort in Philadelphia.
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News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Steven Kish, 66, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to three years in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $259,019 in forfeiture and $353,488 in restitution by United States District Court Judge C. Darnell Jones. Defendant Kish was the most prolific of the numerous SEPTA managers who participated in a scheme to defraud SEPTA of approximately $900,000.
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News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Conehatta man was sentenced today to 180 months in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for the sexual abuse of child less than 12 years of age, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca of the Southern District of Mississippi and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that a Dover man was sentenced to six months in federal prison for impersonating a federal officer. The sentence was pronounced by Chief U.S. District Judge Colm F. Connolly.
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News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court to violating federal law, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
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News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - The former County Attorney for Lawrence County, Michael T. Hogan, and his wife and legal secretary, Joy M. Hogan, 41, were sentenced to 42 months and 12 months and one day, respectively, on Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, for wire fraud. Michael Hogan was also sentenced for federal program theft.
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News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark on Tuesday sentenced a woman from St. Charles to four years and nine months in prison for her role in a $2.5 million fraud involving Missouri’s Medicaid program and a nearly $60,000 fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program loan.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - A Texas man pleaded guilty today to assaulting law enforcement officers with a dangerous weapon during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
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News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last week, Daniel Jerome Wagner, 54, of Phoenix, Arizona, was arrested on one count of Assault on a Federal Officer with the Use of a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon. Wagner was charged by criminal complaint and had his initial appearance on Friday before United States Magistrate Judge Eric J. Markovich.
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News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Troy Harris, 23, of Indianapolis, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
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News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - William Cass, 57, of Indianapolis, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to distribution and receipt of child pornography.
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News Release: PECOS - A federal jury convicted a Mexican national last week of importing and possessing marijuana.