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News Release: BOSTON - As part of its response to the opioid crisis, United States Attorney Rachael S. Rollins sent a letter to all skilled nursing facilities in Massachusetts warning that refusing to provide care for persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and that the U.S. Attorney’s Office will aggressively enforce these protections.
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News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. sentenced Timothy Herron, 48, of Charlotte, to 235 months in prison and six years of supervised release for drug trafficking, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
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News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Orange County man was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining more than $5 million in COVID-relief loans for three shell companies.
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“TEXT OF AMENDMENTS” was published on pages S8265-S8267 of the Congressional Record on Dec. 21, 2017.
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News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 51-year-old Mexican national who was head of Cartel del Golfo (CDG) from 2003 to 2012 has been ordered to prison and to pay millions for his role in conspiring to distribute cocaine and marijuana from Mexico into the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
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News Release: Twenty-five alleged drug traffickers have been charged in “Operation Papercheck Fresh," announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
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News Release: Tacoma - A 53-year-old Tacoma man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 26 years in prison for second degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Bobbie Anson Pease pleaded guilty in July 2021 to the 2018 murder of a 34-year-old woman on federal...
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News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dwayne Sherman, age 48, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was convicted yesterday by a federal jury on money laundering and drug trafficking conspiracy charges after a six-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer P. Wilson.
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News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A Leander man has been sentenced to 48 years in federal prison for fraud and money laundering violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
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News Release: United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. announced the sentencing of Kim K. Murphy, age 57, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as part of Operation Hidden Fee, an extensive federal, state, and local investigation by the Middle District Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) aimed at a drug trafficking network based and operating in Baton Rouge.
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The Justice Department is forming three COVID-19 Strike Force Teams to enhance the department's fraud-related COVID-19 prevention and detection work.
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Former Securities Brokers Sentenced to Federal Prison Terms for Perpetrating Securities Fraud SchemeNews Release: MIAMI - A South Florida federal judge has ordered prison sentences for two former securities brokers who defrauded investors out of $1.5 million by -- among other things -- lying about stock offerings, failing to disclose their exorbitant commission rates, and using an alias to hide one of the broker’s disciplinary pasts.
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News Release: BOSTON - A drug distributor within a Boston-area drug trafficking organization (DTO) has pleaded guilty to his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving cocaine and cocaine base (crack cocaine).
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News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Three Charlottesville men, who admitted to the attempted armed robbery of an Albemarle County man, were sentenced Tuesday in federal court.
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News Release: A Dallas man who allegedly scammed Chinese investors out of more than $26 million has been federally charged, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
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News Release: BOSTON - A former Methuen man has pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to his role in a Lawrence-based drug trafficking conspiracy involving fentanyl and cocaine.
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News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to five years of imprisonment on his conviction of identity theft offenses, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
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News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Riverside man who previously served a lengthy prison sentence in two aircraft-related cases was sentenced today to nearly four years in federal prison for selling bogus aircraft parts and for falsifying related documents.
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U.S. Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) has introduced legislation that would repeal funding dedicated for 87,000 new IRS employees, which was included in the Inflation Reduction Act. Instead, Banks' legislation would use the funds to increase and make permanent the standard deduction in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).
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News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Dekalb, Mississippi man was sentenced to one year and three months in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.