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News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A federal grand jury in Topeka returned an indictment charging a man with one count of murder in the second degree.
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News Release: BILLINGS - A Lame Deer man who admitted to strangling a woman on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 46 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CATHERINE CAMPBELL WILLIAMS, age 69, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to Theft of Government Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641.
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News Release: Nonprofit Feeding Our Future and 200+ Meal Sites Perpetrated the Largest COVID-19 Fraud Scheme in the Nation.
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News Release: MACON, Ga. - A federal grand jury in Macon returned a four-count indictment charging a Columbus woman with helping a wanted person evade law enforcement and making false statements to authorities following the shooting at an FBI agent last month.
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News Release: PHOENIX - In February 2021, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Phoenix Field Division rolled out the Operation Engage initiative in Yavapai County and the team hit the ground running partnering with many local and national agencies to help promote drug prevention awareness. One of those partnerships...
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News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A Smyth County, Virginia man, who ordered approximately 30,000 fentanyl pills from California and sold them in Southwest Virginia, was sentenced today to 42 months in federal prison. He will also pay the United States a $50,000 monetary judgement.
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News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Rogelio Vega pleaded guilty to three counts of enticing a child to engage in sexual conduct. Today’s proceeding was held before United States Magistrate Judge Sanket J. Bulsara. When sentenced, Vega faces a statutory minimum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment and a maximum of life imprisonment.
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News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Norfolk woman was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison for misuse of a Social Security number, loan fraud, and identity theft.
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News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Paramount-based clothing wholesale company has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges for undervaluing imported garments in a scheme to avoid paying almost $6.4 million in customs duties and for doing business with a woman in Mexico who has ties to the Sinaloa drug cartel, the Justice Department announced today.
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News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The leader of a $3 million bank fraud scheme involving stolen checks and two co-conspirators were sentenced to prison today, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
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News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSHUA BURRELL was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for committing securities fraud in connection with the operation of a New York-based investment firm, Activated Capital, LLC (“Activated Capital").
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News Release: A federal jury convicted a former Assistant Inspector General for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) yesterday for engaging in a scheme to conceal his financial indebtedness to a personal friend and government contractor to whom he steered tens of millions of dollars in government business.
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News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - After a seven-day jury trial, yesterday, a federal jury convicted Jairo Huertas-Mercado and Erik Pizarro-Mercado for six carjackings, one kidnapping, one kidnapping murder, and related firearms offenses.
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There was activity on seven bills related to the Judiciary Committee on Sept. 20.
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News Release: $10 Million Conspiracy Distributed 1,000 Kilos of Meth.
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News Release: FLORENCE, SOUTH CAROLINA - A federal grand jury in Florence returned a five-count indictment against Troy Benjamin Bittner, 53, of Myrtle Beach, for defrauding a local resort out of nearly $1 million during the pandemic.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - From 1993 to 2021, the rate of violent victimization in the United States declined from 79.8 to 16.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older, the Bureau of Justice Statistics announced. Violent victimization includes rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault and simple assault. The overall violent victimization rate did not change between 2020 and 2021.
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News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Tuesday sentenced a St. Louis man to five years and 10 months in prison for using stolen or fake identification documents to buy, lease or steal three cars and a $5,600 puppy.
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News Release: DETROIT - Former Macomb County Commissioner of Public Works Anthony Marrocco pleaded guilty to extortion by withholding county permits from businessmen who refused to contribute to Marrocco’s campaign accounts, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced today.