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- California Man Receives 10 Year Sentence Following Guilty Plea in South Carolina to Fraud Conspiracy
News Release: Judge Bruce Hendricks of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina sentenced a California man today to 10 years in prison for his role as the ringleader of a nationwide Ponzi scheme that exploited military veterans in desperate financial straits and targeted elderly investors seeking a safe retirement investment.
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News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas resident was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James C. Mahan to 12 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for distributing images of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
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News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man made his initial appearance in federal court yesterday for allegedly submitting a fraudulent Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) application seeking more than $150,000 from the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
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News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa -Jeremiah Duwon Snead, age 32 of Cedar Rapids, was sentenced on Aug. 17, 2022, to 120 months in prison for Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Following his imprisonment, Snead was ordered to serve three years of supervised release.
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News Release: Richard G. Frohling, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Aug. 19, 2022, Senior United States District Judge William C. Griesbach sentenced Marc F. Bennett (age: 43), formerly of Jefferson, Wisconsin, to ten years in federal prison for attempted child enticement. Following his prison sentence, Bennett will serve five years on supervised release.
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News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - Davantres Deshaun Moore, age 35 of Davenport, was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Following his prison term, Moore was ordered to serve three years of supervised release.
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News Release: Defendant ran a private chat group dedicated to sharing images of child sexual abuse.
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News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ A physician and employee have been charged for their roles in a health care fraud scheme involving the submission of more than $3.5 million in claims to Medicare, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
- Port Saint Joe Man Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Drug Trafficking And Firearm Offenses
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Fabian Tomaz Frazier, 27, of Port Saint Joe, Florida, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to distribute marijuana and over 500 grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. The sentence was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
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News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Mohammed Uddin, 35, of Cheektowaga, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with attempted production of child pornography and the attempted online enticement of a minor. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum penalty of life, a lifetime period of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
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News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Dwight Smith, age 48, of Baltimore, Maryland was sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment by United States District Court Chief Judge Matthew W. Brann for attempting to provide contraband to inmates at the Federal Correctional Center, Allenwood.
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News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The highest-ranking fighter for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a foreign terrorist organization, to have ever faced a jury trial in the United States was sentenced today to life imprisonment for his participation in a brutal hostage-taking scheme that resulted in the deaths of four American citizens, as well as the deaths of British and Japanese nationals, in Syria.
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News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Melisa Muminovic, age 25, of Utica, New York, pled guilty yesterday to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing fentanyl.
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News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Chantal Jaquez, age 20, of Syracuse, was sentenced yesterday to serve 111 months in federal prison for robbing a Syracuse convenience store and brandishing a semi-automatic rifle in furtherance of the robbery, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, John B. DeVito, Special...
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News Release: BOSTON - An employee for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was arrested today for allegedly stealing packages he was responsible for delivering.
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News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Aug. 16, 2022, charging a former Maui Jim employee, Erica Hornof, 35, of Bradford, Illinois, with three counts of mail fraud and three counts of wire fraud stemming from the alleged theft of sunglass parts from Maui Jim from 2021 until summer 2022.
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News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Marino Cruz Diaz, 24, of Taft, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston to 10 years in prison for illegally cultivating marijuana in a national forest and ordered to pay over $13,000 in restitution for damage to the land, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
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News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria, Illinois, man, Assante Bangmon, 31, of the 1300 block of North Bourland Street, has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, to be followed by four years of supervised release.
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Man Sentenced to 160 Months for Role in International Lottery Fraud Scheme Targeting Elderly VictimsNews Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Tuesday, David Odean McIntosh, 29, of Jamaica, was sentenced by United States District Judge Raner C. Collins to 160 months in prison. McIntosh was previously found guilty by a federal jury of Conspiracy to Commit Mail and Wire Fraud, Wire Fraud, Mail Fraud and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering.
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News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Warren Herman Sloan was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for attempting to distribute, and possessing with the intent to distribute, fentanyl on the Hoopa Valley Tribe Indian Reservation, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special...