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News Release: A Maryland man made his initial appearance in federal court yesterday after being charged with 16 counts of willful failure to collect, account for and pay over employment taxes to the IRS.
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News Release: Attorney General Merrick B. Garland issued the following statement today commemorating the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act:
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News Release: The alleged operator of the illicit cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e was extradited yesterday from Greece to the United States to face charges in the Northern District of California.
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Kristian "Kris" Hart, a current member of the Amite, La., City Council; and Jerry Trabona, former police chief of Amite City, have pleaded guilty to conspiring to pay and offering to pay voters in Tangipahoa Parish to vote in the 2016 open primary and 2016 open general elections.
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News Release: The Justice Department today announced that Jose Gomez III, 21, of Midland, Texas, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on hate crime charges for attacking an Asian family he believed was Chinese and therefore responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Gomez had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of committing a hate crime.
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News Release: A federal court issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting a Tampa-area pharmacist from filling prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances, the Department of Justice announced today.
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News Release: A former governor of Puerto Rico was arrested today on bribery charges related to the financing of her 2020 campaign.
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There is one release scheduled to be published on Aug. 8.
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News Release: An Ohio corporation and its vice president pleaded guilty in federal court to the illegal sale of antimicrobial products. Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD), U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Parker for the Southern District of Ohio and Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Lynn of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Investigation Division (EPA-CID) made the announcement.
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News Release: A federal indictment was unsealed yesterday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, charging a former private prisoner officer with sexually assaulting a male pretrial detainee during a prisoner transport and later lying to the FBI.
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News Release: A federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, returned two indictments that were unsealed today, and the Department of Justice filed a third charging document today, in connection with an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old woman who was shot and killed in her Louisville home on March 13, 2020, by police officers executing a search warrant.
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News Release: BC Flynn Contracting Corp. (BC Flynn) and Axion Specialty Contracting LLC (Axion) pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Connecticut for their roles in a conspiracy to rig bids on insulation contracts in Connecticut in violation of the antitrust laws and, as to BC Flynn, to engage in criminal fraud related to those insulation contracts.
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FY 2022 California Law Enforcement Transition to NIBRS—Rapid Deployment Model Project grant opened on Aug. 5.
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OJJDP FY 2022 Invited to Apply — Byrne Discretionary Community Project Funding/Byrne Discretionary Grants Program grant opened on Aug. 5.
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News Release: On Tuesday, extensive coordination and cooperation efforts between United States and Guatemalan law enforcement authorities culminated in the Guatemalan National Civil Police (PNC) conducting a significant enforcement operation to disrupt and dismantle a transnational human smuggling organization. This operation included the arrest of four alleged human smugglers who have been indicted in the United States.
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There was activity on one bill related to the Judiciary Committee on Aug. 4.
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OJJDP FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Supporting Tribal Youth: Training and Technical Assistance and Youth Leadership Development grant opened on Aug. 5.
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The Congressional Record published “Senate Committee Meetings” in the Daily Digest section on Aug. 4.
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OJJDP FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Training and Technical Assistance - Child Abuse Training for Judicial and Court Personnel grant opened on Aug. 4.
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There were 17 notices published by the Justice Department in July, according to the Federal Register.