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News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that it has secured a settlement agreement with Professional Maintenance Management (PMM), a cleaning and janitorial services company based in Maryland. The settlement resolves the department’s determination that PMM discriminated against its non-U.S. citizen workers when checking their permission to work in the United States, in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
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News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that five persons were arrested near Morses Line on October 9, 2022 in connection with what is believed to be an attempt to smuggle individuals without legal status into the United States. Angel Hernandez-Pineda, 32, a Honduran national...
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News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal child exploitation laws United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
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News Release: Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today, based upon a thorough investigation focused on custodial informant activity from 2007 through 2016, that the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department operated a custodial informant program that systematically violated criminal defendants’ Sixth Amendment right to counsel and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law.
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News Release: Defendants Allegedly Defrauded Victims of Almost $18 Million as Part of “Pig Butchering" Investment Fraud and Money Laundering Schemes and Illegally Converted More Than $52 Million of Cash to Cashier’s Checks.
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News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Charles Abieanga, 31, Viviana Cervantes, 23, and Simon Abieanga, 28, all of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to separate fraud charges, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
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News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Greg MacKinnon, 56, of the City of Tonawanda, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, and a fine of $250,000.
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News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMIE PETRONE, 43, of Lithia Springs, Georgia, formerly of Naugatuck, Connecticut, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 109 months of imprisonment, followed by three years...
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News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Nicholas Kirby, 45, of Philadelphia, PA, was arrested and charged by Indictment with multiple firearms and narcotics offenses related to his trafficking in those items. Specifically, the defendant is charged with one count of dealing...
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News Release: HAMMOND - U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded $135,036 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in Northern District of Indiana. Funding will support community efforts to address the epidemic of gun crime and serious violence in the district.
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News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell has sentenced Joseph Ellicott (43, Bradenton) to 15 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, honest services fraud, and distribution of a controlled substance. The court also ordered Ellicott to forfeit $114,747, which are traceable to proceeds of the offense. Ellicott had pleaded guilty on February 9, 2022.
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News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Mario Carranza, 38, of Mexico, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of ammunition, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
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News Release: A Bristow woman pleaded guilty Tuesday for kidnapping a victim at knifepoint at a Sapulpa gas station and forcing her to drive to Kellyville, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
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News Release: MISSOULA - A Missoula man admitted on Tuesday to fentanyl trafficking charges after law enforcement responded to a reported drug overdose death in Missoula County earlier this year, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
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News Release: United States Attorney Clint Johnson today announced the results of the October 2022 Federal Grand Jury A.
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News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Edwin Colon, 28, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and failure to appear after pre-trial release before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. The charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
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News Release: BOSTON - A West Springfield man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield for embezzling over $1.4 million from his employer.
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News Release: Defendants Allegedly Conspired to Divert Oxycodone Worth at Least $24 Million.
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News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The government added 12 defendants and 28 new charges to a federal narcotics conspiracy case that now charges 23 total individuals.
- Albert Lea Bookkeeper Pleads Guilty to Embezzling More Than $200,000 in Public Housing Rent Payments
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - An Albert Lea woman has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $200,000 in tenant rent payments, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.