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News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A federal grand jury today returned an eight-count indictment charging an Orange County man with defrauding California’s unemployment insurance program by using personal information stolen from people with similar names to apply for $1.25 million in COVID-19 unemployment benefits.
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News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Troy Lee Washington, 27, of Shreveport, Louisiana, has been sentenced in U.S. District Court, announced United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown. Chief United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. sentenced Washington today to 48 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm. Washington was indicted by a federal grand jury, and he pleaded guilty to the charge on June 8, 2022.
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News Release: Defendant Killed His Longtime Friend with a Gunshot to the Back of the Head.
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News Release: The Justice Department announced the results of its efforts over the past year to protect older adults from fraud and exploitation. During the past year, the Department and its law enforcement partners tackled maters that ranged from mass-marketing scams that impacted thousands of victims to bad actors...
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News Release: FBI Releases 2021 Crime in the Nation Statistics.
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News Release: Defendant sold drugs to undercover agent on five separate occasions.
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News Release: Acting United States Attorney Nicholas Vassallo announced today that ROBERT BUTLER, 34, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced on Sept. 29, 2022, by United States District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl within 1,000 feet of a public elementary school and...
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News Release: Seattle - A 37-year-old former Seattle tech worker was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to time served and 5 years of probation including location and computer monitoring for seven federal crimes connected to her scheme to hack into cloud computer data storage accounts and steal data...
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News Release: Federal Jury Finds Joseph Sullivan Guilty of Obstruction of the Federal Trade Commission and Misprision of a Felony.
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News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former medical assistant was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for defrauding New Jersey state and local health benefits programs and other insurers of more than $1 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced.
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News Release: Louisville, KY - A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging James Hickman III with illegal possession of a firearm.
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News Release: A California man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for conspiring with others in schemes to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a federal loans initiative designed to help businesses pay their employees and meet expenses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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There are four releases scheduled to be published on Oct. 7.
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News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Jaedyn Tiryse Presley (23, Ocala) today pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Presley faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. He also agreed to forfeit the firearm used in the commission of the offense. Presley had been indicted on Feb. 1, 2022.
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News Release: Tuscaloosa, Ala. - A federal grand jury last week indicted a Gadsden man for conspiring to pay and receive kickbacks and commit health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, Federal Bureau of Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Felix A. Rivera-Esparra, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Tamala E. Miles.
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News Release: CAPE GIRARDEAU - A former police officer from the southeast Missouri city of Piedmont has been indicted and accused of violating the civil rights of two people and lying to the FBI about it.
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News Release: Defendant Admits Using Ruse to Defraud Apartment Complex of Rent, and to Carrying Out Separate Bank Fraud Scheme.
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News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 45-year-old San Benito resident has been sent to federal prison following his conviction of possession with intent to distribute liquid meth, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
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News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced on October 5, 2022, that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin had reached a settlement agreement under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA") with Helping Hands Caregivers LLC (“Helping Hands") to resolve...
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News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Alexandro Luis Gomez, 30, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced on Sept. 28, 2022, by United States District Judge Rosemary Márquez to 17 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Gomez previously pleaded guilty to Distribution of a Controlled Substance connected...