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News Release: Louisville, KY - A federal grand jury in Louisville returned a single-count indictment yesterday charging a local man with violating a federal law prohibiting false information and hoaxes.
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News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former California lawyer has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for lying to his clients about winning cases for them and then deceiving them with bogus documents - some with the forged signatures of judges, the Justice Department announced today.
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News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALGENYS PAULINO, also known as “Chico" and “Lying Queen," 34, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 87 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for supplying narcotics to members of a Waterbury-area drug trafficking ring.
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News Release: SIOUX FALLS - The Justice Department has 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 matters that ranged from mass-marketing scams that impacted thousands of...
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News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Fayetteville woman was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for her role in a “card-cracking" scheme that caused a total loss of over $430,000 to several financial institutions. On June 8, 2022, Ericka Andrea Monique Johnson, 28, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. In addition to her sentence, she will also be required to pay $62,118 in restitution.
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News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Washington man admitted to a drug trafficking crime today after law enforcement seized more than five pounds of methamphetamine along with other drugs from his vehicle near Great Falls last year, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
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A Hawaiian IT administrator pleaded guilty to sabotaging his former employer's computer network to get a higher salary, abusing the special access privileges he'd been granted.
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News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - David Colon, age 41, of Troy, New York was sentenced yesterday to 46 months in prison for distributing fentanyl.
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News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Sean Morrissey, age 51, of Waterford, New York, pled guilty today to abusive sexual contact of a ward, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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News Release: Tampa, FL - A Canadian man was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $21,500,000 today for his role in NetWalker ransomware attacks. The Court will order restitution at a later date.
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News Release: BOSTON - A Texas man has been arrested and charged with allegedly staging a hoax explosion at Northeastern University in Boston in September 2022 and providing law enforcement with materially false and misleading information about the incident.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The Justice Department announced on October 4, 2022 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 matters that ranged from mass-marketing scams that impacted...
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News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces today that Physicians Group Services, P.A. (“PGS") has agreed to pay the United States and the State of Florida $700,000 to resolve allegations that PGS violated the False Claims Act by submitting false or fraudulent claims to the Florida Medicaid Program, which is a state and federal partnership that provides access to health care coverage for low-income families and individuals in Florida.
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The Congressional Record published “SEXUAL ASSAULT FORENSIC EVIDENCE REPORTING ACT OF 2012” in the House section on Jan. 2, 2013.
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News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Chicago, IL, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, PA on a charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
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News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for trafficking heroin and cocaine.
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News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted his corrupt interference with the administration of the Internal Revenue laws, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
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News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Eric Christian, age 34, of Kennewick, Washington, was sentenced to serve 46-months in federal prison for conspiring with inmates of the Benton County Jail to smuggle contraband into the jail in exchange for money. Christian, who pled guilty in December 2021 to Conspiracy to Provide Prohibited Objects to an Inmate of a Prison, was also sentenced to three-years supervised release after he completes his time in federal custody.
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News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today indicted three Long Beach men who allegedly participated in the daylight smash-and-grab robbery of a Beverly Hills jewelry store in which more than $2.6 million worth of merchandise was stolen.
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News Release: A federal indictment unsealed today charges 11 individuals with violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.