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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.
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News Release: Hagatña, Guam - SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Clarence Poch a.k.a. J.M. Irons, age 43, a citizen of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) was sentenced on Sept. 27, 2022, to nine months, 24 days imprisonment...
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News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona announced today that, as part of its continuing efforts to protect older adults and to bring perpetrators of fraud schemes to justice, it is joining the Justice Department’s Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force, as one of 14 additional...
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News Release: MIAMI - Jorge Murrillo, 69, formerly of Miami, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for conspiring to violate the Clean Air Act (CAA) by importing over 300,000 kilograms of illegal hydrochlorofluorocarbon-22 (HCFC-22) worth more than $1.5 million from China. HCFC-22 is a widely used refrigerant for residential heat pump and air-conditioning systems.
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News Release: Violation of protective order leads to federal firearms charges.
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News Release: Acting United States Attorney Nicholas Vassallo announced today that LESLIE FRANK NOSEEP, III, age 20, of Fort Washakie, Wyoming, was charged with assault resulting in substantial bodily injury to a person under the age of 16 and assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm. Noseep appeared...
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News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of drug diversion and health care fraud, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
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News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 46-year-old resident of Montalba has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiracy to transport non-U.S. citizens, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
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News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a grand jury returned an indictment against Sydney Snelling, Jr., age 48, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, charging the unlawful possession of an unregistered firearm.
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News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Daniel Stevens, 48, of Whitestown, Indiana, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison after pleading guilty to distribution and possession child sex abuse material.
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News Release: ANCHORAGE - A federal jury convicted an Anchorage man for possessing heroin, pure methamphetamine and a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.