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The Office of Information Policy (OIP) has released its summary and assessment of federal agencies’ 2025 Chief FOIA Officer (CFO) Reports.
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Talia Hicks, a 33-year-old resident of Philadelphia, was sentenced to three years’ probation and one month of home confinement for her role in conspiring to distribute controlled substances.
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A federal jury in Ocala, Florida has found Clarence Christofer Ward, also known as Khaled Yaqud Mansur-El, guilty of wire fraud, money laundering, and making a false claim to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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John Kelly, an 83-year-old resident of Rome, New York, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for conspiring to receive and distribute child pornography and for possessing child pornography.
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Juan Correa Sr., 49, of Lady Lake, Florida, has been sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison for his role as the leader of a cocaine trafficking operation that moved large quantities of the drug from Puerto Rico to Syracuse, New York.
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A Bloomfield resident, Joseph Stevens, 41, has been charged with federal drug trafficking and firearms offenses following an investigation by the Region II Narcotics Task Force.
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A Mobile resident, Jason Jones, 46, has been sentenced to 210 months in federal prison after being convicted of producing child pornography and attempting to entice a child.
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An Akron man has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for distributing controlled substances in Northeast Ohio.
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The United States government has obtained a default judgment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, finalizing the forfeiture of 14 ancient Egyptian artifacts that were illegally smuggled into the country.
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Federal authorities have charged five men in connection with a scheme to steal and resell crude oil from pipelines in New Mexico and West Texas.
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Justin Heath Smith, also known as “Austin Wolf,” was sentenced to 19 years in prison for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of minors.
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A Broken Arrow resident, Derrick Carl Andrew Chatman, 24, has been charged with several firearm-related offenses after allegedly providing a machinegun conversion device, known as a “switch,” to a minor while under state supervision for previous...
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Emmitt Renand Richardson, a 52-year-old man from Detroit, Michigan, has been convicted on six charges related to methamphetamine and fentanyl trafficking in West Virginia.
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Charlie Javice, the founder and former CEO of the financial aid startup Frank, was sentenced to 85 months in prison after being convicted of defrauding J.P. Morgan Chase (JPMC) in a $175 million acquisition deal.
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Keith Terrell Thompson, a 27-year-old resident of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to 108 months in federal prison for his involvement in a firearms trafficking conspiracy and for illegal possession of drugs and weapons.
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A Hattiesburg resident, Velton Taylor Williams, Jr., was sentenced in federal court to five years of probation for fraudulently obtaining and using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
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A Las Vegas man with a history of felony convictions has pleaded guilty to unlawfully possessing an unserialized, privately made AR-15-pattern pistol, often referred to as a "ghost gun."
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A Honduran national, Oscar Guillen Orellana, 60, has been sentenced to eight months in prison for illegally reentering the United States after deportation.
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A federal jury in Miami has convicted Osvaldo Daniel Fernandez, a 61-year-old Argentine national, on two counts of production and one count of possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
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A Salvadoran national living in Lynn, Massachusetts, has pleaded guilty to unlawfully reentering the United States after being deported.