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An Indianapolis man with a history of violent crime has been sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison for a series of armed robberies he committed in 2019.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Philadelphia Division announced recently that a number of relics stolen during the 1960s and 1970s have been recovered and returned to the respective museums.
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A federal court in the Eastern District of Louisiana has permanently enjoined a Hammond tax return preparer from preparing federal income tax returns for others and from owning or operating any tax return business in the future.According to the court order entered Dec. 20, Kenisha Callahan consented to entry of the injunction.
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A federal judge has sentenced a Corpus Christi, Texas man to life prison for using social media to lure young girls into sexual activity, a news release said.
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Two government officials in Puerto Rico, including the mayor of Guaynabo, accused of corruption charges earlier this month betrayed the trust of their constituents, a U.S. Attorney said in a news release.
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The Justice Department announced today that Chester Gordon Whitescarver and his wife, Betsy Whitescarver, who have owned and managed rental properties in and around Russellville, Kentucky, have agreed to pay $230,000 to resolve a lawsuit alleging that they violated the Fair Housing Act (FHA).
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A South Carolina chiropractor that plead guilty and was convicted under the False Claims Act has agreed to a $9 million consent judgement, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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The U.S. Department of Justice recently filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to block U.S. Sugar’s proposal to acquire rivaling company Imperial Sugar, according to a press release.
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The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced that it has resolved a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against a Massachusetts landlord and his employee, according to a press release.
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A Cameroonian citizen recently pleaded guilty to his involvement in a scheme using COVID-19 to trick people into paying for pets that never arrived.
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A man accused of homicide on Halloween night 2020 in Sardis, Mississippi was arrested recently in Memphis, Tennessee by the U.S. Marshals Task Force.
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An Idaho man was sentenced to a month in prison, five months’ home confinement, three years’ supervised release, and a $15,000 fine today for lying to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and for making an illegal repair to a cargo tanker in violation of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act. The crimes came to light through the investigation of an explosion.On May 20, Loren Kim Jacobson, 65, of Pocatello, an owner of a tanker testing and repair company, KCCS Inc., pleaded guilty to the above offenses.
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Two citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo have recently been charged with smuggling elephant ivory and white rhinoceros horn into Seattle.
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The Justice Department announced today that a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging a former Kay County Oklahoma supervisory corrections officer with federal civil rights violations.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has cautioned that the Department of Justice's raid on Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe’s home undermines freedom of the press in the United States under the Constitution.
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The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics today released the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Dashboard (N-DASH).
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The Justice Department announced the launch of the department’s new Combatting Redlining Initiative today. Redlining is an illegal practice in which lenders avoid providing services to individuals living in communities of color because of the race or national origin of the people who live in those communities.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland has reinstated the Office for Access to Justice, a separate office within the Justice Department that was suspended during the Trump administration.
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The Department of Justice Antitrust Division sued to stop a $2.18 billion merger between publisher Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, saying it “would likely harm competition in the publishing industry.”
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Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. and two of its subsidiaries will pay $91 million to resolve criminal charges related to millions of its dehumidifiers that were defective and at risk of catching fire.