U.S. Department of Justice
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Recent News About U.S. Department of Justice
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The U.S. Justice Department recently announced a nationwide law enforcement operation that resulted in criminal charges being brought against 78 defendants for their alleged involvement in health care fraud.
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A Russian national has been charged for his role in multiple ransomware and cyber attacks against computer systems in the United States and around the world.
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A West Virginia man was found guilty of receiving child pornography and possessing prepubescent child porn.
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The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced the sentencing of a Romanian national who operated a “bulletproof hosting” service that facilitated the distribution of destructive malware.
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Ongoing efforts to enhance Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act query compliance were detailed by FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate June 13 during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on FISA Section 702.
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An Iraqi-born Dutch national, in the United States illegally, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for unlawful possession of multiple firearms and ammunition, the Department of Justice reports.
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The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced the sentencing of two men found guilty of defrauding multiple people in a container home scheme, leading to a combined sentence of 34 years in federal prison.
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A three-month campaign to destroy networks used by international criminals to receive fraud proceeds had been successful.
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North Carolina land appraiser Walter “Terry” Douglas Roberts II pleaded guilty on May 12 to conspiring to defraud the U.S. as part of a syndicated conservation easement tax shelter scheme.
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Two federal agencies have reached an interim resolution agreement with the Alabama Department of Public Health and a county health department in a nearly two-year environmental-justice investigation.
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A new study by the RAND Corporation found that providing defendants with legal counsel during the initial bail hearing decreases the use of monetary bail and pretrial detention without increasing the likelihood that defendants fail to appear at the subsequent preliminary hearing.
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A Louisiana man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a $1.1 million fraud scheme related to COVID-19 relief programs.
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The U.S. Department of Justice reported a former school teacher was sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing elementary school students on a U.S. military installation in Germany.
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A 31-year-old former high school coach in New Mexico has been found guilty of child pornography and coercion of a minor by a federal jury.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray gave Building Better Communities (BBC) the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award (DCLA) for its assistance to citizens of South Carolina, where the worked hard to alleviate violence, low education, economic imbalance and poor health in various underserved communities.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta, alongside a coalition led by the U.S. Department of Justice, won a court ruling allowing a lawsuit against Google for antitrust violations to proceed.
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A California man has been indicted on charges of sex trafficking and illegal firearms possession after he engaged in a rolling shootout in Seattle.
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The United States obtained a settlement of $629 million with British American Tobacco and its subsidiary BAT Marketing Singapore to resolve charges of bank fraud and sanctions violations related to the sale of tobacco products to North Korea.
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of a representative of the North Korean Foreign Trade Bank for participating in schemes to launder money using cryptocurrencies in order to benefit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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Two men have been sentenced for their involvement in a plot to attack the American electrical grid in support of white supremacy.