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Recent News About U.S. Department of Justice
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An Alaska man has been sentenced to 10 years and 5 months in prison, followed by eight years of supervised release, for the distribution of heroin.
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A former public official and California contractor was recently sentenced for bid rigging and bribery.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Indiana announced that a Pigeon Township trustee and a pair of co-conspirators have been charged with wire fraud and committing wire fraud in an effort to steal thousands from local taxpayers in a kickback scheme.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern District of Florida announced that the local president of “We Build the Wall” has been sentenced to 51 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to crimes related to his 2019 federal income taxes.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Louisiana announced that three men from St. Bernard Parish have been convicted of federal bank fraud and money laundering dating back to 2017.
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Boynton: DOJ will 'pursue and hold accountable payment processors who facilitate tech support scams'The Federal Trade Commission had taken action against several payment processors for facilitating credit card laundering and fraudulent tech support schemes.
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Charges have been filed in the Eastern District of New York federal court against five individuals accused in separate pandemic-related fraud schemes.
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A former West Virginia parole officer will spend the next 15 years in prison after being convicted for sexually assaulting a female parolee.
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A former employee working at two Texas shelters for unaccompanied immigrant children has been charged with several counts of sexual abuse of minors in his custody.
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Federal Bureau of Investigations agents are after the former Georgia financial adviser indicted earlier this month for his part of an investment fraud scheme that defrauded investors of millions of dollars.
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A federal grand jury in Puerto Rico recently returned a six-count indictment which charges 63 people with drug trafficking in San Germán, Puerto Rico.
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Nine additional states joined in the U.S. Department of Justice's civil antitrust lawsuit against Google.
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A Michigan contractor pleaded guilty to bribery and conspiracy in a half-million dollar "pay-to-play" scheme with the former school board president of Madison District Public Schools, U.S. Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced.
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An Arkansas doctor will spend 102 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to defraud a military health insurer for $12 million.
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Three American Management and Administration Corp. executives pleaded guilty on April 13 to stealing $3.7 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) federal assistance programs.
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A New York-based pharmaceutical distributor is resolving allegations of False Claims Act violations.
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Twelve people have been charged after a two-year federal investigation of a global criminal organization that is accused of laundering at least $16.5 million for the Sinaloa drug cartel.
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The Justice Department announced that eight members and associates of a violent branch of the Crips called the Insane Crip Gang (ICG) have been charged with a variety of crimes in a 59 count indictment that was unsealed in federal court in Central Islip.
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A serial carjacker, who shot and pistol-whipped his victims, was sent to prison
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A former director of inspection and code enforcement in Kenner, La., was recently sentenced to 46 months in prison.