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Recent News About U.S. Department of Justice
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U.S. District Sim Lake Judge sentenced a 31-year-old Houston woman to 96 months in prison after she was convicted in connection with a series of home invasions leading to the federal kidnapping charges.
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The former Chief Information Security Officer at Lumentum Holdings Inc. aas pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to his role in an insider-trading scheme resulting in more than $4 million in illegal profit for friends and family.
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Two employees of a Morgantown, W.V., medical facility, including its former chief operating officer, have been charged with stealing more than $650,000 in assets and funds.
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A newly unsealed superseding indictment signed by U.S. Attorney Damian Williams of the Southern District of New York and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite alleges that Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of the now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, bribed at least one Chinese government official with tens of millions of dollars in an attempt to persuade the Chinese government to unfreeze accounts associated with Alameda Research, FTX's hedge fund sister company. This new charge brings the total number of Bankman-Fried's criminal charges up to 13.
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A Bulgarian woman has been charged for her role in a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme and has been extradited to the United States.
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A man and a woman from San Antonio were recently given sentences for using SIM swapping in November 2021 to gain access to and transfer more than $250,000 from the cryptocurrency accounts of their victims.
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An Indiana man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for pimping out a 17-year-old girl online to perform sex acts at multiple Indianapolis area hotels.
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A former paralegal from the U.S. Department of Justice has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for engaging in witness retaliation and obstructing justice-related crimes.
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A Rhode Island woman has been sentenced to federal prison for the crimes of falsifying military service, false use of military medals, identify theft and more charges related to the impersonation of military veterans.
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A Massachusetts man was recently sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for drug offenses.
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A Michigan man has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for drug offenses.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced March 15 a 12-count indictment charging Ho Wan Kwok, also known as “Miles Guo,” with wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering.
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A former New York-area bank employee is being charged in an almost two-year-long, $2 million fraud and embezzlement scheme.
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A Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department sergeant has been indicted with a federal civil rights violation and second-degree murder.
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A real estate investor from Social Circle, Ga., faces 20 years in prison for wire fraud and five years in prison for bankruptcy fraud after pleading guilty to a $3 million wire and bankruptcy fraud scheme.
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Sentencing has been set for a former resident of a Detroit, Mich., residential reentry center convicted of his second federal child pornography offense.
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A MIssouri man who submitted nearly $980,000 in fraudulent applications to a pandemic relief loan program has been sentenced to five years and five months in prison.
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A Romanian national and "suspected organized crime figure" has been arrested in California and charged with directing a scheme to steal $5 million in pandemic-relief funds.
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Two men, one from South Carolina and the other from Virginia, were recently sentenced to 51 months in prison for breaking into a private Albemarle County, Virginia, home in October 2021 while carrying firearms.
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A California man has been arrested for allegedly soliciting sexually explicit photos from two individuals he thought were 14-year-old girls.