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News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today an indictment charging eight people with federal civil rights offenses and violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
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News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - Diamond Cook, age 31, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on Feb. 16, 2023, to 48 months in prison following his plea of guilty to being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. After he is released from prison, Cook will serve three years of supervised release.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on Feb. 14, 2023, defendant WILLIAM NELSON, age 21, a resident of South Carolina, pled guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Jay C. Zainey to committing a carjacking in New Orleans, Louisiana on Jan. 2, 2022.
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News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Khalif Marquee Coleman, 35, of Charleston, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute 40 grams or more of a mixture containing a detectable amount of fentanyl.
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News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that three defendants were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa for their roles in a marijuana trafficking ring on Pardee Street in Rochester, NY.
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News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with Amiga Informatics (Amiga), a New York IT staffing company. The settlement resolves the department’s determination that Amiga violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by posting discriminatory job advertisements that solicited applications only from individuals with specific citizenship or immigration statuses.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DESEAN CHRISTY, age 38, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday for violating the Federal Gun Control Act, Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2), and 924(c)(1)(A), and the Federal Drug Control Act...
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News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, New Jersey, man today admitted coercing a minor into producing images of child sexual abuse, U.S Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
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News Release: A federal grand jury in the District of Oregon returned an indictment today charging four founders of Forsage, a purportedly decentralized finance (DeFi) cryptocurrency investment platform, for their roles in a global Ponzi and pyramid scheme that raised approximately $340 million from victim-investors.
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News Release: A federal grand jury in Chicago returned an indictment on Feb. 16, charging an Illinois man with assisting in the preparation of false tax returns.
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News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that KEYON DOOLING and ALAN ANDERSON were sentenced to 30 months and 24 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in a scheme to defraud the National Basketball Association (“NBA") Players’ Health and Welfare Benefit Plan (the “Plan"). U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni sentenced DOOLING today and previously sentenced ANDERSON on Feb. 10, 2023.
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News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: Merton Weed Jr., 50, of Norway, Maine, was arrested today on an indictment charging him with filing fraudulent claims for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and a fraudulent application for a Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insured mortgage.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that, on Feb. 15, 2023, U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced HERBERT ALLEN (“ALLEN"), age 38, and DION RIDLEY (“RIDLEY"), age 23, after they pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud in violation of Title 18...
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News Release: WASHINGTON - A Maine man is in custody on felony and misdemeanor charges, including assaulting a law enforcement officer, for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
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News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Jason R. Moore, 42, of Milton, Florida, has pled guilty to two counts of “Illicit Sexual Conduct in Foreign Places." Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the plea today after Moore admitted his criminal activity in federal court in Pensacola.
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News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A sixteen-plus year veteran of, and former sergeant with, the Newport News Police Department was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of children and receipt of child pornography.
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News Release: A federal grand jury in the District of Oregon returned an indictment today charging four founders of Forsage, a purportedly decentralized finance (DeFi) cryptocurrency investment platform, for their roles in a global Ponzi and pyramid scheme that raised approximately $340 million from victim-investors.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - DERECK CELESTIN, JR., age 37, a resident of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, was sentenced on Feb. 16, 2023 to 120 months imprisonment, 5 years of supervised release, and a mandatory $200 special assessment fee by U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan, after pleading guilty to a...
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News Release: WASHINGTON - Lynville Porter, 40, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 57 months in prison for shooting a Special Police Officer on the campus of Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington DC, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Chief Robert J. Contee III, of the Metropolitan Police Department.
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News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. Dillon Shane Browning, 31, of Charleston, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.