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News Release: BOISE - Isaac Bright, 29, of Nampa, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison, the maximum allowable sentence, for unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today.
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News Release: DEL RIO, Texas - An Eagle Pass man was sentenced last week in federal court in Del Rio to 20 years in prison for causing serious bodily injury to a baby.
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News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Daniel B. Brubaker, Inspector in Charge of the New York Division of the United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), announced the return of an Indictment today by a grand jury charging MATTHEW BLAKE MORROW-WU...
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News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man today admitted that he conspired to possess fentanyl with the intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
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“NOMINATIONS“ was published in the Senate section on pages S240-S242 on Feb. 2
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News Release: Defendant Electro-Shocked Metropolitan Police Officer. WASHINGTON, D.C. - A California man, who tased a Metropolitan Police Officer (MPD) during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, pleaded guilty today to the assault and three other charges. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint...
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News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces the Colorado Department of Public Safety will receive $4,564,438 awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice to fund efforts combatting gun violence.
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News Release: PROVIDENCE - A 30-year-old Providence man today admitted to a federal judge that he possessed more than 250 grams of fentanyl and a firearm, and did so less than a week after pleading guilty, in February 2021, to conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
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News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Todd Valentine, 53, Holmen, Wisconsin was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 12 years in federal prison for distributing 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. The prison term will be followed by 5 years of supervised release. Valentine pleaded guilty to this charge on Oct. 24, 2022.
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News Release: Two Amazon marketplace sellers and four of their companies have pleaded guilty to price fixing DVDs and Blu Ray Discs.
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News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas man was sentenced to 96 months in prison time followed by five years of supervised release after he admitted to possessing child pornography images.
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News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Emmett Miguel, 33, of Sells, Arizona, was sentenced on Monday by United States District Judge Susan M. Brnovich to 151 months in prison for Aggravated Sexual Abuse and a concurrent 120 months’ confinement for Abusive Sexual Contact. On Sept. 22, 2022, Miguel was found guilty by a jury of sexually assaulting the 17-year-old victim at a dance in Sacaton, Arizona, in January 2012.
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News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Tramond G. Wallace, Jr., 28, of Syracuse, New York, pled guilty today to possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.
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News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Today, Abel Nazario-Quiñones, former Puerto Rico senator and former mayor of the municipality of Yauco, Puerto Rico, was sentenced by United States District Court Senior Judge Francisco A. Besosa to serve 18 months in prison, announced United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow. The FBI conducted the investigation with the collaboration of the Puerto Rico Comptroller’s Office, and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Inspector General (OIG).
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News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- On Feb. 10, 2023, Robert Z. Whipple, III, 50, currently of Crossville, Tennessee, was sentenced to 70 months in prison by the Honorable Katherine A. Crytzer, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville.
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News Release: A co-owner of multiple businesses was sentenced today to 12 months and a day in prison and two years of supervised release for failing to pay over $1 million in payroll taxes for his companies. Omar Mostafa, 57, of New Jersey, pleaded guilty on Aug. 8, 2022, before U.S. District Judge Georgette Castner to an information charging him with willful failure to collect or pay taxes.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CHANEL GALLE, of New Orleans, LA, age 44, was indicted on Feb. 10, 2023 by a federal grand jury for two counts of making false statements related to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).
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News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is demanding answers from FBI Director Christopher Wray as part of the panel’s investigation into the bureau’s alleged misuse of domestic violent extremism resources for "political purposes," after a leaked internal memo revealed the FBI had efforts underway to identify and treat some Catholics as violent extremists.
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News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White on Wednesday sentenced a man from St. Louis, Missouri who participated in a 2017 murder on behalf of a drug gang to 18 years in prison.
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News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Duncan, South Carolina man was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.