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The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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NIJ FY23 Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults grant opened on Jan. 27.
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News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced today the unsealing of a sweeping 42-count indictment charging defendants Bhaskar Savani (56), Arun Savani (55), Niranjan Savani (51), Amen Dhyllon (45), Alesksandra Radomiak (44) - all of Montgomery County; and Sunil Phillip (56) of...
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NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime grant opened on Jan. 27.
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News Release: DAVENPORT, IA -A Davenport man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and two counts of tampering with a witness.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that KYREN WASHINGTON, age 19, a resident of Orleans Parish, was charged on Jan. 26, 2023 in a one-count indictment for an attempted carjacking that occurred on Oct. 20, 2022.
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News Release: Scranton, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Santonio Pierre Malone, a 36-year-old man with past addresses in Shenandoah and Mahanoy City.
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News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Monday, Orlando Miguel Valenzuela, 28, of Tucson, Arizona, pleaded guilty to Abusive Sexual Contact. Sentencing is scheduled for April 10, 2023, before United States District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson.
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News Release: Trenton, N.J. - A Somerset County, New Jersey man yesterday admitted to paying kickbacks in return for fraudulent overtime payments that he received in connection with his former role as the Director of Buildings and Grounds for the Hillsborough Township School District, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
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News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Jan. 27, 2023, United States District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller sentenced Esmond King (age: 33) to 60 months in federal prison for arson of a building used in interstate commerce, in violation of Title ...
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News Release: Darrell Taylor, 32, a former officer with the Louisville Metro Department of Correction, in Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for using unreasonable force against a detainee, thereby violating the detainee’s civil rights.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - MAURICE FLORANT, age 34, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged on Jan. 26, 2023 in a two-count indictment for violations of the Federal Gun Control Act.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - A Florida man pleaded guilty today to a felony charge 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 2020 presidential election.
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News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Houston, TX, woman who admitted to a federal judge in Providence, RI, that she collected and banked more than $1.26 million of the more than $2.5 million she and co-conspirators bilked from the unsuspecting victims of internet-based “romance scams" that they executed, was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
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News Release: DETROIT - A Gibraltar man was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for sexual exploitation of children, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
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News Release: The Justice Department filed a complaint today against the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs (WDMA) alleging that the WDMA discriminated on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when it offered a woman a lower salary than similarly or less qualified men for ...
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News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JULIO MARQUEZ ALEJANDRO, a/k/a “Chino," was sentenced to life in prison, and LUIS BLONDET was sentenced to 50 years in prison, each for their leading roles in a brutal drug cartel that is responsible...
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News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging Ryan E. Dales, age 34, of Baltimore, Maryland, with illegal possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon and with wire fraud, relating to the submission of fraudulent applications for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES") Act.
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News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Eldon, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a scheme to use the identities of deceased people to file hundreds of false stimulus claims under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.