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News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for defrauding a victim of almost $2 million in connection with a fraudulent investment scheme, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
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News Release: Oxford - A Calhoun City man was sentenced on Thursday to serve more than 18 years in prison for creating child pornography. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills sentenced Jason Rusch, 49, to 220 months’ incarceration followed by 10 years of supervised release for creating images of his molestation of a 9-year old minor. He was also ordered to pay $17,500 in restitution to five minor victims whose images of Child Sexual Exploitation he possessed.
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News Release: A federal jury today convicted a political consultant for his role in funneling illegal foreign campaign contributions from a Russian foreign national to a 2016 presidential campaign.
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News Release: TOLEDO - A federal jury today convicted Antuan Wynn, 47, of Toledo, Ohio, Marquise Figures, 37, of Wayne, Ohio, and Christopher Simpson, 31, of Toledo, Ohio, of participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed large quantities of cocaine, cocaine base (crack) and fentanyl throughout the Toledo area.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - Mekhi Truesdale, 20, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in a series of armed robberies that took place during the fall of 2020 in Northwest Washington.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - A former police officer with the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old crime victim in violation of her constitutional rights.
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News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 21-year-old Mexican citizen has been sent to prison following his conviction of conspiracy to transport over four thousand pounds of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
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News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Malik Breckenridge, 26, of Charleston, was ordered today to pay $41,666 in restitution and sentenced to five years of federal probation, including eight months on home detention, for wire fraud.
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News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal jury today convicted a Birmingham woman for kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap a minor victim, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Federal Bureau of Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Felix A. Rivera-Esparra.
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News Release: AKRON - Larrie Ladell Campbell, 35, of Cleveland, was sentenced on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, to more than 12 years - or 151 months - in prison by U.S. District Judge John R. Adams after he pleaded guilty to mailing over 2 kilograms of fentanyl pills from Phoenix to Cleveland.
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News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and James Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, today announced that RAHSHIM CARTER, 33, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.
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The US Justice Department published a four page rule on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: PROVIDENCE - Christopher J. Skinner, 33, of Providence, convicted in unrelated child pornography cases brought by the United States Air Force in 2010, in Rhode Island state court in 2014, and, most recently, in federal court in Providence in February 2022, was sentenced today to ten years in federal prison for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
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News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment today against Carlos Aranda, 40, and Daniel Hunt, 37, both of Sacramento, charging them with conspiracy, bank fraud, and possession of stolen mail, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Aranda is also charged with possession of mail keys or locks.
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News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Miguel Leyva, 35, and Karina Gutierrez, 32, both of Wasco, were arrested today after a federal grand jury indicted them for conspiracy, bank fraud, access device fraud, and aggravated identity theft in connection with a long-running credit card fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
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News Release: ABERDEEN - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Bismarck, North Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
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News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Khairyi Burgess, 23, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $1,000,000 in restitution by United States District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick for his participation...
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News Release: WASHINGTON - Two members and associates of the 18th Street gang operating within Washington, D.C. were sentenced today to over five years each in prison for their roles in an attack on rival gang members on the platform of the Georgia Avenue-Petworth Metro station on Sept. 17, 2019.
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News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA.: Two men have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in the murder of a whistleblower who exposed a multi-million-dollar scheme that fraudulently employed undocumented workers.
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News Release: CINCINNATI - A Greenfield, Ohio, man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 25 years in prison for producing child pornography.