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The U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of a representative of the North Korean Foreign Trade Bank for participating in schemes to launder money using cryptocurrencies in order to benefit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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Two men have been sentenced for their involvement in a plot to attack the American electrical grid in support of white supremacy.
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An Alaska man has been sentenced to 10 years and 5 months in prison, followed by eight years of supervised release, for the distribution of heroin.
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A former public official and California contractor was recently sentenced for bid rigging and bribery.
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Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III has approved a request from Homeland Security to send military troops to the southwest border.
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Javed Ali is an associate professor of practice at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He's held positions with the Defense Intelligence Agency, Homeland Security, and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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The NAB has taken legal action to require the FCC to complete its review of broadcast ownership rules, which was supposed to have been completed in 2018.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Indiana announced that a Pigeon Township trustee and a pair of co-conspirators have been charged with wire fraud and committing wire fraud in an effort to steal thousands from local taxpayers in a kickback scheme.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern District of Florida announced that the local president of “We Build the Wall” has been sentenced to 51 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to crimes related to his 2019 federal income taxes.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Louisiana announced that three men from St. Bernard Parish have been convicted of federal bank fraud and money laundering dating back to 2017.
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A former U.S. Attorney General is joining the NAACP Office of General Counsel in a lawsuit filed in federal court challenging two Mississippi statues that allegedly restrict the rights of the state's residents.
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Boynton: DOJ will 'pursue and hold accountable payment processors who facilitate tech support scams'The Federal Trade Commission had taken action against several payment processors for facilitating credit card laundering and fraudulent tech support schemes.
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A noteworthy drug seizure has been carried out at the Otay Mesa port of entry.
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Charges have been filed in the Eastern District of New York federal court against five individuals accused in separate pandemic-related fraud schemes.
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A former West Virginia parole officer will spend the next 15 years in prison after being convicted for sexually assaulting a female parolee.
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A former employee working at two Texas shelters for unaccompanied immigrant children has been charged with several counts of sexual abuse of minors in his custody.
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A Brazilian national convicted and sentenced to prison for armed robbery in Brazil, was arrested in Massachusetts by U.S. federal agents,
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Federal Bureau of Investigations agents are after the former Georgia financial adviser indicted earlier this month for his part of an investment fraud scheme that defrauded investors of millions of dollars.
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A federal grand jury in Puerto Rico recently returned a six-count indictment which charges 63 people with drug trafficking in San Germán, Puerto Rico.
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Nine additional states joined in the U.S. Department of Justice's civil antitrust lawsuit against Google.