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A Louisiana man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a $1.1 million fraud scheme related to COVID-19 relief programs.
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In recent weeks, as Title 42 ended, President Biden signed an executive order to authorize the U.S. armed forces to address international drug trafficking and sent troops down to the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The U.S. Department of Justice reported a former school teacher was sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing elementary school students on a U.S. military installation in Germany.
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A 31-year-old former high school coach in New Mexico has been found guilty of child pornography and coercion of a minor by a federal jury.
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it has reached a settlement in the ongoing litigation pertaining to ASSA ABLOY AB's intended $4.3 billion acquisition of Spectrum Brands Holding's Hardware and Home Improvement division.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray gave Building Better Communities (BBC) the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award (DCLA) for its assistance to citizens of South Carolina, where the worked hard to alleviate violence, low education, economic imbalance and poor health in various underserved communities.
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For several years, foreign nationals have been buying up farmland in Oklahoma, and some are now allegedly working with criminal organizations to operate illegal ventures within America.
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Denis Gennadievich Kulkov, accused of running Try2Check, a "card-checking" platform used by cybercriminals in the stolen credit card trade, has been charged with access device fraud, computer intrusion, and money laundering.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta, alongside a coalition led by the U.S. Department of Justice, won a court ruling allowing a lawsuit against Google for antitrust violations to proceed.
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A California man has been indicted on charges of sex trafficking and illegal firearms possession after he engaged in a rolling shootout in Seattle.
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The United States obtained a settlement of $629 million with British American Tobacco and its subsidiary BAT Marketing Singapore to resolve charges of bank fraud and sanctions violations related to the sale of tobacco products to North Korea.
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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.