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A California construction-company owner who participated in a bid-rigging and bribery conspiracy involving contracts for California Department of Transportation projects was given a 78-month prison term and required to pay nearly $1 million.
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A multinational payment processing company, its CEO and its chief strategy officer have been ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to stop helping tech support scammers through credit-card laundering.
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has blamed Biden Administration policies for an assault on U.S. Border Patrol agents at the southern border.
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A Michigan contractor pleaded guilty to bribery and conspiracy in a half-million dollar "pay-to-play" scheme with the former school board president of Madison District Public Schools, U.S. Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced.
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An Arkansas doctor will spend 102 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to defraud a military health insurer for $12 million.
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Three American Management and Administration Corp. executives pleaded guilty on April 13 to stealing $3.7 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) federal assistance programs.
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A New York-based pharmaceutical distributor is resolving allegations of False Claims Act violations.
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Dr. Joel Wuthnow is a senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service.
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Members of the Mayflower Church have been granted humanitarian parole status in the United States and arrived in Texas on April 7 after fleeing persecution in China three years ago.
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Twelve people have been charged after a two-year federal investigation of a global criminal organization that is accused of laundering at least $16.5 million for the Sinaloa drug cartel.
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The Justice Department announced that eight members and associates of a violent branch of the Crips called the Insane Crip Gang (ICG) have been charged with a variety of crimes in a 59 count indictment that was unsealed in federal court in Central Islip.
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Ten defendants charged with decade-long, multi-million-dollar scheme to defraud International Cargo Airline
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A serial carjacker, who shot and pistol-whipped his victims, was sent to prison
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has refused to comment on the deliberative process of whether or not he has advised President Joe Biden on current border policies related to recent spikes in illegal immigration numbers.
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A former director of inspection and code enforcement in Kenner, La., was recently sentenced to 46 months in prison.
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The leader of multi-state drug trafficking group was sentenced to 9 years in prison for distribution of fentanyl, meth and heroin.
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The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced a California man has been arraigned in federal court for making threatening telephone calls last year.
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New York-based Danco Laboratories, LLC, which was accused of breaking the False Claims Act by failing to pay certain customs duties on imported pharmaceutical products that failed to identify their country of origin, has agreed to pay $765,000 to the U.S. Justice Department.
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The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, Inc., one of the world's largest video game developers and publishers, for imposing rules that limited competition for players in its Overwatch and Call of Duty professional esports leagues.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken action against Nexway, a multinational payment processing company, its CEO Victor Iezuitov, and chief strategy officer Casey Potenzone, for facilitating tech support scammers through credit card laundering.