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A former attorney from New York is being charged with one count of falsification of bankruptcy records and one count of false oaths and claims in bankruptcy.
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Long-time politician Mark Ridley-Thomas was found guilty of bribery.
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In less than an hour, a Georgia man was found guilty of all charges brought against him for his role in a scheme to defraud the government of more than $1 million in pandemic-relief aid.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has reached an agreement in principle to settle civil cases filed in response to a mass shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Tex., in November 2017 which left 26 worshipers dead and 22 others injured.
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A former Baldwin County doctor was sentenced to four years in prison for charges including bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
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A Michigan man pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft in connection with his operation of trucking companies.
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A man from Ypsilanti, Mich., pleaded guilty to making false claims in his security clearance application for the U.S. Navy.
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A former vice detective with the San Diego Police Department and three co-defendants entered guilty pleas in connection with the operation of illegal massage parlors in Arizona and California that used women as prostitutes while pretending to provide therapeutic massage services.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office reported the former leader the White Supremacist group Kuerkrieg Division was arrested for sending online death threats to a journalist reporting on his group.
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A Wisconsin man admitted his guilt in making racially charged threats to Black residents living in his apartment complex in West Allis.
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U.S. District Sim Lake Judge sentenced a 31-year-old Houston woman to 96 months in prison after she was convicted in connection with a series of home invasions leading to the federal kidnapping charges.
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The former Chief Information Security Officer at Lumentum Holdings Inc. aas pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to his role in an insider-trading scheme resulting in more than $4 million in illegal profit for friends and family.
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Two employees of a Morgantown, W.V., medical facility, including its former chief operating officer, have been charged with stealing more than $650,000 in assets and funds.
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A newly unsealed superseding indictment signed by U.S. Attorney Damian Williams of the Southern District of New York and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite alleges that Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of the now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, bribed at least one Chinese government official with tens of millions of dollars in an attempt to persuade the Chinese government to unfreeze accounts associated with Alameda Research, FTX's hedge fund sister company. This new charge brings the total number of Bankman-Fried's criminal charges up to 13.
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A Bulgarian woman has been charged for her role in a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme and has been extradited to the United States.
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A man and a woman from San Antonio were recently given sentences for using SIM swapping in November 2021 to gain access to and transfer more than $250,000 from the cryptocurrency accounts of their victims.
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Six more Oath Keepers members and associates were found guilty in the District of Columbia on March 21 for their participation in the Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Two prominent members of a drug-trafficking organization who are also related to the cartel's ringleader have been sentenced to "significant amounts of time" in prison.
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A federal court in the District of Columbia unsealed two indictments accusing numerous defendants of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the Arms Export Control Act for their roles in various schemes to obtain and export American technology to Iran between 2005 and 2013.
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An Indiana man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for pimping out a 17-year-old girl online to perform sex acts at multiple Indianapolis area hotels.