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By Karen Kidd | Mar 26, 2023
A former New York-area bank employee is being charged in an almost two-year-long, $2 million fraud and embezzlement scheme.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 23, 2023
A Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department sergeant has been indicted with a federal civil rights violation and second-degree murder.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 22, 2023
Fentanyl, a highly potent and lethal opioid, has infiltrated all corners of the country, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake.
By David Beasley | Mar 22, 2023
A letter from 21 state attorneys general requests that President Joe Biden list the Sinaloa Cartel, CJNG and other similarly situated Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorists organizations (FTO’s).
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 22, 2023
The alarming spike in fentanyl-related fatalities across the U.S. has been a growing concern for years, and now Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is drawing attention to a particularly chilling aspect of this epidemic: Drug dealers are deliberately targeting children as their clientele, resulting in a tragic increase in the child death toll.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 21, 2023
A Las Vegas man was sentenced to 33 years in prison and a lifetime supervised release for child sexual exploitation crimes.
By Tamara Browning | Mar 21, 2023
A real estate investor from Social Circle, Ga., faces 20 years in prison for wire fraud and five years in prison for bankruptcy fraud after pleading guilty to a $3 million wire and bankruptcy fraud scheme.
By Tamara Browning | Mar 21, 2023
Sentencing has been set for a former resident of a Detroit, Mich., residential reentry center convicted of his second federal child pornography offense.
By Tamara Browning | Mar 21, 2023
A MIssouri man who submitted nearly $980,000 in fraudulent applications to a pandemic relief loan program has been sentenced to five years and five months in prison.
By Federal Department News | Mar 21, 2023
A Romanian national and "suspected organized crime figure" has been arrested in California and charged with directing a scheme to steal $5 million in pandemic-relief funds.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 19, 2023
Two men, one from South Carolina and the other from Virginia, were recently sentenced to 51 months in prison for breaking into a private Albemarle County, Virginia, home in October 2021 while carrying firearms.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 18, 2023
A California man has been arrested for allegedly soliciting sexually explicit photos from two individuals he thought were 14-year-old girls.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 18, 2023
Three former New York City correction officers have pleaded guilty to criminal charges for fraudulently taking advantage of employee sick leave programs.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 18, 2023
A Tennessee physician and his wife have been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for unlawfully distributing opioids while defrauding the U.S. and receiving kickbacks.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 16, 2023
A California man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for his involvement in a murder-for-hire scheme and a shooting in Poughkeepsie in 2020.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 16, 2023
A Birmingham, Ala., attorney has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison on federal child pornography charges, the U.S. Justice Department announced March 7.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 14, 2023
U.S. companies have been found to have exploited and abused migrant children through their use of labor and not affording them the basic protections and safety that other employees are afforded.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 14, 2023
Two Birmingham, Ala., residents were sentenced for kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap a minor.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 13, 2023
Two Maryland residents were recently sentenced for their part in a sex trafficking operation involving teenage victims.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 10, 2023
While lawmakers were discussing Twitter during a House Judiciary Select Subcommittee hearing on the weaponization of the federal government, Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-U.S. Virgin Islands) alluded to Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the CEO of Binance, the largest crypto exchange in the world, who also owns a stake in Twitter. Plaskett said that although CZ is a Canadian citizen, he is a “Chinese national.” Crypto influencer and analyst Chris Blec and CZ himself said on Twitter that Plaskett's comments implied racism and discrimination.
