GEORGIA The company that makes Peter Pan peanut butter agreed to plead guilty to selling contaminated peanut butter linked to a 2006 through 2007 nationwide outbreak of salmonella poisoning, officials said. ConAgra…
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U.S. Department of Justice Cases
Southwest Airlines Baggage Handlers Allegedly Used Positions for Drug Dealing
OAKLAND Federal officials charged a group of Southwest Airlines baggage handlers with using their positions at the airport to sneak bags of marijuana past security checkpoints before handing them off to passengers….
Chinese Professor Among Six Defendants Indicted for Economic Espionage
CALIFORNIA A Tianjin University Professor Hao Zhang was arrested last weekend when he arrived in the United States from the People’s Republic of China and charged with economic espionage, officials said. Zhang and five other…
Lawyer Arrested for Accepting $6,000 to Smuggle Witness Out of U.S.
SANTA ANA, CALIF. Law enforcement agents arrested an immigration attorney who tried to help a Chinese national get out of the United States after the woman had been designed as a…
Lawyer Who Stole More than $2 Million from Clients Sentenced to Five Years
ATLANTA A federal judge sentenced former Gwinnett County, Georgia, lawyer Michael Rene Berlon to five years and three months in prison for stealing more than $2 million from clients of his former…
Rabbi Sentenced to Six Years for Secretly Video Recording Women Showering
WASHINGTON D.C. A federal judge sentenced a 63-year-old rabbi who worked for a Jewish congregation in Washington D.C. to six years and six months in prison for secretly recording at least 52…
Company Duped VA to Get Business Contracts Earmarked for Disabled Servicemen
LOS ANGELES A Santa Maria company paid $1 million because it falsely claimed it was a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business to get landscaping and cemetery restoration contracts with the U.S. Department…
“Financial Coach” Sentenced to Nine Years In Prison for Financial Fraud
ST. LOUIS, MO Bryan Binkholder, who labels himself as “The Financial Coach,” was sentenced on Friday to nine years in prison for deceiving the public through his websites, YouTube channel, books and…
Coal Company Hit With $102 Million Fine for Polluting North Carolina River
NORTH CAROLINA Three subsidiaries of the largest utility in the United States plead guilty and were fined $102 million for polluting the Dan River by pouring massive coal ash into the water,…
Art Appraiser Sentenced to Two Years for Smuggling Rhino Horns and Elephant Ivory
TEXAS A federal judge sentenced an appraiser of Asian art to two years and a month in prison for being involved in an illegal wildlife smuggling conspiracy in which rhinoceros horns and…
Heroin Drug Dealer Who Ran Large-Scale Organization Pleads Guilty
TRENTON, NJ—A leader of a large-scale drug trafficking organization admitted Wednesday to conspiring to distribute heroin in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Rufus Young, a/k/a “Equan,” a/k/a “E-Money,” of…
Man Sentenced to 240 Years for Using Female Children to Produce Porn
INDIANA A federal judge sentenced a 32-year-old man to 240 years in prison for producing sexually explicit images and videos of three females and distributing the child pornography, officials said. Daniel…