SANTA ANA, CALIF. An Orange County man plead guilty Tuesday to a federal wire fraud offense and admitted operating a $6 million scheme that bilked investors who were promised large profits from…
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Man Guilty of Burning Mosque Facing Up to 30 Years in Prison
TEXAS The Justice Department announced Monday that a federal jury in Victoria, Texas, has returned guilty verdicts on all counts as charged related to the 2017 burning of a local mosque. The…
12 Russian Intelligent Officers Indicted for Interfering with 2016 Election
WASHINGTON D.C. A federal grand jury indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers for hacking offenses to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, according to the Department of Justice. All twelve defendants are members…
Cop Guilty of Stealing Drug Money During Execution of Search Warrants
TENNESSEE Former Nashville Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. James Dunaway plead guilty this week in U.S. District Court to theft from an entity that receives federal program funds and money laundering, officials announced…
Texas Man Guilty of Putting Noose Around Doll to Intimidate Black Family
TEXAS Glenn Eugene Halfin, 64, from Grapevine, Texas, plead guilty Thursday in federal court to a federal charge of interfering with an African-American family’s housing rights, according to officials. According to court documents,…
Man Guilty of Traveling to the Philippines to have Sex with a Female Minor
BALTIMORE A Reisterstown, Maryland man plead guilty Wednesday in federal court to traveling to the Philippines to have sex with a minor and producing child pornography, according to officials. Martin Hall, 56,…
Drug Dealer Sentenced to 26 Years for Counterfeit Opioid Scheme
LOS ANGELES A federal judge sentenced the leader of a narcotics distribution ring that imported a powerful fentanyl counterfeit from China and produced hundreds of thousands of opioid pills to 26 years in…
$100 Million Settlement Reached to Cleanup Dioxin-Contaminated Site
RHODE ISLAND The EPA and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management announced today that two subsidiaries of Stanley Black & Decker Inc.—Emhart Industries Inc. and Black & Decker Inc.—agreed to clean…
More Added to 75-Count Indictment Against Mongols and Gang Associates
TENNESSEE Two more associates of the Mongols Motorcycle Gang were added to a 75-count indictment returned last month by a federal grand jury, according to officials. The crimes related to racketeering conspiracy,…
Hong Kong Bank Pays $47 Million as Criminal Penalty for Illegally Hiring to Get Fat Contracts
NEW YORK A Hong Kong bank agreed to pay a $47 million criminal penalty for being involved in a corrupt scheme to win banking business by giving jobs to friends and family…
Border Patrol Agent Charged with Distributing Child Pornography
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK Federal officials charged Keith E. Hook, age 54, of Oswego, New York, with distributing child pornography over the internet. According to the federal criminal complaint, Hook, a U.S. Border…
Man Sentenced to Five Years for Misrepresenting Life Insurance Plans
TENNESSEE A federal judge sentenced a Brentwood, Tennessee man this week to five years and six months in prison for his criminal conduct in marketing and misrepresenting health insurance plans, according to…