RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A Raleigh-based national leader of the Pagans Motorcycle Club, recognized by law enforcement as an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, will spend the rest of his life behind bars, according…
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Telemarketing Fraudsters Who Conned 4,000 Job Seekers Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison
LOS ANGELES Two members of a $2.1 million Riverside County-based, family-run telemarketing scam each were sentenced in absentia Monday The two were sentenced to nine years in federal prison for their roles…
Former Arkansas State Senator Sentenced to Federal Prison for Bribery and Tax Fraud
WASHINGTON D.C. A former Arkansas State Senator was sentenced Friday to three years and ten months in prison in Arkansas for accepting multiple bribes and tax fraud, officials stated. The crimes were…
Food Manufacturer Guilty of Having Unsanitary Plant That Resulted in 2018 Salmonella Poisoning Outbreak
ILLINOIS Food and ingredient manufacturing company Kerry Inc. plead guilty Friday to a charge that it manufactured breakfast cereal under insanitary conditions at a facility in Gridley, Illinois, officials stated. The unsanitary…
Disbarred Lawyer Charged with Allegedly Embezzling More Than $15 Million in Client Money
LOS ANGELES A federal grand jury indicted former plaintiffs’ personal-injury lawyer Thomas Vincent Girardi for allegedly embezzling more than $15 million from several of his legal clients, the Justice Department announced Wednesday….
Former Top Guatemalan Police Official Guilty of Failing to Disclose Murder Convictions on Green Card Application
LOS ANGELES The former chief of the National Police in Guatemala’s second-largest city has been found guilty by a jury of a federal criminal charge for knowingly using a “green card” application…
Man Sentenced for Role in the Jan. 6 Capitol Breach — Entered Senate Gallery, Took Selfies
WASHINGTON D.C. A California man was sentenced Monday on a felony charge for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Andrew Alan Hernandez and others disrupted…
Two Florida Doctors Convicted in $31 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
A federal jury convicted two Florida doctors Monday for their roles in a scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting over $31 million in claims for expensive durable medical equipment (DME) that Medicare…
Former Cop Sentenced for Shooting a Person with a Pepperball While She Stood on Private Property
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY Katie R. Crews, 29, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, was sentenced to two years of probation, 200 hours of community service, and a $5,000 fine for shooting a pepperball at a person…
Former Hawaii Federal Prison Guard Arrested for Sexual Abuse of Inmates
A former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional officer was arrested Wednesday in Oahu, Hawaii, on criminal charges related to his alleged sexual abuse of female inmates, officials stated. “As alleged, the defendant’s…
Feds: Chinese Man Sentence to Eight Years for Spying for China
ILLINOIS A Chinese national was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison for acting illegally within the United States as an agent of China, officials stated. A federal jury in Illinois last…
Mexican Charged With Alleged International Cocaine and Methamphetamine Trafficking
A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted Antonio Oseguera Cervantes, aka Tony Montana, a Mexican national, with international cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy, officials stated. According to court documents, Oseguera Cervantes, 64,…