A California man who was found guilty at trial of traveling to Cambodia to have illicit sexual conduct with young girls was sentenced Monday to 70 years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $40,000 restitution to a victim.
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Ex-FBI Computer Tech Guilty of Spying for the Chinese Government
NEW YORK Kun Shan Chun, a native of the People’s Republic of China and a naturalized U.S. citizen, plead guilty Monday to spying for China, according to officials. Chun, aka Joey Chun,…
Man Who Planned Attack During State of Union in D.C. Plead Guilty to Terrorism Charges
Twenty-two-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell, of Green Township, Ohio, plead guilty Monday to plotting to travel to Washington D.C. to attack the U.S. Capitol during the State of the Union Address in 2015, according to authorities.
New York Surgeon Convicted of Filing $25 Million in Bogus Claims to Medicare
A New York surgeon who practiced at hospitals in Brooklyn and Long Island, New York, found guilty Thursday for submitting millions of dollars in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for services he didn’t perform, federal officials announced Friday.
Two Ohio Men Charged with Hate Crime for Beating a Black Man Who They Saw on the Street
Two Ohio men — Charles Butler, 33, and Robert Paschalis, 25, both of Toledo, Ohio, were charged with a federal hate crime Friday for beating a black man they saw on the street unloading a truck, according to officials.
Butler admitted being a white supremacist.
North Hollywood Man Arrested for Illegally Using African Elephant Ivory Inlays to Put on Custom Pool Cues
U.S. Marshals arrested a North Hollywood man on federal charges of aiding and abetting the illegal smuggling of protected elephant ivory, according to officials.
Cesar Ernesto Gutierrez, 75, was charged in a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in federal courtwith aiding and abetting the attempted illegal exportation from the United States to Taiwan of protected African elephant ivory.
El Monte Mayor Admits Accepting Bribes from Contractor Doing Business with City
LOS ANGELES The Mayor of South El Monte was charged with bribery for accepting money from a contractor doing business with the city, as well as accepting a bribe during an FBI…
Ex-Cop Sentenced to Four Years For Beating Suspect Who Possessed His Daughter’s Credit Card
A federal judge sentenced a former St. Louis Metropolitan police officer Thomas Carroll, 52, to four years and four months Thursday for beating a handcuffed suspect who was in possession of his daughter’s credit card, according to officials.
Man Scammed Green Energy Investors Out of $3.6 Million by Promising to Turn Old Tires into Oil
A federal grand jury indicted a Laguna Beach man of defrauding victims out of more than $3 million in an investment fraud scam related to green energy, according to officials.
Authorities arrested Peter Heinrich Conrad Reinert, 61, in April 2015 after a grand jury charged him in two investment fraud schemes that allegedly caused $3.6 million in losses.
Eight Crips Street Gang Members Charged With Federal Sex Trafficking Charges, Victims Brutalized
A criminal complaint, unsealed today in federal court, named eight members of the Polywood Crips street gang in Fort Worth.
Two remain fugitives, and last week, six were arrested by federal agents and the Fort Worth Police Department, according to officials.
During the course of the arrests, among other items, law enforcement seized numerous cell phones, a computer, a tablet and a stolen firearm.
ICE Agent Sentenced for Taking Bribes from Korean Businessman Allegedly Involved in Human Trafficking
A federal judge sentenced a former special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Tuesday to 10 months in federal prison for accepting thousands of dollars in bribes from a Korean businessman, according to U.S. Department of Justice.
Disgruntled Former Citibank Worker Who Shutdown 90 Percent of Bank’s Network Sentenced to Prison
A Dallas man who worked at Citibank Regents Campus in Irving, Texas was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for causing damage to a computer.
The damage caused the shutting down of 90 percent of the bank’s network, according to the Department of Justice.