BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNAL MAY 28, 2019, 7:00 AM The New Mexico Supreme Court has appointed a work group to consider whether the state should allow licensed legal…
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ICE: 31 Arrests, Mostly Criminal Suspects, in Five-Day NYC
ICE arrests 31 in 5-day New York City metropolitan-area enforcement surge NEW YORK – Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New York arrested 31 during…
ICE: Human Smuggler Sentenced to 22 years for Scheme Resulting in 2 Deaths
MCALLEN, TEXAS A South Texas man was sentenced Tuesday to 21 years in federal prison for his role in a human smuggling scheme resulting in the deaths of two smuggled aliens, according…
Seventy-Year-Old Man Sentenced to 15 Months for Hate Crime
OREGON Benjamin Jaramillo Hernandez, 70, of Eugene, Oregon, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in federal prison for committing a hate crime targeting St. Mary Catholic Church in Eugene in September 2018…
Prison Inmate Sentenced to Eight Years for Threatening to Murder Federal Judge
FRESNO, CALIF A federal judge this week sentenced Cyrus Dennis Braswell, 57, to eight years and one month in prison for three counts of mailing threatening communications, federal officials announced Wednesday. On…
Lawyer Who Didn’t Practice Law for 2 Decades Removed from Death Penalty Case
Lawyer Remove from death penalty case BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS MAY 21, 2019, 10:37 AM CD Image from Shutterstock.com. A California lawyer who was appointed to represent a capital defendant after a longtime…
Former Bank Executive Sentenced to More than Five Years for Loan Fraud
LOS ANGELES – The former chief marketing officer at the now-defunct Mirae Bank was sentenced Monday five years and ten months in federal prison for his role in a scheme that caused the…
Man Who Robbed 23 Gas Stations and Convenience Stores Sentenced to Eight Years
SANTA ANA, CALIF. A federal judge sentenced Buena Park man to eight years in federal prison for robbing 23 gasoline stations and convenience stores in Los Angeles and Orange counties where he…
Man Guilty of Running Down Federal Officer with His Car
SANTA ANA, CALIF. An Aliso Viejo man pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges stemming from a vehicular assault that severely injured an employee of U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the federal…
Federal Court: Putin-Owned Radio Station in Florida Must Register as a Foreign Agent
FLORIDA U.S. District Court Judge Robin L. Rosenberg ruled that a Florida-based company, RM Broadcasting LLC or RM Broadcasting) was acting as an agent of a foreign principal, according to officials. The…
Cali Drug Cartel Member Guilty of Bribing a Homeland Security Investigations Agent
FLORIDA Colombian Cali Cartel cocaine trafficker plead guilty Friday to bribing a former Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent to get his drug trafficking indictment dropped. Jose Bayron Piedrahita-Ceballos, 60, of Medellin, Colombia,…
Man Convicted of $3 Million ID Fraud Facing More than 1,000 Years in Prison
LOS ANGELES – A Northridge man convicted of 51 counts of fraud, money laundering, identity theft and other federal offenses in relation to a scheme that generated at least $3 million is facing…