CALIFORNIA A former Calexico City Councilman along with a former commissioner on the city’s Economic Development and Financial Advisory Commission, admitted in federal court this week to taking cash bribes for help…
Former DEA Official Guilty of $4 Million Fraud Scheme by Posing as a CIA Officer
VIRGINIA A former DEA spokesman plead guilty to defrauding at least a dozen companies of over $4.4 million by posing as a covert officer of the CIA, officials announced. Garrison Kenneth Courtney,…
University Professor Indicted for Allegedly Making False Statement About Chinese Program
MASSACHUSETTS A federal grand jury indicted a former Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department Tuesday on charges of making false statements to federal authorities about his participation in China’s…
South Texas Man Guilty of Transporting More Than 60 Illegal Immigrants Who Were Inside Semi-Truck
LAREDO, TEXAS On Monday, a South Texas man plead guilty for his role in a conspiracy to transport illegal aliens within the country, according to officials. Leonidas Navarro, 30, from Zapata, Texas,…
Fifth Correction Officer Pleads Guilty to Beating Inmate and Covering it Up
TENNESSEE Jonathan York, 33, pleaded guilty Tuesday to using unlawful force on an inmate and then conspiring to cover up the incident while York was serving as a correctional officer with the…
California Man Sentencec to 10 Years in Prison for Possessing Hundreds of Child Porn Videos
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. A San Bernardino man who was on federal supervised release when he was found with hundreds of videos and still images depicting child pornography has been sentenced to 10 years…
Man Arrested for Brutally Beating, Raping and Sex Trafficking Three Victims
BUFFALO, N.Y. U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced today that Michael McDonald, a/k/a George Jackson, a/k/a Rabbit, 41, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with sex trafficking….
Three Men Face Federal Arson Charges for Setting Fire to Police Patrol Car During Protest
LAS VEGAS, NEV. Three men were arrested Wednesday and charged for setting fire to a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department patrol vehicle during a protest in Las Vegas, according to officials. Tyree…
South Carolina Man Guilty of Threatening to Bomb Clinic, Lying to FBI
FLORIDA Rodney Allen, 43, of Beaufort, South Carolina, pleaded guilty last week in federal court in Jacksonville, Florida, to one count of intimidating and interfering with the employees of an abortion clinic…
Kirschner: The Autopsy of George Floyd and Police Vetting
Glenn Kirschner: We have a pandemic of police excessive force incidents resulting in unlawful deaths of our African American brothers and sisters. Here’s my argument in favor a national use of force…
FBI: Billion Dollar Trade Secrets Stolen
May 27, 2020 Billion-Dollar Secrets Stolen Scientist Sentenced for Theft of Trade Secrets When scientist Hongjin Tan resigned from the Oklahoma petroleum company he’d worked at for 18 months, he told his…