May 7, 2020
Former VA Doctor Indicted for Abusive Sexual Contact With Male Patients
WEST VIRGINIA A federal grand jury in Charleston, West Virginia, this week returned a seven-count indictment charging Dr. Jonathan Yates, 51, with federal civil rights and abusive sexual contact offenses. Yates, a…
Feds: Man Indicted for Hate Crime and Arson on Religious Property
WASHINGTON A federal grand jury in Cape Girardeau, Missouri indicted Nicholas J. Proffitt, 42, for his conduct in connection with the April 24, 2020 fire at the Cape Girardeau Islamic Center. The…
Feds: Texas Man Sentenced to 60 Years for Sexually Abusing Child in Hundreds of Video and Images
TEXAS A man from Water Valley, Texas, was sentenced Tuesday to serve 60 years in prison for making hundreds of videos and images of himself sexually abusing a child, according to officials. …
University of Arkansas Professor Lied About Close Ties With China to Get NASA Grant Money
ARKANSAS Simon Saw-Teong Ang, 63, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was arrested on Friday on charges related to Wire Fraud, according to officials. In the one-count complaint, Ang was charged with one count of Wire…
Man Set Up Romance Scam that Conned Four Women, Including Actress, into Investing in Bogus Companies
LOS ANGELES A Santa Monica man plead guilty to a federal fraud charge for a romance scam in which he deceived women he met online and elsewhere into investing tens of thousands…
JUST SAYING: Born-Again, Republicans; Tom Cotton’s Darkside; Cops and Journalists, Trump v. Twitter; Powerful Ad by Lincoln Project; Clorox Ads Featuring Trump, Lessons Learned….. Maybe Not
JUST SAYING BY RAUL HERNANDEZ [email protected] REPUBLICAN POLITICAL REVIVAL Headline: “Are a few Republican consciences finally beginning to awake?” Really? What happened to their “consciences” when Trump told them where he…
Two Businessmen, First in Nation, Charged for Fraudulently Seeking CARES Act SBA Protection Loans
RHODE ISLAND Two businessmen were charged in federal court with allegedly filing bank loan applications fraudulently seeking more than a half-million dollars in forgivable loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA)…
ICE: Salvadoran Gang Member Wanted for Murder in El Salvador is Arrested in U.S.
ICE arrests, removes Salvadoran gang member wanted for homicide BOSTON — Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a Salvadoran gang member Friday, who was…
Texas Woman Guilty of Bank Fraud by Posing as Customers to Make Withdrawals in Southern California
SANTA ANA, CALIF. A Houston woman has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges in connection with a scheme in which she and a second defendant posed as customers of Bank of…
Former Chief of Honduran National Police Charged with Drug Trafficking and Weapons Offenses
NEW YORK The former Chief of Honduran National Police, Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, aka “El Tigre,” was charged in Manhattan federal court with conspiring to import cocaine into the U.S., officials announced…