By Nathan Layne -A Minnesota judge on Friday sentenced former police officer Kimberly Potter to two years in the fatal shooting of Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, …
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Department of Justice Press Releases
Recidivist Defendant Charged In Connection With Fraudulent Eyewear Website For The Third Time
by DOJ Pressby DOJ PressDamian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Darnell D. Edwards, Acting Inspector in Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection …
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BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – A mother and daughter from Baltimore are basking in the glow of a $50,000 Powerball win. A last-minute ticket purchase saved them from missing out on winning the third-tier …
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Minneapolis Man Sentenced to 21 Years in Prison for Armed Robbery Spree of Twin Cities Businesses
by DOJ Pressby DOJ PressMINNEAPOLIS – A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to 262 months in prison for seven violent armed robberies of Twin Cities businesses. Acting U.S. Attorney Charles J. Kovats made the …
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Queens Marine Corps Reservist and Long Island Nurse Indicted for COVID-19 Vaccination Card Fraud Scheme
by DOJ Pressby DOJ PressAn indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Jia Liu, a member of the United States Marine Corps Reserve, and Steven Rodriguez, a nurse at a clinic …
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Eight Defendants Charged In Manhattan Federal Court For Distributing Fentanyl Linked To Multiple Overdose Deaths In The Bronx
by DOJ Pressby DOJ PressDamian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Timothy Foley, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division (“DEA”), …
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Eric Adams Outran Prominent Progressives In Their Own Congressional Districts
NEW YORK, NY – Despite running a blue-collar campaign that focused on fighting crime, restoring public safety and improving — not defunding — the police, Eric Adams outran multiple high-profile …
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Ex-Goldman banker testifies ‘greed and ambition’ motivated 1MDB bribery
by Reutersby ReutersBy Luc Cohen and Jody Godoy NEW YORK – A former Goldman Sachs partner testified on Wednesday that “greed and ambition” drove his involvement in a bribery scheme that looted …
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Jared Kushner ally pardoned by Trump pleads guilty to attempting to spy on ex-wife
by Reutersby ReutersBy Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK – Ken Kurson, a former editor of the New York Observer newspaper who was pardoned in January 2021 by then-U.S. President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty …
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Ex-Goldman banker got millions in 1MDB-linked kickbacks – prosecutor
by Reutersby ReutersBy Luc Cohen NEW YORK – Prosecutors on Monday accused a former Goldman Sachs banker of seeking to make millions of dollars laundering money looted from Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign wealth …
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By Jody Godoy NEW YORK – Former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng is accused of bribery and money laundering charges in connection with the multibillion-dollar looting of Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign …
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Explainer-What charges does ex-Goldman banker Ng face in 1MDB corruption trial?
by Reutersby ReutersBy Luc Cohen – Opening statements in former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng’s U.S. corruption trial https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/rogue-employee-or-goldman-scapegoat-ex-bankers-1mdb-corruption-trial-kick-off-2022-02-10 over the looting of hundreds of millions of dollars from Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign …
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Department of Justice Press Releases
First of six consultants indicted in Amazon bribery scheme sentenced to prison
by DOJ Pressby DOJ PressSeattle – The first of six consultants indicted in September 2020, for a fraud and bribery scheme targeting Amazon.com and its online Marketplace, was sentenced today to 10 months in …
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New York City is expected to fire around 3,000 city employees Friday because they declined to receive a COVID-19 vaccine shot, according to The New York Times. The vaccine mandate …
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Department of Justice Press Releases
Gambino Crime Family Captain Sentenced to 37 Months in Prison and Ordered to Pay $1 Million in Restitution for Racketeering Conspiracy
by DOJ Pressby DOJ PressEarlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Andrew Campos, a captain in the Gambino organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra, was sentenced by United States District Judge Ann …
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Gambino Crime Family Captain Andrew Campos Sentenced to 37 Months in Prison
by DOJ Pressby DOJ PressEarlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Andrew Campos, a captain in the Gambino organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra, was sentenced by United States District Judge Ann …
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Department of Justice Press Releases
Final Defendant Sentenced To 28 Years In Prison For 2011 Murder Of Joshua Rubin
by DOJ Pressby DOJ PressDamian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that KEVIN TAYLOR was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff to 28 …
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New York Times is free to publish Project Veritas documents, appeals court rules
by Reutersby ReutersBy Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK – A New York state appeals court freed the New York Times to publish documents concerning the conservative activist group Project Veritas, putting on hold …
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ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND – High fives and celebrations all around as Diane Heil was named the final winner of our 2021 Ravens second-chance promotion. Heil won a pair of Ravens season …
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Rogue employee or Goldman scapegoat? Ex-banker’s 1MDB corruption trial to kick off
by Reutersby ReutersBy Luc Cohen NEW YORK – A former Goldman Sachs banker charged with helping to embezzle hundreds of millions of dollars from Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund will go on …
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Department of Justice Press Releases
Former SUNY Delhi Student Sentenced for Unemployment Insurance Fraud
by DOJ Pressby DOJ PressBINGHAMTON, NEW YORK – Makahi Daevon Bryant, 20, of Brooklyn, New York was sentenced yesterday to three years of probation for his role in an unemployment insurance fraud scheme, announced …
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Former Mexican Federal Police Commander Sentenced to 10 Years’ Imprisonment for Drug Trafficking Conspiracy
by DOJ Pressby DOJ PressEarlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Ivan Reyes Arzate, a former Mexican Federal Police Officer and Commander of the Mexican Federal Police’s Sensitive Investigative Unit (“SIU”), was sentenced by …
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Five Defendants Charged In $8.4 Million “Boiler Room” Fraud And Money Laundering Scheme
by DOJ Pressby DOJ PressDamian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas Fattorusso, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal …
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Business Loan Company Sues NYC Man On Life Support From COVID-19
Marissa Amara on February 7, 2022 A man from the Bronx, New York, who is on life support due to COVID-19, was sued by a lending company after contracting COVID-19 …
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Ex-head of U.S. Human Rights Campaign sues group, alleging racial discrimination
by Reutersby Reuters-The Black former president of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the United States, sued the organization on Thursday, accusing it of racial discrimination in his …