Former Paralegal for Chicago Law Firm Charged With Embezzling Bankruptcy Estate Funds

CHICAGO — A former paralegal for a Chicago law firm has been indicted for allegedly embezzling more than $600,000 from bankruptcy estate accounts. BECKY LOUISE SUTTON fraudulently embezzled the funds from 2009…

April 21, 2022

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Pacific Northwest Environmental Extremist and Arsonist Pleads Guilty

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PORTLAND, Ore.—A Pacific Northwest environmental extremist, arsonist, and former fugitive pleaded guilty today in federal court for his role in two arson conspiracies targeting commercial and government-owned animal processing facilities in Oregon…

April 21, 2022

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Superintendent of Chicopee Schools Indicted on Charges of Making False Statements

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BOSTON – The Superintendent of the Chicopee Public Schools has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements in connection with sending 99 threatening messages to a…

April 21, 2022

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Oregon Man Sentenced to 16 Years on Drug and Assault Charges

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ANCHORAGE – An Oregon man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to 16 years in prison for drug conspiracy and assault of a corrections officer. According to court…

April 21, 2022

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Two Boone County Men Plead Guilty in Connection with Damage to Energy Facility

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Two Boone County men pleaded guilty in connection with damage to an energy facility, identified as a known mine located across Boone and Lincoln counties. According to court documents…

April 21, 2022

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Three Sentenced in Connection with the 2013 Murder of Loomis Armored Guard Hector Trochez

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NEW ORLEANS, LA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that yesterday JEREMY ESTEVES, age 35, ROBERT BRUMFIELD, III, age 28, and JASMINE THEOPHILE, age 29, all of New Orleans, were…

April 21, 2022

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Justice Department Announces Nationwide Coordinated Law Enforcement Action to Combat Health Care-Related COVID-19 Fraud

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NEWARK, N.J. –The Department of Justice announced criminal charges against 21 defendants in nine federal districts across the United States for their alleged participation in various health care related fraud schemes that…

April 21, 2022

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Wilkinsburg Teen Sentenced to 15 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Unlawfully Acquire Guns

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PITTSBURGH, PA — A resident of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 15 months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to commit…

April 21, 2022

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Non-Citizen Charged With Hindering Removal To Jamaica

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HARRISBURG – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Cleon Ainsworth Samuels, age 32, was indicted on April 20, 2022, by a federal grand jury for…

April 21, 2022

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KC Woman Pleads Guilty to Meth Conspiracy

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Kansas City, Missouri, woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to her role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine. Sonia Ornelas, 44, pleaded guilty…

April 21, 2022

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Michigan City Man Sentenced To 84 Months in Prison

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SOUTH BEND – Colton Crawford, 33 years old, of Michigan City, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty on his plea of guilty to being a felon…

April 21, 2022

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Fort Wayne Man Sentenced To 110 Months In Prison

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FORT WAYNE- James J. Goheen, III, age 39, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Holly A. Brady, on his plea of guilty to maintaining a drug-involved…

April 21, 2022

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Virginia equipment company owner sentenced, fined $50,000 for role in scheme to defraud Roundup coal mine

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BILLINGS — A Virginia equipment company owner who admitted to defrauding Signal Peak Energy, LLC, which operates a coal mine near Roundup, of nearly $250,000 in an equipment purchase scheme was sentenced…

April 21, 2022

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Abingdon Man to Serve More Than 17 Years for Trafficking Methamphetamine

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ABINGDON, Va. – Ralph Allen Phillips, Jr., 62, was sentenced today to 210 months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. According to…

April 21, 2022

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Woonsocket Drug Runner Sentenced to Federal Prison

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Woonsocket woman who acted as a runner for two men convicted of brokering drug deals and supplying fentanyl and crack cocaine has been sentenced to one year and…

April 21, 2022

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Ecorse Man Sentenced on Charges of Mail Fraud

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DETROIT – An Ecorse resident was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after having pleaded guilty to committing mail fraud by executing a scheme to defraud his employer, Hankyu Hanshin Express,…

April 21, 2022

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A member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma was sentenced today to more than 12 years in prison for his conduct in connection with a homicide that took place in 2017 within…

April 21, 2022

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Portage Man Sentenced To 27 Months In Prison

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HAMMOND- Luis Carlos Marin, Jr., 31 years old, of Portage, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Philip P. Simon on his plea of guilty to making a false statement…

April 21, 2022

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New York Rideshare Driver Gets 20 Years in Prison for Transporting Minor

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CAMDEN, N.J. – A Queens rideshare driver has been sentenced to nearly twenty years in prison for transporting a minor across state lines to engage in criminal sexual acts. Richard Gabriel Piedra…

April 21, 2022

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Physician Indicted in $10 Million Telemedicine Health Care Fraud Scheme

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An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Elemer Raffai, an orthopedic surgeon, with health care fraud in connection with a $10 million scheme involving the submission of false…

April 21, 2022

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