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Seattle – A repeat offender, who continued to deal methamphetamine and cocaine in Thurston County even as he was on supervised release from a prior conviction, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 132 months in prison, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd.
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ALBANY, NEW YORK – M Squared Staffing LLC, the former operator of the Vestal Coal House in Vestal, New York, and its owner, Mark Mushalla, will pay $130,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by falsely certifying that the restaurant was eligible to receive funding from the federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF).
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HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that ID Logistics US, Inc. (IDUSA) has agreed to pay $2,362,360 to resolve allegations that it improperly obtained a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for which it was not eligible. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was a federal law enacted in or about March 2020 designed to provide emergency financial assistance to millions of…
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MONROE – On August 11, 2026, a federal jury found Donald Kelly, 44, of West Monroe, guilty of Distribution of Methamphetamine; Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine; Possession of Firearms by a Prohibited Person; and Possession of Firearms in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime after a two-day trial. Kelly faces a sentence of up to life imprisonment. Sentencing is scheduled for November 10, 2026. According to court records, Kelly had a prior federal Possession with Intent to Distribute crack…
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WILMINGTON, Del. – A Maryland man was arrested on August 11, 2026, on charges of coercion and enticement of a minor and for traveling to Delaware to engage in illicit sexual conduct. As alleged in court documents, Majdi Jones, 22, communicated with a 12-year-old victim over Snapchat, exchanged nude photographs with the victim, and arranged to meet for sex. Through those communications, Jones learned the victim was a minor, lied about his own age, and nevertheless arranged to meet the victim in a Delaware park in…
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PHOENIX, Ariz. – Jeremie Andrew Sowerby, 48, of Fountain Hills, Arizona, pleaded guilty earlier this month to Wire Fraud and admitted to scamming hundreds of victims through a series of investment fraud schemes spanning from 2017 through 2023.
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WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Katrina Maclean, age 47, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was sentenced on August 18, 2026, to 24 months in prison by Chief United States District Judge Matthew W. Brann for interstate transportation of stolen property. According to United States Attorney Brian D. Miller, Maclean admitted to her role in a nationwide network of individuals who bought and sold human remains, including remains stolen from Harvard…
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Chandler Britain Bradford was found guilty in a federal court in San Antonio for seven counts related to the smuggling of firearm parts into Mexico and conspiracy to commit money laundering
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Vanessa Bonaparte, 34, of Washington D.C., was found guilty yesterday in D.C. Superior Court on charges related to the fatal stabbing of Dwayne Boyd on June 22, 2024, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A federal grand jury has returned an indictment today charging a Jefferson County man with preparing false and fraudulent tax returns for others and filing false and fraudulent tax returns for himself. “As alleged, Mr. Shine orchestrated a sweeping tax fraud scheme that exploited federal energy‑credit programs and siphoned tens of millions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury,” said Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division. “Tax…
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BURLINGTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont stated that on August 18, 2026, Joseph Vaillancourt, 43, of Hartford, Vermont, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Christina Reiss to a term of 24 months’ imprisonment to be followed by a 3-year term of supervised release. The sentence will run concurrent to any sentence imposed in a pending Windsor County, Vermont case. Vaillancourt previously pleaded guilty to knowing possession of the silencer in June 2026. According to…
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BOSTON – A Massachusetts woman was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for her role in a scheme to defraud a bank in Massachusetts.
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A Lakeside, Oregon, man was sentenced to federal prison today for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine
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Previously convicted sex offender Richard Scott Tyson, 57, of Gum Spring, was sentenced to life plus ten years in prison for sexually exploiting two minors.
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BOSTON – A South Carolina man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court Boston to a sex trafficking conspiracy that victimized two minors and one adult. The adult victim was trafficked throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island and South Carolina. The defendant kept all the profits for his own financial gain.
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ST. PAUL – United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced that Alex James Wall, 39, of Mankato, Minnesota, pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography. Wall’s change of plea hearing was before U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank on August 18, 2026. Wall will be facing a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison. According to court documents, between April 14, 2023, and March 6, 2025, Wall attempted to entice and coerce a 14-to-15-year-old girl to engage in sexually explicit conduct to produce child pornography.…
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Seattle – The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Violence Against Women has awarded grants totaling more than $2.3 million for services to survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and stalking, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd.
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SAN DIEGO – Georgina Bribiesca Chavez of Tijuana, Mexico, appeared in federal court today to face a wildlife trafficking charge after she allegedly participated in a years-long scheme to smuggle exotic reptiles into and out of the United States. Chavez’s alleged wildlife trafficking partner, Salvador Pelayo of Chula Vista, was arrested in July and faces a similar federal charge for trafficking exotic wildlife.
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Two people have been sentenced to prison for conspiring to produce child pornography by sexually exploiting two children.
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Today, the Civil Rights Division is monitoring polling sites in Florida and Wyoming for the states’ primary elections to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.
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Thomas Mwangi, the former owner of a Cartersville, Georgia manufacturing business, was arraigned last week on federal bank and wire fraud charges after allegedly defrauding First Financial Bank (“First Financial”) out of more than $20 million.
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Spokane, Washington – First Assistant United States Attorney Pete Serrano announced that on August 19, 2026, Richard Timothy Kalesnick, age 41, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for Possession of Child Pornography. United States District Judge Thomas O. Rice also imposed a life term of supervised release to follow the prison term, as well as imposing a $3,000 special assessment pursuant to the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act (AVAA). Assessments under the AVAA are paid into a fund from…
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CONCORD – Michael Savard, 40, of Colebrook, was sentenced yesterday in federal court for fentanyl trafficking conspiracy in a case brought by New Hampshire’s Homeland Security Task Force, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. Savard was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Landya McCafferty to 80 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release. Savard previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl. “This defendant trafficked dangerously addictive…
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Louisville, KY – A Shepherdsville, Kentucky man was sentenced on August 11, 2026, to 9 years in federal prison for wire fraud and spending fraud proceeds. U.S. Attorney Kyle G. Bumgarner of the Western District of Kentucky, Special Agent in Charge Olivia Olson of the FBI Louisville Field Office, and Acting Special Agent in Charge Bobby Kuszynski of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, Detroit Field Office made the announcement. Stacy Allen Taylor, 59, of Shepherdsville, conspired with others in an…
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