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PITTSBURGH, PA- A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court related to a series of bank robberies that occurred in West Mifflin, McCandless, and Penn Hills, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced Tuesday. Donna Poremski, 44, pleaded guilty to four…
Read More Pittsburgh Woman Pleads Guilty In Conspiracy To Rob 3 Banks In 2018
The FBI’s Washington Field Office has released two new videos of suspects in violent assaults on federal officers during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and is seeking the public’s help to identify them. The two new videos depict suspects #106…
Read More FBI Releases New Videos of Suspects in Violent Assaults on Federal Officers at U.S. Capitol, Seeks Public’s Help in Identifying Them
Mary Margaret Olohan A children’s show on PBS featured drag queen and author “Little Miss Hot Mess” singing, dancing, and reading a book about drag queens to an intended audience of three to eight-year-olds. “I think we might have some drag queens in training on…
Read More ‘Drag Queens In Training’ NYC Department Of Education Children’s Show Features 12 Minutes Of ‘Lil Miss Hot Mess’ Reading And Dancing
Andrew Trunsky The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would create a bipartisan, 9/11-style commission into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, with dozens of Republicans joining Democrats in a rebuke of GOP leadership. The bill passed 252 to 175 with the support of…
Read More House Passes Bill Creating Capitol Riot Commission With Support From Dozens Of Republicans, Rebuking GOP Leadership
A former supervisory correctional officer at the Valdosta State Prison (VSP) in Valdosta, Georgia, pleaded guilty today to violating the civil rights of two inmates during two separate incidents. According to court documents and admissions made during the hearing, on Sept. 24, 2018, Patrick Sharpe,…
Read More Former Georgia Supervisory Correctional Officer Pleads Guilty to Civil Rights Offenses for Assaulting Inmates
A federal grand jury in Honolulu, Hawaii, returned an indictment on May 13 charging a Hawaii husband and wife with conspiring to defraud the United States and filing a false tax return. The husband was also charged with five counts of money laundering. The indictment…
Read More Hawaii Couple Indicted in Tax Fraud Scheme
A federal grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio, returned a superseding indictment on May 13, 2021, that was unsealed yesterday, charging three Ohio men and one woman with conspiring to operate illegal gambling businesses and to defraud the IRS, among other criminal offenses. According to the…
Read More Four Ohio Individuals Charged with Gambling and Tax Offenses
Mary Margaret Olohan Over 700 survivors and advocates called on Congress to demand that the Department of Justice conduct a criminal investigation into Pornhub’s parent company MindGeek, warning that the pornography platform is permitting “grave crimes” to continue. “It is urgent that Congress demand that…
Read More Over 700 Survivors, Advocates Call On Congress For Criminal Investigation Into Pornhub’s Parent Company
Thomas Catenacci Colonial Pipeline decided to pay a multimillion-dollar ransom to hackers for the good of the country, the gas company’s CEO told The Wall Street Journal. Company officials weren’t sure how long it would take to recover their hacked systems if they chose not…
Read More Colonial Pipeline CEO Reveals Why He Paid Millions To Eastern European Hackers
Kaylee Greenlee Former Trump administration border officials asked President Joe Biden to dismiss Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to protect the U.S., according to a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation Wednesday. Three Trump-era officials, now with the Federation…
Read More Former Border Officials Say Mayorkas ‘Abjectly Failed’ To Protect The Border And Should Be Fired