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Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Dermot Shea, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), and…
Read More 16 New Jersey “Diamond Enterprise” Members Indicted For Racketeering, Gambling, Extortion, Fraud, Money Laundering, And Obstruction Offenses
The captain of the P/V Conception, a Santa Barbara-based dive boat that caught fire last year near Santa Cruz Island, resulting in the deaths of 33 passengers and one crew member, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on 34 counts of seaman’s manslaughter. Jerry…
Read More California Dive Boat Captain Charged with Seaman’s Manslaughter in Fire Killed 34 People
John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that ROBERT ECCLESTON, 56, of Canton, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging…
Read More Connecticut State Court Victim Advocate Charged with Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material
A repeat offender, from North Carolina, has been sentenced to 121 months in prison for possession of child pornography, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Robert Norris Forehand, 39, of Iron Station, N.C. was also ordered to serve a…
Read More North Carolina Repeat Offender Gets 10-Years for Child Porn
Officer Latoya Lisa Dythe, 26, and Devon Jamyll Jones, 27, both of Tulsa, were indicted this week for conspiracy to make a false statement to a firearms dealer and for false statement to a firearms dealer. Dythe lied on the required Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…
Read More Oklahoma Cop and Co-Conspirator Charged with Making False Statements to a Firearms Dealer
A federal judge in Austin sentenced 51-year-old Tamra Maurene Villarreal (aka Tamra Creighton Villarreal), the former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Richardson Enterprises, Ltd. headquartered in Austin, to 63 months imprisonment for her role in a close to $16 million embezzlement scheme, announced U.S. Attorney…
Read More Former CFO from Texas for Sentenced for Embezzling Close to $16 Million
When Judith Olson gave birth to Terri Olson at Bayfront Medical Center in 1973, the ‘Father’ line on the birth certificate was left blank. Forty-six years later, Father and Daughter are matched Ancestry.com. Terri Olson, now, 47, from Reno Venada, learned through an Ancestry that New Port…
Read More Florida Dad’s DNA Matched With Daughter in Nevada, 46-Years Later
First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Geoffrey Hines, 34, of Upper Darby, PA, was arrested and charged by Indictment with 29 counts of child pornography offenses. The defendant made his initial appearance in federal court this afternoon in front of United…
Read More Pennslyvania Man Arrested for Preying on Young Boys in Online Gaming
On Friday, the Supreme Court dismissed a Trump-backed lawsuit that was seeking to block Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin from voting in the Electoral College. On Saturday, President Trump said, “WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!!! IF Biden gets in, nothing will happen to Hunter…
Read More US Supreme Court Tosses Election Lawsuit, Texas GOP and President Trump React
Residents of Los Angeles, California, and Henderson, Nevada, pleaded guilty this week in federal court to charges of healthcare fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, and conspiracy to violate the federal anti-kickback statutes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. Additionally, 16 corporate entities (pharmacies)…
Read More 3-Defendants, 16-Defendant Pharmacies in Multiple States, Fraud Schemes Targeting Veterans