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Jacksonville, Florida – United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Robert Arthur Ginder (34, Callahan) has been charged by federal criminal complaint with access with intent to view child exploitation material. Ginder faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison and a…
Read More Nassau County Fire And Rescue Employee Arrested And Charged With Accessing With Intent To View Child Exploitation Material
PITTSBURGH, PA. – The former president of an Ohio healthcare management company waived indictment and pleaded guilty today to bank fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. Harold Sosna, age 67, of Cincinnati, Ohio, pleaded guilty to one count before United States District…
Read More Ex-President of Ohio Healthcare Management Company Pleads Guilty in $59 Million Check Kiting Scheme Targeting S&T Bank
Baltimore, Maryland – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland and the FBI are committed to protecting the rights of all Marylanders to vote. U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur and Special Agent in Charge Jennifer C. Boone of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,…
Read More Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI Warn Marylanders about Election Misinformation
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN – James Verne Russell, 50, a former Michigan teacher and principal, was sentenced to serve 720 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for sexual exploitation of two minors. U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff also imposed lifetime-supervised release should it be necessary. Russell was also…
Read More Michigan Elementary School Teacher Gets 60-Years For Child Exploitation
COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING: President Donald J. Trump has prioritized fighting for the voiceless and ending the scourge of human trafficking across the Nation. In January 2020, President Trump recognized the 20th Anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and signed an Executive Order on Combating…
Read More United States National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking
A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against a South Texas man and woman for production, receipt and distribution of child pornography as well as coercion and enticement of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Initially charged by criminal complaint, Reid Etheridge,…
Read More Texas Man and Woman Indicted For Multiple Counts of Child Exploitation
PITTSBURGH, PA – A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to six years’ (72 months’) imprisonment and seven years’ supervised release on his conviction of Receipt of Material Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady…
Read More Pittsburgh Man Sentenced to 6-Years for Receiving Child Sexual Abuse Material
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced Tuesday that a Huntington man was sentenced to prison for a federal child pornography offense. Jeremiah Taylor, 32, was sentenced to 90 months in prison for distributing child pornography. Taylor was also ordered to complete 15…
Read More Former Marshall University Football Player 90-Months Federal Prison for Child Porn
JASPER COUNTY, SC.- A former federal inmate has been charged with helping destroy evidence of the murder of the wife of a Fort Stewart soldier, and then lying to investigators and grand jurors in the case. Devin Ryan, 30, of Hardeeville, S.C., has been indicted…
Read More South Carolina Man Charged, Obstruction in Case of Murdered Military Wife
On Saturday, October 17, 2020, the President signed into law three new bills that benefit United States Veterans. S. 743, the “Merrill’s Marauders Congressional Gold Medal Act,” which provides for the award of a Congressional gold medal to the soldiers of the 5307th Composite Unit…
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