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Prosecutors allege Jamar Geeter, already serving 97 years in California, used contraband phones behind bars for part of a scheme to force three minors and a woman into commercial sex. The FBI says all four were rescued.
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Ygor Fokin Saviolli was the last of six defendants sentenced in a scheme that ran drug cash through U.S. banks. Treasury has tied the network to the PCC, a Brazil-based gang it calls Latin America's largest.
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Prosecutors say Manjit Singh Bedi fled to India within a week of pleading not guilty in April. He was turned over to federal agents this week, and the government will ask a judge to hold him until trial.
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A voluntary disclosure to the Fraud Division's health care section now earns the benefits of both agencies' programs, but a report made only to the HHS inspector general generally will not count with prosecutors.
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A civil complaint says San Diego-based REPS & Company spent more than $1.3 billion on tickets to at least 83,500 events since 2022 and cleared at least $120.8 million reselling them.
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Prosecutors say Alexander Suvorov, 52, used Hong Kong front companies to buy American parts for end users in Russia. He faces three conspiracy charges in Albany and has denied the allegations, Swedish broadcaster TV4 reported.
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Both cities' ordinances cover federal agents as well as local police and require visible identification. The department says the Constitution's Supremacy Clause bars cities from regulating federal law enforcement.
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The suit, filed in Los Angeles after a 48-hour federal deadline passed, asks a judge to keep those mail ballots from being counted until citizenship is confirmed. State officials call the claims unsubstantiated and vow to fight it.
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A federal jury convicted Brett Blackman in May on three conspiracy counts tied to DMERx, an online platform that produced false doctors' orders. Medicare and other insurers paid more than $450 million on the claims, prosecutors said.
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The ATF-led operation, which began in mid-August, also seized 81 kilograms of drugs and more than $1.25 million in cash. A top Justice Department official said most of those arrested already had outstanding warrants.
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NBC News, CBS News and Fox News reported the seizure Wednesday. About a dozen subpoenas have gone out in the immigration inquiry, and Omar, who denies wrongdoing, has not been charged.
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A 9th Circuit panel ordered a preliminary injunction keeping California from enforcing its identification mandate, ruling that a state cannot directly regulate federal operations.
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The justices stayed an appeals court order that would have forced a fast FCC ruling, leaving lower broadcast rates for party committees in use for the Nov. 3 midterms.
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The rule took effect Wednesday. It adopts, with one change for mail delays, the interim procedures under which the Homeland Security Department says it issued about 176,000 penalties through mid-September.
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Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming pleaded guilty in 2022 to a Clean Air Act conspiracy over emissions equipment removed from diesel vehicles. Trump has issued more than two dozen earlier clemency grants in Clean Air Act cases.
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The New York Times reported that one of the Minnesota Democrat's sisters received a subpoena, and Fox News said subpoenas went to multiple family members. Omar denies wrongdoing, and earlier federal inquiries brought no charges.
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Prosecutors say Abdulrahman Alfozan concealed an encrypted recorder in a San Francisco room used for confidential meetings. His lawyer says he is presumed innocent, and OpenAI says it has seen no sign he took source code or customer data.
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The U.S. attorney in Washington confirmed the inquiry a day after federal agents searched the Minnesota Democrat's home. A House watchdog recommended in September that ethics allegations over the same filings be dismissed.
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Prosecutors say one scheme put North Korean workers in remote jobs at more than 70 U.S. companies, and an FBI operation that reached more than 40 suspected laptop farms in Texas seized about 187 devices.
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The agency and seven states say the former drug executive has traded shares of at least 60 pharmaceutical companies since leaving prison, and they want him to sell the stock and give up the profits.
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CVS says the deal admits no wrongdoing and disputes the government's claims that it filled opioid prescriptions lacking a legitimate medical purpose and billed federal health programs for many of them.
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The Justice Department said Homeland Security Investigations executed a court-authorized warrant. Sources told ABC News and Fox News the inquiry involves the Minnesota Democrat's immigration paperwork.
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Prosecutors say the Colombian businessman, indicted with Maduro ally Alex Saab in 2019, moved money from Venezuelan food and housing contracts through U.S. banks. He is due in federal court in South Florida on Tuesday.
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The FBI has not named the suspect or disclosed charges. Sources cited by The New York Times and CBS News describe a Canadian citizen held in Pennsylvania, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police says it is aware of the arrest.
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A superseding indictment unsealed in Manhattan accuses the deposed Venezuelan president and his wife of overseeing the torture of political opponents and detained Americans. Maduro's lawyer says he denies the charges.
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The Justice Department says the tools scanned a South Carolina power company and airports in Japan and Poland, as cyber agencies from seven countries issued a joint warning about the China-based company.
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The complaint names Mayor Mike Johnston, the city attorney and the police chief, and argues that a city has no authority to set rules for what federal officers wear or how they identify themselves.
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Prosecutors say Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud planned an Oct. 24 shooting at the Bloomington mall. Agents arrested him Tuesday after he bought a rifle from an undercover FBI agent in a sale an informant arranged.
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Prosecutors say the three-month Johnson County investigation, carried out with state and federal agencies, also identified 31 potential victims. More enforcement actions could follow, they said.
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James Cody Bryant, 30, was arrested in Bellingham on a charge of conspiracy to murder persons in a foreign country. Prosecutors say Bryant advised the shooter, sent money and agreed to stream the February attack that killed eight people.
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A former Georgia resident faces two felony counts of terroristic threats over an Instagram message that threatened the congressman and his son-in-law. He was taken into custody Friday near Buffalo.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended death by firing squad for the former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in 2009. The Army secretary will set the time and place, though a habeas appeal could delay it for years.
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Prosecutors say Wanying Zhang, 34, watched relatives of a senior Taiwanese official near Seattle last year and passed photos, video and license plate numbers to Chinese officials. Taipei called it transnational repression.
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The civil complaints, which the department calls its largest batch under President Trump, include one against a former Navy sailor sentenced to prison for spying for China.
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Records released by a White House task force describe a 2023 pen register on the future chief of staff's phone and show Merrick Garland approved opening the inquiry in 2022 at the FBI's request.
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The Education and Justice departments say district rules keeping a student's gender identity from parents violate two federal privacy laws. They also warned every state attorney general that the laws' funding conditions are nonnegotiable.
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A report released Monday says the memo went out despite internal objections. Parents who were subjects of FBI assessments under it may review them, and the department will apologize where it finds rights were violated.
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FBI affidavits allege the three separately posted threats on TikTok and X before the president's Oct. 2 campus appearance. A federal magistrate judge ordered them held until detention hearings on Monday.
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A Miami jury convicted the Florida Republican in May of failing to register as a foreign agent and conspiring to launder money, in a case built around a $50 million contract tied to Venezuela's state oil company.
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Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre faces fraud, money laundering and terrorism-support conspiracy charges in a case prosecutors tie to the Tren de Aragua gang.
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A federal jury in Utica, N.Y., found a New Jersey woman and her Colombian husband guilty of using stolen identities to collect transit and homeless-aid grants for services their nonprofit never provided.
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Federal civil rights officials say the school turned away white and Asian applicants with the same LSAT scores as admitted Black and Hispanic students. The law school calls its process merit-based.
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Prosecutors say the 41-year-old hounded the conservative podcaster with dozens of disturbing calls, texts and voicemails and sent messages to her parents. The case had already stirred upheaval in the FBI's Washington field office.
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The suit, filed the day a state law on officers' face coverings and identification took effect, also targets Prince George's and Montgomery counties and argues that states and localities have no authority to regulate federal officers.
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