Justice Department Announces Results of Operation Spring Cleaning
Union Leaders Convicted of Racketeering, Fraud, and Embezzlement of Union Dues
CEO of Iran Tech Company Arrested on Federal Charge of Supplying U.S. Equipment to Iran’s Nuclear and Military Establishment
Joint Law Enforcement Effort Disrupts Two Multi-State Drug Trafficking Operations; Nineteen Defendants Charged in Homeland Security Task Force Initiative
Morris County Man Arrested for Kicking and Biting ICE Deportation Officers
National News
Apr 15, 2008
Women who carry excess fat around their waists were at greater risk of dying early from cancer or heart disease than were women with smaller waistlines, even if they were of normal weight, reported researchers from Harvard and the National…
Apr 10, 2008
Scientists have developed a new way of determining the size and frequency of meteorites that have collided with Earth. Their work shows that the size of the meteorite that likely plummeted to Earth at the time of the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T)…
Apr 1, 2008
by Staff Sgt. Monique Randolph Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- The Department of Defense announced that four non-nuclear ballistic missile nose-cone assembly components were mistakenly shipped to Taiwan in August 2006. Taiwanese authorities notified the…
Apr 1, 2008
Washington The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of State (DOS) announced the final rule for the land and sea portion of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), a core 9/11 Commission recommendation. The WHTI final…
Apr 1, 2008
WASHINGTON Two former public officials have been sentenced for their roles in a widespread bribery and extortion conspiracy which operated from January 2002 through March 2004. The defendants were sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona by…
Mar 26, 2008
Revokes License of Former Banc of America Broker, Halts Real Estate Scam Targeting Military Families PHOENIX, AZThe Arizona Corporation Commission today ordered the return of over $83,797 to investors and the payment of $797,209 in administrative penalties from a number…
Mar 18, 2008
Washington, D.C. - Civil fraud charges have been filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission against two promoters who illegally made millions selling a get-rich-quick stock trading system they touted on TV and at investor workshops at hotels in dozens…
Mar 18, 2008
WASHINGTON A federal jury has found five former executives of National Century Financial Enterprises (NCFE) guilty of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering, following a six week trial and less than two days of deliberation. The Columbus, Ohio, jury returned the…
Mar 4, 2008
Washington, D.C. - Home Depot has agreed to pay a $1.3 million penalty and implement a nationwide compliance program to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act. The settlement resolves alleged violations that were discovered at more than 30…
Feb 19, 2008
PHOENIX Uawndre Fields, 31, of San Diego, and DePaul Brooks, 27, of National City, California, were found guilty by a federal jury of two counts of Child Sex Trafficking and two counts of Interstate Transportation of a Minor for Prostitution.…
Feb 19, 2008
Kansas City, Kansas-Forty-three people have been indicted on charges of drug trafficking in Leavenworth, Atchison, metropolitan Kansas City and Independence, Missouri. Operation Stonewalled, a joint investigation by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, was revealed when three indictments were…
Feb 9, 2008
Charges Include Racketeering Conspiracy, Extortion, Gambling, and Theft Following Joint Investigation by Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement BROOKLYN, NY An eighty-count indictment charging sixty-two defendants associated with the Gambino, Genovese, and Bonanno organized crime families of La Cosa Nostra,…