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Five charged after juror receives gift bag stuffed with $120,000

Bribery allegations are latest fallout from $40m Feeding Our Future scandal

The Independent UK

School shooter’s ‘ex-girlfriend’ charged with making threats to Uvalde community

Victoria Gabriela Rodríguez-Morales claimed she and gunman Salvador Ramos had planned the shooting together

The Independent UK

Haitian mayor, accused of persecution, is arrested for visa fraud

Ex-mayor Jean Morose Viliena has also been fined $15.5m in a civil suit for alleged armed violence in Les Irois, Haiti.

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A man allegedly tried to tamper with a plane to Boston and stab a flight attendant

The suspect was arrested at the Boston Logan International Airport after allegedly tampering with a side door and the emergency slide, and later allegedly lunged at a flight attendant.

WEKU

Haitian offers guilty plea in 2018 New Mexico compound raid

A Haitian woman has signed a tentative agreement to plead guilty to weapons charges more than four years after authorities arrested her and four other adults from an extended family at a squalid New Mexico compound and recovered the remains of a 3-year-old boy

The Independent UK

New U.S. attorney shouldn’t be another white male

With many immensely qualified women and people of color ready to serve, President Joe Biden should appoint a leader of this office — serving a large and diverse metropolitan region — who better reflects the citizens the office serves.

Chicago Sun-Times

Can Court Seal Details Related to Allegations of Misconduct by Federal Prosecutors?

The Second Circuit reverses such a limited sealing order, and sends the case back to the district court for further analysis.

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OSHA: Amazon failed to record some warehouse injuries

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration made 14 citations against the company during inspections that occurred over the summer at warehouses in New York, Florida, Illinois, Colorado and Idaho.

Chicago Sun-Times

Todd and Julie Chrisley sentenced to federal prison in tax evasion case

ATLANTA — Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were sentenced to prison in federal court Monday.

Tribune News Service

Mail thefts surge nationwide

DAYTON, Ohio — A rash of local mail thefts coincides with a reported 17-fold nationwide increase in checks stolen from the U.S. mail being posted for sale online — as officials representing postal service police say they are hamstrung in arresting perpetrators, a Dayton Daily News investigation found.

Tribune News Service

The US attorney for Delaware is a key decision-maker in a high-profile case: The Hunter Biden probe

The cloud over Hunter Biden seemed to grow darker last week when the Washington Post reported that federal agents have gathered what they believe is enough evidence to charge the president’s son with tax crimes and offenses related to his purchase of a handgun.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Ex-Uber chief security officer pleads guilty to covering up 2016 data breach

SAN FRANCISCO – The ex-chief security officer of Uber Technologies Inc. has been convicted of covering up a 2016 data breach involving 57 million of the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company’s users, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Tribune News Service

Secret Service agents spared charges in shooting death of 19-year-old at Peruvian embassy

According to the US Attorney’s Office, there was not sufficient evidence of excessive use of force to pursue the case in criminal court

The Independent UK

A Minnesota man has been sentenced to life in prison for 11 fentanyl deaths

Aaron Broussard was sentenced to life in prison for 11 deaths that were tied to controlled substances he sold. Those who died thought they were taking Adderall, but they actually ingested fentanyl.

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Miami Herald

Judge at the center of FBI’s search of Trump’s home is a target of threats, slurs

MIAMI — A week ago, the FBI submitted a search warrant seeking classified information in the Mar-a-Lago home of former president Donald Trump to a magistrate judge in West Palm Beach federal court.

Reuters

U.S. returns to Cambodia 30 antiquities looted from historic sites

(This Aug. 8 story, corrects 6th paragraph to state that Douglas Latchford was a dual citizen of Thailand and the United Kingdom, not Thailand and the United States)

Miami Herald

Guatemala’s former economics minister pleads guilty to using Miami bank accounts to pay bribes

MIAMI — A former high-ranking government official in Guatemala has pleaded guilty in Miami federal court to conspiring to commit money laundering while paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to Guatemalan politicians through the U.S. banking system.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

PPP program was awash in fraud. Now, one lender may finally face a legal reckoning

The Paycheck Protection Program was one of the signature federal economic relief measures in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing small businesses loans of up to $10 million that were forgivable if used for payroll and other approved expenses.

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Colorado man who served as a pastor faces charges in Jan. 6 riot

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Federal prosecutors have charged a Colorado Springs man in connection with the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Los Angeles Times

Former Rancho Mirage medical institute director sentenced for $44 million cosmetic surgery scheme

The former director of a Rancho Mirage medical institute, who was extradited from Israel to the U.S. after fleeing the county, was sentenced to just over eight years in federal prison for a cosmetic surgery scheme that defrauded insurance companies and others out of $44 million.

Miami Herald

South Florida DEA agents charged in scheme to peddle info about drug investigations

MIAMI — A current Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a retired agent — both of whom had worked in the agency’s Miami field office for years — surrendered Friday on corruption charges involving the payment of thousands of dollars in bribes for confidential investigative information about drug-trafficking suspects.

Tribune News Service

NC man admits to unleashing a chemical spray at police during US Capitol assault

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A 30-year-old Fayetteville man admitted Friday to unleashing a chemical spray at police during the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

The Independent UK

Van Dyke avoids federal charges in Laquan McDonald's death

Federal authorities say they will not criminally charge Jason Van Dyke, the former Chicago police officer convicted of murder in the 2014 shooting death of Black teenager Laquan McDonald

Zenger

Los Angeles Man Cons Amazon Out Of $1.3 Million In Fake Third-Party Sales

The cyber-fraud bilked online customers out of their orders, while collecting refund requests from the giant retailer.

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