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  • Virginia Man Arrested for Alleged Online Threats Against Kamala Harris and Other Officials

    Frank Lucio Carillo, a 66-year-old resident of Winchester, Virginia, has been charged with making violent online threats against Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, and other high-ranking officials. Carillo was arrested last Friday, Aug. 2. 2024, following an FBI investigation that linked him to thousands of threatening posts on the conservative social media platform…

  • Pakistan National with Ties to Iran Indicted Over Assassination Plot Against US Government Officials

    A Pakistani national with connections to Iran has been federally indicted in New York for orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot targeting U.S. government officials. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the charges on Tuesday, highlighting the severity of the plot and the international ties of the accused. Asif Merchant, the accused, initially contacted a confidential source…

  • Homeland Security Inspector General Probes Secret Service Handling Of Trump Rally Shooting Incident

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General initiated an investigation on Wednesday into the Secret Service’s procedures following the deadly shooting incident at a Trump campaign rally on July 13. During the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, one spectator was killed and several others, including former President Trump, were injured in what appears to be…

  • Judge Skeptical Of Requests To Muzzle Trump Attacks On FBI

    Judge Aileen Cannon reacted skeptically to prosecutors’ request to bar former President Donald Trump from making statements that could endanger law enforcement agents working on his classified-documents case. During a hearing in federal court in Florida, Judge Cannon pressed prosecutors for evidence linking Trump’s false claims—that the FBI had been authorized to assassinate him—to violent…

  • MS-13 Members, Associates Sentenced For Racketeering, Narcotics Conspiracies And Murders

    The last defendant of the six La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members who were convicted at two separate federal trials was sentenced on June 18, 2024. The six defendants were sentenced for racketeering conspiracy, narcotics conspiracy, and offenses related to the murders of four men in 2019. According to court documents and evidence presented in…

  • 5 Individuals Arrested For Defrauding Medicare Of Over $15 Million Through Sham Hospices

    Five individuals were arrested in Los Angeles for their alleged involvement in defrauding Medicare of over $15 million through sham hospice companies and subsequent money laundering activities. The defendants, identified as Petros Fichidzhyan, Juan Carlos Esparza, Karpis Srapyan, Susanna Harutyunyan, and Mihran Panosyan, are accused of operating sham hospice companies purportedly owned by foreign nationals,…

  • Chronic Disease Management Provider To Pay $14.9M To Resolve Alleged False Claims

    Bluestone Physician Services Settles $14.9 Million Fraud Allegations: A Legal Overview Bluestone Physician Services of Florida LLC, Bluestone Physician Services, P.A., and Bluestone National LLC have agreed to a $14,902,000 settlement to resolve allegations of fraudulent billing practices. The entities, operating in Florida, Minnesota, and Wisconsin respectively, were accused of knowingly submitting improper claims for…

  • White Supremacist Sentenced For Federal Hate Crimes For Conspiracy Targeting Black, Jewish People

    In a legal development on June 4, 2024, a Michigan man received a 26-month prison sentence followed by three years of supervised release for his involvement in a hate crime conspiracy targeting Black and Jewish individuals. Nathan Weeden, 24, from Houghton, was found guilty in January of conspiring with members of a white supremacist group…

  • Former CIA Officer Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Commit Espionage: Conspired With Chinese Intelligence

    Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, a 71-year-old former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer from Honolulu, admitted to conspiring to gather and deliver national defense information to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), according to court documents revealed on Thursday, May 24, 2024. The plea agreement disclosed that Ma and a blood relative, identified as co-conspirator #1,…

  • Manager Of Mexico-Based Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced To More Than 20 Years In Prison

    Gabriel Cerda-Guillen, a manager of a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization, received a sentencing of 21 years and 10 months in prison. Additionally, he was ordered to forfeit $1,339,500 for his pivotal role in an international drug trafficking conspiracy. According to the Department of Justice, court documents reveal that Cerda-Guillen, aged 49 and hailing from Mexico,…