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A Spy Among Us: Florida Telecoms Worker Acted As Agent of Chinese

Ping Li, a 59-year-old man from Wesley Chapel, Fla., was sentenced on Nov. 25 to 48 months in prison for conspiring to secretly act as an agent of China in the U.S, according to a Justice Department press release.

Report Strahinja Nikolić

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Misrepresentation

Massachusetts Man Admits to Threats Against Jewish Children, Synagogues

John Reardon, a 59-year-old man from Millis, Mass., pleaded guilty on Nov. 25 to one count of obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs by threat of force, one count of transmitting in interstate commerce a threat to injure a person and one count of stalking using a facility of interstate commerce, according to a […]

Report Strahinja Nikolić

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Misrepresentation

Florida Man Convicted in Conspiracy to Smuggle Rifles to Costa Rica

A federal jury convicted Gabriel Donato-Mendez, a 48-year-old man from Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Nov. 20 for his participation in a conspiracy to export controlled United States defense articles and for attempted smuggling of AR-15 rifles.

Report Strahinja Nikolić

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Corrections Officer

Does Carswell Prison Still Deserve Nickname as ‘Hospital of Horrors’? Yes.

Andrea “Andi” High Bear was sentenced to 26 months in federal prison for a drug-related crime in South Dakota. Three months after arriving at Federal Medical Center Carswell, a Bureau of Prisons facility in Fort Worth, the pregnant mother of five contracted COVID-19. She died shortly after her daughter was born.

Feature Raymond L. Daye

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Misrepresentation

Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Sports Betting Fraud

Cory Zeidman, 63, from Boca Raton, Fla., pleaded guilty on Dec. 4 to charges related to a multi-year, multi-million dollar sports betting scheme, according to a DOJ press release. Zeidman pled guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.

Report Jessika Saunders

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Misrepresentation

Fake Delta Force Veteran Sentenced to 40 Years

Saint Jovite Youngblood, aka. Koto Youngblood, 52, from Austin, Texas, was sentenced on Dec. 4 to 40 years in prison for charges relating to a scheme to defraud people out of millions of dollars, according to a DOJ press release.

Report Jessika Saunders

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Money Laundering

Million-Dollar Launderer Sentenced to Three Years

Richard Charles Appelbaum III, 40, from Maryland Heights, Mo., was sentenced on Dec. 5 to three years in prison for his part in a scheme to launder millions of dollars into cryptocurrency, according to a DOJ press release.

Report Jessika Saunders

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Border Patrol

California Man Allegedly Attempts to Smuggle Meth Through LAX By Caking It On a Cow Pajama Onesie and Other Clothes

Raj Matharu, 31, from Northridge in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, was charged on Nov. 26 with possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, according to a DOJ press release.

Report Jessika Saunders

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Embezzlement

Property Manager Steals $1.1 Million From Multiple HOAs

The owner of a property management company stole over one million dollars from over 70 homeowner associations in Virginia.

Report Jessika Saunders

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Identity Theft

ICE Supervisor Arrested for Identity Theft, Compromising Government Records

Henry Yau, an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) supervisor, was arrested for his alleged role in connection with a scheme to commit identity theft, convert government records and disclose agency records containing individually identifiable information, according to a Justice Department press release.

Report Strahinja Nikolić

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Financial Gains

Florida Man (and His Mom) Stole $750,000 in Gold in an Armed Robbery

A mother and son spent a month casing a salon in preparation for a jewelry heist that rocked Southern Florida.

Report Jessika Saunders

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Misrepresentation

Feds: California Online Pharmacies Sold Illegal Prescriptions, Laundered Proceeds

Jimmy Fu, a 63-year-old man from West Hills, Calif., was arrested on Oct. 30, 2024, and subsequently charged with one count of a money laundering conspiracy, according to a Justice Department press release.

Report Strahinja Nikolić

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A Spy Among Us: Florida Telecoms Worker Acted As Agent of Chinese

Massachusetts Man Admits to Threats Against Jewish Children, Synagogues

Florida Man Convicted in Conspiracy to Smuggle Rifles to Costa Rica

Does Carswell Prison Still Deserve Nickname as ‘Hospital of Horrors’? Yes.

Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Sports Betting Fraud

Fake Delta Force Veteran Sentenced to 40 Years

Million-Dollar Launderer Sentenced to Three Years

California Man Allegedly Attempts to Smuggle Meth Through LAX By Caking It On a Cow Pajama Onesie and Other Clothes

Property Manager Steals $1.1 Million From Multiple HOAs

ICE Supervisor Arrested for Identity Theft, Compromising Government Records

Florida Man (and His Mom) Stole $750,000 in Gold in an Armed Robbery

Feds: California Online Pharmacies Sold Illegal Prescriptions, Laundered Proceeds

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