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In the first few months of 2024, the disappearance of two young adults rocked the Spirit Lake Tribe in Fort Totten, N.D.
Liridon Masurica, a 33-year-old Kosovo native, was indicted by the U.S. and arrested by the authorities in Kosovo after he was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud and five counts of fraudulent use of unauthorized access devices.
Two Columbus, Ohio, police officers have been sentenced to four years in prison for their part in a scheme to sell stolen cocaine.
Lavante Wiggins, 30, the Dean of Students at Pittsfield High School and Theodore Warren, aka Monty, 42, both from Pittsfield, Mass., were arrested on Dec. 11 on charges of conspiracy and trafficking cocaine in Western Massachusetts, according to a DOJ press release.
Tony Archuleta-Perkins, 48, formerly from San Francisco but currently living in Palm Springs, pleaded guilty to bank fraud and money laundering on Dec. 11, according to a DOJ Press Release. The crimes were related to a years-long embezzlement scheme that cost Archuleta-Perkins’ former employers $1.3 million.
A man allegedly lied to two U.S. defense contracting companies by concealing that the products he sold to them from his American-based company were repacked goods from the China-based company he owned.
Fourteen people alleged to be North Korean nationals were indicted on Dec. 11 on charges of identity theft, wire fraud and money laundering in a years-long conspiracy to violate U.S. Sanctions, according to a DOJ press release.
McKinsey Africa, a company that operates as a wholly owned and controlled subsidiary of international consulting firm McKinsey & Company Inc., will pay more than $122 million to resolve an investigation by the Justice Department into a scheme to pay bribes to government officials in South Africa between 2012 and 2016.
On Dec. 5, a federal court sentenced Margaret Ward Heilman, 66, of Darlington County, S.C., and her sister Katherine Ward Gray, 60, of Florence County, S.C., to prison for their involvement in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to a Justice Department press release.
Jacob R. Kirkley, a 48-year-old man from Bismarck, Ill., was found guilty on Dec. 4 of five counts of counterfeiting U.S. currency and selling and possessing counterfeit U.S. currency, according to a Justice Department press release.
After years of scandal, the Dublin federal women’s prison is a sordid footnote in the Bureau of Prisons’ history. The government settled a lawsuit by former inmates of the prison known as “the Rape Club” for $115 million, the law firm for the inmates reported in a Dec. 18 press release.
A federal district judge has sentenced Danny Ray Boree, 39, of Keystone Heights, Fla., to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to a Justice Department press release.
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