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Two Columbus, Ohio, police officers have been sentenced to four years in prison for their part in a scheme to sell stolen cocaine.
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.
Tristan Cox, a 33-year-old former halfway house employee, was arrested Nov. 13 on federal charges of non-consensual sexual contact with a federal inmate in his custody and was released on a $10,000 bond.
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.
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.
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Jennifer Leigh Peters, 42, from Madison Heights, Virginia, and Brendon Cole Webber, 27, from Lynchburg, Virginia, were both indicted on Nov. 20 on nine counts of charges related to accessing protected information to further aid criminal activity, according to a DOJ press release.
Joseph Ponzo, a 51-year-old former police officer from Stoneham, Mass., and his younger brother Christoper, 50, pleaded guilty to a bribery and kickback scheme that netted them millions of dollars from Mass Save contracts, according to a DOJ public statement.
Jeffrey A. Royer, 61, from Montrose, Colorado, was indicted on Oct. 17 on charges of participating in a foreign exchange (forex) trading scheme, according to a DOJ press release. He allegedly defrauded his many investors out of over $1 million.
Aaron Jason Strong, 47, a former police lieutenant at the New Castle Police Department in Indiana, was found guilty on Oct. 4 by a federal jury on charges of excessive force and witness tampering, according to a DOJ press release.
The Justice Department announced that conditions in prisons located in Georgia violate the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, according to a new DOJ press release.
Even If the now-closed women’s federal prison in Dublin, Calif., were an anomaly for its record of sexual abuse of female inmates, it would still be a terrible tragedy.
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