A federal grand jury in the District of Vermont returned a four-count superseding indictment today charging Teresa Youngblut, 21, of Seattle, with the murder of a Border Patrol agent, the assault of two additional agents with a deadly weapon, and related firearms offenses. “As alleged, this defendant shot and killed a United States Border Patrol Agent while he was performing …
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Office of Public Affairs | Justice Department Charges Five Senior Leaders of the United Cartels, a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization
Today the Justice Department announced criminal charges against five high-ranking members of the United Cartels. Those charged are Juan Jose Farias Alvarez (“El Abuelo); Alfonso Fernandez Magallon (“Poncho”); Luis Enrique Barragan Chavez (“Wicho / R5”); Edgar Orozco Cabadas (“El Kamoni”); and Nicolas Sierra Santana (“El Gordo”). “Today’s charges are designed to dismantle the United Cartels and bring their leaders to …
Read More »Office of Public Affairs | Justice Department Finds George Washington University Deliberately Indifferent to Antisemitic Discrimination
Today, the Department of Justice finds George Washington University (GWU) in violation of federal civil rights law by acting deliberately indifferent to the hostile educational environment for Jewish, American-Israeli, and Israeli students and faculty. The Civil Rights Division’s investigation was conducted pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination, harassment, and abuse based on …
Read More »Office of Public Affairs | 26 Fugitives Wanted for Violent and Serious Crimes Returned to the United States from Mexico Including Leaders of Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Alien Smuggling Organization
The United States announced today that it has taken into custody 26 fugitives from Mexico facing a range of federal and state criminal charges from around the country, including charges relating to drug-trafficking, hostage-taking, kidnapping, illegal use of firearms, human smuggling, money laundering, the murder of a sheriffs’ deputy, and other crimes. Among the fugitives taken into U.S. custody today …
Read More »Office of Public Affairs | Active-Duty Soldier Arrested and Charged with Espionage and Export Violations
Taylor Adam Lee, 22, of El Paso, Texas, was arrested today on charges of attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary and attempted export of controlled technical data without a license. “According to the criminal complaint, the defendant sought to transmit sensitive national defense information to Russia regarding the operation of the M1A2 Abrams, our Nation’s main …
Read More »Office of Public Affairs | Two Chinese Nationals Arrested on Complaint Alleging they Illegally Shipped to China Sensitive Microchips Used in AI Applications
Two Chinese nationals – one of them an illegal alien – have been arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging they knowingly exported to China tens of millions of dollars’ worth of sensitive microchips used in artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Chuan Geng, 28, of Pasadena, and Shiwei Yang, 28, of El Monte, are charged with violating the Export Control Reform …
Read More »Office of Public Affairs | Former NFL Player Convicted of Operating Large-Scale Dog Fighting and Trafficking Venture in Oklahoma
Note: The release has been updated to include a quote from the FBI Director. Following a multi-day trial, a federal jury in Oklahoma last week convicted Leshon Eugene Johnson, 54, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, on six felony counts of violating the federal Animal Welfare Act’s prohibitions against possessing, selling, transporting, and delivering animals to be used in fighting ventures. Following …
Read More »Trump moves to bar nearly all abortions at Veterans Affairs hospitals – The Washington Post
Trump moves to bar nearly all abortions at Veterans Affairs hospitals The Washington Post Department of Veterans Affairs looks to end certain abortion services for veterans CNN VA leaders move to end all abortions at department medical sites Military Times US Veterans Affairs agency proposes reinstating abortion exclusion Reuters Trump administration revokes Biden era abortion rule for veterans The Hill Source link
Read More »Office of Public Affairs | Cadence Design Systems Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay Over $140 Million for Unlawfully Exporting Semiconductor Design Tools to a Restricted PRC Military University
Note: View a copy of the plea agreement and criminal information. The Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) of the Justice Department’s National Security Division (NSD), and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California (NDCA) today announced that Cadence Design Systems Inc. (Cadence), a multinational electronic design automation (EDA) technology company headquartered in San Jose, California, has …
Read More »Joel Graham – New NASA AA For Legislative and IG Affairs – NASA Watch
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