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  • White Supremacists Pled Guilty To Violent Crime In Aid Of Racketeering

    March 5th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu Michael Martin and Bobby Dayle Boney, members of the Aryan Circle pleaded guilty to the violent assault of a man in Oct. 2016.  Martin, also known as Aryan Prodigy, is from Austin, Texas, while Doyle, from Sulphur Springs in...

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  • Importing Merchandise Produced By Convict, Forced, Or Indentured Labor: It’s Illegal!

    March 5th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer Most know that importing merchandise produced by forced labor is wrong, but did you know that it’s also illegal? What Does The Law Say? As a result of the Tariff Act of 1930, encoded at 19 U.S.C. 1307, it...

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  • Arizona House Passes Bill Imposing Strict Punishments For Child Sex Offenders

    March 4th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu The Arizona House passed Bill HB 2889 that will ensure convicted child offenders would not have the option of probation, parole or work release. This means that an individual serving a 10-20 year sentence, would not have the chance...

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  • Image Source: FBI | One of the photos posted on its website by the FBI, seeking the public’s assistance in identifying individuals who unlawfully entered the U.S. Capitol building and committed various other alleged criminal violations, such as destruction of property, assaulting law enforcement personnel, targeting members of the media for assault, and other unlawful conduct, on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

    FBI’s Examination Of The Capitol Hill Riot

    March 4th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer Jan. 6 2021: It's a day that's been forged into the memory of an entire nation. A day that ended up bearing witness to an act of domestic terrorism the likes of which stunned the entire world. Hundreds...

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  • Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont And Mohegan Tribe Reach Agreement On Gaming

    March 3rd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu Governor Ned Lamont and Mohegan Tribe Chairman James Gessner Jr. announced an agreement on March 2 that would allow the State of Connecticut to modernize gaming options available to state residents, including allowing for sports wagering and online gaming. ...

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  • The Legal Battle Against Coercive Control is Just Beginning

    March 3rd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer There is a form of abuse that is still not illegal in most of the United States, not because anyone decided it should be legal, but because of a lack of awareness. It often accompanies other forms of abuse,...

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  • Bartomeu Arrested As Catalan Police Investigate Corruption In Barcelona FC

    March 2nd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu Josep Maria Bartomeu, former president of Barcelona Football Club in Spain, was arrested as part of a Catalan Police investigation into the alleged misuse of funds, and corruption.  Also arrested were Jaume Masferrer, Bartomeu’s assistant, Óscar Grau, the club’s...

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  • Men search for gold at an illegal gold mine in the Amazon jungle in the Itaituba area of Para state, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. It’s part of a gold rush that started in 1984 after the precious metal was discovered in the region, where around 30 tons of gold worth some $1.1 billion are illegally traded in the state of Para annually, according to National Mining Agency estimates, or about six times more than the amount legally declared. (AP Photo/Lucas Dumphreys)

    Data Monday: State Of The Planet’s Forests

    March 1st, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    There are several drivers of global forest or tree — cover loss. Illegal activities aimed at capitalizing on growing human needs is a significant one. Illegal wild animal trade is often cited as one of the most lucrative black-market businesses in the...

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  • Former Second-in-Command of Boston Street Gang Sentenced In Racketeering

    February 26th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Alexis Peguero also known as “King Lexi” and “King Looney,” the former second-in-command of the Boston-based Devon Street Kings Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings”) was sentenced on Feb. 25 on racketeering...

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  • More than 124,000 Americans died from overdoses related to synthetic opioids from 1999-2018. Image Courtesy: CDC

    In The Wild, Wild West – And East – Of Healthcare Fraud, These Strike Forces Are On A Mission

    February 26th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    On Feb. 24, the Department of Justice’s Fraud Section released its 2020 “Year In Review.” Sixty-two of the 167 individuals charged last year by the Health Care Fraud Unit were medical professionals, 13 of whom faced charges for illegal opioid prescriptions. Together,...

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  • Purple is the official color of domestic violence awareness © Publicdomainphotos | Dreamstime.com

    New Bills Targeting Domestic Violence Proposed In 2021

    February 25th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer On Feb. 4, we published a story on proposed child protection laws in the United States available here. This week, we are reviewing proposed domestic violence laws other than those that focus specifically on child protection. As of Feb....

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  • Final Defendant Sentenced in $7B Stanford Ponzi Scheme

    February 25th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu Leroy King, 74, of Dickerson Bay, Antigua, the former chief of Antigua’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC) was sentenced on Feb. 24 to 10 years in prison for his role in connection with a $7 billion Ponzi scheme involving...

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  • A snapshot of the FBI’s UCR dataset today. Image source: FBI Crime Data Explorer.

    Ninety Years On, The FBI Officially Sends SRS Into Sunset

    February 24th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    It’s been in the works for five years-going-on-35, but it’s all finally official. On Jan. 1, 2021, the National Incident-Based Reporting Program officially replaced the Summary Reporting System as the UCR’s data standard. We take a look at the history of the...

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  • Data Monday: Hate Crime In The States

    February 22nd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Deepti Govind Hate crime in the U.S. reached its highest level in more than a decade in 2019, an FBI report released in November 2020 showed. There were 7,314 hate crime incidents in 2019, up from 7,120 the year before — and...

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  • Federal Charges Against Stanford University Researcher Expanded

    February 22nd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu Chen Song, a Stanford University researcher, was charged with visa fraud, obstruction of justice, destruction of documents, and false statements in connection with a scheme to conceal and lie about her status as a member of the People’s Republic...

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  • STAR MAX File Photo, via AP: A anti-racism poster is seen at the subway station at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. As coronavirus cases have risen, there has also been a rise in acts of aggression against Asian Americans.

    Spate Of Attacks On Asian Americans Leaves Communities Worried

    February 19th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Anand Vasu An 84-year-old man from Thailand died from his injuries on Jan. 30 in San Francisco, after being attacked on his morning walk two days prior. Soon after, on Jan. 31, a 91-year-old was injured after being violently shoved to...

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  • North Korean Hacker Trio Charged In $1.3B Cyberattack Racket

    February 18th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu Three North Korean computer programmers were charged with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks, to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies.  Jon...

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  • Proposed Background Check Laws In Front Of The 117th Congress

    February 18th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer Contact Us As of February 2021, the 117th Congress already has seven bills introduced which, if passed, would change background checking requirements in our country. Five of these bills focus specifically on the subject of background checks involving gun...

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  • This Feb. 14, 1929 photo from the Associated Press shows the bodies of six of the seven men who were slain in the "Valentine's Day Massacre" gang-shooting in Chicago's North Side. According to Grant Duwe, a criminologist with the Minnesota Department of Corrections who has written a history of mass murders in America, mass killings peaked in 1929 and have dropped in the 2000s.

    Oh, Chicago! A Look At Crime Rates In The Windy City With Bail Reform About To Be Reality

    February 17th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Deepti Govind When David Mamet wrote the screenplay for The Untouchables, he wrote in a dialogue for one of the lead characters that became very popular: "You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun....

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  • Former LA 311 Boyz Gang Member, Girlfriend Arrested In Idaho

    February 16th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu Steven Gazlay, a former 311 Boyz gang member, and Dana Nee, his girlfriend, were arrested on Feb 14. in Madison County, Idaho, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The two were out on bail in Las Vegas when they left. ...

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  • Trio Charged For Offering Covid-19 Vaccine On Fake Site

    February 15th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu Olakitan Oluwalade, his cousin Odunayo Baba Oluwalade and Kelly Lamont Williams were arrested after the HSI Intellectual Property Rights Center and the HSI Cyber Crimes Center became aware of a fraudulent replication of the website of Company 1, a biotechnology company based in...

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  • Man Bought Lamborghini With Money He Got Defrauding PPP

    February 11th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer David T Hines of Miami fraudulently obtained $3.9m in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and used part of these funds to buy himself a Lamborghini Huracan sports car worth $318,000. At the time of his arrest, the car...

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  • Close up of old typewriter keyboard with scratched chrome keys that spell out "MEME". Lighting and focus are centered on "MEME".

    Can You Go to Prison for Posting a Meme?

    February 11th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer Yes, you can, and Douglass Mackey, aka Ricky Vaughn, recently found that out the hard way. Most people are aware of the fact that posting certain content online, such as child sexual abuse imagery, or “true threats” can get...

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  • Cold Case Investigations: Hope, Heartbreak & Bringing Them Home

    February 10th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    For first responders and investigators, some of the most compelling cases are not the ones that got away, but the ones that disappeared without a trace. They are the people missing for decades, the bodies that were never found, the searches that...

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  • ‘Kids Are Being Abused, And It’s Our Job To Stop That’

    February 8th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    Photo Courtesy: Rockville Middle School, Miami's, Facebook page showing Agent Laura at the school By a Biometrica Correspondent In February 2020, almost exactly one year to the day she was killed in the line of duty, FBI Special Agent Laura Schwartzenberger was...

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  • More Legal Firepower Proposed In Battle Against Child Abuse

    February 4th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer The House of Representatives currently has four pieces of legislation before it aimed at better handling child abuse so far in 2021. Of these, one is a reauthorization of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, two are proposed...

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  • Scammers Wasted No Time During Pandemic, FTC data shows

    February 4th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer If you think scammers also took a break during the Covid-19 pandemic, think again! On Feb. 4, the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) said it received more than 2.1 million fraud reports from consumers in 2020. Imposter scams were...

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  • Iowa Resident Pled Guilty To Sharing Sensitive Non-public Info

    February 4th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Rachel Manna, an Iowa resident, pled guilty to posting the photographs and names of individuals assisting authorities with a narcotics investigation on her Facebook page, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. She got this information...

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  • Black. Child. Missing. Who Knows? And Who Really Cares?

    February 3rd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Gaétane Borders, Ed.S. If you're a missing African American child, you're very likely to get less media coverage, and be an oft forgotten statistic, than a missing white girl. Girl at play photo: © Akesin - Dreamstime.com African American children make...

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  • Merida Group CEO gets 15 years for $150m healthcare fraud

    February 3rd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica stafferThe CEO of the Texas-based Merida Group of hospice and home health entities was sentenced to 15 years in prison, on Feb. 3, for falsely telling thousands of patients with long-term incurable diseases they had less than six months...

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  • High angle view of band on stage playing concert to audience.

    Data Monday: First Cases Ever Brought Under BOTS Act

    February 1st, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer Graphic by Charlotte Spencer This January, the FTC brought the first cases ever under a new law passed five years ago. The BOTS Act, which passed with bipartisan support in 2016, is designed to protect consumers from people who...

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  • Man Pled Guilty To Illegal Sale Of Mounted Leopard

    February 1st, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer A man from New York pled guilty to charges of illegally selling a mounted leopard, which is classified as an endangered species, on Jan. 29. He caught the attention of an undercover special agent with the U.S. Fish...

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  • Individual Attacks Down As Cyberattacks Focus On Holding Businesses Hostage

    January 29th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The chart shows data compromises in the U.S. for the past five years. There was a total of 7,398 publicly reported data breaches in this period. January 29th 2021 There’s been an interesting mix of information on 2020,...

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  • DoJ busts dog fighting ring, charges 11

    January 29th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer January 29, 2021 The Department of Justice has charged 11 individuals on a 136-count indictment, including flouting dog fighting prohibitions outlined by the Animal Welfare Act and several drug-related violations. Five of the defendants had allegedly attended dog fights between...

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  • California Business Owner Charged With Possession Of Five Pipe Bombs, Other Unregistered Devices

    January 28th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Photo courtesy: Napa County Sheriff’s Office California business owner, Ian Benjamin Rogers, 43, of Napa County, was charged this week by federal authorities with the possession of unregistered destructive devices following a joint investigation by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Napa County Sheriff’s Office and the Napa Special Investigations Bureau,...

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  • Texas man with ties to ISIS pleads guilty

    January 28th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer January 28, 2021 A Texas man pled guilty to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq, at a hearing in San Antonio on Jan. 25. Jaylyn Christopher Molina, aka Abdur Rahim of Cost, was plotting attacks...

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  • Groping a child through clothes not sexual assault?

    January 27th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer January 27, 2021 Groping a child through clothing does not constitute sexual assault, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court ruled last week, drawing outrage across the country. On Wednesday, India’s top court suspended that ruling and...

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  • Capitol Hill siege: Three charged for assaulting federal officers

    January 26th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer January 26, 2021 On Friday, three men were charged for their attacks on local and federal enforcement officers, and for other crimes they committed during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Emanuel Jackson of D.C.,...

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  • Leaders of street gang Gangster Disciples sentenced to prison

    January 25th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer January 25, 2021 Two leaders of the Gangster Disciples, a national street gang with roots in Chicago, were sentenced on Friday for a racketeering conspiracy involving murder. Shauntay Craig, 42, was sentenced to 40 years in prison after he pleaded...

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  • Samuel Little, America’s most prolific serial killer is dead

    December 30th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The man authorities say was the most prolific serial killer in US history with nearly 60 confirmed victims died on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. Samuel Little was 80, and had diabetes, heart trouble and other ailments. He...

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  • Maryland man guilty of diverting Afghan reconstruction funds

    December 4th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer A man from Maryland pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme that involved diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for the reconstruction of Afghanistan for his own use instead, the Department of Justice said in a...

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  • Interpol issues global alert on mafia threat to covid-19 vaccine

    December 2nd, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Interpol issued a global alert to law enforcement across its 194 member countries warning them to gear up for organized crime networks targeting covid-19 vaccines. The group’s Orange Notice warned the international community to prepare for possible infiltration...

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  • DoJ sues Alabaman housing authority for racial discrimination

    December 1st, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The Housing Authority of Ashland, Alabama, violated the Fair Housing Act by intentionally discriminating on the basis of race or color against applicants for housing, the US Department of Justice alleged in a lawsuit. In its lawsuit, the...

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  • Indian national sentenced to 20 yrs for scam costing millions

    November 30th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer An Indian national was sentenced to 20 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in operating a scam that defrauded US victims out of millions of dollars between 2013 and 2016. Hitesh...

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  • OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to plead guilty to charges

    October 21st, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Drugmaker Purdue Pharma LP will plead guilty to federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. Purdue is the company behind the powerful prescription...

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  • CBP leads second-largest meth bust on southern border

    October 11th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized more than 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine, fentanyl powder, fentanyl pills, and heroin at the Otay Mesa commercial facility on Friday. This was part of the second largest methamphetamine bust along...

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  • Six arrested for conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor

    October 8th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Six men were arrested and charged federally with conspiring to kidnap the Governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. They planned to kidnap Whitmer from her vacation home in the Western...

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  • Two ‘ISIS Beatles’ charged with deaths of Americans in Syria

    October 7th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    Two of the 'ISIS Beatles' are expected to arrive in the US today to face federal charges over jailing, torturing and beheading American hostages. By a Biometrica staffer Two notorious Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) militant detainees from Britain are...

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  • DoJ charges over 500 domestic violence-related firearm cases in FY20

    October 7th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The US Department of Justice has charged over 500 domestic violence cases involving firearms during fiscal year 2020, it said in a statement. These charges are the result of the critical law enforcement partnership between U.S. Attorneys’ Offices...

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  • DoJ awards over $1.8B in grants to victims of crimes

    October 6th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The US Department of Justice has awarded over $1.8 billion in grants to assist victims of crime nationwide, it said in a statement. These grants were released by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), a component of...

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