Category: World

Note: View indictment here. The Justice Department today announced that 15 members and associates of Direct Action Minnesota (DAMN) have been charged with various federal crimes, including conspiracy to impede a federal officer, multiple counts of interstate stalking, interstate threats, solicitation to commit a crime of violence, multiple counts of assault on a federal officer, and […]

A federal grand jury in North Carolina returned an indictment today charging a North Carolina man with engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor outside the United States. According to court documents, Michael Hess, 73, of Davidson, traveled to Nepal between March 2005 and July 2008 and engaged in illicit sexual conduct with a […]

The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against the State of New York Department of Health, New York State Medicaid Director Amir Bassiri, and Public Partnerships LLC (PPL), an Alpharetta, Georgia-based company that has managed New York’s Consumer Directed […]

The new head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says global cooperation is essential and already adapting as criminal networks become more complex, sophisticated and interconnected. Monica Juma has taken up the dual role of Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Director-General of the United Nations […]

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a proposed settlement today to resolve the United States’ civil antitrust lawsuit against OhioHealth Corporation (OhioHealth) challenging the company’s anticompetitive contract restrictions. The proposed settlement would make healthcare more affordable by forbidding OhioHealth from imposing terms in its contracts with commercial health insurers that deter budget-conscious healthcare plans that […]

The development comes in the wake of the agreement between the United States and Iran, announced on Sunday, after more than three months of fighting and wider war across the Middle East and the Gulf region.  A UN force, UNIFIL, has been deployed for nearly 50 years in southern Lebanon, where hostilities escalated between Israeli forces and […]

A Mexican national was sentenced today to 14 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to import approximately 1,900 kilograms of cocaine into the United States. According to court documents, Jesus Rauda-Avila, 46, was a member of a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization (DTO) led by Marisela Flores-Torruco that was responsible for importing multi-hundred-kilogram […]

People are walking along this busy main road as merchants sell fruit and household goods from small stalls. This city scene is perhaps unremarkable, were it not for the fact that the fear of gang violence amongst the population has frequently scared people off the streets of the capital. It is estimated that at least […]

The Justice Department announced today charges against five men for an alleged plot to carry out an attack to kill government officials and others attending the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Freedom 250 event held at the White House last Sunday.  The FBI launched an investigation into the plot and identified a group of conspirators who […]

Today, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division moved to intervene in a lawsuit challenging a program by the City of Evanston, Illinois, that distributes cash payments and financial assistance for housing solely to black persons, and their descendants, and not to similarly situated persons of other races. The United States’ proposed complaint in intervention […]