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A woman who killed several patients at a Veterans Affairs medical center in West Virginia by injecting them with unnecessary insulin was sentenced to life in prison for her crimes.

A woman who churned out thousands of fake coupons was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison and ordered to pay $31.8 million in restitution—a conservative estimate of what she helped steal from stores, restaurants, and product makers.

The FBI is seeking a fugitive producer from New Zealand who allegedly coerced hundreds of young women into filming sexually explicit videos for his pornography websites.

An initiative to translate FBI posters into Navajo illustrates one way the FBI and Native Americans are working together to solve missing and murdered indigenous persons cases.

Obinwanne Okeke appeared to be a successful entrepreneur and an up-and-coming millionaire in Nigeria. FBI investigators, however, learned that at least some of Okeke’s business ventures involved fraud and theft that resulted in millions of dollars in losses. In 2018, Okeke sent a phishing email to the chief financial officer of a construction equipment distributor in London. The message asked for the CFO’s login information on a website that looked legitimate. But it was actually a website ...

Concert Investment Scam Hits a Flat Note Andres Fernandez was a smooth-talking concert promoter who told people he could make them wealthy investing in the glamorous industry. While he claimed he couldn’t give too much information on the business, he did promise up to a 100% return on investment. Instead, his more than 50 investors were swindled. Victims lost more than $20 million, ranging from $5,000 to $7 million per victim. Fernandez and an associate lived on that money and re-paid prior i...

In a renewed bid to bring closure to a horrific crime that has haunted the city of Boston and its Chinatown neighborhood for 30 years, the FBI and Boston Police are hoping a $30,000 reward will help shed new light on the whereabouts of a lone remaining fugitive suspected in the execution-style murders of five men in 1991. In the early morning hours of January 12, 1991, Hung Tien Pham, a Vietnamese national of Chinese descent, entered a social club on Tyler Street with two accomplices and allege...

Victim Specialists Play Key Role in Helping Trafficking Victims Recover When a 14-year-old girl ran away from her Virginia home after a family conflict in 2018, law enforcement feared she could be vulnerable. Agents from the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force found the teenager at a known brothel in Maryland. After investigators built trust with her, she told them she had met Daniel Palacios Rodriguez while trying to survive on the streets. Rodriguez groomed her for pro...