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A correctional officer Hawaii Community Correctional Center sentenced to 96 months in federal prison for role in assault of inmate and participation in conspiracy to cover up abuse. Jason Tagaloa joined co-defendants and third correctional officer while they transported inmate.

Chase Winkle officer with Muncie Police Department in Muncie Indiana pleaded guilty civil rights obstruction charges. Winkle pleaded guilty to federal civil rights offenses assaulting arrestees and obstruction offenses writing false reports to cover up the assaults.

Texas married couple was sentenced today for a $1 million Medicare fraud scheme, including violations of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. Lindell King sentenced to 60 months in prison. Convicted after trial in Southern District of Texas of conspiracy to defraud United States

Since 2017, OSHA has cited parent companies, Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC for willful, repeat and serious workplace safety violations identified in more than 180 inspections nationwide. Dollar General Corp. is in OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program.

Honolulu, Hawaii federal jury found defendants Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi, 32, and Levi Aki Jr., 33, guilty of a hate crime for racially motivated attacks on C.K., a white man who was attempting to move into their Native Hawaiian neighborhood of Kahakuloa on Maui.

Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter for the Antitrust Division issued statement on Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster’s Decision to not appeal, saying district court’s decision is a victory for authors, marketplace of ideas, consumers, and competitive markets.

The first Chinese government intelligence officer ever to extradited to United States to stand trial sentenced today in Cincinnati. Yanjun Xu 20 years in prison. Xu targeted American aviation companies recruited employees travel to China and solicited proprietary information.

Next week the United States Census Bureau will release its annualreport on "poverty" stating, as it has for many years, that thereare some 31 million to 32 million poor Americans, a number greaterthan in 1965 when the War on Poverty began.

Pennsylvania man was sentenced yesterday to 208 months, more than 17 years, in federal prison, followed by lifetime of supervised release, for attempting to provide material support to Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, aka ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Jamaican national sentenced to three years in prison for conspiring to run a Jamaica-based lottery scam targeting elderly Americans. Greg Warren Clarke, 30, of Montego Bay conspired to operate a fraudulent lottery scheme. From around September 2013, through August 2015.