Local and federal agents on Tuesday announced a large drug distribution ring with ties to cartels in Mexico was recently busted by law enforcers in Utah.
Upper Allegheny Health System (UAHS) has agreed to pay $2.7 million to resolve False Claim Act allegations related to dental clinics it operates in Western New York and Pennsylvania. U.S. Attorney.
A Bigger Issue Revealed by the Cortés Letter
Unbeknownst to many, this letter had long been in possession of the AGN. But it suddenly showed up on the ‘for sale’ list at Swann Galleries, a prestigious antique auction house located in New York City.
A letter from Cortés to his assistant which was sold for $32,500 in a 2019 auction. (
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The researchers had been searching auction house websites in multiple countries, on the lookout for Cortés documents specifically. Between 2017 and 2020, several auction houses began offering documents for sale that related in some way to the famed sixteenth century conqueror of Mexico. This was suspicious, since similar documents had been scarce in years past.
On Thursday (May 13), Mall, born Jamal Rashid, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro to two years and nine months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Christopher Chiou for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse of the FBI. When Mall s sentence is over, he will have to serve three years of supervised release. Rashid exploited hundreds of victims as: (a) independent contractors who turned over to Rashid a portion of what they earned through prostitution; and (b) priority girls who turned over nearly all of the proceeds from prostitution to Rashid, the U.S. District Attorney s Office said in a press release about the case. He admitted to manipulating the victims, imposing rules and threatening them so that they would prostitute for him. Further, Rashid encouraged victims to get tattoos of him to demonstrate their loyalty, and led many of them to believe he would advance their careers in show business.