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Crime news from court records, verdicts, indictments, and Justice Department, FBI, or state attorney general releases. Not entertainment recaps. If we cannot point to a source, it does not run.

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Courts

A Brooklyn gang leader gets a mandatory life sentence

Confirmed

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York said Wednesday that Maliek Miller, 33, of Brooklyn, was sentenced to a mandatory life term. Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall imposed it. A jury convicted him in June 2024 of

for the killing of Shatavia Walls, a former federal witness, in July 2020. The docket is 20-CR-331 (LDH). The release does not cite a statute section. This desk did not open the judgment.

Sources · 1 listed

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Justice Department

Justice Department says a tax sweep reached more than $490 million

Confirmed

The Justice Department said Wednesday that a National Tax Enforcement Surge, its first, ran from early September through Oct. 14 across 35 U.S. Attorneys’ Offices. The department counts 76 defendants and an estimated intended loss of more than $490 million, mixing what it calls alleged and proven crimes. New charges are allegations. In one of those cases, a Northern District of Georgia indictment accuses three men of a $74 million scheme involving more than 16,000 Treasury refund checks. They are presumed innocent.

Sources · 1 listed

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Justice

Prosecutors charge an OpenAI engineer with hiding a recorder

Confirmed

The Justice Department said Tuesday that an OpenAI engineer, Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested and charged with using a device to secretly record spoken conversations. Prosecutors say a hidden recorder, wrapped in toilet paper, was found in a USB port on a television in an executive conference room at an OpenAI building in San Francisco. Alfozan, 35, is a Saudi national. He was arrested Oct. 9 and appeared in court Oct. 13. A complaint is only an allegation. He is presumed innocent. The release does not name a statute section.

Sources · 1 listed

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Treasury

Treasury sanctions a cartel’s horse track and businesses

Confirmed

The Treasury Department on Tuesday froze property tied to Cartel del Noreste’s horse racing and other businesses. The sanctions office named four people and 11 companies. They include Club La Molienda, a horse track, restaurant, and bar on the edge of Nuevo Laredo, and a racing barn called Cuadra San Dibanh. Treasury says the cartel uses the track to make money and that leaders buy horses, including horses from the United States, to race there. Anyone in the United States who holds property of the named people or businesses must block it and report it. This is a sanctions designation, not a criminal verdict.

Sources · 1 listed

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Justice

Justice Department announces election-crime charges against 16 people

Confirmed

The Justice Department said Monday it had charged 16 people, in 11 federal districts, with election crimes. The list is not one offense. It includes

, , , , false statements on citizenship applications, and . One defendant is charged with trying to cast his dead wife’s ballot. Two are not described as noncitizens. A complaint, an indictment, and an information are only accusations. Everyone charged is presumed innocent.

Sources · 1 listed

Monday, October 12, 2026

Justice

Colombian national arrested to face charges in multibillion-dollar Venezuela money-laundering cases

Confirmed

Alvaro Pulido Vargas, 62, a Colombian national also known as German Enrique Rubio Salas, was arrested and will make his first court appearance Tuesday afternoon in federal court in Miami. Prosecutors say he was charged in 2019 and again in 2021 in schemes that allegedly laundered more than $2 billion tied to bribery involving officials of Venezuela’s Maduro government. One case involves about $1.6 billion in food-and-medicine contracts. The other involves about $350 million and a co-defendant, Alex Nain Saab Moran. The charges are only allegations. He is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

Sources · 1 listed

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Crime

ICE officer shoots a driver during a Bronx arrest attempt; two official accounts clash

Disputed

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot a man in his car in the Marble Hill section of the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 8. The Department of Homeland Security says officers boxed in Oscar Bengal, a man it describes as a Dominican national living in the United States illegally with a robbery conviction, and that he rammed two government vehicles and drove toward officers. It says officers fired and a bullet or fragment grazed his neck, and that he was treated and taken to a detention center outside New York. New York Attorney General Letitia James said a 5-year-old was in the back seat. She called for a full and transparent investigation. It happened Thursday afternoon and is here on Sunday because the pages this desk checks did not carry it until Friday.

Sources · 2 listed

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Justice

A leader of the violent online network 764 pleads guilty to conspiring to sexually exploit children

Confirmed

Prasan Nepal, 21, of High Point, North Carolina, pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to sexually exploit a child, prosecutors in Washington said. They say he and a co-defendant led 764, an online network whose members used encrypted apps to find vulnerable children and coerce them into making sexual and violent material. They say status in the group came from producing that material, and that the pair exploited at least eight children, some as young as 13, from late 2020 to early 2025. Nepal faces 15 to 30 years in prison. Sentencing is set for March 5, 2027.

Sources · 1 listed

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Justice

Oklahoma chiropractor gets 14 years for a $30 million medical-equipment fraud

Confirmed

Mark Loftis, 39, a chiropractor from Cushing, Oklahoma, was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in prison. Prosecutors say his medical-supply company billed Medicare, the military's health program, and a veterans' family program for back braces, glucose monitors, and other equipment patients did not want or need. The orders came from telemedicine doctors who never examined the patients. Loftis paid more than $1 million in kickbacks to marketers and a call center that pressed older and disabled people for their personal information. The scheme billed more than $30 million and was paid more than $8 million. He must repay more than $8 million.

Sources · 1 listed

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Justice

DEA restarts its emergency move against concentrated 7-OH opioid products

Confirmed

7-OH, or 7-hydroxymitragynine, is an opioid that occurs naturally in small amounts in the plant kratom. The Justice Department said Friday that the Drug Enforcement Administration will issue new notices of its intent to place 7-OH, and a related substance called MGPI, in

, the most restricted drug category. The new notice uses Health and Human Services thresholds meant to spare ordinary kratom products. It would cover products with more than 1 milligram per gram, or per milliliter, of the substances, or with too little of the plant's natural alkaloid relative to them. Two related opioids, MGM-15 and MGM-16, stay banned on an emergency basis while a new 30-day notice runs. The notices were not yet published.

Sources · 1 listed

Friday, October 9, 2026

Justice

Maduro and his wife charged with conspiring to torture prisoners, including Americans

Confirmed

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan added torture to the case against Nicolás Maduro, the former president of Venezuela, and his wife, Cilia Flores. A new indictment unsealed Thursday says that for more than two decades the couple sat atop a system that jailed and tortured opponents. The Justice Department says the methods included electric shock, asphyxiation, rape, starvation, and threats against victims' families. Some of the victims were U.S. citizens. The couple already faced drug, narcoterrorism, and weapons charges. The charges are accusations. Both are presumed innocent.

Sources · 2 listed

Friday, October 9, 2026

Banks

Regulators order American Express to fix money-laundering controls; its bank pays $350 million

Confirmed

Two federal bank regulators said Thursday that American Express did not do enough to catch money laundering. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates national banks, fined the company's bank $350 million. It said the bank failed to spot and report, in time, about $13 billion in suspected trade-based money laundering over the past decade. The bank, it said, focused on the risks of its small deposit business and paid too little attention to its much bigger card business. The Federal Reserve separately ordered the parent company to fix its company-wide program.

Sources · 3 listed

Friday, October 9, 2026

Justice

U.S. seizes hacking tools a Chinese government contractor used to probe power companies and airports

Confirmed

The Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Thursday they had taken over web domains behind two hacking tools, Microscan and FishHub. Court papers say hackers working for Integrity Technology Group, a company based in China that has Chinese government contracts, used them. Microscan hunted for weak spots in networks. Its targets included a South Carolina power company, airports in Japan and Poland, Taiwanese gas and power companies, and two Taiwanese universities. FishHub used targeted phishing emails to plant malware. About 20 Taiwanese universities were confirmed victims. U.S. officials call the hackers Flax Typhoon. It is the second U.S. disruption of this company's operations in two years. No one is charged.

Sources · 1 listed

Friday, October 9, 2026

Texas

Texas executes Jamaal Howard for the 2000 killing of a convenience-store clerk

Confirmed

Texas executed Jamaal Howard, 46, on Wednesday, Oct. 7. The prison system's list numbers him 603. Prison records say that on May 12, 2000, Howard robbed a convenience store in Silsbee, in Hardin County, and shot the 42-year-old clerk once in the chest, killing her. He took $114. The U.S. Supreme Court turned down last-day requests to stop the execution. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said she would have granted one. This story is a day late. The prison pages checked for Thursday's edition were dead links.

Sources · 3 listed

Friday, October 9, 2026

Justice

Leader of a crew that used 15,000 unwitting Americans to move hackers' loot pleads guilty

Confirmed

Oleg Korniev, 42, a citizen of both Ukraine and Russia, helped lead a group called Your Mule Cashout. Prosecutors say it tricked more than 15,000 people in the United States into thinking they had real jobs moving money for companies. In fact they were wiring out of the country money that hackers had stolen from more than 750 American bank accounts. The people moving the money were never paid. Korniev pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in North Carolina. He admitted the group caused more than $14.7 million in actual and intended losses. He faces two to 50 years in prison.

Sources · 1 listed

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Justice

Minnesota 18-year-old charged with plotting an ISIS-inspired shooting at the Mall of America

Confirmed

Federal prosecutors say an 18-year-old from Richfield, Minnesota, planned to shoot people at the Mall of America on Oct. 24, during a Hmong arts celebration. Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud was arrested Oct. 6, shortly after he paid about $600 cash to an undercover FBI employee for an AK-47, four magazines, and about 200 rounds. The FBI had made the rifle unable to fire. The complaint says he spent nearly two years messaging a confidential FBI source about joining a terror group in Somalia or attacking in Minnesota. He is charged with

. A complaint is an accusation. He is presumed innocent.

Sources · 2 listed

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Justice

Owner of a firm that promised not to pay ransoms is charged with paying them

Confirmed

Zohar Pinhasi's company, MonsterCloud, told hacked businesses it could unlock their files without paying the criminals. Prosecutors say that was false. The indictment says he quietly paid the hackers for the keys and billed clients far more. In one case around August 2023, he paid about $8,200 and charged the client about $150,000. Over the scheme he allegedly charged more than $19 million and paid more than $8 million in ransoms. He was arraigned Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court. An indictment is an accusation. He is presumed innocent.

Sources · 1 listed

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Justice

Queens pharmacy owner charged with a $31 million HIV-drug scheme

Confirmed

New York prosecutors say Miguel Baron, 62, of Yonkers, used two Jackson Heights pharmacies to pay Medicaid patients with HIV $150 to $250 in cash to fill prescriptions there. Sometimes the pharmacies bought the medicines back for a few hundred dollars and resold them, billing the state again. Other drugs were from the black market. Attorney General Letitia James says he took more than $31 million from Medicaid and the state's AIDS Drug Assistance Program from 2023 to April 2026. She says he spent it on Miami condos, luxury cars, and World Cup tickets. An indictment is an accusation. He is presumed innocent.

Sources · 1 listed

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Justice

Former Puerto Rican bank chairman gets 62 months for looting the bank

Confirmed

Juan Francisco Ramirez, 60, of Miami, was chairman and co-owner of Nodus International Bank, a bank licensed in Puerto Rico that operated like an offshore bank. Prosecutors say he secretly steered the bank's money to himself and a partner through sham investments and loans. The bank lost at least $23.6 million and went into liquidation in 2023. On Wednesday a federal judge sentenced him to 62 months and ordered forfeiture of about $13.6 million. He pleaded guilty in September 2025.

Sources · 1 listed

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Justice

Former senior federal official admits a $194 million fraud; FBI found 298 gold bars

Confirmed

David J. Rush, 49, of Ashburn, Virginia, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a

of about $194 million. Court documents say he held a senior executive-level job at a federal agency and a top-secret clearance, and that he got there in part by lying about his education and military experience. Prosecutors say he invented programs that did not exist, including a fake , and used them to pull in federal money. He bought gold bars and wired about $145 million toward luxury real estate, watches, and at least one car. When the FBI searched his home on May 19, agents found 298 gold bars, about $2.1 million in cash, and stacks of watches. CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the agency’s own internal investigation spotted possible crimes and sent the case to the FBI.

Sources · 1 listed

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Justice

Former TD Bank employee admits taking bribes to help move $4.8 million to Colombia

Confirmed

Gerardo Aquino, 40, of Hollywood, Florida, has pleaded guilty to using his TD Bank job to help move money to Colombia. Prosecutors say that from April 2022 to November 2023 he opened fraudulent accounts and handed out hundreds of debit cards to co-conspirators. He also unblocked cards the bank had frozen for possible fraud. About $4.8 million left the country that way. He opened 86 accounts using the same Miami business address, and those accounts alone moved more than $3 million. His pay, the department says, was more than $8,000 in bribes.

Sources · 1 listed

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Justice Department

Irvine woman arrested at LAX, charged with spying on a Taiwanese official’s family for China

Confirmed

Federal agents arrested Wanying Zhang, 34, also known as Heather Zhang, of Irvine, California, on Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport, before a planned flight to China. A criminal complaint charges her with acting in the United States as an

of the Chinese government. Prosecutors say Chinese officials tasked her in June 2025 to watch relatives of a high-ranking Taiwanese official who live in the Pacific Northwest. They say she flew there that September, watched the family’s home, and messaged a Chinese official: “Saw him, young male, it’s the young one.” She faces up to 10 years if convicted. The charge is an allegation. She is presumed innocent.

Sources · 1 listed

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Justice Department

Justice Department charges 16 green-card holders in four states with illegal voting

Confirmed

Federal prosecutors charged 16 lawful permanent residents, people with green cards who are not citizens, with voting in a federal election or with falsely claiming citizenship in order to register. Ten cases are in Minnesota, three in Louisiana, two in Florida, and one in Wisconsin. The release calls the offenses

and a false claim of citizenship in order to vote. These are accusations. Everyone charged is presumed innocent.

Sources · 1 listed

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Justice Department

Justice Department sues to strip citizenship from 40 people, its largest single batch

Confirmed

The Justice Department said Monday it filed 40 civil lawsuits between Aug. 21 and Oct. 2 to cancel the citizenship of naturalized Americans. It says each person lied or hid a crime or a false identity to become a citizen. The tool is

, a civil suit in federal court, not a new criminal charge. Judges still have to rule on each case. Attorney General Todd Blanche called the batch “the largest denaturalization effort in modern history.” That is the department’s claim.

Sources · 2 listed

Monday, October 5, 2026

Justice Department

Accused ATM-hacking leader on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list pleads not guilty in Nebraska

Confirmed

Federal prosecutors say Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre, 50, of Venezuela, wrote the Ploutus malware, which forces ATMs to spit out cash. They tie him to the Tren de Aragua gang. He appeared in federal court in Nebraska on Friday, Oct. 2, and pleaded not guilty to four conspiracy counts, including bank fraud, money laundering, and material support to terrorists. He will stay in custody until trial. Treasury sanctioned him on Sept. 30, which The File reported that week.

Sources · 2 listed

Monday, October 5, 2026

Justice Department

Brooklyn day-care owner pleads guilty in a $65 million Medicaid fraud

Confirmed

Ahsan Ijaz, 29, of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty Friday, Oct. 2, to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Prosecutors say his two adult day-care centers and a home-care company paid cash to Medicaid patients to sign up, then billed New York’s Medicaid program for services that never happened. Some of those patients were out of the country at the time. He is the 10th person to plead guilty in the scheme. Sentencing is set for March 10, 2027, and he faces up to 10 years.

Sources · 1 listed

Sunday, October 4, 2026

Justice Department

Justice Department and Treasury announce a Hamas financing case

Confirmed

On Friday the Justice Department said it had unsealed charges over money allegedly raised for Hamas, including from donors in the United States, and that three men were arrested here. French police arrested three more people. The same day Treasury blocked the U.S.-touching property of a Gaza-based man, two people in France, and two groups they used to raise money. The charges are allegations. The people charged are presumed innocent.

Sources · 2 listed

Friday, October 2, 2026

Justice Department

Energy Department employee arrested on a Houthi support charge

Confirmed

On Oct. 1, 2026, the Justice Department said agents arrested Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, 51, of Richland, Washington. He is a Department of Energy employee. The charge is attempted material support to the Houthis, a designated foreign terrorist organization. The complaint alleges explosive precursors, drone parts, travel through Oman into Houthi-held Yemen, and advice to an FBI source. He is due for an initial appearance at 11:00 a.m. today in Richland. The maximum if convicted is 20 years. The department said there is no threat to the Hanford site. A complaint is an allegation. He is presumed innocent.

Sources · 1 listed

Friday, October 2, 2026

Justice Department

California man charged over more than $300 million in server exports

Confirmed

The Justice Department said Greg Lui, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, 38, of San Gabriel, California, was arrested. A Sept. 29 indictment charges three counts: a conspiracy under the

and the Export Administration Regulations, outbound smuggling, and a money-laundering conspiracy. Prosecutors allege more than $300 million in export-controlled graphics-processing-unit servers went to China through Malaysia and Singapore. The company named is Earthmade Computer Inc. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service are on the case. An indictment is an allegation. Lui is presumed innocent.

Sources · 1 listed

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Treasury / OFAC

Treasury sanctions Tren de Aragua ATM “jackpotting” network

Confirmed

On Sept. 30, 2026, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated 10 targets tied to a Tren de Aragua scheme that uses malware to force ATMs to spit out cash, then moves the money, often through crypto. Treasury names Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre (“Prometheus”), who is on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list, and high-ranking Tren de Aragua leader Juan Gabriel Rivas Nunez (“Juancho”). Treasury cites $40.73 million in reported U.S. ATM jackpotting losses as of August 2025 and notes Justice Department indictments of 98 people since October 2025. The designations cite

and .

Sources · 2 listed

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Justice Department

Justice Department charges 10 non-citizens in Minnesota voting cases

Confirmed

On Sept. 30, 2026, the Justice Department said a federal grand jury separately indicted 10 lawful permanent residents on Sept. 24 for alleged illegal voting and false claims of citizenship to vote, or one of those charges, in the 2022 and 2024 general elections, and in one case the August 2026 primary. Initial appearances were Sept. 28–30. The statutes named are

and . An indictment is an allegation. Defendants are presumed innocent.

Sources · 1 listed

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Justice Department

Justice Department files misconduct complaint against Minnesota federal judges

Confirmed

On Sept. 30, 2026, the Justice Department said it filed a judicial-misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz, Judge John R. Tunheim, and other anonymous District of Minnesota judges who spoke to the New York Times about immigration cases. The department asks that they recuse from Department of Homeland Security matters and wants an Eighth Circuit investigation. The filing states the department’s claims. The complaint’s outcome is unknown.

Sources · 1 listed

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Supreme Court

Supreme Court clears path for Tennessee to execute Christa Pike

Confirmed

On Sept. 30, 2026, the Supreme Court granted Tennessee’s application, 26A428, to vacate a same-day Sixth Circuit stay of Christa Gail Pike’s death sentence for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented. Whether the execution proceeded after the order is outside this edition’s lock.

Sources · 2 listed

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Cartels

U.S. sanctions Sinaloa Cartel leadership around Mayito Flaco

Confirmed

On Sept. 29, 2026, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned nearly 50 people and companies tied to the Sinaloa Cartel, including Ismael Zambada Sicairos, also known as Mayito Flaco, whom Treasury describes as head of the Los Mayos faction after his father’s arrest. The package names Tijuana and Mexicali plaza bosses, money facilitators, and alleged political and police protectors in Baja California. The State Department said it is offering up to $5 million each for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Tijuana bosses Alfonso Arzate Garcia (“Aquiles”) and Rene Arzate Garcia (“La Rana”), and up to $5 million for Mexicali leader “El Ruso.” The action cites

and .

Sources · 3 listed

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Elections

Justice Department announces election-crime cases involving 12 people

Confirmed

On Sept. 28, 2026, the Justice Department announced charges and guilty pleas involving 12 people across several districts for illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration, false claims of U.S. citizenship, and related offenses. The release says three of the defendants are illegal aliens. Among the cases: Damon Matai Seei, 34, of Payson, Utah, a former U.S. Postal Service carrier, is charged with unlawful secretion, destruction, and delay of mail after allegedly throwing away mail that included about 300 mail-in ballots. Other cases span Florida, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Hawaii, and Utah. A complaint, indictment, or information is only an accusation for defendants who have not pleaded guilty.

Sources · 1 listed

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Terrorism

Connecticut man gets 92 months for trying to join ISIS

Confirmed

On Sept. 28, 2026, U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in the District of Connecticut sentenced Ahmad Khalil Elshazly, 29, of West Haven, to 92 months in prison and lifetime supervised release for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham. The Justice Department says that in December 2019 he paid $500 to someone he believed would smuggle him toward Syria, and that he was arrested the next day in Stonington after arriving to board a boat. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 30, 2022. While detained, officers in August 2025 found a handwritten plan for a coordinated uprising in his cell, the department said.

Sources · 1 listed

Sunday, September 27, 2026

Cybercrime

Former U.S. soldier sentenced to 70 months for telecom hacking and extortion

Confirmed

On Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, a former Army soldier, Cameron John Wagenius, 22, was sentenced to 70 months in prison and ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution for a conspiracy that hacked phone-company databases, stole records, and threatened to publish them unless paid. Prosecutors said the group tried to squeeze victims for more than $1 million, and that in November 2024 Wagenius posted stolen call-detail records tied to a government official and relatives of another former official.

Sources · 1 listed

Sunday, September 27, 2026

Smuggling

Tampa jury convicts a Cuban national in an alien-smuggling and money-laundering case

Confirmed

On Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, a federal jury in Tampa convicted Lazaro Alain Cabrera-Rodriguez, 28, of Hialeah, of conspiracy to smuggle people for money and to launder money. Prosecutors said his travel agency was a front: the ring pushed thousands of Cubans toward the southern border, charged $1,500 to $40,000, filed hundreds of false Electronic System for Travel Authorization applications, and moved more than $20 million through 57 bank accounts. Sentencing is set for Dec. 17. The department said he faces up to 20 years in prison.

Sources · 1 listed

Sunday, September 27, 2026

Health fraud

Texas clinic owner convicted in a $26 million military health-benefits scheme

Confirmed

A Fort Worth federal jury convicted Kevin D. Curry, 64, of Frisco, Texas, in a scheme that billed the military health program TRICARE more than $26 million for brain-stimulation therapy that was unnecessary or never given. Prosecutors said the scheme paid more than $5.5 million in kickbacks and that proceeds paid for luxuries, including a gold-plated Tesla Cybertruck. TRICARE paid about $17 million. The department posted the verdict on Friday, Sept. 25, and said the jury convicted him the day before. Sentencing is later. The department said he faces up to 10 years on each count.

Sources · 1 listed

Friday, September 25, 2026

Elections

Four noncitizens charged with election-related crimes in Pennsylvania, Justice Department says

Confirmed

On Sept. 24, 2026, the Justice Department said four noncitizens — including two people it described as unlawfully present — were charged in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania with election-related crimes. The U.S. Attorney’s office named Cliff Sanon (fraudulent voter registration application), Dilea Ochoa-Perez (two counts of voting as a noncitizen), and Sade Guppy and Eduardo Gallardo Maldonado (each one count of voting as a noncitizen). Charges are accusations; the defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty. Homeland Security Investigations investigated.

Sources · 1 listed

Friday, September 25, 2026

Grants

Justice Department opens a $25 million ANGEL grant for local police

Confirmed

On Sept. 24, 2026, the Justice Department announced $25 million in competitive grants under a program it calls Assisting Neighborhoods and Governments with Enforcement of Laws, or ANGEL. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced it at a summit on victims of violent crime. The department said state, local, and tribal agencies can use the money for listed purposes that include finding noncitizens who have committed crimes, trafficking cases, and related court, detention, and transport work. The department tied the money to the

, at .

Sources · 1 listed

Friday, September 25, 2026

Cyber

Kosovar national pleads guilty to running the Rydox cybercrime market

Confirmed

On Sept. 24, 2026, the Justice Department said Ardit Kutleshi, 28, a Kosovar national, pleaded guilty in the Western District of Pennsylvania to aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to launder money. Prosecutors said he created and ran Rydox, a site that sold stolen personal information and cybercrime tools. The department said the site handled more than 7,600 transactions since at least 2016 and took in at least $232,000. Sentencing is set for Feb. 9, 2027.

Sources · 1 listed

Thursday, September 24, 2026

Cyber

FBI says it is investigating claimed hack of fbijobs.gov and alleged employee data exposure

Confirmed

On Sept. 23, 2026, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said a cybercrime group claims it compromised the fbijobs.gov hiring portal and may have affected employee personal information. The bureau said it does not yet know whether the breach was at a third-party vendor or inside FBI systems, and that it is investigating with the portal’s providers. This is an official statement, not an indictment or verdict. Justice Department news pages returned 401 to the desk.

Sources · 2 listed

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

FCPA

Ex-Vitol trader gets 4 years for Ecuador and Mexico oil bribes

Confirmed

On Sept. 21, 2026, the Justice Department said Javier Aguilar, 52, a Mexican national living in Houston and a former oil trader, was sentenced in Brooklyn to four years in prison, $7.13 million in forfeiture, and a $100,000 fine. A jury found him guilty of

conspiracy and violations tied to Ecuador and a money-laundering conspiracy tied to Ecuador and Mexico; he separately pleaded guilty in a Mexico and Travel Act conspiracy. Prosecutors say he paid more than $1 million in bribes to Petroecuador officials for a $300 million fuel-oil deal and about $600,000 to PPI/PEMEX officials for ethane contracts, using shell companies and sham invoices. Seven co-conspirators pleaded guilty; collective forfeiture exceeded $63 million. The release cites Vitol’s December 2020 deferred prosecution agreement ($135 million combined).

Sources · 1 listed

Sunday, September 20, 2026

Justice Department

Justice Department charges 16 in illegal-voting cases

Confirmed

The Justice Department announced charges Friday against 16 people in connection with illegal voting, illegal voter registration, and related election-fraud schemes. Cases span federal districts in Texas, Idaho, Georgia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Michigan. The release describes alleged noncitizen voting, false citizenship claims when registering or voting, and, in some cases, related wire fraud, naturalization fraud, passport fraud, or unlawful firearm counts. Named defendants include people the department describes as lawful permanent residents and people it describes as present illegally. All are accused and presumed innocent.

Sources · 1 listed

Friday, September 18, 2026

Justice Department

Former Syrian prison chief sentenced to 60 years for torture

Confirmed

Samir Ousman Alsheikh, 74, a former head of Adra Prison near Damascus and later a provincial governor under Bashar al-Assad, was sentenced Wednesday to 60 years in federal prison. A March 2026 jury convicted him of

, three torture counts, visa fraud, and attempted naturalization fraud. The Justice Department says he ordered and took part in torture — including use of a “Flying Carpet” device — and lied to enter the United States in 2020. He has been in custody since July 2024. Prosecutors call him the highest-ranking former Assad-regime official tried and convicted in person outside Syria. The case was handled by the Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions section and the Central District of California, with Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Germany’s federal police.

Sources · 1 listed

Friday, September 18, 2026

Justice Department

Arizona clinic owner gets 14 years in $69 million Medicaid fraud

Confirmed

Rita Ntusa Anagho, 54, of San Tan Valley, Arizona, was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in May 2025 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and health care fraud. The Justice Department says her Tusa Integrated Clinic billed Arizona’s Medicaid agency more than $69 million in less than a year for addiction therapy that was not provided or not provided as billed, targeting Native American patients on a higher-paying plan. The agency paid about $54.9 million. The court also ordered nearly $55 million in restitution and forfeiture of almost $9.5 million from bank accounts and almost $7 million in real estate.

Sources · 1 listed

Thursday, September 17, 2026

Justice Department

ISIS-K member sentenced to 20 years for Abbey Gate role

Confirmed

Afghan national Mohammad Sharifullah, whom prosecutors identify as a member of Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham–Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in federal prison. The Justice Department says he took part in a nearly 10-year conspiracy to provide material support to the designated foreign terrorist organization. Court records cited in the release say that on Aug. 26, 2021, he surveilled a road to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul and told ISIS-K leadership the route was clear before a suicide bomber killed 13 U.S. service members and about 160 civilians at Abbey Gate. Prosecutors also tie him to earlier and later ISIS-K attacks, including a 2016 bombing near the Canadian embassy in Kabul and communications support around the March 2024 Crocus City Hall attack near Moscow. The case is Eastern District of Virginia Case No. 1:25-cr-143. A sentence is a court judgment after conviction; the public release summarizes the government’s case and the sentence imposed.

Sources · 2 listed

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Justice Department

DOJ charges Russian intelligence network over murder and terror plots

Confirmed

Federal prosecutors unsealed charges Tuesday against five people they say worked for Russian intelligence services. The Justice Department alleges the network paid or tried to pay people in the United States and elsewhere to watch targets and carry out killings, and that it also commissioned attacks on civilian and military infrastructure in European countries seen as helping Ukraine. The indictment, in the Southern District of New York, names Yuri Khrameev, Kirill Khrameev, Oemis Romagoza Durruthy, Yaidel Delgado Suarez, and Angel Eduardo Castro. Prosecutors say the group recently tried to recruit people inside the United States to surveil and murder a U.S.-based Russian dissident, including an offer of about $40,000 to “eliminate” the target. All five face a terrorism-finance conspiracy count that carries up to 20 years; three also face a murder-for-hire conspiracy count that carries up to 10 years. The defendants remain at large. An indictment is an accusation; defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

Sources · 1 listed

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Justice Department

California man pleads guilty to bombing Santa Maria courthouse

Confirmed

A Santa Barbara County man pleaded guilty Monday to bombing a California courthouse. The Justice Department said Nathaniel James McGuire, 22, of Santa Maria, pleaded guilty to one count of use of a weapon of mass destruction and one count of malicious destruction of a building using an explosive. According to his plea agreement, on Sept. 24, 2024, he threw a backpack with a bomb past security screening at the Santa Maria courthouse. The blast injured three people; five were hospitalized and released the same day. He admitted he meant to kill sheriff’s deputies, then left to get two long guns and 10 Molotov cocktails to go back after deputies and a judge before officers stopped him at his vehicle. The courthouse took about $35,000 in damage and closed for several days. He said the attack was retaliation after deputies seized his firearms earlier that year. Sentencing is set for March 1, 2027. The maximum penalty is life in prison. The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office, and Santa Maria Police are investigating.

Sources · 1 listed

Sunday, September 13, 2026

Justice Department

Brooklyn daycare owner gets 76 months in $64 million Medicaid fraud

Confirmed

A Brooklyn woman is going to federal prison for a huge Medicaid kickback scheme. On Sept. 11 the Justice Department said Zakia Khan, 55, of Brooklyn, was sentenced to 76 months. Prosecutors say she led a fraud at two social adult daycare centers and a home health company. Between about 2017 and 2024 the centers billed Medicaid roughly $64 million for services that were not provided as claimed. Medicaid paid about $56 million. Marketers and recipients got cash kickbacks to sign people up. Khan also must pay more than $56 million in restitution and forfeit $5 million in proceeds, including two properties, cash, and gold jewelry seized at her home. She pleaded guilty in August 2025 to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay health care kickbacks.

Sources · 1 listed

Friday, September 11, 2026

Justice Department

Conti ransomware conspirator sentenced to four years

Confirmed

A Conti ransomware helper is going to prison. On Sept. 10 a federal court sentenced Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, 44, a Ukrainian national formerly of Cork, Ireland, to four years for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Prosecutors say Conti hit computers in 47 states, 31 foreign countries, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico from 2020 to 2022. The FBI estimated victim payouts tied to Conti topped $150 million as of January 2022. Lytvynenko pleaded guilty June 10. Evidence showed he held stolen data from eight U.S. victims and four overseas victims and helped code a malware “loader.” He was arrested in County Cork in July 2023. Four other Conti defendants were charged in a Middle District of Tennessee indictment unsealed in September 2023.

Sources · 1 listed

Thursday, September 10, 2026

Fraud

California man gets 30 years in a $270 million Medi-Cal drug scheme

Confirmed

Paul Richard Randall told the government he had shipped expensive drugs. A lot of that, prosecutors said, never reached patients. On Sept. 9 a federal court sentenced the 67-year-old from Orange, California, to 30 years in prison and ordered $178,746,556.22 in restitution. The Justice Department said he caused about $269.1 million in false Medi-Cal claims. Medi-Cal paid about $178.7 million. About $126.5 million in assets have been seized. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud in April 2026.

Sources · 1 listed

Thursday, September 10, 2026

Sanctions

Treasury sanctions Xinbi Guarantee scam marketplace

Confirmed

The Treasury moved against an online marketplace it says feeds cyber scams. On Sept. 9 the Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Xinbi Guarantee as a significant transnational criminal organization. It also listed SafeW Technology, in Singapore, and Anwen Technology, in Cambodia. Treasury said the marketplace has processed the equivalent of more than $24 billion since about 2022. The move was coordinated with Justice Department Scam Center Strike Force seizures the same day.

Sources · 1 listed

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Fraud

Virginia jury convicts Jihoon Park of investor and bankruptcy fraud

Confirmed

Jihoon Park told people in his community he would grow their savings. A federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, found him guilty on Sept. 8. Prosecutors said he took more than $2.5 million from victims, spent it on a house and cryptocurrency for himself, then hid assets and claimed he had only $0.34 when he filed for bankruptcy. He was convicted of three counts of wire fraud and two counts of bankruptcy fraud. Sentencing is set for Dec. 10, 2026. He faces up to 20 years on each wire-fraud count and up to five years on each bankruptcy-fraud count. The FBI Washington Field Office investigated. Press release 26-1029.

Sources · 1 listed

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Settlements

Mount Sinai will stop sex-rejecting procedures for children, Justice Department says

Confirmed

Mount Sinai is one of New York’s largest hospital systems. On Friday, Sept. 4, the Justice Department said the hospitals had agreed to stop giving children puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery — what the department calls sex-rejecting procedures, often sold as “gender-affirming care.” Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the deal. Mount Sinai will pay a penalty and put $2 million toward free care for people already hurt by that treatment as children. Texas Children’s, Cleveland Clinic, and Connecticut Children’s made similar agreements, the department said. Press release 26-1022. These are allegations. Mount Sinai denied them. No court has found anyone liable.

Sources · 1 listed

Sunday, September 6, 2026

Courts

The jury hung. Judge Sullivan called a mistrial.

Confirmed

A Plymouth jury sat about seven days and could not agree. On Friday, Judge William Sullivan called a mistrial. Lindsay Clancy, 36, does not deny killing Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, in January 2023. District Attorney Timothy Cruz has not said whether he will try the case again. A hearing is set for Sept. 29.

Sources · 4 listed

Sunday, September 6, 2026

Justice Department

Five people charged over voting. They are presumed innocent.

Confirmed

Five people in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Wisconsin were charged this week over voting in 2022 or 2024. The Justice Department named them on Friday. One, Thomas Holtzman of Carlisle, is a U.S. citizen accused of helping. These are accusations. The five are presumed innocent. No one has been convicted.

Sources · 1 listed

Friday, September 4, 2026

Courts

Clancy jury’s foreperson says one juror will not follow reasonable-doubt rules; they return Friday

Partially confirmed

The Associated Press reported from Plymouth, Mass., that the Lindsay Clancy murder jury went home Thursday, Sept. 3, without a verdict after a sixth day of deliberations. The foreperson’s note said a single juror will not follow the court’s reasonable-doubt instructions. Judge William Sullivan questioned jurors privately, reread those instructions, and declined defense attorney Kevin Reddington’s request to remove the juror. The jury returns Friday for a seventh day. Clancy, 36, does not deny strangling Cora, Dawson, and Callan. The defense argues postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors say she knew what she was doing. No verdict. If jurors cannot agree, the judge could declare a mistrial.

Sources · 3 listed

Friday, September 4, 2026

Justice Department

Seven charged in alleged $57 million tax-refund scheme

Confirmed

On Sept. 3, 2026, the Justice Department said a superseding indictment was unsealed charging Andrea and Kent Shannon of Kuna, Idaho, and five others with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and related counts. Prosecutors allege the group filed over 100 fictitious returns or financial instruments and claimed more than $57 million in refunds, with more than $8 million allegedly received from the Internal Revenue Service in 2023–2024. Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the National Fraud Enforcement Division announced the case. An indictment is an allegation. Defendants are presumed innocent. Press release 26-1018. IRS Criminal Investigation is investigating.

Sources · 1 listed

Thursday, September 3, 2026

Courts

Clancy jury deadlocked a second time; returns Thursday for a sixth day

Partially confirmed

The Associated Press reported from Plymouth, Mass., that jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial went home Wednesday, Sept. 2, without a verdict after a fifth day of deliberations and after telling Judge William Sullivan a second time they could not agree whether she is criminally responsible for killing her three children. Sullivan urged them to seriously consider opposing views and reassess their positions if appropriate. The jury was expected to resume Thursday (day 6). Clancy, 36, a former labor-and-delivery nurse, does not deny strangling Cora, Dawson, and Callan (ages 5, 3, and 8 months). The defense argues postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors say she knew what she was doing. No verdict. AP wrote that if jurors ultimately cannot agree, the judge could declare a mistrial. Wire report from the courthouse — not a docket PDF.

Sources · 3 listed

Thursday, September 3, 2026

Justice Department

Justice Department: states in two federal aid programs must report known unlawful presence across all agencies

Confirmed

On Sept. 2, 2026, the Justice Department said the Office of Legal Counsel issued a Sept. 1, 2026, legal opinion clarifying that when a state participates in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Supplemental Security Income, all agencies within that state — not only agencies that administer those benefits — must report individuals known to be not lawfully present to the Department of Homeland Security. The office withdrew a 1998 opinion that had narrowed “State” to administering agencies only. The opinion applies going forward. There are no retroactive penalties for past reliance on the 1998 interpretation. The department says federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families grants exceed $16.4 billion annually. All fifty states, the District of Columbia, and several territories participate. Author named: Deputy Assistant Attorney General Joshua Craddock. Press release number 26-1012 on the Justice Department page metadata.

Sources · 2 listed

Thursday, September 3, 2026

Courts

Chad Barclay pleads guilty to sex trafficking in Brooklyn federal court

Confirmed

On Sept. 2, 2026, the Justice Department said Trinidadian foreign national and lawful permanent resident Chad Barclay, 33, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and admitted to kidnapping six additional victims. The department says he admitted that on Sept. 13, 2022, he enticed a victim to his residence for commercial sex, then robbed and sexually assaulted her. The plea agreement includes a stipulation to kidnapping six additional women between 2022 and 2023. He faces a minimum of 15 years. Sentence to be determined by the district court. The FBI New York office and the New York Police Department are investigating via the Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force. The Eastern District of New York and the Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section are prosecuting.

Sources · 1 listed

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Justice

FBI: Maine 17-year-old is first U.S. juvenile federally charged, adjudicated, and detained in a 764 NVE case

Confirmed

FBI Boston said Sept. 1, 2026, that a 17-year-old from Maine is the first juvenile in the United States federally charged and adjudicated for juvenile-delinquency acts tied to nihilistic violent extremist groups in the 764 network. The FBI is not naming the teen; the Juvenile Delinquency Act prohibits disclosure. Disposition is official detention, then juvenile delinquent supervision. The FBI said the teen was found to have committed conspiring to sexually exploit a child, sexual exploitation and enticement, distributing CSAM, interstate threats, cyberstalking, and identity theft. SAC Ted E. Docks and U.S. Attorney Andrew Benson (District of Maine) are quoted on the FBI page. The FBI said it is investigating over 500 subjects nationwide tied to 764 and offshoots. Court, docket, and detention length are not in the release.

Sources · 2 listed

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Justice

Justice Department sues Kansas City, Kansas, schools over student-privacy laws

Confirmed

On Sept. 1, 2026, the Justice Department Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas filed a lawsuit against Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools (Unified School District No. 500, Wyandotte County) seeking to stop the district’s “Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students Internal Guidance Document.” The department says the guideline directs staff to develop “transitioning” plans without informing or obtaining consent from parents, and that this violates the

(20 U.S.C. § 1232g) and the (20 U.S.C. § 1232h). The complaint says the Secretary of Education determined the district out of substantial compliance with the on July 1, 2026, and with the on Aug. 25, 2026. Relief sought includes an injunction. These are allegations in a complaint.

Sources · 2 listed

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Courts

Clancy jury told the judge it could not agree; deliberations set for a fifth day

Partially confirmed

Associated Press reported from Plymouth, Mass., that jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial were set to resume deliberations Wednesday, Sept. 2, a day after telling Judge William Sullivan they could not agree on whether she was criminally responsible for killing her three children. AP said that on Tuesday morning, in the fourth day of deliberations, the jury sent a note saying it had been unable to reach a unanimous decision, which is required for a conviction or an acquittal; Sullivan told them to keep trying; around 3:30 p.m. they asked to go home and resume in the morning. Clancy, 36, a former labor-and-delivery nurse, has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. AP said she does not deny strangling the children and that prosecutors argue she knew what she was doing. No verdict.

Sources · 3 listed

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Justice

DOJ says it seized about $560,000 in cryptocurrency and Hamas-linked domains

Confirmed

On Sept. 1, 2026, the Justice Department said it disrupted a Hamas (Al Qassam Brigades) fundraising scheme: more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency donations destined for Hamas were seized, and domains and servers used for fundraising and recruitment, including capture of infrastructure tied to AlQassam.ps, were taken. An unsealed D.D.C. seizure-warrant package, Case No. 26-sz-49, names Magistrate Judge Matthew J. Sharbaugh, an application date of Aug. 18, 2026, and IP 45.134.141.68 at DataCamp Limited, London. The affidavit refers to related warrant 26-sz-45 on a GTHost server hosting alqassam.ps, and says the network “received over $3,000,000 in donations through in or around November 2025” — the affiant’s figure, distinct from the ~$560,000 seized in the OPA release. DOJ said three unsealed cryptocurrency seizure warrants dated March 25, 2025, June 25, 2025, and Oct. 10, 2025, are part of the tracing. FBI Albuquerque is investigating; prosecuted in D.C.

Sources · 2 listed

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Justice

Thomas Pauken II sentenced to two years for acting as a PRC agent

Confirmed

On Sept. 1, 2026, DOJ said Thomas Weir Pauken II, 51, an American citizen who lived and worked in the PRC, was sentenced to two years in prison and 36 months of supervised release with no overseas travel for acting as an agent of a foreign government in the United States. DOJ said that from at least 2019 until February 2026 he worked at the direction of people he knew worked for the PRC, including a handler identified as “Cathy,” received at least $100,000, and that FBI Philadelphia investigated. Eastern District of Virginia.

Sources · 1 listed

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Justice

DOJ joins DOT and DHS to launch Joint Task Force Crossroads of America on trucking fraud

Confirmed

On Aug. 31, 2026, the Justice Department said eight U.S. Attorneys and DOJ joined the Departments of Transportation and Homeland Security and the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud to announce Joint Task Force Crossroads of America, a multi-state partnership focused on fraud and criminal networks in commercial trucking. The release names U.S. Attorneys from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio districts and lists federal partners including FMCSA, FBI, DEA, HSI, ICE, and ATF. USDOT/FMCSA actions described include emergency removal of more than 110 Entry-Level Driver Training providers from the Training Provider Registry and more than 160 notices of proposed removals after investigations in 40 states. DHS/HSI said that on Aug. 31 it would conduct a synchronized surge of Notices of Inspection at more than 200 driving schools across 23 Special Agent in Charge offices. Attorney General Todd Blanche is quoted in the release. Press release number 26-1000.

Sources · 1 listed

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Justice

Honeywell Aerospace to pay $2,042,518 to resolve False Claims Act cybersecurity allegations

Confirmed

On Sept. 1, 2026, DOJ said Honeywell Aerospace Inc. (Phoenix; formerly a Honeywell International segment until June 29) agreed to pay $2,042,518 to resolve allegations it failed to comply with NIST SP 800-171 cybersecurity requirements on a Defense Department contract from April 2020 through December 2023. Relator Rachel Tenney is to receive $375,823. Case: United States ex rel. Rachel Tenney v. Honeywell International Inc., No. 3:22-cv-129 (W.D.N.C.). Claims resolved are allegations only.

Sources · 1 listed

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Courts

Clark County jury convicts Duane Davis of first-degree murder in Tupac Shakur killing

Confirmed

On Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, a Clark County, Nevada, jury convicted Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, of one count of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon for the Sept. 7, 1996, drive-by shooting death of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. Courthouse News and BBC reporters in the courtroom said the jury deliberated about three hours after an 11-day trial before Judge Carli Kierny. Prosecutors did not claim Davis fired the shots; they argued he orchestrated the killing and supplied the gun. Judge Kierny ordered him held without bond and set sentencing for Oct. 13, 2026. Davis said in court he plans to appeal. Courthouse News reported that prosecutors opted against a gang enhancement.

Sources · 3 listed

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Courts

Lindsay Clancy jury set for a fourth day of deliberations; no verdict

Partially confirmed

Associated Press, in a story dated Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, wrote that jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, were set to enter their fourth day of deliberations. That dispatch does not report a verdict. Clancy, a former labor-and-delivery nurse, has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, AP reported. A Plymouth County grand jury on Sept. 15, 2023, returned three murder indictments and three companion strangulation or suffocation counts. AP did not publish a clock time. A Boston.com URL that had been used for a 9 a.m. start returned 404 when retrieved for this edition; this file does not print a clock.

Sources · 4 listed

Monday, August 31, 2026

Courts

Jury in Lindsay Clancy trial ends a third day without a verdict

Partially confirmed

Lindsay M. Clancy of Duxbury is on trial in Plymouth Superior Court on three counts of murder under G.L. c. 265 § 1 in the Jan. 24, 2023 deaths of her children Cora, Dawson, and Callan Clancy. A Plymouth County grand jury returned those murder indictments, and three companion strangulation or suffocation counts under G.L. c. 265 § 15D(b), on Sept. 15, 2023. She pleaded not guilty. Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz’s office said first responders found the three children in the basement of 47 Summer Street after a 6:11 p.m. 911 call that evening, and that the chief medical examiner later listed Cora and Dawson’s cause of death as asphyxia and Callan’s as complication of asphyxia. Associated Press, reporting from Plymouth on Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, said jurors finished a third day of deliberations without a verdict and were due back Tuesday. AP said Clancy has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility; her lawyer attributes the killings to postpartum psychosis. That is the defense. There is no verdict.

Sources · 5 listed

Monday, August 31, 2026

Courts

Federal court revokes citizenship of convicted rapist Gurmeet Singh

Confirmed

On Aug. 31, 2026, the Justice Department said the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York entered judgment revoking the naturalization of Gurmeet Singh. The department said the court’s order is dated Aug. 26. A native of India, Singh entered the United States in February 1992 as a visitor, overstayed, and became a permanent resident in June 2000, the department said. In May 2011, weeks before he applied to naturalize, Singh, then a taxicab driver, raped a passenger after driving her to a location with no witnesses, binding and gagging her and holding a knife to her throat, according to the department. He naturalized on Oct. 19, 2011, concealing those acts, the department said. After naturalizing he was convicted in New York of Rape in the First Degree and Kidnapping in the Second Degree as a Sexually Motivated Felony and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The Aug. 26 order follows a Justice Department complaint filed Feb. 2. The department did not publish the judgment itself in the release.

Sources · 1 listed

Monday, August 31, 2026

Courts

Maryland union president convicted of stealing about $1 million in member funds

Confirmed

On Aug. 31, 2026, a federal jury in Greenbelt, Maryland, convicted Kimberly Goodwin, 54, of Bowie, the former president of AFGE Local 2419, of participating in a wire-fraud conspiracy and eight counts of money laundering, the Justice Department said. The local represented about 500 NIH employees while she was president from January 2017 to August 2019. Prosecutors said she kept signatory power after her term, moved about $1 million from employee-grievance recoveries into the local’s account, then transferred it from 2019 to 2022 to a consulting company she owned for services not rendered or billed far above their value. Evidence at trial showed the local had not met since 2020 and went into receivership in 2022, and that she spent union money on personal items including a $7,400 massage chair. Co-conspirator Kelleigh Williams, the local’s secretary-treasurer, was convicted in 2025 of wire-fraud conspiracy. Sentencing was not announced.

Sources · 1 listed

Monday, August 31, 2026

Extradition

U.S. extradites alleged Tren de Aragua cell leader to Chile on kidnapping-homicide charges

Confirmed

On Aug. 28, 2026, the Justice Department said Rafael Enrique Gamez Salas, 40, also known as Adrian Rafael Gamez Finol and Turko, was surrendered Thursday to Chilean authorities. Chile seeks to try him on seven charges tied to his alleged role leading Los Piratas, described as Tren de Aragua’s main Chilean cell: one count of criminal association, two of extortion, two of unjustified firearm discharge, one of kidnapping resulting in homicide, and one of kidnapping for extortion. Chile alleges he directed the February 2024 kidnapping and murder in Santiago of a former Venezuelan military lieutenant; the victim’s body was found about a week later in a suitcase, covered in lime and buried in concrete, the department said, citing Chilean authorities. An autopsy cited by Chile found death by asphyxia due to hanging and signs consistent with torture. Gamez Salas was in U.S. custody after a February 2025 Texas human-smuggling conviction and an April 2025 guilty plea to illegal reentry in the Southern District of Texas. On June 30, U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles F. Eick in the Central District of California certified the extradition after Gamez Salas consented; the State Department then issued a surrender warrant. He has not been convicted of the Chilean charges.

Sources · 1 listed

Monday, August 31, 2026

Courts

Jury convicts Aryan Brotherhood associate of two Lomita murders

Confirmed

On Aug. 26, 2026, a federal jury convicted Justin Gray, 40, of San Pedro, California, of two counts of murder in aid of racketeering, the Justice Department said. Court documents and trial evidence, the department said, showed that on Oct. 4, 2020, Gray lured two men from San Diego to Lomita and, with another associate, shot both in the head on orders from Aryan Brotherhood member Francis Clement, then imprisoned at Kern Valley State Prison, over perceived “disrespect.” Gray is a member of Baby Blue Wrecking Crew, which the department said takes orders from the Aryan Brotherhood. Clement was previously convicted of RICO conspiracy and five counts of murder in aid of racketeering; Kenneth Johnson was convicted of RICO conspiracy and two VICAR murder counts. Gray is set for sentencing Nov. 23 before U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston in the Eastern District of California and faces a mandatory life sentence, the department said.

Sources · 1 listed

Monday, August 31, 2026

Courts

Florida jury convicts Russian national of illegally exporting aircraft parts to Aeroflot

Confirmed

On Aug. 28, 2026, the Justice Department said a Southern District of Florida jury the day before convicted Alexander Mamonov, 62, a Florida resident and Russian national, on all 12 counts in a scheme to export more than $900,000 in aircraft parts to Russia and PJSC Aeroflot. Counts included conspiracy to violate the

, illegal export, smuggling, false export information, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The department said Mamonov, a former Aeroflot employee, and Ignat Vakorin of Russia misled U.S. suppliers by naming destinations such as the UAE and China after 2022 Commerce restrictions and a temporary denial order on Aeroflot. Vakorin remains a fugitive. Sentencing is Nov. 20 before U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams.

Sources · 1 listed

Monday, August 31, 2026

Sentenced

Fort Bragg double-murder defendant gets three life terms; appeal filed

Confirmed

Kenneth Maurice Quick Jr., 26, of Laurinburg, N.C., was sentenced Aug. 21, 2026, in New Bern to life in federal prison after a jury convicted him on all eight counts of a superseding indictment tied to the December 2020 killings of two men whose bodies were found on Fort Bragg. U.S. District Judge Louise W. Flanagan imposed life on Counts 1, 2, and 4, plus prison terms on the remaining counts, all to run concurrently, followed by three years of supervised release, an $800 special assessment, and $5,432.58 in restitution. The public docket in United States v. Quick, 5:23-cr-00246 (E.D.N.C.), records a guilty verdict on May 12 and a notice of appeal filed Aug. 25. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announcing the sentence on Aug. 26, said trial evidence showed Quick shot an active-duty soldier, identified as W.L., then shot a former soldier, identified as T.D., after forcing T.D. to help move the first body onto the installation.

Sources · 3 listed

Monday, August 31, 2026

Sentenced

North Carolina man gets 188 months for Philadelphia-area murder-for-hire plot

Confirmed

Xin Guang Guo, 48, of Plymouth, N.C., was sentenced Aug. 24, 2026, in Philadelphia to 188 months in prison and three years of supervised release for trying to hire a killer to murder two people in the Philadelphia area. U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III imposed the sentence after Guo pleaded guilty in April to two counts of using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder-for-hire. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said ATF learned on Sept. 30, 2025, that Guo wanted his former business partner and that person’s partner killed, and that Guo agreed to pay $15,000 per killing. On Oct. 6, 2025, Guo gave $2,500 to an undercover ATF officer he believed was the hitman and asked for photographs of the killings before paying the rest. He was arrested after the meeting. Intended victims are Person-1 and Person-2. No one was harmed.

Sources · 2 listed

Upcoming dates

Court dates we can source. Federal sentencings on this list come from a Justice Department release. The Davis sentencing date is from courtroom coverage (Courthouse News, BBC, Reuters), not a docket minute we pulled. The Clancy mistrial is from Reuters and BBC courtroom reporting. Earlier Clancy deliberation dates are from Associated Press pool coverage. No docket pull. If a date slips, the source is that coverage or release. Crime calendar.

Sentencing dates are labeled Confirmed because they appear in the fetched DOJ release. We did not pull those dockets.

We do not list executions or other dates without a fetched official agency page or labeled court coverage.

The Davis Oct. 13 sentencing row is labeled Partially confirmed. The date is from courtroom coverage by Courthouse News, BBC, and Reuters after the Aug. 31 verdict. We did not fetch a Clark County minute order.

Clancy (Sept. 4): Reuters and BBC from Plymouth — Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Friday after a hung jury; seventh day of deliberations. Cruz undecided on retrial. Next hearing Sept. 29. Confirmed (Reuters/BBC). No Plymouth docket PDF. No verdict.

Illegal-voting charges (Sept. 18): Confirmed from Justice Department Office of Public Affairs PR 26-1082 fetched for the Sunday edition. Sixteen people charged; accusations only; presumed innocent. An eighth Northern District of Texas defendant is not named in the release.

Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026: Justice Department press pages the desk opened were bot-walled (HTTP 401, department homepage instead of the release). No new crime rows were added. Prior rows stay.

Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026: Justice Department press pages the desk opened were still bot-walled (HTTP 401 on /news, /opa, and /opa/pr). No new indictment, verdict, or sentence row was added from the department. The Federal Bureau of Investigation National Press Office statement of Sept. 23 on a claimed compromise of fbijobs.gov is on the crime calendar. It is an investigation statement, not an indictment.

Friday, Sept. 25, 2026: The Justice Department news hub was Akamai-blocked. Three Office of Public Affairs pages fetched: four noncitizens charged in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania with election-related crimes (accusations; presumed innocent); Ardit Kutleshi’s guilty plea in the Western District of Pennsylvania Rydox case, sentencing set for Feb. 9, 2027; and a $25 million ANGEL grant announcement. The Sept. 23 FBI statement on fbijobs.gov stays. No further Justice Department items were added.

Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026: The Justice Department news hub was Akamai-blocked. Three Office of Public Affairs pages fetched for Friday, Sept. 25: Cameron John Wagenius sentenced to 70 months and $294,978 restitution; Lazaro Alain Cabrera-Rodriguez convicted in Tampa, sentencing Dec. 17; Kevin D. Curry convicted in a TRICARE case, verdict the day before the Friday post. Prior rows stay: Eastern District of Pennsylvania election charges, the Rydox plea, ANGEL grants, and the fbijobs.gov statement. No new Federal Bureau of Investigation True Crime press for Sept. 25–27 was verified.

Monday, Sept. 28, 2026: Justice Department news pages the desk opened were Akamai-blocked (HTTP 401). No new indictment, verdict, or sentence row was added. The Federal Bureau of Investigation press index had no Sept. 27 or Sept. 28 dateline. Secondary tips were not used. Cameron John Wagenius, Lazaro Alain Cabrera-Rodriguez, and Kevin D. Curry stay Past from Sunday. No new Confirmed True Crime row.

Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026: Two Office of Public Affairs pages fetched for Monday, Sept. 28. U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden sentenced Ahmad Khalil Elshazly, 29, of West Haven, to 92 months in prison and lifetime supervised release for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham. The department also announced charges and guilty pleas involving 12 people for election crimes, including an allegation that former postal carrier Damon Matai Seei threw away mail that included about 300 mail-in ballots. A complaint, indictment, or information is only an accusation. Defendants who have not pleaded guilty are presumed innocent. Cameron John Wagenius, Lazaro Alain Cabrera-Rodriguez, and Kevin D. Curry stay Past. No new row was added from secondary reports of a mistrial; this desk did not obtain a docket or a Justice Department release for that tip.

Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026: The Justice Department news hub and Office of Public Affairs pages the desk opened returned HTTP 401. The Federal Bureau of Investigation press-release feed’s newest nationwide item remained a Sept. 24 extradition. No new indictment, verdict, or sentence row was added from those pages. Treasury and State on Sept. 29 sanctioned nearly 50 Sinaloa Cartel targets, including Ismael Zambada Sicairos (“Mayito Flaco”), under Executive Order 14059 and Executive Order 13224 (as amended by E.O. 13886). That row is an administrative designation, not a new criminal judgment. The Sept. 28 election-crime announcement, the Elshazly sentence, and the Wagenius sentence stay Past.

Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026: Treasury press release sb0640 and the Office of Foreign Assets Control recent-actions page for Sept. 30 designate 10 targets tied to a Tren de Aragua ATM jackpotting network, under E.O. 13581 (as amended) and E.O. 13224 (as amended). That row is an administrative designation, not a new criminal conviction. The Justice Department said a federal grand jury separately indicted 10 lawful permanent residents on Sept. 24 for alleged illegal voting and false claims of citizenship. An indictment is an allegation. Defendants are presumed innocent. The Supreme Court granted Tennessee’s application 26A428 and vacated a Sixth Circuit stay of Christa Gail Pike’s execution. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented. Whether the execution proceeded is outside this lock. No time of death is on this row. The department’s judicial-misconduct complaint against Minnesota federal judges is on the politics calendar. The Sinaloa designations stay Past.

Friday, Oct. 2, 2026: The Justice Department said Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, a Department of Energy employee in Richland, Washington, was arrested Oct. 1 on attempted material support to the Houthis. The initial appearance is 11:00 a.m. Oct. 2 in Richland and is still Upcoming at this lock. The department also said Greg Lui was arrested on a Sept. 29 indictment alleging more than $300 million in export-controlled server shipments to China. Both are allegations. Defendants are presumed innocent. The Maryland mask-and-identification complaint is on the politics calendar. The A7 Network designation is an administrative sanctions action on the economy calendar, not a new criminal judgment.

Monday, Oct. 5, 2026: Added a Past row for Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre’s Oct. 2 initial appearance and not-guilty pleas in the District of Nebraska. He is presumed innocent. No trial date and no place of arrest in the release. Added an Upcoming row for Ahsan Ijaz’s sentencing on March 10, 2027. justice.gov returned 200 on those two Office of Public Affairs pages this morning.

Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026: Three Past rows from Office of Public Affairs pages that returned 200 with a browser user agent. Wanying Zhang was arrested Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport; the complaint alleges she acted as an unregistered agent. The release cites no statute section. She is presumed innocent. Sixteen lawful permanent residents were charged with voting by an alien or a false claim of citizenship. Accusations only. No statute sections in the release. Forty civil denaturalization complaints under 8 U.S.C. § 1451 were announced. They are not criminal charges, and the release says there has been no determination of liability.

Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026: Added upcoming sentencings for David J. Rush on Jan. 28, 2027, and Gerardo Aquino on March 23, 2027, from Justice Department releases. The Aquino release does not name the court.

Checked Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026: added the Oct. 6 arrest of Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud and the Oct. 7 sentencing of Juan Francisco Ramirez. Earlier rows were kept.

Friday, Oct. 9, 2026: Jamaal Howard's execution on Oct. 7 is Past. He is No. 603 on the Texas executed-inmates list. The scheduled-executions page, last updated Oct. 8, lists John Rubio on Nov. 12 and Reinaldo Dennes on Nov. 19. Added Past rows for the Maduro superseding indictment, the Flax Typhoon domain seizures (no one charged), Oleg Korniev's guilty plea, and the Sharmaine Meadows verdict. No new sentencing date was in those releases.

Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026: added the Bronx shooting (accounts disputed; no charging document), the Nepal guilty plea and March 5, 2027 sentencing, the Loftis sentence, and the DEA 7-OH announcement. Texas execution dates for Nov. 12 and Nov. 19 were re-checked against a page last updated October 08, 2026. No executions in the window. The Davis sentencing was not re-verified.

Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026: The Justice Department’s Oct. 14 tax-enforcement release and the Eastern District of New York’s Oct. 14 sentencing release were opened. New charges in the tax release are allegations. The Miller sentence is the office’s account of a judgment this desk did not open. A Pennsauken investigation page was not opened, so no row was added for it.

Thursday, November 12, 2026

No clock time stated

Scheduled execution, John Rubio

Texas

Confirmed

Upcoming. The Texas prison system lists an execution for John Rubio, Cameron County, on Thursday, Nov. 12. The page was last updated Oct. 8, 2026. No clock time is printed.

Agency

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Thursday, November 19, 2026

No clock time stated

Scheduled execution, Reinaldo Dennes

Texas

Confirmed

Upcoming. The Texas prison system lists an execution for Reinaldo Dennes, Harris County, on Thursday, Nov. 19. The page was last updated Oct. 8, 2026. No clock time is printed.

Agency

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Friday, November 20, 2026

No clock time stated

Sentencing, Alexander Mamonov

Southern District of Florida, Judge Kathleen M. Williams

Confirmed

A Southern District of Florida jury convicted Mamonov, 62, a Florida resident and Russian national, on Aug. 27, 2026, on all 12 counts in a scheme to export more than $900,000 in aircraft parts to Russia and the state-owned airline Aeroflot. The Justice Department said he and a Russian co-defendant, still a fugitive, misled U.S. suppliers about the destination after 2022 export restrictions. Counts included export-control, smuggling, false export information, and money-laundering conspiracy.

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Monday, November 23, 2026

No clock time stated

Sentencing, Justin Gray (two murders in aid of racketeering)

Eastern District of California, Judge Jennifer L. Thurston

Confirmed

A federal jury convicted Gray, 40, of San Pedro, on Aug. 26, 2026, of two counts of murder in aid of racketeering. The department said that on Oct. 4, 2020, he lured two men from San Diego to Lomita and shot both in the head on orders from an Aryan Brotherhood member in Kern Valley State Prison, over perceived disrespect. Gray is a member of Baby Blue Wrecking Crew, which the department said takes orders from the Aryan Brotherhood.

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Thursday, December 10, 2026

No clock time stated

Sentencing, Jihoon Park

Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria

Confirmed

Convicted Sept. 8, 2026. Sentencing Dec. 10, 2026, per the Justice Department release. Faces up to 20 years on each wire-fraud count and up to five years on each bankruptcy-fraud count. Restitution and the final sentence are not yet set.

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice / Eastern District of Virginia

Thursday, January 28, 2027

No clock time stated

Sentencing, David J. Rush

Eastern District of Virginia, No. 1:26-cr-00185

Confirmed

Upcoming. Sentencing for David J. Rush on Jan. 28, 2027, in the Eastern District of Virginia. He pleaded guilty Oct. 6 to a

. He admitted inventing a . Maximum 20 years. A judge sets the sentence.

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Wednesday, March 10, 2027

No clock time stated

Sentencing, Ahsan Ijaz

Eastern District of New York

Confirmed

Upcoming. Sentencing for Ahsan Ijaz, who pleaded guilty Oct. 2 in a Medicaid fraud the department describes as $65 million. March 10, 2027. No clock time in the release. The stated maximum is 10 years. A judge has not sentenced him.

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Tuesday, March 23, 2027

No clock time stated

Sentencing, Gerardo Aquino

Court not named in the release; prosecutors include the District of New Jersey

Confirmed

Upcoming. Sentencing for Gerardo Aquino on March 23, 2027. He pleaded guilty to

and to . The release does not name the court.

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Past

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

No clock time stated

National tax enforcement surge

Confirmed

Past as an announcement. The department’s estimate of intended loss is more than $490 million. New charges are allegations. Defendants are presumed innocent unless already convicted or sentenced.

Official print

Announced Oct. 14. Estimated intended loss more than $490 million. New charges are allegations.

Justice Department, Oct. 14, 2026

Agency

Justice Department

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

No clock time stated

Life sentence, Maliek Miller

Eastern District of New York

Confirmed

Past. A mandatory life sentence for Maliek Miller, announced Oct. 14. The judgment was not opened. The release cites no statute section.

Official print

Mandatory life sentence announced Oct. 14. Judgment not opened.

Eastern District of New York, Oct. 14, 2026

Agency

Justice Department

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

No clock time stated

Sentencing, Duane "Keffe D" Davis

Clark County District Court, Judge Carli Kierny

Partially confirmed

Convicted Aug. 31, 2026, of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon in the 1996 Tupac Shakur killing. Faces up to life without parole, Reuters reported. Davis said in court he will appeal. Sentencing date is from courtroom coverage, not a docket minute we pulled.

Agency

Clark County District Court

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

afternoonJustice Department release, Oct. 11, 2026

Initial appearance, Alvaro Pulido Vargas

Southern District of Florida

Upcoming. Initial appearance Tuesday, Oct. 13, in the afternoon, in the Southern District of Florida. No clock time in the release. The charges are allegations. He is presumed innocent.

Agency

Justice Department

Monday, October 12, 2026

No clock time stated

Election-crime charges against 16 people

Confirmed

Past as an announcement. Sixteen people were charged. The charges are accusations. Everyone charged is presumed innocent. The release cites no statute section.

Official print

Charges announced Oct. 12. Accusations only. Presumed innocent.

Justice Department, Oct. 12, 2026

Agency

Justice Department

Sunday, October 11, 2026

No clock time stated

Arrest announced, Alvaro Pulido Vargas

Confirmed

Past. The Justice Department said Alvaro Pulido Vargas was arrested to face two federal cases. The schemes are allegations. He is presumed innocent. The release cites

.

Official print

Arrest announced Oct. 11. The charges are allegations. He is presumed innocent.

Justice Department release 26-1168

Agency

Justice Department

Friday, October 9, 2026

No clock time stated

DEA to reissue emergency notices on 7-OH

Confirmed

Past as an announcement. The DEA said it will restart

notices aimed at concentrated 7-OH products and . The notices were not yet in the Federal Register.

Official print

Announcement Oct. 9. Notices not yet published.

Justice Department, Oct. 9, 2026

Agency

Justice Department; Drug Enforcement Administration

Thursday, October 8, 2026

No clock time stated

Superseding indictment, Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores

Southern District of New York

Confirmed

Past. Superseding indictment unsealed Oct. 8. Torture conspiracy added to the case against Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores. No court date in the release. Presumed innocent.

Official print

Superseding indictment unsealed.

added. No next date in the release. Presumed innocent.

Justice Department, Oct. 8, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Thursday, October 8, 2026

about 4:00 p.m. ETDHS release: at approximately 4:00 p.m. ET

ICE shooting during a Bronx arrest attempt

Partially confirmed

Past. Partially confirmed that an ICE officer shot a driver in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon. The two official accounts are disputed. This desk draws no conclusion. No charging document was found.

Official print

Both agencies say an ICE officer shot a driver Thursday. Their accounts clash. No charging document found.

DHS, Oct. 9, 2026

Agency

Department of Homeland Security; New York Attorney General

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

No clock time stated

Verdict, Sharmaine Meadows

District of Minnesota

Confirmed

Past. Jury verdict on Oct. 7, three counts, in St. Paul. Sentencing is not yet set.

Official print

Convicted Oct. 7 of three counts. Sentencing not yet set.

Justice Department, Oct. 8, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

No clock time stated

Sentencing, Juan Francisco Ramirez

Southern District of Florida

Confirmed

Past. Sentenced Wednesday, Oct. 7, to 62 months in a

case, with about $13.6 million in forfeiture. Southern District of Florida.

Official print

62 months and about $13.6 million forfeiture. Southern District of Florida.

Justice Department, Oct. 7, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Tuesday–Wednesday, October 6–7, 2026

No clock time stated

Arrest, Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud

District of Minnesota

Confirmed

Past. Arrested Tuesday, Oct. 6. First appearance Wednesday, Oct. 7, in the District of Minnesota. Charged with

, in a Mall of America case. A complaint is an accusation. He is presumed innocent. No next date is in the release.

Official print

Arrested Oct. 6. First appearance Oct. 7. Complaint filed. Presumed innocent.

Justice Department, Oct. 7, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Monday, October 5, 2026

No clock time stated

Forty civil denaturalization suits

Confirmed

Past as a filing announcement. The department filed 40 civil suits under

to revoke citizenship. Judges have not ruled on this batch. The claims are allegations. This is not a criminal charging day.

Official print

40 civil complaints announced. No finding of liability.

Justice Department, Oct. 5, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Monday, October 5, 2026

No clock time stated

Charges against 16 lawful permanent residents

Confirmed

Past as an announcement. Prosecutors charged 16 lawful permanent residents with

or with falsely claiming citizenship in order to vote. These are accusations. Everyone charged is presumed innocent. The release cites no statute section.

Official print

Sixteen people charged. Accusations only. Presumed innocent.

Justice Department, Oct. 5, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Sunday, October 4, 2026

No clock time stated

Arrest, Wanying Zhang

Confirmed

Past. Federal agents arrested Wanying Zhang on Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport. Prosecutors say she acted in the United States as an

of the Chinese government. The charge is an allegation. She is presumed innocent. The release cites no statute section.

Official print

Arrested Sunday at LAX. Complaint filed. Presumed innocent.

Justice Department, Oct. 5, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Friday, October 2, 2026

No clock time stated

Initial appearance, Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre

District of Nebraska

Confirmed

Past. Not-guilty pleas on Oct. 2 in the District of Nebraska. He stays in custody until trial. Prosecutors tie him to ATM malware and to Tren de Aragua. Those are allegations. He is presumed innocent. The release does not say where he was caught. The case is part of task forces under

.

Official print

Not guilty pleas. Detained pending trial. No trial date in the release.

Justice Department, Oct. 2, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Friday, October 2, 2026

11:00 a.m.Justice Department release

Initial appearance, Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy (accusation; presumed innocent)

Richland, Washington

Confirmed

Upcoming. Initial appearance at 11:00 a.m. in Richland. This edition locks before the hearing. The charge is an allegation.

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Thursday, October 1, 2026

No clock time stated

Arrest announced, Greg Lui (accusation; presumed innocent)

San Gabriel, California

Confirmed

Past as an announcement. The indictment alleges more than $300 million in controlled server exports. Lui is presumed innocent.

Official print

Arrest announced. Three-count indictment dated Sept. 29. Allegation only.

Justice Department

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Thursday, October 1, 2026

No clock time stated

Arrest announced, Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy (accusation; presumed innocent)

Richland, Washington

Confirmed

Past as an announcement. A Department of Energy employee was arrested on an attempted material-support charge. The charge is an allegation.

Official print

Arrest announced. Allegation only. Initial appearance is a separate row.

Justice Department, Oct. 1, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

No clock time stated

Treasury sanctions a Tren de Aragua ATM jackpotting network

Confirmed

Past. Treasury designated 10 targets tied to a Tren de Aragua ATM jackpotting network under

and . This is a sanctions list, not a new guilty verdict.

Official print

10 targets designated. Not a criminal conviction.

Treasury sb0640, Sept. 30, 2026

Agency

U.S. Treasury / OFAC

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

No clock time stated

Ten lawful permanent residents indicted in Minnesota voting cases (allegation; presumed innocent)

District of Minnesota

Confirmed

Past as an announcement. Ten lawful permanent residents were indicted on Sept. 24. The charges are allegations. Defendants are presumed innocent.

Official print

10 indictments announced. Allegations only. Presumed innocent.

Justice Department, Sept. 30, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

No clock time stated

Supreme Court vacates stay of Christa Pike’s execution (26A428)

Confirmed

Past as an order. The Supreme Court cleared the stay of Christa Gail Pike’s execution. Whether the execution proceeded is outside this lock.

Official print

Stay vacated. Dissent by Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson. Execution result not in this lock.

Supreme Court order, 26A428

Agency

Supreme Court of the United States

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

No clock time stated

U.S. sanctions Sinaloa Cartel leadership around Mayito Flaco

Confirmed

Past. Treasury and State sanctioned nearly 50 Sinaloa Cartel targets, including Mayito Flaco, under

and . Rewards of up to $5 million are offered for named plaza bosses. This is a sanctions list, not a new guilty verdict.

Official print

Nearly 50 targets designated. Rewards up to $5 million for Aquiles, La Rana, and El Ruso. Not a criminal judgment.

Treasury sb0636, Sept. 29, 2026

Agency

U.S. Treasury / OFAC and State Department

Monday, September 28, 2026

No clock time stated

Justice Department announces election-crime cases involving 12 people

Confirmed

Past as an announcement. The Justice Department said 12 people are charged or have pleaded guilty in election-crime cases, including an allegation that a former postal carrier threw away about 300 mail-in ballots. People who have not pleaded guilty are presumed innocent.

Official print

Announcement of charges and pleas involving 12 people. Alleged disposal of about 300 mail-in ballots. Not a verdict for every defendant.

Justice Department, Sept. 28, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Monday, September 28, 2026

No clock time stated

Ahmad Khalil Elshazly sentenced for attempting to support ISIS

District of Connecticut

Confirmed

Past. Ahmad Khalil Elshazly was sentenced to 92 months and lifetime supervised release for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham. A sentence is not a new charge.

Official print

92 months in prison. Lifetime supervised release.

Justice Department, Sept. 28, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Friday, September 25, 2026

No clock time stated

Lazaro Alain Cabrera-Rodriguez convicted of alien smuggling and money laundering

Middle District of Florida

Confirmed

Past. A Tampa jury convicted Lazaro Alain Cabrera-Rodriguez. Sentencing is set for Dec. 17. A conviction is not a sentence.

Official print

Guilty verdict. Sentencing set for Dec. 17, 2026. Maximum stated as 20 years.

Justice Department, Sept. 25, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Friday, September 25, 2026

No clock time stated

Cameron John Wagenius sentenced for telecom hacking and extortion

Confirmed

Past. Cameron John Wagenius was sentenced to 70 months and ordered to pay $294,978 for a phone-hacking and extortion conspiracy. A sentence is not a new charge.

Official print

70 months in prison. $294,978 restitution.

Justice Department, Sept. 25, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Thursday–Friday, September 24–25, 2026

No clock time stated

Kevin D. Curry convicted in a TRICARE fraud case

Northern District of Texas

Confirmed

Past. Kevin D. Curry was convicted in a scheme that billed TRICARE more than $26 million. The department announced it Friday and said the verdict was the day before. Sentencing is later. A conviction is not a sentence.

Official print

Guilty verdict announced Sept. 25. The release says the jury convicted him the day before. TRICARE billed over $26 million; paid about $17 million.

Justice Department, Sept. 25, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Thursday, September 24, 2026

No clock time stated

Four noncitizens charged with election-related crimes in Pennsylvania

Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Confirmed

Past. The Justice Department said four noncitizens were charged in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania with election-related crimes. Charges are accusations. The defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

Official print

Charges announced. Not a conviction.

Justice Department, Sept. 24, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Thursday, September 24, 2026

No clock time stated

ANGEL Grant Program, $25 million

Confirmed

Past. $25 million competitive ANGEL grants announced for state, local, and tribal law enforcement uses listed in the release. The department cites the

.

Official print

$25 million grant announcement.

Justice Department, Sept. 24, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

8:13 a.m. ETFBI press-release feed pubDate

FBI says it is investigating a claimed compromise of fbijobs.gov

Confirmed

Past. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it is investigating a claimed compromise of the fbijobs.gov hiring portal and alleged exposure of employee personal information. The bureau has not said whether the breach was at a vendor or inside its own systems. This is not an indictment.

Official print

Investigation statement. Claimed compromise of fbijobs.gov. Breach point undetermined. Not an indictment.

FBI National Press Office, Sept. 23, 2026

Agency

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Monday, September 21, 2026

No clock time stated

Sentencing, Javier Aguilar ( / oil bribes)

Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn

Confirmed

Past. Javier Aguilar, 52, a Mexican national living in Houston and a former oil trader, was sentenced Sept. 21, 2026, in Brooklyn to four years in prison, $7.13 million in forfeiture, and a $100,000 fine under the

and related counts tied to Ecuador and Mexico oil bribes.

Official print

Aguilar sentenced to four years; $7.13 million forfeiture; $100,000 fine.

/ Ecuador and Mexico schemes.

Justice Department OPA, Sept. 21, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Friday, September 18, 2026

No clock time stated

Charges announced, 16 people in illegal-voting cases (accusation; presumed innocent)

Federal districts in Texas, Idaho, Georgia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Michigan

Confirmed

The Justice Department announced charges against 16 people in connection with illegal voting, illegal voter registration, and related election-fraud schemes. Cases span federal districts in Texas, Idaho, Georgia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Michigan. All are accused and presumed innocent.

Official print

16 people charged in illegal-voting and related election-crime cases. Accusations only. Presumed innocent.

Justice Department PR 26-1082, Sept. 18, 2026

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

No clock time stated

Initial appearance, Mercedes Alexandra Cardoso (accusation; presumed innocent)

District of New Jersey

Confirmed

Accusation only. Presumed innocent. Initial appearance Sept. 8 per the Justice Department release. No docket PDF.

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice / District of New Jersey

Friday, September 4, 2026

No clock time stated

Mistrial declared, Commonwealth v. Lindsay M. Clancy

Plymouth Superior Court

Confirmed

Plymouth, Massachusetts. Friday, Sept. 4: mistrial after hung jury. Confirmed (Reuters/BBC). Next hearing Sept. 29. No docket PDF.

Official print

Mistrial declared Friday after a hung jury. Cruz undecided on retrial. Next hearing Sept. 29.

Reuters, events of Sept. 4, 2026

Agency

Plymouth Superior Court

Thursday, September 3, 2026

No clock time stated

Jury resumes, sixth day of deliberations, Commonwealth v. Lindsay M. Clancy

Plymouth Superior Court

Partially confirmed

Sixth day ended without a verdict. AP: holdout on reasonable doubt; resume Friday. No docket PDF.

Official print

AP: sixth day ended Thursday without a verdict. Foreperson said a single juror will not follow reasonable-doubt instructions. Sullivan declined to remove the juror. Resume Friday (day 7).

Associated Press, events of Sept. 3, 2026

Agency

Plymouth Superior Court

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

9 a.m.CBS Boston in-court coverage (Mike Toole / Matt Schooley / Kristina Rex), updated Sept. 1, 2026

Jury resumes, fifth day of deliberations, Commonwealth v. Lindsay M. Clancy

Plymouth Superior Court

Partially confirmed

Fifth day ended without a verdict. AP: second deadlock; resume Thursday. No docket PDF.

Official print

AP: jury went home Wednesday without a verdict after a fifth day and a second deadlock notice to Judge Sullivan. Expected to resume Thursday (day 6). No verdict.

Associated Press, events of Sept. 2, 2026

Agency

Plymouth Superior Court

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

around 3:30 p.m. (end of day)CBS Boston in-court; AP also reported around 3:30 p.m.

Jury reports deadlock (fourth day), Commonwealth v. Lindsay M. Clancy

Plymouth Superior Court

Partially confirmed

Plymouth, Massachusetts. Fourth day. AP: deadlock note Tuesday morning; around 3:30 p.m. they asked to go home. CBS Boston: “Deliberations ended for the day around 3:30 p.m. when the jury told Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan they wished to be dismissed for the day and return Wednesday at 9 a.m.” No verdict.

Agency

Plymouth Superior Court