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A Scranton, Pennsylvania truck protest convoy bound for the nations’ capital made its way to Harrisburg on Wednesday afternoon as truckers called for legal recourse for the death of Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran shot dead by Capitol police officer Lt. Michael Byrd during the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco confirmed Eun Young Choi as the first director of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team.

The National Archives has reportedly asked the Department of Justice to investigate Donald Trump's handling of White House documents.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Justice Department announced its biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft following the seizure of a record-breaking $3.6 billion in Bitcoin tied to the hacking of digital currency exchange Bitfinex in 2016, resulting in the arrest of a husband-and-wife team of alleged money launderers in Manhattan.

A 10-year-old Black female student in Davis School District has died by suicide over the weekend after being bullied at school just a month after a federal inquiry found that the district ignored and failed to deal with issues surrounding racism.

A former Louisiana State Police officer has been indicted on federal charges for using excessive force while placing a Black dialysis patient under arrest after repeatedly assaulting the victim using a metal flashlight in 2019. 

An Akron, Ohio man is facing up to 20 years behind bars after pleading guilty on Wednesday to functioning as a bitcoin “mixer” or “tumbler” to transfer more than $300 million worth of bitcoin in a manner that users, particularly drug traffickers, can mask the source of their cryptocurrency.

A federal grand jury has indicted two Tampa men after pleading guilty to carrying out a string of armed commercial robberies, brandishing firearms at victims during each of the burglaries in October last year. They are now facing a maximum sentence of life in federal prison.

A bitcoin seller is facing up to five years in jail for operating a business without securing a license from the financial crimes watchdog, admitting to be responsible for at least $201,399.00 in losses to victims. 

Jennifer Neimann, a woman from Boise, Idaho, has pleaded guilty on Aug. 2 to importing controlled substance bath salts from the Netherlands by buying them using Bitcoin.

A Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania man will serve a 180-month jail term for methamphetamine and false statement offenses, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced on Friday. 

A Swedish national wanted by the United States will serve a 15-year prison term after running a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, defrauding over 3,500 victims of more than $16 million, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday.

A Terlingua, Texas man was sentenced to 40 years jail term on Tuesday after operating the Mr. Double website since 1996, publishing stories detailing gruesome child sex abuse, which included rape, torture as well as the murder of infants and toddlers.

A Snellville man may be incarcerated for up to 20 years after he allegedly concealed his involvement in the Red Terror period in Ethiopia in the late 1970s during his application for U.S. citizenship,  the U.S. Attorney's Office bared on Monday.

More victims have since emerged after two Indian nationals pleaded guilty on conspiracy charges relating to their involvement in an international robocalls scheme that targeted thousands of vulnerable elderly Americans across multiple U.S. states, including Virginia, for several years.

A Wisconsin pharmacist, who was deemed a conspiracy theorist by police, has been hit with a three-year prison term by a federal judge on Tuesday after he deliberately destroyed at least 500 COVID-19 vaccine doses during last year's national public health emergency.

A former Customs and Border Protection officer may serve up to 10 years behind bars for helping an undocumented Mexican woman enter the U.S. and work for her as a housekeeper.

Immigration amendments add to a pile of reasons why Obama set to veto appropriations bill

For the third time, U.S. courts have said that Obama's immigration plans have to wait until legal challenge is resolved

The attorney general issued a letter warning schools that denying enrollment to undocumented students was illegal under federal law, and saying the Department of Justice would "vigilantly enforce the lawl."