Ex-US congressman sentenced to 10 years in prison for $50m lobbying schemeRiver's ex-housemate, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, testified he had no idea about his activities.BBC News3d agoWhole story →JusticeGovernment
Muskegon County woman sent to prison for fraudulent Hurricane Ian disaster aidFederal prosecutors say a Twin Lake woman obtained emergency housing funds after Hurricane Ian destroyed her second home in Florida.M Live Michigan20d agoWhole story →BuildJusticedisaster aid fraud sentencing
Detainees confined to small metal cages at Alligator Alcatraz, report findsMIAMI — The state-run immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” violated a host of federal and state detention standards, according to a new government report. At the center, which cost an estimated $1 billion and closed on June 25, detainees lacked adequate living space, access to showers, legal information and…Spokane Spokesman-Review22d agoWhole story →PlanetJusticealligator alcatraz detention report
Contractor sentenced in fraud case for leaving asbestosA suburban contractor was sentenced Thursday to more than 6 1/2 years in federal prison for causing a potential "environmental disaster" by leaving large amounts of cancer-causing asbestos material during the 2023 demolition of a Waukegan medical campus in order to line his own pockets.Chicago Tribune25d agoWhole story →PlanetJusticeasbestos fraud sentencing
Co-captain of boat that capsized off California coast, killing 5 migrants, sentenced to prisonA migrant who had been co-piloting a smuggling boat that capsized in rough water off Imperial Beach last year, killing five people onboard, was sentenced Friday to four years and nine months in federal prison.The Mercury News28d agoWhole story →JusticeGovernmentsmuggling boat accident sentencing
