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Federal and state reporting shows dozens of criminal cases tied to multiple Minnesota fraud schemes: prosecutors have charged roughly 70–86 people across related probes, with reporting commonly citing...
Federal prosecutors most commonly rely on 18 U.S.C. § 111 (assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers) and obstruction statutes in Title 18 — frequently cited is 18 U.S.C. § 1503 (obstruction...
Available reporting in the provided documents does not give a single, authoritative annual count of U.S. CSAM convictions for each year of the last decade; some items cite discrete prosecution results...
Available reporting does not show Donald Trump “helped the FBI bring down” Jeffrey Epstein; Epstein was arrested on state and federal charges in 2019 by law enforcement acting on investigations that p...
Federal authorities point to a mix of existing criminal statutes—threats, stalking, obstruction/conspiracy, and laws that bar releasing protected personal information with intent to threaten or incite...
Documented court records and Justice Department filings tie specific Somali-named defendants to large fraud schemes in Minnesota — most notably the Feeding Our Future child-nutrition case in which mul...
The claim that the Obama administration directly handled or was responsible for Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007–2008 plea agreement is ; that deal was negotiated and signed before Barack Obama took office and ...
No criminal indictment of Barack Obama is cited in the provided reporting; federal prosecutors have opened grand-jury probes into allegations about Obama-era officials, but public sources here describ...
Allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar handed out money to constituents ahead of elections are part of a broader set of criticisms and reporting tied to campaign spending, donations connected to people and ...
Federal and local reporting shows a major fraud probe centered in Minnesota’s Somali community involving programs like Feeding Our Future and Medicaid; prosecutors describe “serious and pervasive” fra...
Reporting in the provided sources documents multiple elected officials and political operatives arrested or federally charged with crimes involving children in 2025, including South Carolina State Rep...
Federal prosecutors have charged dozens of people in multiple Minnesota fraud schemes, most prominently the Feeding Our Future child‑nutrition case that authorities say involved at least $240–250 mill...
Available sources do not give a single, nationwide annual tally of prosecutions and convictions for “Social Security fraud” as a whole; the Congressional Research Service notes that SSA OIG received 3...
Data from city, federal and independent analysts show violent crime in Washington, D.C., fell sharply through 2024–mid‑2025 (U.S. Attorney: violent crime down 35% in 2024) even as the Trump administra...
Recent reporting and lawsuits show growing legal efforts to hold immigration-enforcement officers individually accountable, but the outcomes depend on state law, Fourth Amendment doctrine, and qualifi...
The available documents do not provide a clear, consistent count of how many CSAM investigations federal agencies opened each year from 2015 through 2024; reporting instead offers related proximate me...
Federal and state investigators began scrutinizing fraud schemes after prosecutors and journalists documented large, multi-year scams that billed Minnesota social-services programs for services never ...
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida (USAO‑SDFL), overseen by then‑U.S. Attorney Alexander “Alex” Acosta, negotiated and signed the 2007–2008 non‑pros...
The reporting shows no credible allegation that John Brennan was charged in any assassination or murder-for-hire plot targeting Donald Trump; the criminal cases tied to such plots name other defendant...
Washington, D.C.’s crime picture in 2024 improved notably on several headline measures—, with sources reporting declines in the 30–35% range—yet the District’s per‑capita violent and overall crime rat...