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Operation Island Express II Nets Two Document Suppliers in Puerto Rican...
Posted: 1:14 am ET On March 14, 2017, USDOJ announced that two identity document suppliers were sentenced to prison for their role in trafficking the identities of Puerto Rican U.S. citizens and...
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Diplomatic Security Help Return Fugitive Involved in Stealing Identities of...
Posted: 2:05 am ET In June 2014, USDOJ indicted six people in an identity theft and tax fraud scheme in which the identities of disabled children and foster care children were stolen. The indictment...
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Three Fraudsters Sentenced For @StateDept Exchange Visitor Program Scheme
Posted: 1:46 am ET Via USDOJ: Three Sentenced for Orchestrating a Nationwide Exchange Visitor Program Fraud Scheme Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama, U.S....
View ArticleLibyan National Charged in 2012 Attack on U.S. Special Mission and Annex in...
Posted: 2:22 am ET Follow @Diplopundit Media reports say that U.S. special forces have captured a militant who was allegedly involved in the 2012 deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound and CIA...
View ArticleTrump Orders the Establishment of a National Vetting Center to “Identify...
Posted: 2:56 am ET Follow @Diplopundit The Presidential Memorandum is titled “Optimizing the Use of Federal Government Information in Support of the National Vetting Enterprise”. On February 6, Trump...
View ArticleU.S. National Zia Zafar Pleads Guilty to the Attempted Murder of U.S....
Follow @Diplopundit In January 2017, we covered the shooting of Christopher Ashcraft, a U.S. diplomat stationed at the U.S. Consulate General in Guadalajara, Mexico. CCTV and Starbucks Receipt Help...
View ArticleU.S. National Sentenced to 22 Years For Attempted Murder of U.S. Diplomat in...
This past July we blogged about the guilty plea of U.S. national and former medical student Zia Zafar over his attempted murder of Christopher Ashcraft, a U.S. diplomat assigned at the U.S. Consulate...
View ArticleUSG Rapatriates Forfeited Funds From Bakiyev Regime to the Kyrgyz Republic
Posted: 2:05 am EST On February 26, USDOJ announced the repatriation of stolen assets to the Kyrgyz Republic “from the corruption and theft of government funds” by the regime of second President of...
View ArticleFormer State/OIG IT Contractor Pleads Guilty to Theft and Embezzlement of USG...
On March 7, 2019, USDOJ/U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced that a former IT contractor for the State Department’s Office of Inspector General pled guilty to theft...
View ArticleUSG Charges Two Individuals For Visa Fraud Conspiracy Involving the Moroccan...
On March 13, SDNY announced that two individuals were charged for visa fraud conspiracy involving the Moroccan Consulate and Mission in New York. The complaint includes an individual not named as a...
View ArticleFormer U.S. Diplomat William Patrick Syring Convicted of Threatening...
This is a follow-up to an item we posted in March 2018 (Ex-FSO William Syring Charged With Hate Crime and Threats to Arab American Institute Employees). On February 21, 2018 USDOJ indicted former...
View ArticleDOJ’s Sarah Fabian Makes Outrageous Argument USG Isn’t Required to Provide...
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View ArticleLibyan National Mustafa al-Imam Found Guilty of Terrorism Charges in 2012...
Help Fund the Blog | Diplopundit 2019 — 60-Day Campaign from June 5, 2019 – August 5, 2019 ______________________________________ On June 17, DOJ announced that a Libyan national was found guilty of...
View ArticleFormer Senior USAGM Official Haroon K. Ullah Pleads Guilty to Stealing...
We’re late on this, but on June 27, 2019, USDOJ announced that Haroon K. Ullah, a former senior official of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the agency formerly known as the Broadcasting...
View ArticleFormer @StateDept Employee Candace Marie Claiborne Sentenced to 40 Months in...
Help Fund the Blog | Countdown: Less Than 24 Hours to Go ______________________________________ Correction: 40 months in prison, not 40 years. In March 2017, the Justice Department announced the...
View ArticleEx-StateDept GSO Steven H. Hassan Gets 40 Years For Sexual Abuse of Children...
On August 13, USDOJ announced that former State Department employee, Steven Hadley Hassan, 52, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for sexual abuse of minors, and the production and...
View ArticleEx-Diplomat William Patrick Syring Gets 60 Months in Prison For Hate Crime
We’ve posted previously about William Patrick Syring, a former foreign service officer who was indicted for hate crime and threatening employees of the Arab American Institute (AAI) on February 21,...
View Article@StateDept Contracting Officer Zaldy N. Sabino Convicted of Bribery and...
This is a follow-up to our post on April 16, 2019 @StateDept Contracting Officer Faces 17-Count Indictment For Bribery and Procurement Fraud. On October 4, 2019, the Justice Department announced the...
View ArticleThe Giant Halkbank Octopus: New Episodes Coming Soon!
From our old post in 2017: Erdogan Rages Against the U.S. Ambassador to Ankara — What’s That About? On March 19, 2016, Reza Zarrab an Iranian-Turkish citizen was arrested for allegedly engaging in...
View ArticleLibyan National in 2012 Benghazi Terrorist Attack Sentenced to More Than 19...
On October 31, 2017, we posted about the capture of Libyan national Mustafa al-Imam by U.S. special forces in Misrata, on the north coast of Libya. He was alleged to be involved in the 2012 deadly...
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