Judge’s emergency order pre-empts Deal’s action on DeKalb schools
A federal judge’s emergency order intended to “preserve the status quo” issued Friday night pre-empted Governor Nathan Deal’s decision today to replace six members of the DeKalb County Board of...
View ArticleAG Olens concerned about constitutional creds of Obama Administration
In a Google Hangout conversation (placed on YouTube; see below) Monday February 25, three Republican attorney generals, including Georgia’s AG Sam Olens, took questions from the public and reporters,...
View ArticleFelon gets 15 years for possessing an assault rifle
A federal judge in Brunswick on Thursday sentenced a Broxton man to a 15-year prison term for possessing an assault rifle as a convicted felon. U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood passed sentence on...
View ArticleMurray County deputy involved in magistrate investigation pleads to charge
A former Murray County sheriff’s deputy – the first cousin of a county magistrate judge who resigned to end an ethics investigation last year – has pleaded guilty to obstructing justice, the U.S....
View ArticleConvicted N.C. terrorist gets life for murder-for-hire
A convicted terrorist who plotted from his prison cell to behead federal agents and witnesses was sentenced to life in prison earlier today by a federal judge in Raleigh, N.C. U.S. District Senior...
View ArticleDrug company pleads guilty to distributing adulterated drugs
A U.S. subsidiary of India’s largest pharmaceutical company pleaded guilty today to felony charges of manufacturing and distributing adulterated drugs in violation of federal food and drug laws, the...
View ArticleBuckhead couple indicted for sex trafficking
A federal grand jury in Atlanta has indicted a Buckhead couple of forcing a 17-year-old who lived with them into prostitution, federal prosecutors announced today. The grand jury indicted Steven E....
View ArticleGang “best at making people crippled” indicted by federal grand jury
A federal grand jury in Atlanta has indicted five members of a metro Atlanta gang on charges that they used threats, force, guns, and violence to extort money and property from local businesses with...
View ArticleFederal jury convicts Stone Mountain woman of using stolen IDs
A federal jury in Atlanta has convicted a Stone Mountain woman of using identities stolen from the homeless and disabled to file fraudulent tax returns and collect refunds, the U.S. Attorney for the...
View ArticleNewton deputy accused of drug trafficking
A Newton County sheriff’s deputy whom federal prosecutors say was selling marijuana out of his police car while in uniform has been charged with distributing marijuana and using and carrying a firearm...
View ArticleFormer deputy who arrested JQC witness to serve prison time
A federal judge in Gainesville has sentenced a former Murray County deputy who falsely arrested a state Judicial Qualifications Commission witness to 10 months in prison for obstructing a federal...
View ArticleEx-Pace Academy instructor to serve five years on child porn charges
A former drama and dance teacher at Atlanta’s Pace Academy has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for receiving and possessing child pornography. The details are in a news release from the...
View ArticleSpeech therapy provider pleads guilty to Medicaid fraud
The owner of a Florida health care provider that offered speech therapy to impoverished children has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Atlanta to defrauding Georgia’s Medicaid program, the U.S....
View ArticleFederal judge sentences former Integrity Bank executives, Florida developer
A federal judge has sentenced to prison two former executives of a defunct bank in Alpharetta that was once featured in a Time Magazine story on Christian businesses and the bank’s largest borrower,...
View ArticleDecatur investment advisor sentenced to 7 years for fraud
The owner of an Atlanta investment advisory firm was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for defrauding more than more than 50 investors of nearly $7 million, according to the U.S. Attorney for...
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