Posts Tagged: US Justice Department
US Justice Department Calls for UN to Remove Anti-Israel Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
The US Department of Justice has called on the United Nations to remove Francesca Albanese from her role as special rapporteur on human rights in...
‘I’m From Hamas’: Philadelphia Resident Sentenced to Prison for Making Threats Against Jews, Muslims
A resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Tuesday to 16 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for making antisemitic and...
Alleged Neo-Nazi Indicted for Plot to Carry Out New Year’s Eve Mass Casualty Attack Against Jews, Other Minorities
US federal authorities have charged, and a grand jury has indicted, a foreign national with planning a mass casualty attack against Jews and other minorities...
‘I Wont be Taken Alive’: Grand Jury Indicts Neo-Nazi Accused of Planning Terrorist Attack in Michigan Synagogue
A federal grand jury has indicted a man from Pickford, Michigan, who allegedly threatened to commit a mass shooting and live stream it on social...
US Charges Three Iranians for Ransomware Attacks on Women’s Shelter, Businesses
Three Iranians have been charged with trying to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from organizations in the United States, Europe, Iran and Israel, including...
NJ Man Sentenced for Plot to Vandalize Black and Jewish Targets That Left Two Synagogues Defaced
A New Jersey man affiliated with an antisemitic and white supremacist hate group has been sentenced to a year and one day in prison for...
Federal Prosecutors Ask Court to Keep Nazi-Sympathizing Capitol Rioter in Jail Due to Threat to New Jersey Jewish Community
US Justice Department prosecutors, in a court filing on Friday, said that a known Nazi sympathizer and army reservist who was arrested in connection to...
US Dismantles Global Disinformation Campaign Tied to Iran: Justice Department
US prosecutors have seized a network of web domains which they said were used in a campaign by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to spread political...
Indonesian Businessman, Companies Charged for Violating Sanctions on Iran
JNS.org - The US Justice Department announced on Tuesday an eight-count indictment of an Indonesian businessman and three Indonesian-based companies for violating US sanctions against...
US Court Convicts Israeli for Role in Binary Options Fraud
A US court has convicted Lee Elbaz, former CEO of Israel-based Yukom Communications, of three counts of wire fraud and one of conspiracy to commit wire...
At Antisemitism Summit, US Attorney General Says He Is ‘Deeply Concerned’ by Rise in Hate Crimes Targeting Jews
Attorney General William Barr said on Monday he was “deeply concerned” by an increase in recent years of the number of reported hate crimes targeting...
CNN: Justice Department Preparing to Receive Mueller Report
The US Department of Justice may announce as early as next week that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has given the attorney general his report on...
Rosenstein, Overseer of Russia Probe, Set to Depart Justice Department Post
Rod Rosenstein, the Justice Department official who oversees the probe into Russia's role in the 2016 US election and faced criticism from President Donald Trump, is...
Attorney General Tells Jewish Gathering: Trump Administration ‘Aggressively Enforcing’ Hate Crime Laws
The Trump administration is “aggressively enforcing” hate crime laws, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Wednesday in an address to an Orthodox Union gathering in...
