A former federal prosecutor is facing federal charges over allegations that she sent a report detailing Jack Smith’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents to her personal email account, despite a judge’s order to keep it secret.

A jury has convicted a former Navy SEAL with neo-Nazi beliefs of transporting fireworks across state lines with plans to shoot explosives at police during last year’s “No Kings” protest in San Diego.

Federal officials have filed charges against five people in connection to a boat that capsized a day earlier off San Diego’s Pacific coast that killed three people.

Danielle Sassoon had served just three weeks as interim U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York when she penned a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi saying she could not follow a directive to drop the office’s corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Two more people charged with conspiring to bribe a Minnesota juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash in exchange for the acquittal of defendants in one of the country’s largest COVID-19-related fraud cases have pleaded not guilty.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI have announced that five people, including a man acquitted at trial, have been charged with conspiring to bribe a juror in one of the country’s largest COVID-19-related fraud cases with a bag of $120,000 in cash.

A watchdog report says a Minnesota state agency’s inadequate oversight of a federal program that was meant to provide food to kids created the opportunities that led to the theft of $250 million in one of the country’s largest pandemic aid fraud cases.

A federal jury convicted two longtime U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisors Wednesday of leaking confidential information to defense attorneys as part of a bribery conspiracy that prosecutors said imperiled high-profile cases and the lives of overseas drug informants.

A California man has been found guilty of illegally importing an ancient mosaic from Syria.

A Clay County man was found guilty Friday of conspiring to transfer unregistered machine gun conversion devices that were referred to as “auto key cards.”

U.S. authorities say they have charged more than 100 people with federal gun and drug crimes in separate blitzes in three states.

A California man who smuggled more than 1,700 wild animals into the United States, including 60 reptiles hidden in his clothing, has pleaded guilty to federal charges.

Two Jacksonville residents are accused of defrauding the federal Paycheck Protection Program and then trying to cover their tracks afterward.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed legislation aimed at thwarting a half-dozen executive actions taken by President Joe Biden to combat gun violence.

A Brunswick man already sentenced to 10 years behind bars now faces more time in federal prison after threatening a witness and federal judge, the Department of Justice announced Friday.

Two Italian managers in Fiat Chrysler’s diesel engine program have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit in a widening case involving allegations of emissions test cheating.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Clay County man accused of selling unregistered devices online that can convert semiautomatic firearms into machine guns pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court to a single-count indictment. The not-guilty plea came hours after the U.S. Attorney’s Office for announced a federal indictment charging Kristopher Ervin, 41, of Orange Park, with possession of an unregistered machine gun conversion device. The federal government said Ervin had the devices manufactured at a Jacksonville machine shop for $5 each and then sold them for up to $139 a piece. The one-count indictment stems from a tip a federal agent received in January that Ervin was selling the devices online. Agents recovered $3,700, over 1,500 auto-sear devices, machinery that was used to manufacture the devices, guns, computers, and packaging materials.

In Portland, they pointed to 100 consecutive nights of protests “marred by vandalism, chaos, and even killing” and in New York City, the Justice Department pointed to a skyrocketing number of shootings throughout the five boroughs. It is not the first time the Justice Department has attempted to take action against city officials for the violent demonstrations. The department also explored whether it could pursue either criminal or civil rights charges against city officials in Portland after clashes erupted there night after night between law enforcement and demonstrators. In a joint statement, de Blasio, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan decried the designation as “thoroughly political and unconstitutional.”"The President is playing cheap political games with Congressionally directed funds. ___Associated Press writers Karen Matthews in New York and Eugene Johnson in Seattle contributed to this report.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. A man arrested during a protest in downtown Jacksonville on May 31 had a Molotov cocktail in his backpack and has been charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, federal prosecutors announced Monday. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, a Molotov cocktail is an incendiary bomb and destructive device that is considered a firearm under federal law. As a previously convicted felon, Ivan Jacob Zecher is prohibited from possessing a firearm, prosecutors said. If convicted, Zecher faces up to 10 years in federal prison on each count. Zecher refused to leave when officers told the crowd to disperse, and he was arrested on an unlawful assembly charge.

FILE - In this April 3, 2019, file photo, actress Lori Loughlin, front, and her husband, clothing designer Mossimo Giannulli, left, depart federal court in Boston after a hearing in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. Loughlin, 55, and Giannulli, 56, are scheduled to plead guilty Friday via video conference before a federal judge in Boston, who must approve the deal. They agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud in a plea agreement filed in Bostons federal court. Giannulli will also plead guilty to a charge of honest services wire and mail fraud, prosecutors said. Others parents who've been sent to prison for participating in the scam include Desperate Housewives actress Felicity Huffman.

TAMPA, Fla. – Two men are facing federal charges in Florida for using small explosions to rob ATMs in the Tampa Bay area, authorities said Monday. Sallah and Johnson took nearly $70,000 from several Florida ATMs between November and January and vandalized others without taking any cash, according to a criminal complaint. Investigators believe the men injected some type of flammable fuel into the machines and used a spark to ignite it. The men were arrested Sunday after setting off an explosion at an ATM in Watkinsville, Georgia, prosecutors said. That ATM was damaged, but Sallah and Johnson were unable to retrieve any cash, authorities said.

According to the plea agreement, Jenkins met the victim July 14 after she had posted an online advertisement for prostitution in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Federal prosecutors said Jenkins told her that she could make a lot more money in Jacksonville. An arrest report previously obtained by News4Jax from the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office shows that on July 15, the two checked in to the Ramada Inn on Hartley Road. That's where, according to prosecutors, Jenkins set up three prostitution meetings involving the woman and arranged a fourth meeting for July 16. While the victim was in the bathroom at the shop, she called a family member, and her mother then called the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

FreeImages.com/foxumonJACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 29-year-old man accused of trying to meet a child for sex was arrested, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida announced Friday. According to court documents, an undercover FBI agent, who was posing online as a 12-year-old, was contacted Wednesday by the user "Awesome_Jack," who was later identified as Lama. Later that day, Lama rode his motorcycle to a location in Jacksonville to meet the "child" and was arrested by FBI agents, prosecutors said. The case was investigated by the FBI in Jacksonville. It is another case brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

(CNN) - Federal authorities said Thursday they will not file civil rights charges against two Sacramento, California, police officers who fatally shot Stephon Clark in his grandmother's backyard last year. The Sacramento Police Department also cleared the officers of any wrongdoing and is returning them to active duty. The U.S. Attorney's Office, the FBI and prosecutors in the Civil Rights Division reviewed the killing of Clark on March 18, 2018, the statement said. The officers were not charged with crimes, a decision that prompted protests when local prosecutors announced it in March. Officers return to 'full, active duty'After the federal announcement Thursday, Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn said the department also cleared the officers of any wrongdoing.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A woman has been indicted on charges of fraudulent use of a Social Security number and aggravated identity theft, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida. Prosecutors said Elizabeth Farina-Torres, 42, an "undocumented alein" who is a citizen of the Dominican Republic, has been charged with five counts of fraudulent use of a Social Security number and five counts of aggravated identity theft. In about 2008, Farina-Torres began using a Social Security number belonging to a U.S. citizen with a similar name and the same date of birth, according to court documents. Hospital records showed that the person who had used the Social Security number was Farina-Torres. The Clay County Sheriff's Office learned during the investigation that Farina-Torres had used the victim's Social Security number at an Orange Park rental furniture store in April 2015.

WAYCROSS, Ga. – Two men pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine from Atlanta and throughout the Southern District of Georgia, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the district. The U.S. Attorney's Office said the investigation began when agents received information Camacho-Pineda was connected to a Mexican cartel and was supplying other members of the conspiracy operating in Waycross, Georgia and elsewhere. The U.S. Attorney's Office said he fled in his vehicle for about 10 miles and traveled in excess of 130 mph, ultimately wrecking the vehicle. Agents arrested Santana-Hernandez after he traveled from Atlanta to Dublin, Georgia to collect drug proceeds for a previous drug deal involving two kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The charge carries a sentence of 10 years to life in prison and potential fines of up to $10 million each, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 22-year-old Jacksonville man was sentenced Thursday to 12 years and 6 months in federal prison for sex trafficking a child, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard also ordered Harper to serve a five-year term of supervision after his release from prison and to register as a sex offender. According to court documents, Harper met a 15-year-old girl in December 2015 and advertised her for prostitution on the internet. He was paid for the girl to perform sexual acts with his associates and fellow members of the PYC street gang. The local charges were dropped when the case was turned over to the federal courts for prosecution.