WASHINGTON, May 13 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: By David Vergun, DOD News Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III met with paratroopers and family members of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The secretary thanked the soldiers for choosing to serve, particularly in a division that's ready to go into combat at a moment's notice. "My number one priority is to defend this country. My second priority is to take care of people. I want to m  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on May 12, 2023: A North Carolina land appraiser pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud the United States as part of a syndicated conservation easement tax shelter scheme - involving inflated charitable contribution deductions based on a fraudulent appraisal value of a conservation easement on land - that claimed more than $1.3 billion in fraudulent tax deductions. According to court documents and sta  more

WILMINGTON, North Carolina, May 13 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Michael F. Easley Jr., issued the following news release: Jarrell Raeshon Bordeaux was sentenced to 248 months in prison for 13 drug trafficking and firearm charges. Bordeaux was convicted by a federal jury in January of this year. According to court records and evidence presented in court, Bordeaux sold ounces of fentanyl and heroin to a confidential informant 10 times. During the drug deals, he  more