WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Aug. 12, 2024: * * * Justice Department Unseals Charges Against Two Additional International Cybercriminals * * * A Belarussian and Ukrainian dual-national charged in both the District of New Jersey and Eastern District of Virginia with leading international computer hacking and wire fraud schemes made his initial appearance in Newark, New Jersey, today after being extradited from Poland. As alleged i  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Aug. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on Aug. 12, 2024: A Belarussian and Ukrainian national charged in the District of New Jersey and Eastern District of Virginia with leading international computer hacking and wire fraud schemes made his initial appearance in Newark today after being extradited from Poland. As alleged in court documents unsealed today, Maksim Silnikau, also known as Maksym Silnikov, 38,  more

SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, Aug. 13 -- The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency issued the following news: Written by Adam Goodman NGA geodetic earth scientists Alicia Metzger and James Beale know firsthand what an important role the agency can play in the Arctic. Metzger and Beale in August 2021 joined other scientists doing research aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy while it traveled from Alaska to Greenland via the ice-locked Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean. As the Healy br  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Navy Reserve Lieutenant Jay R. Manown Jr., 26, of Kingwood, West Virginia, killed during World War II, was accounted for May 23, 2024. In the fall of 1944, Manown was an aviator assigned to Navy Torpedo Squadron 20 (VT-20), USS Enterprise. On Sept. 10, Manown and two other crew members aboard a TBM-1C  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Aug. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia issued the following news release: A Belarussian and Ukrainian national charged in the District of New Jersey and Eastern District of Virginia with leading international computer hacking and wire fraud schemes made his initial appearance in Newark, New Jersey, today after being extradited from Poland. As alleged in court documents unsealed today, Maksim Silnikau, also known as Maksym Silnikov,  more

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, Aug. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Five defendants were sentenced today for their roles in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) responsible for distributing large quantities of methamphetamine and fentanyl in the Southern District of West Virginia. Hakeem Rashad Mack, also known as "Paper," 31, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced to ten years in prison, to be followed by five years  more

BLUEFIELD, West Virginia, Aug. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Anna Marie Omar, 50, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, pleaded guilty today to money laundering by engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from a fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan. Omar admitted that she fraudulently obtained a $20,833 PPP loan guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Ai  more