NEW YORK, Feb. 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release: * * * Bronx Former Attorney Sentenced To 70 Months In Prison For Large-Scale Immigration Fraud Matthew Podolsky, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that KOFI AMANKWAA, a Bronx-based former immigration attorney, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for immigration fraud in connection with his supervision of a multi-year   more

NEW YORK, Feb. 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release: * * * Former NYCHA Superintendent Sentenced To 41 Months In Prison For Bribery And Extortion Matthew Podolsky, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOY HARRIS, a former superintendent for the New York City Housing Authority ("NYCHA"), was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for soliciting and accepting over $50,000   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * ICE Buffalo arrests illegal alien from Mexico convicted of felony rape NEW YORK -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehended an illegally present Mexican national convicted of rape in the first degree when officers arrested Alejandro Salazar, 44, upon release from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, Feb. 21. Salazar illeg  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * ICE New York City arrests previously removed illegal Guatemalan alien with convictions for assault and act in manner to injure a child NEW YORK -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehended an illegally present Guatemalan national previously removed from the United States when officers arrested Yoni Wilfredo Gregorio Ortiz, 44, in the village  more

SYRACUSE, New York, Feb. 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release: * * * New Jersey Man Sentenced to 3 Years for Alien Smuggling ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kenneth Moore, age 42, of New Jersey, was sentenced yesterday to serve 3 years in prison after being convicted at trial of two counts of alien smuggling for private financial gain. Acting United States Attorney Daniel Hanlon and Chief Patrol Agent Robert N. Garcia, United States   more

BROOKLYN, New York, Feb. 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release: * * * Tajik National Arrested in Brooklyn for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS Defendant Also Charged with Illegally Possessing Firearms and Immigration Fraud A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Mansuri Manuchekhri with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Feb. 26, 2025: * * * Tajik National Arrested in Brooklyn for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS Defendant Also Charged with Illegally Possessing Firearms and Immigration Fraud Mansuri Manuchekhri, 33, of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, was arrested today for allegedly conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and to the Islamic State-Khorasan  more