The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released the latest dataset from its National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), containing information relating to more than 6 million criminal offenses nationally.

This week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that it had charged two men in connection with a ransomware attack that impacted certain regional computer networks between 2015 and 2018.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has had a major and disturbing breakthrough on a series of crimes dating back nearly 50 years, thanks to its Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP). This week, the agency announced that it had successfully connected 34 murders to Samuel Little, a 78-year-old man currently imprisoned in Texas.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has unveiled a new website corresponding to the agency’s release of a new dataset breaking down hate crimes in the United States in 2017.

Former U.S. Congressman Stephen E. Stockman, who was a two-term Republican member of the House of Representatives representing Texas’ 9th Congressional district from 1995 to 1997 and Texas’ 36th congressional district from 2013 to 2015, was sentenced this week to serve 120 months in prison for “orchestrating a four-year scheme to defraud charitable donors of hundreds of thousands of dollars and secretly to funnel the proceeds to pay for personal expenses and to illegally finance his campaigns for public office.”

A collaboration of federal and local law enforcement agencies identified and apprehended Cesar Altieri Sayoc Jr., 56, suspected of mailing at least 15 improvised explosive devices across the country to political opponents of President Donald Trump, the New York Times reports.

A former FBI agent, Terry James Albury, 39, has been sentenced to four years in prison, after pleading “guilty in April to one count each of unauthorized disclosure of national defense information and unauthorized retention of national defense information,” after stealing “more than 70 documents, including 50 that were classified,” according to the Associated Press.

Late last week, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a District Court in Tennessee “unsealed a 32-count indictment charging four individuals and seven companies in a $1 billion health care fraud scheme.”

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced that seven Russian hackers working on behalf of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (known as “GRU”) were indicted for their involvement in a major international cyber-campaign that began in the lead-up to the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.

The winners of the 17th annual Service to America Medals (commonly known as “the Sammies”) have been announced by the Partnership for Public Service, with the organization slated to recognize eight “standout federal employees” selected from the 28 announced finalists.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has unveiled this week its 2017 annual crime statistics dataset, updating its online Crime Data Explorer tool to allow the public to examine changes in crime trends, as measured by the FBI. The tool was first released last year.

This week, a political consultant and two co-conspirators were sentenced following a May 5th conviction for a bribery scheme involving the redirection of state funds to non-profit entities in exchange for financial kickbacks.  Randell G. Shelton, Jr., a political consultant, was sentenced to 72 months in prison on 12 separate counts and reportedly led the effort. Shelton was also ordered to pay restitution of $660,698 and to forfeit an additional $664,000.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that it has recovered one of the famous pairs of ruby slippers worn by actress Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that a former Arkansas State Senator, Jonathan E. Woods, 41, has been sentenced to 220 months in prison “for organizing and leading a bribery scheme in which state funds were directed to non-profit entities in exchange for kickbacks, many of which were funneled through a consultant’s business.” Woods served in the Arkansas State Senate from 2013 through 2017.

Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had removed Jakiw Palij, “a former Nazi labor camp guard in German-occupied Poland and a postwar resident of Queens, New York” to Germany. The decision was made “based on an order of removal obtained by the Department of Justice in 2004.”

This week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released three major announcements pertaining to its efforts to minimize an increase in opioid use and opioid-related deaths in recent years. DOJ simultaneously announced multiple arrests of opioid manufacturers and vendors and what it terms “first-of-its-kind action to reduce opioid over-prescription.”

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced this week a massive $4.9 billion settlement with the Royal Bank of Scotland, “resolving federal civil claims that RBS misled investors in the underwriting and issuing of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) between 2005 and 2008.”

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), one of the federal government’s most secretive research arms, tasked with keeping the United States on top of bleeding-edge technology developments, is reportedly hard-at-work attempting to develop a reliable means of identifying “deepfake” videos.

This week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced “that Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. and several of its affiliates (Wells Fargo) will pay a civil penalty of $2.09 billion under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) based on the bank’s alleged origination and sale of residential mortgage loans that it knew contained misstated income information and did not meet the quality that Wells Fargo represented.”

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has released a sweeping new report on the Attorney General’s Cyber-Digital Task Force, providing an initial assessment of the group formed in February 2018 at the direction of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.