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Governor’s Budget Office Releases FY 2019 District-Level Funding Projections
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- Published: 03 June 2018 03 June 2018
Phoenix, Arizona - The Governor’s Office of Strategic Planning and Budgeting released an analysis Thursday detailing the projected amount of funding each Arizona school district and charter school will receive as part of the #20x2020 plan, enacted in the fiscal year 2019 budget.
Arizona’s Border Strike Force Continuing To Make Arizona And America Safer
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- Published: 03 June 2018 03 June 2018
Phoenix, Arizona - From addiction, to overdoses, to property crimes, Arizona remains all too familiar with the serious consequences of drug and human trafficking across the southern border.
Arizona Man Accused of Setting Warehouse Fire to Collect Insurance Money
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- Published: 03 June 2018 03 June 2018
Phoenix, Arizona - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted Mohamed Abdelrahman, 41, for allegedly setting a warehouse on fire to collect a property insurance payout of $120,050. The Phoenix Fire Investigations Unit and the Arizona Department of Insurance investigated this case.
Tucson Man Sentenced to 18.5 Years in Prison for $2.8 Million Drug and Money Laundering Scheme
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- Published: 03 June 2018 03 June 2018
Tucson, Arizona - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Carlos David Nogales Sr. was sentenced to 18.5 years in prison followed by 7 years of probation for his involvement in a $2.8 million drug and money laundering scheme. Between 2011 and 2015, Nogales Sr. operated a nationwide money laundering organization that employed more than a dozen people to launder the proceeds from marijuana that had been shipped from Arizona to various east-coast cities.
Former Investment Advisor Indicted Accused of Stealing Client’s Retirement Accounts
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- Published: 03 June 2018 03 June 2018
Phoenix, Arizona - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted Howard M. Price III, a former investment adviser, for allegedly stealing $475,000 from his client’s retirement accounts. Price, 44, is charged with one count of Fraudulent Schemes & Artifices and three counts of Theft.
Five Men Indicted In Louisiana for Conspiracy to Smuggle Birds
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- Published: 03 June 2018 03 June 2018
New Orleans, Louisiana - Five men have been charged in New Orleans with crimes related to illegally exporting birds protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) from the United States to Taiwan. William McGinness, 59, of Buena Park, California; Paul Tallman, 55, of Destreham, Louisiana; Rene Rizal, 62, of La Mirada, California; Wayne Andrews, 46, of Royal Oaks, California and Alex Madriaga, 76, of Buena Park, California; were each indicted in federal court in the eastern District of Louisiana Thursday.
Former CEO of Technology Company Pleads Guilty to Bribery
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- Published: 03 June 2018 03 June 2018
Detroit, Michigan - The former chief executive officer of FutureNet Group Inc., an information technology company, pleaded guilty today for his role in orchestrating a scheme to bribe an official from the City of Detroit to obtain benefits for FutureNet, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.