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WASHINGTON, DC – The Justice Department and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a nationwide enforcement operation that resulted in the seizure of over 2.1 million unauthorized flavored e-cigarettes from five distributors and six retailers across seven states. According to federal court filings, the companies involved had previously been warned by the FDA that their electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products required premarket authorization before being legally sold. Undercover purchases and inspections revealed that despite these warnings, the companies continued distributing unapproved vaping products. The seizures were executed by the U.S. Marshals Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and other law enforcement agencies with...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Justice announced on September 25, 2025, that it has filed lawsuits against six states—California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania—for failing to produce their statewide voter registration lists as required by federal law. File Photo (2024) According to the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the lawsuits seek to enforce provisions of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), and the Civil Rights Act of 1960 (CRA), which authorize the Attorney General to obtain, inspect, and review state voter registration records. “Clean voter rolls are the foundation of free and fair elections,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “Every state has a responsibility to ensure that v...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Justice filed a civil denaturalization complaint on Sept. 24, 2025, against Gurdev Singh Sohal, who allegedly used a false identity to obtain U.S. citizenship after being ordered deported more than a decade earlier. Sohal, also known as Dev Singh and Boota Singh Sundu, was ordered deported in 1994 under the name Dev Singh. Rather than comply, he allegedly assumed a new identity and submitted immigration applications under the name Gurdev Singh Sohal. He later naturalized in 2005 using that new identity, failing to disclose his previous immigration record. According to the complaint, Sohal used a new name, date of birth, and date of entry into the country. In 2020, expert fingerprint analysis confirmed both identities belonged to the same perso...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a civil complaint to revoke the citizenship of Hector Daneri Regalado, who was convicted of sexually abusing a child during the period he was required to demonstrate good moral character for naturalization. Regalado became a naturalized citizen in 2010. However, in 2012, he entered an Alford plea to two counts of Taking Indecent Liberties with a Child in North Carolina. Prosecutors stated that Regalado abused the victim, who was between 12 and 14 years old, over a span of approximately two years beginning in 2007. The conduct occurred during the statutory period required to demonstrate moral character before gaining citizenship. The civil complaint to revoke his citizenship was filed on Sept. 24, 2025. This is the tenth ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Board of Immigration Appeals has reversed a 2025 decision by an Immigration Judge that granted cancellation of removal to Samuel Michael McDonald, a Canadian citizen and lawful permanent resident of the United States, citing the severity of his criminal conduct and recent convictions involving a 14-year-old victim. According to Matter of McDonald, 29 I&N Dec. 249 (BIA 2025), McDonald had been convicted in New York of two counts of endangering the welfare of a child. Although those convictions were classified as misdemeanors, the Board determined that the underlying conduct—including alleged sexual grooming, drug use, and attempts to involve the victim in sexual activities—presented serious and recent adverse factors that outweighed any equities. The dec...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – An Arizona woman has pleaded guilty for her role in a mass-mailing fraud scheme that defrauded thousands of elderly consumers across the United States and abroad. According to federal prosecutors, 48-year-old Kimberly Stamps of Gilbert, Arizona, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. She was the operator of a prize notice scam that ran from 2012 until early 2018 and stole more than $15 million from victims. Stamps admitted she mailed millions of deceptive prize notices that falsely claimed recipients had been selected to win large cash prizes, requiring a $20 to $50 fee to claim the reward. Victims never received any real prize, only sweepstakes information or trinkets of minimal value. Court documents show Stamps managed nearly every as...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A man from Uzbekistan will be deported from the United States after the Board of Immigration Appeals ruled that he did not meet the legal standard to stay under protection laws meant to prevent torture. According to Matter of J-A-, the respondent claimed that if sent back to Uzbekistan, he would be jailed and tortured due to pending terrorism charges. He said he was previously detained in Russia based on false claims and was later attacked in Turkey by men he believed were Uzbek agents. He was arrested in the U.S. in April 2024 on an Interpol Red Notice and applied for asylum and protection under the Convention Against Torture. However, the Immigration Judge found the man’s testimony to be unreliable due to conflicting details and missing information. The judge...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Queens, New York man was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for attempting to support ISIS by planning a knife attack targeting civilians in Flushing Bay. According to court documents, Awais Chudhary, 25, pledged allegiance in 2019 to then-ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and conducted multiple surveillance visits at pedestrian bridges and public walkways near the Grand Central Parkway and World’s Fair Marina in Queens. Prosecutors said Chudhary took active steps to carry out a terrorist attack, including scouting crowded times, ordering tactical gear, and seeking advice from individuals he believed were ISIS members about how to avoid detection. Items ordered online included a tactical knife, mask, gloves, an...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Pennsylvania doctor was sentenced to 168 months in federal prison for orchestrating multiple fraud schemes involving false medical claims, illegal distribution of oxycodone, and laundering over $1.2 million in proceeds. According to court documents, Dr. Neil K. Anand, 48, of Bensalem, was found guilty in April 2025 of conspiring to defraud Medicare, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Independence Blue Cross, and Anthem through claims for medically unnecessary “Goody Bags” of prescription medications dispensed by in-house pharmacies he owned. To encourage patients to accept the bags, Anand also provided them with oxycodone prescriptions that were written outside the normal course of medical practice. Evidence showed that Anand pre-signed blank prescript...

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland filed a sentencing memorandum Friday seeking a 30-year prison term for Nicholas John Roske, who pleaded guilty on April 8 to the attempted murder of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Roske admitted to traveling from California to Maryland with the intent to kill the Justice at his residence. The case has drawn national attention due to its implications on judicial security and political violence. “This attempt against the life of a Supreme Court Justice was an attack on the entire judicial system that cannot go unpunished,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “This Department of Justice condemns political violence and our prosecutors will ensure that this disturbed individual faces severe conseque...