#federal-sentencing

#federal-sentencing

"This is the dream millions of Iranians are fighting. They want to have justice. That's why I want to say [it is] a historical day," Alinejad said. "The killers wanted to see me covered in blood, dead on my porch in Brooklyn, and thanks to law enforcement agents, I am alive. "I have survived three assassination plots, kidnapping ... How lucky am I?" Alinejad added.

As an employee of the popular Chinese food chain living in Mexico, Salamanca-Benitez was "in the throes of a gambling addiction" and struggling to make ends meet, his attorney wrote in court filings. His solution was to broker several high-end methamphetamine deals over the phone, leading to a drug courier taking a total of 30 pounds of the drug to an undercover DEA agent in San Jose and Redwood City, court records show.

OAKLAND A man who allegedly struck it rich through fentanyl sales in the Bay Area has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison, court records show. Milton Varela-Arteaga, 29, was sentenced last month by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, after pleading guilty to possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl. He must serve a four-year supervised release term afterwards, but because he's already been deported to Honduras once, a similar fate likely awaits him after completion of his prison term, according to court records.

Public servants are entrusted to assist people, not exploit them," Foley said. "This was a brazen abuse of power by a federal employee who used his position and access to sensitive information to prey on a vulnerable woman who had just lost her job. This kind of predatory behavior has no place in public service, or anywhere else.

Christopher Terranova, a former NYPD officer, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting minors, following his conviction on multiple charges.