Ten years ago John Edward Schostag pled guilty in a U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota to being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to 120 months in a federal penal facility and to five…
Month: July 2018
2018
Category: Drug Distribution | Federal Criminal Law
Drug conspiracy trials are often complex, much more difficult to defend against than they are to prosecute. The prosecution need only show that two or more people agreed to commit an illegal act associated with illicit drug possession, distribution or…
2018
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
A sex crime is defined any form of sexual assault, sexual misconduct, illegal pornography, or unlawful sexual behavior. These offenses generally face serious prosecution at both the state and federal level. This is especially so in Texas and at the…
2018
Category: Fraud | Healthcare Fraud
More than 600 people, including doctors, were charged in June with crimes in connection with health care frauds exceeding $2 billion and contributed significantly to the nation’s opioid crisis, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ0. In this post,…
2018
Category: Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
Who is responsible for a drug overdose death?
Dubuque, Iowa, the corn capital of the U.S., has a serious drug overdose problem. A local television station reported that through the first eight months of 2016, Dubuque had 23 heroin…
2018
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Distribution | Drug Manufacturing
Drug offenses have become commonplace across most of the United States. As of January 2018, the, the cost of drug use on the nation’s criminal justice system is roughly $61 billion yearly. State and federal prison system are overwhelmed with…
2018
Category: Constitutional Law | Illegal Pornography
For most cellphone owners, the pocket-size device has become their address book, photo album, personal journal, bank account, news source, calendar, social network, and a slew of other services. In a recent ruling, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts…
2018
Michael Selyem is the Deputy District Attorney in San Bernardino County, California. He is the county’s “chief gang prosecutor.”
Selyem, a white man, is currently on paid administrative leave at the direction of San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike…
2018
Category: Immigration Crimes
Just days after defending the policy, Donald Trump recently signed an executive order prohibiting the practice of separating children from their parents seeking entry into the United State. At the time the president signed the order, his administration had no…
2018
History will teach that the Donald Trump presidency was the most corrupt of the nation’s first 45. Eighteen months into Trump’s presidency more than three dozen appointed government officials have resigned or been fired under suspicious clouds of corruption at…