iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- Jews and Sikhs have become the most targeted communities for hate crimes in the US. According to statistics revealed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), incidents related to religion comprised 14.2 percent of incidents. The largest categories of religion-based crime included anti-Jewish incidents at 31.9 percent followed by anti-Sikh incidents […]
Eight Indian-Americans are among 12 dental practice owners and co-conspirators who have been charged for allegedly engaging in a multifaceted racketeering conspiracy through a multi-state network of dental practices in the US state of Pennsylvania.
The White House has released its first-ever national strategy to advance equity, justice, and opportunity for Asian-American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) communities. Senior Biden-Harris administration officials outlined the details of an action plan made by 32 federal agencies to promote safety and equity for Asian Americans, including Indians, and NHPIs at a virtual event on Tuesday, the White House said.
A US House of Representatives panel has voted to make six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns public. On Tuesday evening, the Democrat-led House Ways and Means Committee voted 24-16 to publish the documents, with all all Republicans opposed to the decision.
A select committee of the US House of Representatives voted on Monday to refer to the Justice Department four criminal charges against former President Donald Trump in relation to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol as lawmakers met to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
Six Indians – five men and a woman – have been charged in connection with a transnational technical support scam that targeted more than 20,000 victims, many of them elderly, in the US and Canada.
An Indian American lab owner has been convicted for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting over $463 million in genetic and other laboratory tests that patients did not need. According to court documents and evidence presented at the trial on Wednesday, Atlanta-based Minal Patel, 44, owned LabSolutions LLC — a lab enrolled with Medicare that performed sophisticated genetic tests.
American antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor along with five accomplices who operated a multi-million-dollar looting network via his New York gallery has been sentenced by an Indian court to 10 years in prison for smuggling offenses.
An Iowa City man and Indian American, Sameer Chandulal Patel, age 30, was sentenced on October 28, 2022, to 210 months in prison for the receipt and distribution of child pornography. Following his imprisonment, Patel was ordered to serve five years of supervised release, unless he is deported from the United States.
A man accused of conspiracy to commit fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with multiple schemes defrauding his then employer Apple, Inc., pleaded guilty in federal court on November 1.
