Four United Development Funding (UDF) executives have been sentenced to a combined 20 years in federal prison for fraud, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
A former Dallas police officer was sentenced to 30 months in prison for lying to agents about his role in obstructing an investigation into a nightclub magnate.
tel aviv and london. we have worked closely with the jewish federation and i will continue to do that and we will continue to do that and we will continue to do that throughout the country. we do believe, from our engagement with the subject, that he was singularly focused on one issue and it was not specifically related to the jewish community, but we will continue to work to find motive and we will continue on that path. in terms of the resolution of the incident, the hostage taker is deceased. we will conduct an independent investigation, my evidence response team will be here to process the scene, 18 from washington will be here to conduct an independent investigation of the shooting incident and that is the way we handle those things, our standard operating procedure. isolated matthew desarno speaking there. now to china, where health officials in beijing have confirmed the city s first locally transmitted case of the omicron variant of covid 19. it was detected in the haidian dis
special agent matthew desarno of the dallas fbi said nearly two hundred law enforcement officers had worked to resolve the situation and after paying tribute to them, he focused on those who had engaged directly with the hostage taker. iam also i am also extremely proud of the team of negotiators, fbi agents, and local police officers who worked all day long engaging subject and, likely, save the lives of the subjects just through their engagement. it s very likely this situation would have ended very badly early on in the day if we had not had professional, consistent negotiation with the subject. i do not have any information right now that indicates that this is part of any kind of ongoing threat. we obviously are investigating. we will continue to investigate the hostage taker. we will continue to investigate his contacts. our investigation will have global reach. we have beenin will have global reach. we have been in contact already with multiple fbi legates to involve