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Upcoming webinars from the National Institute of Justice Forensic Technology Center of Excellence include: Building Forensic Capacity Post-Conflict: Lessons from Uganda , March 28, 2019, 2 p.m. ET Emerging Forensic Research Series: Forensic Chemistry , April 4, 2019, 1 p.m. ET Emerging Forensic Research Series: Forensic Biology , April 9, 2019, 1 p.m. ET Surviving Sexual Assault - It Takes A Village , April 11, 2019, 1 p.m. ET

John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that THOMAS MALONE, 49, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzling approximately $1 million from a New Haven biotech company that receives federal research grants. According to court documents and statements made in court, Malone was the chief financial officer (CFO) of Artificial Cell Technologies, Inc. (ACT) of New Haven, a small biotech company that is currently working on developing better ways to deliver malaria and Respiratory Syncytial Virus vaccines to affected populations.   In addition to receiving funding from private investors, ACT has received approximately $4.1 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 2008.   As the CFO, Malone’s responsibilities included collecting, posting and depositing investor and grant funds; tra...

Allegedly Made Available More Than One Million Images of Child Pornography Greenbelt, Maryland – Irish authorities extradited Eric Eoin Marques, age 33, to the United States to face federal charges that he allegedly conspired to advertise and distribute child pornography on the dark web.   Marques, a dual national citizen of the United States and Ireland, arrived in the United States on March 23, 2019, and had his initial appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy J. Sullivan in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt.   An amended criminal complaint was filed on August 8, 2013, and unsealed today at Marques’ initial appearance.   At that hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Sullivan ordered that Marques be detained pending a detention hearing scheduled for Wednesday, March 27, 2019, at 11:30 a.m. in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt. The extradition and federal charges were announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert K. Hur; Assistant Attorney G...