Federal prosecutors say a 28-year-old Rochester man has been sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted last year of receiving child pornography. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Faycal Taouzinet was arrested after the mother of a 13-year-old found her child was communicating with two men. Police went over the child’s cell phone and […]
The Justice Department has named James Kennedy Jr. as the acting United States Attorney for Western New York, following the retirement of William Hochul Jr. Kennedy has been an assistant U.S. Attorney since 1992 and was Hochul’s First Assistant for more than six years. Kennedy says he intends to continue the Western New York District’s […]
U.S. Attorney William Hochul says his tenure as Western New York’s top federal prosecutor has been bookmarked by the prosecution of violent crimes and seen the arrival of home-grown terrorism. But in a news conference announcing his retirement, Hochul says the most serious problems he sees for society are opioid drug addiction and cyber crime. […]