Robert Higdon Coverage

Prosecutor: Pandemic ripe for fraud
Fake coronavirus treatments, price gouging, theft of stimulus checks, health care fraud and exploitation of people who are behind on their rent are among the crimes the U.S. Justice Department is seeing during the pandemic, U.S. Attorney Robert Higdon says.

Foreign nationals charged with illegal voting mostly got small fines
U.S. Attorneys Office in Raleigh announces plea deal in one of the last outstanding cases from 2018 crackdown.

Media coalition sues NC election boards for voter records linked to secretive federal probe
A group of local and national news organizations is suing North Carolina election officials for records connected with 2018 federal subpoenas that targeted hundreds of voters across the state.

Fayetteville couple charged with stealing government money, conspiracy
A Fayetteville couple has been charged with stealing military property, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina said Friday.

Raleigh man convicted of human trafficking
Brandon Marquis Jennings, 29, was convicted of human trafficking and sex trafficking Thursday

Elections board directs counties to turn over data on hundreds of NC voters in federal probe
After a three-month wait, state elections officials have now told a small group of counties how to identify and turn over data on hundreds of North Carolina voters targeted by federal investigators in a secretive election fraud probe.

Elections officials to hand federal investigators data on hundreds of NC voters
The State Board of Elections now says it will supply registration records for nearly 800 North Carolina voters in response to a subpoena from U.S. Attorneys, part of a secretive federal election fraud probe that cast a net across millions of voters statewide last fall.

NC investigator pinged feds over 2018 election concerns
Earlier concerns about Bladen County voting irregularities made it all the way to Washington, D.C., and a top Justice Department official came to Raleigh.

CBC OPINION
Editorial: Gov. Cooper, Atty. Gen. Stein need to probe 9th District election troubles
Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018 -- Gov. Roy Cooper and Atty. Gen. Josh Stein need to bring together an independent, non-partisan panel to look into why there was no action to investigate the voting irregularities in Bladen and other southeastern North Carolina counties, identify real problems with current voting procedures and recommend common sense solutions to make sure our elections are clean and fair.