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Justice Department Awards Nearly $104 Million to Help Crime Victims in Indian Country
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- Published: 20 November 2021 20 November 2021
Washington, DC - The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), a component of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP), has awarded nearly $104 million to serve victims in tribal communities, of which nearly $101 million was awarded through the Crime Victims Fund Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside.
Panamanian Intermediary in Alleged Bribery Scheme Charged with Money Laundering Extradited to the United States from Guatemala
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- Published: 20 November 2021 20 November 2021
New York - Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares (Luis Martinelli Linares), 39, a citizen of Panama and Italy, was extradited from Guatemala to the United States Monday to face an indictment filed in federal court in Brooklyn charging him and his brother, Ricardo Alberto Martinelli Linares (Ricardo Martinelli Linares), 42, a citizen of Panama and Italy, with money laundering offenses in connection with a massive bribery and money laundering scheme involving Odebrecht S.A. (Odebrecht), a Brazil-based global construction conglomerate.
Dozens of families to be made official on National Adoption Day
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- Published: 18 November 2021 18 November 2021
Yuma, Arizona - Seventeen families will become official on Saturday, November 20 when National Adoption Day is celebrated at Yuma County Juvenile Justice Center.
Former U.S. Army Employee Sentenced for Kickback Scheme to Steer U.S. Government Contracts
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- Published: 14 November 2021 14 November 2021
Washington, DC - A former civilian employee of the U.S. Army’s Directorate of Public Works was sentenced today to two years in prison for a kickback scheme to steer government contracts for work at Camp Arifjan, a U.S. Army base in Kuwait.
Justice Department Requires Divestitures in Lactalis’s Acquisition of Kraft Heinz’s Natural Cheese Business in the United States
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- Published: 14 November 2021 14 November 2021
Washington, DC - The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it will require B.S.A. S.A. (Lactalis) and The Kraft Heinz Company (Kraft Heinz) to divest Kraft Heinz’s Athenos and Polly-O businesses in order to proceed with Lactalis’s proposed acquisition of Kraft Heinz’s natural cheese business in the United States.
Businessman Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for City Commissioner Bribery Scheme
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- Published: 14 November 2021 14 November 2021
Tallahassee, Florida - A Florida man was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison and ordered to pay a fine of $1,250,000 for engaging in a scheme to bribe former Tallahassee City Commissioner Scott Maddox and for making false statements to the FBI.
Justice Department Announces Environmental Justice Investigation into Alabama Department of Public Health
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- Published: 14 November 2021 14 November 2021
Montgomery, Alabama - The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it has opened an environmental justice investigation into the wastewater disposal and infectious disease and outbreaks programs of the Alabama Department of Public Health and the Lowndes County, Alabama, Health Department.