G7 Announces Common Understanding of G7 Competition Authorities on Competition and the Digital Economy

Washington, DC - The G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors met on July 17-18, 2019 in Chantilly, France.  The United States was represented by Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin.  One of the items on the agenda was Competition and the Digital Economy.  In preparation for this meeting, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim met on June 5 with his G7 counterparts in Paris, and drafted a Common Understanding of G7 Competition Authorities on Competition and the Digital Economy to inform the discussion in Chantilly. 

Department of Justice Announces Extradition of Iranian National and Unsealing of Charges against Two Other Men for Exporting Carbon Fiber from the United States to Iran

New York - Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman for the Southern District of New York, Assistant Director John Brown of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division and Assistant Director in Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. of the FBI’s New York Field Office announced the extradition of Behzad Pourghannad and the unsealing Tuesday of a three-count indictment charging Pourghannad, Ali Reza Shokri and Farzin Faridmanesh with exporting carbon fiber from the United States to Iran.

NIH and partners to launch HIV vaccine efficacy trial in the Americas and Europe

Washington, DC - The National Institutes of Health and partners announced plans to conduct a Phase 3 HIV vaccine efficacy trial at multiple clinical research sites in North America, South America and Europe. The trial, called HPX3002/HVTN 706 or Mosaico, will assess whether an investigational vaccine regimen designed to induce immune responses against a variety of global HIV strains can safely and effectively prevent HIV acquisition among men who have sex with men and transgender people.

ITT Cannon to Pay $11 Million to Settle False Claims Allegations for Untested Electrical Connectors

Washington, DC - ITT Cannon has agreed to pay the United States $11 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that it supplied electrical connectors to the military that had not been properly tested, the Justice Department announced today.  ITT sold the untested connectors both directly to the Government and through distributors and other government contractors which incorporated them into technology and equipment sold to the Government.

Ensuring Deadbeat Parents Pay Their Due

Phoenix, Arizona - Governor Ducey launched the Deadbeat Parent Initiative in 2016 to hold child support evaders accountable. The program seeks to find parents skipping out on child support by highlighting their names, photos and child support owed online and on social media with the hashtag #deadbeat.