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Justice Department Announces Landmark Money Mule Initiative
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- Written by YNN YNN
- Published: 08 December 2019 08 December 2019
Washington, DC - Attorney General William P. Barr and law enforcement partners Wednesday announced a concentrated effort across the country and around the world to halt money mule activity. Money mules assist fraud schemes by receiving money from victims, many of them elderly, and forwarding proceeds to foreign-based perpetrators.
United States Joins Suit against Navistar Defense LLC Alleging False Claims under Marine Corps Contract
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- Published: 08 December 2019 08 December 2019
Washington, DC - The United States has intervened in a whistleblower suit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against Navistar Defense LLC. Navistar Defense manufactured armored vehicles for the United States military and is a subsidiary of Navistar International LLC, headquartered in Melrose Park, Illinois.
Justice Department Announces More than $376 Million in Awards to Promote Public Safety
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- Published: 08 December 2019 08 December 2019
Washington, DC - The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Wednesday announced that it has awarded more than $376 million in grant funding to enhance state, local and tribal law enforcement operations and reinforce public safety efforts in jurisdictions across the United States.
Four Gangster Disciples Sentenced Following Seven-Week Jury Trial
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- Written by DOJ DOJ
- Published: 08 December 2019 08 December 2019
Clarksville, Tennessee - Following a seven-week jury trial in U.S. District Court earlier this year, a federal jury convicted five members of the Gangster Disciples of multiple counts relating to a racketeering conspiracy and a drug distribution conspiracy, which plagued the Clarksville, area with violence and murders for more than a decade, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Hizballah Operative Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison for Covert Terrorist Activities on Behalf of Hizballah’s Islamic Jihad Organization
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- Written by Justice Department Justice Department
- Published: 08 December 2019 08 December 2019
New York - The Department of Justice Tuesday announced that Ali Kourani, 35, was sentenced to 40 years in prison based on terrorism, sanctions, and immigration convictions arising from Kourani’s illicit work as an operative for the Islamic Jihad Organization, Hizballah’s external attack-planning component.
Second Pharmaceutical Company Admits to Price Fixing, Resolves Related False Claims Act Violations
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- Written by DOJ DOJ
- Published: 08 December 2019 08 December 2019
Washington, DC - Rising Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Rising), a generic pharmaceutical company headquartered in New Jersey, was charged for conspiring to fix prices and allocate customers for a generic hypertension drug, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
Border Patrol Arrests Man Convicted of Sexual Assault on a Minor
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- Written by Border Scope Border Scope
- Published: 06 December 2019 06 December 2019
Lukeville, Arizona - U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a previously deported sex offender near Lukeville Wednesday evening.