Sensitive Equipment Illegally Exported to Russia Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 11, 2016.  For more than six years, a New Jersey man who owned four microelectronics export companies skirted U.S. export laws enacted under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). These laws are in place to help protect U.S. national security and[Read More…]

Influencers Were Paid Thousands of Dollars to Promote ‘Shadow of Mordor’ Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 11, 2016.  Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc. has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers during a marketing campaign for the video game Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, by failing to adequately disclose that it[Read More…]

MINNESOTA–(ENEWSPF)–July 8, 2016.  A former Minnesota National Guardsman was sentenced today to 210 months in prison for inducing a 14-year-old girl to create and send to him sexually explicit photos over the Internet while he was deployed to Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s[Read More…]

FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–July 8, 2016. Congresswoman Corrine Brown and her chief of staff were indicted today for their roles in a conspiracy and fraud scheme involving a fraudulent education charity. Brown, 69, of Jacksonville, Florida, and her chief of staff, Elias “Ronnie” Simmons, 50, of Laurel, Maryland, were charged today in a[Read More…]

VIRGINIA–(ENEWSPF)–July 5, 2016.  Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former member of the Army National Guard, was arrested on July 3 for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).  According to the complaint, Jalloh is alleged to have attempted to provide services by assisting[Read More…]

BancorpSouth Illegally Denied African-American Consumers Fair and Equal Access to Mortgages WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–June 29, 2016.   Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a joint action against BancorpSouth Bank for discriminatory mortgage lending practices that harmed African Americans and other minorities. The[Read More…]

OHIO–(ENEWSPF)–June 27, 2016. The leader of a human trafficking organization and a co-defendant were sentenced to prison today for their roles in luring Guatemalan minors and adults to the United States under false pretenses and then using threats of physical harm to compel them to work on egg farms in[Read More…]

PENNSYLVANIA–(ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2016.  The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that D. G. Yuengling and Son Inc., has settled Clean Water Act violations involving its two large-scale breweries near Pottsville, Pennsylvania. In a consent decree filed today in federal court in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the[Read More…]

CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–June 22, 2016.  The Justice Department reached an agreement today with Macy’s over allegations that the large national retailer violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by discriminating against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens at its Glendale, California, location. The department’s investigation was based on a charge filed by a lawful permanent[Read More…]

Most Defendants Charged and Largest Alleged Loss Amount in Strike Force History Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 22, 2016.  Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced today an unprecedented nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in 36 federal districts,[Read More…]