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OKC duo accused of using mythical Onalaska airport for $350M drug trade 8 people indicted in connection with elaborate scheme The Texas Supreme Court will consider a challenge to the states retroactive state offender laws. (Source: Raycom News Media) By KTRE Digital Media Staff | February 26, 2021 at 5:42 PM CST - Updated March 1 at 12:57 AM From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas SHERMAN, Texas (News Release) - A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of ...

Gonzalez said investigators found what Mercer-Erwin told WFAA to be inaccurate.   “They (AGC) werent doing any vetting at all, and that some of these planes were being placed in the hands of drug traffickers,” Gonzalez told WFAA. “And she (Mercer-Erwin) knew that as well, because of the number of planes that got seized.”  Gonzalez said after he was asked to look into the Mercer-Erwin operated AGC, his office was contacted by investigators with the Department of Homeland Security Inves...

A Detective in China: A Memoir of Sleuthing Out Trade Cheating SpyTalk I first realized we were going to China while sitting at a bus stop outside the Commerce Department. It was late on a sunny spring afternoon in 1990. The Washington Monument rose high above as snarled rush-hour traffic inched along Constitution Avenue. I was reading Life and Death in Shanghai, by Nien Cheng. Not really a beginner in Chinese but still struggling, I had an English copy and a Chinese version of...

Advertisement Biologics Researchers and Suppliers Beware: International Exchange of Non-pathogenic Research Materials Including Common VSV-G Packaging Plasmids May Trigger Export Penalties Thursday, February 4, 2021 What happened? On February 1, the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a settlement with Princeton University, which BIS alleged exported animal pathogens and genetic elements of animal pathogens without required export licenses to resear...

International Trio Indicted in Austin for Illegal Exports to Russia Published: 26 December 2020 26 December 2020 Austin, Texas - A four–count federal grand jury indictment returned in Austin and unsealed charges three foreign nationals – a Russian citizen and two Bulgarian citizens – with violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), Export Control Reform Act (ECRA), and a money laundering statute in a scheme to procure sensitive radiation-hardened circuits from ...

UpdatedFri, Dec 18, 2020 at 3:16 pm CT Reply The U.S. Justice Department said the scheme involved procurement of radiation-hardened circuits secured without required licenses. (Shutterstock) AUSTIN, TX — A federal grand jury has indicted three foreign nationals in connection to a scheme to procure radiation-hardened circuits bound for Russia without required licenses, the justice department announced Friday. The four–count federal grand jury indictment returned in Austin and unsealed on Fri...