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United States Attorney Craig Carpenito Announces his Resignation, Effective January 5, 2021 By UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS OFFICE, DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY December 15, 2020 at 12:17 AM Credits: TAPinto.net File Photo December 15, 2020 at 12:17 AM NEWARK, NJ — The United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced his resignation today, effective at 11:59 p.m., Jan. 5, 2021. Mr. Carpenito made the following statement regarding his departure and tenure in office: Servi...

Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Unlawfully Distributing Controlled Substances Details Written by DOJ Lexington, Kentucky - A Kentucky doctor and his former office manager were sentenced to 60 and 32 months respectively in prison Wednesday for their roles in unlawfully distributing controlled substances during a time when the defendants did not have a legitimate medical practice. Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal D...

Published: 13 December 2020 13 December 2020 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - A project manager employed by a major retailer was sentenced to 24 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for fraudulently seeking more than $8 million in forgivable loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Divisio...

The former chief executive officer and co-founder of Trustify, Inc., a privately-held technology company founded in 2015 and based in Arlington, pleaded guilty last week to his involvement in a fraud scheme resulting in millions of dollars of losses to investors. Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Assistant Director in Charge Steven M. D’Antuono of th...

Remarks Of CFTC Chairman Tarbert At Awards Ceremony Recognizing The Department Of Justice’s Fraud Section Date 11/12/2020 The CFTC and the Department of Justice’s Fraud Section have had a strong historic relationship, including significant actions in the LIBOR and other benchmark areas. But I think everyone would agree that the past few years have been the high-water mark for the relationship between our organizations.  In Fiscal Year 2020, the CFTC filed the most cases in paralle...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In this episode, we look inside the United Nations and its various agencies. We assess the harsh reality of endemic corruption in how governments intersect with UN agencies. Given its unique mission, the nature of how it is funded and disbursed funds largely for things such as large-scale infrastructure building, healthcare, education, and peace-keeping, and the fact that its employees and officers are foreign officials under the law,...

Register staff report Dec 11, 2020 A Kentucky doctor and his former office manager were sentenced to 60 and 32 months in prison on Wednesday for their roles in unlawfully distributing controlled substances during a time when the defendants did not have a legitimate medical practice, a press release stated. Scotty Akers, M.D., 48, a licensed physician, and Serissa Akers, 33, his wife and former office manager, both of Pikeville, Kentucky, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert E. Wier of ...

By Jaclyn Jaeger2020-12-10T13:30:00+00:00 Major bribery scandals, record enforcement actions, unprecedented cross-border coordination and prosecutions—all this amid a global pandemic made 2020 (for better or worse) an unforgettable year for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Expect more of the same in 2021. “It’s a record year as far as our resolutions,” said Christopher Cestaro, chief of the FCPA Unit in the Department of Justice’s Fraud Section, speaking at an Oct. 29 anti-br...

Questions about president trumps conduct, his motivations on an issue that is central to the impeachment case as it heads for a trial in the senate. joining me now, andrew weissman. former senior fbi official, head of the fraud section at department of justice. he is also now an nbc news legal analyst. so this is a weird question to ask it this way, andrew. but is it -- is -- is it -- it may be against our wishes or against the wishes of some. that the president takes advice or intel from a riva...

Involved with when we met with him and we dont want to talk about it. several weeks ago, the head of the justice departments criminal division met with mr. giuliani to discuss a bribery case in which he and other attorneys were representing the defendants. the meeting took place before the case in manhattan, with trying to unlawfully influence politicians. here was the statement that doj put out that sunday. when fraud section lawyers met with mr. giuliani, they were not aware of any investigati...