CEP Magazine (February 2021) - The United States is seeking sanctions against Russia’s proposed Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which the US has opposed on economic and.
Hannah L. Cross is a Healthcare lawyer Nelson Mullins, specializing in regulatory compliance, with emphasis on the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute.
A vote that would have banned the national bank from investing in defense industries and would have also stiffen the penalties against Swiss corporations violating human rights and causing environmental harm was rejected. A counterproposal is now being considered.
[1] Under the counterproposal, companies are encouraged to respect human rights and environmental standards not only in Switzerland but all over the world, but it “stops short of allowing them to be sued for liability.”
The ethics-based proposal shattered upon the rocks of business concerns. “The initiative won a narrow majority among voters, with 50.7 percent backing it, but failed because a majority of the country’s cantons, or states, rejected it.”
[1] J&F, owned by two Brazilian brothers, controls JBS, the largest meatpacking company in the world.
The brothers admitted to bribing Brazilian politicians in order to gain financing and other benefits for the company. The bribery scheme involved multiple subsidiaries of J&F, including Pilgrim’s Pride. The DOJ fined the company $256 million, but half of the full penalty amount was credited to fines paid to the Brazilian authorities.
J&F now has extensive holdings in the US, and as equity analyst Marco Saravalle told
The Wall Street Journal,
[2] “The important thing about the company is that they have good operational assets and the executives are motivated to produce results for shareholders.”
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The research center is accused of using malware to target facilities in the Middle East in 2017 and again in the US in 2019. The attack in the Middle East focused on a petrochemical facility, while the US attacks were probes to identify security vulnerabilities in the domestic energy infrastructure.
“‘The Russian Government continues to engage in dangerous cyber activities aimed at the United States and our allies,’” said Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
[2] “‘This Administration will continue to aggressively defend the critical infrastructure of the United States from anyone attempting to disrupt it.’”
1 Maggie Miller, “Treasury sanctions Russian group accused of targeting US critical facilities with destructive malware,”