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International Business Organizations Convicted of Criminal Conspiracy to Violate Iranian Sanctions

News Release: Two international business organizations pleaded guilty and were sentenced today in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for their participation in a criminal conspiracy to violate U.S. export laws and sanctions by sending U.S.-origin goods to Iran.


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USDOJ-OJP-OVW offers new grant application process starting April 19

OVW Fiscal Year 2023 State and Territory Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Program Solicitation grant opened on April 19.


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Two Arrested for Operating Illegal Overseas Police Station of the Chinese Government

News Release: A complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging two defendants in connection with opening and operating an illegal overseas police station, located in lower Manhattan, New York, for a provincial branch of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) of the People’s Republic of ...




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Nine Additional States Join Justice Department’s Suit Against Google for Monopolizing Digital Advertising Technologies

News Release: The Attorneys General of Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Washington and West Virginia today joined a civil antitrust lawsuit filed by the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division along with the Attorneys General of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New ...


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Credit Card Processors Ordered to Pay $650,000 in Consumer Redress for Assisting in Fraudulent Computer Repair Telemarketing Schemes

News Release: The Justice Department, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), today announced that the government will collect $650,000 in consumer redress from corporate defendants Nexway, SASU, Nexway Group AG, Nexway, Inc., asknet Solutions AG, asknet, Inc., (collectively Nexway), and individual defendants ...


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Sibley Hospital and Johns Hopkins Health System Settle Allegations of Improper Compensation Arrangements

News Release: Sibley Hospital (Sibley) and its parent company, Johns Hopkins Health System (Johns Hopkins), have agreed to pay the United States $5 million to resolve allegations arising from claims that Sibley submitted to the Medicare Program, the Justice Department announced today.


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President of Metalhouse LLC Indicted for Sanctions Evasion and International Money Laundering

News Release: The Justice Department announced today the indictment and arrest of John Can Unsalan, aka Hurrem Can Unsalan, the president of Metalhouse LLC, for engaging in a three-year scheme to violate U.S. sanctions against oligarch Sergey Kurchenko and two of Kurchenko’s companies by providing those sanctioned parties with over $150 million in return for steelmaking materials.




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40 Officers of China’s National Police Charged in Transnational Repression Schemes Targeting U.S. Residents

News Release: Two criminal complaints filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York were unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging 44 defendants with various crimes related to efforts by the national police of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) - the Ministry of Public Security ...


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USDOJ-OJP-OJJDP offers new grant application process starting April 18

OJJDP FY 2023 Eliminating Records Barriers to Youth Success grant opened on April 18.


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Justice Department Files Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against Kentucky Rental Property Owner

News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the owner and operator of rental properties in the Pulaski County, Kentucky, area for engaging in sexual harassment and retaliation in violation of the Fair Housing Act.


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Construction Company Owner Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison and Ordered to Pay Nearly $1 Million in Restitution for Rigging Bids and Bribing a Public Official

News Release: A construction company owner in California was sentenced to 78 months in prison and ordered to pay $984,699.53 in restitution for his role in a bid-rigging and bribery scheme involving California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) improvement and repair contracts.


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Justice Department Secures Agreement with Washington School District to Remedy Discriminatory Seclusion and Restraint Practices

News Release: The Justice Department announced today a settlement agreement with Spokane Public Schools in Spokane, Washington, to address the discriminatory use of seclusion and restraint against students with disabilities. The settlement agreement, which resolves the department’s investigation under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), will protect students with disabilities by eliminating seclusion and reforming the district’s restraint practices.



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Readout of Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr.’s Trip to Lithuania

News Release: On April 13 and 14, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division traveled to Vilnius, Lithuania, to meet with the Ukraine Joint Investigation Team (JIT), which is investigating core international crimes committed in Ukraine.