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The Justice Department announced indictments Thursday against seven people, including a Chicago police officer, who allegedly committed mortgage fraud involving Chicago condominium buildings between 2006 and 2008.

Lender Processing Services Inc. (LPS) agreed to pay $ 35 million to resolve criminal fraud violations involving fraudulently signed and notarized mortgage documents, the Justice Department announced last week.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department announced today that it has sued the Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC), the nation's largest mortgage insurance company, and two of its underwriters, Elgina Cunningham and Kelly Kane, for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against women on paid maternity leave.

The Inspector General of the US Justice Department announced Wednesday his plans to launch a thorough investigation into allegations the DOJ and FBI misused sensitive material when obtaining FISA...

The U.S. Justice Department announced last week that they were dropping their court action in which they sought to compel Apple to create a backdoor to override their existing iPhone passcode protection software.

The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement with the Orange County Clerk of Courts in Florida to remedy violations of the ADA.

On Friday, October 10th, the Justice Department announced the large settlement with Extendicare Health Services Inc and... [Read more...]

FBI agents misled officials and the public, violated their own policy manual, used poor judgment, and engaged in sloppy police work when they investigated certain left - leaning, high - profile, domestic advocacy groups in the years immediately following 9/11, the Justice Department announced today following a four - year - long internal investigation by the Office of the Inspector General.

On March 1, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department announced that Arch Coal had agreed to pay a $ 4 million dollar penalty for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky, and will implement changes to its mining operations to ensure compliance.

After the US Justice Department announced an investigation of alleged corruption, IBM and a major Japanese investor put on hold over $ 1.5 billion in investments, including in a Solar City manufacturing facility.

The Justice Department announced today that it and the National Federation of the Blind have reached a settlement with the Sacramento Public Library Authority in Sacramento, Calif., to remedy alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

The Justice Department announced on Monday that they awarded a $ 1 million grant to Florida law enforcement to «pay salary and overtime...

Some good news out of the embattled DOJ: The Justice Department announced Wednesday it will no longer allow prosecutors to strike settlement agreements As I am curremtly reading Victor Schwab's book How to write a Good Advertisement I would highly recommend adding these headlines to a person's swipe file.

The U.S. Justice Department announced it intends to retry Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, two months after a jury deadlocked on federal corruption charges against him.

The U.S. Justice Department announced it filed a motion to join a lawsuit against the New York City Board of Elections, alleging that the board's Brooklyn office violated federal voter registration law by erasing more than 117,000 Brooklyn voters from the rolls before the primary election simply because they had not voted in previous elections.

An intelligence contractor was charged with sending a classified report about Russia's interference in the 2016 election to the news media, the Justice Department announced, the first criminal leak case under President Trump.

Long Island cops are getting $ 500,000 in federal funds to help them shut down MS - 13 and other violent street gangs tormenting Suffolk County, the Justice Department announced.

In August, the Justice Department announced it would end its use of privatized prisons.

The Justice Department announced Friday that it had reached a settlement with Anheuser - Busch InBev and Grupo Modelo to resolve the anti-trust suit it filed earlier this year in response to their proposed merger.

We took a look at FINRA data to see if the dark pools of JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup were trading in their own stocks during the week in May when the U.S. Justice Department announced the banks were each admitting to a felony charge.

Trump said he was the target of a «witch hunt» the day after the Justice Department announced the appointment of a special counsel to look into Russian interference in the presidential election.

When the Justice Department announced the arrest last month of a man who allegedly swindled more than $ 100 million from two U.S. tech giants, the news came wrapped in a mystery.

This is the first time the president has weighed in on the issue, but the Justice Department announced they would look into bump stocks as part of a review process on the legal definition of machine guns following the Las Vegas shooting.

In April 2014, the Justice Department announced a new clemency initiative to prioritize applications from people who would have been gotten much shorter sentences if they were convicted today, among other criteria.

On May 2, 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) published a news release titled «Justice Department Announces Additional Prosecutors and Immigration Judges For Southwest Border Crisis.».

This could be attributed to the difficulties the Crypto space faced last week from FUD involving South Korean Justice department announcing a Crypto ban on noncompliance exchanges to Indonesia moving towards banning all Crypto related activities in the Country and Brazil declaring cryptocurrencies as a non-financial asset.

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Thursday Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Justice Department would be reversing several Obama - era rules pertaining to states that legalized marijuana.

In January, the Department of Justice announced that McKesson had settled, for $ 150 million, civil claims that from 2008 to 2013 the company had failed to warn the DEA about the large number of suspicious orders of highly addictive painkillers it had shipped to certain parts of the country.

Time Warner and AT&T, the No. 2 U.S. wireless company which also owns DirecTV, announced their deal in October 2016, but it was not until last month that the Justice Department sued AT&T to block the deal, arguing it could raise prices for rivals and pay - TV subscribers and hamper the development of online video.

In 2011, the Department of Justice announced a plan to resolve claims that women and other minorities were discriminated against by the USDA in making and servicing farm loans.

In it, Trump announced what he apparently wanted Comey himself to say: «While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau.»

The Department of Justice unveiled a lawsuit to block the $ 85 billion mega merger more than one year after it was announced.

The questions over the fate of Net Neutrality have grown larger since ISPs Comcast and TimeWarner announced a plan to merge in a $ 48 billion deal, although that plan is subject to a Department of Justice anti-trust review.

And Avon has experienced different struggles: Its sales have slumped and it has announced a tentative agreement to pay $ 135 million to the U.S. Department of Justice for allegedly paying bribes in China and other countries.

The Democratic presidential candidate released a statement after the Department of Justice announced that it would be opening a civil rights investigation into the death of Alton Sterling: «Too many African American families mourn the loss of a loved one from a police - involved incident.

Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs (gs) has agreed to a list of «facts» in addition to paying $ 5.1 billion to settle a lawsuit related to its handling of mortgage - backed securities leading up to the 2007 financial crisis, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

In July 2016, during the presidential campaign, when Comey publicly announced that Hillary Clinton should not be prosecuted for her email peccadilloes — but strongly criticized her behavior in setting up a private email server while in her role as US secretary of state — Trump did not complain that Department of Justice (DOJ) norms were being violated.

On Thursday, the Justice Department's inspector general announced an investigation into whether the FBI and Justice Department had violated policies in their handling of the case.

Oil and gas multinational BP has agreed to pay over $ 20 billion in penalties over the Deepwater Horizon spill, the Department of Justice announced Monday.

And though the Justice Department's push to overhaul troubled police agencies was a staple effort of the last administration, Sessions announced his desire to «pull back» on federal scrutiny of local law enforcement, winning praise from some quarters.

In late August 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an update to their marijuana enforcement policy.

On Wednesday, the White House announced that it had hired a veteran lawyer who helped President Bill Clinton weather impeachment, while Trump's top personal lawyer expressed new defiance towards special counsel Robert Mueller and his Justice Department superiors.

But in a sign the pressure is beginning to tell in Washington, Trump announced on Tuesday that he had ordered the Justice Department to propose a rule to ban bump fire stocks, the device that allowed the gunman at the Las Vegas massacre in October to fire on concertgoers more rapidly, mimicking automatic weapons fire.

Since announcing a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice last year, Barra and her executive team have been making news for posting stronger earnings and repositioning the automaker for future growth.

Schneiderman hasn't announced any kind of investigation into Cohen, but he has been coordinating closely with the Justice Department and special counsel Robert Mueller on their investigation into former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort.

Department of Justice's Antitrust Division Announces New Roundtable Series on Competition and Deregulation

On April 21, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it would press criminal charges against Mr. Navinder Singh Sarao, a 36 - year - old small - time British day - trader.

The two companies originally announced ABI's planned takeover last year, but the Justice Department sued to block the transaction.

The announcement came a day after Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates, a holdover from the Obama administration, after she announced she had directed Justice Department attorneys not to defend the president's temporary travel ban on seven majority - Muslim countries in court.

The Justice Department will send 35 prosecutors and 18 judges to the southern U.S. border to bolster efforts to prosecute immigrants entering the U.S. illegally, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Wednesday.