Sentences with phrase «justice department charged»

And scrutiny of social media has become even more intense since the Justice Department charged 13 Russians and three companies in a February indictment that revealed a sophisticated network designed to subvert the 2016 election and to support the Trump campaign.

As part of the agreement, the Justice Department charged Toyota with wire fraud but deferred the criminal charge for three years while the company submits to government monitoring.

In May 2001, the U.S. Justice Department charged two Japanese - born scientists with conspiring to «benefit a foreign government» by stealing trade secrets in the form of cell lines and DNA samples from a laboratory at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio, where one had worked from 1997 to 1999 (Science, 18 May 2001, p. 1274).

In 2014, the Justice Department charged JPMorgan Chase with two felony counts in connection with their role in facilitating the Madoff Ponzi scheme.

The Justice Department charged the United Kingdom's Navinder Singh Sarao with wire fraud, 10 counts of commodities fraud, 10 counts of commodities manipulation, and one count of spoofing (which is when a trader places a bid or offer with the intent to cancel before execution).

The Justice Department charged two former Heritage Pharmaceuticals executives in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Bloomberg reported.

«The Justice Department charges the firm with an indictment that is unjust, misguided, and misinformed.

WAUKEGAN — The U.S. Justice Department charges that the city's housing occupancy ordinance violates the federal Fair Housing Act.

Not exact matches

In the first such criminal case targeting Russia, the Department of Justice is charging a pair of Russian spies with directing the 2014 attack on Yahoo.

The U.S. Justice Department filed criminal charges against a unit of Panasonic for falsifying financial books and records to conceal payments to sales agents.

He said it would be hard for the Justice Department to argue that such a commitment did not address its concern that AT&T would raise the rates it charges for Time Warner content to rival pay - TV companies.

The company still faces the wrath of the U.S. Justice Department, which is nearing a decision on whether to criminally charge GM over its failure to disclose the problem and recall affected cars after it staff first discovered issues with the switch in 2001.

The Justice Department did not comment on whether any Hyundai or Kia employees would be criminally charged.

The penalty is the largest of its kind against a wholesaler, greatly exceeding a $ 44 million settlement the Justice Department reached with Cardinal Health in December on similar charges.

The Justice Department has been weighing bringing criminal charges against WikiLeaks, which leaked top secret diplomatic cables and military documents in 2010 and disclosed CIA hacking tools in March.

Citing anonymous government officials, the New York Times is reporting that federal prosecutors with the FBI and the Department of Justice have recommended that Petraeus be charged with a felony for providing classified information to his mistress and biographer, Paula Broadwell, who was also an Army Reserve officer.

According to reports from CNN and the Washington Post, the Justice Department is preparing to charge Assange for his role in the 2010 dump of diplomatic cables that were published by WikiLeaks, as well as a more recent release of the CIA's library of hacking tools.

The Obama administration also considered charging WikiLeaks and Assange, but Justice Department officials at the time decided that doing so would be problematic, since WikiLeaks arguably did the same thing that journalistic organizations like the Washington Post do.

A notorious Russian «troll factory» had a $ 1.25 million budget in the run - up to the 2016 presidential election to interfere in the US political system, according to charges filed by the Department of Justice.

The company also closed the door on a long - running anti-bribery case involving contracts with Aluminum Bahrain, and faced up to a $ 243 million after - tax charge stemming from settlements with the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

On Tuesday, the Justice Department indicted McClendon in a conspiracy in which two unnamed companies agreed not to bid against each other for oil and gas leases in northwest Oklahoma between late 2007 and early 2012, a charge he denied.

-- THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION: The U.S. Justice Department is investigating GM's conduct and may bring criminal charges.

-- CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION: The U.S. Justice Department is investigating GM's conduct and may bring criminal charges.

Trump's criticism was seen by some as a move to eventually put someone in charge at the Justice Department who would fire Robert Mueller from his post as special counsel leading the Russia investigation.

He faced a sixth deportation in 2015, and was in Justice Department (DOJ) custody that March after serving 46 months in prison for a felony re-entry into the US, but instead of transferring him into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation, the department transferred him to the San Francisco County Jail for prosecution of a 1995 marijuaDepartment (DOJ) custody that March after serving 46 months in prison for a felony re-entry into the US, but instead of transferring him into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation, the department transferred him to the San Francisco County Jail for prosecution of a 1995 marijuadepartment transferred him to the San Francisco County Jail for prosecution of a 1995 marijuana charge.

Mueller does have enough evidence to indict Trump but may decide he does not have the authority to charge the president based on Department of Justice precedent.

The Justice Department said the scheme caused some ebook prices to rise to $ 12.99 or $ 14.99 from the $ 9.99 price previously charged by market leader Amazon.

Maksim Zaslavskiy contends the currencies did not qualify as securities under federal law and so the Department of Justice lacked jurisdiction to bring the charges.

The Justice Department has brought charges against two Russian intelligence officers over the role they played in recent attacks on emails of 500 million Yahoo account owners.

Republicans may rage at the CEOs who appear before them, but they haven't given the Justice Department enough funding to pursue criminal charges against corporations and executives who violate the law.

The Justice Department's inspector general reportedly referred its findings on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to the U.S. attorney's office for possible criminal charges.

In a complaint filed in January by Common Cause with the FEC and the Department of Justice, the organization charges that the failure to report this expenditure to the FEC violates not only campaign finance law but also violates federal law prohibiting false statements of material fact to the Federal government.

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.

In March of 2016, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) released thousands of documents that indicated that it had made multiple referrals to the Department of Justice to pursue potential criminal charges against individuals.

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.

In the US, the Department of Justice (DOJ) formally indicted Vinnik on 21 charges related to money laundering and the operation of an unlicensed money exchange.

In a separate case, the Justice Department filed civil charges against S&P in February 2013, accusing it of failing to warn investors that the housing market was collapsing in 2006 because it would be bad for business.

The Justice Department under President Barack Obama decided not to charge WikiLeaks for revealing some of the government's most sensitive secrets — concluding that doing so would be akin to prosecuting a news organization for publishing classified information.

Volkswagen vows a «more honest, more open, more truthful» carmaker as former CEO Martin Winterkorn is hit by wave of U.S. Department of Justice charges linked to the car - maker's 2015 «dieselgate» scandal.

The U.S. Department of Justice held a press conference in Washington, D.C. this morning at 10 a.m. to announce that two of the largest banks in the United States, Citicorp, a unit of Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase & Co., would plead guilty to felony charges in connection with the rigging of foreign currency trading.

The CBC reported on November 4, 2014 that a Justice Department internal review concluded Ms. Redford could face criminal charges if allegations about her use of government airplanes are proven by an RCMP investigation.

Citigroup denied the handful of allegations brought by Stimpson, although it did admit to the felony charge brought by the US Justice Department of rigging the foreign currency market.

The Justice department has finally produced 49 pages comprising around 300 previously «missing» text messages sent between two anti-Trump FBI employees in charge of investigating...

The Justice Department also disseminated a scathing press release on Thursday evening in which it excoriated the conduct of the bank and named two executives that are being charged: Paul K. Menefee, who served as Barclays» head banker on its subprime residential mortgage backed securitizations and John T. Carroll who served as Barclays» head trader for subprime loan acquisitions.

Manafort was investigated in 2014 for the Ukraine work, but the Obama Justice Department declined to press charges.

The lawsuit makes clear that the Justice Department has the emails to back up these charges.

«There's one guy in charge of licenses,» Bill Gates told reporters after he signed a consent decree with the Department of Justice in 1994.

Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase both pled guilty to felony charges by the U.S. Justice Department in May 2015 for their involvement in the rigging of foreign currency markets.

Critics in the U.S. charge that the Department of Justice is able to cook up «secret deals» to extract large fines from major companies for wrongdoing, without ever having to submit its actions to the authority of a court.

Comey recommended no criminal charges to the Justice Department in the Clinton email probe, instead reprimanding the former secretary of state as «extremely careless.»