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Good morning, my name is Colin McDonald, Assistant Attorney General for the National Fraud Enforcement Division at the Department of Justice. I am joined today by U.S. Attorney Craig Missakian for the Northern District of California, U.S. Attorney Tim Courchaine from the District of Arizona, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Sigal Chattah from the District of […]

It comes after the DPRK – more commonly known as North Korea – launched a new five-year military development plan this year, which is in violation of multiple Security Council resolutions, noted Under Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo. ‘New arsenals’ Pyongyang’s strategy to keep developing “new secret arsenals” and assets is also a challenge to global nuclear disarmament […]

The Justice Department announced today a $750,000 agreement to settle allegations that Indian Oaks Apartments LTD, Russell Management Services LLC, H.J. Russell & Company, and The Russell Realty LP violated the Fair Housing Act by refusing to grant a mother’s requests for a ground-floor unit because her son had been diagnosed with a genetic disorder […]

The UN relief coordination office, OCHA, cited reports from Lebanese authorities that at least 13 people were also injured in multiple airstrikes and military activity across towns in the south. Between 17 and 28 April alone, 48 people were killed and 183 injured, bringing the total toll since the escalation began on 2 March to […]

An Oregon man who worked as a payment processing broker pleaded guilty today to wire fraud for his role in using fraudulent, unauthorized debits to steal money from victims’ bank accounts. According to court documents, Jeremy Todd Briley, 46, of Oregon, worked as a payment processing broker. Acting on behalf of clients (merchants), Briley identified […]

A Michigan man pleaded guilty yesterday to defrauding health care benefit programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, by billing for prescription medications that he never dispensed and providing unlawful prescriptions of oxycodone to drug traffickers in exchange for cash. According to court documents, Ali Naserdean, 32, of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, was a pharmacy technician at three […]

The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division (Fraud Division) today announced the formation of the West Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force, a multi-district enforcement initiative uniting the Division’s Health Care Fraud Section with the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the District of Arizona, District of Nevada, and Northern District of California.  The Health Care Strike […]

Today, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division launched investigations into 36 Illinois public school districts to determine whether they have included sexual orientation and gender ideology (SOGI) content in any class for grades pre-K-12. If they are teaching SOGI-related content, the investigations will examine whether the schools have notified parents of their right to opt […]

Today, the Justice Department is announcing an anti-fraud initiative that will materially strengthen its working relationship with whistleblowers. The Civil Division has experienced a rapid increase in the number of qui tam complaints filed in recent years. Much of this surge has been driven by companies or individuals who analyze publicly available government data for […]

The accord, which brought together Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, enshrines the voluntary commitment of these States not to develop, acquire, test or deploy nuclear weapons. “Nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZs) are not only historical achievements but also living instruments of regional security, non-proliferation and nuclear risk reduction,” says Christopher King, Chief of the Weapons of […]