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February 12, 2019
The Department of Justice, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) announced that they have reached a settlement with Antero Resources Corporation resolving alleged violations of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) at 32 sites in Harrison, Doddridge, and Tyler Counties in West Virginia.
February 7, 2019
In a case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Manraj Virdee was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to a 2 year prison sentence suspended for 2 years and he was further ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work in the community.
February 7, 2019
Investigators have put two suspects in embezzling natural gas worth 30 billion rubles ($455 million) from Gazprom on the federal wanted list, the Investigative Committee’s press service reports.
February 7, 2019
Greenway Health, a Tampa, Florida-based developer of electronic health records (EHR) software, will pay $57.25 million to resolve allegations in a complaint filed by the United States under the False Claims Act alleging that Greenway caused its users to submit false claims to the government by misrepresenting the capabilities of its EHR product “Prime Suite†and providing unlawful remuneration to users to induce them to recommend Prime Suite, the Justice Department announced.
February 6, 2019
The Federal Court in Australia has ordered Optus pay a $10 million penalty for its treatment of customers who unknowingly purchased games, ringtones and other digital content through its third-party billing service, following action by the ACCC.
February 5, 2019
The two main leaders of the MAL alumina plant responsible for Hungary\'s worst ecological accident, the red mud spill of 2010, were given jail sentences.
February 1, 2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order filing and settling charges against Kevin Crepeau, of Chicago, Illinois, a trader at a proprietary trading firm, for engaging in spoofing in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) soybeans futures market.
February 1, 2019
The Bundeskartellamt has imposed fines totalling around 13.4 million euros on the bicycle wholesaler ZEG Zweirad-Einkaufs-Genossenschaft eG (ZEG), Cologne, and its representatives for fixing prices with 47 bicycle retailers. The proceeding was triggered by a tip-off from the trade.
January 31, 2019
In the latest joint federal-state Clean Water Act enforcement action, Sunoco Pipeline has agreed to pay civil penalties and state enforcement costs and to implement corrective measures to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and state environmental laws by Sunoco and Mid-Valley Pipeline Company stemming from three crude oil spills in 2013, 2014, and 2015, in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.
January 29, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that a federal court in Florida ordered Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC and its former owner to pay $1 billion in penalties and disgorgement for operating a Ponzi scheme that targeted retail investors.
January 25, 2019
Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined with 45 other attorneys general to announce a $120 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson and Medical Device Business, formerly known as DePuy, to resolve allegations that DePuy unlawfully promoted its metal-on-metal hip implant devices, the ASR XL and the Pinnacle Ultamet.
January 25, 2019
Canterbury Crown Court heard how, on 18 October 2013, Veolia ES (UK) Limited’s employee Mr John Head suffered fatal injuries when he was run over by a reversing refuse collection vehicle (RCV) whilst he was walking across the yard, at the Ross Depot Waste Transfer Station in Folkestone. He was pronounced dead at the scene.