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July 18, 2018
The ACCC in Australia has instituted proceedings in the Federal Court against Cryosite Limited for alleged cartel conduct in relation to its entry into an asset sale agreement with Cell Care Australia Pty Ltd (Cell Care).
July 17, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged the former CEO of Energy XXI Ltd. with hiding more than $10 million in personal loans that he obtained from company vendors and a candidate for Energy XXI’s board.
July 15, 2018
A United Arab Emirates (UAE) court on Sunday dismissed a criminal case against the founder of private equity firm Abraaj, Arif Naqvi, and another executive for issuing a cheque without sufficient funds.
July 14, 2018
Private transportation service companies of Uber, Easy Taxi and Cabify were fined more than 6.4 million pesos ($340,000), Mexican authorities said.
July 13, 2018
The Bundeskartellamt has imposed fines totalling approx. 205 million euros on six special steel companies, a trade association and ten individuals for concluding price-fixing agreements and exchanging competitively sensitive information.
July 13, 2018
Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay $4.7 billion in punitive damages by a jury in a case linking talc powder in the company’s products to several cases of cancer.
July 11, 2018
Facebook will be fined £500,000 ($662,900) in the U.K. after the country’s privacy watchdog said its data sharing scandal broke the law.
July 10, 2018
Health Quest Systems, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries (Health Quest) and Putnam Health Center (PHC) have agreed to pay over $14.7 million to resolve allegations of violations of the False Claims Act by submitting inflated and otherwise ineligible claims for payment, the Justice Department announced.
July 9, 2018
North American Power Group Ltd. (NAPG) and its owner and president, Michael Ruffatto, have agreed to pay the United States $14.4 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting fraudulent claims under a cooperative agreement with the Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy and Technology Laboratory (NETL), located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Department of Justice announced.
July 9, 2018
A manufacturer and exporter of wind turbines based in the People’s Republic of China was sentenced for stealing trade secrets from AMSC, a U.S.-based company formerly known as American Superconductor Inc., announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Scott C. Blader for the Western District of Wisconsin.
July 7, 2018
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that dozens of gas stations will refund Texans who were charged exorbitant prices for gasoline last summer during Hurricane Harvey.
July 7, 2018
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $1,466,775 civil penalty against the Virgin Islands Port Authority (VIPA) for alleged violations of airport safety regulations at Henry E. Rohlsen Airport in St. Croix and Cyril E. King Airport in St. Thomas.