Crime : Page 36
July 7, 2022
The Department of Justice announced that it has begun phase two of the remission compensation process to provide recovery for Western Union fraud victims.
July 6, 2022
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an order simultaneously filing and settling charges against JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, and J.P. Morgan Securities, plc for failing to comply with their reporting obligations as swap dealers.
July 4, 2022
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has issued two infringement notices totalling $26,640 to NSW-based company Precision Pharmaceuticals for the alleged unlawful advertising of nicotine vaping products on their website.
July 4, 2022
The former corporate secretary and director of corporate law at Apple admitted engaging in an insider trading scheme that spanned five years, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced.
July 4, 2022
The Justice Department announced that Air France and KLM Airlines have agreed to pay $3.9 million to resolve their alleged liability under the False Claims Act for falsely reporting information about the transfer of U.S. mail to foreign posts or other intended recipients under contracts with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).
July 1, 2022
A group of Volkswagen dealers in southern Switzerland has been fined CHF44 million ($46 million) by the Federal Competition Commission (Comco).
June 30, 2022
Opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma (Purdue Canada) has agreed to a first of its kind settlement in Canada resulting from British Columbia-led efforts to recover health-care costs related to the sale and marketing of opioid-based pain medicines.
June 30, 2022
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that UBS Financial Services Inc. has agreed to pay approximately $25 million to settle fraud charges relating to a complex investment strategy referred to as YES, or Yield Enhancement Strategy.
June 29, 2022
An indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging Keily Nunez, Julien Levy, Ivan Santos and Ramnik Soni with conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy.
June 29, 2022
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Ernst & Young LLP (EY) for cheating by its audit professionals on exams required to obtain and maintain Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licenses, and for withholding evidence of this misconduct from the SEC’s Enforcement Division during the Division’s investigation of the matter.
June 28, 2022
Swiss bank Credit Suisse has been fined CHF2 million ($2 million) for allowing cocaine dealers to launder money through its vaults.
June 27, 2022
Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III announced that Tennessee, along with 45 other attorneys general, has obtained a $1.25 million multistate settlement with Florida-based Carnival Cruise Line after a 2019 data breach that involved the personal information of approximately 180,000 Carnival employees and customers nationwide.