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- Member of Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 19 ½ Years in Prison for Fentanyl Analogue Distribution and Money Laundering
The Department of Justice reports that a man from Essex County, New Jersey, was sentenced to 234 months in prison and five years of supervised release for distributing hundreds of kilograms of fentanyl analogues and for money-laundering offenses.
- Aspiration Partners Co-Founder Sentenced to Prison for $248M Scheme to Defraud Investors and Lenders
A California co-founder and former board member of Aspiration Partners, Inc. was sentenced to 14 years in prison for a five-year scheme that allegedly defrauded lenders and investors of at least $248 million.
- Final Defendant Sentenced to Prison in Multimillion Dollar Tax Refund Fraud Scheme
A fourth family member was sentenced to 90 months in prison on May 28 after a jury trial convicted four men in a multimillion-dollar tax-refund fraud scheme, according to the Department of Justice.
- Justice Department Statement on Lighthiser Case in Montana
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of Lighthiser et al. v. Donald J. Trump et al., a lawsuit challenging the president’s executive orders to unleash American energy and declare a national energy emergency.
- Washington Man Sentenced for Hate Crime Charge After Stabbing a Black Woman Metro Bus Passenger
Washington resident Adan Hernandez-Mayoral received a 54-month prison term and three years supervised release after being convicted of a federal hate-crime charge for stabbing a Black female Metro bus passenger.
- Former Correctional Officer Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison for Conspiracy, Obstruction of Justice Charges Related to Unlawful Beating of Inmate
Former correctional officer Jermaine Sturgis, 41, a former lieutenant at Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover, Maryland, was sentenced in Baltimore federal court to 33 months in prison and one year supervised release for conspiracy to obstruct an inmate assault investigation.
- Laboratory Executives, Marketers, and Physician to Pay Over $2M to Settle Allegations of Illegal Kickbacks to Doctors
Former laboratory CEO Susan Hertzberg and former sales executive Matthew Theiler agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that they made illegal kickbacks to physicians for laboratory referrals, violating the Anti-Kickback Statute.
- Brooklyn Man Charged with Threatening to Assault and Murder ICE Officer and His Family
The Department of Justice announced that a Brooklyn man was charged with threatening to assault and murder a U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement officer and the officer’s family outside an ICE detention facility.
- Man Sentenced for Kidnapping Victim at Gunpoint and Seeking Ransom for Drug Debt
A North Dakota man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for kidnapping, beating and transporting a victim across state lines to Minnesota at gunpoint to collect an unpaid drug debt, according to the DOJ.
- Justice Department Secures Ruling to Allow Montana Vegetation Management Project to Proceed
The U.S. District Court for Montana upheld the Forest Service’s Mud Creek Project in the Bitterroot National Forest, permitting prescribed burns, fuel-reduction treatments and up to 13,700 acres of commercial timber harvest, with state and local agencies defending the project.