- Last Monday, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control authorized certain transactions winding down or maintaining business with Russian aluminum giant RUSAL through October, after sanctions against the company announced earlier this month hurt industry
- Charges against two men alleged to have been conspiring to commit economic espionage on behalf of a Chinese company
- New stats this week from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on the 2017 activities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
- In Portland, a man is charged with conspiring to launder money in furtherance of his drug business
- Charges in Anchorage for killing Steller sea lions in violation of the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, false statements, and obstructing the investigation
- In Tacoma, Washington, a woman is charged with wire fraud and identity theft—after being convicted in 2014 of stealing almost $100,000 in an earlier identity theft scheme
- In Chicago on Thursday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein provided appropriate context for Shakespeare’s joke about “kill[ing] all the lawyers” in a speech to the International Association of Defense Counsel’s “Corporate Counsel College”
