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Fraud
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Russian Finds Inventive Way to Swindle Migrants
Photo by Fanny Schertzer - Own workAs long as there are desperate people looking to cross borders, there will be people looking for new ways to take advantage of them.A…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Former U.S. Army Range Director Pleads Guilty in Bribery Scheme
A former senior U.S. Army civilian employee pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to accept over $100,000 in bribes while serving as the director of the range at Hawaii’s Schofield Barracks…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Last Defendant in Stanford Investment Fraud Scheme Extradited to U.S.
The former chief of Antigua’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission has been extradited from Antigua to face charges for his alleged role in connection with the Stanford International Bank (SIB) $7…
The FCA Insider
OIG Redesigned Hotline Webpage
By David Pivnick, Timothy Fry, Brett Barnett
The Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently launched a new, redesigned hotline webpage to better guide the public through the tip and complaint reporting process. The OIG hotline operations accepts…
FCPA Professor
Issues To Consider From The Enforcement Action Against Former Herbalife China Executives
By Mike Koehler
This prior post detailed the DOJ’s recent criminal indictment against Yanliang Li (a citizen of China and former Managing Director of a Chinese division of Herbalife) and Hongwei Yang (a citizen…
Compliance Building
CCO Is Barred and Faces Jail Time for Overbilling
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Cameron G. High of Yellowstone Partners, LLP, of Idaho Falls, for fraudulently overbilling the firm’s clients and charging fees for work not performed. That…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Planned Parenthood Awarded More Than $2 Million in Lawsuit Over Secret Evidence
New York Times (Nov. 15, 2019): Planned Parenthood Awarded More Than $2 Million in Lawsuit Over Secret Evidence, by Sabrina Tavernise:On Friday, a jury in San Francisco found that the…
Washington Energy Report
FERC Commissioners Respond to Senate Inquiries on FERC’s Enforcement Role
By Tom Marshall, Russell Kooistra
On September 19, 2019, one Independent and four Democratic Senators wrote a letter to FERC which expressed concerns over recent actions taken by FERC and which directed a series of…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
FTC Releases Results of 2017 Mass-Market Consumer Fraud Survey
The Federal Trade Commission has released the results of a comprehensive survey conducted in 2017 that examined the prevalence of mass-market consumer fraud, how it is perpetrated, and what factors are…
Energy & the Law
Fake Mineral Leases Thwarted by the Texas Legislature
The 2019 Texas legislature enacted a new Property Code Section 5.152 to protect mineral and royalty owners from a certain species of fraudulent transactions perpetrated on trusting and/or naïve and/or…