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Czech Republic and Slovak Republic Nationals Charged with Violating U.S. Export Laws

Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s Office District of Connecticut FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Leigh-Alistair Barzey, Special Agent in Charge of the DCIS Northeast Field Office, and Matthew Etre, Special Agent of HSI Boston, today

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***Looking for Former Agents to Staff New Project***

A special offer has been made to FormerFedsGroup.Com in regard to an inside track situation with an anticipated contract with an established government contractor to DOD and the State Department.  This contractor believes there will be a contract issued (that is still being scoped and finalized) and has

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Fake News and Trade

by [email protected] Over the last few months the fake news dilemma has featured prominently in the media. Day in and day out we receive bits and bytes of information through social media and other electronic sources that many read and take to be the truth, the whole

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Missouri Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud, False Tax Return

  Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Missouri FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, April 10, 2017 SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., business owner pleaded guilty in federal court today to

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New Jersey Man Charged With Theft Of Trade Secrets From Dupont

NEWARK, N.J. – A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man has been charged with stealing computer files containing trade secrets from a DuPont manufacturing facility in Parlin, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today. Anchi Hou, 61, East Brunswick, New Jersey, was arrested this morning

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Trade Risks (Part 3): Trade Preference Programs 

by Janet Labuda In recent hearings on Capitol Hill, Peter Navarro of the National Trade Council talked about the need for free, fair, and reciprocal trade agreements. According to Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, the United States, Canada, and Mexico will engage in discussions to modernize the

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#GFPFE: USAID IG Barr and State IG Linick testifying at 10 am on enforcement issues

State IG Linick pioneered #GFPFE efforts for USDOJ when he co-founded the National Procurement Fraud Task Force and was instrumental in getting the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force stood up  before becoming the first IG for FHFA-OIG (nominated by Presidents Bush and Obama).  After building that agency

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Chemical Company and Its Owner Sentenced for Rebate Scheme, False Statements to U.S. Customs

This is not your typical trade compliance case.  Obviously, trade compliance issues are usually easy to address on the front end.  But this worst case scenario event is instructive. In reviewing this case, the sad part is that most of what was accomplished illegally could have been

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Not Your Typical Red Notice Case

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, March 7, 2017 ZTE Corporation Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay Over $430.4 Million for Violating U.S. Sanctions by Sending U.S.-Origin Items to Iran Combined Penalty of $1.19 Billion with Department of Commerce and Department of

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Compliance: what are the trade risks (Part 2)

by [email protected] In 2008, while I was still working for U.S. Customs Border Protection (CBP) on international trade enforcement, information kept arriving from other governments, as well as from the U.S. import community, alleging that textile products were being undervalued on the entry documents submitted to Customs.

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