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Archive for the Inside Threat Category

Guilty Until Proven Innocent 

by Janet Labuda May 15, 2018 The legal premise of innocent until proven guilty gets turned on its head with the passage of the “Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act” known as CAATSA. At a government meeting last week representatives from the Departments of Homeland Security, State,

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Company Barred from Importing Food for Using False Manifest to Cover Up Adulteration

By [email protected]   The Food and Drug Administration has issued an order debarring a company from importing or offering for import articles of food for five years, effective March 1, 2018. This order follows the company’s conviction for (a) submitting a false Automated Commercial Environment manifest listing

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Buyer Beware

By [email protected] After the 2009 special enforcement initiative, called Operation Mirage, CBP compiled statistical data proved that the undervaluation of imported goods from China had risen to the level of significant risk in some product categories. Supported by the Administration’s direction to level the trade playing field,

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Labuda on Trade: Reasonable Care: What the Heck Is It? (Part 1)

In a case decided July 17, 2017 (Slip op 17-85), the Court of International Trade (CIT) ordered the importer to pay $8,228.20 in unpaid duties plus prejudgment interest but said more information was needed before a penalty could be assessed.

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Charges Against Individual For Defrauding Investors In Digital Media Company

Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, June 30, 2017 William McFarland Made False Representations to Investors in Fyre Media LLC and the Fyre Festival Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New

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Former Quincy Man Indicted for $1.7 Million Real Estate Fraud Scheme and Ex-Wife Indicted for Lying

Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Massachusetts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, June 29, 2017 BOSTON – A man who had been a fugitive for more than 20 years before his arrest in Florida in April 2017, was indicted yesterday in connection with a $1.7 million

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Pennsylvania Man Charged With Defrauding Baton Rouge Business In Fraudulent Scheme

  U.S. Attorney’s Office Middle District of Louisiana FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 28, 2017 BATON ROUGE, LA – Acting United States Attorney Corey R. Amundson announced today that his office has charged a Pennsylvania man by Bill of Information with a wire fraud scheme for allegedly

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The CBP Officer of the Future

By [email protected] At the recent U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) west coast trade symposium, a panel titled “Global Innovation,” which included representatives from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Science and Technology, CBP’s National Targeting Center discussed innovations in software applications and data usage that

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Chinese National Pleads Guilty To Economic Espionage And Theft Of A Trade Secret From U.S. Company

Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, May 19, 2017 Xu Jiaqiang Stole Valuable Source Code from Former Employer with Intent To Benefit the Chinese Government Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of

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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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