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Bowling for Compliance

by [email protected] I recently attended a conference where “leaders” in companies providing trade compliance services were discussing trusted trader program procedures. As always, there was a focus on the downstream benefits which would accrue across all regulatory agencies for those companies who excel in getting it right.

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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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Trade remedies by the numbers

By [email protected] Recently, President Trump sent a memo directing Secretary of Commerce, Wilber Ross, to initiate an investigation of steel and aluminum products. The rarely used investigative authority found under section 232(b)(1)(A) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1862(b)(1) determines any detrimental trade activity

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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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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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