Third Company Agrees to Plead Guilty to Price Fixing on Ocean Shipping Services for Cars and Trucks
Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), a Japanese corporation, has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $59.4 million criminal fine for its involvement in a conspiracy to fix prices, allocate customers, and rig bids of international ocean shipping...
Colorado Springs Man Arrested After Posting Internet Threat to Kill Police Officers in Colorado
Jeremiah M. Perez, age 33, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was arrested on December 22 without incident for posting online threats advocating the killing of police officers and retired police officers in Colorado, United States Attorney John Walsh and...
Two Men Charged with Operating Multi-Million-Dollar Fraud Scheme
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an 11-count indictment charging DAVID C. JACKSON, also known as “C. David Manns,” “Charles Jackson” and “Andrew D. Smithson,” 53, and ALEX HURT, also...
United States Congressman Michael Grimm Pleads Guilty to Causing the Filing of a False and Fraudulent Tax Return
Earlier Tuesday, United States Congressman Michael Grimm pleaded guilty at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to aiding and assisting the preparation of a false tax return. Since 2011, Grimm has served as a member of the United States...
Former FBI Special Agent Pleads Guilty to Bribery Scheme
Tuesday, A former FBI special agent pleaded guilty to bribery charges, admitting that he provided internal law enforcement documents and other confidential information about a prominent citizen of Bangladesh for use by a political rival in exchange...
Brooklyn Tax Return Preparer Indicted for Preparing Six Years of False Tax Returns
A Brooklyn, New York, tax preparer was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of New York and charged with 30 counts of aiding in the preparation of false income tax returns, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS)...
Bank Leumi Admits to Assisting U.S. Taxpayers in Hiding Assets in Offshore Bank Accounts
A major Israeli international bank admitted that it conspired to aid and assist U.S. taxpayers to prepare and present false tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by hiding income and assets in offshore bank accounts in Israel and elsewhere...
Alstom Pleads Guilty and Agrees to Pay $772 Million Criminal Penalty to Resolve Foreign Bribery Charges
Alstom S.A. (Alstom), a French power and transportation company, pleaded guilty Monday and agreed to pay a $772,290,000 fine to resolve charges related to a widespread scheme involving tens of millions of dollars in bribes in countries around the...
