Source: United States Department of Justice (2022)
Today, the Justice Department announced the appointment of a Director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement to lead the department’s criminal and civil enforcement efforts to combat COVID-19 related fraud, along with the latest results of criminal and civil enforcement actions that include alleged fraud related to over $8 billion in pandemic relief.
Source: United States Department of Justice (2022)
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will cohost a Spring Enforcers Summit on April 4. Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter and FTC Chair Lina M. Khan, as well as senior staff from both agencies, will facilitate discussions on modernizing merger guidelines and interagency collaboration. The summit will be held in a hybrid format, with international enforcers and state Attorneys General participating both in-person and virtually. Throughout the day, the agencies will livestream several panel discussions and interviews to the public. The Enforcers Summit agenda and viewing instructions are available at https://www.justice.gov/atr/events/spring-2022-enforcers-summit.
Source: United States Department of Justice (2022)
Good morning. It’s great to see everybody, including the people on the screen, but particularly nice to see so many more people than I’ve been able to see before in person. And so, we’ll continue these meetings hopefully in person from now on. That will be better than seeing all of you on a screen.
Source: United States Department of Justice (2022)
Extensive bilateral cooperation between the United States and Mexico resulted in the Mexico Attorney General’s Office “Fiscalía General de la República” (FGR) conducting a significant enforcement operation to dismantle a prolific transnational human smuggling organization operating in Nogales, Sonora, along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Source: United States Department of Justice (2022)
A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Kamida Inc., a Minnesota-based concrete repair and construction corporation, and its CEO, Steven Dornsbach, with participating in a conspiracy to rig bids for public concrete repair and construction contracts in the state of Minnesota.