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Antitrust Division Senior Leadership Named

The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division today announced the appointment of its new leadership team including the Chief of Staff, four Deputy Assistant Attorneys General, and a Special Counsel for Competition Policy. Two Deputies will oversee civil matters, one Deputy will oversee economic analysis and one Deputy will oversee international, policy and appellate issues. “This is [...]

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Illinois Refuse Container Repair Company Executives Indicted in Conspiracy to Defraud the City of Chicago

A Chicago grand jury indicted the president and vice president of an Illinois refuse disposal container repair company for engaging in a conspiracy and scheme to defraud the city of Chicago on a contract for the repair of refuse carts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. This is the first case to be brought [...]

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Alta Colleges to Pay U.S. $7 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

Alta Colleges Inc. and its wholly-owned collegiate schools in Texas have agreed to pay the United States $7 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that the Texas schools submitted false claims for federal student aid funds, the Justice Department announced today. For a college to qualify to receive federal student aid, one requirement [...]

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West Virginia Man Pleads Guilty on Federal Civil Rights Charges

Daryl Lee Fierce, 69, of Charleston, W.Va., pleaded guilty today to a civil rights charge in federal court in the Southern District of West Virginia for using fire to intimidate and interfere with a person’s housing rights. Fierce set fire to the victim’s home because African-American and biracial individuals visited the victim in her home. [...]

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Former Mendenhall, Mississippi, Police Chief Sentenced for Using Excessive Force

A federal judge today sentenced Jimmy “Jimbo” Sullivan, the former chief of police in Mendenhall, Miss., to 30 months in prison for using excessive force when he repeatedly stomped on the head of an arrestee, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King for the Civil Rights Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Stan Harris for the [...]

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Utah Natural Gas Producers Agree to Air Emission Reductions, Conservation Practices

Six energy companies, in three settlements, have agreed to install pollution control equipment at a cost of over $6 million to comply with the Clean Air Act at their natural gas producing facilities in the Uinta Basin, near Vernal, Utah, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. The facilities are located on [...]

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