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Minneapolis Packaged-Ice Company Agrees to Plead Guilty to Customer Allocation Conspiracy

Company Agrees to Pay $9 Million Criminal Fine A packaged-ice company, headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $9 million criminal fine for allocating customers, the Department of Justice announced today. In addition, three of the company’s former executives pleaded guilty for their roles in the conspiracy to allocate [...]

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United States Transfers Two Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Kuwait and Belgium

The Department of Justice today announced that two detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the control of the governments of Kuwait and Belgium. As directed by the President’s Jan. 22, 2009 Executive Order, the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force conducted a comprehensive review of each of these cases. As a [...]

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Rhode Island Machine Shop Owner Sentenced to Prison for Tax Crimes

Bruce Lapierre of Pascoag, R.I., was sentenced to 51 months in prison today for tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States, the Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Chief Judge Mary M. Lisi of the District of Rhode Island also ordered Lapierre to pay $463,988 in restitution. Judge Lisi ordered [...]

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Indiana and Alabama Hospitals To Pay U.S. Over $8 Million To Settle False Claims Act Allegations

Six hospitals in Indiana and Alabama have agreed to pay the United States more than $8 million to settle allegations that the health care facilities submitted false claims to Medicare, the Department of Justice announced today. The Indiana hospitals include St. Francis Hospital in Beech Grove, Deaconess Hospital in Evansville and St. John’s Hospital System in [...]

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Attorney General Establishes New State Secrets Policies and Procedures

Attorney General Eric Holder today issued a memorandum instituting new Department of Justice policies and procedures in order to ensure greater accountability in the government’s assertion of the state secrets privilege in litigation. “This policy is an important step toward rebuilding the public’s trust in the government’s use of this privilege while recognizing the imperative need [...]

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Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission to Hold Workshops Concerning Horizontal Merger Guidelines

Antitrust Agencies Explore Possible Update to Guidelines to Account for Legal and Economic Developments The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced today that they will solicit public comment and hold joint public workshops to explore the possibility of updating the Horizontal Merger Guidelines that are used by both agencies to evaluate the [...]

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