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WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the U.S. Department of Justice - Office of Justice Programs: National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies 40th Conference and Training Institute, August 21-Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary Lou Leary delivers remarks emphasizing the Department of Justice's and OJP's efforts to improve pretrial services. In addition to highlighting OJP's historical involvement in expanding pretrial...
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Ifrah Law, a boutique litigation firm, is pleased to announce the successful representation of Full Tilt Poker in a three-way transaction between the world's largest online poker site, Poker Stars, and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). The deal, which resolves the civil forfeiture case against Full Tilt, paves the way for online poker players to be repaid, removes the "taint" from Full Tilt's assets, and then sells those...
Yankee Legend Joe Torre Describes Impact of Witnessing Violence as a Child WASHINGTON, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During a briefing with Congress on Attorney General Eric Holder's Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence today, Justice Department officials and task force co-chairs Joe Torre and Robert Listenbee, Jr. described their comprehensive work since the task force launch in October 2011 and discussed lessons learned through four public hearings held across the...
Says settlement would hamper competition in textbook pricing OBERLIN, Ohio, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of College Stores (NACS) has requested that the Department of Justice and the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York implement a clearer definition of e-books in the proposed settlement in U.S. v. Apple Inc. et al. so as not to hinder competition in the e-textbook arena. In the complaint, the Department of Justice accused...
WASHINGTON, July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Two whistleblowers represented by Phillips & Cohen LLP provided the government with overwhelming evidence that was at the heart of the government's case against GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) and the record-setting settlement announced today. The whistleblowers - Thomas Gerahty, a former senior marketing development manager for Glaxo, and Matthew Burke, a former regional vice president -- provided invaluable insider information that Glaxo was...
WASHINGTON, July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs: NIJ Studies Examine Preventing and Prosecuting Human Trafficking - Two recent studies sponsored by the Office of Justice Programs' National Institute of Justice explore the prevention and successful prosecution of human trafficking cases centered on prostitution. The first, A National Overview of Prostitution and Sex Trafficking Demand...
PHILADELPHIA, June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA) joined Attorney General Eric Holder and Mayor Michael Nutter today to announce that Philadelphia will receive $3.125 million under the COPS program, a national success story that will put more police officers on the streets of Philadelphia. Fattah is the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and related agencies that oversees funding for the COPS...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com The Justice Department is probing the cable industry for their latest policy of imposing Internet data limits on consumers, according to media reports. The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the situation, that the probe is an antitrust investigation to determine whether Comcast and other cable television companies are illegally stifling competition from online video providers like Netflix and Hulu....
Lack of Government Credit to Antitrust Compliance A Disincentive to Diligent Programs? MINNEAPOLIS, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The management of antitrust compliance is generally undefined and potentially in a silo, isolated from other risk areas, and solutions to antitrust concerns are seemingly underdeveloped, according to the results of a survey which was conducted in March and April 2012 by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE). Survey respondents...
CHICAGO, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Obama administration has made progress in improving the U.S. immigration court system, but much remains to be done, according to Reimagining the Immigration Court Assembly Line, a report by public interest justice centers Appleseed and Chicago Appleseed with pro bono counsel Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP. This report updates Appleseed's 2009 report Assembly Line Injustice, which examined the...
