Organized crime - as embodied by the U.S. mafia - hasn't gone away and is a nationwide concern for businesses and consumers, the head of the FBI said on Thursday after over 100 mafia members and associates were arrested and charged with a wide-range of crimes.
The FBI has arrested more than 100 suspected mobsters on Thursday.This FBI Mafia bust is the largest ever in New York's organized crime history.
The relationship between organized crime and the Kennedy Family remain a permanent fixture in any discussion of the famous – some would say, infamous – Massachusetts Irish clan.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered a one month delay to the inauguration of parliament after a special election court asked for more time to look into fraud allegations, his office said Wednesday.
The U.S. Department of Justice has followed the FCC and given the nod to the NBC-Comcast deal.
U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar is seeking to renew the Federal Assault Weapon Ban (AWB) which expired on September 13, 2004.
A successful and idealistic Mexican lawyer, who became the mayor of Santiago in November 2009, turned into a victim of gruesome killing even before he completed one year in office as he chose 'lead' over 'silver'.
Seven hospitals located throughout the southern part of United States have agreed to pay a total of $6.3 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they were overcharging for osteoporosis procedures, said Department of Justice (DOJ).
Computer hacker George Samuel Bronk, 23, of Citrus heights California pleaded guilty for seven felony charges which included hacking into e-mail accounts and Facebook accounts of worn in 17 states and in England.
U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-NY, is the new chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security and, in that capacity, is planning hearings into, as he said, the radicalization of the American Muslim community and homegrown terrorism.
Evan Snapper apparently figured that he would help Hillary Clinton get elected president and enjoy an Elton John concert, all at a client’s expense. Federal authorities said that Snapper also knew he was breaking federal election laws, and may now spend five years remembering that concert.
Attorney General Eric Holder has named Gary G. Grindler as the new chief of staff to the Attorney General.
One statistic from Super Bowl XLIV in Miami, Florida last February is only an estimate and received little media coverage, but is of great importance to many individuals and families and to the nation itself.
Detroit-based non-profit healthcare service provider Detroit Medical Center (DMC) has agreed to pay the federal government $30 million penalty to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Statute by involving in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Steven Rattner, former head of the U.S. government's Automotive Task Force, has agreed to pay $10 million in restitution to settle kickback allegations involving the roughly $132.8 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund and resolves the two lawsuits filed by the Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo.
The federal judge in the Washington District of Columbia has granted preliminary approval to a long-running and highly contentious $3.4 billion Cobell Settlement - a move that could end the class action litigation over the mismanagement of trust fund assets for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans.
A federal jury in the Eastern District of Virginia has convicted three members and the national president of a violent motorcycle gang known as the American Outlaw Association (Outlaws) of running a highly organized criminal enterprise, participating in racketeering activities and conspiring to commit violence in aid of racketeering.
Dey Pharma, a subsidiary of Mylan Inc., has agreed to pay $280 million to the federal government to settle allegations that it had violated the False Claims Act by engaging in a scheme to report false and inflated prices for its products, knowing that federal health care programs relied on those reported prices to set payment rates.
Two former senior executives of Latin Node Inc. (LatiNode), a Miami-based telecommunications company, have been charged with bribing more than $500,000 to Honduran government officials and laundering money.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a civil lawsuit against energy giant BP Exploration and Production Inc. and eight other companies, accusing them of violating the Clean Water Act and has asked the court to hold them liable without limitation under the Oil Pollution Act for all removal costs and damages caused by the oil spill, including damages to natural resources.
Legal experts, including a pair of former U.S. prosecutors, discussed U.S. law and how it relates to the leaking of documents online by the WikiLeaks organization and its founder Julian Assange.
Howrey's litigation practice co-chair Gary Bendinger has defected with two other partners to Sidley Austin.
