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On May 1, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the U.S. Attorney’s Office (“USAO”) for the Northern District of Texas announced a $4.375 million civil settlement with a natural gas marketer and...more
It is commonly said that cyberspace is the “Wild West,” a realm where there are no laws and no sheriff in sight. Even acknowledging that this view contains a degree of hyperbole, it is unfortunately no less true after last...more
In 2017, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) reported more than $8.2 billion held in its forfeited-assets fund, which is a $600 million increase from the $7.6 billion in the fund in 2016. The cases brought by the government in...more