All United States articles – Page 30
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News BriefDOJ orders Prysmian unit to pay $920K over alleged fabricated tests to military
Prysmian Cables and Systems USA agreed to pay $920,000 to settle allegations it falsified tests and compliance certifications concerning cable it sold to the U.S. military for use in vehicles, the Department of Justice said.
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News BriefOFAC sets Aug. 2 deadline for firms to report Russian sovereign assets
Financial institutions holding Russian sovereign assets that have not reported them to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control are now required to do so by Aug. 2.
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News BriefFTC wants answers from Mastercard, JPMorgan, others on use of AI to collect data
Eight large companies, including Mastercard and JPMorgan Chase, have been ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to provide detailed reports about their possibly secret use of artificial intelligence to track customers and use the information to set prices.
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Seminole Hard Rock promotes diversity chief
Seminole Hard Rock Support Services announced the promotion of Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Stephanie Piimauna to senior vice president of people and inclusion.
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Kering Americas promotes GC to president
Luxury group Kering Americas announced the promotion of General Counsel Ewa Abrams to president, effective Aug. 1.
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Gulfstream names chief sustainability officer
Gulfstream Aerospace has appointed Smitha Hariharan as vice president and chief sustainability officer.
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News BriefSEC names interim acting director of exams division
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Division of Examinations Deputy Director Keith Cassidy, who was named interim acting co-director a year ago, will serve as interim acting director going forward.
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News BriefFCC signals forthcoming enforcement against AT&T over February outage
The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to take enforcement action against AT&T for a data outage in February that blocked 92 million phone calls.
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News BriefFrench bus part supplier CBM to pay $2.4M to settle DOJ fraud allegations
A French bus parts supplier will pay more than $2.4 million in penalties, disgorgement, and restitution to settle charges that it fraudulently misled its U.S. customers about the source of some of its parts.
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PremiumSurvey tackles aligning cross-generational views of ethics in the workplace
Companies may need to examine employees by age group to find out how likely some workers might be to ditch compliance to complete tasks.
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News BriefBanking regs join FinCEN in proposing AML/CFT risk assessment rule
Four federal banking regulators have joined the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network in issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking that would require financial institutions to conduct more thorough risk assessments on their anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism programs.
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News BriefDOJ orders DaVita to pay $34M over alleged dialysis center kickback scheme
DaVita, a multi-state dialysis provider, agreed to pay more than $34 million to resolve allegations it engaged in numerous kickback schemes to doctors who referred Medicare patients to its dialysis centers, the Department of Justice announced.
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News BriefSEC whistleblower to receive $37M award
A whistleblower will be paid $37 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission for providing original, credible information that led to a successful enforcement action.
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News BriefKindred hospice agrees to pay $19M in multi-state DOJ false claims case
A multi-state hospice home health provider agreed to pay $19.4 million to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks and knowingly billed federal health programs to treat non-terminally ill patients.
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Bioenergy Devco appoints legal chief
Bioenergy Devco announced the appointment of Richard Gognat as chief legal officer.
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Crowell & Moring adds ContextLogic GC, compliance chief as partner
Crowell & Moring announced the appointment of Joanna Rosen Forster, who most recently served as general counsel and chief compliance officer for ContextLogic, as a partner in the litigation group in its San Francisco office.
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SingleStore welcomes chief legal officer
SingleStore, a real-time data platform to transact, analyse and contextualise, announced that Jay DeGooyer is joining the company as chief legal officer and corporate secretary.
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PCS Retirement names GC, head of legal, risk, compliance
PCS Retirement has appointed Colleen Duffy as general counsel, head of legal, risk, and compliance.
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Greenberg Traurig adds two former GCs as in-house counsels
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig added two former general counsels, Patrick Kassen and Matthew Bromberg, as in-house counsels.
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Harvard University appoints general counsel
Harvard University announce that Jennifer O’Connor will serve as its next vice president and general counsel, effective July 29.