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Washington, DC - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that jurisdictions that have reached agreements in substance with the United States on the terms of intergovernmental agreements (IGAs) under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) can be treated as having agreements in effect until the end of 2014. 

The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division today announced a new streamlined procedure that will lower the costs and expedite the review process for parties seeking to modify or terminate old antitrust settlements and litigated judgments.

The chief executive officer of the bankrupt Sentinel Management Group, Inc., was convicted today of defrauding more than 70 customers of more than $500 million before the firm collapsed in August 2007.

The United States Attorney’s Office announces that in federal court yesterday, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced former attorney AMY ROBINSON, 36, of Rolesville, to 18 months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. The court further ordered ROBINSON to make restitution of $2,613,046.37 to various banks and other victims.

Eric Holder, the Attorney General of the United States; Anthony Foxx, the United States Secretary of Transportation; Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Calvin L. Scovel, III, Inspector General of the United States Department of Transportation (DOT); and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced a criminal wire fraud charge against Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota or the company), an automotive company headquartered in Toyota City, Japan, that designs, manufactures, assembles, and sells Toyota and Lexus brand vehicles.