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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.

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The managing clerk of the New York office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP—a prominent, international law firm—and a professional stock broker who worked at Oppenheimer & Co. and Morgan Stanley were arrested today and charged with participating in a multi-year insider trading scheme that allegedly netted more than $5.6 million in illicit profits, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

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California attorney Christopher M. Rusch was sentenced to serve 10 months in prison for helping his clients Stephen M. Kerr and Michael Quiel, both businessmen from Phoenix, hide millions of dollars in secret offshore bank accounts at UBS AG and Pictet & Cie in Switzerland, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.  

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A former chief magistrate is the latest defendant sentenced to federal prison time in a probe of corruption in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. Dallas Toler, 45, of Delbarton, West Virginia, was sentenced to 27 months’ imprisonment.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a new cooperation initiative out of its Enforcement Division to encourage issuers and underwriters of municipal securities to self-report certain violations of the federal securities laws rather than wait for their violations to be detected.

  1. SEC Charges Five Executives and Finance Professionals Behind Fraudulent Bond Offering by International Law Firm
  2. Aerospace company fined $20 million for arms export control violations
  3. Two Ocean Shipping Companies to Pay $3.4 Million to Settle Claims of Price Fixing Government Cargo Transportation Contracts
  4. Justice Department Enters Consent Decree with National Tax Preparer H&R Block
  5. UberConference Delivers Conference Calls Without PINs
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