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Hedge Fund Firm Charged for Asset Mismarking and Insider Trading
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The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the hedge fund advisory firm Visium Asset Management LP has agreed to settle charges related to asset mismarking and insider trading by its privately managed hedge funds and portfolio managers. Separately, the firm’s CFO agreed to settle charges that he failed to respond appropriately to red flags that should have alerted him to the asset mismarking.
Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Minnesota Bank to Resolve Allegations of Lending Discrimination
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The Justice Department today settled its suit against KleinBank, resolving allegations that the bank engaged in lending discrimination by “redlining” predominantly minority neighborhoods in and around the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. “Redlining” is a term describing the illegal practice in which lenders intentionally avoid providing services to individuals living in predominantly minority neighborhoods because of the race or national origin of the residents of those neighborhoods.
Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks to the Gatlinburg Law Enforcement Training Conference
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Thank you, Doug, for that kind introduction. And thank you for your long history of service to the state of Tennessee and to our country. We’re glad to have you at the Department of Justice.
And from the bottom of my heart: thank you for that moving tribute to law officers who gave their lives in the line of duty.
Maryland Man Pleads Guilty to Failure to File a Foreign Agent Registration Statement
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Nisar Ahmed Chaudhry, 71, of Columbia, Maryland, pleaded guilty Monday to failure to file a foreign agent registration statement.
The guilty plea was announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur for the District of Maryland and Special Agent in Charge Gordon B. Johnson of the FBI’s Baltimore Field Office.
Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks to the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies 2018 Spring Conference
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Thank you, Mark, for that kind introduction. And thank you for your more than 30 years of service in law enforcement.
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