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Justice Department Secures Settlement with Firearm Manufacturer to Resolve Immigration-Related Discrimination Claims

News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with Aero Precision LLC, a Washington state firearm manufacturer. The settlement resolves the department’s determination that Aero Precision had a policy of unlawfully screening out certain non-U.S. citizen job candidates, ...


News Release: The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) announced today almost $160 million in grant awards to support crime laboratories, fund forensics research, decrease DNA backlogs and help investigators locate missing persons and identify human remains. The funding is administered by OJP’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and National Institute of Justice (NIJ).


Justice Department, FTC and State of Wisconsin File Complaint to Stop Deceptive Sales Practices of Timeshare Exit Services Aimed at Elderly Consumers

News Release: The Department of Justice, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the State of Wisconsin, today announced a civil enforcement action against 16 defendants for allegedly using deceptive sales practices nationally to sell timeshare “exit services" to senior citizens.


News Release: Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter for the Antitrust Division issued the following statement regarding Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster’s Decision to not appeal.


News Release: 注:本新聞稿已翻譯成多種語言,請參閲以下附件。. 司法部今天發佈一份備忘錄,要求聯邦機構審查其提供的語言支援操作和政策,以便加強聯邦政府與英語能力有限人士的接觸。. “所有在這個國家的人,無論他們講甚麼語言,都應該獲得參與聯邦機構開展或支持的計劃和活動的實質機會。"司法部長梅裏克·加蘭 (Merrick B. Garland) 表示,“司法部致力於與我們的聯邦夥伴合作,解決政府服務中的語言障礙問題,這些語言障礙剝奪了個人完全參與經濟、社會和公民生活的機會。". 根據行政令13166號 《改善英語能力有限人士獲得服務的機會》,該備忘錄概述了聯邦機構改進、現代化和履行其語言支援職責的行動方案。如備忘錄所述,在司法支援辦公室的協助下,民權司將帶頭開展協作工作以確定:(1) ...


Tổng Chưởng Lý Merrick Garland đưa ra bản ghi nhớ nhằm cải thiện việc tiếp cận các dịch vụ cho những người có trình độ Anh ngữ hạn chế

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News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a proposed consent decree in federal court to resolve allegations that the Regents of the University of California on behalf of the University of California, Berkeley (collectively, UC Berkeley) violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities ...


News Release: After a two-week jury trial, a federal jury in Honolulu, Hawaii, found defendants Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi, 32, and Levi Aki Jr., 33, guilty of a hate crime for their racially motivated attacks on C.K., a white man who was attempting to move into their Native Hawaiian neighborhood of Kahakuloa on Maui.



News Release: Two Estonian citizens were arrested in Tallinn, Estonia, yesterday on an 18-count indictment for their alleged involvement in a $575 million cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering conspiracy.


“RECOGNIZING MASJID MUHAMMMAD” published by the Congressional Record  on Nov. 17

“RECOGNIZING MASJID MUHAMMMAD“ was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on page E1161 on Nov. 17


Justice Department Seeks to Shut Down Houston Area Tax Return Preparer

News Release: The United States filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas today seeking to bar a Houston area tax return preparer from preparing federal income tax returns for others.


News Release: A former Key West resident pleaded guilty today to an immigration conspiracy related to the operation of several Key West labor staffing companies.


News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Surprise, Arizona, man pleaded guilty yesterday to production of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).


News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that a federal jury has convicted Charles Porterfield, 37, of Springville, NY, of production of child pornography and committing the offense as a registered sex offender. The charges carry a mandatory penalty of life in prison.


Syracuse Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Drug Conspiracy and Distribution

News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Eric F. Jackson, aka “The Mexican," aka “Pops," age 49, of Syracuse, was sentenced Tuesday to 180 months in prison for his leadership of a drug-trafficking organization that distributed methamphetamine in Onondaga County and elsewhere in Central New York.


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-TM Forum discussed on Nov. 23 by Justice Department

The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Nov. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A corrections officer at Bayside State Prison in Leesburg, New Jersey, today admitted agreeing with others to physically assault inmates for actual, perceived, and fabricated violations of the prison’s rules and customs in a manner that resulted in injury to the inmates, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.


Three District of Columbia Men Indicted on Federal Charges for Armed Robberies and Carjackings in D.C. and Maryland

News Release: WASHINGTON - Three men, all from Washington, D.C., have been indicted on federal charges stemming from a series of armed robberies and carjackings that took place in Maryland and the District of Columbia over a period of less than two months earlier this year.


The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Nov. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.