The Department of Justice Antitrust Division filed a proposed consent decree against Pinnacle Property Management Services over allegations of using competitor rental data and algorithmic coordination to artificially inflate rents, the department announced Sept. 11. The case is pending in the Middle District of North Carolina and follows similar enforcement

ICE Newark arrested a Salvadoran national charged with operating a vessel that capsized near Liberty Island in New York Harbor, killing a 27-year-old mother and her five-month-old daughter, the agency announced Sept. 11. The capsize occurred Aug. 8. Twelve other individuals were rescued from the water following the incident, according

The Federal Trade Commission permanently banned Humboldt Merchant Services from the payment processing industry on Sept. 8 and imposed a $12 million penalty after finding the company knowingly provided services to sham merchants engaged in online fraud. The permanent industry ban is one of the most severe remedies available to

A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., returned indictments against two high-ranking leaders of the United Cartels of Michoacan, Mexico, on charges of drug trafficking and terrorism on Sept. 4. The terrorism charges against cartel leadership represent an expansion of the legal theories being applied under the administration’s designation of

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a proposed consent decree against Pinnacle Property Management Services on Sept. 4, alleging the company used competitors’ data and algorithmic tools to artificially inflate rental housing costs. The action advances DOJ’s legal theory that using shared pricing algorithms constitutes illegal coordination, setting a precedent

The Bureau of Indian Affairs’ newly established Predatory Crimes Unit arrested David Hunter Walters, 25, on multiple felony charges following a months-long investigation into the sexual assault of two people in Northeast Oklahoma, on Aug. 26. The arrest demonstrates the operational capacity of the new unit, which was created to

Mitchell Best, 43, of Arkansas was sentenced to two consecutive 30-year federal prison terms — totaling 60 years — for producing child sexual abuse material involving a victim under the age of five on Sept. 2. The sentence is among the most severe federal outcomes for child sexual abuse material

The Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit against Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools on Sept. 3, alleging the district secretly facilitated students’ gender transitions without notifying or obtaining consent from parents. It is the first lawsuit of its kind by the federal government. The suit, filed by the Civil Rights

The Justice Department filed what it called the first-of-its-kind federal civil rights lawsuit against Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools, alleging the district secretly facilitated student gender transitions without parental notification, on Sept. 1. The case, filed jointly by DOJ’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney for the District of

A federal jury convicted Sioux Erosion Control Inc., its part-owner and vice president, and an employee for participating in a five-year price-fixing conspiracy targeting more than $100 million in publicly funded transportation construction contracts across Oklahoma, on Aug. 20. The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division brought the case, which centered on

A Chinese national residing in Andover, Massachusetts, was arrested for submitting a fraudulent voter registration and casting a ballot in the 2024 presidential election using another Chinese national’s identity, federal authorities announced. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services played a central role in the investigation, which also involved the Department of

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services played a key role in an investigation that led to the indictment of 11 individuals accused of orchestrating more than 1,000 sham marriages over more than a decade to fraudulently obtain immigration benefits on Aug. 28. The sham marriages were used to obtain green cards

The Justice Department announced a proposed settlement requiring private equity giant KKR to pay a $250 million civil penalty for serial violations of federal premerger notification requirements on Aug. 28. The penalty is the largest in the history of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. The penalty stems from KKR’s alleged failure to

A federal jury convicted Sioux Erosion Control Inc. and two of its executives for participating in a five-year price-fixing conspiracy targeting more than $100 million in publicly funded transportation contracts in Oklahoma on Aug. 20. The conviction involved bid rigging and market allocation — the most serious forms of antitrust

The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division announced recovery of $618,000 in back wages for 779 workers across 13 locations of a South Carolina restaurant chain on Aug. 24. The investigation uncovered both wage theft and illegal child labor practices. The investigation found overtime and minimum wage violations alongside