The U.S. Department of Justice is the federal executive department that enforces federal law, prosecuting crimes and antitrust and national security cases.
A federal judge in Arizona found Assistant US Attorney Brooks Chupp violated Rule 11 with an accusation that had no evidence, Techdirt reported. Techdirt calls the sanction a wrist slap in a field where, it says, judges have mostly threatened penalties for ICE and DOJ lawyers.
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Settlement talks between Apple and the DOJ reportedly center on iPhone interoperability, according to The Information. PayPal and Epic Games are among developers worried the terms will be too light, and no deal exists yet.
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OpenAI said on Tuesday that the FBI arrested one of its employees over a sophisticated listening device hidden in a company office. Everything public so far comes from the company's own X post, and the FBI had not responded to Reuters.
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Federal prosecutors charged OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan with planting an encrypted recording device in an executive conference room. OpenAI says it has no indication that source code, model weights or customer data were taken.
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Senior DOJ officials have halted the grand jury probe of Meta over drug sales on its platforms, two people familiar told Bloomberg Law. Officials are weighing a civil fine or non-prosecution agreement, one said, and DOJ would not discuss the case.
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Justice Department prosecutors and IRS-CI said their first tax enforcement surge reached 76 defendants over more than $490 million of intended losses. In the one case officials detailed, the IRS paid about 58% of the refunds claimed.
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DOJ will take health care self-disclosures through one office, its health care fraud section, Jacob Foster said Thursday. Companies that report potential criminal misconduct can draw benefits from both DOJ and HHS together, STAT reported.
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Prosecutors say OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan had one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia for 12 October, three days after his 9 October arrest. They cited the tickets in asking a judge to seal the case. For other labs, the useful part is the allegations about meeting-room access.
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DOJ raided more than 40 Texas residences on September 21-25 and seized 187 laptops and other devices it says North Koreans used in an IT-worker scheme. The FBI says the workers now also hire freelancers in South Asia and West Africa, so US hosts are one intermediary among several.
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The Justice Department searched more than 40 Texas laptop farms serving North Korean IT workers and seized over 180 company-shipped computers. Prosecutors count at least 70 victim companies. For employers, the shipping address is now a control point.
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The FBI arrested OpenAI employee Abdulrahman Alfozan on Oct. 9 over a recording device allegedly planted in an executive conference room. The complaint alleges no motive and no foreign-government role, and OpenAI has not said whether it cleared his outside Saudi investing job.
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Coinbase's investigators joined the DOJ's Scam Center Strike Force and the UK's NCA in a four-day London operation against West African scam networks. Coinbase's post did not include a freeze total for the week, so the case for routine cooperation rests on timing.
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Judge Timothy Kelly turned his temporary order into an indefinite injunction against the White House ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW. He added two First Amendment findings to a due process claim that rests on binding D.C. Circuit opinions.
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DOJ and FBI seized seven domains tied to Integrity Tech's Microscan and FishHub tools, the second action against the Flax Typhoon contractor. The company still had live scanning and phishing infrastructure to seize after the September 2024 botnet takedown.
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Police in Ghana and Nigeria arrested or detained 28 people in an operation hosted by Britain's NCA with 15 agencies and 15 tech firms. Officials did not say how much of the $11 million in potentially freezable funds was frozen or seized.
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Judges in two states signed cell-site simulator warrants to locate a 21-year-old who helped produce Don Lemon's coverage, Wired reported. The records it reviewed do not establish that agents ever deployed one.
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UK authorities have frozen the £8.9 million London penthouse of Thet Li, alleged Prince Group finance chief, The Times reported. The flat is the smallest of the five London properties on the paper's list.
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Two Dominican nationals were extradited to the US on Sept. 30 to face conspiracy charges over a sextortion scheme aimed at Puerto Rico victims. They had been arrested 42 days earlier, on Aug. 19, and both are presumed innocent.
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Federal prosecutors announced a 32-month sentence for a former employee who set about 16 scheduled tasks on a domain controller and demanded 20 BTC. The attacker used a legitimate admin account and standard tools, so the signals to catch were an unauthorized VM and the gap before the tasks ran.
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Prasan Nepal, the 21-year-old who led the 764 child sextortion network, pleaded guilty Thursday and faces 15 to 30 years in prison. The Justice Department calls 764 a violent extremist network, but the count he admitted is conspiracy to commit sexual exploitation of a child.
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