Chemoil Agrees to Pay Civil Penalty of $27 Million and to Retire a Total of More Than $71 Million in Credits from Renewable Fuels Market Under Settlement with United States

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana entered a permanent injunction barring Jessica Barthelemy St. Ann and JJSM Inc., from preparing federal tax returns.

Federal Agents Arrested A Louisiana Man And Former Member Of The United States Navy Stationed In Japan, Relating To A 2004 sexual assault. The arrest was based on a two-count indictment returned Friday by a federal grand jury in New Orleans.

Thank you, John, for that kind introduction and thank you for your leadership as president of the National Sheriffs’ Association, which is one of the oldest and most respected law enforcement organizations in America.

I want to congratulate Sheriff Layton for four years of service in Indianapolis and for a job well done over the last year as president of NSA and congratulations as well to current vice president and incoming president Sheriff Daron Hall of Nashville, Tennessee. I am looking forward to working with you.

WASHINGTON – Attorney General William P. Barr today announced that he has appointed Katharine Sullivan to serve as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs and that Laura L. Rogers will serve as the Acting Director of the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW).

“The Antitrust Division’s efforts to protect competition in the television broadcast industry continue with today’s settlements that will stop the unlawful exchange of competitively sensitive information among rival broadcasters and their sales rep firms,” said Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. “Vigorous competition among broadcast stations allows American businesses across the country to obtain competitive advertising rates. The unlawful sharing of information reduced that competition and thereby harmed businesses that rely on competitive rates to best serve their customers.”

Mustafa al-Imam, a Libyan national approximately 48 years old, was found guilty of terrorism charges for his participation in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Special Mission and Annex in Benghazi, Libya. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. government personnel Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty died in the attack at the Mission and the nearby Annex in Benghazi.

The owner of a chiropractic business pleaded guilty today to tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.  

On June 12 to 14, in Cartagena, Colombia, prosecutors from Colombia, Mexico, and the United States came together for the second Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCO) Working Group. The mission of the Working Group is to engage in specialized training and to develop joint strategies and best practices to dismantle the transnational criminal organizations that threaten the three nations.