As announced yesterday by the Justice Department, Schlumberger Oilfield Holdings Ltd. (SOHL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Schlumberger Ltd., has agreed to enter a guilty plea and to pay a $232,708,356 penalty to the United States for conspiring to violate the International Emergency
Last Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department collected more than $8 billion in civil and criminal cases in fiscal year 2013. Approximately $5.9 billion was collected through civil litigation efforts, while $2.2 billion represents funds that
This blog posting is part II of our analysis of U.S. v. Chi Mak. Part I can be read here. The Ninth Circuit also disposed of Mak’s claims about jury instructions and deliberation on willfulness, the requisite intent that must
On June 21, 2012 a three judge panel of the Ninth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) in United States v. Chi Mak. Mak was ultimately convicted of one count of conspiracy to violate the
Lorie Monroe, 51, of Richmond, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to 37 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to receive health care kickbacks, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. In addition,
Wolfgang Roessel of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida to filing a false tax return for 2007, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. According to