Boston-based pharmaceutical company Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. said it will pay US$21.5 million to settle bribery and other violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) charges with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Ryan Kamada, a former judge from Colorado’s 19th Judicial District, pleaded guilty Tuesday to obstructing a federal task force’s large scale drug trafficking investigation, according to a statement from theUS Department of Justice. 

Anthropologists and heritage experts who have called for more due diligence on the part of the legitimate antiquities market welcomed Facebook’s newcommunity standards that have put historical artifacts on the list of items forbidden to post for sale on the platform.

US cyber security experts say that Evil Corp, a Russian group of cybercriminals, has been targeting America’s most successful companies, known asFortune 500, in an effort to force them to pay millions in ransom.

Two alleged members of the Mac Baller Brims gang - a violent crime group from New York City’s Bronx borough - have been charged on Friday with the murder of a 27-year-old man during a robbery committed in Manhattan last October.

A member of New York’s Genovese crime family was sentenced to four years in prison for extortion and racketeering conspiracies according to astatement from the US Department of Justice. 

Authorities arrested 31 suspected members and associates of Boston’s NOB gang and charged them with a variety of criminal offenses, including murder, sex and drug trafficking and shootings, according to a statement released on Tuesday by the USAttorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.

A former US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) employee pleaded guilty on Thursday to orchestrating a multimillion dollar fraud scheme in which he impersonated a CIA officer and persuaded several companies to hire him so he could conduct his secret activities while pretending to be their employee. 

A Puerto-Rican man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to harvesting protected invertebrates worth 

hundreds of thousands of dollars and then selling them to clients in the mainland United States and abroad.  

In the first case of securities fraud related to COVID-19 to be brought before a US court, prosecutors charged the president of a California-based medical technology company with defrauding investors, manipulating stock prices and submitting fraudulent claims for allergy and coronavirus testing from which he allegedly made US$69 million.

The US Department of Justice has joined a whistle-blower’s lawsuit against California-based engineering firm AECOM, alleging the firm had overcharged the government for its reconstruction efforts after Hurricane Katrina and helped several institutions overestimating damages on their buildings.

Journalists covering the days-long countrywide protests against police violence and racism have reported at least 125 press freedom violations in the US since May 29.

US authorities charged last week a former Venezuelan lawmaker who worked together with President Nicholas Maduro with narco-terrorism and drug trafficking, claiming that he was plotting to attack the United States.

US authorities arrested and charged a former Hollywood CEO in the latest case of a string of attempts to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) the United States have introduced to help companies deal with the coronavirus crisis.

After having paid massive fines and having returned thousands of questionably acquired antiquities, Hobby Lobby, a US based arts and crafts chain which heavily funded the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC, is now suing Christie’s for the US$1.6 million they had paid for a 3,500 years-old cuneiform tablet from Iraq that turned out to have been stolen.

A temporary restraining order was issued by a federal court in Utah to stop a man from peddling silver as a potential cure for COVID-19. 

Hundreds of COVID-19-related scams, many of which operated from websites that advertised fake vaccines and cures, operated fraudulent charity drives, delivered malware, or hosted various other types of scams, have been disrupted by US law enforcement, theDepartment of Justicesaid on Wednesday. 

Ventilators Russia sold to the US last week to help fight the coronavirus pandemic have been produced by the subsidiary of a Russian company that has been under US sanctions since 2014,reports say.

After years of scrutiny, Steve Green, the Chairman of the Washington-Based Museum of the Bible, has announced that he will be returning some 11,500 antiquities from his personal collection to Egypt and Iraq, admitting that some of them may have had dubious provenance.

An information operations group charged the US more than US$120 million to produce pro-US TV and radio ads in Afghanistan and then never broadcasted any, claims a recently unsealed lawsuit.