A U.S. federal judge found that a gold mining company has violated environmental laws more than 3,000 times at its Buckhorn Mine in “one of the unspoiled natural areas” of Washington State, the Office of the Attorney Generalsaid Thursday.

The U.S. sanctioned a network that sold military and sensitive dual-use technology from U.S. producers to Russian customers and raised charges against five Russians and two Venezuelans. Some of the items have been found in Russian equipment seized on Ukrainian battlefields.

One of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest friends used the services of at least four U.K. and U.S. law firms to challenge international sanctions against him, the Intercept news organization revealed Wednesday in its latestinvestigation.

A federal court in New York sent on Monday a drug kingpin and paramilitary leader whom Colombia extradited in 2018 to prison for 35 years, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in astatement.

Lafarge, the world’s largest cement manufacturer,pleaded guilty in a U.S. court Tuesday to conspiring to finance terrorist organizations, including the Islamic State, in exchange for preferential treatment for its Syria-based operations.

TheU.S. Treasury imposed on Monday sanctions on 10 individuals managing al-Shabab’s financing networks and supplying the group with weapons for the terrorist group.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)indicted Monday a woman for allegedly defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of US$156 million by falsely claiming to have provided 30 million meals to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017.

Credit Suisse has agreed to pay US$495 million to settle a case related to the sale of mortgage-backed securities in the U.S., which contributed to the 2008 financial crisis.

A U.S. private virtual currency exchange agreed on Tuesday to pay more than US$50 million to settle U.S. accusations of having breached several sanction programs, violating anti-money laundering regulations (AML) and suspicious activity reporting requirements.

Mexican officials have sued five gun dealers from Arizona for allegedly providing weapons to criminal groups and cartels in Mexico, the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairsreported.

As any other matter involving American taxpayer money, the U.S. State Department said it is taking very seriously reports about corruption being responsible for only a fraction of relief funds reaching the over 30 million Pakistanis now displaced by floods.

A British businessman was arrested on U.S. charges of conspiring to evade sanctions imposed on a Russian oligarch, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ)said on Tuesday.

A federal court in California sentenced a Mexican lawyer who served as the Sinaloa cartel’s chief money launder to 15 years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice announced ina statement.

The U.S. Treasury imposed on Tuesday sanctions on three Burmese businessmen and their company for allegedly supplying Russian-produced arms to Myanmar's military, which seized power following last year’s coup.

Brazilian police raided 20 locations throughout the country and seized cash and luxury items from a suspected leader of a transnational cryptocurrency fraud ring that is believed to have stolen nearly US$800 million from investors.

A federal court in Brooklyn sentenced a mobster to 40 years behind bars for killing his long-time friend he had fallen out with, the U.S. Department of Justicesaid on Wednesday. Both men were linked to New York’s infamous Gambino Family.

An American rancher was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years in prison for defrauding two meat processing companies of over US$244 million by raising 265,000 bovines for them that never in fact existed.

U.S. authorities designated on Monday Fadil Novalić, the prime minister of one of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s two semi-autonomous regions, for his alleged involvement in corruption, as well as “divisive and destabilizing activities in the Western Balkans.”

Venezuela on Saturday has freed seven jailed Americans in exchange for the release of two relatives of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who were convicted of drug trafficking in New York, U.S. officials said.

U.S. authorities unsealed Thursday an indictment against Russian billionaireOleg Deripaska, his girlfriend and three other people for “violating new U.S. sanctions imposed earlier this year in response to Russia’s unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine.”