In a recent case in Florida, the Department of Justice brough a criminal smuggling charges against a Miami businessman who was said to evase tariffs on Chinese truck tires by shipping them through countries such as Canada and Malaysia. He represented to U.S. Customs and Border protection that the tires originated in...

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced settled charges against Becton, Dickinson and Company, a New Jersey-based medical device manufacturer known as BD, for repeatedly misleading investors about risks associated with its continued sales of its Alaris infusion pump and for overstating its income by failing to record the...

China has announced a new investigation of Nvidia Corporation over alleged violations of China's anti-monopoly law. Few details as to the basis for the investigation were included in the announcement. Nvidia had been selling AI chips to China until it was stopped from soing so by U.S. export limitations on the more...

According to new reports, Donald Trump said he would nominate Paul Atkins to run the Securities and Exchange Commission. Atkins is the CEO of Patomak Global Partners LLC . Atkins, a Republican former SEC commissioner. A lawyer by training who spent years working at the SEC...

According to various new sources,the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, was fatally shot in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning, according to a police report. The report says Brian Thompson, 50, was shot just after 6:45 a.m. at 1335 Sixth...

China's new ban on sales of rare minerals to the US could create sensitive national security issues unless the new administration strikes an agreement to normalize other trade arenas with China. Chinese exports of tungsten may hinder the creation of armor percing bullets and shells. The Us does have Tungsten deposits in...

A Chinese vessel is being examined by European warship crews regarding sobatage for deliberatorly severing two data cables last week as its anchor was dragged along the seabed for over 100 miles. The ship, Yi Peng 3 is loaded with Russian fertilizer. The damage to undersea cables occurred in Swedish waters on...

— The Securities and Exchange Commission announced fraud charges against Stephen Kenneth (“Ken”) Leech, the former co-chief investment officer (CIO) of registered investment adviser Western Asset Management Company LLC or WAMCO, for engaging in a multi-year scheme to allocate favorable trades to certain portfolios, while allocating unfavorable trades to...

The Chinese Communist Party 's law called The National Intelligence Law requires that all Chinese businesses and citizens operating overseas including in the United States must gather sensitive uinformation from host countries and their companies and to providfe it to the Chinese Government. Effectively, China has activated all Chinese persons and companies...

The owner and operator of a Texas laboratory was charged yesterday in connection with his role in a $79 million respiratory pathogen panel (RPP) testing fraud scheme. According to court documents, Osman Syed, 34, also known as Syed Osman, an Indian national, caused BioDX Labs LLC (BioDX) to submit...