The law firms of Vezina Law, PLC, Morgan Verkamp, LLC, Todd & Weld, LLP, and Jeff Newman Law are pleased to announce the successful settlement of the False Claims Act matter captioned United States ex rel. Michelle Mackillop v. Grand Canyon Education, Inc., et al. The False Claims Act allows private persons...

            By Jeffrey A. Newman Esq. Silver, the metal which is used in so many products including cell phones, satellites, solar panels, medicine surgical tools, circuit boards and much more.   In addition, the metal is traded and heavily regulated and yet silver is vulnerable to fraudulent substitution, fraudulent dilution,...

A former New York-based employee of TD Bank N.A, Wilfredo Aquino, pleaded guilty today to facilitating a money laundering network’s movement of hundreds of millions of dollars through TD Bank accounts.Aquino, 47, of New York, pleaded guilty to a one-count information charging him with conspiring to launder monetary instruments. He is scheduled...

By Jeffrey A. Newman Esq. China just announced Chaotan One, which it called the world's first commercial deployment of the sC02 power generator in a steel factory in Liupanshui, Guizhou Province. This facility has two 15 megawatt units that were connected to the grid last month. This, China says...

Venezuela has about 303 billion barrels of crude oil reserves, the largest total of any country in the world. However, its oil if ultra heavy crude which is dense requiring heating, dilution and upgrading so it can be refined. According to reports, Venezuela's oil fields are not in good shape at...

By Jeffrey A. Newman Esq. Nuclear reactors that once powered the U.S. Navy's aircraft carriers including the USS Nimitz may be re-fitted, along with others, to help power the articifical intelligence data centers. The Nimitz's two nuclear reactors, which gave it endurance at sea, is in the...

The U.S. Government has granted an annual license to SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics to deliver chip manufacturing equipment to their facilities in China for 2026, according to a Reuters story today. Previously, the two companies had been granted a validated end user status which allowed qualifying factories in China to receive...

By Jeffrey A. Newman Esq. China has a growing list of sanctions against U.S. defense companies and sernior executives including Raytheon and BAE Systems in response to the decision of the U.S. Government and those companioes to sell weapons to Taiwan. In addition China's Ministry of Commerce recently issued...

By Jeffrey A. Newman Esq. The U.S. Treasury FInancial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that it would be examining over 100 U.S. money services that are operaitng along the southwest border of our country. These services provide financial services outside of a formal bank. The operation will reveal potential...

By Jeffrey A. Newman Esq. The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned 29 vessels and their management companies for assisting Iran in evading U.S. oil sanctions through deceptive shipping practices. Information on anyone within the US that does business with any of these entities and persons may lead...