| By Jeffrey A. Newman, Esq. MBA |
| The House Judiciary Committee has passed bipartisan legislation targeting Chinese companies that abuse our nation’s trade laws, including tariff evasion, evasion of import and export sanctions, and money laundering. The legislation would create a new Department of Justice task force to enforce trade-related crimes committed by Chinese companies, including but not limited to tariff and duty evasion, import and export restrictions, all other laws and regulations involving criminal activities relating to American imports and exports, trade-based money laundering, and smuggling. What This Bill Does · Creates a new task force by hiring criminal trial attorneys and related personnel to investigate and prosecute trade-related crimes under the purview of the DOJ’s Criminal Division.· Enables federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to partake in essential training or receive technical assistance to broaden their capacity to investigate and prosecute, and to pursue parallel criminal and civil enforcement actions against persons in the PRC suspected of trade crime.· Mandates an annual report to Congress from the Attorney General evaluating DOJ efforts, trends in the statistics tracking trade crime, and fund utilization. |
Here is a copy of the Bill: https://files.constantcontact.com/f0eecb46901/810ae83f-ab79-450a-bbcf-f43e881638e5.pdf
Jeffrey Newman, JD, MBA, a former prosecutor, is a whistleblower lawyer whose firm represents physicians and other healthcare providers who become whistleblowers in healthcare fraud cases. The firm also takes cases involving tariff fraud and export control fraud. Whistleblower laws in the U.S. allow individuals with information about export control violations or tariff fraud to report it under the False Claims Act, which, if successful, awards the whistleblower a percentage of the amount collected. The Firm’s website is www.JeffNewmanLaw.com. Attorney Newman can be reached at Jeff@Jeffnewmanlaw.com or at 617-823-3217. For other blogs, see: http://JeffNewmanLaw.com
