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☆ DOJ charged an Iranian operative with hiring Hells Angels bikers for assassinations in the US
  + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewAn Iranian drug trafficker with ties to its spy agency has been charged by the US Department of Justice with hiring members of the Hells Angels biker group to carry out an assassination on American soil. AdvertisementThe DOJ's indictment alleges that Zindashti hired the Hells Angels bikers to conduct the assassination in January 2021. All three defendants are charged with one count of conspiracy to use interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire. Advertisement"Zindashti's network has carried out numerous acts of transnational repression including assassinations and kidnappings across multiple jurisdictions in an attempt to silence the Iranian regime's perceived critics.
Persons: —, Naji Sharifi, Damion Patrick John Ryan, Adam Richard Pearson, Zindashti, Andrew Luger, Pearson, Ryan Organizations: Service, US Department of Justice, Hells Angels, Business, DOJ, District of, US Department of, Foreign Assets, United, Iran's Ministry of Intelligence, Security Locations: Maryland, Iran, Minnesota, District of Minnesota, United Kingdom, United States
☆ Man Charged With Stealing Ruby Slippers Worn by Judy Garland in ‘The Wizard of Oz’
  + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Michael Levenson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
A man has been indicted on charges that he stole a pair of the famed ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz,” from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minn., the actress’s hometown, nearly 18 years ago. Mr. Martin was indicted on one count of theft of a major artwork. The one-page indictment did not provide any further details about the case. It was not immediately clear if Mr. Martin had a lawyer. Reached by phone Wednesday at his home, Mr. Martin told The Minneapolis Star Tribune that he had to go to trial, and added: “I don’t want to talk to you.”
☆ Pork consumers' $75 million price-fixing accord with Smithfield approved
  + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Mike Scarcella | Industry Insight | Insights In Action | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
April 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday approved a $75 million settlement between Smithfield Foods Inc and a class of consumers who accused the pork producer of conspiring to restrict supply in order to keep prices artificially high. Pork consumers last year settled with Smithfield rival JBS SA for $20 million. The judge in a separate order on Tuesday awarded nearly $25 million in legal fees to the plaintiffs firms representing the consumer class. The consumer class attorneys said in a court filing in January that they'd spent more than 37,000 hours pursuing antitrust claims over four years. The case is In re Pork Antitrust Litigation, U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, No.
☆ Smithfield Foods to pay $75 mln in pork price-fixing settlement
  + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Sept 27 (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods Inc has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a lawsuit by consumers who accused the meat producer and several competitors of conspiring to inflate prices in the $20 billion-a-year U.S. pork market by limiting supply. The accord follows the judge's Sept. 14 approval of a similar $20 million settlement between consumers and JBS SA (JBSS3.SA), one of Smithfield's largest rivals. The Smithfield, Virginia-based company, a unit of WH Group Ltd (0288.HK), denied liability but settled to avoid the uncertainty, risk and cost of litigation, settlement papers show. In the pork litigation, Smithfield previously reached settlements of $83 million with so-called "direct" purchasers such as Maplevale Farms and $42 million with commercial purchasers, a group that includes restaurants. The case is In re Pork Antitrust Litigation, U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, No.
☆ 'Brazen scheme' allegedly stole $250 mln from pandemic child food program, U.S. says
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Brendan Pierson | Thomson Reuters | Brendan Pierson Reports On Product Liability Litigation | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
"These defendants exploited a program designed to provide nutritious food to needy children during the COVID-19 pandemic." The alleged scheme was tied to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Federal Child Nutrition Program aimed at feeding needy children. The program, which was expanded during the pandemic, allows private restaurants to run federally funded food distribution sites, as long as they are sponsored by a non-profit organization. Prosecutors said restaurant owners and others paid bribes to Feeding Our Future employees to get the organization to sponsor sham distribution sites. Defendants created dozens of shell companies to run the fake distribution sites and to launder the proceeds of the scheme, prosecutors said.
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