Anonymous ID: e4c5d4 Nov. 1, 2018, 4:34 p.m. No.3691305   🗄️.is 🔗kun

USA Erin Nealy Cox Appointed to AG’s China Initiative

Attorney General Jeff Sessions today appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox – along with four other U.S. Attorneys, from New York, California, Alabama and Massachusetts – to serve on the Justice Department’s China Initiative combating economic espionage by Beijing.

This group is led by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers and composed of five U.S. Attorneys and several other Department of Justice leaders, including senior FBI officials and Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski of the Criminal Division.

The new initiative will aggressively pursue high-priority Chinese theft of trade secret and economic espionage cases.

“We cannot and will not allow foreign actors to take advantage of American ingenuity to line their own pockets,” said Nealy Cox. “I am proud to join this important effort and look forward to advancing the China initiative with my DOJ colleagues across the country.”

As the Attorney General noted at a press conference in Washington, DC this afternoon, despite China’s public commitment that it would not target American companies for economic gain, Chinese economic espionage against the United States has been rapidly increasing.

“Discoveries that took years of work and millions of dollars in investment here in the United States can be stolen by computer hackers or carried out the door by an employee in a matter of minutes,” Sessions said today. “Enough is enough.”

Initiative Goals:

 

• Identify priority trade secret theft cases, ensure that investigations are adequately resourced, and work to bring them to fruition in a timely manner

• Develop an enforcement strategy concerning non-traditional collectors (e.g., researchers in labs, universities, and the defense industrial base) that are being coopted into transferring technology contrary to U.S. interests

• Educate colleges and universities about potential threats to academic freedom and open discourse from influence efforts on campus

• Apply the Foreign Agents Registration Act to unregistered agents seeking to advance China’s political agenda, bringing enforcement actions when appropriate

• Equip the nation’s U.S. Attorneys with intelligence and materials they can use to raise awareness of these threats within their Districts and support their outreach efforts

• Implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRMA) for DOJ (including by working with Treasury to develop regulations under the statute and prepare for increased workflow)

• Identify opportunities to better address supply chain threats, especially ones impacting the telecommunications sector, prior to the transition to 5G networks

• Identify Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) cases involving Chinese companies that compete with American businesses

• Increase efforts to improve Chinese responses to requests under the Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement (MLAA) with the United States

• Evaluate whether additional legislative and administrative authorities are required to protect our national assets from foreign economic aggression

US Attorneys in Working Group:

 

• Erin Nealy Cox (Northern District of Texas)

• Richard P. Donoghue (Eastern District of New York)

• Andrew E. Lelling (District of Massachusetts)

• Jay E. Town (Northern District of Alabama)

Sauce:https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/usa-erin-nealy-cox-appointed-ag-s-china-initiative

Anonymous ID: e4c5d4 Nov. 1, 2018, 4:36 p.m. No.3691324   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1606

Honduran National Man Pleads Guilty to Immigration Crime

BECKLEY, W.Va. – A Honduran national man entered a guilty plea to the felony offense of Reentry of a Removed Alien, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Wilfredo Artiaga-Mejia faces up to two years of incarceration when he is scheduled to be sentenced on February 20, 2019. Artiaga-Mejia is also subject to deportation proceedings at the conclusion of any sentence. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

 

“My office is serious about prosecuting those who enter the United States illegally,” said United States Attorney Mike Stuart. “And we will continue to do so.”

 

On August 29, 2018, Artiaga-Mejia was found in Maxwelton, Greenbrier County, West Virginia by members of ICE after receiving a tip that individuals were in the country illegally and working in the area. Pursuant to this investigation, ICE agents approached Artiaga-Mejia and he surrendered to them. Agents immediately confirmed that Artiaga-Mejia was not in the United States legally, and took him into federal custody.

 

Artiaga-Mejia’s fingerprints matched him to two prior encounters where he was found in the United States illegally and deported from the United States to Honduras. He was also previously convicted of illegally entering the United States on December 4, 2012 in the Western District of Texas. Artiaga-Mejia-Chigo illegally reentered the United States prior to his capture in 2018. Artiaga-Mejia had not obtained permission to legally enter the United States and had not sought legal status or citizenship. Artiaga-Mejia also admitted to ICE agents that he was a Honduran citizen.

 

Assistant United States Attorney Erik S. Goes is responsible for the prosecution. United States District Judge Irene Berger presided over the hearing.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdwv/pr/honduran-national-man-pleads-guilty-immigration-crime

Anonymous ID: e4c5d4 Nov. 1, 2018, 4:37 p.m. No.3691333   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Colorado joins Election Watch appointments

U.S. Attorney Announces November 2018 Election Officer

DENVER – United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced today that Assistant United States Attorney Rebecca Weber will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 6, 2018, general election. AUSA Weber has been appointed to serve as the District Election Officer for the District of Colorado, and in that capacity is responsible for overseeing the District’s handling of complaints of election fraud and voting rights abuses in consultation with Justice Department Headquarters in Washington.

 

United States Attorney Dunn said, “Every Coloradan must be able to vote without interference, discrimination, or fear of having their vote stolen, and to know that their vote will be counted. The Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office will act promptly and aggressively to protect the integrity of the election process.”

https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/us-attorney-announces-november-2018-election-officer

Anonymous ID: e4c5d4 Nov. 1, 2018, 4:46 p.m. No.3691445   🗄️.is 🔗kun

CUNY Medgar Evers College Lecturer Sentenced To 6 Months For Selling Fake College Certificates

Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MAMDOUH ABDEL-SAYED, a former full-time lecturer at the City University of New York’s Medgar Evers College (“Medgar Evers College” or the “College”), was sentenced to six months in prison for selling sham Medgar Evers College certificates that purported to >represent the completion of health care courses at the College. ABDEL-SAYED pled guilty on May 30, 2018, before U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick, who imposed today’s sentence.

Moar…https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/cuny-medgar-evers-college-lecturer-sentenced-6-months-selling-fake-college-certificates