Russia

Ex-Nuke Exec Found Guilty In Russia-Linked FCPA Case

A former president of a nuclear logistics company was found guilty of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by fraudulently securing transportation contracts from a Russian uranium supplier, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday…

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Resolution To Make Mueller Report Public Blocked In Senate

A resolution calling for the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s election interference probe to be made public stalled in the U.S. Senate on Thursday after passing the House of Representatives earlier in the day without opposition…

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Russian Co. Tied To DNC Hack In Newly Unsealed Report

An internet infrastructure company run by Russian tech exec Aleksej Gubarev played a role in the 2016 hacking of Democratic Party leaders, according to a report by a former government cybersecurity official that was unsealed Thursday as part of a defamation suit Gubarev had brought against BuzzFeed Inc…

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Russian Telecom Settles FCPA Claims For $850M

ussian telecommunications group Mobile TeleSystems PJSC and a subsidiary agreed to pay $850 million related to U.S. authorities’ allegations that the company bribed an Uzbek official to win $2.4 billion worth of business, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Wednesday…

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Roger Stone’s Book Intro A Breach Of Gag Order, Judge Says

A D.C. federal judge took self-described political dirty trickster and Trump campaign veteran Roger Stone to task on Tuesday, saying the release of a preview to his book on the internet violated a gag order she had imposed last month…

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