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Former Government Contractor Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison for Willful Retention of National Defense Information
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- Published: 20 July 2019 20 July 2019
Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett Friday sentenced Harold Thomas Martin, III, age 54, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, to nine years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for willful retention of national defense information.
Police Investigator Sentenced to Prison for Assaulting Handcuffed Arrestee
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- Published: 20 July 2019 20 July 2019
Montgomery, Alabama - Former Tallassee Police investigator Brandan Smirnoff, 27, was sentenced to 22 months in prison for assaulting a handcuffed, 24-year-old man. Smirnoff encountered the victim, J.M., after a vehicle pursuit. After officers pursued J.M. for several minutes on a four-wheeler, J.M. stepped off the four-wheeler, laid face down on the ground, and allowed several Tallassee police officers to handcuff him.
G7 Announces Common Understanding of G7 Competition Authorities on Competition and the Digital Economy
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- Published: 20 July 2019 20 July 2019
Washington, DC - The G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors met on July 17-18, 2019 in Chantilly, France. The United States was represented by Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin. One of the items on the agenda was Competition and the Digital Economy. In preparation for this meeting, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim met on June 5 with his G7 counterparts in Paris, and drafted a Common Understanding of G7 Competition Authorities on Competition and the Digital Economy to inform the discussion in Chantilly.
Department of Justice Announces Extradition of Iranian National and Unsealing of Charges against Two Other Men for Exporting Carbon Fiber from the United States to Iran
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- Published: 20 July 2019 20 July 2019
New York - Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman for the Southern District of New York, Assistant Director John Brown of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division and Assistant Director in Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. of the FBI’s New York Field Office announced the extradition of Behzad Pourghannad and the unsealing Tuesday of a three-count indictment charging Pourghannad, Ali Reza Shokri and Farzin Faridmanesh with exporting carbon fiber from the United States to Iran.
ITT Cannon to Pay $11 Million to Settle False Claims Allegations for Untested Electrical Connectors
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- Published: 20 July 2019 20 July 2019
Washington, DC - ITT Cannon has agreed to pay the United States $11 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that it supplied electrical connectors to the military that had not been properly tested, the Justice Department announced today. ITT sold the untested connectors both directly to the Government and through distributors and other government contractors which incorporated them into technology and equipment sold to the Government.
NIH publishes the largest genomic study on type 2 diabetes in sub-Saharan African populations
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- Written by Prabarna Ganguly, Ph.D. Prabarna Ganguly, Ph.D.
- Published: 19 July 2019 19 July 2019
Washington, DC - National Institute of Health researchers have reported the largest genomic study of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in sub-Saharan Africans, with data from more than 5,000 individuals from Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya. Researchers confirmed known genomic variants and identified a novel gene ZRANB3, which may influence susceptibility to the disease in sub-Saharan African populations.
NIH and partners to launch HIV vaccine efficacy trial in the Americas and Europe
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- Written by Anne Rancourt Anne Rancourt
- Published: 19 July 2019 19 July 2019
Washington, DC - The National Institutes of Health and partners announced plans to conduct a Phase 3 HIV vaccine efficacy trial at multiple clinical research sites in North America, South America and Europe. The trial, called HPX3002/HVTN 706 or Mosaico, will assess whether an investigational vaccine regimen designed to induce immune responses against a variety of global HIV strains can safely and effectively prevent HIV acquisition among men who have sex with men and transgender people.