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This week's cross-spectrum watchdog roundup: GAO finds fraud slipped past Login.gov, a $225M school-fraud tally, gaps in the IG oversight system, a DOJ voter-roll intervention, and a ProPublica discipline probe.
A sweeping expansion of U.S. sanctions on an Iranian shadow-shipping network leads this week's survey of international corruption enforcement, alongside a new OCCRP shell-company investigation, the year's first FCPA settlement,…
A divided Senate rejected an effort to curb U.S. war powers in Iran, 49–50, as the House cleared a $1.15 trillion defense bill, a fiscal 2027 budget blueprint, and a…
A $1.3B dealership acquisition, a $400,000 ETF penalty, a make-or-break FDA date, and $18.6M returned to investors — our daily read of notable SEC filings and enforcement.
The Justice Department's late-July enforcement docket: a $36.4M genetic-testing kickback settlement, a $100M film-finance fraud indictment, and five more notable cases across health care fraud, money laundering, cybercrime and national…
Gasoline tops $4 as the U.S.–Iran conflict chokes the Strait of Hormuz, Trump imposes 50% tariffs on Canadian goods, and 'El Mayo' Zambada is sentenced to life with a $15…
OFAC hit 50+ targets in Iranian tycoon Shamkhani's oil-shipping network and sanctioned an IRGC procurement ring, while DOJ's trade-fraud task force topped $1 billion and Commerce eased export controls on…
Federal contract records show an $11.4B space-launch ceiling increase, a $10.5B special-operations logistics award, a $1.6B sole-source F-35 spares order, and GAO's $186B improper-payment tally.
China signed more than $15 billion in Kazakhstan corridor deals as the World Bank debarred a state contractor and corruption cases advanced in Nepal and Malaysia — TIJ's July Belt…
Federal prosecutors closed the week with a transnational money-laundering indictment, a deadly smuggling guilty plea, a pharma kickback settlement, and a widening tuition-law fight. TIJ's DOJ enforcement digest.