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By Justin Okun on March 23, 2018
Posted in Civil Enforcement, Criminal Enforcement, Department of Justice, Enforcement, Government Investigations, National Security Law
  • Don’t mess with the Postal Service — mail thieves busted in Central Oregon
  • Meanwhile, over in Eastern Washington, a grocery shop owner was allegedly engaging in food stamp fraud
  • Here in Seattle, the owner of a chain of Mexican restaurants faces tax theft charges totaling $5.6 million
  • In somewhat bigger news, the DOJ announced this morning that nine Iranians have been charged with conducting a massive cyber theft campaign 
  • Earlier this week the DOJ charged two Canadian brothers with running an “unlicensed money service business,” which laundered $250 million 
  • One of the conspirators in the massive foreclosure bid-rigging scheme in California was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay a $1.4 million fine — somebody should’ve told all these guys there are rules …

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Justin Okun is a senior corporate counsel with T-Mobile, where he handles regulatory and operational compliance. Justin was formerly a shareholder in Lane Powell’s Investigations, White Collar and Compliance practice group. Before joining Lane Powell, Justin spent over a decade in government service…

Justin Okun is a senior corporate counsel with T-Mobile, where he handles regulatory and operational compliance. Justin was formerly a shareholder in Lane Powell’s Investigations, White Collar and Compliance practice group. Before joining Lane Powell, Justin spent over a decade in government service as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, a DOJ trial attorney in Washington, DC, a supervisory attorney with the Department of the Navy, and a judge advocate in the Marine Corps, where he began his career. While Justin no longer exercises like a Marine, he still drinks beer like one, especially when he’s blogging.

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