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US Arrests 130 People For Online Fraud
News The arrests were part of a nationwide initiative, called Operation E-Con, that's being coordinated by 43 US attorney's offices, the FBI, the FTC, the Postal Inspection Service, and other state and local law-enforcement agencies within the US and...
[May 19, 2003, 9:57]
US States Weigh Antitrust Aspect Of Oracle Bid
News We need to find out how many are using PeopleSoft, Oracle or SAP," said a state attorney general representative who participated in the conference call. State attorney general offices not only have the power to represent consumers on antitrust...
[June 25, 2003, 9:21]
PeopleSoft Prepares Inquisition For Oracle Execs
News Currently, the California state attorney general is playing a strong role in the multi-state antitrust investigation, handling a large number of the interviews, said a source familiar with the multi-state efforts.
[January 9, 2004, 14:40]
US States Home In On Oracle Bid
News Confidentiality agreements are common in any state attorney general probe, and it is usually the first step taken before a formal investigation is launched, should one occur, said Howard Morse, a former senior official with the Federal Trade...
[July 11, 2003, 15:44]
State Attorney General's Office Uses New Technology To Improve Constituent Service
White Papers The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General manages a broad range of law and public safety responsibilities, including conducting criminal investigations and prosecutions, handling civil litigation on behalf of Commonwealth agencies, and...
[February 8, 2008, 23:00]
FBI Rapped Over Missing Laptops
News The results were so dismaying that Attorney General John Ashcroft requested that Fine investigate the practices of the entire department, reviewing laptops and firearms missing from October 1999 through January 2002.
[August 7, 2002, 9:53]
Oracle Settles False Pricing Suit
News The programme works well when vendors follow the disclosure rules and provide GSA with the information it needs to negotiate good prices for government purchasers," deputy attorney general Paul McNulty said in a statement.
[October 11, 2006, 8:55]
Oracle's Bid Opposed By Justice Dept
News Hewitt Pate, assistant attorney general in charge of the Department's antitrust division, said in a statement. In reaching its conclusion, the Justice Department interviewed Oracle and PeopleSoft customers, consulting firms, resellers and potential...
[February 27, 2004, 11:25]
EU Approves HP-Compaq Merger
News The EC and (US Department of Justice) do talk to each other a lot, but they may not reach the same conclusions," said Bill Young, an antitrust attorney with Hunton & Williams in Washington, DC. With this latest decision, the European Commission has...
[February 1, 2002, 8:48]
'Trafficking In Human Life' - Baby For Sale On The Internet
News Tomas Kovacs was charged with grand larceny on Monday after contacting prospective parents using Web adoption sites -- an action described by the Nassau District Attorney's Office as "despicable". The District Attorney's office said a couple, who...
[March 31, 1999, 14:34]
RIAA: P2P Networks Full Of Child Porn
News John Malcom, a deputy assistant attorney general, said that "P2P networks are of significant law enforcement concern and focus, particularly because of their decentralised design and relative accessibility and ease of use.
[September 10, 2003, 10:30]
Limiting Encryption May Open Doors To Criminals
News In the late '90s, a group of federal regulators including former FBI Director Louis Freeh and former Attorney General Janet Reno championed legislation that required encryption software to include government safeguards and that restricted US exports.
[September 27, 2001, 10:26]
FBI Urges Greater Co-operation From US Tech Firms
News Jill Warren, the former assistant attorney general for Texas, said her manager had responded to the attacks by creating a special committee that recommended the creation of a Texas Infrastructure Protection Centre.
[September 6, 2002, 9:48]
US Govt To Get Early Warning Of Net Attacks
News Texas Representative Dick Armey, who was House Majority Leader at the time, wrote a letter to then-Attorney General Janet Reno saying: "This new bureaucracy would look for suspicious activity on both government and private computer networks, and...
[August 1, 2003, 10:40]
Massive ID Theft Nabs 55,000 Student Records
News U.T.in conjunction with the US Attorney's Office, the US Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies, has focused its efforts since Sunday evening on identifying the perpetrator of the break-in and recapturing the stolen data," Updegrove...
[March 7, 2003, 13:03]
Six Face Sentencing For Internet Fraud, ID Theft
News The information superhighway should be a conduit for communication, information and commerce, not an expressway for crime," US Attorney General John Ashcroft told Reuters. The National Criminal Intelligence Service, which works with the UK's law...
[November 21, 2003, 10:50]
Global Piracy Purge Nets 200 PCs
News In the past 24 hours, working closely with our foreign law enforcement counterparts, we have moved aggressively to strike at the very core of the international online piracy world," US Attorney General John Ashcroft said in a statement.
[April 23, 2004, 8:30]
Cyberterrorism: The Real Risks
News It's like the children's game of 'telephone,'" said Gail Thackery, assistant attorney general for Arizona and the prosecutor on the Salt River hacking case. We have the massive bowl of spaghetti between the Internet, phone lines, and extranets, and...
[August 27, 2002, 11:03]
PayPal Snagged By Anti-terrorism Law
News Last August, the service reached a settlement with the attorney general for the state of New York, under which it ceased processing payments for New York online gambling merchants and also paid the state $200,000, or about £126,000, in penalties.
[April 1, 2003, 8:06]
HP-Compaq To Run Antitrust Gauntlet
News Rich Gray, a Silicon Valley-based antitrust attorney, said that one trouble area could come from Compaq's high-end Himalaya servers, which are widely used in the financial sector and airline industry.
[September 7, 2001, 10:45]
