BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Arizona man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in an international drug trafficking ring targeting Alaska. According to court documents, Joel Rascone, 30, of Yuma, Arizona, was a member of Miguel Guevara's drug trafficking ring that smuggled over a dozen kilos of meth, heroin and cocaine from Mexico into   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- The Federal Trade Commission issued the following news release on Feb. 16, 2024: The staff of the Federal Trade Commission has provided the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) an annual summary of its enforcement and related activities on the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). The FTC is responsible for ECOA enforcement and education regarding most non-bank financial service providers. In its summary, FTC staff describes the Commission's work on ECOA-related is  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 17 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in Murthy v. Missouri. The brief, led by the State of Montana, supports a challenge to the federal government's recent censoring of privately held opinions on online platforms. The States of Missouri and Louisiana sued the federal government over allegations that it "engaged in a broad pressure campaign d  more