TOANO, VA (WBTV) –
Federal prosecutors in Virginia have filed felony and misdemeanor charges against flooring giant Lumber Liquidators late Wednesday afternoon.
The company, which is headquartered in Toano, Va—in between Richmond and Newport News—has been under investigation by federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations for more than two years.
A bill of criminal information filed by federal prosecutors charged the company with one count of entry of goods by means of false statements and four counts of violations of the Lacey Act related to the transportation and importation of illegally harvested lumber.
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Newly obtained documents from the conservative educational foundation Judicial Watch detail an official memo from October 2010 of a meeting between Lois Lerner and officials at the Department of Justice and the FBI to plan for the prosecution of targeted nonprofit organizations.
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Federal authorities on Friday raided a Houston business as part of an international investigation in which a total of nine people have been indicted for allegedly supplying Iran with high-tech microelectronics, power supplies and other commodities valued in the millions, officials said.
Two local men were arrested as part of the probe.
“The nine defendants charged in the indictment allegedly circumvented U.S. sanctions and illegally exported controlled microelectronics to Iran,” said John P. Carlin, assistant attorney general for National Security.
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Last night Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration Russell George and Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Timothy Camus updated the House Oversight Committee on the status of Lois Lerner’s “missing” emails surrounding the IRS targeting of conservatives.
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