Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson wants to help take a bite out of Apple’s dominance in the smartphone market, joining 20 other attorneys general Tuesday in the U.S. Department… Read More
A Seattle-area tech executive who attempted to fraudulently obtain COVID-19 disaster relief loans through the Paycheck Protection Program was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday. Mukund Mohan, 48,… Read More
A Washington tech executive charged in a scheme to obtain more than $5.5 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and launder the proceeds pled guilty on Monday. Acting U.S.… Read More
Boeing says it’s entered into a $2.51 billion agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve a criminal charge related to the Federal Aviation Administration’s evaluation of Boeing’s 737 MAX… Read More
The perpetrators of an online tech-support fraud scheme, originally brought to the attention of U.S. authorities by Microsoft, have been shut down by a federal court for allegedly trying to… Read More
Seattle-based real estate tech company Redfin is applauding action taken by the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday against the National Association of Realtors, in which the DOJ simultaneously filed… Read More
Federal officials have seized six fraudulent websites that were part of an online scheme to deceive customers who were looking to set up new Amazon Echo devices. The U.S. Attorneys… Read More
A grand jury in the Western District of Washington has indicted six people in a multi-million dollar scheme to bribe Amazon employees and contractors to gain an unfair advantage on… Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to prevent AT&T from gobbling up Time Warner for $85.4 billion, claiming the deal would “substantially lessen competition, resulting in higher… Read More
Dish’s telemarketers allegedly failed to heed no-call lists, and the satellite-TV provider may be fined up to $24 billion, a sum larger than the company’s current market value. The US Department… Read More
In a week that seems to be all about putting body cameras on police, the Obama administration has announced $20 million in grants to fund the technology is coming to local… Read More
Twitter has sued the U.S. Department of Justice in a move to expand the amount of data it can share with users about what type of requests for information it… Read More
Yet more news has developed in the DOJ’s case against Apple and several book publishers over their alleged collusion to price-fix e-books, or what we like to call The Never-ending… Read More
As we noted a couple weeks ago, Microsoft’s landmark U.S. antitrust settlement expires today. Much has changed in the decade since the settlement was reached and there’s no question that… Read More
