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Photo of Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Deputy Attorney General Mark R. Filip at Press Conference Announcing Revisions to Corporate Charging Guidelines

August 28, 2008

Today's announcement, and the policy that we are now implementing, reflect the Department’s firm commitment to two goals that I believe we all share: safeguarding the attorney-client privilege, which is so central to our criminal justice system, and preserving the Department’s ability to investigate corporate wrongdoing effectively, which benefits corporations and members of the public alike.

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Corporate Charging Guidelines

Other News
August 29, 2008

Juan Carlos Castaneda pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to launder approximately $3.8 million in proceeds from several Medicare fraud schemes. Castaneda pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. (Read More)

The Department will monitor primary elections in Apache and Navajo counties, Ariz., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act and other federal voting rights statutes.  (Read More)

August 28, 2008

U.S. District Court Judge Samuel B. Kent was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Houston for allegedly attempting aggravated sexual abuse and for abusive sexual touching of a clerk’s office employee. (Read More)

The Department announced that it will require Raycom Media, Inc. (Raycom) to divest the local CBS affiliate in Richmond, Va., WTVR-TV, following Raycom’s April 2008 purchase of the Richmond NBC affiliate, WWBT-TV, from Lincoln Financial Media Company (Lincoln). The Department said that the transaction, as originally proposed, would have resulted in Raycom owning two of the four local broadcast stations, which likely would have led to higher prices for those seeking to advertise on local broadcast television.  (Read More)


Project Safe Childhood
As part of Project Safe Childhood, the U.S. Department of Justice together with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) and the Ad Council have partnered to produce the following Public Service Announcements (PSA’s) in an ongoing initiative to protect America’s youth. Further, the Project Safe Childhood Web site provides information to our federal, state, and local community partners that will help protect our children from online exploitation and abuse.

Links to the PSA’s and Project Safe Childhood Web site are below:

Watch PSC Videos:  Campaign Introduction      Everyone Knows Your Name      Bulletin Board
View Project Safe Childhood site

 
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