Compliance & Ethics

The addresses were in California. The people assigned to them were dead, and according to federal investigators, none had lived at those addresses before their deaths. The Federal Communications Commission said that Boomerang Wireless apparently used the false addresses to enroll hundreds of deceased individuals in Lifeline, a federal program that subsidizes phone and internet service for low-income Americans. The agency proposed a $4,401,666 fine against the company, citing the enrollments, reimbursement requests and apparent wire fraud violations.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has more than 34,000 registered entities within the reach of its examination program. For fiscal year 2027, the agency has identified private credit, investment adviser conflicts, cybersecurity and emerging technologies among the areas where it intends to concentrate its attention.

From April 2022 to November 2023, according to federal prosecutors, a TD Bank employee in Florida opened fraudulent accounts and issued hundreds of debit cards to co-conspirators. When the bank restricted some of the cards over possible fraud, he unblocked them. About $4.8 million left the United States for Colombia through the accounts and cards. Eighty-six of the accounts used the same commercial address in Miami and carried more than $3 million of that total. He took more than $8,000 in bribes, paid in cash and through a peer-to-peer payment app.

Twice in the autumn of 2020, a distributor supplying networking equipment to Extreme Networks was asked for the website of its Russian customer. Twice, the distributor provided the website of a company that manufactured missiles for Russia's air defense systems. The purchase orders named someone else.

More than 1,200 customers were allowed to gamble through high-risk channels at The Star Entertainment Group's Australian casinos, where cash deposits could be accepted from third parties without recording who had supplied the money.

Google and Apple charged South Korean app developers a 26% commission even when those developers chose to use their own payment systems. The developers also had to bear the costs of building and operating those systems, while working without some of the features available through the companies' proprietary billing services.

Perfection Fresh, Australia's second-largest fresh vegetable supplier, has admitted fixing the prices of broccoli, cauliflower and iceberg lettuce sold to ALDI in New South Wales on 11 occasions between 2019 and 2020, agreeing to a proposed penalty of $8.44 million (AUD $12 million).