Washington, DC - As part of The Department of Justice’s ongoing review of legacy antitrust judgments, the Antitrust Division Wednesday announced that it has opened a review of its consent decrees with The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI).  For more than seventy-five years, these decrees have governed the process by which these two organizations license rights to publicly perform musical works.  The purpose of the Division’s review is to determine whether the decrees should be maintained in their current form, modified, or terminated.

Tulsa, Oklahoma - Oral Roberts University (ORU), based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will pay  $303,502 to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act of submitting false claims to the U.S. Department of Education in violation of the federal ban on incentive-based compensation, the Department of Justice announced.

Washington, DC - Peyman Amiri Larijani, 33, a citizen of Iran and former resident of Istanbul, Turkey, was charged in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in two separate indictments.  The announcement was made by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu for the District of Columbia and Assistant Secretary Nazak Nikakhtar of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Washington, DC - A Honduran national pleaded guilty Tuesday for his role in a scheme to sell identity documents belonging to Puerto Rican U.S. citizens to individuals illegally residing in the United States.

Detroit, Michigan - A federal jury in Michigan found a Houston, Texas, woman guilty of a nine-count indictment for her role as the leader of several robbery crews that traveled all over the United States in order to conduct home invasions of families of Indian and Asian descent.

Washington, DC - Monday, Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. (Princess) and its parent, Carnival Cruise Lines & plc (together “Carnival”) were ordered to pay a $20 million criminal penalty and will be subject to enhanced supervision after admitting to violations of probation attributable to senior Carnival management in a case in which Princess had already paid $40 million.