WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued the following order (MDL No. 3100): * * * In Re: Real Estate Commission Antitrust Litigation ORDER DENYING TRANSFER Before the Panel:* Plaintiffs in two Western District of Missouri actions move under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1407 to centralize this litigation in the Western District of Missouri. In their reply, movants state they alternatively support the Northern District of Illinois as transferee district. This litigation  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, April 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on April 16, 2024: Four St. Charles County, Missouri residents have been indicted on charges including forced labor, labor trafficking and theft of government funds. Venkatesh Sattaru, 35, of O'Fallon, Nikhil Penmatsa, 27, of Defiance, Sravan Penumetcha and Nitya Sattaru, both of St. Charles County, were indicted Wednesday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis.   more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, April 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on April 16, 2024: A woman from St. Louis County, Missouri on Tuesday admitted fraudulently obtaining five pandemic relief loans totaling $104,163. Camille N. Foster, 32, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to two counts of wire fraud. She admitted that between May 2020 and November 2021, she fraudulently obtained five Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans  more