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Federal Tipoffs Involving Massachusetts Newsletter for Wednesday October 16, 2024 ( 4 items )  

ERO Boston arrests Dominican national convicted of drug charges in Massachusetts
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: BOSTON Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston apprehended an unlawfully present 33-year-old Dominican national charged with assault and battery on a household member, destruction of property, indecent exposure, carjacking, two counts of trafficking a controlled substance, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Officers with ERO Boston arrested Lui  more

Litigation: SEC Charges North Carolina Resident With Insider Trading in Massachusetts-Based Biopharmaceutical Company
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 1:24-cv-12621; D. Mass. filed Oct. 15, 2024) involving Matthew Groom: * * * The Securities and Exchange Commission filed insider trading charges today against North Carolina resident Matthew Groom, who allegedly avoided losses of about $13,000 by trading in advance of the May 3, 2022 announcement by the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biopharmaceutical company Spero Therapeutics, Inc. that  more

NSF congratulates laureates of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: The U.S. National Science Foundation congratulates Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and James A. Robinson of the University of Chicago as the 2024 recipients of the Nobel Prize in economics formally the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for studies on how societies form political and economic institutions that affect  more

Three Lawrence Men Arrested On Drug Charges
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: BOSTON Three Lawrence men have been arrested for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute drugs. Ronald Odelyn Tejeda, 38; Erick Pimentel-Cabrera, 27; and Carlos M. Rodriguez, 36, have been charged with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances. Pimentel-Cabrera and Rodrigue  more