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| - | November 27 | | Manhattan Bank Pleads Guilty to U.S. Criminal Charges for Failure to Report $123 Million in Suspicious Cash Deposits
NEW YORK, NY - ROBERT C. BONNER, U.S. Customs Service Commissioner, JAMES B. COMEY, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and DAVID B. PALMER, Chief, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, announced that BROADWAY NATIONAL BANK ("BROADWAY") pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to a three-count felony Information that charged the Bank with failing to maintain a legally-required anti-money laundering program, failing to make legally-required reports to the authorities regarding approximately $123 million in suspicious bulk cash and structured cash deposits and aiding and assisting customers to structure approximately $76 million in transactions to evade currency reporting requirements. Also today United States District Judge THOMAS P. GRIESA imposed a sentence of a $4 million criminal fine.
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| - | November 22 | | Customs Seizes 158 Tons of Narcotics During Fiscal Year 2002
SAN DIEGO, CA--U.S. Customs Service officers at California's five land border stations on the Mexican border, as well as in the air and on the sea, seized 158.2 tons of narcotics worth $309.8 million during fiscal year 2002 which ended September 30, officials announced today.
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| - | November 21 | | Customs Kicks-Off Trade Symposium 2002
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Former Virginia Governor Gilmore to Address Event
Washington, DC - U.S. Customs Service Commissioner Robert C. Bonner is hosting Customs Trade Symposium 2002 to a sell out crowd that includes more than 500 participants from the international trade community from as far away as South Africa. Attendees also include government representatives from Australia, Canada, France, and Japan.
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| - | November 20 | | Customs and DOT Launch 'Operation Safe Commerce' Program
Washington, DC - Associate Deputy Secretary of Transportation Jeffrey Shane and Deputy Customs Commissioner Douglas Browning jointly announced today the launch of Operation Safe Commerce (OSC), a program to fund business initiatives designed to enhance security for container cargo moving throughout the international transportation system.
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| - | November 18 | | U.S. Customs Seizes Marijuana in Tractor Tires;
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Detains Man Wanted in Two PA Homicides
Laredo, TX - U.S. Customs Inspectors and Canine Enforcement Officers working at the Laredo port of entry this weekend seized a significant load of marijuana and detained a fugitive wanted on warrants for two Pennsylvania homicides.
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| - | November 06 | | Top U.S. Customs/FBI Fugitive Caught in Venezuala
ATLANTA, GA - Robert M. Gattison, Special Agent-in-Charge, U.S. Customs Service Atlanta, and Theodore Jackson, Special Agent-in-Charge, FBI Atlanta Division, today announced the arrest of James Spencer Springette, (born 8/16/60), a fugitive wanted on a federal warrant issued by the Southern District of Georgia on October 8, 1998.
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