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U.S. attorneys, law enforcement target heroin, opioid trafficking, overdoses

Posted at 8:42 pm August 26, 2015
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Bill Killian

William C. “Bill” Killian

DETROIT—U.S. attorneys and leaders of federal law enforcement agencies from across six states met in Detroit on August 26, 2015, to share strategies to combat the heroin and prescription pill epidemic across the region.

U.S. Attorney William C. Killian of the Eastern District of Tennessee was among those who attended.

The summit was called in response to the national epidemic of heroin and prescription pill abuse that has hit Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, particularly hard. Heroin overdose deaths in the United States have tripled from 2010 to 2013. Nationally, the number of deaths from all drug overdoses exceeded 43,000 last year, more deaths than from traffic accidents. Heroin use in the United States has doubled from 2007 to 2012.

In the Midwest, opioid deaths have increased 62 percent. The summit seeks to target this national and regional problem by dismantling drug trafficking organizations that distribute heroin and prescription pills and by increasing prevention and educational efforts. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Federal, Front Page News, Government, Police and Fire, U.S. Tagged With: ATF, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Daniel Salter, DEA, Drug Enforcement Administration, drug overdoses, Eastern District of Tennessee, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, heroin, heroin overdose, Heroin Task Force, HIDTA, High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas, Homeland Security Investigations, HSI, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations, IRS-CI, Kentucky, law enforcement, Michigan, OCDETF, Ohio, opioid deaths, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, Pennsylvania, prescription pill, prescription pill epidemic, Tennessee, U.S. attorneys, U.S. Attorneys Offices, West Virginia, William C. Killian

Former TVA executive pleads guilty to unlawful investments in Iran, filing false tax returns

Posted at 5:44 pm September 4, 2013
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A former Tennessee Valley Authority executive pleaded guilty Wednesday to unlawful financial investments in Iran and filing false tax returns, federal officials said.

Former TVA Vice President Masoud Bajestani, 58, formerly of Chattanooga, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, and Iranian Transactions Regulations, and two counts of filing false income tax returns, said U.S. Attorney William C. Killian of the Eastern District of Tennessee. Bajestani also agreed to forfeit $600,000 in U.S. currency, representing the funds used to promote the specified unlawful activity, Killian said.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Federal, Government, Top Stories Tagged With: conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Eastern District of Tennessee, false tax returns, Federal Bureau of Investigation, filing false income tax returns, Homeland Security Investigations, IEEPA, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations Division, Iran, Iranian Transactions Regulations, Jeffrey Thedore, Leon Jordan, Masoud Bajestani, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tennessee Valley Authority-Office of Inspector General, TVA, U.S. District Court, unlawful financial investments, William C. Killian

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