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Navy contracts for metal sling hoistassemblies and were sentenced in September 2008 to pay

Navy contracts for metal sling hoistassemblies and were sentenced in September 2008 to pay criminal fines of$10,000 each.In August 2008, Peck & Hale, a Long Island, N.Y., defense firm,was sentenced to pay a $275,000 criminal fine for bid rigging.In June 2008,Frank Granizo, the former president of a freight forwarding company, pleadedguilty to honest services wire fraud.Granizo was sentenced today to fivemonths of home confinement.Three Peck & Hale employees also have pleaded guilty in this investigation. Wilson Freire, a former government contracts manager, pleaded guilty to onecount of bid rigging and one count of conspiracy to accept kickbacks.OnApril 8, 2009, he was sentenced to one year and one day in jail and to payrestitution in the amount of $20,750.In April 2008, Ransom Soper III, aformer sales employee, pleaded guilty to one count of bid rigging and onecount of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.Soper is scheduled to be sentencedMay 26, 2009.A former sales director, Robert Fishetti, pleaded guilty to twocounts of bid rigging.Fishetti also pleaded guilty to soliciting andaccepting a kickback from another lower-tiered sub-contractor in return forfavorable treatment in the award of subcontracts for finishing work onproducts supplied to the U.S. Department of Defense.Anyone with information concerning bidrigging, kickbacks, fraud or other anti-competitive conduct regarding militarytiedown equipment or cargo securing systems is urged to call the AntitrustDivision’s National Criminal Enforcement Section at 202-307-6694 or the LongIsland Office of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service at 631-420-4302.SOURCEU.S Department of JusticeU.S Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007, TDD +1-202-514-1888. * Flu-related scams selling unapproved drugs Stocks  |  Regulatory News  |  Global Markets  |  Mexico * FDA contacting suspect sites, threatens action By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – Health officials are warningthe public about another, less serious outbreak: a rise influ-related scams, including a growing number of hoaxes.

E-mail pitches for unapproved treatments and equipment suchas masks are promising to beat the H1N1 swine flu virus, whichhas sickened people in at least 13 countries. The new H1N1 swine flu virus has killed at least 84 peoplein Mexico and one in the United States, but most cases havebeen mild, with only a handful of patients requiringhospitalization The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention isrushing kits to states to test for the virus — a sophisticatedprocess because of its strange genetic mix. That has not stopped opportunistic scammers from trying tosell people products that claim to test for the disease or evencure it. They have launched websites and are sendingunsolicited commercial e-mail, or “spam,” officials warned.

“These fraudulent products come in all varieties and couldinclude dietary supplements or other food products, or productspurporting to be drugs, devices or vaccines,” the U.S Food andDrug Administration and the U.S Federal Trade Commissionsaid. “We have seen dietary supplements with prevention ortreatment claims, various unapproved personal protectiondevices such as masks, and illegal sales of unapproved versionsof antivirals, and antivirals sold without prescription,” theFDA added in a statement to Reuters. Just two drugs are FDA-approved for the 2009 H1N1 influenzavirus: Roche Holding AG’s (ROG.VX) Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKlinePlc’s (GSK.L) (GSK.N) Relenza. Even some makers of legitimate products are tapping intoconsumer worries about swine flu.