All articles tagged with #doj settlement
Three major egg producers—Cal-Maine Foods, Versova, and Hickman’s Egg Ranch—will pay $3.3 million and donate 53 million eggs after a bipartisan probe found they secretly colluded to inflate the daily egg price index from 2022 to 2025, using spoofing-like tactics; part of the eggs will go to food banks and New Yorkers in need (4.9 million to NYC groups), and the companies must end price manipulation and adopt compliance measures.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged to tax 100% of any payouts to state residents from the $1.776 billion DOJ 'anti-weaponization' settlement fund, a move echoed by New York and New Jersey Democrats aiming to block the money from crossing state borders. The fund has drawn bipartisan criticism as a 'slush fund,' while Trump defends it as restitution. Newsom also signed a measure to curb federal election interference in California, signaling broader(state-level) countermeasures against the president’s policy.
Texas Children’s Hospital will establish the country’s first detransition clinic and provide free detransition care for five years as part of a settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the U.S. Department of Justice over alleged Medicaid billing for transition care; the hospital will also terminate five doctors involved in transition care and pay $10 million. Officials say the clinic will formalize multidisciplinary services the hospital already offers, while Paxton frames the deal as a shift away from gender-ideology and notes an ongoing national probe into transition care for minors. Details on staffing and exact services were not disclosed.
The Justice Department agreed to pay Carter Page $1.25 million to settle his lawsuit over FBI surveillance warrants used during the Russia investigation, after an inspector general report found multiple errors and material omissions in the four FISA applications. Page, who was never charged, was at the center of political controversy surrounding the investigation. The settlement follows other DOJ payouts to Trump allies, and the case references findings that the Steele dossier was misused and that an FBI lawyer (Kevin Clinesmith) altered an email, procedures that Horowitz criticized in his report.
The Justice Department announced a $556 million settlement with Kaiser Permanente over allegations that it inflated Medicare Advantage payments by adding improper diagnoses to patient charts after visits, a practice the government says diverted about $1 billion from taxpayers between 2009 and 2018; Kaiser says the settlement resolves the matter without admitting wrongdoing and notes it concerns risk-adjustment practices rather than care quality.
The DOJ approved HPE's $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks after a settlement that requires licensing of Juniper's Mist AI software and divestment of HPE's wireless business, paving the way for HPE to challenge Cisco in the AI networking market and offering a new alternative for customers.
Don Hankey's financial company, Westlake Services, settled with Trump's DOJ after illegally repossessing cars belonging to military employees, violating the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. The settlement involved paying $700,000 in damages to affected servicemembers and a $61,000 fine to the federal government. This history is important context for Hankey's recent $175 million bond backing for Trump, who is appealing a $450 million civil judgment against him.