The Justice Department on Wednesday announced charges against two Russian state media employees for diverting $10 million to an unidentified media company in the United States. The criminal case names two defendants, Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, both charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Their scheme was … Read more
As Live Nation grapples with a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice to break up the company, CFO Joe Berchtold expressed optimism about the lawsuit and the company’s future. “I expect we will prevail,” Berchtold said at a Bank of America conference Wednesday. “I don’t expect there to be any major changes in how … Read more
The government’s antitrust victory against Google has paved the way for a lawsuit against the company by Yelp, a competing online service that lets users find and review local businesses. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, Yelp accuses Google of using its monopoly power in general search to drive people … Read more