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Former GAO Bid Protest Attorney and Associate General Counsel for AI Defense Business Rejoins Crowell & Moring

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Thursday, October 12, 2023

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eric M. Ransom, a former attorney with the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, has rejoined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the firm's premier Government Contracts Group. Eric will advise clients on the intersection of procurement laws, regulations, and best practices; and Artificial Intelligence and sophisticated defense technologies.

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  • Eric will advise clients on the intersection of procurement laws, regulations, and best practices; and Artificial Intelligence and sophisticated defense technologies.
  • Most recently, Ransom served as director and associate general counsel of Scale AI, Inc., which provides AI development platforms and training data supporting advanced AI applications including generative AI from OpenAI and Cohere; self-driving technology from GM and Toyota; and the government's most advanced AI research & development programs.
  • "We are thrilled to welcome Eric back to Crowell," said Daniel R. Forman , co-chair of the firm's Government Contracts Group.
  • Ransom previously spent more than a decade at the GAO, where he served as deputy assistant general counsel and as a senior bid protest hearing officer in the Procurement Law Division.

Vessel Documentation Online Stands Against Shipping Vessels Flying False Flags

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Monday, March 27, 2023

MISSOULA, Mont., March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Vessel Documentation Online, a site that provides online access to applications for boat documentation renewal among other services, strongly condemns shipping vessels flying false flags. This practice is illegal and unsafe.

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  • Vessel Documentation Online can make the ship documentation process simpler.
  • MISSOULA, Mont., March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Vessel Documentation Online, a site that provides online access to applications for boat documentation renewal among other services, strongly condemns shipping vessels flying false flags.
  • Vessel Documentation Online is designed to provide vessel owners with digital access to applying for initial vessel documentation as well as renewal, reinstatement, and other services that can help to keep the vessel registered with the USCG.
  • For more information about US Coast Guard documentation, conducting a USCG vessel search, or making a press inquiry, contact Vessel Documentation Online.

i-80 Gold Announces Board-Supported Acquisition of Paycore Minerals

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Monday, February 27, 2023

"In the immediate area surrounding the Archimedes pit, we have identified oxide gold, Carlin-type refractory gold, base metal skarn and polymetallic carbonate replacement mineralization.

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  • "In the immediate area surrounding the Archimedes pit, we have identified oxide gold, Carlin-type refractory gold, base metal skarn and polymetallic carbonate replacement mineralization.
  • 1Premiums based on trading on the TSX-V for Paycore and the TSX for i-80.
  • James Gowans, Chairman of Paycore Minerals, states: "The mineralization of these two properties is indicating a massive carbonate replacement system along the fault corridor between the two properties.
  • i-80 and Paycore will hold a joint conference call and webcast on February 27, 2023 at 9:30 am ET to discuss the Transaction.

Sanford Heisler Sharp Resolves $23 million Customs Fraud Whistleblower Case Against International Vitamin Corporation

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Monday, January 30, 2023

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sanford Heisler Sharp today announced that International Vitamin Corporation (“IVC”), a leading importer of dietary supplements, has agreed to pay the United States Government $22.865 million to settle claims brought by a whistleblower under the False Claims Act. The suit was filed by Sanford Heisler Sharp in 2019 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The case is thought to be among the largest ever False Claims Act settlements involving customs fraud.

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  • WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sanford Heisler Sharp today announced that International Vitamin Corporation (“IVC”), a leading importer of dietary supplements, has agreed to pay the United States Government $22.865 million to settle claims brought by a whistleblower under the False Claims Act.
  • The suit was filed by Sanford Heisler Sharp in 2019 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
  • The case is thought to be among the largest ever False Claims Act settlements involving customs fraud.
  • The whistleblower was represented by Sanford Heisler Sharp Partner and General Counsel Russell Kornblith and Whistleblower Practice Co-Chair John McKnight.

Amtrak Cascades Resumes Service to Vancouver, BC

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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amtrak, in conjunction with WSDOT , ODOT , VIA Rail Canada (VIA Rail) , and other federal agencies, will resume Amtrak Cascades service to Vancouver, British Columbia, on September 26.

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  • WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amtrak, in conjunction with WSDOT , ODOT , VIA Rail Canada (VIA Rail) , and other federal agencies, will resume Amtrak Cascades service to Vancouver, British Columbia, on September 26.
  • Customers can purchase tickets at Amtrak.com , AmtrakCascades.com , the Amtrak app , Amtrak ticket desks and kiosks, and by calling 1-800-USA-RAIL.
  • Traveling southbound, Amtrak Cascades will depart Vancouver at 5:45 p.m. and arrive in Seattle at 10:10 p.m.
  • Representing the second of three services traveling to Canada, service resumption to Vancouver, BC, follows a resumption of service to Toronto announced earlier this year .

BYU Law Adds Full Congressional Record to its Law and Corpus Linguistics Corpora

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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

PROVO, Utah, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BYU Law today announced the addition of the Congressional Record Corpus to its Law and Corpus Linguistics suite of corpora. A pioneering technology tool for the legal community, the Law and Corpus Linguistics Technology Platform enables users to analyze large collections of historical texts called "corpora" for better understanding of context and meaning of words. Although the Congressional Record has been publicly available in a digital format for years, searchability has been limited as most of the record has only been available in a PDF format. Users will now be able to search the full record through BYU's Law and Corpus Linguistics interface, which allows for users to complete a variety of complex searches.

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  • PROVO, Utah, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BYU Law today announced the addition of the Congressional Record Corpus to its Law and Corpus Linguistics suite of corpora.
  • Users will now be able to search the full record through BYU's Law and Corpus Linguistics interface, which allows for users to complete a variety of complex searches.
  • The Congressional Record Corpus (CRC) contains the entirety of the Congressional Record as published from 1873-2021 by the Government Publishing Office.
  • BYU Law is a pioneer in the discipline of law and corpus linguistics as the first law school in the United States to offer a course on the topic, the first to host an annual corpus linguistics conference, and the first to develop a dedicated Law and Corpus Linguistics Technology Platform.

FLEX LOGIX COLLABORATING WITH MICROSOFT TO HELP BUILD SECURE STATE-OF-THE-ART CHIPS FOR US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD)

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Monday, July 11, 2022

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Flex Logix® Technologies, Inc., the leading supplier of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, architecture and software, announced today that it has been selected to be part of a team of microelectronic industry leaders, led by Microsoft, to build a chip development platform with the utmost regard for security as demonstrated by the DoD RAMP Project. Flex Logix was chosen for its leading embedded (eFPGA) technology that enables chips to be reconfigurable after tape-out, allowing companies to adapt to new requirements, changing standards and protocols as needed.

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  • For eFPGA, it means providing a means for keeping circuitry secret by programming the eFPGA in a secure environment," said Geoff Tate, CEO and Co-founder of Flex Logix.
  • "We're honored to be working with Microsoft to bring Flex Logix's eFPGA technology as part of their Advanced Commercial Capabilities project for the DoD RAMP program."
  • "Our collaboration with Flex Logix will help to advance flexibility to chip design,"said Mujtaba Hamid, General Manager, Silicon, Modeling and Simulation, Microsoft.
  • Flex Logix is a reconfigurable computing company providing AI inference and eFPGA solutions based on software, systems and silicon.

COPT to Present at Nareit’s REITweek: 2022 Investor Conference

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Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Corporate Office Properties Trust (NYSE: OFC) (COPT or the Company) announced that its President and CEO, Stephen E. Budorick, will provide an update on the Company and participate in a question and answer session at Nareits REITweek: 2022 Investor Conference.

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  • Corporate Office Properties Trust (NYSE: OFC) (COPT or the Company) announced that its President and CEO, Stephen E. Budorick, will provide an update on the Company and participate in a question and answer session at Nareits REITweek: 2022 Investor Conference.
  • The presentation will be held on June 7, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York, NY.
  • The Company also owns a portfolio of office properties located in select urban/urban-like submarkets in the Greater Washington, DC/Baltimore region with durable Class-A office fundamentals and characteristics (Regional Office Properties).
  • As of March 31, 2022, the Company derived 90% of its core portfolio annualized rental revenue from Defense/IT Locations and 10% from its Regional Office Properties.

Inspector General Carl W. Hoecker to Retire from SEC

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Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Washington, D.C.--(Newsfile Corp. - April 27, 2022) - The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Inspector General Carl W. Hoecker will retire from the agency as of May 7, 2022.

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  • Washington, D.C.--(Newsfile Corp. - April 27, 2022) - The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Inspector General Carl W. Hoecker will retire from the agency as of May 7, 2022.
  • Rebecca Sharek, Deputy Inspector General for Audits, Evaluations, and Special Projects, will serve as Acting Inspector General.
  • I thank Carl for his long dedication to public service, particularly here at the SEC over the last nine years, said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.
  • In 1992, he joined the inspector general community as a criminal investigator, later becoming Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Investigations at the U.S. Treasury OIG.