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      "title": "The Fed's Rate Path: From the 2024 Cuts to Warsh's First Meetings",
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      "json": "https://whatledto.com/events/fed-rate-path-2025-2026.json",
      "role": "Issued subpoenas connected to an investigation of Powell; a federal judge later quashed them.",
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      "slug": "us-beef-prices",
      "title": "Record Beef Prices: The Smallest Herd Since 1951, the Packer Probe and the Import Fix",
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      "role": "Is conducting a criminal antitrust investigation of major beef packers and has sought information from eight grocery chains.",
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      "json": "https://whatledto.com/events/social-security-2027-cola.json",
      "role": "Requested emergency relief from the Supreme Court and announced the fraud charges.",
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      "slug": "nvidia-acquisitions",
      "title": "Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face",
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      "role": "Examined the Run:ai transaction and has opened an inquiry into Nvidia's Groq licence-plus-hire arrangement.",
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      "slug": "us-tariff-refund-litigation",
      "title": "IEEPA Tariff Refunds: From the Supreme Court Ruling to the Console Lawsuits",
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      "json": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-tariff-refund-litigation.json",
      "role": "Represents the government and is appealing the trade court's refund relief for non-plaintiff importers.",
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      "title": "Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment",
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      "json": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027.json",
      "role": "Investigates and settles False Claims Act allegations involving Medicare Advantage risk-adjustment coding.",
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      "updated_at": "2026-10-14T02:01:40.262749+00:00"
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      "slug": "nvidia-china-export-controls",
      "title": "US Export Controls on Nvidia AI Chips to China: A100 to H20 to H200",
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      "json": "https://whatledto.com/events/nvidia-china-export-controls.json",
      "role": "Has brought recent criminal cases alleging diversion of export-controlled AI servers containing U.S. GPUs to China.",
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      "date": "2026-10-01",
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      "title": "California man charged with smuggling $300 million in GPU servers to China",
      "summary": "The Justice Department said Greg Lui, owner of the City of Industry technology company Earthmade Computer Inc., was arrested on a three-count federal indictment charging conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act, outbound smuggling and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The indictment, returned on September 29, alleges that from 2023 to 2024 Lui bought export-controlled servers containing U.S.-manufactured GPUs, gave manufacturers false documentation about their end users, shipped them to Malaysia and Singapore, and had them re-exported to China; it says Earthmade received more than $176 million from two Malaysia-based shipping companies between January and October 2024. Tom's Hardware identified the GPUs as Nvidia parts.",
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        "Greg Lui",
        "Nvidia"
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          "quote": "The owner of a San Gabriel Valley-based technology company was arrested today on a three-count federal indictment charging him with smuggling more than $300 million worth of export-controlled high-end computer servers containing U.S.-manufactured graphics processing units (GPUs) commonly used for Super Intelligence (SI) applications to China."
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      "date": "2026-09-09",
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      "title": "Nvidia defends the Groq arrangement after the inquiry is reported",
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      "date": "2026-09-01",
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      "title": "The Justice Department expands the beef investigation to eight retailers",
      "summary": "The Antitrust Division said on X that it had widened its beef affordability investigation to eight major grocery chains, naming the recipients of Woodward's letters. The move pushed the inquiry down the supply chain from the packers to the shelf, though economists kept pointing at the record-low cattle inventory as the explanation.",
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          "quote": "The letters obtained by FOX Business provide details about the scope of the investigation, showing that federal antitrust officials are examining retailers' beef pricing strategies, profit margins, costs and purchasing arrangements dating back to 2020."
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      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "The Villages Health System agrees to $541.5 million FCA settlement",
      "summary": "The Villages Health System agreed to a $541.5 million settlement resolving self-disclosed False Claims Act allegations concerning Medicare Advantage diagnosis codes. The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that unsupported codes increased Medicare Advantage payments; the settlement did not determine liability.",
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          "url": "https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/villages-health-system-llc-agrees-5415m-settlement-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations",
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          "quote": "The Villages Health System LLC (TVH), a healthcare provider group headquartered in The Villages, Florida, has agreed to a $541.5 million settlement to resolve self-disclosed allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by causing the submission of false diagnosis codes in order to increase payments that they received from the Medicare Advantage program."
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          "url": "https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/the-villages-health-medicare-overbilling-settlement-doj-humana/828915/",
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          "quote": "The Villages Health, a healthcare provider in Central Florida, has agreed to pay $541.5 million to settle allegations that it overbilled Medicare, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday."
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      "date": "2026-07-14",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Associate Attorney General Woodward writes to eight grocery chains about beef prices",
      "summary": "Identical letters dated July 14 went to Kroger, Walmart, Publix, Albertsons, Aldi, Ahold Delhaize USA, Costco and Amazon, telling each that the Antitrust Division was assessing trends in beef prices. Investigators asked for retail and wholesale prices, costs and margins, pricing strategy and market analyses going back to 2020.",
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          "url": "https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/doj-expands-beef-price-investigation-walmart-costco-amazon-other-major-retailers",
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          "published": "2026-09-02",
          "quote": "\"The Antitrust Division is assessing trends in beef prices - a matter of critical concern to the American public, and a priority for the United States Department of Justice,\" Woodward wrote in identical letters dated July 14 and addressed separately to each company."
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        {
          "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/doj-probes-soaring-beef-prices-at-eight-major-stores-including-walmart-12393757",
          "outlet": "Newsweek",
          "published": "2026-09-02",
          "quote": "We will be seeking data and information that we anticipate to be in your company's records relating to your company's retail sales and prices, wholesale purchases and prices, costs and margins for beef products, pricing and purchasing strategy, your company's analyses of market trends in the wholesale or retail price of beef, and information about factors influencing beef prices.\""
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      "date": "2026-06-03",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Justice Department appeals the universal refund orders; CBP says $23 billion has gone to Treasury",
      "summary": "DOJ filed notices of appeal at the Federal Circuit arguing the trade court cannot order refunds to importers who never sued, the CASA argument it had flagged in March. At a June 9 hearing CBP's trade chief Susan Thomas testified that CAPE had accepted claims covering about $90 billion of the $166 billion collected and transmitted about $23 billion to Treasury, having processed refunds on nearly 8.5 million entries in six weeks. Entries liquidated more than 80 days earlier, worth perhaps $30 billion, remained contested.",
      "type": "legal",
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        "U.S. Customs and Border Protection",
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          "published": "2026-06-15",
          "quote": "On June 3, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed notices of appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit."
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      "date": "2026-05-04",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "DOJ confirms a criminal antitrust investigation of the Big Four beef packers",
      "summary": "At a press conference with Agriculture Secretary Rollins and trade adviser Peter Navarro, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department had prioritised potential antitrust violations in cattle and beef markets, noting that four processors control more than 85 percent of the business and that two are primarily foreign-owned. Prosecutors said they had reviewed more than three million documents and encouraged whistleblowers to come forward.",
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        "tyson-foods",
        "national-beef-packing"
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          "url": "https://www.drovers.com/news/ag-policy/doj-usda-ramp-antitrust-investigation-big-4-beef-packers",
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          "quote": "\"We prioritized investigating potential antitrust violations in U.S. cattle and beef markets,\" Blanche says. \"In the beef industry, the Big Four processors control over 85% of the beef processing market."
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      "date": "2026-03-19",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "US prosecutors unseal charges over AI server diversion to China",
      "summary": "The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Yih-Shyan Liaw, Ruei-Tsang Chang, and Ting-Wei Sun with conspiring to divert U.S.-assembled high-performance computer servers to China in violation of export-control laws. Reuters later reported that prosecutors charged Sun and two others associated with Super Micro with conspiring to divert about US$2.5 billion of U.S. AI technology to China.",
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        "Nvidia"
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          "outlet": "U.S. Department of Justice, Southern District of New York",
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          "quote": "United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence and Espionage Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Roman Rozhavsky, and Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI, James C. Barnacle, Jr., announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging YIH-SHYAN “WALLY” LIAW, RUEI-TSANG “STEVEN” CHANG, and TING-WEI “WILLY” SUN, for conspiring to divert high-performance computer servers assembled in the United States and integrating sophisticated U.S. artificial intelligence technology to China, in violation of U.S. export controls laws."
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          "outlet": "Reuters",
          "published": "2026-10-09",
          "quote": "In March, U.S. prosecutors charged Ting-Wei ‘Willy’ Sun and two others associated with Super Micro, including a co-founder, with conspiring to divert about $2.5 billion worth of U.S. AI technology to China in violation of export laws."
        }
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      "timeline": "fed-rate-path-2025-2026",
      "id": 442,
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      "date": "2026-03-11",
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      "title": "Judge Boasberg grants the Fed Board's motion to quash subpoenas",
      "summary": "Chief Judge James E. Boasberg granted the Federal Reserve Board's motion to quash Justice Department subpoenas. The ruling concerned the Powell investigation.",
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        "James E. Boasberg",
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        "Donald Trump"
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          "outlet": "U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia",
          "published": "2026-03-11",
          "quote": "It will therefore grant the Board's Motion to Quash."
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    },
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      "timeline": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "id": 645,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n645",
      "date": "2026-01-14",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Kaiser Permanente affiliates agree to pay $556 million in FCA settlement",
      "summary": "Kaiser Permanente affiliates agreed to pay $556 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they submitted invalid diagnosis codes for Medicare Advantage enrollees to obtain higher payments, one of the largest risk-adjustment settlements to date. Kaiser said the agreement contains no admission of wrongdoing or liability.",
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        "Kaiser Permanente",
        "U.S. Department of Justice",
        "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services"
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        "centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services"
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        {
          "url": "https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/kaiser-permanente-affiliates-pay-556m-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations",
          "outlet": "U.S. Department of Justice",
          "published": "2026-01-14",
          "quote": "Affiliates of Kaiser Permanente, an integrated healthcare consortium headquartered in Oakland, California, have agreed to pay $556 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting invalid diagnosis codes for their Medicare Advantage Plan enrollees in order to receive higher payments from the government."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/news/allegations-related-to-medicare-risk-adjustment-resolved",
          "outlet": "Kaiser Permanente",
          "published": "2026-01-14",
          "quote": "The agreement resolves a False Claims Act lawsuit and has no admission of wrongdoing or liability."
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    },
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      "timeline": "fed-rate-path-2025-2026",
      "id": 436,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/fed-rate-path-2025-2026#n436",
      "date": "2026-01-11",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Powell calls Justice Department subpoenas pretexts",
      "summary": "Jerome H. Powell said the Justice Department subpoenas were pretexts. The statement concerned subpoenas served on the Federal Reserve Board.",
      "type": "response",
      "entities": [
        "Jerome Powell",
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        "Donald Trump"
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          "url": "https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/files/powell20260111a.pdf",
          "outlet": "Federal Reserve Board",
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          "quote": "Those are pretexts."
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      ]
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      "id": 981,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-beef-prices#n981",
      "date": "2025-12-06",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Executive Order 14364 sets up food supply chain task forces at DOJ and the FTC",
      "summary": "The order told the Attorney General and the FTC chairman each to stand up a Food Supply Chain Security Task Force to investigate whether anti-competitive behaviour exists in US food supply chains, and whether foreign control of food industries raises prices or creates a national security risk. It named meat processing alongside seed, fertiliser and equipment, and directed the Attorney General to open criminal proceedings if the task force found collusion.",
      "type": "regulatory",
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        "Federal Trade Commission"
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        "federal-trade-commission"
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        {
          "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eo-14364.pdf",
          "outlet": "Federal Register (Presidential Documents)",
          "published": "2025-12-10",
          "quote": "Should the Department of Justice Food Supply Chain Security Task Force uncover any evidence of criminal collusion, the Attorney General shall commence criminal proceedings as appropriate, including grand jury investigations."
        }
      ]
    },
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      "timeline": "nvidia-acquisitions",
      "id": 1180,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/nvidia-acquisitions#n1180",
      "date": "2025-12",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "Justice Department opens inquiry into Nvidia's Groq arrangement",
      "summary": "The Justice Department opened an inquiry into Nvidia's Groq licence-plus-hire arrangement shortly after it was announced in December 2025, and has since sent Nvidia a formal request for information. Nvidia took a non-exclusive licence to Groq's technology and hired several of its executives rather than buying the company, a structure the department is examining.",
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      "title": "European Commission clears Run:ai unconditionally in its first post-Illumina Article 22 case",
      "summary": "Although the deal fell below EU turnover thresholds, Italy's competition authority referred it to Brussels under Article 22 and the Commission opened a review in November. It found Run:ai had no significant position in GPU orchestration software and that customers had credible alternatives, and approved the deal without conditions; the US Justice Department had also examined it.",
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