Good morning. Prosecutors tasked with investigating Russia’s oligarchs and their assets have a new target: lawyers, accountants and other facilitators that make it possible for the Kremlin and its allies to evade U.S. sanctions.

The Justice Department’s Task Force KleptoCapture is increasingly turning its gaze on the professional services providers who support Russian oligarchs, said Andrew Adams, the team’s inaugural director, in an interview with Risk & Compliance Journal's Dylan Tokar. Adams, who stepped down from his position in late July, on Thursday joined law firm Steptoe & Johnson.

• Cracking down: Prosecutors in the past year have charged a U.S. lawyer who facilitated payments for Vekselberg and a U.K. citizen who allegedly worked as a property manager for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. They have also targeted companies and individuals who have helped Russia secure military and other sensitive technologies.
   
• More cooperation: "In the past, the ability to get quick, substantive, powerful, tangible and public support and cooperation abroad was extremely limited, because our sanctions regime wasn’t mirrored in other places," Adams said. "That changed almost literally overnight in February 2022...even beyond the EU and the U.K., cooperation is just fundamentally different and more robust than it was at any point previously."

Russian hacker sentenced to nine years in U.S. prison.

A Russian national found guilty of hacking into corporate earnings databases to steal and trade on nonpublic information about companies like Tesla and Roku was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison.

The sentence for Vladislav Klyushin, handed down by a federal judge in Boston, adds to the U.S. government’s roster of Russian nationals in its possession as U.S. officials seek potential bargaining chips in a negotiated prisoner swap with Moscow for Americans, including the detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.

Former FTX executive Ryan Salame pleads guilty.

Former FTX executive Ryan Salame on Thursday became the fourth associate of company founder Sam Bankman-Fried to plead guilty to criminal charges tied to the collapse of the crypto exchange.

The guilty plea places additional pressure on Bankman-Fried as he prepares to fight fraud charges in a coming trial. Three other members of Bankman-Fried’s inner circle have previously pleaded guilty to fraud and other offenses and are expected to testify against him at his trial starting Oct. 3.

• Railroads that fail to provide reliable service could be ordered to share tracks with competitors under a proposed rule that backers say will increase competition in the business of moving cows, corn, chemicals and other goods across America.

Health-insurance costs are jumping.

Health-insurance costs are climbing at the steepest rate in years, with some projecting the biggest increase in more than a decade will wallop businesses and their workers in 2024.

Costs for employer coverage are expected to surge around 6.5% for 2024, according to major benefits consulting firms Mercer and Willis Towers Watson, which provided their survey results exclusively to The Wall Street Journal.

• A record year for cyberattacks on U.S. hospitals is putting patients in danger, as hospitals struggle to cope with disabled equipment and frozen data, an official from the American Hospital Association warned Thursday.
   
• Why do companies’ IT projects fail so often? Here are four causes.
   
• First Republic Bank’s collapse this spring was a watershed moment. Now a much smaller lender called Republic First Bank is in financial purgatory, a case that may test regulators and turn the idea of too-big-to-fail upside down.

Though U.S. workers say they are leery of AI watching over them, the technology can help prevent injuries at the workplace.

Artificial intelligence is helping buildings go greener. Here’s how.

Phishing attempts are being made indistinguishable from legitimate emails, but some security experts are using the technology to get ahead of attackers.

• Walmart is paying some new store workers less than it would have three months ago, a sign that employers are seeking to cut labor costs as the once-hot market for hourly staff cools.
   
• General Motors delivered a counteroffer to the United Auto Workers union that shows the sides remain far apart on pay and other benefits, one week out from a strike deadline. Unions for Las Vegas Strip workers such as housekeepers and bartenders are also considering a strike.
   
• Middle East monarchies eager for global influence are having a moment on the world’s financial stage.
   
• Canada appointed a judge to lead an investigation into alleged foreign interference into the country’s politics, after security officials told politicians they believe China’s Communist Party paid agents to thwart rivals to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the 2021 general election.
   
• Americans have developed a laxative habit.

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