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In a legal showdown with the Department of Labor, Michigan-based Forge Industrial Staffing, Inc. is fighting back against what it says is an over-reaching investigation that could devastate its business.
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The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) said in a recent press release that 42% of small business owners said they had job openings that they were unable to fill.
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A building contractor in American Samoa faces more than $1 million in fines for continuing to violate workplace-safety laws. Paramount Builders of Pago Pago was issued 21 citations after a January inspection.
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A federal court in Minnesota entered a recent consent judgment requiring a national food manufacturing company to adhere to all applicable child labor laws at all of its production facilities and warehouses across the country.
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The U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Texas-based oil and gas company Production Waste Solutions LLC for six serious safety and health violations after a worker was fatally exposed to hydrogen sulfide while working near a sump pit in September
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A federal jury convicted a McComb woman for one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud, one count of conspiring to commit theft of public money, one count of theft of public money, and one count of making a false statement to a federal agent.
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Mexican Nationals Charged with Offenses Stemming from Smuggling and Labor Trafficking Scheme
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A Chicago-area physical therapist, health care professional, and a personal trainer have pleaded guilty to one count of healthcare fraud each for scheming to defraud private insurers for payment of physical therapy and other services that were never rendered.
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United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that The Sherwin-Williams Company has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it participated in a scheme to defraud the federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program in connection with a contract to paint the George C. Platt Memorial Bridge in Philadelphia.
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A Tewksbury woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to embezzling more than $1.8 million from her employer, collecting unemployment assistance while employed fulltime and related tax charges.
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A former Pennsville, New Jersey, advanced practice nurse today admitted defrauding New Jersey state and local health benefits programs and other insurers by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced.
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A Hyde Park man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to using a stolen identity to fraudulently obtain pandemic relief funds and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, previously known as Food Stamps.
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Defendants used thousands of stolen identities to obtain over $2.4 million in fraudulent COVID-19 unemployment benefit
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Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANTHONY RICCARDI, an owner and manager of the Connecticut insurance firm Employee Benefit Solutions LLC (“EBS”), pled guilty today in White Plains federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud.
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A Search At The Defendant’s Residence Also Recovered Four “Ghost Guns,” Including One that Was Modified to be a Machinegun
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Robert Clay Smith, age 61, an Alexandria, La., physician was sentenced yesterday to 48 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay more than $800,000 to workers’ compensation insurers, for his role in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud, health care fraud, and violations of federal anti-kickback laws.
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A Woodbridge man pleaded guilty today to illegally obtaining pandemic unemployment benefits from the state of California.
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A doctor who owns a medical clinic in Newark today admitted defrauding New Jersey state and local health benefits programs and other insurers by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced.
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Abel Nazario-Quiñones, former Puerto Rico senator and former mayor of the municipality of Yauco, Puerto Rico, was sentenced by United States District Court Senior Judge Francisco A. Besosa to serve 18 months in prison, announced United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow.
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A Georgia inmate who admitted he conducted a pandemic unemployment insurance fraud scheme from behind bars, which included using the personal identifiable information (PII) of other inmates, was sentenced to prison this week for his crime.