News from June 2012
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced its largest-ever disability-based housing discrimination settlement fund to resolve allegations that JPI Construction L.P. and six other JPI entities (collectively “JPI”) based in Irving, Texas, discriminated on the basis of disability in the design ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2012
News Release: William R. Herder of Bellville, Ohio, was arrested today on federal tax charges, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division Kathryn Keneally, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Stephen M. Dettelbach and Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A loan officer for a Florida mortgage company was sentenced today in Miami to 54 months in prison for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The owner of a Miami-area assisted living facility was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for her role in a kickback scheme that funneled patients to a fraudulent mental health provider, American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services announced today.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 25, 2012
News Release: Jeremy C. Stein and Jerome H. Powell were formally sworn in as members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System at a ceremony Monday in the atrium of the Board's main building in Washington. Friends, family and Board employees attended the ceremony, which was presided over by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has made available public service announcements, in video and audio formats featuring Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis, urging unemployed veterans to apply for benefits through the Veteran Retraining Assistance Program. Both announcements are 46 seconds.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs today announced that Baldor Electric Co. has agreed to settle allegations of systemic discrimination stemming from the company's applicant screening process at its facility in Fort Smith, Ark. OFCCP investigators ...
By Labor Gazette | Jun 25, 2012
News Release: JERSEY CITY, N.J. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited four New Jersey contractors working on a 20-story building in Jersey City for exposing workers to fall hazards following a December 2011 inspection during which inspectors observed employees working ...
By Labor Gazette | Jun 25, 2012
News Release: Administrative law judge increases penalty proposed by MSHA ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that an administrative law judge with the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission has ordered Cumberland River Coal Co. to reinstate miner Charles Howard to his former job and pay a civil penalty of $30,000, increasing MSHA's original proposed penalty of $20,000.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $100,485 National Emergency Grant supplement to continue providing re-employment and training services to about 75 workers affected by layoffs by the Maine Military Authority in Limestone, Maine.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 25, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on June 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 25, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on June 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 25, 2012
The US Commerce Department published a seven page rule on June 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 25, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on June 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jun 25, 2012
The US Agriculture Department published a five page proposed rule on June 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 25, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on June 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 25, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on June 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 25, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on June 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jun 25, 2012
The US Agriculture Department published a five page rule on June 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 25, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on June 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
