News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Civil and Criminal Enforcement Actions Are Taken Against Employers and Individuals Who Violate Employment Tax Laws With the first quarterly employment tax returns of 2016 due Apr. 30, the Justice Department reminds employers that they have a legal responsibility to collect and pay over to the Internal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that pharmaceutical companies Wyeth and Pfizer Inc. have agreed to pay $784.6 million to resolve allegations that Wyeth knowingly reported to the government false and fraudulent prices on two of its proton pump inhibitor (PPI) drugs, Protonix Oral and Protonix ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Z Gallerie LLC has agreed to pay $15 million to resolve allegations that the company engaged in a scheme to evade customs duties on imports of wooden bedroom furniture from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), in violation of the False Claims Act. Z Gallerie ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Second Company to Plead Guilty in Ongoing Investigation Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd. will plead guilty for conspiring with competitors between 2002 and 2010 to fix prices for electrolytic capacitors sold to customers in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced today. “Hitachi ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: A Louisiana resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of mail fraud, U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton for the Western District of Pennsylvania announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin for the Northern District of Illinois today sentenced John Dennis Hastert, 74, of Plano, Illinois, to 15 months in federal prison. Hastert pleaded guilty last year to one count of illegally structuring cash withdrawals in order to evade financial reporting requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Preparer Allegedly Fabricates Businesses Losses, Claims Fraudulent Credits In Order to Understate Her Customers’ Tax or Overstate their Refunds A number of tax return preparation businesses in the Birmingham, Alabama area unlawfully understate their customers’ income tax liabilities and overstate refunds ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against Kun Wo Food Products Inc. (Kun Wo) and the firm’s co-owners, Zi Xing Liu and Zi Cheng Liu, to prevent the distribution of adulterated rice noodles, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Omar Cantero Martinez, 31, and Armando Sotelo, 24, both of Dodge City, Kansas, were charged with federal hate crimes for attacking three Somali men because of their race and national origin. Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall of the District of Kansas made the announcement.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March indicates that labor market conditions have improved further even as growth in economic activity appears to have slowed. Growth in household spending has moderated, although households' real income has risen at a solid rate and ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: MASSILLON, Ohio – Federal inspectors conducting a monitoring inspection found workers still exposed to falls and machine hazards at a Massillon steel mill operated by Republic Steel, despite the company’s promise to address safety hazards at its U.S. steel manufacturing sites.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today awarded $112 million to 50 state and territorial workforce agencies, including those in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, to operate reemployment services and eligibility assessments programs for those receiving unemployment ...
By DOT News Wire | Apr 27, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on April 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 27, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on April 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 27, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on April 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 27, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on April 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 27, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on April 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 27, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on April 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 27, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on April 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 27, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on April 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
