News from August 2016
By DOL Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | Aug. 1, 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Misty Renee Wentz, 38, entered her guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: St. Joseph’s Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program’s Mobile Crisis Outreach Team Failed To Meet Mental Health Staffing Requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Promised to Pay Back Loans from Individual Investors With Substantial Returns in a Short Amount of Time, But Instead Used the Money for Personal Gain.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Larry Landseadal, 45, of Clovis, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill to more than two and a half years in prison for counterfeiting U.S. currency and possessing unauthorized access devices for use in identity theft, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reached agreement with Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply to allow access for U.S. beef and beef products to the Brazilian market for the first time since 2003. Brazil's action reflects the United States' ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Christopher Lee Cornell, 22, of Green Township, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to one count of attempting to kill government employees, one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and one count of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Jacintoport International LLC (Jacintoport) and Seaboard Marine Ltd. (Seaboard Marine) have agreed to pay $1.075 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the companies violated the False Claims Act in connection with a warehousing and logistics contract for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Defendant Collected and Caused Sensitive FBI Information to be Provided to the Chinese Government Kun Shan Chun, a native of the People’s Republic of China and a naturalized U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty today to a criminal information charging him with acting in the United States as an agent of China ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Payment on All Group A Claims Has Been Authorized September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) Special Master Rupa Bhattacharyya announced today that the VCF is once again accepting new claims using a new claim form that was redesigned following the Dec. 18, 2015, reauthorization of the VCF. The new ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: A Springfield, Illinois, man was sentenced today to serve 132 months in prison for attempted enticement of a minor, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis of the Central District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Concealed Foreign Accounts and Failed to Report More Than $20 Million A Los Angeles, California, businessman was charged today in an information, which charges one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of corruptly endeavoring to impair and impede the due administration of the ...
By Fed Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday invited comment on an interim final rule adjusting the Board's maximum civil money penalties, as required by law.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Five federal agencies today announced a final rule exempting certain commercial and financial end users from margin requirements for certain swaps not cleared through a clearinghouse. The exemptions were first adopted by interim final rule published in the Federal Register in November 2015 with a request for public comment. The final rule discusses the comments received and adopts the earlier interim final rule as final without change.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today released a new series of reports detailing current steel trade flows involving the world’s top importing and exporting countries. The initial release from the Department’s International Trade Administration is comprised of 20 country-specific reports and ...
By Commerce News Now | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker issued the following statement on today’s launch of the self-certification process for U.S. organizations participating in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (Privacy Shield).
By Labor Gazette | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: ADDISON, Ill. ‒ Four months after federal safety investigators cited his employer for failing to provide workers with fall protection at a United Parcel Service facility in Addison, a 42-year-old employee of Material Handling Systems/MHS Technical Services, fell 22 feet to his death at the same site.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: ROCKMART, Ga. – In the agricultural industry, excessive dust is a fuel that can cause serious and sometimes deadly explosions and fires – as was the case at a Georgia chicken feed mill where an explosion killed a 25-year-old man and injured five others in February 2016, federal workplace safety inspectors have found.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: SUPERIOR, Wis. – Federal health inspectors found Fraser Shipyards Inc. overexposed workers to lead during the retrofitting of a ship’s engine room. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration ’s sampling results determined 14 workers had lead levels up to 20 times the exposure limit. The agency also found workers exposed to other heavy metals.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – The largest parking operator in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area has entered into a conciliation agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to resolve allegations of race-based hiring and pay discrimination.
