News from December 2016
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management will be burning slash piles on BLM lands in Weston (Stateline area) and Crook County (New Haven area).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Telephone Call to United States Attorney’s Office in Rochester Includes Threat to Kill an Assistant United States Attorney.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 32-year-old man extradited to the U.S. and later convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine cocaine and heroin has been ordered to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Fernando Arturo Flores-Fang, 32, of Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico, pleaded guilty May 1, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: DEC 08 - HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Eros Diaz, also known as “Red," 21, of West Hartford, was sentenced by Senior...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - Donald May, 32, of Springfield, Ohio pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, applauded the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2016. The NDAA included provisions authored by Chairman Johnson that will keep our nation safe and enhance the security of our borders. After passage, he said...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Joint Summary of Outcomes On December 7, 2016, in Washington, D.C., Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, together with Chinese State Councilor and Minister of the Ministry ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, December 8, 2016—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today released the following statement on the House Committee on Agriculture's new report on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which contains the Committee's findings from a series of hearings on the program: "After holding ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Final Rule Balances Concerns Raised by Retailers While Still Improving Access to Healthy Food Choices for SNAP Participants WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2016 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced final changes to increase access to healthy food choices for participants ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: A Columbus, Georgia resident was sentenced to 37 months in prison today for her role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney G.F. Peterman III for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Joint Summary of Outcomes Yesterday, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, together with Chinese State Councilor and Minister of the Ministry of Public Security Guo Shengkun, co-chaired the third U.S.-China High-Level Joint Dialogue on Cybercrime ...
By Labor Gazette | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK – A Queens-based operator of residential nursing homes and adult care facilities will pay a total of $2,006,796 in back wages and liquidated damages to 844 underpaid employees at five locations in eastern New York following a federal investigation of alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: MELROSE PARK, Ill. – Just six weeks after a machine amputated a maintenance worker’s left hand as he cleared jammed material stuck in a machine at its Melrose Park bread products facility, the company reported a second worker’s right forearm suffered multiple fractures as he cleaned another machine. ...
By Labor Gazette | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: RIPON, Wis. – For the second time in less than two months, federal safety and health inspectors found an employee at one of world’s leading commercial laundry equipment manufacturers suffered an amputation injury because a machine lacked adequate safety guarding.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS – One of the nation’s leading financial planning companies discriminated in pay against black employees, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has found.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Date of Action: Dec. 8, 2016 Type of Action: Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuit Names of Defendants: Nicholas C. Caro N.C. Caro M.D., S.C.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez today announced the appointments of five new members to the 2017 Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans , known as the ERISA Advisory Council. He also announced the incoming chair and vice chair of the council.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 8, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 8, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 8, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
