News from April 2017
By USDA Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C., April 25, 2017) – Sonny Perdue was sworn in as the 31st U.S. Secretary of Agriculture by fellow Georgian and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Clarence Thomas in a brief ceremony today at the Supreme Court building. The U.S. Senate confirmed Secretary Perdue by a vote of ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C., April 25, 2017) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today joined President Trump for a “Farmers Roundtable” at the White House to address issues facing the American agriculture community, as the president signed an Executive Order establishing an Interagency Task Force on ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Three Orange County, California residents were sentenced to prison today for willfully failing to report their foreign bank accounts in Switzerland and Israel, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Braden Partners, L.P., doing business as Pacific Pulmonary Services, has agreed to pay $11.4 million to resolve allegations against it and its general partner, Teijin Pharma USA LLC, for violating the False Claims Act by submitting claims for reimbursement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Lena Cotton of Wellington, Florida, and her business, Professional Accounting Ldc LLC, located at 3676 Collin Drive in West Palm Beach, Florida, prepare false federal income tax returns for their customers, according to a new civil suit filed by the Department of Justice. The complaint, filed in federal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Michelle Cho, an officer of Far East Construction Corporation (Far East) and other construction companies, was sentenced today to six months in prison and 24 months of supervised release on a federal charge of conspiring to commit wire fraud. Cho was also ordered to pay forfeiture in the amount of $169,166 and pay a criminal fine in the amount of $35,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: A Portland, Oregon resident was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison for aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Billy Williams for the District of Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Today, Attorney General Sessions issued the following statement following his meeting with representatives from the U.S. Conference of Mayors: “The Department of Justice will fulfill our responsibility to uphold and enforce our nation’s immigration laws, including 8 U.S.C. 1373. Under the Obama administration, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in the Northern District of Georgia indicted an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee today for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney John A. Horn for the Northern District of Georgia.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the preliminary determination in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of softwood lumber from Canada.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: "It has been a bad week for U.S.-Canada trade relations. Last Monday, it became apparent that Canada intends to effectively cut off the last dairy products being exported from the United States. Today, in a different matter, the Department of Commerce determined a need to impose countervailing duties of roughly one billion dollars on Canadian softwood lumber exports to us. This is not our idea of a properly functioning Free Trade Agreement."
By Labor Gazette | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: LINCOLN, Neb. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, Kan. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: MADISON, Wis. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD, Ill. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: CLEVELAND – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country on Friday, April 28.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28 at 3 p.m. CDT by participating in a memorial at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 429 in Nashville, Tennessee.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28 at 10 a.m. EDT by participating in an observance at the Old State Capitol building in Raleigh, North Carolina.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28 by holding various events throughout the country.
