News published on Federal Newswire in April 2017

News from April 2017


News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has issued a 12-count superseding indictment that accuses a Fontana company, its owner and three employees with violating the Clean Water Act by regularly engaging in illegal discharges of acidic industrial wastewater into a sewer system, as well as tampering with monitoring devices designed to prevent those violations.


News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Energy & Process Corporation (E&P) of Tucker, Georgia, has agreed to pay $4.6 million to resolve the government’s lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act alleging that it knowingly failed to perform required quality assurance procedures and supplied defective steel reinforcing bars (rebar) in connection with a contract to construct a Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear waste treatment facility.


News Release: A former high-ranking Haitian National Police officer pleaded guilty today in the United States to a money laundering charge in connection with an international narcotics scheme.


News Release: Six additional individuals were charged in an indictment unsealed today for their roles in a $2.5 million high-yield investment fraud scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina.


Agencies announce Wells Fargo has remediated resolution plan deficiencies

News Release: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced that Wells Fargo had adequately remediated the deficiencies in its 2015 resolution plan. As a result, the firm will no longer be subject to growth restrictions imposed last year.


OSHA administrative law judge rules that Massachusetts companies operated as single employer at worksite where 3 workers fell

News Release: BOSTON – An administrative law judge with the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has ruled that two Massachusetts contractors – A.C. Castle Construction Co. Inc. and Daryl Provencher, doing business as Provencher Home Improvements – were operating as a single employer at a Wenham worksite when three employees were injured in October 2014.


The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a seven page proposed rule on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.