News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: The United States has asked a federal court in Miami, Florida, to permanently bar Simon Accounting & Tax Services LLC, and three of its preparers, Vilbrun Simon, Saintanise Agenord, and Wilcienne Pierre, from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. According ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit alleging that the City of Springfield, Illinois, has discriminated against persons with disabilities in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, alleges that Springfield’s zoning ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: Ahmed Abu Khatallah, aka Ahmed Mukatallah, 46, a Libyan national, was found guilty by a jury today of federal terrorism charges and other offenses stemming from the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. government personnel Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty died in the attack at the Mission and the nearby Annex in Benghazi.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: A former employee of a U.S. government contractor in Afghanistan was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for accepting over $250,000 in illegal kickbacks from an Afghan subcontractor in return for his assistance in obtaining subcontracts on U.S. government contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: Karim Baratov, aka Kay, aka Karim Taloverov, aka Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov, 22, a Canadian national and resident, pleaded guilty today, to charges returned by a grand jury in the Northern District of California in February 2017. Baratov and three other defendants, including two officers of the Russian ...
By Fed Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday issued a Consent Order against Peoples Bank ("Peoples"), Lawrence, Kansas, for deceptive residential mortgage origination practices in violation of section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. Peoples told certain borrowers that they were paying an additional amount ...
By Fed Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its interest rate meetings from October 10 through Nov. 1, 2017.
By Fed Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced its approval of the application under section 3 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 by National Bank Holdings Corporation, Greenwood Village, Colorado, to merge with Peoples, Inc., Lawrence, Kansas, and thereby indirectly acquire Peoples Bank, Lawrence, ...
By Commerce News Now | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the affirmative final determination in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of imports of tool chests and cabinets from the People’s Republic of China (China).
By Commerce News Now | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the self-initiation of antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of imports of common alloy aluminum sheet (common alloy sheet) from the People’s Republic of China (China). These historic investigations, the first in over a quarter century, were self-initiated pursuant to the authority granted to the Secretary under the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA – Two Philadelphia restaurants have agreed to pay 156 employees a total of $414,765 in back wages, and an equal amount in liquidated damages, to resolve alleged federal wage violations. A proposed consent judgment filed on Nov. 27 – which must still be reviewed and approved by a federal judge – details the terms of the agreement.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: MARSHALL, TX – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Marshall Pottery, Inc., have reached a settlement agreement including a penalty of $545,160, after the death of an assistant plant manager.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 28, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Nov. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 28, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Nov. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Nov 28, 2017
The US Agriculture Department published a two page rule on Nov. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Nov 28, 2017
The US Agriculture Department published a four page rule on Nov. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 28, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a six page rule on Nov. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 28, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Nov. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 28, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Nov. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 28, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Nov. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
