News from October 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – “The men and women of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security worked tirelessly with our national security partners to develop baseline information sharing requirements to ensure that our vetting and screening procedures ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Note: The relevant court documents can be found here: Zhang et al Indictment and Yan et al Indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: The Department of Justice announced that General Electric Co. (GE) has agreed to make incentive payments beginning in 2018 until GE completes the worldwide divestiture of its Water & Process Technologies business (GE Water). GE agreed to divest GE Water to resolve the Department’s competitive concerns ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Attorney General Sessions issued a memorandum to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein this week, directing him to hire a Director of Asset Forfeiture Accountability (“Director”). The Director will review and coordinate all aspects of the Department’s Asset Forfeiture Program, and work with appropriate Department of Justice components to ensure compliance, review complaints, and advance the integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness of the program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: A Pakistani citizen was sentenced today to 31 months in prison for his role in a scheme to smuggle undocumented migrants from Pakistan into the United States. Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu of the District of Columbia and Special Agent in Charge Angel M. Melendez of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Phillip Michael Huddleston, 61, pleaded guilty today to violating the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) by illegally storing hazardous waste without a permit at Protech Metal Finishing, LLC, a metal plating facility he owned and operated in Vonore, Tennessee. John Thomas Hatfield, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: A federal jury sitting in Miami, Florida, convicted a resident of Pompano Beach, Florida, of filing fraudulent tax returns, wire fraud and filing false monthly reports with the U.S. Probation Office, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg for the Southern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: On Oct. 16, a federal court in Houston, Texas, permanently enjoined Felisha Gibson and Ms. Lesa’s Tax Service LLC from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. Gibson agreed to a civil injunction order entered against her that requires her and Ms. Lesa’s Tax Service LLC to cease preparing tax returns for others. The injunction also requires Gibson to produce a list of her customers to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: A real estate investor pleaded guilty for his role in conspiracies to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced. Raymond A. Grinsell pleaded guilty to two counts of bid rigging in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of ...
By Fed Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Responding to widespread damage caused by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, four federal financial institution regulatory agencies today took action to facilitate the recovery process by temporarily easing appraisal requirements for real estate-related financial transactions in areas declared to be a major disaster.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its interest rate meetings for August 28 and Sept. 20, 2017.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the initiation of new antidumping duty (AD) investigations to determine whether imports of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Resin from Brazil, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea (Korea), Pakistan and Taiwan are being dumped in the United States.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: MCDONOUGH, GA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Structural Subcontractors Service, LLC for exposing workers to fall hazards. The structural framing company, based in Birmingham, Alabama, faces proposed penalties totaling $102,669.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ – A South Jersey construction company owner with a long history of workplace safety violations was cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for exposing workers to serious scaffold hazards at a job site in Philadelphia. The owner, Vyacheslav Leshko faces $191,215 in proposed penalties.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Oct. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Oct. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Oct. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Oct. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Oct. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Oct. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
