News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: On August 7, 2018, a 31-year old man was sentenced to federal prison for possessing methamphetamine ("ice") with the intent to distribute, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced today. Shawn M. Judd, of Granite City, Illinois, was sentenced to 188...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Rock Springs Wild Horse Holding Facility will be temporarily closed to the public beginning Aug. 6, 2018, to allow wild horses removed from the Red Desert Wild Horse Complex to acclimate to their new environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former Chief Executive Officer of ConvergEx Global Markets Limited (CGM Limited) pleaded guilty this afternoon in Newark federal court for his role in a scheme to commit securities and wire fraud from 2006 through 2011.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Entry/Exit Overstay Report. The report provides data on departures and overstays, by country, for foreign visitors to the United States who entered as nonimmigrants through an air or sea Port of Entry (POE) and were ...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., August 7, 2018) – U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that the government of Morocco has agreed to allow commercial imports of U.S. poultry meat and products into Morocco for the first time.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: Adam W. Purinton, of Olathe, Kansas, was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the February 2017 killing of Indian national Srinivas Kuchibhotla, and shooting of two other men – Indian national Alok Madasani and Kansas resident Ian Grillot – at Austins Bar & Grill in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON – The former Chief Executive Officer of ConvergEx Global Markets Limited (CGM Limited) pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court in Newark, New Jersey for his role in a scheme to commit securities and wire fraud from 2006 through 2011. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Richard A. Olsen agreed to pay $124,440 to resolve claims that he violated the False Claims Act by submitting inflated prices in connection with a subcontract between Mission Support Alliance, LLC (MSA), a prime contractor at the Department of Energy (DOE) ...
By Commerce News Now | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative preliminary determination in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of imports of laminated woven sacks from Vietnam, finding that exporters received countervailable subsidies ranging from 3.24 to 6.15 percent.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: GUAM – The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) is conducting a building, heavy, highway and residential construction survey in Guam to collect data to establish prevailing wage rates, as required under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: SEATTLE, WA – The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) is conducting a building and heavy construction survey in all metropolitan counties of Washington to collect data to establish prevailing wage rates, as required under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, OR – The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) is conducting a building construction survey statewide in Oregon to collect data to establish prevailing wage rates, as required under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA – The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has entered a consent judgment against Water Transfer Solutions LLC and its president, Joseph Dugan, requiring the defendants to pay $92,728 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages - totaling $185,456 - ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: JASPER, AL – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Carl Cannon Inc., an automobile dealership, have reached a settlement agreement to resolve citations and penalties issued after five employees were injured, three fatally, in a fire at the company's Jasper, Alabama, facility. The company will pay $114,074 in penalties.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KS – The U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas has sentenced Leavenworth, Kansas, business owner Brenda Wood to serve 50 months of imprisonment followed by an additional five years of supervised release, and to make more than $4.3 million in restitution for bank fraud and violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Wood previously pleaded guilty to two counts of bank fraud and one count of theft from an employee benefit plan.
By State News Post | Aug 7, 2018
The US State Department published a one page notice on Aug. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 7, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 7, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 7, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Aug. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Aug. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
