News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- United States Attorney Trent Shores announced that a federal Grand Jury indicted 22 people for their roles in drug trafficking and money laundering operations that included the use of Casa Herrera, a local money remitter business.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Former Nazi Labor Camp Guard Jakiw Palij Removed to Germany.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Hammonton, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 108 months in prison for engaging in a conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of crystal methamphetamine in Atlantic County, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that today Richard Monroe, age 26, was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison in United States District Court in Rutland, Vermont, for possessing firearms in furtherance of his cocaine trafficking and discharging a handgun and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi labor camp guard in German-occupied Poland and a postwar resident of Queens, New York, has been removed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Germany, Attorney General Jeff Sessions of the U.S. Department of Justice, Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen of the U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Defendants required Cambodian victim to work long hours for minimal pay both in their home and at their business in Texas to repay purported debt Tyno Keo, 38, and, Phearom Lay, 34, of Nacogdoches, Texas, were sentenced yesterday in federal court in Beaumont, Texas, after previously pleading guilty to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: A federal court in Atlanta, Georgia entered a permanent injunction against Marjorie St. Jean and MarjorieStjeanLLC, barring them from preparing federal tax returns for others and owning or operating a tax preparation business, the Justice Department announced today. The court also ordered that St. Jean ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: A Pennsylvania couple that owned and operated an internet floral business were sentenced to prison today for failing to pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and for filing fraudulent personal and corporate tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: A California man who falsely told investors that he was a billionaire who could access certain financing, including hundreds of millions in cash in an overseas bank account, in exchange for up-front fees was sentenced today in federal court in Denver, Colorado to 70 months in prison.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: By Mike Bless, President and Chief Executive Officer, Century Aluminum Wednesday, Kentucky will welcome U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to usher in a new era of economic growth for the commonwealth. Century Aluminum, America’s largest primary aluminum producer, will host a ceremonial restart as we increase production at the Hawesville, Kentucky primary aluminum smelter by 60 percent. That will result in nearly 300 new jobs created in Western Kentucky by early next year.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of large diameter welded pipe from Canada, China, Greece, India, Korea, and Turkey.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: ELKHART, IN – Recreational vehicle manufacturer RV Factory LLC – based in Elkhart, Indiana – will pay $55,484 in overtime back wages to 157 former and current employees following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) that found multiple violations of the overtime and recordkeeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS, IN – JLBS Construction, a construction company based in Indianapolis, Indiana, will pay $98,236 in overtime back wages to 112 employees, following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) that found the employer had violated overtime requirements of ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: GUAYNABO, PR– Ceres Environmental Services Inc. – a contractor based in San Juan, Puerto Rico – which installed temporary roofing as part of hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, has paid $500,000 in back wages to 995 employees to resolve violations of the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Harvey Cleary Builders of Houston, Texas, have established a strategic partnership to promote workplace safety and educate workers on hazards during a construction project in the District of Columbia.
By State News Post | Aug 21, 2018
The US State Department published a one page notice on Aug. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 21, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Fed News Journal | Aug 21, 2018
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Aug. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Aug. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Fed News Journal | Aug 21, 2018
The US Federal Reserve System published a two page notice on Aug. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
