News from June 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: On June 13, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem during the inaugural International Homeland Security Forum.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: On June 12, 2018, Thomas Ressler, 66, of Whitehall, Montana, was sentenced by the U.S. District Court in Helena to serve 36 months in prison for designing dozens of fraudulent solicitations used in an international mail-fraud scheme. On Feb. 22, 2018, Ressler pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: A Wisconsin man was charged in an indictment yesterday with the crimes of producing and possessing child pornography and engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced the “Place to Worship Initiative,” which will focus on protecting the ability of houses of worship and other religious institutions to build, expand, buy, or rent facilities—as provided by the land use provisions of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that it has filed a lawsuit against the Borough of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, alleging that the borough and its zoning board violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when it denied zoning approval to allow the Valley Chabad, an Orthodox Jewish congregation located in Woodcliff Lake, to build a new place of worship on its land in the borough.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday against an Aliquippa, Pennsylvania husband and wife charging them with conspiracy to defraud the United States and tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: A Department of Justice official released the following statement at the conclusion of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s trip to Canada, where he met with senior government officials from the Quebec Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, the Canadian Department of Justice, the Canadian Ministry of Public Safety, and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, as well as representatives of the Department of State and several U.S. law enforcement agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Two federal inmates convicted of killing another inmate at a Beaumont Prison in the Eastern District of Texas were sentenced to death today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: On June 13, a federal grand jury in Muskogee, Oklahoma, returned an eight-count indictment against two men for kidnapping and murdering a woman in Indian country in April 2017. Matthew Onesimo Armstrong, 28, of Seminole County, Oklahoma, and a member of the Seminole Nation, and Nicholas Earl Faulkner, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that it has reached an agreement with Eau Claire County Circuit Court to resolve a complaint it received from the Eau Claire Area Hmong Mutual Assistance Association alleging that Eau Claire County Circuit Court failed to provide appropriate language assistance ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Waheba Issa Dais, 45, originally of Israel and a U.S. legal permanent resident residing in Cudahy, Wisconsin, has been charged in a criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support or resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in May indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising at a solid rate. Job gains have been strong, on average, in recent months, and the unemployment rate has declined. Recent data ...
By Fed Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: The attached table and charts released on Wednesday summarize the economic projections and the target federal funds rate projections made by Federal Open Market Committee participants for the June 12-13 meeting.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced its approval of the application under section 3 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 by Ameris Bancorp, Moultrie, Georgia, to acquire Hamilton State Bancshares, Inc. ("Hamilton"), and thereby indirectly acquire Hamilton's subsidiary bank, Hamilton State Bank, both of Hoschton, Georgia.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, WV – The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia has ordered six restaurants in West Virginia and Ohio and their owners to pay $111,024 in back wages and damages to 27 employees after the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) found Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations. The court also imposed a $20,150 civil money penalty.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: VIDALIA, GA – The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has revoked the certificate of registration for farm labor contractor J.C. Longoria Castro and debarred him from applying for H-2A certification for three years for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Migrant ...
By Labor Gazette | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), the owners of Adriana Elderly Care Homes Inc. will pay $86,486 to 19 employees to resolve overtime violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The company – based in Mission Viejo, California – operates four facilities for elderly patients and others with mental disabilities.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) has published a final rule under the Black Lung Benefits Act conforming the Department's payment of medical benefits for disabled coal miners to industry standards and streamlining bill-processing procedures.
By DOJ Gazette | Jun 13, 2018
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on June 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Jun 13, 2018
The US Justice Department published a five page notice on June 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
