News from June 2018

By USDA Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Loans Will Improve System Efficiency and Resiliency in 12 States CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, June 7, 2018 – Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that USDA is investing $309 million in 16 projects to improve rural electric infrastructure in 12 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: President Trump’s Executive Order on Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to collect relevant data and provide quarterly reports on data collection efforts. On June 7, 2018 DOJ and DHS released ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: The Drug Enforcement Administration will establish the Omaha Field Division – its 23rd division office in the United States – on July 8, 2018. The division will include Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. "In January, DEA reorganized its field divisions for the first time in nearly ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: A former executive of a Springfield, Missouri charity, who was also an Arkansas lobbyist, pleaded guilty in federal court today to bribing Arkansas elected officials in a multi-million-dollar scheme, and then along with other charity executives, embezzling millions of dollars from the Springfield health care organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: A U.S. citizen was sentenced to 72 months in prison for paying a 14-year-old girl for sex on multiple occasions in 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: A Biloxi, Mississippi physician was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for his involvement in a $3 million compounding pharmacy fraud scheme. Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney D. Michael Hurst Jr. of the Southern District ...

By Fed Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Results from the latest supervisory stress tests conducted as part of the Dodd-Frank Act will be released on Thursday, June 21, and the results from the related Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) will be released on Thursday, June 28, the Federal Reserve Board announced on Thursday. Results for both exercises will be released at 4:30 p.m. EDT.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross today announced that Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation, of Shenzhen, China (“ZTE Corporation”) and ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications Ltd. of Hi-New Shenzhen, China (“ZTE Kangxun”) (collectively, “ZTE”) has agreed to severe additional penalties and compliance ...

By Labor Gazette | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: DENVER, CO – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited EnviroTech Services Inc. – based in Greeley, Colorado – after an employee died due to lack of oxygen while cleaning the inside of a railcar. A second employee who tried to rescue the co-worker was also overcome, but survived. EnviroTech Services Inc. faces $64,857 in proposed penalties.

By Labor Gazette | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today released the following statement regarding the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements survey (May 2017): "The Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning released the results of its 2017 Contingent Worker Survey; BLS anticipates releasing the results of the Contingent Worker Supplement questions this September.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 7, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 7, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 7, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 7, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 7, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 7, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 7, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 7, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Jun 7, 2018
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Jun 7, 2018
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.