News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that British Airways Plc (BA) and Iberia Airlines (Iberia) have agreed to pay $5.8 million to resolve their liability under the False Claims Act for falsely reporting the times they transferred possession of United States mail to foreign postal administrations or ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: A retired U.S. Navy captain pleaded guilty to criminal conflict of interest charges and a former U.S. Navy master chief was sentenced to 17 months in prison today on corruption charges. The defendants are among the latest U.S. Navy officials to plead guilty and be sentenced in the expansive corruption and fraud investigation involving foreign defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis and his Singapore-based ship husbanding company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: Chadwick Grubbs, who is currently in state custody on separate cases, pleaded guilty today to federal charges related to threatening letters he wrote on three separate dates in May to the Harry and Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Whitefish Bay. Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: Amor M. Ftouhi, 51, of Quebec, Canada, was found guilty of three crimes, including an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries, in conjunction with an attack on a Bishop Airport officer in Flint, Michigan on June 21, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: Naum Morgovsky, 69, of Hillsborough, California, was sentenced to 108 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to illegally export components for the production of night-vision and thermal devices to Russia in violation of the Arms Export Control Act, and for laundering the proceeds of the scheme.

By Fed Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of the enforcement action listed below: The First State Bank of Dongola, Dongola, Illinois Order of Assessment of a Civil Money Penalty, dated November 7, 2018 Additional enforcement actions can be searched for here.

By Labor Gazette | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: NEW FRANKEN, WI – Following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Anna's Healthcare Inc. will pay $113,701 in overtime back wages to 114 current and former employees at both of its Wisconsin residential healthcare facilities in New Franken and Sturgeon Bay. Violations of the overtime and recordkeeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) were identified.

By Labor Gazette | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: GRAND ISLAND, NE – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Rivera Agri Inc. – a provider of temporary agricultural labor – for failing to protect employees working in excessive heat after a farmworker succumbed to apparent heat-related symptoms while working in a cornfield near Grand Island, Nebraska.

By Labor Gazette | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: MONTGOMERY, AL – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Sabel Steel Service Inc. – based in Montgomery, Alabama – for exposing employees to amputation, fall, and other hazards at four of the company's facilities. The manufacturer faces $320,261 in penalties.

By Labor Gazette | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: ROME, GA – Crothall Laundry Services Inc. has agreed to pay $72,000 in back wages after a routine compliance evaluation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) found alleged systematic hiring discrimination violations at its Rome, Georgia, worksite.

By Labor Gazette | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a National Health Emergency Dislocated Worker Grant (NHE DWG) award to the California Department of Employment Development to provide employment services to eligible individuals in rural California counties impacted by the health and economic ...

By Labor Gazette | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) today released advance informational copies of the 2018 Form 5500 Annual Return/Report and related instructions. The "Changes ...
By Commerce News Now | Nov 13, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a four page notice on Nov. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 13, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a four page notice on Nov. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 13, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Nov. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 13, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a six page notice on Nov. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 13, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Nov. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 13, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Nov. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 13, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Nov. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 13, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a seven page notice on Nov. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.