News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Two cocaine dealers with lengthy criminal histories will spend more than a decade in prison after recent sentencing in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that TRAM NGUYEN, age 32, of Westwego, pled guilty today to a Bill of Information charging her with misprision of a drug trafficking felony, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 4.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON – FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission, will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. The WEA portion of the test, which will be sent to consumer cell phones, will begin at 2:18 p.m. EDT. The ...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: National Protection and Programs Directorate Washington – Senior officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) met today with members of the Sector Coordinating Council (SCC) for the Election Infrastructure Subsector and conducted a classified briefing on the current cyber threat landscape ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced Corey Amundson as the head of the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). Corey Amundson has replaced Robin Ashton, who left the position after almost a decade of service in the Office of Professional Responsibility.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: A Saudi Arabian national living in Arlington, Virginia pleaded guilty today to downloading child pornography through the dark web. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of the Eastern District of Virginia, and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced more than $70 million in grant funding to bolster school security, educate and train students and faculty, and support law enforcement officers and first responders who arrive on the scene of a school violence incident. These grants are in addition to the funding ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: Seven U.S. citizens were charged in an indictment unsealed today for their roles in a Costa Rica-based telemarketing scheme that allegedly defrauded victims in the United States, including the elderly, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. ...
By Commerce News Now | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: (Introduced by Hector Barreto, President of The Latino Coalition and former Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration.) Thank you, Hector, for that kind introduction, and — as the former SBA Administrator — thank you for your service to our country. I can’t tell you how important it is ...
By Commerce News Now | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of forged steel fittings from China and Italy and countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of imports of forged steel fittings from China.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON DC – The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division will host a public listening session in Washington, D.C., to gather views on the Part 541 white-collar exemption regulations, often known as the "Overtime Rule," on Oct. 17, 2018, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. EDT.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, TN – A Tennessee poultry processing facility has paid $36,038 in back wages to 69 employees and a civil penalty of $7,469 after a U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigation found Koch Foods Inc. violated the overtime and recordkeeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS, IN – The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) will offer a compliance seminar for contractors, unions, workers and other interested parties to provide information on the rules governing federal prevailing wage requirements.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, SC – The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of South Carolina has ordered Hugo Villalpando, the owner of La Carreta Mexican restaurants in Charleston and Summerville, South Carolina, to pay $190,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to 58 employees for violating the minimum wage, ...
By Labor Gazette | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: FAYETTE, OH – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Larose Industries LLC – which operates as Cra-Z-Art – for continuing to expose employees to amputation hazards. The Fayette, Ohio, art supply manufacturer faces proposed penalties totaling $152,441 for repeated and serious safety violations.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: SUPERIOR, WI – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Superior Refining Company LLC – based in Superior, Wisconsin – for failing to control the use and release of highly hazardous chemicals after an explosion and fire injured several employees. The company faces $83,150 in proposed penalties.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: ARLINGTON, VA – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has awarded $10,537,000 in grant funding to support safety and health courses, and other programs. MSHA awarded grants to 46 states, the Navajo Nation, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
By DOJ Gazette | Oct 2, 2018
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Oct. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Oct 2, 2018
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Oct. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Oct 2, 2018
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Oct. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
