News from October 2018
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: The free Roadrunner Shuttle Service will commence on Friday, Nov. 2, 2018 for the fall season and second year of the pilot program. The shuttle will operate on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays during the fall. Buses will run daily in March and April.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court for assaulting two federal officers, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Four residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were charged in federal court with conspiracy to defraud the Pennsylvania Medicaid program, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Flushing, New York, woman was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for her plan to distribute counterfeit Nike sneakers, Louis Vuitton handbags, and other phony merchandise that was shipped into the Port of Newark, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a Sitka man has been indicted on federal charges alleging he illegally constructed and possessed a pipe bomb.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Riverside, California, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to transport more than five kilograms of cocaine from California to New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - James Bert White, III, 25, of Farrell, Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh to a charge of possessing with the intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine base, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady today.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2018 – When Hardy, a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) trained detector dog, sniffed out a roasted pig head in traveler baggage at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International airport early this month, it underscored the efforts USDA and its partners are undertaking to keep African Swine Fever (ASF), a swine disease that could devastate the U.S. pork producers, from entering the country.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Oct. 22, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has received 136 expressions of interest from parties in 35 states interested in becoming the new homes of the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: A Hillsboro, Oregon, tax fraud promoter was sentenced to ten years in prison today for submitting fraudulent financial instruments to financial institutions and the U.S. Treasury and failing to file income tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: Eight New Orleans, Louisiana-area defendants have pleaded guilty for their participation in a conspiracy to obtain oxycodone through fraud by using fictitious prescriptions. Six of the eight defendants have also pleaded guilty for the roles in a scheme to possess with intent to distribute oxycodone on ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: The former Chief Financial Officer of an Austin, Texas based company pleaded guilty today to willfully failing to pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. According ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice and the Department of the Interior announced a dramatic expansion of the federal government’s key program that provides tribes with access to national crime information databases, the Justice Department’s Tribal Access Program for National Crime Information (TAP). By the end ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: A high-ranking North Carolina leader of the Nine Trey Gangsters set of the United Blood Nation (UBN or Bloods) street gang, was sentenced today to 19 years in prison for racketeering conspiracy. Also sentenced today were two other members of the Bloods gang. Sixty-seven defendants have now either pleaded guilty or have been convicted at trial.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative preliminary determination in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of imports of steel propane cylinders from China, finding that exporters received countervailable subsidies ranging from 42.77 to 145.37 percent.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: STERLING HEIGHTS, MI – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Integrated Living Inc. – based in Sterling Heights, Michigan – will pay $173,787 in back wages and liquidated damages to 52 current and former employees for violations of the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) at the Michigan residential care facility.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: ELYSBURG, PA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Toy Factory TX LLC – doing business as The Toy Factory LLC – for workplace safety violations after an employee suffered an arm amputation while cleaning machinery at the company’s Elysburg, Pennsylvania, plant. OSHA proposed $112,523 in penalties.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to help small businesses strengthen retirement security in America. The proposed rule would make it easier for small businesses to offer retirement savings plans to their workers through Association Retirement ...
By DOT News Wire | Oct 22, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Oct. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 22, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on Oct. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
