News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: The FBI is Seeking Information About a Bank Robbery That Took Place in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK CITY - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Special Agent in Charge James Hunt, New York Division, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced that earlier today, Robert Pizarro and Juan Rivera were convicted of murdering a witness to prevent...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - United States Attorney Andrew Byerly Birge announced today that Michael Donnell Neeley, age 39, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff to 235 months in prison for participating in a methamphetamine distribution ring that operated in Kalamazoo...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Two men from Cleveland were indicted on federal firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Court Judge William H. Steele sentenced Paciano Rodriguez on Sept. 18, 2018 to serve a term of imprisonment of 37 months followed by 5 years of supervised release for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine in violation of Title 21 USC § 841(a)(1). The defendant previously plead guilty to the offense on June 21, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $75,967,000 contract on Sept. 17 to Spokane’s Garco Construction, Inc., for construction services at Cle Elum Dam. Construction activity will begin in spring 2019 and end in the summer 2023.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: With a resounding vote of approval today (398 to 23), the House of Representatives sent to the Senate H.R. 302, a measure that includes a long-term reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), as well as a package of federal disaster program reforms that will save lives and reduce the growing cost impacts of disasters of all types.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman announced that Reclamation is providing $69,000 to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. The funding will be used to complete the upgrade of electrical pedestals in Lakeview Campground at Lake Minatare State Recreation Area.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued the following statement regarding today’s agreement between President Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Shinzō Abe to begin negotiations for a U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement: “Achieving high-standard trade agreements ...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: (New York, New York, Sept. 26, 2018) – Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. On the podium, Secretary Perdue was joined by members of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, National Pork Producers Council, National ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: James R. Casey of Poquoson, Virginia, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Newport News, Virginia, on charges that he led a lucrative conspiracy to falsely label millions of dollars worth of foreign crab meat as “Product of USA,” announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey H. Wood of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and G. Zachary Terwilliger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Today—for the first time—the Justice Department’s U.S. Trustee Program (USTP) filed an objection to a debtor company’s proposed candidate for appointment as the Future Claimants’ Representative (FCR) in a case involving an asbestos bankruptcy trust. An FCR is appointed to represent the possible future ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury indicted two Long Island corporations and their owners for their scheme to falsely label seafood that was later sold across the country. The indictment accuses Roy Tuccillo Sr., 58, and his son, Roy Tuccillo Jr., 31, both of Jericho, and two of their Westbury food processing and ...
By Fed Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in August indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising at a strong rate. Job gains have been strong, on average, in recent months, and the unemployment rate has stayed low. Household ...
By Fed Newswire | Sep 26, 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 September 25-26 meeting.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Welcome everyone to the 70th Annual Honor Awards Ceremony for the U.S. Department of Commerce. It is my privilege to be here, and to recognize the individuals in our Department who have excelled in their jobs, and who have gone the extra miles in making this country better for every American.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the initiation of new antidumping duty (AD) investigations to determine whether strontium chromate from Austria and France are being sold in the United States at less than fair value.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: FORSYTH, GA – The Georgia Department of Corrections has paid $429,005 in back wages to 1,257 employees after a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigation uncovered overtime violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) at more than 40 facilities statewide.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: BOSTON, MA – The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has entered a consent judgment requiring Boston-based Village Pizza and Grill and its owner, Klaundjon Totoni, to pay $115,841 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages to 14 employees, plus $8,317 in civil penalties. ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: PENNSAUKEN, NJ – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited pretzel manufacturer J&J Snack Foods Corp. after a worker at its Pennsauken, New Jersey, plant suffered a partial finger amputation. The company faces $206,019 in proposed penalties.
