News from April 2019
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - The year 1849 was a dynamic time in North America and around the world, marked by events and growth that resulted in profound change to our nation's character. The National Historic Trails Interpretive Center will offer a colorful temporary exhibit running throughout the month of April, titled "1849: As Our Nation Expanded, the World Grew Smaller".
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area is recruiting teachers to participate in the Teacher-Ranger-Teacher (TRT) program this summer. The TRT program is a professional development opportunity for K-12 teachers to spend the summer acquiring new skills in experiential learning through a program...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 38-year-old Ore City, Texas man has been indicted for child exploitation charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen will travel to the U.S.–Mexico border this week where DHS agents and officers are coping with record migration flows. The Secretary will meet with frontline operators to assess the crisis, the Department’s response, and efforts to surge ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C., April 3, 2019) – Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) launched two new features on farmers.gov to help customers manage their farm loans and navigate the application process for H-2A visas.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, April 3, 2019 – To aid Iowa residents impacted by recent flooding, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the availability of Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP) benefits for five western Iowa counties. Households that do not normally qualify for SNAP may be eligible for D-SNAP if they meet certain requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama today concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that the conditions in Alabama’s prisons for men violate the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: Securus Technologies Inc. (Securus) confirmed yesterday that it has abandoned its plans to acquire Inmate Calling Solutions LLC (ICS). The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division had previously informed the companies that it had significant concerns that the merger would eliminate important competition ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: A Micronesian government official pleaded guilty yesterday to a money laundering charge involving bribes made to corruptly secure engineering and project management contracts from the government of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge Sean Kaul of the FBI’s Honolulu Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: Michael P. Gannon, former Vice President of Sales for a large Chicago-based commercial flooring contractor, has been charged for his role in a conspiracy to rig bids and fix prices for commercial flooring services and products sold in the United States, the Department of Justice announced today. This ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: A District of Columbia woman was sentenced to 54 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and commit theft of public money and aggravated identity theft, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: A Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employee pleaded guilty today to making false statements, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury in Boston, Massachusetts, returned an indictment charging three restaurant owners with conspiracy to defraud the United States and filing false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: The owner of a computer software development company, who failed to pay over payroll taxes withheld from his employees’ wages and failed to file individual and corporate income tax returns, was indicted by a grand jury in Tulsa, Oklahoma, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: Ramiz Zijad Hodzic, 44, of St. Louis County, Missouri, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and one count of providing material support to terrorists. Hodzic appeared today before Judge Catherine D. Perry who accepted his plea and set his sentencing ...
By Fed Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday published a final rule implementing policy changes to procedures governing the provision of intraday credit to U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banking organizations (FBOs). The changes are intended to refine the methods for determining the level of intraday credit that these branches and agencies can receive from the Federal Reserve Banks.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies yesterday invited 10 experts from the U.S. Department of Commerce to testify on the President’s FY 2020 budget. The panel responded to two hours of questioning before the Senate by both majority and ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) is conducting a statewide wage survey in Utah to help establish prevailing wage rates as required under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA). WHD urges all highway construction employers in Utah to participate.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: MALVERN, PA – The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking current or former employees of American Future Systems - doing business as Progressive Business Publications - who may be owed a portion of $1,916,000 in back wages and liquidated damages recovered by the Department's Wage and Hour Division (WHD). ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: DENVER, CO – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has signed a two-year alliance with the Colorado On-Site Health & Safety Consultation Program, the Brewers Association, the Master Brewers Association of the Americas, and the Colorado Brewers Guild, to promote employee safety in Colorado's brewing industry.
