News from April 2019
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2019
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Area Title 1 schools are invited to partner with Andersonville National Historic Site (NHS) for the 2019-2020 Open Outdoors for Kids program. This grant program, funded by the National Park Foundation, will cover the cost of transportation for field trips to the park. Open OutDoors for Kids program focuses on providing unique learning opportunities and introducing national park sites to 4th grade aged students across America.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2019
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - With robust public participation over the course of 16 prior events, the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by family members...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a waiver, which will ensure expeditious construction of new bollard wall that will replace approximately 26 miles of existing primary pedestrian wall near the international border in the state of Arizona within U.S. Border Patrol’s (USBP) Yuma Sector.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued two waivers, which will ensure expeditious construction of new bollard wall within the U.S. Border Patrol’s Yuma and El Paso sectors in Arizona and Texas. The projects covered by the waivers include up to approximately 53 miles of new bollard wall in place ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: TOKYO, Japan, April 26, 2019 – Two of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s top scientists today reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to science-based decision-making at the G20 Agricultural Chief Scientists (MACS) meeting held this week in Tokyo.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: A former tax return preparer in Shawnee, Kansas, was sentenced to 24 months in prison yesterday for preparing a false tax return and making a false bankruptcy declaration, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Stephen R. McAllister of the District of Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Mariia Butina, a Russian national, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison after earlier pleading guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Virginia man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release following his conviction at trial for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: A Dallas, Texas-area tax return preparer was sentenced to 51 months in prison today for conspiring to defraud the United States and aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: An East Greenwich, Rhode Island, woman whose business specialized in preserving the current condition of foreclosed homes for resale has been charged in U.S. District Court in Providence, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: A federal court in Miami, Florida, permanently barred Michael L. Meyer from organizing, selling, and making statements about the tax benefits of an allegedly abusive charitable giving tax scheme, the Justice Department announced today. The court’s injunction specifically prohibited Meyer from selling ...
By Commerce News Now | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the first quarter 2019 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers. The Bureau found that the real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 2019.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of imports of glycine from India (AD and CVD), China, (CVD only), and Japan (AD only), finding that exporters from India and Japan ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: MOBILE, AL – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Ampac Mobile Holdings LLC – operating as ProAmpac – for exposing employees to caught-in and struck-by hazards at the packaging manufacturer's facility in Mobile, Alabama. The company faces $75,156 in penalties.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO, IL – The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, granted a motion allowing Morgan Administration Inc. and associated debtors doing business as Home Owners Bargain Outlet (HOBO), to engage Paradigm Health Plans, the approved third-party administrator, to reconcile and administer outstanding medical claims for employees participating in HOBO's health plan.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: LUBBOCK, TX – In a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor, Allegiance Behavioral Health Center of Plainview doing business as Inspirations, a subsidiary of Allegiance Health Management Inc. based in Shreveport, Louisiana, will pay $22,000 in back wages and compensatory and liquidated damages to a former employee for violating the anti-retaliation provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Nordic Construction Services LLC – based in Berlin, New Hampshire – has paid $38,678 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages to 45 employees to resolve overtime and record keeping violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: DURHAM, NC – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), five Subway fast food franchise locations in North Carolina – owned and operated by Mahmoud Alkurdasi and Hala M. Saleh – have paid $13,970 in back wages to 150 employees for violating the minimum wage, overtime, and recordkeeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: LONGWOOD, FL – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Competitive Edge Group Inc. – operating as Competitive Edge Landscaping and based in Longwood, Florida – will pay $44,280 in back wages to 75 employees for violating the overtime and recordkeeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: LONGWOOD, FL – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Competitive Edge Group Inc. – operating as Competitive Edge Landscaping and based in Longwood, Florida – will pay $44,280 in back wages to 75 employees for violating the overtime and recordkeeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
