News from August 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Texas returned an indictment Tuesday charging two men and one woman with importing drugs into the country via various ports of entry.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - An EM team from the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) recently visited the Hanford Site in Washington state to learn lessons from the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) demolition project to apply to a future teardown at WVDP.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, ALASKA - Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Superintendent Philip Hooge announced today a new temporary whale waters area within 1 nautical mile of North Marble Island and Sturgess Island. The updated operating requirements are effective from 5 AM Wednesday August 28th until further notice.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has scheduled increased releases from Lewiston Dam into the Trinity River, from Sept. 1 through Sept. 5. People near or recreating on the river over the holiday can expect river levels to increase and should take appropriate safety precautions.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON--Today, the Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Kevin K. McAleenan, met with the President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, regarding a shared commitment to improving security and addressing irregular migration in the western hemisphere.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – On Sunday, the 30-day notification period ended from when the Department of Homeland Security notified Congress of its intent to reprogram and transfer $271 million of available funds to support requirements via authority provided in the FY 2019 DHS Appropriations Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging Brian Booker, a former resident of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, whose business specialized in international trade, with failing to file Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBARs) and filing false documents with the Internal Revenue ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) against Baltimore County and the Baltimore County Police Department (BCPD). The lawsuit alleges that since Jan. 1, 2013, BCPD has engaged in unintended ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: In a settlement agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the city of Houston, Texas, has agreed to implement a comprehensive set of corrective measures and improvements to the city’s sewer system to resolve longstanding problems with sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) and discharges into various water bodies of pollutants in excess of permitted limits from the city’s 39 wastewater treatment plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: A New London, North Carolina, woman was sentenced to 14 months in prison today for federal employment tax fraud, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: A Bangladeshi national formerly residing in Monterrey, Mexico, pleaded guilty for his role in a scheme to smuggle aliens to the United States for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: A Jefferson County man was sentenced to 30 months in prison today for filing a false tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town for the Northern District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: Steven Powers, 35, a former probation and parole officer with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to two counts of violating the civil rights of two female probationers whom he supervised when he subjected them to unwanted sexual contact.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging eight individuals with conspiring to violate federal criminal copyright law by running two of the largest unauthorized streaming services in the United States, resulting in the loss of millions of dollars by television program and motion picture copyright owners.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its interest rate meetings from July 1 through July 31, 2019.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: BILOXI, MS – Doleac Electrical Co. Inc. – based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi – has paid $37,060 in back wages to 32 employees to remedy Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Davis Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA) violations found by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD).
By Labor Gazette | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: TROY, MI – The U.S. Department of Labor has found Twin Pines Landscaping Inc. – based in Troy, Michigan – in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the labor provisions of the H-2B temporary visa program. An investigation by the Department's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) found the landscaping company failed to pay overtime, failed to pay required prevailing wages, and offered more favorable employment terms to temporary foreign employees than to U.S. workers.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: JACKSON, MS – Three restaurants in Madison, Ridgeland, and Flowood, Mississippi, have paid $50,338 in back wages to 229 employees after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) determined the employers violated requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: DALLAS, TX – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered Kinder Morgan Inc. – an energy infrastructure company based in Houston, Texas - to pay a former employee back wages, damages, and attorney's fees after an investigation found that the company violated the whistleblower provisions of the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act (PSIA).
By Labor Gazette | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: RIVIERA BEACH, FL – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited UPS Inc. for failing to protect employees working in excessive heat after an employee suffered heat-related injuries near the Riviera Beach, Florida, facility. The company faces $13,260 in penalties, the maximum penalty allowed by law for a serious violation.
