News from January 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Four Audi managers, including a former member of Audi AG’s management board, were charged in an indictment filed on Jan. 17 for their roles in the nearly decade-long conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and U.S. customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests in tens of thousands of Audi “clean diesel” vehicles, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Under a settlement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, P.H. Glatfelter Company will pay $20.5 million for reimbursement of EPA past costs and natural resource damages and then reimburse all future government ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: On Jan. 10, 2019, James R. Casey of Poquoson, Virginia, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson, in Norfolk, Virginia, to 45 months in prison and a $15,000 fine for his role in conspiring to falsely label millions of dollars’ worth of foreign crab meat as “Product of USA.” A significant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Daniel William Aston, a former e-commerce executive, pleaded guilty on Jan. 17, 2019 for conspiring to fix the prices of posters sold online. Aston, a resident and citizen of the United Kingdom, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of California on Aug. 27, 2015. Aston was a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: On Jan. 18, defendant Daniel Stephen Johnson, 40, of Coos Bay, Oregon, was sentenced to life in federal prison for repeatedly sexually abusing children who lived at an orphanage he operated in Cambodia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: On Jan. 24, Canadian authorities extradited Christopher Bantli, a prolific vendor of various controlled substances, to the United States to face drug trafficking charges filed in the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: A New York man was sentenced on Jan. 23 in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York to 50 months in prison for engaging in an extensive, four-year cyberstalking campaign that targeted a woman he dated for several months. The victim’s name is being withheld to protect her privacy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: A Texas man was sentenced on Jan. 9 to 420 months in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for producing child pornography in 2016 and committing a sex-related felony involving a minor while being required to register as a sex offender, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: An Indian national pleaded guilty on Jan. 18 for his role in a complex, transnational conspiracy to smuggle aliens from India to the Unites States for profit, which claimed at least one life and endangered many others.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: An Alexandria, Virginia man was sentenced on Jan. 11 to five years in prison for receipt of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia and Assistant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Jose Rivera, 59, former Branch Manager of TERMINIX INTERNATIONAL USVI LLC (TERMINIX USVI), was sentenced on Jan. 17, 2019, to 12 months in prison for illegally applying fumigants containing methyl bromide in multiple residential locations in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Department of Justice and the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Omega Protein Corp. and Omega Protein, Inc. (collectively “Omega”) have agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations that Omega obtained a loan from the United States by falsely certifying compliance with federal environmental laws, the Department of Justice announced today. The matter was unsealed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (NGSC) has agreed to pay $5.2 million to resolve its alleged False Claims Act liability for falsely billing labor under contract with the United States Postal Service (USPS). NGSC, which is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, provides information and technology services to commercial and government customers, including the USPS.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board in July will host a public research conference on its stress testing framework. The conference will bring together academics, regulators, bankers, and other stakeholders to discuss the transparency and effectiveness of the Board's stress tests and how the stress tests can remain a dynamic and useful tool of large bank supervision.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Good afternoon. Thank you, Attorney General Whittaker for hosting us today, and thank you to all our interagency partners at Justice, the FBI, and DHS for your outstanding work on this case. The Trump Administration continues to be tougher on those who violate our sanctions and export control laws than ...
By Labor Gazette | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA, GA – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has resumed normal enforcement operations throughout Florida following Hurricane Michael.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: HARTFORD, CT – The U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut ordered Eastern Awning Systems Inc. – a manufacturer of retractable fabric patio awnings based in Watertown, Connecticut – and its owner Stephen P. Lukos to pay a total of $160,000 to two discharged employees who filed safety and health complaints with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
By Labor Gazette | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: HARTFORD, CT – The U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut ordered Eastern Awning Systems Inc. – a manufacturer of retractable fabric patio awnings based in Watertown, Connecticut – and its owner Stephen P. Lukos to pay a total of $160,000 to two discharged employees who filed safety and health complaints with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
By Labor Gazette | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA, GA – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has resumed normal enforcement operations throughout Florida following Hurricane Michael.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 28, 2019
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Jan. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
