News from January 2019
By Labor Gazette | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: HASTINGS, NE – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Noah's Ark Processors LLC – based in Hastings, Nebraska – for process safety management violations after an employee suffered severe burns caused by exposure to anhydrous ammonia, a gas used as an industrial refrigerant. The beef processing plant faces penalties of $182,926 for 16 serious safety violations.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: MIAMI, FL – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida has sentenced Lanny Todd Fried – of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida – to 57 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release; and ordered him to pay a $81,163 fine for his role in a healthcare-related, money-laundering scheme.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 18, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on Jan. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
Release: This case is believed to be connected to the current outbreak of virulent Newcastle disease in California, as three of the birds at the premises were recently moved to Utah from Los Angeles County, California. Since May 2018, 299 cases of Newcastle disease have been confirmed in Southern California, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Ashburn woman was sentenced today to over 15 years in prison for orchestrating a scheme that defrauded more than 50 victims of over $5 million.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: Atlanta - The National Park Service (NPS) announced today that Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park will open from Saturday, January 19 through Feb. 3, in advance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. national holiday and days after the 90th anniversary of his birth. This is possible thanks to a grant from The Delta Air Lines Foundation and revenue generated by NPS recreation fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Tzvi Lexier, of Toronto, Canada, was sentenced today to 26 months in prison for conspiring to smuggle misbranded pharmaceuticals into the United States and for the unlicensed wholesale distribution of prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Georgia man was sentenced to 15 months in prison today for fraudulently discharging over $250,000 in student loan debt.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota on Friday welcomed the new and returning members of the Committee for the 116th Congress.
By State Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) released the following statement responding to reports that the Trump Administration may lift some tariffs on Chinese imports in an effort to speed the conclusion of trade negotiations with the country...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Frank Saddler, 52, of Ridgeland, Mississippi, pled guilty today, before United States District Judge Henry T. Wingate, to extortion under color of official right, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze, and Dax Roberson, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General - Southwest Regional Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: HASTINGS, NE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Noah’s Ark Processors LLC - based in Hastings, Nebraska - for process safety management violations after an employee suffered severe burns caused by exposure to anhydrous ammonia, a gas used as an industrial refrigerant. The beef processing plant faces penalties of $182,926 for 16 serious safety violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Oliver Whitewing-Saul, age 23, was sentenced in federal court on Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, in Omaha, Nebraska, for one count of Sexual Abuse of a Minor. The Honorable Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Whitewing-Saul to 108 months of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After completing his term of imprisonment, Whitewing-Saul will begin a five-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Two men pleaded guilty today to running a prostitution business that catered to the Hispanic population in northern Virginia over the past three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - On Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, Senior U.S. District Judge Samuel Hardy Mays sentenced Jeremy Jones, 39, of Memphis to a total of 102 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for conspiracy to commit identity theft and mail fraud, and separate counts of identity theft, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, and obstruction of justice. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentencing today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today wrote to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General (IG) requesting information...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Ashburn woman was sentenced today to over 15 years in prison for orchestrating a scheme that defrauded more than 50 victims of over $5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeks Information on Multi-State Bank Robber.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., this week sent a letter to Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta requesting the Department of Labor issue immediate guidance to state workforce agencies to ensure that federal employees who are working without compensation during the Trump shutdown are provided with unemployment compensation.
