News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on July 29, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan will be traveling to Guatemala City, Guatemala to meet with officials regarding the implementation of a number of initiatives to help stem the flow of irregular migration through Guatemala. During his trip, the Acting Secretary ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: A Micronesian government official was sentenced to 18 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release yesterday for his participation in a money laundering scheme involving bribes made to corruptly secure engineering and project management contracts from the government of the Federated ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced a series of settlements to resolve allegations that several California-based mortgage loan modification service providers engaged in national origin discrimination in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act when they targeted Hispanic homeowners for predatory mortgage loan modification services and interfered with those individuals’ ability to keep their homes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that it reached a settlement agreement with United General Bakery Inc., or Upper Crust Bakery (UCB), a baked goods supplier located in Phoenix, Arizona. The settlement resolves the Department of Justice’s investigation into whether the company discriminated against authorized workers based on their citizenship status in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) when verifying their authorization to work.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: A Chinese national living in the United States on a student visa was sentenced today to 37 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for his role in a scheme to traffic and smuggle counterfeit Apple products, including phony iPhones and iPads, from China into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: A federal jury in Detroit, Michigan found a patient recruiter guilty today for his role in a scheme involving approximately $1.3 million in fraudulent Medicare claims for home health care that were procured through the payment of kickbacks. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice ...
By Commerce News Now | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, AMCHAM CENTENNIAL Intro by Mr. Luiz Pretti, Chairman of the Board of AmCham-Brasil and President of Cargill Brazil Thank you for the kind words.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Introduced by Pamela Evette, Lt. Governor of South Carolina Thank you, Lt. Governor Evette, for that kind introduction.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the initiation of new antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations to determine whether utility scale wind towers from Canada, Indonesia, Korea, and Vietnam are being dumped in the United States, and to find if producers in Canada, ...
By Commerce News Now | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of acetone from Singapore and Spain, finding that exporters from Singapore have dumped acetone in the United States at margins ranging from 66.42 percent to 131.75 percent. Commerce also determined that exporters from Spain have dumped acetone in the United States at margins ranging from 137.39 percent to 171.81 percent.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced an affirmative final determination in the antidumping duty (AD) investigation, and a negative final determination in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of imports of glycine from Thailand. Commerce found that exporters from Thailand have sold ...
By Labor Gazette | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: SHARON, OK – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Custom Energy Service Inc. – a power line repair company based in Sharon, Oklahoma – has paid $62,263 in back wages and liquidated damages to 11 employees for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA) overtime requirements.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA, GA – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has signed a strategic partnership with Holder Construction Group LLC to promote worker safety and health during the construction of Project Fusion on West Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today signed a bi-lateral cooperative agreement with Guatemala to facilitate increased transparency, accountability, and worker safety in the H-2A nonimmigrant visa program for temporary agricultural workers from Guatemala.
By State News Post | Jul 30, 2019
The US State Department published a two page notice on July 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jul 30, 2019
The US State Department published a one page notice on July 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jul 30, 2019
The US State Department published a one page notice on July 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 30, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a four page notice on July 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 30, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on July 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
