News from June 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - Two El Paso restaurants on Thursday partnered with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) by joining “IMAGE," or ICE Mutual Agreement between Government Employers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Michael Holder, 41, of West Monroe, Louisiana, was sentenced Wednesday to 51 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A local man has been sentenced to federal prison for making false statements on an ATF Federal Background Check Form while attempting to purchase a firearm, and for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence in the "lie-and-try" case today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JERRY CAMPBELL (“CAMPBELL"), age 60, of Avondale, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday for Theft of Government Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - A federal jury has found Dion Gregory Fisher (33, formerly of Seminole) guilty of conspiring to manufacture and distribute fentanyl and fentanyl analogue, and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - PHILIP JAMES HEATH, 51, of Lawton, has pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of both explosives and firearms, announced Timothy J. Downing, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: On April 6, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan will travel to Fort Lauderdale and Miami, Florida for a two-day trip. The Acting Secretary will view a U.S. Coast Guard cutter drug offload at Port Everglades, receive a briefing and tour of the National Hurricane Center (NHC), and visit with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel at Miami International Airport.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: United States Secret Service CMR 21-19 The Secret Service sent some of our finest onto the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6th, 1944. One of them came home and became the Deputy Chief of the Secret Service.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 6, 2019 – Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today announced the names of 47 rural communities and regions that will receive technical assistance to help create and implement long-term economic development plans.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C., June 6, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today commended President Trump’s signing of the disaster relief bill that will provide $19 billion in assistance to states and territories hit by flooding, hurricanes, wildfires and other natural disasters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Three residents of Lima, Peru, pleaded guilty yesterday to extortion for overseeing a ring of call centers that threatened and extorted Spanish-speaking victims in the United States, the Department of Justice and U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice today reached a settlement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with McKinley County, New Mexico, to ensure that the County’s polling places are accessible to individuals with mobility and vision impairments. The County is home to the Zuni Pueblo and parts of the Navajo Nation, and more than two dozen of the County’s polling places are located on Indian reservations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: A Denham, Massachusetts, resident pleaded guilty today in Boston to conspiring to defraud the United States by impeding the lawful functions of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Sixteen members and associates of a prison-based gang have been charged after a long-running investigation into drug trafficking and murders inside and outside of California’s prisons.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: A Los Angeles, California-based dentist was sentenced to 40 months in prison today for his role in a $3.8 million health care fraud scheme in which he billed numerous dental insurance carriers for crowns and fillings that were never provided to patients. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski ...
By Fed Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the enforcement action listed below: Consent cease and desist order against Youlei Tang, former employee of Goldman Sachs & Co., New York, New York, for mishandling confidential supervisory information and proprietary information.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of an enforcement action against JPMorgan Chase & Co. from January 2013.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Introduced by Tom Kallman, President and CEO of Kallman Worldwide, organizer of the USA Partnership Pavilion.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: BURLESON, TX – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Rice Drywall Inc. – based in Burleson, Texas – has paid $354,763 in back wages to 558 employees to resolve overtime violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: AUSTIN, TX – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) will offer a compliance seminar for contractors, unions, workers and other interested parties to provide information on the rules governing federal prevailing wage requirements. The event in Austin, Texas, will offer training on labor standards for federally funded construction and federal service contracts.
