News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: San Diego Law Enforcement Host LGBTQ+ Community Leaders at Third Annual Summit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Richard L. Gathercole, 41, formerly of Roundup, Montana, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 35 years in prison by Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf, for bank robbery, brandishing a firearm and carjacking. In addition to his prison...
By State Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Normandy, France - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, made the following statement at the 75th anniversary of D-Day commemoration event in Normandy, France.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: SHASTA LAKE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation is hosting a presentation by John Soares, author of several northern California hiking guides, at the Shasta Dam Visitor Center auditorium on June 13 at 3 p.m. A book signing will follow.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Boston and Randolph men charged with conspiring to unlawfully sell firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced legislation to make the college admissions process fairer by ending tax breaks for donations made to influence admissions decisions.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) held a groundbreaking ceremony today for a new Air Traffic Control Tower and Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) at Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO) in Greensboro, N.C. The agency will invest $61 million in the new facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. --On June 3, 2019, Carlos Correa, 29, of Hereford, AZ was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins to 25 years in prison. Correa previously pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute more than 1,000 Kilograms of Marijuana and received sentencing enhancements ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today that a federal grand jury had indicted Jonathan C. Copeland (age 57) for possession with intent to distribute at least 100 grams of heroin, at least 40 grams of fentanyl, cocaine, and marijuana. In addition...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded semi-automatic handgun and pointing it at a car full of people, including a 4-year-old child, outside a Chicago convenience store.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news the humanitarian crisis at the border is worsening.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 24-year-old illegal alien from Honduras has been indicted on charges of human smuggling and making a false family claim, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Oral Roberts University (ORU), based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will pay $303,502 to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act of submitting false claims to the U.S. Department of Education in violation of the federal ban on incentive-based compensation, the Department of Justice announced. Title IV of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: As part of The Department of Justice’s ongoing review of legacy antitrust judgments, the Antitrust Division today announced that it has opened a review of its consent decrees with The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI). For more than seventy-five ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: The United States filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Mallinckrodt ARD LLC, formerly known as Mallinckrodt ARD Inc. and previously Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc., in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Department of Justice announced today. The government ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: A former captain at the Richwood Correctional Center was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Monroe, Louisiana, for his role in a conspiracy to violate the civil rights of five inmates. Roderick Douglas, 38, of Monroe, Louisiana, previously pleaded guilty to conspiring with five other corrections ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics agreed to a global resolution to settle the government’s separate criminal and civil investigations, the Department of Justice announced today. As part of the criminal resolution, Insys will enter into a deferred prosecution agreement with the government, Insys’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into an agreement to settle a voting rights lawsuit with the City of Eastpointe, Michigan. The Department’s lawsuit challenges the method of electing the city council in Eastpointe under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Under this agreement, the city will change its method of electing its city council to ensure compliance with the protections of Section 2.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), JEM Unlimited Iron Inc. – a welding company based in Anaheim, California – will pay $529,186 to 145 employees for violating overtime and recordkeeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES, CA – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), ESS Apparel Inc. – a garment sewing contractor based in Los Angeles, California – will pay $53,876 to 21 employees for violating the minimum wage, overtime, and recordkeeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
