News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: A South Carolina doctor has agreed to pay the government $92,506.30 for allegedly accepting illegal kickback payments from OK Compounding, L.L.C., announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Central Oregon - Annual campfire restrictions will go into effect June 1 on portions of the Deschutes, John Day, White and Crooked Rivers, as well as on BLM-administered lands along Lake Billy Chinook. The number one goal of the BLM is promoting employee and public safety, and the river canyons present...
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Jessica Krzemien, a deactivation and decommissioning (D&D) waste operator at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), began learning to respect and care for the environment at a young age.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - U.S. Attorney Benjamin C. Glassman announced today a new initiative in which federal and local prosecutors are working with law enforcement and domestic violence victim services agencies to hold accountable domestic abusers who illegally possess firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 54 million visitors to national parks in and around the nation’s capital spent nearly $1.1 billion in 2018. That spending resulted in 14,984 jobs and had a cumulative benefit to the regional economy of $1.58 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester in connection with transporting stolen electronics across state lines. The defendant broke into Target stores in Easton and Westborough, Mass., and in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
By Homeland Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: DALLAS - An indictment against an accused darknet drug dealer, unsealed Friday, charges him with leveraging bitcoin’s apparent anonymity to sell fentanyl online.
By Homeland Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Acting Secretary Kevin K. McAleenan has formalized an agreement between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Ministry of Government of Guatemala with the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC). The agreement, which will expand areas of collaboration between the United States and the ...
By USDA Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: He oversees nation’s farm policy and he has bone to pick with UGA trade deal study By Secretary Sonny Perdue The Macon Telegraph and the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer May 26, 2019 … The University of Georgia recently published a study claiming the new United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement would cost some ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that it has reached a settlement agreement with Stanislaus County, California. The settlement resolves the Department of Justice’s investigation into whether the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department engaged in prohibited hiring practices in violation of the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Senior leaders from the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) traveled to China last week to meet with Chinese prosecutors, judges, academics and other officials to promote cooperation on enforcement of environmental laws and the importance of the rule of law.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that it reached a settlement agreement with WesPak Inc., an agricultural company located in Dinuba, California. The settlement resolves the Department of Justice’s investigation into whether the company discriminated against workers based on their citizenship status in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) when verifying their authorization to work.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: An Ohio man was found guilty today for his role in an $7 million telemarketing scheme that defrauded primarily elderly victims in the United States from call centers in Costa Rica.
By Fed Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today issued the host state loan-to-deposit ratios that they will use to determine compliance with section 109 of the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994. These ratios replace the prior year's ratios, which were released on June 15, 2018.
By Fed Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its interest rate meetings on April 22 and May 1, 2019.
By Labor Gazette | May 28, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA – O-Fire Corp. – operating as Onami Seafood Buffet in San Diego, California – will pay $29,992 in back wages and liquidated damages to two employees after a U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigation found violations of the overtime and recordkeeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By DOT News Wire | May 28, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 28, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
