News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Two Massachusetts men were arrested today and charged in U.S. District Court in Boston with conducting an extensive scheme to take over victims’ social media accounts and steal their cryptocurrency using techniques such as “SIM swapping,” computer hacking and other methods. Assistant Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice announced that Behzad Pourghannad was sentenced yesterday to 46 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to export carbon fiber from the United States to Iran between 2008 and 2013. Pourghannad pleaded guilty on Aug. 29, 2019,before United States Magistrate Judge Paul ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: The United States has filed a complaint against Sioux Falls, South Dakota, neurosurgeon Wilson Asfora M.D., Medical Designs LLC, and Sicage LLC alleging False Claims Act violations arising from the alleged payment of kickbacks to Asfora tied to the devices he used in spinal surgeries, the Justice Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Ramiz Zijad Hodzic, aka Siki Ramiz Hodzic, 45, of St. Louis County, Missouri, was sentenced to 96 months in prison for conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and providing material support to terrorists. Hodzic appeared today before Judge Catherine D. Perry. According to court documents, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: An alleged shooter and member of the Barrio Azteca (BA), a transnational border gang allied with the Juarez Cartel, was extradited from Mexico to the United States to face charges related to the March 2010 U.S. Consulate murders in Juarez, Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: With the objective of strengthening cooperation among governments to counter transnational crime and terrorism, the Department of Justice’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT), Office of International Affairs and Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section of ...
By Commerce News Now | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: In support of the goal of President Donald J. Trump to increase American commercial activity across nations in the Indo-Pacific region, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross led a business delegation including of 16 companies to Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam from November 3 to November 8. This mission spawned new partnerships as well as several business agreements, potentially representing billions in investments.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of imports of polyester textured yarn from China and India, finding exporters from these nations have dumped yarn in the United States at margins ...
By Labor Gazette | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK, AR – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), LRWINS Hospitality LLC– doing business as Wingate by Wyndham and based in Little Rock, Arkansas – paid $12,060 in back wages and liquidated damages to 13 employees to resolve violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). WHD also assessed the employer $2,054 in civil money penalties.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: BORGER, TX – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Team Industrial Services Inc. – operating in Borger, Texas – has paid $127,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to 38 employees for violating the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: DALLAS, TX – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Krunal Enterprise Inc. in Plano, Texas; Krunal Subs LLC in Richardson, Texas; and Krunal Foods LP in Plano, Texas – all with common ownership and doing business as Subway franchisees – have paid $18,151 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages to 10 employees to resolve overtime violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – As part of National Apprenticeship Week activities, the U.S. Department of Labor today hosted over 200 stakeholders from around the country at the National Summit on Women in Apprenticeship at the Department's headquarters in Washington D.C.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 14, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 14, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 14, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 14, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 14, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 14, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a four page notice on Nov. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 14, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 14, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
