News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York entered an injunction against Foo Yuan Food Products Company Inc. (Foo Yuan) of Long Island City, New York, its owner and president Hsing Chuang, and its secretary Susan Chuang. The injunction ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr today launched a national strategy to address missing and murdered Native Americans. The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Initiative places MMIP coordinators in 11 U.S. Attorney’s offices who will develop protocols for a more coordinated law enforcement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: The United States filed a civil injunction suit seeking to bar Dimary Cordero, aka Dimary Cordero Torres, and her businesses — NMB Accounting and Tax Services LLC (NMB), and WFS Accounting and Tax Services LLC (WFS) — from owning or operating a tax return preparation business and preparing tax returns ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer was sentenced today to 19 years in prison for conspiring to communicate, deliver and transmit national defense information to the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: A doctor who practiced in New Jersey and Pennsylvania pleaded guilty today for his participation in a scheme to receive over $140,000 in bribes and kickbacks from a pharmaceutical company in exchange for prescribing large volumes of a powerful fentanyl narcotic.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the Civil Rights Division and Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers for the National Security Division, U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn for the District of Colorado, and Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips for the FBI Denver Division announced today that ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: The former president of Transportation Logistics Inc. (TLI), a Maryland-based transportation company that provides services for the transportation of nuclear materials to customers in the United States and abroad, was found guilty today for his role in a scheme to bribe an official at a subsidiary of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation and on related fraud and conspiracy charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Sherry K. Paulo, 54, and Anthony R. Flores, 59, husband and wife, and former employees of a Missouri residential treatment facility, pleaded guilty today in federal court in the Western District of Missouri to criminal civil rights charges arising from the death of C.D., a Missouri ward of the state ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Stuart Kurt Rollins, 58, was indicted this week for two violations of 42 U.S.C. § 3631 for interfering with housing rights after he repeatedly threatened and intimidated a family because members of the family are Hispanic, announced Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont Christina E. Nolan, and FBI, Albany Division Special Agent in Charge James N. Hendricks.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: As part of the Department of Justice’s review of nearly 1,300 legacy antitrust judgments, the Antitrust Division today announced that it has filed in the District Court for the Southern District of New York a motion to terminate the Paramount Consent Decrees, which for over 70 years have regulated how certain movie studios distribute films to movie theatres.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: A major Houston, Texas-based civil engineering company and its parent company have agreed to enter into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) in connection with a criminal information charging the company with violating the Federal Election Campaign Act. As part of the agreement, Dannenbaum ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Samsung Heavy Industries Company Limited (Samsung Heavy Industries), a South Korea-based engineering company that provides shipbuilding, offshore platform construction, and other construction and engineering services, has agreed to pay total penalties of more than $75 million to resolve the government’s investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) arising out of a scheme to pay millions of dollars in bribes to officials in Brazil.
By Fed Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Pace University won the 16th annual national College Fed Challenge on Friday, a competition that encourages students to learn about the U.S. economy, monetary policymaking, and the role of the Federal Reserve. The team, from New York, New York, represented the New York Federal Reserve District and included Scarlett Bekus, Joseph Drennan, Sean Freda, Marissa Kleinbauer, and Dylan Seals. The team's faculty adviser was Gregory Colman.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) voted 4-0, making an affirmative determination that dumped tomatoes from Mexico threaten to injure the American tomato industry. As a result, the recently finalized agreement – negotiated by the Department of Commerce – suspending the antidumping duty (AD) investigation of fresh tomatoes from Mexico will remain in place.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of imports of magnesium from Israel, finding that exporters from this country have sold magnesium at less than fair value in the United States at a rate of 218.98 percent. In addition, Commerce determined that exporters from Israel received countervailable subsidies at a rate of 13.77 percent.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: BOYNTON BEACH, FL – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Restoration Management 2013 Inc. – operating as ServPro in Boynton Beach, Florida – has paid $201,508 in back wages to 141 employees for violating the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Blue Nile Contractors Inc. – based in Birmingham, Missouri – for failing to protect employees from trench collapse and electrical hazards. The company faces $210,037 in penalties.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration announced a record-high number of more than 250,000 new apprentices in Fiscal Year 2019, including over 80,000 new apprentices in the last quarter of FY 2019 – a new quarterly record high. The fourth quarter approximate total is 10% more than the fourth quarter of FY 2018, and 37% more than the fourth quarter of FY 2017.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 22, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Nov 22, 2019
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Nov. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
