News from November 2019
By USDA Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: IRVING, N.Y., Nov. 21, 2019 – Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ” LaVoy announced USDA has invested $4.3 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for more than 1,000 rural households on the Seneca Nation’s Cattaraugus Territory in western New York. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Jonathan York and Tommy Morris, two former correctional officers at the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, Tennessee, with federal civil rights, conspiracy, and obstruction offenses, announced Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Two U.S. citizens residing in Iraq were charged in two separate indictments yesterday for their alleged participation in schemes to defraud Iraqi companies out of millions of dollars by impersonating U.S. officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: A Long Island, New York, business owner was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison today for tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: A Texas man has admitted to his participation in the July 2014 murder outside a parole office in Houston, Texas, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick for the Southern District of Texas. Clyde Williams, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: On Nov. 21, 2019, Angel Armando Adrianzen, 45, of California pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud for partnering with call centers in Peru that took money from U.S. Spanish-speaking victims through lies and threats. Adrianzen was arrested on Sept. 16 and has remained incarcerated ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: James Baldinger, 51, a former private prisoner transport officer with the Prisoner Transportation Services of America LLC (PTS), was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to two years in prison for sexually assaulting a female during transport.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Haitao Xiang, 42, formerly of Chesterfield, Missouri, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on one count of conspiracy to commit economic espionage, three counts of economic espionage, one count of conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets and three counts of theft of trade secrets. According ...
By Labor Gazette | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: FLORENCE, KY – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Pet Wellness Group PLLC – a veterinary medical clinic based in Florence, Kentucky – has paid $7,794 in back wages and liquidated damages to an employee for violating the nursing mothers’ provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: SWEDESBORO, NJ – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), a U.S. Department of Labor administrative law judge (ALJ) has ordered Sun Valley Orchards, LLC – a farm in Swedesboro, New Jersey – to pay $344,945 in back wages and $211,800 in civil money penalties. Sun Valley Orchards, LLC will pay the back wages to 147 farmworkers, including 96 temporary foreign workers on H-2A visas.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today released its program results for Fiscal Year 2019. EBSA’s enforcement and benefit advisor programs recovered over $2.5 billion in payments to plans, participants and beneficiaries.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 21, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 21, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 21, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 21, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 21, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Nov 21, 2019
The US State Department published a two page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 21, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 21, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 21, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
