News from October 2019
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: BRYCE, UT-Construction of new safety improvement measures will soon be underway at the Mossy Cave parking area along State Route 12 (SR-12) in Bryce Canyon Naitonal Park. This project is a partnership between the National Park Service, Utah Department of Transportation, and Garfield County aimed at improving...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) issued the following statements after Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee released its report on the Lion Air flight...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Albert Singer, 24, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to five years in federal prison for bank robbery. Singer pleaded guilty to this charge on July 25, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Oct. 24, 2019, Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf, sentenced Hersel Raymar Bradley, 41, of Lincoln, to 19 years and seven months, (235 months) in prison. Bradley pled guilty to a charge of conspiracy to distribute, and possess with...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Michael Frost, who was previously convicted and served a sentence in federal prison for possession of child pornography, has been sentenced for possessing child pornography including images of children as young as seven.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Kevin Clinton, age 62, of New Carlisle, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr, after being convicted on 4 counts of mail fraud during a 2-day trial in May 2019, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Produce Delights LLC satisfied a $5,292 reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving an unpaid produce transaction.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon National Park will begin installing five water test wells within the inner canyon at Phantom Ranch next week. The construction will begin Oct. 28 and is expected to conclude on Dec. 5, 2019.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2019 – Registration is now open for the 96th annual Agricultural Outlook Forum (AOF), the largest annual meeting and premiere event of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The two-day Forum will take place on Feb. 20-21, 2020, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Va.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2019 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary Donald “DJ” LaVoy and U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary of Energy Mark W. Menezes today announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two departments to promote rural energy and the development of technologies that will support and advance rural and agricultural communities and domestic manufacturing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: A Crane Hill, Alabama, husband and wife were sentenced to 20 months collectively in prison yesterday for failing to pay over payroll taxes, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town for the Northern District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury in Brooklyn, New York, indicted a New York City resident yesterday on multiple counts of willfully failing to collect, truthfully account for, and pay over federal employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: A Central Ohio man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today for exporting gas and oil pipeline parts to Iran for more than a decade in deliberate violation of a U.S. embargo and trade sanctions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: Francis Alvarez, owner of a large freight forwarding company, pleaded guilty to an antitrust charge for her role in a multi-year, nationwide conspiracy to fix prices for international freight forwarding services, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: Two North Carolina men were found guilty today for conspiracy to participate in a pattern of racketeering (RICO), two counts of murder in aid of racketeering, two counts of murder with a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to commit witness tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: A federal jury convicted four North Carolina members of the United Blood Nation (UBN or Bloods) street gang of charges including Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conspiracy involving multiple murders. In May of 2017, 83 UBN gang members were indicted in the Western District of North Carolina for crimes including RICO conspiracy. This trial resulted in the convictions of the last four defendants in the active case.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced four new members of its Community Advisory Council (CAC). The new members will serve three-year terms beginning in 2020.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: SUMMERTOWN, TN – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Shaffer Farms Custom Meats LLC and Shaffer Farms Texas Bar-B-Q restaurant has paid $69,514 in back wages and liquidated damages to 21 employees for violating the overtime and recordkeeping requirements ...
By Labor Gazette | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: NORTH AUGUSTA, SC – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), TR Sales Plantation – a real estate developer in North Augusta, South Carolina – has paid $27,959 in back wages to eight employees for overtime violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: GRANITE FALLS, NC – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Granite Falls Seafood Inc. – operating as Captain’s Galley Seafood Restaurant – will pay $21,974 in back wages and liquidated damages to eight employees for violating minimum wage and overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The employer also paid a civil penalty of $1,751 for FLSA child labor violations.
