News from September 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: A Toledo man was indicted for allegedly selling fentanyl and other drugs that resulted in a fatal overdose on New Year’s Eve.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: LANDER, Wyo. - The Wind River Wild Horse Public Off-Range Pasture and the Bureau of Land Management will host a free public event and wild horse adoption September 20-21. The ranch owners share the BLM’s commitment to place excess wild horses and burros into private care in order to maintain healthy animals on healthy, productive public rangelands.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that PALMA JEFFERSON, SR. and PALMA JEFFERSON, JR., a father and son from the greater New Orleans area, were charged in a seven-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury on Aug. 29, 2019. PALMA JEFFERSON, JR. was charged with possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Two New York ambulette company owners pleaded guilty today for their roles in a more than $8.6 million health care kickback scheme. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Richard P. Donoghue of the Eastern District of New York, Assistant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: A Russian national and an Italian national have been charged in the United States with conspiring and attempting to steal trade secrets from an American aviation company.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: The owner of two defense contracting firms was sentenced to 36 months in prison for providing non-conforming parts for military equipment, illegally sharing sensitive technical information and evading income taxes Assistant Attorney General John Demers and U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Tanner Penwell, 22, pleaded guilty to using unlawful force on an inmate while Penwell was serving as a correctional officer with the Tennessee Department of Corrections.

By Fed Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the enforcement action listed below: First State Bank Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska Flood insurance violation, civil money penalty, dated Sept. 3, 2019 The Federal Reserve Board also announced the termination of the enforcement action ...

By Fed Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced its approval of the application under section 3 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 by Hancock Whitney Corporation, Gulfport, Mississippi, to merge with MidSouth Bancorp, Inc. and indirectly acquire MidSouth's national bank subsidiary, MidSouth Bank, N.A., both of Lafayette, Louisiana.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Introduced by AmCham Greece President Nikos Bakatselos Thank you, Nikos for the kind introduction, and the opportunity to meet with you and fellow AmCham members. I am pleased to be back in Greece almost a year to the day from my attending last year’s Thessaloniki International Fair.

By Labor Gazette | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI – After a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigation, three Rhode Island nursing care facilities have paid $192,622 in back wages and liquidated damages to 89 employees to resolve violations of the overtime and minimum wage provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The facilities also paid $68,796 in civil penalties, while their parent company has agreed to FLSA compliance at all its locations.

By Labor Gazette | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced guidance clarifying affirmative action program (AAP) development for academic institutions and other contractors with campus-like settings, and advancing the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). OFCCP also issued a complementary policy directive limiting compliance reviews of academic institutions to non-student employees.

By Labor Gazette | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today awarded additional National Dislocated Worker Grant (NDWG) funding to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to continue disaster-relief efforts in response to Hurricane Michael and to provide career and training services to individuals forced to relocate in the storm's aftermath.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 5, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Sept. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 5, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a four page notice on Sept. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Sep 5, 2019
The US State Department published a one page notice on Sept. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Sep 5, 2019
The US State Department published a one page notice on Sept. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Sep 5, 2019
The US State Department published a two page notice on Sept. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Sep 5, 2019
The US State Department published a one page notice on Sept. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Sep 5, 2019
The US State Department published a two page notice on Sept. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.