News from April 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jawad Khalaf, 72, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Nashat Khalaf, 73, of Gallup, New Mexico, Sterling Islands, Inc., a wholesale jewelry business in Albuquerque, and Al-Zuni Global Jewelry, Inc., a wholesale jewelry business in Gallup, pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque today...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Carlsbad - Today, the Office of Environmental Management (EM), Carlsbad Field Office is renewing a financial assistance grant to the Regents of New Mexico State University (NMSU), a Public/State Controlled Institution of Higher Education. The project value is $14,470,270 million, with a 5-year project...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson issued a statement supporting efforts to create local task forces to provide a framework to safely and efficiently reopen meatpacking facilities in a way that protects worker health and safety and begins to reduce the backup of hogs for...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: FBI Chicago Announces Recipient of Director’s Community Leadership Award.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. - The National Park Service (NPS), in coordination with CSX, is making progress on the requirements for a permit, which would outline the required repairs to the Goodloe E. Byron Memorial Pedestrian Walkway (footbridge) across the Potomac River. While the project terms and the timeline for repairs are still under discussion, the NPS and CSX are working toward a late spring start date for construction.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is increasing recreational access and services. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security have extended the temporary postponement of Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). Hearings scheduled through, and including, June 1, 2020, will be rescheduled. As the Departments continue to review conditions related to COVID-19, they will make further determinations as necessary in order to ensure that all MPP hearings can proceed as expeditiously as possible.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – Adrian L. Stargell, 39, a former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) corrections officer who worked as an education specialist at the FCI-Aliceville facility in Aliceville, Alabama, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Stargell pleaded guilty to two counts of violating the rights ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Jeffrey A. Rosen, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, Richard E. Zuckerman, the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Don Fort, the Chief of the Internal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Bank Hapoalim B.M. (BHBM), an Israeli bank with international operations, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Hapoalim (Switzerland) Ltd. (BHS), have agreed to forfeit $20,733,322 and pay a fine of $9,329,995 to resolve an investigation into their involvement in a money laundering conspiracy that fueled ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – Daniel McMahon, 31, pleaded guilty today in federal court in the Western District of Virginia to one count of threatening an African-American Charlottesville City Council candidate identified by the initials D.G. because of his race and because he was running for office, and to one count ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute LLC (FCS), an oncology group headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, was charged with conspiring to allocate medical and radiation oncology treatments for cancer patients in Southwest Florida, the Department of Justice announced. This charge is the first in the department’s ongoing investigation into market allocation in the oncology industry.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced it has fined Bank Hapoalim B.M, a foreign bank headquartered in Israel and operating in the United States, $37.35 million for the firm's unsafe and unsound practices resulting in violations of U.S. tax laws.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced it is expanding the scope and eligibility for the Main Street Lending Program. As part of its broad effort to support the economy, the Federal Reserve developed the Main Street Lending Program to help credit flow to small and medium-sized businesses that were in sound financial condition before the pandemic.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: The Federal Reserve on Thursday expanded access to its Paycheck Protection Program Liquidity Facility (PPPLF) to additional lenders, and expanded the collateral that can be pledged. The changes will facilitate lending to small businesses via the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
By Labor Gazette | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia issued the following statement regarding Unemployment Insurance claims: “As states begin the process of reopening and Americans return to work, today’s unemployment report reflects once again the hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The President’s ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of up to $312 million in funding aimed at creating job training and employment search services for older Americans.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor, in partnership with the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) and the Delta Regional Authority (DRA), today announced the availability of approximately $29.2 million in a second round of grant funding for the Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities (WORC) ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced additional funding of $3,333,334 for a Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) awarded to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity in response to Hurricane Michael, which made landfall in the state in October 2018.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The Secretary of Labor has reached an agreement with Wilmington Trust, N.A. – a Delaware-based bank and trust company – requiring Wilmington Trust to pay a combined $80 million to 21 employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) for which it served as trustee and $8 million to the government, ...
