News from April 2020
By EPA Newswire | Apr 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the additional funding needed for the Paycheck Protection Program. The Paycheck Protection Program was established under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By State Newswire | Apr 7, 2020
News Release: Washington-House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI), and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-NJ), today issued the following joint statement in response to reports that the Trump Administration intends to withdraw the United States from the Open Skies Treaty.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 7, 2020
News Release: DALLAS - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested a Salvadoran man Thursday night in Arlington, Texas, who was wanted for capital murder.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the additional funding needed for the Paycheck Protection Program. The Paycheck Protection Program was established under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 7, 2020
Release: On the record, attributable to DOE Spokeswoman Shaylyn Hynes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - El Fiscal Federal de los Estados Unidos para el Distrito de Puerto Rico W. Stephen Muldrow hoy les exhorta a todos los ciudadanos de Puerto Rico que estén en alerta a los criminales que se aprovechan del miedo y la incertidumbre que ocasiona la enfermedad de coronavirus (COVID-19) para robar dinero y obtener información personal.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Franz Thiessen Enns, 56, of Chihuahua, Mexico, pleaded guilty on April 2 in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico to importing and possessing marijuana with intent to distribute.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security’s efforts across its components last week have facilitated a speedy, whole-of-government response to confronting COVID-19 and slowing the spread to keep Americans safe. FEMA is leading the way by carrying out an approach that is locally executed, state managed, and federally supported.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2020
News Release: MiMedx Group Inc. (MiMedx), a biopharmaceutical company based in Marietta, Georgia that manufactures and sells human tissue grafts, will pay $6.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false commercial pricing disclosures to the United States Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2020
News Release: David Podell, a New Jersey chiropractor, has agreed to pay the United States $2 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that he both knowingly billed Medicare for medically-unnecessary viscosupplementation injections and knee braces and that he received illegal kickbacks, the Justice Department ...
By Fed Newswire | Apr 6, 2020
News Release: The federal bank regulatory agencies today announced the issuance of two interim final rules to provide temporary relief to community banking organizations. The agencies are acting to implement Section 4012 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which requires the agencies to temporarily lower the community bank leverage ratio to 8 percent.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 6, 2020
News Release: To facilitate lending to small businesses via the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Federal Reserve will establish a facility to provide term financing backed by PPP loans. Additional details will be announced this week.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 6, 2020
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced that it is accepting applications from individuals who wish to be considered for membership on the Community Advisory Council (CAC). The CAC was formed in 2015. It advises the Board on issues affecting consumers and communities and complements two of the Board's other advisory councils whose members represent depository institutions — the Federal Advisory Council and the Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 6, 2020
News Release: BETHESDA, MD – The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland has issued a summary judgment requiring defendants WH Administrators, its owner and chief executive officer (CEO) and chief operating officer to restore $28,650,604 to health and welfare plans sold to employers by the now defunct Bethesda, Maryland-based benefits administration company.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) today announced the availability of $42.5 million in Youth Apprenticeship Readiness grants to support the enrollment of in-school or out-of-school youth apprentices (ages 16-24) into new or existing Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAPs).
By Labor Gazette | Apr 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a new poster listing steps all workplaces can take to reduce the risk of exposure to coronavirus.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 6, 2020
News Release: PEORIA, IL – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Grain and Feed Association of Illinois (GFAI), and Illinois On-Site Consultation Program have signed a two-year alliance to address safety and health hazards employees face at Illinois grain-handling sites.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 6, 2020
News Release: ST. JOSEPH, MO ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Skinner Tank Company – based in Yale, Oklahoma – for lack of fall protection after an employee constructing a storage tank suffered fatal injuries in a 50-foot fall at a Missouri agricultural ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 6, 2020
News Release: ST. JOSEPH, MO ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Skinner Tank Company – based in Yale, Oklahoma – for lack of fall protection after an employee constructing a storage tank suffered fatal injuries in a 50-foot fall at a Missouri agricultural ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 6, 2020
News Release: PEORIA, IL – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Grain and Feed Association of Illinois (GFAI), and Illinois On-Site Consultation Program have signed a two-year alliance to address safety and health hazards employees face at Illinois grain-handling sites.
