News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal criminal complaint has been filed against Ronald Alexander, age 50, Mark Brinkley, age 51, and Thomas Corey Crosby, age 51, all three of Baltimore, charging them with Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances, 21 U.S.C. § 846. The criminal complaint was filed on August...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette had an opportunity last week to see progress being made at the Hanford Site by two Department of Energy offices, four major contractors and nearly 11,000 site employees working together as a One Hanford team, which is making preparations to treat tank waste and reduce site risks to protect the workforce, the public and the environment.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Hudson Valley Regional Council, Newburgh, New York, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: MELBOURNE, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered U.S. Corrections LLC - headquartered in Melbourne, Florida - to reinstate an employee for reporting personal and commercial motor vehicle safety concerns. OSHA also ordered the company to pay more than $70,000 in back wages, $30,000 in punitive damages, $7,341 in compensatory damages, $30,000 in emotional distress damages and reasonable attorney’s fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Wrote Nearly $500,000 in Checks on Church Account for Personal Benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to five years’ imprisonment, to be followed by four years of supervised release, on her conviction of possession with intent to distribute a mixture of fentanyl and tramadol, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS - On the morning of Aug. 13, vandals placed graffiti on a sandstone gateway sign marking the entry to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: RELEASE SUMMARY - Aug. 17, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an advisory guidance document to help non-federal public and private entities better understand the federal laws and regulations that may apply to the use of capabilities to detect and mitigate threats posed by Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) operations.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: On Monday the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of General Counsel (OGC) responded to the baseless legal opinion issued by the Government Accountability Office on Friday. In a detailed, eight-page letter, OGC shows not only that the GAO’s legal reasoning and treatment of the evidence are deeply flawed, but also how the timing and authorship of the opinion both reveal it to be a brazenly partisan product issued by supposed nonpartisan agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice has published proposed regulations that provide a clear and comprehensive statement of sex offenders’ registration requirements under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). SORNA requires convicted sex offenders to register in the states in which ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Three women were charged in a 13-count indictment filed on Aug. 14 in the Northern District of Ohio for their alleged roles in schemes to corruptly and fraudulently procure adoptions of Ugandan and Polish children through bribing Ugandan officials and defrauding U.S. adoptive parents, U.S. authorities, and a Polish regulatory authority.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it signed a settlement agreement with AllianceIT, a provider of IT staffing services based in Pleasanton, California. This is the tenth settlement under the Civil Rights Division’s Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative, which is aimed at targeting, investigating, and taking enforcement actions against companies that discriminate against U.S. workers in favor of temporary foreign visa workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a 13-count indictment against legislator María Milagros Charbonier-Laureano (Charbonier), aka “Tata,” a member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, as well as her husband Orlando Montes-Rivera (Montes), their son Orlando Gabriel Montes-Charbonier, and her assistant Frances Acevedo-Ceballos (Acevedo), for their alleged participation in a years-long theft, bribery, and kickback conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an advisory guidance document to help non-federal public and private entities better understand the federal laws and regulations ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: A former Shelby County Deputy Jailer, William Anthony Carey, 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gregory F. VanTatenhove to serve 48 months in federal prison for violating the civil rights of an inmate in his custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, was arrested on Aug. 14, 2020, on a charge that he conspired with a relative of his who also was a former CIA officer to communicate classified information up to the Top Secret level to intelligence officials of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The Criminal Complaint containing the charge was unsealed this morning.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) in the Department of Commerce (Commerce) today further restricted access by Huawei Technologies (Huawei) and its non-U.S. affiliates on the Entity List to items produced domestically and abroad from U.S. technology and software. In addition, BIS added another ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: LOXAHATCHEE, FL – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), A Cut Above Landscape & Maintenance Inc. – a landscaping company based in Loxahatchee, Florida – will pay 85 employees $110,602 in back wages for violating overtime and recordkeeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: MELBOURNE, FL – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered U.S. Corrections LLC – headquartered in Melbourne, Florida – to reinstate an employee for reporting personal and commercial motor vehicle safety concerns. OSHA also ordered the company to pay more than $70,000 in back wages, $30,000 in punitive damages, $7,341 in compensatory damages, $30,000 in emotional distress damages and reasonable attorney’s fees.
