News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has indicted former prison transport officer Anthony Buntyn, 53, for abusing detainees who were in his care and for threatening the detainees with retaliation if they reported his abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: A former associate scientist was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison in federal court today for stealing proprietary information worth more than $1 billion from his employer, a U.S. petroleum company.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: The Hon. Rebecca Grady Jennings of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky sentenced David M. Schwartz, 48, and Donna K. Gentry, 55, former correctional officers at the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections (LMDC), on charges of violating the civil rights of a pretrial detainee, writing false reports, and obstructing justice, for their roles in the assault of an inmate at LMDC and the subsequent attempt to cover up the misconduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: A dual U.S.-Mexican citizen had her initial appearance in federal court in the District of Columbia Wednesday on charges related to her alleged involvement in five business entities designated by the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) as providing material support to the international narcotics trafficking activities of the Mexican narcotics trafficking organization known as the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Anming Hu, a an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) was arrested today on a federal indictment and charged with three counts of wire fraud and three counts of making false statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today alleging that the Caroline County Commissioner of the Revenue in Bowling Green, Virginia, fired a former Master Deputy Commissioner of the Revenue on the basis of her disability, a respiratory impairment, in violation of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities ...
By Labor Gazette | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited CLF Construction Inc. and Toll Brothers Inc. for exposing employees to fall hazards after a CLF employee suffered fatal injuries in a fall at a worksite in Media, Pennsylvania. OSHA proposed $170,560 in penalties for Philadelphia-based subcontractor CLF Construction, and $74,217 for Horsham, Pennsylvania-based general contractor Toll Brothers.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) today announced significant increases in the number of indictments and criminal investigations in Fiscal Year 2019 along with a drop in the number of days OLMS took to resolve union officer election complaints.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK, NY – The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has sentenced Howard Preschel of Teaneck, New Jersey, to 30 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $462,049 in restitution for embezzling funds from an employee pension benefits plan sponsored by CMG Vending Inc. in Union City, New Jersey. The court also fined Preschel $10,000.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited CLF Construction Inc. and Toll Brothers Inc. for exposing employees to fall hazards after a CLF employee suffered fatal injuries in a fall at a worksite in Media, Pennsylvania. OSHA proposed $170,560 in penalties for Philadelphia-based subcontractor CLF Construction, and $74,217 for Horsham, Pennsylvania-based general contractor Toll Brothers.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) today announced significant increases in the number of indictments and criminal investigations in Fiscal Year 2019 along with a drop in the number of days OLMS took to resolve union officer election complaints.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK, NY – The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has sentenced Howard Preschel of Teaneck, New Jersey, to 30 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $462,049 in restitution for embezzling funds from an employee pension benefits plan sponsored by CMG Vending Inc. in Union City, New Jersey. The court also fined Preschel $10,000.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 27, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 27, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 27, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 27, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 27, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Feb 27, 2020
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
