News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department announced that the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) has released over $500 million in grant solicitations under the COPS Hiring Program (CHP) and several other grant programs that advance community policing, keep school students safe and promote the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: A tax return preparer pleaded guilty today to aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. According to court documents and statements made in court, between 2013 and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania returned an indictment against a former senior executive for his role in conspiracies to fix prices, rig bids, and allocate customers for generic drugs, and for making a false statement to federal agents who were investigating those conspiracies, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: A federal jury found four Detroit-area physicians guilty today of health care fraud charges for their roles in a scheme to administer unnecessary back injections to patients in exchange for prescriptions of over 6.6 million doses of medically unnecessary opioids. Patients were required to get the injections in order to get the prescriptions, some of which were resold on the street by drug dealers, the evidence at trial showed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: On Feb. 3, Judge Staci M. Yandle of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois entered an order revoking the naturalized U.S. citizenship of convicted terrorist, Iyman Faris. Faris, a native of Pakistan, was convicted in 2003 of providing material support to al Qaeda and sentenced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr has released the following statement: In his State of the Union Address, President Trump underscored that the rule of law is central to American freedom and prosperity. This principle is what drives Department of Justice initiatives like Operation Relentless Pursuit and ...
By Fed Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced that it is permanently barring Andrea Vella, a senior executive at Goldman Sachs, from the banking industry for his role in Goldman's financing of a defrauded Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.
By Fed Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of the enforcement action listed below: Prohibition, restitution, and fine against Carol Allen, former employee of Farmers & Merchants Bank, Baldwyn, Mississippi, for embezzling funds.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Today, under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it has published a final regulation for imposing countervailing duties on products that benefit from unfair currency subsidies which, in turn, cause harm to domestic industries.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), the City of Concord, New Hampshire, paid $9,645 in civil money penalties for violations of the child labor requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) at the Douglas N. Everett Ice Arena, which led to the injury of one minor employee.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: CAMP HILL, PA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Cleveland Brothers Inc. – doing business as CB HYMAC – for exposing workers to hexavalent chromium fumes and other safety hazards at the company’s shop in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. OSHA cited ...
By Labor Gazette | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia issued the following statement regarding President Donald J. Trump’s State of the Union Address: “Three years ago, President Trump entered the Oval Office with a promise to bring back jobs and prosperity for the American worker. Tonight, the President reminded us that he has delivered on that promise. His policies have created an economic boom that is lifting up all Americans.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), the City of Concord, New Hampshire, paid $9,645 in civil money penalties for violations of the child labor requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) at the Douglas N. Everett Ice Arena, which led to the injury of one minor employee.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: CAMP HILL, PA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Cleveland Brothers Inc. – doing business as CB HYMAC – for exposing workers to hexavalent chromium fumes and other safety hazards at the company’s shop in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. OSHA cited ...
By Labor Gazette | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia issued the following statement regarding President Donald J. Trump’s State of the Union Address: “Three years ago, President Trump entered the Oval Office with a promise to bring back jobs and prosperity for the American worker. Tonight, the President reminded us that he has delivered on that promise. His policies have created an economic boom that is lifting up all Americans.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 4, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Feb. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Feb 4, 2020
The US Agriculture Department published a one page proposed rule on Feb. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Fed News Journal | Feb 4, 2020
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Feb. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 4, 2020
The US Labor Department published a three page notice on Feb. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Fed News Journal | Feb 4, 2020
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Feb. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
