News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury in Denver, Colorado, returned an indictment yesterday charging Lawrence Martin Birk with failing to surrender to serve his sentence, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. Birk was convicted by a jury in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: A Virginia political consultant who served as the treasurer of multiple Political Action Committees (PACs) was sentenced today to one year and a day in prison followed by two years of supervised release for lying to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) about approximately $32,500 in payments of Political Action Committee (PAC) money that he directed to himself and a close friend.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: A Missouri woman pleaded guilty today in the Western District of Missouri for assaulting her infant child while living overseas in Germany as the dependent of an enlisted member of the U.S. Army, and repeatedly lying to law enforcement during the course of the subsequent federal investigation. Baillie ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: An Ohio physician who owned a Dayton-area medical practice pleaded guilty today for illegally distributing opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: A federal jury found a west Tennessee doctor guilty today for unlawfully distributing opioids to purported patients and to others who were never his patients. The defendant was charged in an April 2019 indictment as part of the first Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid (ARPO) Strike Force Takedown, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Wells Fargo & Company and its subsidiary, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., have agreed to pay $3 billion to resolve their potential criminal and civil liability stemming from a practice between 2002 and 2016 of pressuring employees to meet unrealistic sales goals that led thousands of employees to provide millions ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: A 19-count indictment in Tampa, Florida, was unsealed today against a former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agent and his wife for their alleged roles to divert drug proceeds from undercover money laundering investigations into bank accounts they, along with family members and criminal ...
By Fed Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: The 2020 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference takes place in Denver from March 9 to 12. The conference is hosted by the three federal banking agencies, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Reserve Banks of San Francisco, Kansas City, and Chicago.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: PHENIX CITY, AL – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Jaime Martinez Hernandez – a residential framing contractor based in Phenix City, Alabama – for exposing employees to fall and struck-by hazards at two Alabama worksites. The contractor faces $240,880 in penalties.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, DE – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Dana Rail Care for workplace safety and health hazards at the facility in Wilmington, Delaware. The company faces $371,276 in penalties.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia announced a series of management decisions, including his first Secretary's Orders since his confirmation in September 2019.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia announced a series of management decisions, including his first Secretary's Orders since his confirmation in September 2019.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, DE – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Dana Rail Care for workplace safety and health hazards at the facility in Wilmington, Delaware. The company faces $371,276 in penalties.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: PHENIX CITY, AL – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Jaime Martinez Hernandez – a residential framing contractor based in Phenix City, Alabama – for exposing employees to fall and struck-by hazards at two Alabama worksites. The contractor faces $240,880 in penalties.
By DOJ Gazette | Feb 21, 2020
The US Justice Department published a two page rule on Feb. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Feb 21, 2020
The US Justice Department published a two page rule on Feb. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Feb 21, 2020
The US Justice Department published a one page rule on Feb. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 21, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a five page notice on Feb. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Feb 21, 2020
The US State Department published a one page notice on Feb. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Feb 21, 2020
The US State Department published a one page notice on Feb. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
