News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Kirbyville, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine in southwest Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Daniel Montoya, 31, of Albuquerque, appeared in federal court in Albuquerque on Feb. 26 for a detention hearing on a criminal complaint charging him with assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon and use of a firearm in a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Mescalero Apache Man Faces Federal Assault Charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against a Breckenridge Hills Police Officer (formerly of the Woodson Terrace Police Department) for his conduct in connection with the arrest and assault of an individual. Officer David W. Maas, Saint Louis, was charged with one count of Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it will take necessary anti-fraud and abuse measures to protect the integrity of the H-2B visa program and also make available 35,000 supplemental H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for the second half of fiscal year (FY) ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: New rule encourages more robust services and opportunities to gain skills for today’s job market (Washington, D.C., March 5, 2020) – In light of President Trump’s historic economic expansion - with a 3.6% unemployment rate and 6.4 million job openings across the nation - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced a proposed rule that will strengthen the way states serve SNAP recipients through Employment and Training.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: A U.S. Immigration Judge in Memphis, Tennessee, has issued a removal order against a German citizen and Tennessee resident, on the basis of his service in Nazi Germany in 1945 as an armed guard of concentration camp prisoners in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp system (Neuengamme).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that the United States intervened and filed a complaint in two whistleblower cases filed under the False Claims Act against SpineFrontier, Inc. (SpineFrontier) and related entities and executives, alleging that the defendants paid kickbacks to spine surgeons to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department and Homeland Security, along with government counterparts from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, announced today the publication of Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. Developed in consultation with several leading technology ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: A federal jury sitting in Charlotte, North Carolina, has convicted the founder and chairman of a multinational investment company and a company consultant of public corruption and bribery charges, for orchestrating a bribery scheme involving independent expenditure accounts and improper campaign contributions. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that an Ohio developer and a franchisor of multifamily properties have agreed to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that they violated the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by designing and constructing 32 multifamily properties in Ohio that are inaccessible to persons with ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: The founder of a Russian bank was arrested last week in London in connection with an indictment charging him with filing false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson for the Northern ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Two former executives of EarthWater Limited (EarthWater), a Dallas-based company, were charged in a superseding indictment with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud and obstruction of justice.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: After careful consideration of the growing public health concerns associated with the coronavirus (COVID-19), the organizing sponsors of the 2020 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference (NICRC), scheduled March 9-12 in Denver, Colorado, have made the decision to postpone the conference.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of the enforcement actions listed below: City National Bancshares Corporation, Newark, New Jersey Written Agreement, dated Dec. 14, 2010 Terminated Feb. 25, 2020 Community Financial Holding Company, Inc., Duluth, Georgia Written Agreement, dated January 7, 2010 Terminated March 4, 2020 Additional enforcement actions can be searched for here.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Chairman Moran, Ranking Member Shaheen, and members of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, thank you for this opportunity to discuss President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2021 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Commerce. It is a privilege to appear before you today.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, NC – After a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigation, SBHLP Inc. – a Lake Placid, Florida-based H-2A labor contractor that supplied workers for five North Carolina farms – is required to pay $224,249 in wages to 194 employees for violating requirements of the H-2A visa program. The department also assessed the employer a $239,430 civil penalty and debarred the labor contractor for 3 years.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: BRAINTREE, MA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Dollar Tree Stores Inc. for exit, storage and fire hazards at a store in Boston, Massachusetts. The national discount retailer faces $523,745 in penalties.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) today announced a final rule to establish the “Form T-1” Trust Annual Report that requires unions to file annual financial reports concerning their trusts. These annual reports will increase the financial transparency ...
By Labor Gazette | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES, CA – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Office of Inspector General, a federal court has sentenced Anna Vishnevsky to 37 months in prison, and ordered her to make $2,747,071 in restitution for defrauding the healthcare ...
