News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging Haji Najibullah, a/k/a “Najibullah Naim,” a/k/a “Abu Tayeb,” a/k/a “Atiqullah” with six counts related to the 2008 kidnapping of an American journalist and two Afghan nationals. Najibullah, 44, was arrested and transferred ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Eric Dreiband issued the following statement today commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act: Twenty years ago, on Oct. 28, 2000, Congress enacted the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), condemning human trafficking as a “contemporary manifestation of slavery” that is “abhorrent” to our ideals of freedom, human dignity, and unalienable rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: The former president of Transport Logistics International Inc. (TLI), a Maryland-based transportation company that provides services for the transportation of nuclear materials to customers in the United States and abroad, was sentenced today to 48 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in a scheme to bribe a Russian official in exchange for obtaining contracts for the company.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that United Microelectronics Corporation, Inc. (UMC), a Taiwan semiconductor foundry, pleaded guilty to criminal trade secret theft and was sentenced to pay a $60 million fine, in exchange for its agreement to cooperate with the government in the investigation and prosecution of its co-defendant, a Chinese state-owned-enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen issued the following statement: "Today marks the 20th Anniversary of the enactment of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. This landmark law criminalized sex trafficking and forced labor, created systems to protect victims of this crime at home and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that additional charges have been brought in a superseding indictment against members and associates of a white supremacist gang known as the 1488s. The 1488s have been charged as a criminal organization that was involved in narcotics distribution, arson, obstruction of justice, and acts of violence including murder, assault, and kidnapping.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Introduced by Helen Edenfield, Global Director for Facilities, NeoGenomics Thank you, Helen, for that kind introduction.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH – The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire has ordered C & C Flooring LLC and owner Christopher Coburn to pay 33 current and former employees a total of $240,000 in back wages and liquidated damages and $10,000 in punitive damages, to resolve violations of the overtime and anti-retaliation provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The defendants have also paid a civil money penalty of $13,688 for the willful nature of the violations.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grant for up to $3 million, awarded to Iowa Workforce Development, in response to the severe storms of August 2020. Severe storms brought hurricane-force winds across central Iowa on Aug. 10, ...
By Labor Gazette | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor is providing $1.5 billion in Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult and Dislocated Worker program funds to states and territories.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor is providing $1.5 billion in Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult and Dislocated Worker program funds to states and territories.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH – The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire has ordered C & C Flooring LLC and owner Christopher Coburn to pay 33 current and former employees a total of $240,000 in back wages and liquidated damages and $10,000 in punitive damages, to resolve violations of the overtime and anti-retaliation provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The defendants have also paid a civil money penalty of $13,688 for the willful nature of the violations.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grant for up to $3 million, awarded to Iowa Workforce Development, in response to the severe storms of August 2020. Severe storms brought hurricane-force winds across central Iowa on Aug. 10, ...
By DOT News Wire | Oct 28, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Oct. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 28, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Oct. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 28, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Oct. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 28, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Oct. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 28, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Oct. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 28, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Oct. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 28, 2020
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Oct. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
