News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: A diner owner pleaded guilty today to failing to pay employment taxes, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Two Iranian nationals have been charged in connection with a coordinated cyber intrusion campaign – sometimes at the behest of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran) – targeting computers in New Jersey, elsewhere in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Yang Yang (34, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to conspiring to submit false export information through the federal government’s Automated Export System and to fraudulently export to China maritime raiding craft and engines in violation of United States (U.S.) law, and also to attempting to fraudulently export that equipment in violation of U.S. law. Yang faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers and U.S. Attorney Erica H. MacDonald for the District of Minnesota today announced that Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, 23, of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, has been charged by indictment with providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department announced today the filing of civil forfeiture complaints seeking the forfeiture and recovery of more than $300 million in additional assets allegedly associated with an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a Malaysian ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: A resident of Topeka, Kansas, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas on federal child pornography charges, Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that a federal court in Orlando, Florida, permanently enjoined Advanced Tax Services Inc. and Genson Financial Group LLC from preparing federal tax returns for others and ordered the businesses to disgorge $710,191.55, jointly and severally, representing the ill-gotten ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: An indictment and arrest warrant were unsealed today in the federal court of the District of Columbia charging Lirim Sylejmani, a Kosovo-born naturalized U.S. citizen, with conspiring to provide, providing, and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a ...
By Fed Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: The Federal Reserve is committed to using its full range of tools to support the U.S. economy in this challenging time, thereby promoting its maximum employment and price stability goals.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: The attached table and charts released on Wednesday summarize the economic projections and the target federal funds rate projections made by Federal Open Market Committee participants for the September 15-16 meeting.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK, NY – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Weaver Racing Inc. and owner George R. Weaver paid a total of $425,000 in court-ordered back wages, liquidated damages and civil penalties for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the labor provisions of the H-2B visa program.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: GEORGETOWN, MA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Georgetown Dental LLC for violating respiratory protection and other standards at the Georgetown, Massachusetts, location. OSHA cited the dental practice for six serious and one other-than-serious violations, with proposed penalties of $9,500. The company has paid the penalty in full and abated the citations.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK, NY – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Weaver Racing Inc. and owner George R. Weaver paid a total of $425,000 in court-ordered back wages, liquidated damages and civil penalties for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the labor provisions of the H-2B visa program.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: GEORGETOWN, MA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Georgetown Dental LLC for violating respiratory protection and other standards at the Georgetown, Massachusetts, location. OSHA cited the dental practice for six serious and one other-than-serious violations, with proposed penalties of $9,500. The company has paid the penalty in full and abated the citations.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 16, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Sept. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 16, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Sept. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 16, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Sept. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
The US Interior Department published a three page proposed rule on Sept. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 16, 2020
The US Commerce Department published a three page rule on Sept. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 16, 2020
The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on Sept. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
