News from August 2021
By Labor Gazette | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor received an A+ on the Small Business Administration’s recently announced Fiscal Year 2020 Small Business Federal Procurement Scorecard , marking the fourth straight year the department has received the scorecard’s highest grade. The scorecard measures the ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $1,866,667 in incremental funding to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to support job creation and workforce training services in 13 counties affected significantly by widespread opioid use, addiction and overdose.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: PUEBLO, CO – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has again cited a Pueblo home manufacturing company for exposing employees to defective scaffolding and ladders, and failing to train workers on scaffolding safety.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $1,866,667 in incremental funding to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to support job creation and workforce training services in 13 counties affected significantly by widespread opioid use, addiction and overdose.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: CARLISLE, PA – Ignoring lump sum bonus payments made to essential supermarket workers during the pandemic when calculating their overtime rates led to federal wage violations by a large Northeast supermarket chain that shortchanged more than 3,300 workers in four states, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has determined.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor received an A+ on the Small Business Administration’s recently announced Fiscal Year 2020 Small Business Federal Procurement Scorecard , marking the fourth straight year the department has received the scorecard’s highest grade. The scorecard measures the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: Former media company CEO admits to paying $525,000 to facilitate her children’s admission to two universities using admissions slots reserved for recruited athletes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: Charged Conspiracy Includes Sales of ‘Ghost Guns’ and Switches That Convert Pistols to Automatic Weapons.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man who strangled and killed his wife in 2019 was sentenced today in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart, announced today that Johnny Thomas, 34, of Durham, NC, and Becca Mills, 25, of Whispering Pines, NC, have been charged in a criminal complaint for their roles in alleged child sex trafficking and coercion and enticement of minors in the Myrtle Beach area of South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Templeton man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for federal firearms offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: Battle Mountain, Nev. - On or around Aug. 19, 2021, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Battle Mountain District, Tonopah Field Office will begin an emergency wild horse gather on the Stone Cabin Herd Management Area (HMA) located 28 miles east of Tonopah, Nevada in Nye County. The BLM plans to gather...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan W. Sharp announced that Juan Burnell, age 34, of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, was sentenced in federal court on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, in Omaha, Nebraska. Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter sentenced Burnell to 25 years of imprisonment for distributing child pornography. After completing his term of imprisonment, Burnell will begin a 15-year term of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Aug 16, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A registered nurse and nurse practitioner who allegedly billed and received more than $2.3 million dollars from commercial health insurers and Medicaid for services he falsely claimed to have performed on patients in Rhode Island, New York, and Florida is in federal custody in Florida and will be brought to Rhode Island to face health care fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering charges, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Logan County man was sentenced today to 84 months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 16, 2021
Release: MANCHESTER, N.H. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped another firearm from entering an aircraft at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (MHT) on Friday, August 13. This was the second firearm detected in a week and the fourth detection this year by TSA officers at MHT security checkpoints.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: Defendant Posted Threatening Statements About Carrying Out Violent Attacks in Washington, D.C. on January 5 and 6, 2021.
By State Newswire | Aug 16, 2021
Release: U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland visited Egypt, Turkey, and Morocco August 10-16. Ambassador Norland met with senior officials in Cairo and Ankara, and with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in Rabat. The Ambassador’s travel focused on the urgency of establishing the...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 16, 2021
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - FEMA has provided the City of West Jordan $164,908.13 for repairs to a water storage tank. The funds are provided from the agency’s Public Assistance program as part of the major disaster declaration issued in 2020 for the Magna earthquake.
