News from August 2021
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke today with President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani to stress that the United States remains invested in the security and stability of Afghanistan ...
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani to express appreciation for our strategic partnership. Secretary Blinken thanked Minister Al-Thani ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: BOSTON– The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent preliminary injunction , which prevents a Holbrook tree service company and its sole officer from retaliating against former and current employees who cooperate with an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division or engage in other activity protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: WESTMINSTER, MD – A Westminster healthcare management company, a large employer in long-term care and rehabilitation, could have shown more care when paying 256 essential workers at four facilities in Pennsylvania and one in Maryland.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: RAPID CITY, SD ‒ Four days before Christmas in 2020, an excavation company’s owner was fixing an underground sewer line in Rapid City when the trench around him collapsed; his life ended under thousands of pounds of dirt.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of up to $5 million in grant funding to improve workers’ ability to exercise their labor rights in the agricultural supply chains in Guatemala and Honduras and the textile/apparel – or maquila – sector of El Salvador.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK – United Behavioral Health and United Healthcare Insurance Co. will pay $13.6 million to affected participants and beneficiaries; pay $2,084,249 in penalties; and take other corrective actions following investigations and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor and the New York State Attorney General.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK – United Behavioral Health and United Healthcare Insurance Co. will pay $13.6 million to affected participants and beneficiaries; pay $2,084,249 in penalties; and take other corrective actions following investigations and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor and the New York State Attorney General.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: BOSTON– The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent preliminary injunction , which prevents a Holbrook tree service company and its sole officer from retaliating against former and current employees who cooperate with an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division or engage in other activity protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: RAPID CITY, SD ‒ Four days before Christmas in 2020, an excavation company’s owner was fixing an underground sewer line in Rapid City when the trench around him collapsed; his life ended under thousands of pounds of dirt.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of up to $5 million in grant funding to improve workers’ ability to exercise their labor rights in the agricultural supply chains in Guatemala and Honduras and the textile/apparel – or maquila – sector of El Salvador.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: WESTMINSTER, MD – A Westminster healthcare management company, a large employer in long-term care and rehabilitation, could have shown more care when paying 256 essential workers at four facilities in Pennsylvania and one in Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of the Western District of Pennsylvania been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of production and attempted production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Rockport man pleaded guilty today to conducting a scheme to take over victims’ social media accounts and steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Chief United States District Judge Robert J. Jonker sentenced Mohamud Abdikadir Muse, age 25, of Lansing, Michigan to serve 98 months in federal prison for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, PA - Thirty-one people - 29 residents of Cambria, Indiana, Allegheny, Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties in Pennsylvania, one resident of Long Beach, California, and one resident of Middletown, Delaware, - have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces the arrest of Joshua Tubbs for First Degree Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Newport News man was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for his role in a series of armed convenience store robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: Gulfport - A Monroe, Louisiana man pleaded guilty today to engaging in a multi-million dollar conspiracy to pay illegal health care kickbacks and conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca, Acting Special Agent in Charge Paul Brown with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi, and Special Agent in Charge Cynthia A. Bruce of the DoD OIG, Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) Southeast Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: An Amarillo man has been sentenced to 35 years and five months in federal prison for gun and drug crimes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
