News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: Christopher A. Parris, 41, formerly of Rochester, New York, and currently of Lawrenceville, Georgia, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit mail fraud related to a Ponzi scheme, as well as to wire fraud involving the fraudulent sale of purported N95 masks during the pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: The United States has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington seeking to bar a Kent, Washington, tax return preparer from preparing federal tax returns for others. The parties have contemporaneously filed a joint motion for entry of a permanent injunction by consent.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it finalized the settlement of a claim against Akal Security to protect rights guaranteed to a military reservist, Chief Petty Officer Robert M. Diaz (Ret.), by the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department and U.S Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island today announced a settlement agreement with Brown University to ensure that students with mental health disabilities have equal access to educational programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: A Washington State man was sentenced today to two years in prison for perpetrating a scheme to fraudulently obtain COVID-19 disaster relief loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) through the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: A federal grand jury in Newark, New Jersey, returned a superseding indictment today charging a Florida owner of multiple telemedicine companies with orchestrating a health care fraud and illegal kickback scheme that involved the submission of over $784 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty yesterday to assisting in the preparation of false federal tax returns.
By State Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: Today, during an official visit to Thailand, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced that the United States is providing more than $50 million in critical humanitarian assistance to the people of Burma, including those forced to flee violence and persecution. This aid ...
By State Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States and the American people, I send warm greetings to the Ecuadorian people as you celebrate the 212th anniversary of your declaration of independence.
By State Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: I am appointing Amos Hochstein to serve as the Department’s Senior Advisor for Energy Security, underscoring the Administration’s commitment to promote energy security for the United States and our allies and partners. His immediate focus will be implementation of measures to reduce the risks posed by the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, as outlined in the July 21 Joint Statement of the United States and Germany on Support for Ukraine, European Energy Security, and our Climate Goals.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on a broad bipartisan vote of 69-30. This historic bill includes many of President Joe Biden’s economic priorities, including record investments in minority-owned businesses, broadband infrastructure, expanded funding to track and address climate change, while also including the largest-ever federal investments in roads and bridges, clean drinking water and more.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, KY – Thirty three workers at a Bowling Green restaurant have received all of the wages they earned legally after a federal investigation recovered $52,805 in back wages denied to them by their employer’s illegal pay practices.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, FL – Among some of the nation’s lowest-paid workers, home healthcare aides remain especially dependent on their employers to pay them all of their legally earned wages. When an employer shortchanges these workers, the impact hits employees and their families hard as it did those employed by a Pensacola-based home healthcare provider.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced its intent to award up to $10 million in grant funding to improve gender equity in the Mexican workplace.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, FL – Among some of the nation’s lowest-paid workers, home healthcare aides remain especially dependent on their employers to pay them all of their legally earned wages. When an employer shortchanges these workers, the impact hits employees and their families hard as it did those employed by a Pensacola-based home healthcare provider.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, KY – Thirty three workers at a Bowling Green restaurant have received all of the wages they earned legally after a federal investigation recovered $52,805 in back wages denied to them by their employer’s illegal pay practices.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced its intent to award up to $10 million in grant funding to improve gender equity in the Mexican workplace.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced the immediate availability of $11.6 million in “quick release” Emergency Relief (ER) funds to help the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) make repairs to Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon damaged by mudslides. I-70 is a critical connection for people and freight between Western Colorado and the rest of the State, as well as for national east-west traffic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Argelianka Garcia, of New York, New York, has admitted to her involvement in a drug conspiracy that spanned several states, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
