News from August 2021
By Labor Gazette | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of an increased $90 million in funding grants to provide reemployment opportunities for displaced workers, historically marginalized communities or groups and those unemployed for an extended period or who have exhausted unemployment insurance or other pandemic unemployment insurance programs.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The prime contractor responsible for construction of the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans paid back wages and benefits to 18 workers on the project after a federal investigation found the subcontractor who employed them had shortchanged them.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of an increased $90 million in funding grants to provide reemployment opportunities for displaced workers, historically marginalized communities or groups and those unemployed for an extended period or who have exhausted unemployment insurance or other pandemic unemployment insurance programs.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: LUBBOCK, TX ‒ The City of Lubbock recently presented the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Damage Prevention Council of Texas’ northwest chapter with a proclamation in recognition of National Safe Digging Day on Aug. 11. Each year, “811 Day” reminds contractors ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Brooklyn, New York, man was charged today for conspiring to defraud the IRS, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By State Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: EL PASO - Today a Mexican national was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempting to entice a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A federal grand jury issued a 25-count indictment Aug. 18 against Katie Diana Rooney charging her with health-care fraud and controlled substance offenses. At the time Rooney allegedly committed these offenses, she was a resident of St. Charles, Missouri.
By State Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
Release: On World Humanitarian Day, we recognize and honor all of the humanitarian aid workers who have sacrificed so much - including, for too many of them, their lives - to answer the call to protect and support the world’s most vulnerable populations. We commend the bravery and compassion of humanitarian aid...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Macon man with a prior federal conviction for distributing methamphetamine was sentenced to serve more than 18 years in federal prison for his role directing a drug trafficking ring with ties to the Georgia prison system responsible for pushing large quantities of “ice" methamphetamine into Middle Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that John Earl Beridon, 47, of Canyon Country, California, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher for Possessing with Intent to Distribute 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine. Beridon received a sentence of 96 months’ imprisonment with a five-year term of supervised release to follow. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A federal grand jury in East St. Louis, Illinois, has returned an indictment charging three area men with conspiring to steal and sell sensitive equipment and other property belonging to the United States military.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and National Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) wrote Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John F. Sopko expressing serious concerns over President Biden’s disastrous...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Used Stolen Identities to Obtain Fraudulent Unemployment Benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Sylvester Eugene Walker, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 120 months of incarceration for drug charges, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: DENVER - Cory Allen Snyder, 35, of Denver, was sentenced Tuesday to 34 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, after being convicted of mail theft, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Adolph J. Scott, a/k/a “A", a/k/a “AJ", a/k/a “Ghost", a/k/a “Jay", age 36, of Spring Lake, North Carolina, for the federal charges of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion; interstate transportation of an individual to engage in prostitution; and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: New York Man Sentenced to 36 Months for Stealing Nude Photos of Dozens of Victims.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: The North Carolina Chief Medical Examiner recently released a final report confirming that Great Smoky Mountains National Park visitor Patrick Madura died last summer likely due to trauma caused by a bear.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Eleno Fernandez-Garcia, 37, of Michoacán, Mexico, was sentenced today to 4 and a half years in prison for conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana and ordered to pay $45,688 in restitution to the U.S. Forest Service for the environmental damage that the toxic chemicals and cultivation operation had on public land, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
