News from August 2021
By Labor Gazette | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: DETROIT– A South Carolina-based contractor that processes identification cards for members of the armed forces, their families, retirees, government contractors and civilians has paid $1,705,441 in back wages and fringe benefits to 81 employees after the company violated the requirements of the McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: DETROIT– A South Carolina-based contractor that processes identification cards for members of the armed forces, their families, retirees, government contractors and civilians has paid $1,705,441 in back wages and fringe benefits to 81 employees after the company violated the requirements of the McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: BOSTON – On Feb. 24, 2021, at a sewer repair worksite on High Street in downtown Boston, Jordy Alexander Castaneda Romero, 27, and Juan Carlos Figueroa Gutierrez, 33, died after a dump truck struck and pushed them into a nine-foot deep trench. For their employer, Atlantic Coast Utilities LLC/Advanced ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: ATHENS, GA – Investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor sometimes find employers that illegally pay straight-time wages for overtime hours in an effort to curb operating costs. Far less often they find what the operator of two Athens tobacco and liquor stores was doing – paying workers even less than their normal hourly rate of pay for their overtime hours.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: BOSTON – On Feb. 24, 2021, at a sewer repair worksite on High Street in downtown Boston, Jordy Alexander Castaneda Romero, 27, and Juan Carlos Figueroa Gutierrez, 33, died after a dump truck struck and pushed them into a nine-foot deep trench. For their employer, Atlantic Coast Utilities LLC/Advanced ...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: MIAMI - Administrator Deanne Criswell (right) makes a quick stop by a virtual all-hands town hall at the National Hurricane Center.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla. -- FEMA has approved four additional grants totaling $37,785,550 to reimburse three state agencies for emergency work following Hurricane Michael in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Aug. 18, 2021, Ian Alan Olson of Nashotah, Wisconsin, appeared in federal court in Milwaukee and pleaded guilty to attacking United States Servicemen on account of their status as servicemen, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1389(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - Federal prosecutors have charged 28-year-old Fort Lauderdale, Florida resident Damara Holness with lying on a coronavirus relief loan application and fraudulently obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars intended to help small businesses financially survive the Covid-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Michael Shane Rogers, 37, of Ripley has been found guilty of illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the guilty verdict today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Audie Fry, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to three years of probation for drug distribution in the Wheeling area, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Galveston, Texas, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA -- Howard Louis Anderson, Jr., 40, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced yesterday to twenty years in federal prison following his conviction for production of child pornography. Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT/ MONROE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced the resolution of five cases today in United States District Court in the Western District of Louisiana, all of which are listed below.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Superseding Indictment Identifies Two Additional Defendants in Egregious, Nine-Person Case Involving Assault on Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 35 year-old Mexican citizen from Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, has been ordered to federal prison for conspiring to distribute more than 500 grams of meth, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: WACO - An Arkansas man was sentenced today to 24 months in prison and ordered to pay $5,918,446 in restitution for his role in a scheme to defraud TRICARE, a health care program of the U.S. Department of Defense.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: - Today the U.S. Census Bureau announced the release of Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) Explorer version 1.0. BDS Explorer provides access to the entire BDS dataset via line charts, bar charts and thematic maps. The application's intuitive dashboard allows for the construction of tables and charts...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that SETH THOMAS BLACKBURN, age 31 of Arapahoe, Wyoming; PETER JOSEPH BLACKBURN, a/k/a "Homer," age 34 of Riverton, Wyoming; and BRENT JORDAN GOULD, age 30 of Riverton, Wyoming, were all sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Scott W.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - Step back in time this weekend with tasty Dutch oven treats and an 1864 military camp at the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center.
