News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: A Virginia man was sentenced today to over eight years in prison for his role in an investment-fraud scheme in which he and his co-conspirators stole at least $5.7 million from victim investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Two members of an international organized network that provided cash-out and money laundering services to cyber actors were extradited from the Czech Republic to Dallas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice today held a listening session with more than a dozen Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community groups as part of its continuing efforts to deter hate crimes and other unlawful acts against the AAPI community.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve on Friday clarified guidance as it relates to definitions for minority depository institutions (MDIs), expanded the MDI definition to include women-owned financial institutions, and highlighted resources available to MDIs through its Partnership for Progress (PFP) program. The Federal ...
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Today, I am announcing the public designation of oligarch and former Ukrainian public official Ihor Kolomoyskyy due to his involvement in significant corruption. In his official capacity as a Governor of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast from 2014 to 2015, Kolomoyskyy was involved in corrupt acts that ...
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today. Secretary Blinken and Prime Minister Pashinyan emphasized the importance of the U.S.-Armenia bilateral partnership. The Secretary stressed the significance ...
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš today. Secretary Blinken emphasized the U.S. commitment to the Transatlantic Alliance, U.S.-EU partnership, the common fight against malign influence, and the importance ...
By Labor Gazette | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH – Two Nashua restaurants learned that paying flat salaries to its workers doesn’t waive their responsibility to pay overtime when those employees work more than 40 hours in a workweek. Doing so violated the Fair Labor Standards Act , and resulted in the back wages found due in a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: SANIBEL, FL –Restaurant workers such as servers and bartenders depend on tips to supplement their low hourly wages, so when a Sanibel Island eatery required its workers to contribute to an unlawful tip pool, the restaurant made it even harder for them to make ends meet.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: OCALA, FL – A consent order issued by an administrative law judge in the U.S. Department of Labor has allowed the department’s Wage and Hour Division to recover $81,139 in back wages for 29 foreign workers brought to Florida for employment under the federal H-2B guest worker visa program.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: OCALA, FL – A consent order issued by an administrative law judge in the U.S. Department of Labor has allowed the department’s Wage and Hour Division to recover $81,139 in back wages for 29 foreign workers brought to Florida for employment under the federal H-2B guest worker visa program.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: SANIBEL, FL –Restaurant workers such as servers and bartenders depend on tips to supplement their low hourly wages, so when a Sanibel Island eatery required its workers to contribute to an unlawful tip pool, the restaurant made it even harder for them to make ends meet.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH – Two Nashua restaurants learned that paying flat salaries to its workers doesn’t waive their responsibility to pay overtime when those employees work more than 40 hours in a workweek. Doing so violated the Fair Labor Standards Act , and resulted in the back wages found due in a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation.
By State News Post | Mar 5, 2021
The US State Department published a one page notice on March 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 5, 2021
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on March 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 5, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 5, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 5, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 5, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 5, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on March 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
