News from September 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J.- A Passaic County, New Jersey, man was arrested today in connection with a scheme to defraud investors of over $1 million through various misrepresentations and omissions about his business operations and his background, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va.- A Lebanon, Virginia man was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison for using the online messaging application KIK to distribute images of child pornography to undercover law enforcement officers.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, in partnership with Bureau of Land Management, Nevada, Southern Nevada District Office, has released the preliminary environmental assessment for the Spring Mountains Wild Horse and Burro Complex Project for a 30-day public comment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) honors and celebrates the countless achievements, cultural contributions, and rich history of the Hispanic American community during this year’s National Hispanic Heritage Month.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the formation of the Law Enforcement Coordination Council (LECC) – the Department’s first unified law enforcement coordination body – to comprehensively assess a broad range of law enforcement matters, including its law enforcement ...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas met with Haitian Ambassador to the United States Bocchit Edmond to discuss our nations’ continued cooperation.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security intends to issue in the coming weeks a new memorandum terminating the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). Although the Department issued a June 2021 memorandum that terminated MPP, a Texas district court vacated that prior termination determination and issued an injunction that requires the Department to work in good faith to re-start MPP. The Department has appealed that injunction.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: Comprehensive Package of Investments Targets Urgent Challenges Facing Agriculture Today WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2021 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a comprehensive set of investments to address challenges facing America’s agricultural producers. These include assistance to address ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: A former Insys Therapeutics sales representative, whose trial had commenced, pleaded guilty in the Southern District of Ohio to conspiracy to defraud the United States for her involvement in a scheme to pay kickbacks to a doctor to induce him to prescribe Subsys, a dangerous sublingual fentanyl spray.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: A federal court in the Southern District of Florida has ordered a Miami-area tax preparer to pay a $403,969.70 contempt sanction for violating a permanent injunction that barred her from preparing, filing or assisting in the preparation or filing of federal tax returns for others.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that American Honda Finance Corporation (AHFC) has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that it violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) by failing to refund a type of up-front lease payment to servicemembers who lawfully terminated their motor vehicle leases early. Under the settlement agreement, AHFC must pay up to $1,585,803.89 in compensation to 714 servicemembers who were harmed by the alleged violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department has filed a complaint against Asotin County, Washington, alleging that the County discriminated against a female deputy clerk on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII is a federal statute that prohibits employment discrimination on ...
By State Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: The United States and the Government of Qatar have taken coordinated actions against a major Hizballah financial network based in the Gulf. Ali Reda Hassan al-Banai, Ali Reda al-Qassabi Lari, and Abd al-Muayyid al-Banai, are being designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) pursuant ...
By State Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan on the occasion of the C5+1 Ministerial on the margins of UNGA 76.
By State Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Gina, thank you very much and it’s wonderful to be here with all of you. Thank you so much for taking the time for this conversation this afternoon. We’ve had a very productive day already in Pittsburgh, a great American city, an industrial capital in the last century, a high-tech capital in this century, and so a very fitting place I think for the conversations we’re having.
By State Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: MODERATOR: Members of the press, we have time for a couple of questions.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: Section 1. Pittsburgh Statement 1. The U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) met for the first time in Pittsburgh on 29 September 2021. It was co-chaired by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, European Commission ...
By Commerce News Now | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: Launched by President Joe Biden, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and European Council President Charles Michel at the U.S.-EU Summit in June 2021, the Trade and Technology Council held its inaugural meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Sept. 29, 2021. U.S. Co-Chairs, Secretary ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: WESTWOOD, NJ – Owners of two Westwood car wash establishments and an oil change shop routinely shortchanged employees who worked long hours doing physically demanding work. As a result of a federal investigation and recent court order, the firm must pay $325,000 in back wages and liquidated damages for failing to pay the minimum wage and overtime. Some employees who worked as many as 70 hours in a workweek received only straight time for all the hours they worked.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh-based company that provides IT support to health plan providers has agreed to pay $410,000 in back pay and interest after a federal compliance evaluation alleged the federal contractor’s pay practices discriminated against 67 employees in the Associate Consultant and Consultant ...
