News from January 2022
By Press release submission | Jan 8, 2022
The department’s Wage and Hour Division and Occupational Safety and Health Administration response teams are in the area affected by tornadoes on Dec. 10, 2021, to remind workers of their rights and to make sure employers understand their responsibilities when it comes to paying workers properly, and remind them of their responsibility for their workers’ safety and health.
By Press release submission | Jan 8, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered more than $9.3 million for participants of a Minneapolis manufacturing company’s employee stock ownership plan after the fund overpaid for company stock in 2011, under the terms of a consent judgment entered in a federal court.
By Laurie A. Luebbert | Jan 8, 2022
Signs of avian thriving indicate that efforts to restore the habitat at Buckhorn Island State Park along the Niagara River are paying off.
By Press release submission | Jan 8, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the awards of $14 million in cooperative agreements to support a broad set of actions by two projects intended to combat child labor, forced labor and human trafficking, which affects more than 200 million children, women and men worldwide.
By Timothy Stuckey | Jan 8, 2022
Ports in 19 states and one territory are slated to receive more than $241 in grant funding to improve facilities and overcome challenges in the nation's supply chains.
By John Suayan | Jan 8, 2022
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Dec. 21, 2021, announced that a host of select cities will participate in a pilot program in which ICE law enforcement officers wear body worn cameras.
By Karen Kidd | Jan 8, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (EM) last year continued ongoing work cleaning up more than a dozen complex sites, all while dealing with the ongoing pandemic
By Trina Thomas | Jan 8, 2022
The pandemic isn't the only thing that took the country by surprise in 2020 - extreme weather events, likely caused by human activity, also did billions of dollars worth of damage that year.
By John Suayan | Jan 8, 2022
The last Afghan nationals at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia as part of Operation Allies Welcome have left to resettle in their new communities, completing OAW operations at the base, the Department of Homeland Security announced recently.
By Press release submission | Jan 8, 2022
A Nigerian man has been sentenced to federal prison for fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By Press release submission | Jan 8, 2022
A former Texas man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor for failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
By Press release submission | Jan 8, 2022
U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss announced today that Hunt Companies, Inc. (“Hunt”), one of the largest providers of privatized military housing to the U.S. Armed Forces, has agreed to a $500,000.00 settlement with the government to resolve allegations of fraud at the Dover Air Force Base arising under the False Claims Act.
By Press release submission | Jan 8, 2022
U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander today sentenced Stepfen Gerard Gaither, age 30, of Randallstown, Maryland, to 12 years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for a murder-for-hire conspiracy and for interstate communications with intent to extort, in connection to the extortion and planned murder of a Baltimore County restaurant owner and his partner over a debt, as well as to possession with intent to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl and heroin.
By Press release submission | Jan 8, 2022
A Florida man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in illicit sexual conduct while he was working in Japan as a U.S.
By Press release submission | Jan 8, 2022
Aaron Jordon of Imperial, Missouri, appeared before United States District Court Judge Rodney W. Sippel on today’s date.
By Press release submission | Jan 8, 2022
A Kansas City, Missouri, man who was arrested with 19 firearms and quantities of illegal drugs in his home pleaded guilty in federal court today to trafficking methamphetamine and illegally possessing firearms.Rusty W.
By Press release submission | Jan 8, 2022
A Las Vegas man who admitted to sexually exploiting a child and possessing child sexual abuse material was sentenced today to 15 years and 10 months in prison.
By Press release submission | Jan 8, 2022
A Great Falls man who admitted to methamphetamine trafficking in the Great Falls area was sentenced today to eight years and eight months in prison to be followed by four years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By Press release submission | Jan 8, 2022
A Great Falls man who admitted to downloading child pornography to his cellular phone was sentenced to six years in prison to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, U.S.
By Press release submission | Jan 8, 2022
A New York man was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston on drug trafficking charges involving fentanyl.
