News from January 2023
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to conduct pile burns in two locations this winter, with exact dates to be determined by weather and fuel moisture conditions.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
As part of its ongoing effort to support responsible renewable energy development on public lands, the Bureau of Land Management is holding a public scoping meeting in Spokane to solicit feedback on the recently announced programmatic environmental impact statement for the BLM’s utility-scale solar energy planning.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
As part of its ongoing effort to support responsible renewable energy development on public lands, the Bureau of Land Management is holding a public scoping meeting in Cheyenne to solicit feedback on the recently announced programmatic environmental impact statement for the BLM’s utility-scale solar energy planning.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
A federal jury in the Northern District of Illinois convicted a Chicago man yesterday for participating in a conspiracy to pay approximately $25 million in illegal kickbacks to generate business for his durable medical equipment pharmacy
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Defendant created multiple pandemic-relief applications
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
The Defendant and His Co-Conspirators Submitted at least 143 Fraudulent Unemployment Applications in the Names of Identity Theft Victims and Defrauded at least 83 Elderly Victims Resulting in a Combined Loss of More than $3 Million
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
A Blytheville man’s pattern of identity theft and fraudulent credit applications will result in him spending more than eight years in federal prison.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Also Defrauded Two States Out of COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Martín Scamaroni-Cintrón was sentenced on January 18, 2023 by United States District Court Judge Aida Delgado-Colón to 30 months in prison for laundering Unemployment Benefits and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Funds from his bank account in Puerto Rico.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
The former president and CEO of a Hollywood-based anti-poverty nonprofit agency has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges for embezzling money from the nonprofit for his personal benefit and intentionally misapplying more than $600,000 in grant money to pay for unauthorized expenses and lying on his tax returns, the Justice Department announced today.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment in federal court requiring a Minneapolis private in-home care provider to pay $1.6 million in back wages and damages, as part of the department’s effort to recover unpaid overtime wages for 136 healthcare workers in the Twin-Cities area.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
A federal court has ordered the owner of a Haslett assisted living facility to pay $15,238 in back wages and damages to six healthcare workers, whom the employer failed to pay during meal breaks when their duties forced them to work during or through the breaks.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a federal court order requiring a Carbondale café to pay 31 workers $98,400 in back wages and damages for operating an illegal tip pool, almost six months after a jury awarded the workers $4,900 – just 10 percent of their back wages – in what the department alleged was an error based on the jury’s instructions and how they interpreted the evidence at trial.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Chemicals manufactured or distributed in Rhode Island were earmarked to be exported to a company with ties to the Chinese military
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) today deployed the Investigations Database System (IDS), an innovative new data management tool that captures, manages, and displays USITC investigation-related information.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Turkey and revocation of the antidumping duty orders on rebar from Japan, Taiwan, and Turkey would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, and Turkey would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Readout Of Inaugural Meeting Of Us-Uk Comprehensive Dialogue On Technology & Data
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
The U.S. Census Bureau today released new Business Formation Statistics (BFS) for December 2022. The BFS provide timely and high frequency information on new business applications and formations in the United States.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Publicly available NISTCHO cell line expands the biomanufacturing and research applications of NIST’s monoclonal antibody standard, NISTmAb.
