News from January 2023
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued new enforcement guidance to make its penalties more effective in stopping employers from repeatedly exposing workers to life-threatening hazards or failing to comply with certain workplace safety and health requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: Darrell Taylor, 32, a former officer with the Louisville Metro Department of Correction, in Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for using unreasonable force against a detainee, thereby violating the detainee’s civil rights.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
Release: Employer: Heine Brothers Inc. Investigation site: 1301 W. Main St. Louisville, KY 40203. Investigation findings: U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found the operator of a Louisville coffee shop redistributed tips improperly and diverted workers’ tips to managers. Heine Brothers ...
By Commerce Newswire Report | Jan 27, 2023
A $794,472 grant to the Georgia Southern University Research and Service Foundation Inc. in Statesboro was awarded by the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - MAURICE FLORANT, age 34, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged on Jan. 26, 2023 in a two-count indictment for violations of the Federal Gun Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Florida man pleaded guilty today to a felony charge for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0), a guidance document for voluntary use by organizations designing, developing, deploying or using AI systems to help manage the many risks of AI technologies.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page proposed rule on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Houston, TX, woman who admitted to a federal judge in Providence, RI, that she collected and banked more than $1.26 million of the more than $2.5 million she and co-conspirators bilked from the unsuspecting victims of internet-based “romance scams" that they executed, was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: DETROIT - A Gibraltar man was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for sexual exploitation of children, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
Release: The United States is sanctioning a former and a current senior Paraguayan official for their involvement in systemic corruption that has undermined democratic institutions in Paraguay. The Department of the Treasury is designating Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara (Cartes), the former President of Paraguay...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: The Justice Department filed a complaint today against the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs (WDMA) alleging that the WDMA discriminated on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when it offered a woman a lower salary than similarly or less qualified men for ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today announced the committee will hold its organizational meeting on Tuesday, January 31 at 11:00am ET. At the business meeting, the committee will consider the proposed committee rules for the 118th Congress and resolutions appointing majority and minority members to the subcommittees.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: SEATTLE (Jan. 26, 2023) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality $26,730,000 to protect and improve water quality and infrastructure across the state. Idaho’s Drinking Water State Revolving Fund received $17,992,000 and the Clean Water State Revolving Fund received $8,738,000. All the funding is a result of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JULIO MARQUEZ ALEJANDRO, a/k/a “Chino," was sentenced to life in prison, and LUIS BLONDET was sentenced to 50 years in prison, each for their leading roles in a brutal drug cartel that is responsible...
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
The US State Department published a two page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging Ryan E. Dales, age 34, of Baltimore, Maryland, with illegal possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon and with wire fraud, relating to the submission of fraudulent applications for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES") Act.
