News from March 2023
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
Earl Adams, Jr. was sworn in as Deputy Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). Adams has served as FMCSA’s Chief Counsel since July 2021.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
Twenty-three schools will receive $10 million in grants from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to help attract and train students for careers as pilots and aviation maintenance technicians. T
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is inviting the drone community to be part of its 2023 Drone Safety Day on Saturday, April 29
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
With air traffic poised to reach or beat pre-pandemic levels this year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding nearly $1 billion from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 99 airports of all shapes and sizes across the country
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced Andrew Rogers as FHWA Deputy Administrator. Rogers has served as FHWA Chief Counsel since January 2021.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
A federal jury convicted a McComb woman for one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud, one count of conspiring to commit theft of public money, one count of theft of public money, and one count of making a false statement to a federal agent.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
Mexican Nationals Charged with Offenses Stemming from Smuggling and Labor Trafficking Scheme
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
A Chicago-area physical therapist, health care professional, and a personal trainer have pleaded guilty to one count of healthcare fraud each for scheming to defraud private insurers for payment of physical therapy and other services that were never rendered.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that The Sherwin-Williams Company has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it participated in a scheme to defraud the federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program in connection with a contract to paint the George C. Platt Memorial Bridge in Philadelphia.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
A Tewksbury woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to embezzling more than $1.8 million from her employer, collecting unemployment assistance while employed fulltime and related tax charges.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
A former Pennsville, New Jersey, advanced practice nurse today admitted defrauding New Jersey state and local health benefits programs and other insurers by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
A Hyde Park man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to using a stolen identity to fraudulently obtain pandemic relief funds and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, previously known as Food Stamps.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
A federal court has ordered a Brewster home care provider to stop retaliating against employees in an effort to obstruct a U.S. Department of Labor investigation into the employers’ pay practices.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
US Department of Labor finds Mississippi medical center illegally deducted hours worked, failed to pay required overtime; recovers $201K in back wages
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
US Department of Labor recovers $330K in back wages for 20 workers denied overtime pay by North Carolina contractor
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
US Department of Labor to host one-day online educational seminar for agriculture industry employers, workers, other stakeholders
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
With a nearly $1 million annual increase in back wages recovered in the Southeast for agricultural industry workers in calendar year 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is continuing its multi-year initiative to educate industry employers about compliance, and workers about their legal protections under federal law.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
Since 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor has seen a 69 percent increase in children being employed illegally by companies. In the last fiscal year, the department found 835 companies it investigated had employed more than 3,800 children in violation of labor laws.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced it will publish a final rule to amend how the Adverse Effect Wage Rates for the H-2A program are set to improve the rates’ consistency and accuracy based on the work actually performed by these workers and to better prevent H-2A workers’ employment negatively affecting the wages of U.S. workers in similar positions.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
A federal court in Kentucky has sentenced the co-founder of several phony medical clinics in Louisville and Atlanta, who pleaded guilty to one felony count, after the U.S. Department of Labor found the operators collected $258,000 from 15 self-funded healthcare benefit programs for services they never provided.
