Masked group assaults teen employees at Wilkes-Barre restaurant, police say
WILKES-BARRE, PA — A group of six masked individuals attacked two teenage employees inside a restaurant on Barney Street Wednesday night, according to Wilkes-Barre City Police. Officers responded to the business at…
Employees of Mechanical Contractors Charged with Conspiracy and Fraud Offenses
Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a New Hampshire resident and a Connecticut resident have been charged in separate criminal complaints with conspiracy…
CEO Fires More Than 900 Employees On Video Conference
The chief executive of a New York City-based mortgage company laid off 900 employees Wednesday over a video conference call, multiple sources reported. Vishal Garg, founder of Better.com, told hundreds of his…
Best Buy stock nosedives after company offered mental health services for employees triggered by Rittenhouse not guilty verdict
Best Buy stocks dropped $24 after news broke that the company offered its employees mental health counseling after Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty while defending himself against BLM protest attackers, killing…
Hundreds Of Google Employees Sign Letter Opposing Company’s Vaccine Mandate
A group of roughly 600 Google employees signed onto a letter opposing the tech giant’s company-wide vaccination mandate and called for its repeal. Google first imposed a requirement in July that all of…
8 Civilian Employees of the Philadelphia Police Department Indicted on Theft and Fraud Charges For Collecting Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
PHILADELPHIA –United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that the following defendants were charged with fraudulently obtaining emergency unemployment benefits related to COVID-19. Each of the following defendants was charged with one…
Lakewood Man Arrested on Federal Complaint Alleging He Threatened to Bomb SBA Offices and Assault Agency Employees
LOS ANGELES – A Lakewood man was arrested on a federal criminal complaint filed today alleging he threatened to bomb Small Business Administration (SBA) offices and then, the following year, assault…
Superseding Indictments Charge Three Bank Employees and Eight Others in Alleged Counterfeit Checks and Bank Fraud Schemes
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Acting United State Attorney Richard B. Myrus announced today that a pair of superseding indictments unsealed in federal court in Providence charge eleven individuals, including three bank employees, with…
Facebook Employees Pushed Company To Exclude Criticism Of White People, Men From Hate Speech Rules: REPORT
Facebook employees urged executives to exclude criticism directed towards white people and men from the company’s hate speech policies, according to internal documents reported on by The Washington Post. Facebook researchers tried…
Federal Indictments Charge Department of Veterans Affairs Employees With Pocketing Cash From Vendors
CHICAGO — Two employees of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs pocketed cash from vendors in exchange for steering them orders for medical equipment, according to indictments returned in federal court in…
Former Employees At State Administrator Of Medicaid Transportation And Business Owner Charged With Submitting Fraudulent Claims
Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Scott J. Lampert, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Health and…
Thousands Of DHS Employees Won’t Be Vaccinated Before The Federal Deadline
Around 30% of Department of Homeland Security employees won’t be fully vaccinated before the federal deadline, My RGV reported on Tuesday. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees needed to receive their second…
Justice Department Secures Agreement with PATH to End Unnecessary Medical Exams and Health Questions of its Employees
NEWARK, N.J. – The Department of Justice filed an agreement today in Newark federal court to resolve its lawsuit against the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation (PATH) under the Americans with Disabilities Act…
Hertel & Brown Physical & Aquatic Therapy, Its Two Founders Aaron Hertel and Michael Brown, and 18 Employees Indicted on Fraud Charges
ERIE, Pa. – A physical therapy practice in Erie County, Pennsylvania, and 20 people – 18 of them from northwestern Pennsylvania – have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie…
Current And Former Metropolitan Correctional Center Employees And Inmates Indicted For Bribery, Contraband Smuggling, Narcotics Distribution, And Obstruction Of Justice Offenses
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Ryan…
New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio says 9,000 city employees fired for being unvaccinated
NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio has announced that 9,000 city workers have been terminated for non-compliance with the city’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate. On top of…
Facebook Employees Wanted To Suppress Right-Wing, But Not Left-Wing, News Sites: REPORT
Leaked communications from internal Facebook message boards show the tech company’s employees pushed to kick right-wing news sites off Facebook’s News Tab, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Facebook…
Attorney General Alan Wilson joins 24-state coalition urging SCOTUS to uphold First Amendment rights of public employees
(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined a 24-state coalition urging the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to uphold the constitutional rights of public employees. The attorneys…
Owner of Construction and Building Inspection Businesses and Two Employees Charged with Tax Fraud
NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice’s Tax Division announced that RANDY A. FARRELL SR., and DAVID FARRELL, both of Jefferson Parish, and DAWN FARRELL RUIZ, of…
Employees Returning To Office At Highest Rate Since Pandemic Started
Workers are returning to the office at the highest rate since the pandemic started as employers feel more comfortable amid falling COVID-19 cases, The Wall Street Journal reported. The number of businesses…
Utica Man Sentenced to 24 Months for Aggravated Harassment of Albany VA Employees
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Robert Seifert, age 63, of Utica, New York, was sentenced today to serve 24 months in prison for making telephonic threats to three employees of the Albany Stratton…
Denver Man Sentenced to Prison for Threatening to Harm Government Employees
DENVER – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Harold Ortiz, age 56, of Denver, was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for threatening to assault or…
Target To Pay Holiday Employees $2 More An Hour In Effort To Retain Workers
Target announced Tuesday that it would pay employees an additional $2 an hour during the peak time of the holiday season. Target store and service center employees who work Saturdays and Sundays…
Four Former Employees of Utility Company Plead Guilty in Bribery and Kickback Scheme
Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Patrick McCrann and Richard Zavada, two former employees of a New York-based utility company (the “Company”), pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and kickbacks from the…
Employees Criticize Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin For Being ‘Mostly Male And Overwhelmingly White’
A letter written by current and former employees of Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin took aim at the company’s workplace culture. The letter, posted on website Lioness and written by former…
Bank Robbers Who Tracked and Kidnapped Bank Employees Sentenced in Federal Court
Memphis, TN – After a four-day federal jury trial in June 2021, Antonio Johnson 44, Travis Jackson 37, and Shalundra Johnson, 39 were found guilty of kidnapping and multiple bank robberies. Acting…
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