Over A Dozen Wildwood Shops Fined for Illegal Vape Products in Statewide Sweep
TRENTON — Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs announced today that 19 retailers across the state have been …
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Florida Sheriff Fined After Posting Pic of Deceased Teen Girl on Instagram
KISSIMMEE, FL — A Florida sheriff has been fined $500 for a public records violation after he inadvertently posted a photo of a deceased 13-year-old …
NYC Correction Officer Fined for Selling Fake Disability Parking Placards
BRONX, NY – Nakia Gales, a former officer with the New York City Department of Correction, has been sentenced to a three-year Conditional Discharge and …
Turley Skewers Hillary Clinton For Attacking Trump Over Payments Despite Her Campaign Being Fined For Steele Dossier
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley skewered former First Lady Hillary Clinton Thursday for attacking former President Donald Trump over the alleged payout to …
Pierce Brosnan apologises after fined for walking off trail in Yellowstone
(Reuters) – Actor Pierce Brosnan has said he deeply regrets walking off trail in Yellowstone National Park in the United States after he was fined …
Great Falls man fined $70,000 for scheme to defraud Medicaid
GREAT FALLS — A Great Falls man who admitted to lying about his income to receive more than $75,000 in Medicaid health care benefits was …
California Man Fined $50,000 for Illegally Importing Carvings Made from Sperm Whale Teeth and a Walrus Tusk
Burlington, Vermont – The United States Attorney’s Office stated that Pedro Huertas, 69, of Pasadena, California, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unlawfully importing …
Abortion Clinic Fined $193,000 For Violating Florida Law
Abortion Clinic Fined $193,000 For Violating Florida Law Lillian Tweten on August 15, 2023 The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) ordered a clinic …
Pennsylvania Landlord Fined for Discrimination Against Black Family
HARRISBURG, PA – Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced a settlement reached with a Shippensburg landlord, John Timothy Gruver, and his associates, who were accused …
New Jersey Businesses Could Soon Be Fined for Using the Wrong Light Bulbs
TRENTON, NJ – Businesses in New Jersey could be the target of a new ruling by the Department of Energy focusing on eradicating incandescent light …
Australian broker Openmarkets fined $3 million for ‘market integrity’ violations
(Reuters) – Openmarkets Australia Ltd was fined a record A$4.5 million ($2.99 million) after a panel found the retail broker in violation of numerous market …
ACI Worldwide fined $25 million for multibillion-dollar mortgage payment ‘fiasco’
(Reuters) – The top U.S. consumer finance watchdog on Tuesday said it had fined the Nebraska payment processor ACI Worldwide $25 million for improperly processing …
Doctor Who Performed Abortion On 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Fined By Indiana Medical Board
Doctor Who Performed Abortion On 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Fined By Indiana Medical Board Kate Anderson on May 26, 2023 Dr. Caitlin Bernard was fined $3,000 …
The New Jersey DEP just fined itself for clear-cutting wetlands forest, home to native species
TRENTON, NJ – Only in New Jersey, folks. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, the state’s environmental watchdog agency, has just fined itself for …
KPMG fined 875,000 pounds for failures in Luceco audit
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – KPMG has been fined 875,000 pounds ($1.09 million) for its audit of lighting manufacturer Luceco for its financial year …
U.S. company fined for hiring kids to clean meatpacking plants
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A major food safety sanitation company has paid $1.5 million in penalties for employing more than 100 teenagers in dangerous …
Swiss engineering group ABB fined $4.3 million
ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss engineering and technology group ABB has been fined 4 million Swiss francs ($4.3 million) by the country’s Attorney General in connection …
Hong Kong’s Cardinal Zen among six fined over fund for protesters
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – One of Asia’s most senior Roman Catholic clerics, Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90, was found guilty of failing to …
Leader of Drug Conspiracy Sentenced to 20 Plus Years in Federal Prison and Fined $100,000
Bowling Green, KY – A Bowling Green man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years and 10 months in prison and fined $100,000, for conspiring with …
24-Year-Old Tucson Man Sentenced to 14 Months and Fined $10,000 for Alien Smuggling
TUCSON, Ariz. – On November 8, 2022, Michael Ernesto Abril, 24, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge John C. Hinderaker to …
Westbrook Man Fined $4,000 for Baiting Ducks in Violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and James Casey, Regional Chief, Division of Refuge Law Enforcement, announced that DAVID FOSTER, …
Hyundai, Kia auto parts supplier in Alabama fined for child labor violations
By Mica Rosenberg, Joshua Schneyer and Kristina Cooke NEW YORK (Reuters) – Authorities found children as young as 13 working at a Korean-operated parts supplier …
JD Sports fined $1.6 million by UK regulator over merchandise pricing
(Reuters) – JD Sports said on Tuesday that it was fined about 1.5 million pounds ($1.6 million) by Britain’s competition regulator after an investigation into …
Brazil’s Vale fined after comptroller general’s decision on Brumadinho disaster
SAO PAULO – Brazilian miner Vale SA was fined about 86.3 million reais ($16.82 million) after the country’s comptroller general decided the firm did not …
Springfield, Illinois, Man Sentenced to Six Months’ Home Confinement, Fined for COVID-19 Related Fraud
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A Springfield, Illinois man, Thalamus Alexander, Jr., 27, of the 2000 block of Bradley Court was sentenced on July 12, 2022, to …
Real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield held in contempt, fined $10,000 a day
(Reuters) – A New York judge on Tuesday held real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield PLC in contempt of court for not producing documents subpoenaed …
JPMorgan fined $850,000 for alleged swap reporting failures
(Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co will have to pay an $850,000 penalty to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for allegedly failing to …
NEW YORK MAN SENTENCED TO PROBATION AND FINED FOR MARIJUANA TRAFFICKING
St. Thomas, VI – United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced today that Christopher Dunn, 49, of Queens, New York, was sentenced to four years …
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company Fined $1 Million For Causing Oil Spill
NEW ORLEANS – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK COMPANY, LLC (“GREAT LAKES”), a Texas company, was sentenced …
Ex-CBA unit fined $1.2 million for charging fees from dead pensioners
(Reuters) -Australia’s corporate regulator on Wednesday fined a former unit of top lender Commonwealth Bank A$1.7 million ($1.2 million) for charging fees from deceased superannuation …
Valero, contractors fined for violations related to worker’s death in 2021
(Reuters) – Valero Energy and three contractors have been fined a total $1.75 million for safety violations related to a worker’s death on Nov. 12, …
Three Men Jailed and Fined for Illegally Wading into the Brooks River
ANCHORAGE – Three men have been sentenced to a term of imprisonment and ordered to pay a total of $9,000 for illegally leaving the Brooks …
Kansas Cattle Trader Fined and Banned for Life After Repeated Violations of the Packers and Stockyards Act
WICHITA, KAN. – The U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas fined a recidivist violator of statutory and regulatory federal livestock laws under the …
Australian lender Westpac fined A$113 million for multiple compliance breaches
(Reuters) – An Australian court ordered Westpac Banking Corp to pay A$113 million ($82.92 million) in penalties for multiple compliance failures across its businesses, after …
Virginia equipment company owner sentenced, fined $50,000 for role in scheme to defraud Roundup coal mine
BILLINGS — A Virginia equipment company owner who admitted to defrauding Signal Peak Energy, LLC, which operates a coal mine near Roundup, of nearly $250,000 …
Georgia Man Sentenced to 60 Days in Jail and Fined for Entering Port of Albany Under False Pretenses
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Andrew Avila, age 45, of Acworth, Georgia, was sentenced yesterday to a 60-day term of imprisonment, to be followed by 1 …
Deloitte, partner fined and sanctioned over Mitie audit
LONDON – Deloitte and audit partner John Charlton have been fined and severely reprimmanded over a 2016 audit of Mitie, a British outsourcing company, the …
United States Citizen Who Conspired To Assist North Korea In Evading Sanctions Is Sentenced To More Than 5 Years And Fined $100,000
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that VIRGIL GRIFFITH, a U.S. citizen who conspired to provide …
Montgomery Tax Preparer Sentenced to 37 Months in Prison and Fined $100,000.00 for Filing False Returns
Montgomery, Ala. – Today, United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart and Special Agent in Charge James E. Dorsey with IRS Criminal Investigation, Atlanta …
EDF fined 300 million euros for dominant position abuse in France
PARIS – France’s competition watchdog fined EDF and its subsidiaries 300 million euros ($339.78 million) over the abuse of its dominant position between 2004 and …
Ant-backed MYBank fined for violating credit scoring management rules
SHANGHAI – China’s central bank has imposed a 22.37 million yuan ($3.52 million) fine on MYBank, the online bank backed by China’s Ant Group, for …
Signal Peak Energy fined $1 million, sentenced to three years of probation for violating environmental, worker safety regulations at Roundup coal mine
BILLINGS — Signal Peak Energy LLC, which admitted to willful violation of health and safety standards at its underground coal mine near Roundup by failing …
WYOMING MAN SENTENCED TO PRISON AND FINED $10,000 FOR THREATENING STATE AND FEDERAL ELECTED OFFICIALS
Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that CHRISTOPHER KENT PODLESNIK, 52, of Laramie, Wyoming, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment after previously …
Amazon Fined For Hiding COVID-19 Cases Among Workers
Amazon was ordered to pay $500,000 by California authorities Monday as part of a settlement judgment over claims the company hid COVID-19 case numbers from …
Shipping Company Fined $2M in a Multi-District Case for Concealing Illegal Discharges of Oily Water into the Atlantic Ocean
WASHINGTON – Diana Wilhelmsen Management Limited (DWM), a Cyprus-based company that operates several commercial vessels, was sentenced today in federal court before U.S. District Court …