WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news brief on Oct. 31, 2024: * * * Employer: Crystal Enterprises Inc. Employer address: 10837 Lanham Severn Road, Glenn Dale, MD 20769 Investigation findings: A U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation determined that Crystal Enterprises Inc. failed to pay the required prevailing wage and health and welfare benefits to employees working at a U.S. Air Force training center dinin  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: ATLANTA (October 30, 2024) - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that comprehensive reviews will be conducted of completed cleanup work at 47 Superfund sites in the Southeast. The sites, located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, will undergo a legally required Five-Year Review to ensure that previous remediation efforts at the sites  more

ORLANDO, Florida, Nov. 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida issued the following news release: U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Cristian Ponce (32, Orlando) to 20 years' imprisonment following his role in a fatal, drug-related shooting. Ponce entered a guilty plea on February 13, 2024. According to court documents, on November 2, 2022, at approximately 2 p.m., a drug-related shooting occurred at the Oak Ridge Shopping Plaza in Orlando. Po  more

OCALA, Florida, Nov. 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida issued the following news release: United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that the United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida has reached an agreement with Imagination Island of Fleming Island, Inc., a daycare center that provides childcare services for children ages six weeks old to pre-kindergarten-age, to settle allegations that its daycare violated Title III of th  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Oct. 30, 2024: Gremex Shipping S.A. de C.V., a Mexican corporation that managed several ships, including the M/V Suhar, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in federal district court in Pensacola, Florida, for creating and providing false records to the U.S. Coast Guard to conceal its illegal discharge of oily bilge waste into the ocean, which is a felony violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Sh  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 1:24-cv-24241; S.D. Fla. filed Oct. 30, 2024) involving Pannon Investment Advisors LLC and Dusan Varga: * * * SEC Charges Florida Resident with Operating a $1.6 Million Ponzi Scheme Targeting the Serbian-American Community * * * Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") charged Pannon Investment Advisors LLC and its Chief Executive Officer, Dusan Varga, alleging they frau  more