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Owens Delivers Opening Remarks at Hearing on Free Speech at College Campuses
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee Chair Burgess Owens (R-UT) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing on how free speech rights are continuously being violated on college campuses:
Chair Foxx Delivers Opening Remarks at Hearing on America’s Workforce
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing on how the Biden administration's heavy-handed mandates and out-of-touch regulatory policies are hurting America’s workforce:
Foxx Calls Out FTC For Exceeding Authority With Non-Compete Clause Rule
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, to express concerns with the agency’s proposed “Non-Compete Clause Rule” which would impose a ban on non-compete clauses in employment contracts.
Foxx to Cardona: Don’t Trample on Religious Student Organizations’ Rights
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, joined by Reps. Tim Walberg, Glenn Grothman, Elise Stefanik, Rick Allen, Jim Banks, Burgess Owens, Lisa McClain, Mary Miller, Aaron Bean, Nathaniel Moran, and Erin Houchin, sent a comment letter to the Department of Education urging the Department to withdraw a proposed rule that removes protections provided to religious student organizations at public institutions of higher education:
Chairwoman Foxx Celebrates House Passage of the Parents Bill of Rights
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
House passed H.R. 5, the Parents Bill of Rights Act, which delivers on a key promise of the Commitment to America and puts in place concrete legal protections that will ensure parents always have a seat at the table when it comes to their child’s education.
Foxx, Owens Denounce Stanford Law School’s Culture of Illiberalism
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Higher Education and Workforce Development Chairman Burgess Owens (R-UT) sent a letter to the American Bar Association (ABA) Chair Joseph West urging the accreditor to make a determination whether Stanford Law School is out of compliance with the ABA’s academic freedom standard in light of the school’s treatment of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan.
Foxx Reacts to NLRB, Democrat Smear Campaign to Silence Whistleblower
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) to provide clarity on oversight being conducted following information received by a whistleblower. The letter refutes Scott’s unfair, unfounded, and irrelevant assertions about the Committee’s subpoena.
Foxx, Good Blast Department of Commerce for Big Labor Favoritism that Hurts Workers and Taxpayers
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Bob Good (R-VA) sent a letter to Department of Commerce (DOC) Secretary Gina Raimondo to express strong disapproval of a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the CHIPS Incentive Program, which strongly encourages companies seeking CHIPS funding to use project labor agreements (PLAs) in connection with their construction projects.
Hearing Recap: Free Speech on Campus Edition
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee hearing covered the degradation of constitutionally protected free speech on college campuses.
Hearing Recap: Workforce Edition
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee hearing covered the Biden administration’s heavy-handed mandates and out-of-touch regulatory policies that have led to high inflation, shortages in skilled labor, and supply chain disruptions.
Smyrna resident sentenced for $3.3 million multi-state covid-19 Unemployment Insurance fraud scheme
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Rowlando Hatter, Jr. has been sentenced for conspiring to submit false claims for COVID-related Unemployment Insurance benefits using the personal identifying information of more than 100 victims and causing state workforce agencies in five states to pay a combined $3,300,000 in fraudulently obtained benefits.
Maryland Man Admits Fraudulently Obtaining more than $2 Million in COVID-19 Relief Funds
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
A Maryland man admitted that he illegally obtained more than $2 million in COVID-19 relief funds, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
Owner of Boston Pizzeria Chain Indicted on Additional Forced Labor Charges
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
The owner of Stash’s Pizza has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston with forced labor charges for allegedly targeting and employing at least seven victims who lacked immigration status and forcing them to work while subjecting them to verbal and physical abuse, including repeated threats of deportation.
Atlantic County Doctor Admits Health Care Fraud Conspiracy
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
An Atlantic County, New Jersey, doctor today admitted his role in 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
Drug Trafficker Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft and Attempting to Steal Seized Cars from the FBI Using Fake Court Documents
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Quinten Giovanni Moody, aka Christano Rossi, 38, of Dublin, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute marijuana, aggravated identity theft, and obstruction of justice, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
Fresno Woman Sentenced to More than Six Years in Prison for $300,000 COVID-19 Pandemic Fraud Crime Spree
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Cecilia Aquino, 32, of Fresno, was sentenced today to six years and three months in prison for submitting over $300,000 in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims and Small Business Administration (SBA) loan applications during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
Final Two Defendants Plead Guilty for Roles in Scheme that Fraudulently Obtained Over $2 Million in COVID-19 Jobless Benefits
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
The last two defendants in an Inland Empire-based scheme in which eight people fraudulently obtained $2.1 million in pandemic-related unemployment insurance (UI) benefits by claiming, among other things, that they were salon and barbershop workers rendered jobless by the COVID-19 pandemic pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and mail fraud charges.
Department Of Labor Agent Pleads Guilty To Fraud Scheme
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Special Agent with the Department of Labor, Thomas Hartley, age 49, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on March 21, 2023, before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, to the charge of mail fraud in connection with multiple schemes to commit fraud.
Center Line Resident Sentenced in Unemployment Fraud Scheme
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
A Center Line woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison today based on her conviction for stealing over $300,000 as part of a wire fraud scheme targeting pandemic unemployment assistance benefits, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
Former Missouri State Worker Admits Stealing $140,000 in Unemployment Insurance Funds
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
A former Missouri state employee on Monday admitted abusing her position to send $140,500 in unearned unemployment benefits to friends, relatives and others