A Middlesex County man was sentenced to more than two years in prison for embezzling $2.37 million from his employer, U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger announced. Gerard Beauzile, 63, of South Plainfield, previously pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of wire fraud and was sentenced Wednesday to 27 months in prison, Sellinger announced. From […]
A High Court action brought by a senior executive with an aircraft leasing firm aimed at preventing his employer from sanctioning him has been resolved. Mr Justice Mark Sanfey was told that proceedings brought by Brian Fitzpatrick against his employer, Bocomm Aviation Leasing Ireland Company Limited, had been settled on confidential terms. The court previously […]
Hertz, once one of Oklahoma City’s largest employers, has put its call center on the market in what what would be its second big property sale since 2020, raising questions about its longtime presence in OKC. In the meantime, Hertz isn’t going anywhere. “Hertz is proud to be a major employer in Oklahoma City for […]
FILE – A sign sits in front of the Tyson Foods pork plant, April 22, 2020, in Perry, Iowa. Tyson Foods will continue streamlining its operations by closing the pork plant in Iowa that employs 1,200 people and eliminating the largest employer in the town of Perry. Tyson announced the plant closure Monday, March 11, […]
ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. – A Spanish Lake, Missouri, has been charged with making threats of violence against his employer, including going into the building with a firearm and shooting people. According to the St. Peters Police Department’s probable cause statement, the mass shooting threat was made on February 15. Police claim Lennie J. Hicks […]
A former bookkeeper from Milwaukee is headed to federal prison for nearly three years after being convicted on wire fraud and tax offenses. Emilee K. Rueda, 42, was the office manager and in-house bookkeeper at a small business. Prosecutors alleged she made more than $650,000 in unauthorized expenditures on antique jewelry, lifelike dolls, trinkets and […]
An engineer who worked on the troubled $2.9 billion Southwest light-rail line claims in a federal lawsuit he was demoted and his career sabotaged by the Metropolitan Council because he called out “unlawful activity” responsible for massive cost overruns. Michael Janish,a University of Minnesota-trained civil engineer, worked as the project controls manager on the 14.5-mileline […]
Dec. 21—OLYMPIA — According to an announcement from the Association of Washington Business, several employer groups in Washington state filed a lawsuit Dec. 4 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s most recent 2022 water quality standards (WQS) for the state. “Regrettably, the EPA adopted standards that cannot […]