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News Tipoffs - Mississippi Editors Newsletter for Sunday April 28, 2024 ( 3 items )  

Calif. U.S. Attorney: CFO of Two New Jersey Companies Charged With Participating in Multi-Million-Dollar Kickback Scheme to Defraud Williams Sonoma
SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued the following news release: Domenick Nardone appeared in federal court in Oakland this week to face conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, and related charges for his alleged role in a kickback scheme that defrauded Williams Sonoma, Inc. (WSI) of millions of dollars, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) Acting Special Agent in   more

DHS Secretary Mayorkas Issues Remarks at 10th Annual African American Mayors Association Conference
ATLANTA, Georgia, April 27 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following remarks on April 26, 2024, by Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas at the 10th Annual African American Mayors Association Conference: * * * Last March, a large and destructive tornado touched down in Rolling Fork, Mississippi - a town of just less than 2,000 people a few miles from the Louisiana border. Seventeen people were killed, more than 150 were injured, and whole blocks of the town were simply blown a  more

Miss. Education Dept. Announces 2024 Mississippi Administrator of the Year, Teacher of the Year
JACKSON, Mississippi, April 27 -- The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following news release on April 26, 2024: The Mississippi Department of Education today announced the 2024 Mississippi Administrator of the Year (MAOY) is Anita Wansley, principal at Northeast Elementary School in the Lauderdale County School District (LCSD), and the 2024 Mississippi Teacher of the Year (MTOY) is Shauna Waters, teacher at West Lauderdale High School in the Lauderdale County School District. Th  more