WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and 11 states announced today that Prehired will provide more than $30 million in relief to student borrowers for making false promises of job placement, trapping students with "income share" loans that violated the law, and resorting to abusive debt collection practices when borrowers could not pay. The CFPB partnered with Washing  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Nov. 22 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Nov. 21, 2023: Associate Administrator Francisco Sanchez of the U.S. Small Business Administration today reminded small nonfarm businesses in eight Oregon counties of the Dec. 21 deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest loans are to offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in the fo  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Nov. 22 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release: Associate Administrator Francisco Sanchez of the U.S. Small Business Administration today reminded small nonfarm businesses in eight Oregon counties of the Dec. 21 deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest loans are to offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in the following primary county that began April 18. Prim  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Nov. 21, 2023: The Justice Department filed a statement of interest today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon explaining that a city's decision to restrict a church's distribution of meals to people who are homeless or hungry may have substantially burdened religious exercise under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). The statement of interest was filed in  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Nov. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release: An 18-year-old drug trafficker with ties to a recent fatal overdose is facing federal charges after he was caught transporting several packages of powdered fentanyl and a 20-ton shop press used to manufacture fentanyl bricks was found in his apartment. Cristhian Martinez, 18, of Gladstone, Oregon, has been charged by criminal complaint with possessing with intent to distri  more