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Federal Tipoffs Involving Massachusetts Newsletter for Wednesday July 31, 2024 ( 4 items )  

14 states had at least 2 job openings for every unemployed person in May 2024
WASHINGTON, July 30 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * In May 2024, there were a total of 6,694,000 unemployed people and 8,140,000 job openings in the United States, yielding a ratio of 0.8 unemployed person per job opening. The national job openings rate was 4.9 percent. Fourteen states had 0.5 or fewer unemployed person per job opening: North Dakota (0.3 person), Vermont and South Dakota (0.4 person  more

Contracts for July 30, 2024
WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: AIR FORCE Gauss Management Research and Engineering Inc., Ogden, Utah (FA8003-24-D-0015); Luna Labs USA LLC, Charlottesville, Virginia (FA8003-24-D-0016); TransTecs Corp., Wichita, Kansas (FA8003-24-D-0017); Frontier Technology Inc., Beavercreek, Ohio (FA8003-24-D-0018); SelectTech Services Corp., Dayton, Ohio (FA8003-24-D-0019); Boston Engineering Corp., Waltham, Massachusetts (FA8003-24-D-0020); SynapseM  more

Mass. U.S. Attorney: Nigerian National Pleads Guilty to Romance and Pandemic Relief Fraud Scheme
BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: A Nigerian national pleaded guilty on July 26, 2024 in federal court in Boston to his role in an expansive online fraud scheme targeting individuals in the United States, including pandemic relief fraud, romance scams and other online scams. Amowie Kelvin Imatitikua, 37, who previously lived in the Boston area, pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud, one co  more

R.I. U.S. Attorney: Massachusetts Attorney, Three Others Charged in Scheme to Smuggle Contraband Into the Wyatt Detention Center
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island issued the following news release on July 30, 2024: As reflected in court documents unsealed in federal court in Providence today, a Massachusetts attorney, two individuals detained in the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, and a Connecticut woman have been charged by way of federal criminal complaints for their alleged participation in a scheme to smuggle contraband into the Wyatt Detention F  more