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Federal Tipoffs Involving Ohio Newsletter for Saturday November 16, 2024 ( 6 items )  

Department of Labor Recovers $56K in Back Wages, Damages From Logistics Provider That Miscalculated 234 Workers' Overtime in Indiana, Michigan
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news brief: * * * Employer: Liberty Hill Equity Partners LLC, 559 Liberty Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 Locations: Precision Vehicle Holdings LLC, 4401 Fletcher St., Wayne, MI 48160 5402 Moller Road (Fort Wayne Rail Yard) Fort Wayne, IN 46806 Investigation findings: An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found Liberty Hill Equity Partners LLC, the Cincinnati-bas  more

Export-Import Bank of the U.S. Vice Chair Judith Pryor Visits Ohio Customers Malco Products and First Solar
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -- The Export-Import Bank of the United States Office of Inspector General issued the following news release: Cleveland, Ohio Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) First Vice President and Vice Chair Judith Pryor travelled to Ohio November 12-15 to meet with prospective and current EXIM customers to highlight how EXIM financing can help Ohio businesses grow through exporting.In Barberton, OH, Vice Chair Pryor met with EXIM customer Malco Products, Inc., a manufactur  more

Justice Dept.: Operator of Helix Darknet Cryptocurrency "Mixer" Sentenced in Money Laundering Conspiracy and Ordered to Forfeit Over $400M in Assets
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Nov. 15, 2024: An Ohio man was sentenced today to three years in prison for his operation of the darknet cryptocurrency "mixer" Helix, which processed transactions involving over $300 million worth of cryptocurrency from 2014 to 2017. According to court documents, Larry Dean Harmon, 41, of Akron, ran Helix, a darknet mixer that laundered customers' bitcoin. Helix was connected to Grams, a darknet search   more

Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Enters Limited Deployment
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Nov. 15 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: By Eric Branum On July 25, 2024, the Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) system received approval to "go-live" and deployed to the Propulsion Maintenance Group at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. The Air Force Sustainment Center (AFSC) wasted no time as it used MRO to perform maintenance actions on Public-Private Partnership Workloads involving the F119 engine in the first few weeks  more

Ohio U.S. Attorney: Columbus Man Sentenced to More Than 11 Years in Prison for Role in Conspiracy Involving Drugs Mailed From Arizona
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 16 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio issued the following news release: Ontario M. Yarbrough, 26, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 135 months in prison for his involvement in a narcotics conspiracy involving kilogram quantities of drugs being mailed from Arizona to Columbus. According to court documents, from April until October 2023, Yarbrough received and accepted at least five packages of narcotics. In addition to r  more

U.S. Attorney for D.C.: Operator of Helix Darknet Cryptocurrency 'Mixer' Sentenced in Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: Larry Dean Harmon, 41, of Akron, Ohio, was sentenced today to three years in prison for his operation of the darknet cryptocurrency "mixer" Helix, which processed transactions involving over $300 million worth of cryptocurrency from 2014 to 2017. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves for the District of Columbia; Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney Gene  more