Steve P, like him or not, went on a rant.
Interesting things about Flynn and Barry.
It's legal in Islamic nations.
bad behavior in UTAH.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/utah-tax-return-preparers-indicted-tax-crimes
More tax fraud.
Utah Tax Return Preparers Indicted for Tax Crimes
A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City, Utah, returned an indictment today charging Sergio Sosa, and his adult children, Alissa and David Sosa, with conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and United States Attorney John W. Huber for the District of Utah. Sergio Sosa was also charged with one count of tax evasion, and he and his children were also each charged with one count of corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the administration of the internal revenue laws.
According to the indictment, Sosa owned and operated Sergio Central Latino (SCL), a tax return preparation business in Orem, Utah, where both Alissa and David worked. From 2003 through 2017, Sosa allegedly did not timely file his personal tax returns and after multiple audits, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) determined that he owed more than $750,000 in unpaid taxes. When the IRS began collection efforts, Sosa and his children allegedly agreed to obstruct IRS collection of the outstanding taxes by hiding Sosa’s personal assets, residential properties, and by titling SCL in the children’s names.
The indictment also alleges that when the IRS suspended SCL’s ability to electronically file client tax returns due to Sosa’s unpaid taxes, David Sosa changed SCL’s business name and obtained electronic filing authorization in a third party’s name. It is further alleged that Alissa Sosa falsely represented to the IRS that she owned a residence that was, in fact, her father’s, and that she withdrew funds from an account that she knew had been levied by the IRS. As of 2019, Sosa allegedly owes more than $1.1 million in taxes, penalties, and interest.
If convicted, the Sosas each face a statutory maximum sentence of five years in prison for the conspiracy charge and three years in prison for corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the administration of the internal revenue laws. Sergio Sosa faces an additional five years in prison for tax evasion. The Sosas also face a period of supervised release, restitution, and monetary penalties.
An indictment merely alleges that crimes have been committed. The defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Customs and PB Snapshot report. What they do in one day.
ON A TYPICAL DAY, CBP:
• Processed:
» 1,124,075 passengers and pedestrians
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371,912 incoming international air passengers and crew
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70,414 passengers and crew on arriving ship/boat
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681,750 incoming land travelers
» 273,338 incoming privately owned vehicles
» 78,703 truck, rail, and sea containers
» $7.3 billion worth of imported goods
• Conducted 2,354 apprehensions between U.S. ports of entry
• Arrested 23 wanted criminals at U.S. ports of entry
• Encountered 790 inadmissible persons at U.S. ports of entry
• Intercepted 18 fraudulent documents
• Discovered 314 pests at U.S. ports of entry and 4,695 materials
for quarantine - plant, meat, animal byproduct, and soil
• Seized:
» 3,707 pounds of narcotics; disrupted 109 pounds of narcotics
» $207,356 undeclared or illicit currency
» $4.3 million worth of products with Intellectual Property
Rights violations
• Collected approximately $224 million in duties, taxes, and
other fees, including more than $197 million in duties
• Facilitated the release of 97,342 entries of merchandise at air,
land, and sea ports of entry
but there is moar!
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/border-patrol-agents-rescue-individuals-confined-space-near-freer-texas
Check out the photo on that. The roof of a container was modified.
Border Patrol agents assigned to the Freer Border Patrol Station rescued 17 individuals during a human smuggling attempt at the checkpoint located west of Freer, Texas.
The event unfolded during the early hours of Feb. 7, when a canine alerted agents to a flatbed commercial truck hauling cement sacks, blocks and square tubing. Agents inspected the cargo and discovered a hollowed out space within the square tubing containing multiple individuals. Agents successfully extracted the men and women from the confined space and determined that all were illegally present in the United States. The individuals were from the countries of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Mexico.
Agents arrested the driver, a U.S. Citizen, and the individuals. The vehicle was seized by the U.S. Border Patrol.
The case was turned over to Homeland Security Investigations.
To report suspicious activity such as alien and/or drug smuggling, download the “USBP Laredo Sector” App or contact the Laredo Sector Border Patrol toll free at 1-800-343-1994.
It's only 17.
Dept of labor updates overtime thresholds. Took effect in January.
he U.S. Department of Labor’s final rule making 1.3 million American workers newly eligible for overtime pay took effect on Jan. 1, 2020. Here’s what you need to know about the changes and where to find compliance assistance resources.
What’s new? The final rule updates the earnings thresholds necessary to exempt executive, administrative and professional employees from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) minimum wage and overtime pay requirements, and allows employers to count a portion of certain bonuses/commissions towards meeting the salary level. Specifically:
The “standard salary level” is now $684 per week (equivalent to $35,568 per year for a full-year worker).
The total annual compensation requirement for “highly compensated employees” is now $107,432 per year.
Employers are allowed to use nondiscretionary bonuses and incentive payments (including commissions) paid at least annually to satisfy up to 10% of the standard salary level, in recognition of evolving pay practices.
The special salary levels for workers in U.S. territories and the motion picture industry have been updated. —that's interesting
https://blog.dol.gov/2020/01/03/overtime-pay-rules-were-implemented-on-january-1-heres-what-you-need-to-know
For the most part these have been adjusted for inflation.
more data ion govt sites…. no one reads these and they are full of information. This link has apps you can download.
https://blog.dol.gov/2020/01/02/5-ways-the-department-of-labor-is-fighting-human-trafficking
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Teaming up across the government
To defeat human trafficking on our soil, it’s important for various government agencies to join forces. The department works hand-in-hand with interagency Anti-Trafficking Coordination Teams (ACTeams), which streamline federal criminal investigations and prosecutions of human trafficking offenses. In 2018, these efforts led to a 75% increase in defendants charged and a record 526 convictions domestically.
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Helping survivors
Obtaining employment and access to economic opportunity is a critical part of moving forward for any survivor of trafficking. The Department’s Employment and Training Administration leverages its employment and training resources and expertise to help trafficking survivors move on with their lives when they are ready to do so.
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Securing commitments
We need partners outside the United States to help stop trafficking before it ever reaches our borders. One of the most common ways it manifests is through unscrupulous recruitment practices, including the charging of exorbitant recruitment fees. The Department has secured commitments from Guatemala and Honduras to follow U.S. visa laws and guidelines regarding recruiting workers and prohibitions on charging recruitment fees, a powerful step toward curtailing a trick of this illicit trade.
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Finding offenders
The Department’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs provides important international reporting on child labor, forced labor and human trafficking. Our Sweat & Toil app puts over 1,000 pages of research on these issues in the palm of your hand. Our Comply Chain app helps businesses develop social compliance systems to combat abuses, including human trafficking, in their product supply chains.
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Providing technical assistance
ILAB is a leading funder of programs to combat international labor exploitation, including human trafficking. ILAB projects have helped reduce labor exploitation in garment factories, brick kilns and cocoa fields around the world.
its about time, this was going on since the early 1990s. The wheels of justice are slow, but at the expense of millions of families dreams and and entire US industry.
More feel good Govt stuff. Winning…but you dont hear about it. This maybe a resource people could use.
https://blog.dol.gov/2019/12/06/billions-in-benefits-restored-in-2019
Through enforcing employee benefit plan laws and robust compliance assistance, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) serves 154 million American workers, retirees, and their families, as well as plan sponsors and other members of the employee benefit plan community. In fiscal year 2019, we recovered more than $2.5 billion in payments to plans, participants, and beneficiaries.
Investigations conducted through our enforcement program recovered $2 billion. Of that total, nearly $1.5 billion was collected through our Terminated Vested Participant Project, which helps retirement plan participants collect the benefits that are owed to them in the form of lump-sum payments, the present value of lifetime annuity payments, and interest. EBSA’s criminal investigations uncovered violations that led to 76 individuals being indicted.
Throughout the year, our benefits advisors provided informal assistance to more than 166,000 people on issues ranging from lost or stolen retirement benefits, denied health or disability benefits, and more. These benefit advisors helped return $510 million to workers and their families through our informal complaint resolution process.
We also believe in the importance of educating the public to ensure that plan sponsors, participants, and beneficiaries understand their rights and responsibilities under employee benefits laws. Our benefits advisors and other agency staff hosted 1,788 outreach events and distributed 376,991 publications in 2019. Additionally, benefits advisors are available via phone and email to inform employers, plan sponsors, service providers, and others about the federal laws that cover private-sector employee benefit plans.
Three of our other programs have delivered significant results for American workers and retirees in the last year. Through the Abandoned Plan Program, 661 plans made distributions totaling $33.2 million to participants. We also continued to encourage plan fiduciaries and others to participate in the Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program (VFCP) and Delinquent Filer Voluntary Compliance Program. These programs provide incentives – such as reducing or eliminating potential penalties and/or avoiding other adverse consequences – for fiduciaries and others to self-correct Employee Retirement Income Security Act violations. We received over 20,000 delinquent filings and 1,600 applications for the VFCP, and VFCP corrections totaled $14.6 million.
We are committed to ensuring American workers, retirees and plan beneficiaries can access the benefits to which they are entitled. Have a question for us? More than 3 million people visited EBSA’s website last year for information about the laws governing employee benefit plans and compliance resources, and it’s a great place to start. You can also call us toll-free at 1-866-444-3272 and we’ll be happy to assist.
Statistics on Black employment.
https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2020/african-american-history-month/home.htm
dont source all your supply chain to China…
didnt Q ask how many former CIA were running for office?