by Associated Press Published: May 12,2013
Tags: ecosystem, environment, fine, foodservice, penalty, pollutant, pollution, public health, state agency, wastewater, water pollution, water quality, wildlife
PEARL — A foodservice company is paying an $18,000 civil fine for dumping wastewater into Jackson’s sewer system for 11 years without a permit. Valley Services agreed in March to pay the fine to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. An order published by the department says the company’s Pearl facility has been discharging wastewater [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 9,2013
Tags: board of supervisorts, contract, corrections, county, county government, fine, fine collecting, jail, prison, supervisor
GREENWOOD — The Leflore County Board of Supervisors wants out of a two-year contract it signed with Judicial Corrections Services Inc. to collect justice court fines. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports supervisors believe the private company is siphoning too much off the top of its collection fees, which increase by $40 each month a payment is [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 28,2013
Tags: bank, banker, banking, bench, court, crime, drug addicition, finance, financial institution, fine, jail, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, prison, sentence, steal, stealing, teller, theft, thief, vault
GULFPORT — A federal judge has sentenced Ashley Ann Keel to 18 months in prison and ordered her to make restitution of the $80,980 she stole when she was vault teller for a Hancock Bank branch in Biloxi. The Sun Herald reports U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. sentenced Keel yesterday and also ordered drug [...] [...]
OXFORD — A debt buyer and debt collection law firm based in Mississippi have agreed to pay nearly $800,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges they misled consumers into paying unnecessary fees and falsely threatened them with lawsuits. The FTC said debt buyer Security Credit Services, LLC and Jacob Law Group, PLLC charged consumers nationwide [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 21,2013
Tags: attorney, cdriminal, crime, federal government, fine, fraud, insurance, law, lawyer, legal, penalty, restitution, tax, tax fraud, wire fraud
ABERDEEN — The U.S. government is seeking $914,162 in restitution unpaid by a former Mississippi attorney convicted in a tax and mail fraud case in 2009. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports prosecutors filed a payment affidavit this week in U.S. District Court in Oxford. U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock has scheduled an April 2 [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 12,2013
Tags: Chicken, death, fatality, fine, food, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, penalty, poultry, processing, processor, workplace safety
MOSELLE — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Southern Hens Inc. with 43 safety and health violations following the death of a worker who slipped and fell into an unguarded screw conveyor while cleaning the conveyor at the company’s Moselle facility. OSHA initiated the inspection Sept. 9, 2012, in [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: December 6,2012
Tags: audit, auditor, board of supervisors, county, elected official, fine, government, misappropriation, public official, repayment, supervisor, tax, taxpayer
LEAKESVILLE — State Auditor Stacey Pickering has returned $70,280.72 to Greene County following an investigation into supervisors’ misuse of funds used as part of an illegal kickback scheme carried out through a contract for Katrina debris removal and legal expenses. These funds represent $64,030.72 in principal and $2,146.08 in interest and investigative costs. Pickering previously [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 20,2012
Tags: bill, contract, elected official, election, ethical, ethics, fine, law, lawmaker, legislation, legislative, legislator, penalty, Politics, public, public official, resign, resignation, unethical
BRANDON — A five-year Mississippi House member has resigned and agreed to pay a $10,000 fine to resolve an ethics case the state brought against him over public contracts that went to his family’s printing company — a fraction of the amount he originally was ordered to pay. Republican Rep. Kevin McGee, 42, of Brandon, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 3,2012
Tags: city government, federal agency, federal government, fine, law, municipal, municipality, overtime, pay, payroll, salary, violation, wage
JACKSON — The Department of Labor has fined the city of Jackson $31,750 for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act uncovered during a recent federal probe. The Clarion-Ledger reports the department began investigating the city in late 2011 after some unidentified officers complained that their superiors were making them work overtime without proper pay. [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 3,2012
Tags: build, builder, building, citation, construction, contractor, federal agency, fine, infrastructure, inspection, job site, penalty, trench, trenching, violation, worker health, workplace safety
BATESVILLE — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Brocato Construction Inc. of Batesville with two willful and one serious safety violation following an inspection of two trenches where workers were relocating gas and water lines along state Highway 305 in Olive Branch. OSHA reports it opened its inspection as [...] [...]
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