All articles tagged with #civil penalty
A former Amityville pediatric nurse was fined $544,000—the largest civil penalty in New York State Department of Health history—for submitting hundreds of falsified vaccination records for 162 students, including COVID-19 and other vaccines. Prosecutors say she forged records to launder funds used to pay her mortgage; she surrendered her nursing license, is on five years of probation, and must forfeit about $1.2 million.
The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed a $165,000 civil penalty against Alaska Airlines for allegedly letting intoxicated passengers board 11 flights between February 2024 and February 2025, a violation of safety rules. Alaska Airlines says it cooperated with an FAA audit and has since implemented changes including enhanced crew and staff training. The airline has 30 days to respond, with options to dispute, negotiate, or pay; failure to respond could limit its ability to challenge the penalty.
Arthur Grand Technologies Inc., a Virginia-based IT services firm, will pay a $7,500 civil penalty and undergo compliance measures after the DOJ found a discriminatory job posting specifying "Whites only" and "US Born Citizens." The company claims the post was unauthorized and made by a disgruntled employee, who has since been terminated. The DOJ and Labor Department have reached agreements with the company to ensure compliance with federal civil rights laws.
A man from King George, Virginia, blamed his wife after TSA officers at Reagan National Airport discovered a loaded handgun in his carry-on bag. The man claimed that his wife had packed the bag without his knowledge. As a result, he was given a citation and faces a civil penalty of up to $15,000. TSA officials expressed disappointment at the recurring incidents of travelers bringing loaded guns to security checkpoints and advised passengers to start with an empty bag to avoid such situations. The TSA has intercepted six firearms at Reagan National Airport in the past three weeks alone. Passengers are only allowed to travel with guns in checked bags, which must be unloaded and packed in a locked hard case.
Shell will pay a civil penalty of $4.9 million and spend an additional $5 million on local environmental projects after exceeding emission limitations at its Beaver County facility. The plant is set to resume operations starting Wednesday. Western Pennsylvania will directly receive $6.2 million for projects to benefit the environment, health, and quality of life of the community near the facility because of the agreement. Shell will also pay additional monthly civil penalties for the rest of 2023 for any further exceedances.
The SEC has revised its $22 million penalty against decentralized content platform LBRY, acknowledging that the firm is unlikely to be able to pay the funds. Instead, the SEC has asked for a fine of $111,614 and to stop LBRY from conducting future unregistered offerings of crypto asset securities. The SEC first filed a civil suit against LBRY in March 2021, alleging that the firm’s LBC sales were unregistered securities offerings. The SEC won the case in November 2022, while the preceding Judge also ruled that LBC was a security.