As you already know, COVID-19 changed almost everything, and some of those things are likely here to stay (or at least for a while longer). One widespread change is the use of.
In response to ongoing pleas for guidance, the Department of Labor (DOL) has published an informal outline expressing its views on how retirement plan administrators should be.
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On Friday, the USDA published a long, long awaited Final Rule regulating the production of hemp in the United States. The Final Rule, which arrives more than two years after Congress first allowed for the widespread cultivation, processing, distribution, sale, and use of hemp, establishes a comprehensive regime governing all aspects of this nascent industry.
The hemp industry has been operating under an interim final rule since October 2019, which our team wrote about at the time. The interim final rule’s key provisions included licensing requirements; recordkeeping requirements for maintaining information about the land where hemp is produced; procedures for testing the THC concentration levels for hemp; procedures for disposing of non-compliant plants; compliance provisions; and procedures for handling violations.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it obtained more than $2.2 billion in False Claims Act (FCA) settlements and judgments in the fiscal year ending September 29, 2020.
Notably, DOJ reports that “matters that involved the healthcare industry” again comprised the largest portion of these FCA recoveries, but that “procurement fraud” recoveries comprised the second largest category of recoveries for DOJ this past year just as they did in fiscal year 2019.
Among the more notable procurement fraud recoveries from fiscal year 2020 that DOJ reports are:
Multiple “major federal contractors” agreed to pay over $57 million to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims to the U.S. Department of Energy by charging inflated labor hours and by billing for work not actually performed to construct and maintain the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant.
Shae Armstrong And Scott Beckmen Join Bradley As Partners In Dallas
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DALLAS, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Shae Armstrong and Scott Beckmen have joined the firm s Dallas office as partners. Mr. Armstrong joins the firm s Real Estate Practice Group, and Mr. Beckmen joins the Corporate and Securities Practice Group. Both attorneys join the firm from Stinson LLP. We are pleased to welcome Shae and Scott to the Dallas office, said Dallas Office Managing Partner Richard A. Sayles. Their widespread knowledge across a variety of transactional and technology-related practices broadens our capabilities in Texas and marks another important step in furthering our strategic growth plan for our transactional practice areas.