Kentucky Funeral Director Fined $580,000 for Performing Hundreds of Illegal Cremations A former funeral director and mayoral candidate associated with three funeral homes in Indiana and Kentucky has been fined $580,000 by the Office of the Kentucky Attorney General for performing nearly 300 cremations without a license. Anthony Oxendine is […] Read More
Three women who ran a Lancaster-based beverage company were ordered to pay more than $14 million in combined penalties for allegedly defrauding and misleading investors over a three-year period, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. She Beverage Co. and its executives — Lupe L. Rose, 54, and Sonja F. […] Read More
City National Bank was fined $65 million on Wednesday by federal regulators for failing to maintain proper risk management and internal controls, including those related to money laundering. Long known as L.A.’s “bank to the stars” for its close ties to the entertainment industry, the bank entered into a civil […] Read More
Donald Trump made his name in New York real estate, and he plastered it on towers, plazas and skating rinks for half a century. Now, the state’s attorney general wants to take it down and bar him from ever again working in the industry, at least in New York. In […] Read More
A Southern California poultry processor illegally employed children as young as 14 to debone meat with sharp knives and move pallets with power-driven lifts, the Labor Department said. The poultry processor, which supplies grocery stores including Ralphs and Aldi, must pay nearly $3.8 million in fines and back wages after […] Read More
California elections watchdogs have fined a former Orange County assemblyman $100,000 for using campaign funds to cover myriad personal costs — including family vacations, his children’s cellphone bills and $2,400 worth of clothing — in violation of state law. The decision this month from the Fair Political Practices Commission concluded […] Read More
California’s labor commissioner on Tuesday ordered the Hyatt Regency Long Beach to pay nearly $4.8 million in fines for failing to offer jobs to workers who had been laid off during COVID-19 shutdowns. The hotel did not offer job positions in a timely manner to 25 employees, including restaurant servers, […] Read More
