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Company Failed to Stop Abuse of Female Employees at Raleigh KFC, Agency Charged RALEIGH, N.C. – Luihn Food Systems, Inc. will pay $277,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

EEOC Axed Whistleblower Systemic discrimination against black people at the EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISION? Investigator Ricardo Jones was employed with th New York City Branch Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) when he contacted The Black Star News to tell anyone who would listen about “The EEOC is not investigating African-American complaints from New York to North Carolina.”  Source, http://blackstarnews.com/news/125/ARTICLE/6216/2010-01-14.html http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/5982/2009-09-05.html

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the sentencing of HUGUES AKASSY, 43, to 20 years in state prison for his conviction on charges of stalking, harassing, and, in one case, sexually assaulting a woman on the Upper West Side between November 2007 and July 2010. On November 7, 2011, AKASSY was found guilty following a jury trial.

PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JANICE K. FEDARCYK, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and PAUL MARTIN, the Inspector General of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Inspector General (“NASA OIG”), today announced charges against six Estonian nationals and one Russian national for engaging in a massive and sophisticated Internet fraud scheme that infected with malware more than four million computers located in over 100 countries. Of the computers infected with malware, at least 500,000 were in the United States, including computers belonging to U.S. government agencies, such as NASA; educational institutions; non-profit organizations; commercial businesses; and individuals. The malware secretly altered the settings on infected computers enabling the defendants to digitally hijack Internet searches and re-route computers to certain websites and a...

LAS VEGAS — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the $125,000 settlement of a national origin harassment lawsuit it had filed against Simon Property Group, Inc., which identifies itself as the largest real estate company in the United States. The EEOC had charged that Latino janitors working for the company were subjected to daily verbal attacks because of their national origin. Simon Property Group owns and/or manages various shopping malls throughout the country, including the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the site where the EEOC said the abuse occurred.

WASHINGTON—A patient recruiter of a Miami health care agency pleaded guilty yesterday for her participation in a $25 million home health Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the conviction of HUGUES AKASSY, 43, on multiple charges against him in connection with stalking, harassing, and, in one case, sexually assaulting a woman on the Upper West Side between November 2007 and July 2010.