Defense News in Brief: Reserve Sailors return to birthplace to support naval exercise, share origins of success

Source: United States Navy

TEMA, Ghana – Obangame Express (OE21) is an annual naval interoperability exercise hosted by a rotating roster of West African nations in the Gulf of Guinea that was held in Accra, Ghana this year from March 14-27, 2021. This was the first multinational exercise of this magnitude on the African continent since the start of the global Covid-19 pandemic.

Security News in Brief: Health Care Staffing Company and Executive Indicted for Colluding to Suppress Wages of School Nurses

Source: United States Department of Justice News

A federal grand jury in Las Vegas, Nevada, returned an indictment today charging VDA OC LLC (formerly Advantage On Call LLC), a health care staffing company, and Ryan Hee, a former manager of the company, with entering into and engaging in a conspiracy with a competitor to allocate employee nurses and to fix the wages of those nurses, in violation of the Sherman Act.

Security News in Brief: Justice Department Settles Housing Discrimination Lawsuit Against Staten Island, New York Rental Agent and Real Estate Agency

Source: United States Department of Justice News

The Justice Department announced today that its Civil Rights Division, together with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, has reached a settlement with Village Realty of Staten Island Ltd. and Denis Donovan, a sales and former rental agent at Village Realty, to resolve a lawsuit filed last year alleging discrimination against African Americans in violation of the Fair Housing Act.