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Ohio trucking company owner accused of evading $1.2M in taxes

A federal grand jury has indicted an Ohio trucking company owner, alleging she failed to pay approximately $1.2 million in taxes in a yearslong scheme. 

Alice F. Martin, 59, of Louisville, Ohio, was charged with seven counts of tax evasion, according to the indictment filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division.

Prosecutors allege that Martin attempted to evade the assessment of income taxes from 2013 through 2018 and attempted to evade paying...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ohio-trucking-company-owner-accused-of-evading-1-2m-in-taxes

GAO Report on Weapon Sustainment

The following is the March 2023 Government Accountability Office study, Weapons Systems Sustainment: DOD Needs to Improve Its Reporting for Warehousing Pilot Program.

From the report

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2017 authorized a 6-year pilot program for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to provide storage and distribution services for weapon system contractors. Specifically, the Department of Defense (DOD) was authorized to enter into no more than five contracts...

https://news.usni.org/2023/03/10/gao-report-on-weapon-sustainment

Navy to Begin Processing Separation for Sailors Refusing COVID-19 Vaccination

Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jackson Adkins, from Evans, Georgia, assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN-78) media department, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at the McCormick Gym onboard Naval Station Norfolk, Va., on April 8, 2021. US Navy Photo

The Navy can now begin to separate active-duty sailors who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to Navy guidance released Wednesday.
Active-duty sailors who refused to get the vaccine were set to be separated if they continued to...

https://news.usni.org/2021/12/15/navy-to-begin-processing-separation-for-sailors-refusing-covid-19-vaccination

97% of Active-Duty Sailors Fully Vaccinated With Four Days Until Deadline

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Emily Pierce, left, from Bremerton, Washington, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Information Systems Technician 1st Class Correy Bushman, from Rochester, Minnesota, assigned to the John C. Stennis, during a Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic led vaccination effort in conjunction with Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. US Navy Photo

The Navy has 97 percent of its active-duty sailors fully...

https://news.usni.org/2021/11/24/97-of-active-duty-sailors-fully-vaccinated-with-four-days-until-deadline

Chief of Naval Personnel to Determine Status for Partially Vaccinated Sailors

Steady sticklers with Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Bremerton began a Shot Exercise to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to all unvaccinated active duty personnel assigned to commands in the nation’s third largest fleet concentration area of Puget Sound, Aug. 31, 2021. US Navy Photo

Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. John Nowell will decide the career outcomes of active-duty sailors who have started the vaccination process but will not meet the impending...

https://news.usni.org/2021/11/17/chief-of-naval-personnel-to-determine-status-for-partially-vaccinated-sailors

Navy Releases New Guidance on Separating Sailors for Vaccine Refusal

Hospital Corpsman Julio Trujillo, from Orlando, Fla., administers a flu vaccine aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG-67) transits the Philippine Sea on Oct. 25, 2021. US Navy Photo

Sailors who are not granted an exemption for the COVID-19 vaccine will have five days to initiate the vaccination process before facing separation, according to new Navy guidance.

Active-duty sailors must be fully vaccinated by Nov. 28, unless they have a pending or approved exemption, according to previous...

https://news.usni.org/2021/11/15/navy-releases-new-guidance-on-separating-sailors-for-vaccine-refusal

Federal Contractor Vaccine Deadline Postponed, DoD Civilians to be Vaccinated by Nov. 22

Capt. P. Scott Miller, left, commanding officer of Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), receives the COVID-19 vaccine from Hospital Corpsman 3rd class Ang Li, a native of Newport, Ore., aboard the ship on Feb. 19, 2021. US Navy Photo

The deadline for federal contractors to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been pushed back to Jan. 4 to line up with new requirements for health care workers and other employers, the White House announced on Thursday.

Federal contractors...

https://news.usni.org/2021/11/04/federal-contractor-vaccine-deadline-postponed-dod-civilians-to-be-vaccinated-by-nov-22

GAO’s Open Recommendations to the Pentagon

The following is an August list of the Government Accountability Office’s open priority recommendations to the Pentagon.

From the report

In November 2020, we reported that federal agencies government-wide had implemented 77 percent of our recommendations made in fiscal year 2016. As of July 29, 2021, DOD had implemented 65 percent of our recommendations from fiscal year 2016; 66 recommendations from that fiscal year remain open. Additionally, as of July 29, 2021, DOD had 1,001 recommendations...

https://news.usni.org/2021/08/12/gaos-open-recommendations-to-the-pentagon

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