News from December 2008
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Dec. 19, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced an agreement to bring the State of Illinois into compliance with federal voting laws that require public assistance agencies to offer their clients the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Dec. 19, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - Three defendants were sentenced to prison today for their roles in an online copyright infringement scheme involving the sale of counterfeit software worth $2.5 million, Acting Assistant Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Dec. 19, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - Four defendants were sentenced today in federal district court in Fort Meyers, Fla., after pleading guilty to a scheme to enslave Mexican and Guatemalan nationals and compel their labor as farmworkers, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Dec. 19, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - Corey Davis, the ring-leader of a sex-trafficking ring that spanned at least three states, was sentenced today in federal court in Bridgeport, Conn., on federal civil rights charges for organizing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Dec. 19, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – Christopher Huxoll, an 18-year member of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department, pleaded guilty today to one count of aggravated assault for striking an unarmed man in the face with his riot baton during a march in 2005. Huxoll faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison when he is sentenced by Judge Russell F. Canan on March 6, 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Dec. 19, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – A former executive and a consultant of Willbros International Inc. (WII), a subsidiary of Houston-based Willbros Group Inc. (Willbros), have been charged in connection with a conspiracy to pay more than $6 million in bribes to government officials in Nigeria and Ecuador, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Dec. 19, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – A federal jury in Washington convicted David H. Safavian, the former chief of staff for the General Services Administration (GSA), of obstructing a GSA internal investigation and making false statements, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Dec. 19, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – Alaska State Senator John Cowdery, 78, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to bribe another Alaska state legislator, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division ...
By Fed Newswire | Dec 19, 2008
News Release: Today, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank (ECB), and the Swiss National Bank are announcing schedules for term auctions of U.S. dollar liquidity to be conducted during the first quarter of 2009. These schedules cover operations providing 28-day and ...
By Fed Newswire | Dec 19, 2008
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday released revised terms and conditions and questions and answers detailing operational aspects of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF). The revised terms and conditions were determined after consultation with asset-backed securities (ABS) issuers, investors, ...
By Fed Newswire | Dec 19, 2008
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced the approval of an application by Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros San Fernando de Huelva, Jerez y Sevilla, Seville, Spain, to establish a representative office in Miami, Florida.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 19, 2008
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday adopted revisions to its Payment System Risk (PSR) policy that are designed to improve intraday liquidity management and payment flows for the banking system, while also helping to mitigate the credit exposures of the Federal Reserve Banks from daylight overdrafts. ...
By Fed Newswire | Dec 19, 2008
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced that it will not pursue at this time its proposal to change the daylight overdraft posting rules under its Payment System Risk (PSR) policy.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 19, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez made the following statement following the announcement by President Bush that the administration would provide American auto manufacturers an initial $13.4 billion in short-term financing from the Troubled Asset Relief Program: “Our economy is ...
By Labor Gazette | Dec 19, 2008
News Release: Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.
By DOE Gazette | Dec 19, 2008
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Dec. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Dec 19, 2008
The US Energy Department published an eight page notice on Dec. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Dec 19, 2008
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Dec. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Dec 19, 2008
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Dec. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Dec 19, 2008
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Dec. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
