News published on Federal Newswire in January 2008

News from January 2008


GAO Finds Cracks In Offshore Tax Enforcement

News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today called for stronger overseas tax enforcement by the IRS. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report requested by the Finance leaders found holes in the Qualified Intermediary...


News Release: Cliff Spencer to Head Petrified Forest National Park.


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON— The Justice Department today announced Mika Kelemete, the former warden at the Tafuna Correctional Facility in Pago Pago, American Samoa, and Siaumau Mapu, a former corrections officer at ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, and Donald W. Washington, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, today announced the indictment ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV OPA (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Additional Funding Aimed to Help Multi-Jurisdictional Crime Challenges WASHINGTON – In a speech before the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today announced the President ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice said today that it will require Pearson Plc to divest assets relating to three clinical testing markets in order to proceed with Pearson’s proposed $950 million acquisition ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON—The Tamarack Resort, located approximately 100 miles north of Boise, Idaho, has agreed to pay the United States a $185,000 penalty to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act arising from storm water violations discovered on the resort’s property in 2005 and 2006, the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency announced.


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CIV (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – The United States has intervened against three New Jersey hospitals in two whistleblower lawsuits alleging that the hospitals defrauded Medicare, the Justice Department announced today. The three hospitals are Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton, Barnert Hospital in Paterson, and Bayonne Hospital.


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights; David E. Nahmias, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia; Gregory Jones, FBI Special Agent in Charge; and ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – Grace C. Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, together with James A. Zerhusen, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Tracy Reinhold, ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV TAX (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON—Three defendants, whose trial was scheduled to begin in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City next week, have pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States, the Department of Justice ...


Order of assessment of a civil money penalty against Traders Bank

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the issuance of consent Order of Assessment of a Civil Money Penalty against Traders Bank, Spencer, West Virginia, a state member bank. Traders Bank, without admitting to any allegations, consented to the issuance of the Order in connection with its alleged violations of the Board's Regulations implementing the National Flood Insurance Act.


Order of prohibition against Aldo N. Morales

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the issuance of a Consent Order of Prohibition against Aldo N. Morales, former vice president, loan officer, and institution-affiliated party of Coconut Grove Bank, Miami, Florida. Mr. Morales, without admitting to any allegations, consented to the issuance ...


Approval of the discount rate action of the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Kansas City

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday approved actions by the Boards of Directors of the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Kansas City, decreasing the discount rate at the Banks from 4-3/4 percent to 4 percent, effective immediately.


News Release: It is good to be here with the farmers, processors, researchers and all those who make the poultry and egg industry a world leader and keep our nation—and the world—well fed.


News Release: Data Emphasizes Positive Impact Exports Have on Metropolitan Economies ATLANTA—Today the U.S. Commerce Department introduced a new data series that precisely measures export values for metropolitan areas. In 2006, 116 metropolitan areas recorded product sales of $1 billion or more. U.S. exporters reported a record $1.4 trillion in goods and services in 2006. Final 2007 numbers are forecast to exceed 2006 totals.


The US State Department published a two page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US State Department published a two page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US State Department published a one page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US State Department published a one page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.