News from August 2009
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2009
News Release: Road work originally scheduled for August 13 and 14 has been delayed until Monday, Aug. 17, 2009. “The weather has forced them to postpone their work until Monday, commented Superintendent Vidal Martinez. “On the plus side they now plan on completing the work in just one day.".
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 14, 2009 - House Natural Resources Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today in response to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s speech on the Obama Administration’s vision for the U.S. Forest Service.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2009
News Release: Lawmakers eager to broaden health care coverage while holding down costs are examining the institutional market for medical supplies, a largely unseen $60 billion-a- year realm where things like bedpans and heart implants change hands.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2009
News Release: Olympic National Park will host a special community event, ‘An Evening in the Olympics,’ on Tuesday, September 15 at 7:00 p.m. in the Port Angeles High School auditorium.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 14, 2009
News Release: Could viruses be good for you? Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have shown that enzymes from bacteria-infecting viruses known as phages could have beneficial applications for human and animal health.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches will be managed again this summer under the terms of the U.S. District Court approved consent decree. Park visitors can expect to see resource closures for breeding shorebirds in effect to varying degrees from mid-March to mid-to-late-August and turtle nesting...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 San Antonio. Tex. — Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano, Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina-Mora, Mexican National Public Security System Executive Secretary Jorge Tello Peón, U.S. Immigration ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Exxon-Mobil Corporation, the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas company, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Denver to violating the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) in five states during the past five years, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano, Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina-Mora, Mexican National Public Security System Executive Secretary Jorge Tello Peón, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Acting Director Kenneth E. Melson and U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal court in Seattle has permanently barred Daniel Andersen from promoting fraudulent tax schemes, the Justice Department announced today. Documents the government filed on August 11 requested that the court enjoin Andersen, arguing that he was a founding member of the Institute for Global Prosperity, an entity that promoted both its own fraudulent tax scheme and the fraudulent tax schemes of others.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Michael D. Doyle, 41, of Woburn, Mass., was sentenced today to four years in prison for possessing images of child pornography, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Michael K. Loucks and Bruce M. Foucart, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Boston Field Office of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC), a defense contractor based in Andover, Mass., has agreed to pay the United States $15 million plus interest to settle allegations that two of its former executives engaged in a fraudulent kickback scheme in connection with two technical services contracts with the Air Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: Mohammad Shabbir Khan, the former director of operations in Kuwait and Iraq for Tamimi Global Company, a Saudi Arabian company, has been convicted of witness tampering and conspiracy to commit witness tampering. The verdict followed a one-day bench trial before U.S. District Judge Joe B. McDade in the Central District of Illinois on Aug. 10, 2009. Sentencing will be scheduled at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that the operator and manager of the Rathbone Retirement Community in Evansville, Ind., has agreed to pay up to $116,000 to resolve a housing discrimination lawsuit. The November 2008 lawsuit alleged that the defendants violated the Fair Housing Act by prohibiting the use of motorized wheelchairs and scooters in residents’ apartments and in the home’s common dining room during meals.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON— Fleet Management Ltd., a Hong Kong-based ship management firm, pleaded guilty today to a criminal violation of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 for its role in negligently causing the discharge of more than 50,000 gallons of fuel oil into San Francisco Bay from the Cosco Busan when the vessel ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Boeing Company will pay the United States $25 million to resolve allegations that the company performed defective work on the entire KC-10 Extender fleet, the Justice Department announced today. The KC-10 Extender is a mainstay of the Air Force’s aerial refueling fleet in the Iraq and Afghanistan war theaters.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal jury in San Juan, Puerto Rico, found four San Juan Municipal Police Officers guilty today of felony federal civil rights charges related to the fatal beating of Jose Antonio Rivera Robles, announced Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez Vélez, U.S. Attorney for Puerto Rico, and Luis S. Fraticelli, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s San Juan Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: Two former employees of Edward H. Okun, who was sentenced to 100 years in prison on Aug. 4, 2009, after a three-week jury trial, were sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne for their roles in a scheme to defraud and obtain approximately $126 million in client funds held by The 1031 Tax Group LLP (1031TG).
By Fed Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between CIT Group Inc., New York, New York, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among CBS Financial Corporation, Smyrna, Georgia, a registered bank holding company, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the Banking Commissioner of the State of Georgia.
