News from January 2009
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, released the following statement Wednesday strongly opposing legislation that would designate as “wilderness" the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2009
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, today made the following comment on the lack of alternative minimum tax (AMT) relief, or a “patch," in the House of Representatives stimulus bill released today. Grassley has worked successfully to ensure that middle-class taxpayers are protected from the AMT, which they were never intended to face.
By State Newswire | Jan 16, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today protested a presidential decision to waive sanctions against people supporting the Burmese regime that President Bush had approved by law last summer.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Sander M. Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement today regarding entry into force of the U.S. - Peru free trade agreement (FTA)...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2009
News Release: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, made the following statement after President-elect Barack Obama nominated U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-CO, to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2009
News Release: (Keystone, S.D.) Mount Rushmore National Memorial Superintendent Gerard Baker announced Friday that the Presidential Inauguration Ceremony will be shown live in Theater B at the "Shrine of Democracy" on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. This historic event in America’s history is a celebration of democracy in action and mirrors the vision and hard work of the four presidents represented at Mount Rushmore.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded contracts to purchase 10,683,000 barrels of crude oil at a cost of $553 million for the Department's Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Deliveries of the oil will be made from February to April 2009. The awards made to Shell Trading and Vitol are the first direct purchases of crude oil for the SPR since 1994. Revenues from the 2005 Hurricane Katrina emergency sale were used for the purchase.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, made the following statement Thursday at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the nomination of Senator Ken Salazar to be Secretary of the Department of the Interior:
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CIV (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 $515 Million Criminal Fine Is Largest Individual Corporate Criminal Fine in History; Civil Settlement up to $800 Million American pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company today agreed to plead guilty ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV NSD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 "The Department of Justice is pleased with this important ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, which upholds the constitutionality of foreign intelligence surveillance conducted under the Protect America Act of 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV NSD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – Zubair Ahmed, 29, and Khaleel Ahmed, 28, both residents of Chicago, pleaded guilty today in the Northern District of Ohio to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists in connection with their efforts to travel abroad in order to murder or maim U.S. military forces in Iraq or Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AG (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – The owners and operators of two Miami medical clinics, along with a phlebotomist at one of the clinics, have pleaded guilty to defrauding the Medicare program in connection with a $5.3 million ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Cement Manufacturer Will Reduce Smog-causing Pollution at Victorville Plant by Nearly 2,000 Tons Yearly WASHINGTON—In the largest settlement yet in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ongoing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CIV (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Company Locations in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin WASHINGTON – SouthernCare Inc. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV TAX (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Houma Area Mans Allegedly Bogus Deductions for Mariners Said to Cost Treasury $1.3 Million WASHINGTON - A federal court has ordered CPA Steven W. McCann, who operates a firm called SWMc Services in the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON — Executives from LG Display Co. Ltd. and Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. have agreed to plead guilty and serve jail time in the United States for participating in a global conspiracy to fix prices in the sale of Thin Film Transistor-Liquid Crystal Display (TFT-LCD) panels, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today announced a comprehensive agreement with King County, Wash., regarding the conditions of confinement at the King County Correctional Facility in Seattle. The agreement follows the Department’s investigation of the facility, which found substantial civil rights violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that it has reached a settlement with the State of Georgia regarding the conditions at Georgia’s seven psychiatric hospitals. The Department opened ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: American pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company today agreed to plead guilty and pay $1.415 billion for promoting its drug Zyprexa for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Justice announced today. This resolution includes a criminal fine of $515 million, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The owners and operators of two Miami medical clinics, along with a phlebotomist at one of the clinics, have pleaded guilty to defrauding the Medicare program in connection with a $5.3 million HIV and cancer infusion fraud scheme, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District of Florida announced today.
