News from January 2009
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today’s report shows a loss of 524,000 jobs - it’s now a full year of consecutive monthly job losses. The national unemployment rate rose to 7.2% and the number of unemployed Americans rose to 11.1 million.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 9, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today made the following remarks regarding a spill from the gypsum pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Widow's Creek Fossil Plant in Stevenson, Alabama...
By State Newswire | Jan 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Incoming Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) today announced several top staff members for the 111th Congress. David McKean, the Senator's former Chief of Staff, will serve as Staff Director on the committee. Doug Frantz joins the committee as Chief Investigator, Frederick Jones as Communications Director, and Frank Lowenstein as Chief Counsel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 8, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – The owner and operator of two Miami medical clinics has pleaded guilty to defrauding the Medicare program in connection with a $5.3 million HIV 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 8, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – A former executive of an Orange County, Calif.-based valve company pleaded guilty today in connection with his role in a conspiracy to pay approximately $1 million in bribes to numerous foreign ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 8, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Explorer Pipeline Company Will Pay $3.3 Million Civil Penalty for Clean Water Act Violation WASHINGTON—The Explorer Pipeline Company has agreed to pay a $3.3 million civil penalty in order to resolve ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 8, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON — A retired major in the U.S. Army pleaded guilty today to charges of bribery and making a false statement arising out of his activities as both a contracting specialist and a contracting officer ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 8, 2009 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AG (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Tax Defiers Allegedly Filed Baseless Liens Against IRS Employees Exceeding $1 Trillion and Used Fictitious Financial Instruments Totalling More Than $9 Million WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury in Portland, Ore., returned a superseding indictment against Micaela Renee Dutson and her husband, Tony Dutson, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The owner and operator of two Miami medical clinics has pleaded guilty to defrauding the Medicare program in connection with a $5.3 million HIV 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former executive of an Orange County, Calif.-based valve company pleaded guilty today in connection with his role in a conspiracy to pay approximately $1 million in bribes to numerous foreign government officials, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien of the Central District of California and Joseph Persichini Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON—The Explorer Pipeline Company has agreed to pay a $3.3 million civil penalty in order to resolve an alleged violation of the Clean Water Act stemming from a July 14, 2007, spill of over 6,500 barrels (approximately 275,000 gallons) of jet fuel from its interstate pipeline at a location near Huntsville, Texas, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — A retired major in the U.S. Army pleaded guilty today to charges of bribery and making a false statement arising out of his activities as both a contracting specialist and a contracting officer at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, from 2005 through 2007, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and Acting Assistant Attorney General Deborah A. Garza of the Antitrust Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury in Portland, Ore., returned a superseding indictment against Micaela Renee Dutson and her husband, Tony Dutson, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that it will launch an online digital library to archive its Web sites under a contract with the San Francisco-based Internet Archive.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 8, 2009
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – Preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) released today show that mine fatalities in 2008 fell to an all-time low recording a 31 percent drop from 2007. Metal/nonmetal mines recorded the lowest level of fatalities in that sector of mining since statistics were first recorded in 1910, and the fatality level in coal mines was the lowest recorded number since 2005.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 8, 2009
News Release: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending Jan. 3, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 467,000, a decrease of 24,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 491,000. The 4-week moving average was 525,750, a decrease of 27,000 from the previous week's revised average of 552,750.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 8, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Jan. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jan 8, 2009
The US State Department published a one page notice on Jan. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 8, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Jan. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 8, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Jan. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
