News from July 2009
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 21, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano met with U.S. governors at the National Governors Association (NGA) Conference in Biloxi, Miss., on Sunday to discuss Gulf Coast emergency preparedness efforts, H1N1 flu and the Pass ID secure identification legislation—designed to fulfill the 9/11 Commission’s recommendation to establish national standards for secure driver’s licenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 21, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 “Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano will travel to the state of Washington on Monday, July 27. While in Washington, Secretary Napolitano will visit the 2010 Olympics Coordination Center in Bellingham—a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Franklin Joseph Ryle Jr., a former Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper, pleaded guilty on July 20, 2009, in federal court in Wyoming to depriving a man of his constitutional right to be free from unreasonable seizures by kidnapping him. Ryle also pleaded guilty to one count of using his firearm in relation to the crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against the owner and employees of Rolling Oaks Apartments, a 72-unit complex in Clanton, Ala., for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating on the basis of race or color in the rental of apartments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The state of New York and New York City have agreed to pay $540 million to settle allegations that they knowingly submitted, or caused to be submitted, false claims for reimbursement for school-based health care services, primarily speech therapy and transportation, provided to Medicaid eligible children from 1990 to 2001, the Justice Department announced today. The settlement is a record federal recovery by the Justice Department for the Medicaid Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON—Western Energy Company, the operator of the Rosebud Mine on federal coal leases outside of Billings, Mont., has paid the United States more than $12 million in mineral royalties and accrued interest as the result of a settlement agreement announced today by the Justice Department and Department of the Interior.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2009
News Release: The Department of Justice and Department of Defense today announced that the Detention Policy Task Force, which was created pursuant to Executive Order 13493, has issued a preliminary report on military commissions and a process for the determination of prosecution forum for trials of suspected terrorists. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2009
News Release: Warren Mumpower of Spokane, Wash., was sentenced to life in prison today for his activity in a global child pornography trafficking enterprise.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 21, 2009
News Release: The federal bank, thrift, credit union, and Farm Credit System regulatory agencies today released revised interagency questions and answers regarding flood insurance and requested public comment on several new ones. The Interagency Questions and Answers Regarding Flood Insurance (2009) supersedes the ...
By Fed Newswire | Jul 21, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its discount rate meetings from May 18 through June 22, 2009.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 21, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that more than 900 workers from Delphi Steering in Saginaw, Mich., are eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 21, 2009
News Release: Training in other high growth industries also will be targeted TOPEKA, Kan. – During a visit to the Shawnee County Community Health Center as a stop on the Obama administration's Rural Tour, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today announced a $220 million competition to fund projects that prepare workers for careers in the health care and other high growth industries.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 21, 2009
News Release: New York – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a federal court order in the form of a default judgment appointing Jacqueline M. Carmichael as the independent fiduciary to manage the abandoned 401(k) plan of defunct Bonnie Optical Inc. of Rochester, New York.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 21, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on July 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 21, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on July 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 21, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on July 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 21, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on July 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 21, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on July 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 21, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on July 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 21, 2009
The US Commerce Department published a five page rule on July 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
