News from June 2009
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Fifty-three people have been indicted for schemes to submit more than $50 million in false Medicare claims in the continuing operation of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in Detroit, Attorney General Eric Holder, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sims Lawson Jr., a resident of Killen, Ala., pleaded guilty yesterday to filing false tax returns for years 2002 through 2004, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Lawson appeared before Judge R. David Proctor in Birmingham, Ala., and admitted that he failed to pay federal income taxes of $369,038 and state income taxes of $50,938.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: A federal court has permanently enjoined Reinhold Sommerstedt, a Las Vegas-based promoter of a sham trust tax scam. According to papers filed in the case, Sommerstedt created phony domestic and foreign trusts to move customers’ assets from the United States to offshore banks located in the West Indies. ...
By Fed Newswire | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: The federal bank and thrift regulatory agencies today proposed revisions to regulations implementing the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to require the agencies to consider low-cost education loans provided to low-income borrowers when assessing a financial institution's record of meeting community credit needs.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the issuance of a Prompt Corrective Action Directive against BankFirst, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a state chartered member bank.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April suggests that the pace of economic contraction is slowing. Conditions in financial markets have generally improved in recent months. Household spending has shown further signs of stabilizing but remains constrained by ongoing job ...
By Commerce News Now | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: Today U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk sent a joint letter to their counterparts in China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) urging China to revoke a proposed rule (Circular 226) that would mandate that ...
By Labor Gazette | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today announced that it is continuing its nationwide program to emphasize workplace safety and health for federal workers and for those contractors whose work is supervised on a daily basis by federal agency personnel.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today certified for release $6,508,588 in unemployment insurance (UI) modernization incentive funds to the state of Montana. Montana qualified for a portion of its share of the funds available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) by allowing workers to use their more recent earnings to qualify for benefits.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: MEMPHIS, Tenn. – During a visit to Memphis today, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced five grant competitions, totaling $500 million, to fund projects that prepare workers for green jobs in the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has certified for release $75,886,483 in unemployment insurance (UI) modernization incentive funds to the state of Oklahoma. Oklahoma qualified for its full share of the funds available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) by providing for a variety of provisions that assist recent entrants to the workforce, part time workers, and people who become unemployed because of compelling family reasons.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has certified for release $44,644,693 in unemployment insurance (UI) modernization incentive funds to the state of Wisconsin. Wisconsin qualified for the funds available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) by allowing workers to use their more recent earnings to qualify for benefits.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: Atlanta – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) will sponsor “Getting It Right – Know Your Fiduciary Responsibilities,” a free compliance assistance seminar in Atlanta on July 9 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 1000 Peachtree Street NE.
By USDA Wire | Jun 24, 2009
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on June 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jun 24, 2009
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on June 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 24, 2009
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on June 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 24, 2009
The US Commerce Department published a six page notice on June 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 24, 2009
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on June 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 24, 2009
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on June 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 24, 2009
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on June 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
