News from October 2009
By State Newswire | Oct 23, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Senator John Kerry (D-MA), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement today in response to a Nicaraguan Supreme Court ruling to allow President Daniel Ortega to seek another term:
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 23, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., heard testimony Thursday from four witnesses, including former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, about the proliferation of White House “czars.".
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Three Ohio residents, Mohammad Zaki Amawi, 29, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, 46, and Wassim I. Mazloum, 28, have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from more than 8 years to 20 years for conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas, including U.S. military personnel in Iraq, and other terrorism-related violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today Attorney General Eric Holder announced the arrest of nearly 1,200 individuals on narcotics-related charges and the seizure of more than 11.7 tons of narcotics as part of a 44-month multi-agency law enforcement investigation known as "Project Coronado." The Attorney General was joined ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced a comprehensive settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Brookline, Mass., to ensure access to medical facilities and services for individuals with disabilities. BIDMC, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sims Lawson Jr., a resident of Killen, Ala., was sentenced to 70 months in prison by Judge R. David Proctor, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Gregory William Fair, 46, of Falls Church, Va., was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for selling counterfeit computer software on the Internet, in violation of criminal copyright infringement laws, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Channing D. Phillips.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rosa N. Rivera, a resident of the Bronx, N.Y., pleaded guilty today to aiding and assisting in the presentation of a false individual income tax return for clients and to filing a false individual income tax return, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein released Rivera on bail pending sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON--A federal grand jury in the Western District of New York, has returned a superseding indictment charging David Vega and Francis Rowe with committing violations of the Clean Air Act while they were project managers for Gordon-Smith Contracting, Inc., an asbestos removal company owned by Keith Gordon-Smith, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Daryl Haynor, an accountant who was a tax partner at an accounting firm in Tysons Corner, Va., and Jon Flask, an attorney who was a partner at a law firm in Vienna, Va., were indicted today for conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and for corruptly endeavoring to obstruct and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws, the Justice Department and IRS announced.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday issued a proposal designed to ensure that the incentive compensation policies of banking organizations do not undermine the safety and soundness of their organizations.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: Welcome everyone to this gathering to discuss how America can start building a green economy.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today co-chaired the U.S.-Iraq Business Dialogue with Iraq’s Acting Minister of TradeDr. Safa Al-Din Muhammad Al-Safi. Secretary Locke expressed the U.S. government’s commitment to helping Iraq become a strong, stable and democratic country, and to building lasting economic ties between the two countries.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending Oct. 17, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 531,000, an increase of 11,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 520,000. The 4-week moving average was 532,250, a decrease of 750 from the previous week's revised average of 533,000.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that approximately 4,500 workers from companies in 17 states – Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin – are eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA).
By Labor Gazette | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the creation of a new Unemployment Benefit Estimation Tool that allows mortgage companies and housing counselors to project a homeowner's unemployment insurance income for loan modification purposes. The tool was created as part of collaborative effort among the Labor Department, the U.S. Department of Treasury, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Hope Now Alliance.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced $3,850,268 in grants to assist about 1,430 workers in the state of Oregon affected by layoffs from Monaco Coach Corp. locations in Coburg and Hines.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $1,412,920 grant to assist approximately 328 workers in the state of Oregon affected by layoffs from Cessna Aircraft Co. in Bend, Ore.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $3,319,718 grant to assist approximately 600 workers affected by layoffs at nine companies in Massachusetts' information, manufacturing, retail and transportation industries.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 22, 2009
News Release: Mokena, Illinois – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a default judgment in federal district court in Chicago requiring the plan fiduciary of the TMG National Holdings retirement plan to restore $4,110.80 to the plan for improperly using plan assets to benefit the company.
