News from September 2009
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: Proposing an innovative strategy to reward teachers and principals for improving student academic achievement, Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) today is introducing legislation to establish the Teacher Incentive Fund to strengthen teacher quality improvement programs. Price is joined by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the Education and Labor Committee, in introducing the legislation.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray announced today that National Park Service (NPS) crews began repair work on Ramps 44 and 45 near the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse this week. Park visitors can expect to see temporary closures of Ramp 44, Ramp 45 and the Interdunal Road between the two ramps. The work at the various sites will be coordinated to allow ORVs to access the beach and bypass the construction areas via alternate routes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Florida doctor was charged today by a federal grand jury in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., with allegedly orchestrating a fraudulent political fund raising and lobbying scheme through which he secretly diverted to himself more than $350,000 from contributions to political organizations he controlled, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Daniel Earl Danforth, 30, of Minden, La., has been indicted by a federal grand jury for hate crime violations and obstruction of justice charges stemming from a cross-burning in Athens, La., last year near the home of an interracial couple. Danforth was arrested today following the return ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON—Polembros Shipping LTD., a ship management company headquartered in Greece, pleaded guilty today in federal court in New Orleans for violating anti-pollution laws, ship safety laws, and making false statements during a U.S. Coast Guard investigation of the M/V Theotokos, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has filed a lawsuit alleging that conditions at the Erie County Holding Center, a pre-trial detention center in Buffalo, N.Y., and the Erie County Correctional Facility, a correctional facility in Alden, N.Y, routinely and systematically deprive inmates of constitutional rights, the Justice Department announced. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has entered into a consent decree with the Indianapolis law firm of Mike Norris & Associates that, if approved in federal court in Indianapolis, will resolve the Justice Department’s Mar. 16, 2009, complaint on behalf of an Indiana National Guardsman alleging that the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has filed a lawsuit against the city of Columbus, Ind., for violating the Fair Housing Act by refusing to grant a nonprofit organization a permit to operate a group home for 11 men recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, the Justice Department announced today. The lawsuit, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – AGCO Corp., a U.S. corporation based in Duluth, Ga., has agreed to pay a $1.6 million penalty for illegal kickbacks paid to the former government of Iraq, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) has agreed to pay the government $8.3 million to settle allegations that it illegally paid kickbacks to cardiologists and caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON—The owner of a Chattanooga, Tenn., salvage and demolition company, Watkins Street Project LLC, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Chattanooga, Tenn., for conspiring to violate the Clean Air Act and to defraud the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: PHOENIX – Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden, along with U.S. Attorney Dennis K. Burke, Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Kenneth Melson, Drug Enforcement Administration Deputy Chief of Operations Dave Gaddis, and other federal and local officials today officially unveiled the new Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Strike Force site in Phoenix.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Detroit residents Dierdre Teagen, Robert Wynn, Ernest Neal, James Harris and Steve Sherman pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Detroit this week for their roles in various Medicare fraud schemes, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Terrence Berg and Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former U.S. Army Reserve Major was sentenced to serve 70 months in prison and to pay $825,000 in restitution to the United States after pleading guilty to conspiracy and bribery charges involving U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) contracts at Camp Victory, Iraq, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – First United Security Bank of Thomasville, Ala., will invest more than $600,000, open a new branch in an African-American neighborhood in west central Alabama and take other steps as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that it engaged in a pattern of discrimination on the basis of race, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has filed a lawsuit alleging that a bank and two automobile dealerships in Los Angeles violated the Equal Credit Opportunity Act by charging non-Asian-American customers higher interest rate mark-ups for a period of at least two years, the Justice Department announced today. Nara Bank, one of the three defendants, has agreed to pay up to $410,000 to resolve the allegations against it.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis today released the third estimate of real gross domestic product (GDP) for the second quarter of 2009. The drop in real GDP was revised modestly to 0.7 percent at an annual rate from the second estimate of 1.0 percent. Most analysts had expected a decrease of 1.2 percent. The modest revision primarily reflected an upward revision to non-residential fixed investment.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: The U.S. Department of Commerce, in partnership with the Department of Defense, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Iraqi Embassy, will host the U.S.-Iraq Business and Investment Conference (USIBIC) October 20-21, 2009 at the Capitol Hill Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: Cornell University institute selected to lead consortium WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) has awarded a cooperative agreement to Cornell University's Employment and Disability Institute, School of Industrial and Labor Relations in Ithaca, N.Y., ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 30, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today announced $6.4 million in grant awards to implement projects promoting adherence to international core labor standards and support the rights of workers. Another $131,130 in contracts has been awarded to study topics related to international labor standards.
