News from September 2009
By DOE Gazette | Sep 28, 2009
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Sept. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 28, 2009
News Release: A drug commonly used to treat cattle and sometimes dogs for a blood parasite can, at a relatively high dose, completely eliminate the parasite Babesia caballi from horses, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have discovered.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2009
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ. -- Grand Canyon National Park fire officials are planning to conduct a prescribed fire on the South Rim within the next two weeks if weather and forest conditions permit. The burn will include three adjoining burn units located south of Highway 64 near Grandview Point about nine miles...
By State Newswire | Sep 28, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following last week's announcement of President Obama nominating Robert King to be the Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) released the following statement:
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2009
News Release: As a very special experience for the visiting public and local communities, the National Park Service will be offering Full Moon Tours of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse the evening of October 4, 2009.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) has sent a letter to Bank of America CEO and President Kenneth D. Lewis regarding the existence of a call recording and archiving system referred to as the “NICE System" that could provide definitive evidence about whether nor not it was the practice of VIP account executives to inform VIP borrowers of their status.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today called on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to review and adjust payments to health care providers after new findings revealed disproportionate Medicare spending and potentially dangerous overuse of services...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2009
News Release: The U.S. Government Accountability Office has concluded that concern among states about prevailing wage requirements has delayed implementation of a $5 billion weatherization program enacted through Democrats’ economic stimulus package.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2009
News Release: Gateway NRA General Management Newsletter Now Available in Four Languages.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2009
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) issued the following statement today following a decision by an arbitral panel, the LCIA (formerly the London Court of Arbitration), to reject Canada’s claim that its offer to pay the U.S. Government approximately $36.6 million in compensation cured...
By State Newswire | Sep 28, 2009
News Release: The lesson of Vietnam is don't commit troops without a clear strategy, D.C. - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) authored the following op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal titled "Testing Afghanistan Assumptions."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice today announced that three detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the control of the governments of Ireland and Yemen.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2009
News Release: The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit in federal court in Raleigh, N.C., against Franklin County, N.C., alleging that the county retaliated against a former employee in its Department of Public Utilities, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, after the employee complained ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2009
News Release: Eli Goldshor of Boca Raton, Fla.,was sentenced today for conspiracy to commit securities fraud and willfully failing to file tax returns. Goldshor, a self-employed limousine driver, was sentenced by Judge William Zloch in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., to 18 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2009
News Release: A Saddle River, N.J., man pleaded guilty today to failure to file a Report of Foreign Bank or Financial Accounts (F-BAR. Juergen Homann appeared today before Judge Stanley R. Chesler in Newark, N.J., and accepted responsibility for concealing more than $5 million in Swiss bank accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2009
News Release: Mark Edwin Cairnes of Jonestown, Texas, pleaded guilty today to advertising and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit in federal court in Michigan alleging that Knight Protective Service Inc., willfully violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) by failing to promptly and properly reemploy King A. Gatten, a retired Army servicemember, when he returned from military service.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON—The former supervisor of the wastewater treatment facility in Ft. Gibson, Okla., Christopher Neil Gauntt was sentenced today in federal court in Muskogee, Okla., to serve six months home confinement for submitting false statements that concealed violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Justice Department announced. He was also sentenced to pay a $5,000 fine and serve five years probation following the term of confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2009
News Release: James Wilbur Fondren Jr., was convicted by a federal jury today on charges involving providing classified information to a man working with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and lying to the FBI about it.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON— Robert Lumpkins, owner of Golden Eye Seafood LLC, of St. Mary’s County, Md., was sentenced to 18 months in prison and the company was sentenced today to 3 years probation by U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte after a two day sentencing hearing in the District of Maryland, the Justice Department announced.
