News from September 2009
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) blasted actions by the Obama Administration to silence critics of the President’s proposed Medicare cuts.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2009
News Release: Rome, NY - On Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, in preparation for the Ken Burns documentary "America's Best Idea" on our National Park System Fort Stanwix National Monument will host an open house for people wishing to express their appreciation to the park volunteers and explore volunteer opportunities at the park. The six-part Ken Burns documentary will be shown on PBS starting Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI ) today made the following statement regarding Senator Baucus’s draft health care bill...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray invites the general public to a special program on the grounds of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Friday, October 2 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00noon to recognize the 10th anniversary of the move of this extraordinary beacon. The Lighthouse has served as an aid to navigation since 1870.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that Najibullah Zazi, 24, a resident of Aurora, Colo., and legal permanent resident of the United States from Afghanistan, has been indicted in the Eastern District of New York on a charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction (explosive bombs) against persons or property in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: A Dutch aviation services company, its director and sales manager pleaded guilty today in the District of Columbia to federal charges related to a conspiracy to illegally export aircraft components and other items from the United States to entities in Iran via the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates and Cyprus.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Clinic owners and operators Jose Martinez and Denisse Martinez pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Detroit to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg of the Eastern District of Michigan and Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: Richard LaShure, 41, and Aaron Latham, 20, both of Muncie, Ind., pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the civil rights of an African American family and to interfering with their housing rights by burning a cross in the family’s yard.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: Former Alaska State Representative Beverly Masek was sentenced today to six months in prison by U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline in Anchorage, Alaska. Masek, 45, was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that it had reached a settlement with a Virginia landlord to resolve allegations that she violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA). The lawsuit alleged that the landlord failed to return prepaid rent and security deposits to a tenant who had terminated her lease early in order to comply with military orders to relocate from to Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: Today, a federal grand jury returned a superseding criminal indictment in the Daniel Patrick Boyd matter.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, 19, has been arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Smadi, who was under continuous surveillance by the FBI, was arrested today near Fountain Place, a 60-story glass office tower located at 1445 Ross Avenue in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Former Choctaw County, Okla., deputy sheriff Ben Westley Milner was found guilty today by a federal jury in Muskogee, Okla., of violating the civil rights of three men by assaulting them without legal justification. In one incident, which took place on Oct. 31, 2005, defendant Milner physically ...
By Fed Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: Credit quality declined sharply for loan commitments of $20 million or more held by multiple federally supervised institutions, according to the 32nd annual review of Shared National Credits (SNC).
By Fed Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday issued a revision to Regulation S, which sets the rates and conditions under which a government agency must reimburse a financial institution for costs incurred in producing customer financial records under the Right to Financial Privacy Act.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Capitol Bancorp, Ltd., Lansing, Michigan, Capitol Bancorp, Ltd.’s Second-Tier Bank Holding Companies, each of which is a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between First National Bancshares, Inc., Goodland, Kansas, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the issuance of a consent Order of Assessment of a Civil Money Penalty against Compass Bank, Birmingham, Alabama, a state member bank. Compass Bank, without admitting to any allegations, consented to the issuance of the Order in connection with its alleged violations of the Board’s regulations implementing the National Flood Insurance Act.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve on Thursday announced schedules for operations under the Term Auction Facility (TAF) and the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF) through January 2010 and other information related to those facilities.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 24, 2009
News Release: I’m pleased to be here this morning to help mark an important milestone. Today the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is releasing its first framework for the adoption of Smart Grid standards.
