News from September 2009
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. (hereinafter together "Pfizer") have agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice, to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from the illegal promotion of certain pharmaceutical products, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Jacques Monsieur, a Belgian national and resident of France suspected of international arms dealing for decades, has been arrested on charges alleging that he conspired to illegally export F-5 fighter jet engines and parts from the United States to Iran. Monsieur is scheduled to have his arraignment today in federal court in Mobile, Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: More than $750,000 in forfeited funds from an embezzlement scheme by a Peruvian military officer have been transferred to the government of Peru. The forfeited funds were taken from the private account of Marco Antonio Rodriguez Huerta, a former Peruvian Army General, who was also on the board of directors ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Denver resident Lil Vargas-Arias pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Detroit to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced that Jacob A. Wingo, Richard W. Robbins, Clayton D. Morrison and Darren E. McKim pleaded guilty today and yesterday to conspiring to drive a woman and her children from their home in Donaldson, Ark., because they associated with African Americans. A fifth defendant, Dustin Nix, 21, pleaded guilty to similar charges in July 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal judge in Tampa, Fla., has permanently barred a Spring Hill, Fla., tax preparer from preparing federal tax returns, the Justice Department announced today. U.S. District Court Judge James D. Whittemore of the Middle District of Florida entered the permanent injunction order against Gerard Mirabella, who consented to it.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tax preparer Lawrence Sperling, was sentenced to 33 months in prison today by Judge Deborah Chasanow in Greenbelt, Md., for preparing false tax returns for clients, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to solicit kickbacks in connection with the award of a private security services subcontract to protect U.S. government personnel and contractors in Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, Assistant Attorney General Christine A. Varney of the Antitrust Division and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente for the Eastern District of Virginia.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on August 11-12, 2009.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Today, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, along with Executive Director of the White House Council on Auto Communities and Workers Ed Montgomery and Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy and International Affairs David Sandalow, joined Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle in hosting a Clean Energy Economy Forum with a diverse group of local and regional stakeholders in Saginaw, Michigan.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A survey of 4,387 workers in low-wage industries across the three largest U.S. cities – Chicago, Los Angeles and New York – found that the core workplace protections many Americans take for granted are failing significant numbers of workers. A report issued today and jointly funded by the ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has certified for release $200,767,125 in unemployment insurance (UI) modernization incentive funds to the state of Illinois. Illinois qualified for the remaining two-thirds of its share of the funds available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) by including certain family-friendly provisions in its UI law.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Washington – The Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans (also known as the ERISA Advisory Council) will hold meetings September 15 through 17 in Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue N.W., Room N-3437A-B.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: New York – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) will hold a free workshop on September 24 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT to help employers, the employee benefit community and others better comply with federal pension law. The workshop will be held at Plaza 35, 1030 St. George’s Avenue, Suite 205 in Avenel, New Jersey.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 2, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Sept. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 2, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Sept. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 2, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Sept. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 2, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Sept. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 2, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Sept. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 2, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Sept. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
