News from April 2010
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2010
News Release: Learn more about your National Parks while visiting the Outer Banks this spring!.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2010
News Release: The first deliberate vandalism incident of a resource protection area during the 2010 shorebird breeding season has occurred, resulting in an automatic expansion of the protected area. The incident was discovered by NPS bird monitoring staff on Thursday, April 22 and is being investigated by NPS law enforcement personnel. The expansion was implemented on Friday, April 23, 2010.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2010
News Release: National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis today announced Cicely Muldoon as the new superintendent of Point Reyes National Seashore in northern California. She will report to the park in mid-May.
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today cautioned that the $4 billion cut to the international affairs budget, which passed out of the Budget Committee markup for the FY 2011 Senate Budget Resolution this afternoon, puts into jeopardy key foreign policy and national security priorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: Frederick Allen and Kimberlee Allen, both of Harwich, Mass., today were convicted of conspiracy, tax evasion and failure to file tax returns, after a jury trial, the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Judge Joseph Tauro of the District of Massachusetts presided.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: Representatives of the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force (FFETF) met in Chicago today with community stakeholders to discuss national, state and local elements of the banking and housing crisis. The meeting was the first of a series of Fair Lending Forums, and task force representatives in attendance included members from the Department of Justice, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Federal Reserve Board and the state of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: John G. Pinone, Jr., of Glastonbury, Conn., made his initial appearance in district court today on conspiracy and tax charges, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. In March 2010, a grand jury returned a sealed indictment charging Pinone and Francis B. DelMastro, formerly of Tolland, Conn., with conspiracy and willfully filing false tax returns. DelMastro made his initial appearance on April 9, 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: Detroit-area resident Melvin Young pleaded guilty today to engaging in a fraudulent medical testing scheme, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: The chief engineer of a cargo vessel registered in the Republic of Panama pleaded guilty in federal court in Corpus Christi, Texas, for obstructing a U.S. Coast Guard investigation into the illegal overboard discharge of polluted wastewater as well as failing to keep accurate pollution control records, the Justice Department announced today.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a consent Cease and Desist Order by and among PB Financial Group, Inc., Denver, Colorado, a registered bank holding company, Premier Bank, Denver, Colorado, a state chartered member bank, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Colorado Division of Banking. A copy of the Order is attached.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among The Bank of Currituck, Moyock, North Carolina, a state chartered member bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and the North Carolina Office of the Commissioner of Banks. A copy of the Written Agreement is attached.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: Good morning everybody. It is terrific to be in here in Lincoln Park.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: Jersey City’s Lincoln Park Project is Putting People Back to Work Transforming Local Dump to Healthy Wetland JERSEY CITY, N.J.—U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today celebrated Earth Day at an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) restoration project that is putting people back to work transforming a local dump into 35 acres of wetland and creating a new public trail in Lincoln Park.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement on the introduction of legislation regarding the issue of misclassification: "I applaud Sen. Brown and Rep. Woolsey for their efforts to address this significant and troubling issue. One of my goals as secretary ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Every day, about 14 Americans fail to come home from work to their families. Tens of thousands die from workplace disease and more than 4.6 million workers are seriously injured on the job annually. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, in an effort to address urgent safety and health problems facing Americans in the workplace, is implementing a new Severe Violator Enforcement Program and increasing civil penalty amounts.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: Turning Green to Gold, Safely campaign to collect best practices from public WASHINGTON – This Earth Day, the U.S. Department of Labor is turning green jobs into golden opportunities safely by working with its community, labor and industry partners to prepare the workforce for high growth fields while ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending April 17, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 456,000, a decrease of 24,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 480,000. The 4-week moving average was 460,250, an increase of 2,750 from the previous week's revised average of 457,500.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that approximately 5,500 workers from companies in 13 states – California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin – are eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $16,571,738 National Emergency Grant increment to continue clean-up and recovery efforts in the wake of the tsunami that struck American Samoa on Sept. 29, 2009.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Muhlenberg Job Corps Center of Greenville, Ky., today received the first ever "Earth Day, Every Day" National Green Center Recognition Award from Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis in an Earth Day 40th anniversary ceremony at the U.S. Department of Labor.
