News from August 2010
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2010
News Release: The Zion National Park Soundscape Management Plan (SMP) and Environmental Assessment (EA) is available for a 30-day public review and comment period. The purpose of this plan is (1) to link soundscape management to the existing park management direction, (2) to define the existing ambient soundscape...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2010
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced last week that the National Park Service will waive entrance fees on August 14 and 15 to encourage all Americans to visit our national parks.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 9, 2010
News Release: Dear Ms. Grove: The purpose of this letter is to comment on the circumstances under which an exigent rate case is authorized under current law. As the author of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA), which grants the Postal Service the limited authority to file an exigent rate...
By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Howard L. Berman, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the hold he placed on future U.S. military assistance to Lebanon on August 2nd, 2010...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2010
News Release: LAURA BUSH TO SPEAK AT SEPTEMBER 11 CEREMONY HONORING HEROES OF UNITED FLIGHT 93 IN SHANKSVILLE, PA.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2010
News Release: ROME, NY - Fort Stanwix National Monument will celebrate our nation’s Independence Day with public readings of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. These readings will honor past and present soldiers of the United States and Army SPC Blair Thompson, and remember the sacrifices the people of the Mohawk Valley and the nation.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2010
News Release: Rome, NY: Summer is nearing its end, it will not be long before the children are back in school, and people have been visiting Fort Stanwix National Monument from around the world. For August, Fort Stanwix is announcing its 2010 program and events calendar. This August's highlights include the park's...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2010
News Release: Rome, NY: After years of work by citizens of the City of Rome, New York, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Wagner-Sisson Bill on Aug. 21, 1935, to establish Fort Stanwix National Monument "for the benefit and inspiration of the people.".
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 6, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Washington, D.C. - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced approximately $23 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding for an inline baggage screening system at Orlando International Airport (MCO)—enhancing the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) ongoing efforts to bolster airport security while boosting the local economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - CF Industries Inc. (CFI) has agreed to spend approximately $12 million to implement facility-wide operational changes to reduce and properly manage hazardous wastes generated at its Plant City, Fla., phosphoric acid and ammoniated fertilizer manufacturing facility, the Justice Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two foreign subsidiaries of Alliance One International Inc., a global tobacco leaf merchant headquartered in Morrisville, N.C., pleaded guilty today to violating various provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). In a related matter, the Department of Justice filed FCPA charges ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal judge in Santa Ana, Calif., has permanently barred Thanh Viet Jeremy Cao and his business, Phoenix Financial Management Group, from preparing federal tax returns, the Justice Department announced today. U.S. District Judge James V. Selna of the Central District of California entered the civil injunction order.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Jose Garcia, 55, who was a fugitive for nearly two years, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Miami for his participation in a Medicare fraud scheme involving a Miami-area HIV clinic, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced. Garcia was indicted in 2008 and self-surrendered to FBI agents in May 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal jury in Detroit today returned a $115,000 verdict against an Ypsilanti, Mich., man for sexually harassing female tenants in his capacity as a property manager, the Justice Department announced today. The jury also found the property owner and his company liable for the illegal harassment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sergei Tšurikov, 26, of Tallinn, Estonia, has been extradited to the United States to face charges of hacking into a computer network operated by an Atlanta-based credit card processing company, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates of the Northern District of Georgia. Tšurikov was arraigned today before U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Clayton Scofield III in the Northern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Mercator Corporation, a merchant bank with offices in New York, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Manhattan, N.Y., to one count of making an unlawful payment to a senior government official of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Juan Carlos Moreira, aka “Stokey” and “Stocky,” 30, a native of El Salvador who resided in Silver Spring, Md., pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit murder in aid of a racketeering enterprise known as MS-13, conspiracy to participate in racketeering, murder in aid of racketeering, witness tampering murder and assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 6, 2010
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security today announced that it will begin collecting fees on travelers from Visa Waiver countries to fund a global marketing and promotion campaign aimed at increasing the number of international visitors to the United States. Beginning on September 8, 2010, travelers will ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on the July 2010 Employment Situation report released today: "This past July, the economy gained 71,000 jobs in the private sector. Overall, employment declined by 131,000, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.5 ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 6, 2010
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
