News from December 2010
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Wednesday issued the following statement about the death of a Border Patrol Agent in Arizona.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 15, 2010
Release: Washington, DC, Dec. 15, 2010 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the award of demonstration grant to Michigan to test new ways to provide nutrition assistance and access to healthy foods to low-income children during the summer. The grant is part of the Obama Administration's efforts...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today urged the Senate to pass legislation that would eliminate form 1099 paperwork requirements for small businesses. Eliminating the bookkeeping and filing requirements would free up resources for small businesses to grow and create...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 15, 2010
News Release: Media Contact:. Liz Friedlander (202) 225-1564. The House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management today held a hearing to review implementation of the position limits provision within the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The law sets a Jan. 17, 2011...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today applauded the Finance Committee’s action to favorably report the nomination of Carolyn Colvin to be the Deputy Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. The Committee members approved Ms. Colvin’s nomination unanimously, with Senator Ensign voting by proxy, during an executive session.
By State Newswire | Dec 14, 2010
News Release: Washington, D.C. -The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today passed bipartisan legislation written by Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) that will establish a comprehensive, five-year strategy to reduce the levels of violence against women and girls globally. The landmark International Violence Against Women ...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON-Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Monday congratulated Rear Admiral Sandra Stosz on being named the next Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Stosz, who will assume her position next summer, will be the first woman to head one of the nation’s five military service academies.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON—Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today held a quarterly conference call with sheriffs and police chiefs from 30 jurisdictions along the Southwest border to discuss the Department’s ongoing support for state and local law enforcement in their efforts to keep their communities safe from violence and other threats.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – An Illinois woman pleaded guilty today to illegally accessing numerous confidential student loan files, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division announced. Charlotte M. Robinson, 46, of Dolton, Ill., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox in the Northern District of Illinois to a one-count criminal information charging her with unauthorized computer access. Robinson is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 22, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal court has permanently barred Maritza Villanueva of Irving, Texas, from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The permanent injunction order, to which Villanueva consented, was entered by Judge Jane J. Boyle of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement that will require Pittsburgh-based L.B. Foster Company to divest a West Virginia plant used in the development, manufacture and sale of certain railroad joints to Koppers Inc., in order to proceed with Foster’s acquisition ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tanja Anamary Nijmeijer, a Dutch national who moved to Colombia and joined the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2002, and 17 other members of the FARC designated foreign terrorist organization were indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., today on seven counts of terrorism and weapons charges arising out of their participation in the hostage-taking of three American citizens in the Republic of Colombia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Georgia man pleaded guilty yesterday in Los Angeles to transporting child pornography using a secret Internet bulletin board that allowed approximately three dozen members to trade thousands of images and videos of child pornography depicting young boys in sexually explicit situations, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Fifteen individuals have been extradited over the past week from Mexico to the United States to stand trial, to be sentenced or to serve sentences, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division. Twelve of the 15 defendants are charged with federal narcotics-related offenses and the remaining three are accused of violent crimes in state-prosecuted cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The owner and the vice president of a Detroit-area physical therapy clinic were sentenced to 151 months and 108 months in prison, respectively, for their leading roles in a $23 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 14, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of the following enforcement action: Weststar Financial Services Corporation (44 KB PDF), Asheville, North Carolina Written Agreement dated December 9, 2010 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 14, 2010
News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in November confirms that the economic recovery is continuing, though at a rate that has been insufficient to bring down unemployment. Household spending is increasing at a moderate pace, but remains constrained by high unemployment, modest ...
By Commerce News Now | Dec 14, 2010
News Release: The Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau today released retail sales data for November 2010. Retail sales rose 0.8 percent, representing the fifth monthly consecutive increase and exceeding private-sector expectations of 0.5-percent growth. Motor vehicle sales fell 0.8 percent. Sales excluding automotive dealers increased 1.2 percent, also exceeding private-sector expectations of a 0.7-percent gain.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 14, 2010
News Release: ORANGE, Calif. — A U.S. district court judge has ruled in favor of the U.S. Department of Labor in a case against a Westminster, Calif., garment manufacturer and its owner, awarding a total of $887,554 to current and former workers. Judge A. Howard Matz approved the department's request for a default ...
By Labor Gazette | Dec 14, 2010
News Release: EAU CLAIRE, Wis. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today cited the hazardous waste management processor, WRR Environmental Services Co., for failing to implement measures to prevent potentially catastrophic chemical fires and explosions at its facility in ...
