News from February 2010
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2010
News Release: Helen Hankins will officially be sworn in as the Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Director by BLM Director Robert V. Abbey at 1 p.m. on Feb. 26 at the Denver Marriott West, Salon Conference Room, 1717 Denver West Blvd., Golden, Colo. 80401.BLM Colorado is expecting more than 100 guests from the...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2010
News Release: LAUGHLIN, Nev. - The National Park Service is looking for community and youth organizations to help park service biologists collect native plant seeds in the Laughlin and Bullhead City areas. Collection will take place from March through May.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2010
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), senior Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, came out of today’s White House health care summit calling on Democrats to set aside their controversial government takeover of health care and allow a vote on step-by-step reforms that will bring down the cost of health ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2010
News Release: On Friday, March 12,Carl Hayden Visitor Centerwill host the first in a series of events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Rainbow Bridge National Monument.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2010
News Release: New Federal Firearms Law Effective Feb. 22, 2010.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2010
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) to provide commercial food and beverage service through a lease in the Sutro Historic District. This NPS property is currently operated as “Louis Restaurant" located at 902 Point Lobos Avenue in San Francisco, California.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House of Representatives today unanimously supported legislation, H.R. 4691, to extend critical unemployment and health care benefits, and ensure Medicare beneficiaries and members of the military and their families continue to have reliable access to their doctors. The legislation extends other programs set to expire at the end of February...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2010
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) issued the following comment today after the President’s bicameral, bipartisan Health Care Summit.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2010
News Release: Dear Secretary Sebelius: As Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Finance (Committee), which has jurisdiction over the Medicare and Medicaid programs, I have a special responsibility to protect the health of the programs’ more than 100 million beneficiaries as well as the congressionally authorized...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: Andrew L. Lluberes, 202-538-5544 FBI Agent, Northern California Deputy Director Win Individual Awards New Orleans—The Colorado Information and Analysis Center, an FBI agent assigned to the Joint Regional Intelligence Center in Los Angeles and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2010
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that three detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the custody and control of the Government of Albania.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2010
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that a detainee from the Palestinian territories has been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Spain.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal judge in Beaumont, Texas, has permanently barred 12 people from promoting an alleged tax fraud scheme involving bogus income tax credits, the Justice Department announced today. The twelve are among 32 defendants named in a civil injunction lawsuit who allegedly helped customers ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2010
News Release: Mack Gordon Harris Sr., 67, was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for transporting a minor for illegal sexual activity, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Neil H. MacBride.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Representatives of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force met in Miami today for the first of a series of Mortgage Fraud Summits. The task force, established by President Barack Obama in November 2009 to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes, is composed of representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general, and state and local law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that it will not challenge a proposal by MyWire Inc. to form the Global News Service, an online subscription news aggregation service. The service would provide interconnections among different publishers’ online content, such as news articles and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — A former employee of Rubin/Chambers, Dunhill Insurance Services Inc., also known as CDR Financial Products (CDR), a Beverly Hills, Calif.-based financial products and services firm, pleaded guilty yesterday for his participation in bid-rigging and fraud conspiracies related to contracts for the investment of municipal bond proceeds and other related municipal finance contracts, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2010
News Release: Phuong Thi Tran, 39, of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, pleaded guilty today for her role in two drug trafficking conspiracies, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; Michael L. Levy, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Barbara L. McQuade, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan; and Assistant Secretary John Morton of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Michael Lohman, a former Lieutenant of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), has pleaded guilty to conspiring with fellow NOPD officers to obstruct justice by covering up a police-involved shooting that occurred in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement that will require Bemis Company Inc. to divest certain assets used in the production and sale of flexible packaging for natural cheese and fresh meat in order to proceed with its acquisition of the Alcan Packaging ...
