News from March 2010
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today urged his colleagues to support a short-term extension of eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits and assistance in paying COBRA health insurance premiums for unemployed workers, while Congress works to pass a longer-term extension. Without an extension, eligibility for these programs is set to expire at the end of March.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. - The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) announced recently that the Wind Cave National Park wastewater treatment system is the recipient of the 2009 Operation and Maintenance Excellence Award. This award is for outstanding wastewater system operation and environmental compliance with its state surface water discharge permit for the past year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal judge in Kansas City, Kan., has issued a preliminary injunction barring a Garden City, Kan., tax preparer, Jose Lares, from preparing returns with false dependent exemptions and false filing statuses, the Justice Department announced today. Lares operates Dinero Rapido Tax Service in Garden City. The preliminary injunction was entered by Kathryn H. Vratil, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A U.S. District Court has issued an order permanently barring Shawn Robin Gibson, a Detroit tax preparer, from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON- The Justice Department announced that Lloyd Mack Royal, III aka "Blyss", aka "B", aka "Furious" was convicted late yesterday of sex trafficking of minors and sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, as well as firearm and drug charges. Two other co-defendants, Angela Samantha Bentolila and Paul Raymond Green, previously pleaded guilty to related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has asked a federal court to permanently shut down a Miami tax return preparer and his business, the Justice Department announced today. The government complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Miami, alleges that David Santiago and his business, Santiago Investment & Consulting Inc., prepare returns for customers that falsely claim the First-Time Homebuyer Credit and report other false income and expense items.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States filed suit today asking the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida to permanently bar Elisa Veronica Barron from preparing federal tax returns, the Justice Department announced. The civil injunction suit alleges that Barron prepares returns through Lancaster Tax Service Inc. in Orlando, Fla.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: The National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), a component of the Department of Justice and the nation’s principal center for strategic drug intelligence, has released the National Drug Threat Assessment 2010 (NDTA 2010), detailing drug trafficking and abuse trends within the United States. In releasing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: A federal court issued an order yesterday sentencing the owner and operator of a Los Angeles-area durable medical equipment (DME) company to prison in connection with an approximately $1 million power wheelchair fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Representatives of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, including Attorney General Eric Holder, met in Phoenix today for the second of a series of Mortgage Fraud Summits. The task force, established by President Barack Obama in November 2009 to wage an aggressive, coordinated and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Senior Judge Robert L. Echols of the Middle District of Tennessee today sentenced Eric Ian Baker to 183 months in prison for vandalizing and burning down the Islamic Center of Columbia, Tenn., the Justice Department announced. Baker pleaded guilty on Sept. 18, 2009, to destruction of religious property and using fire to commit a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. District Court Judge Daniel R. Dominguez sentenced former San Juan, Puerto RicoPolice Officers, Carlos Pagan Ferrer, 32, and Juan Morales Rosado, 32, today for their role in the fatal assault by San Juan officers against Jose Rivera Robles, an unarmed civilian, the Justice Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Miami resident Daisy Martinez was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for her role in a series of Detroit Medicare fraud schemes, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade of the Eastern District of Michigan; Special ...
By Fed Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Coconut Grove Bank, Miami, Florida, a state chartered member bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the State of Florida, Office of Financial Regulation.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among United Security Bancshares, Inc., a registered bank holding company, United Security Bank, a state chartered member bank, both of Fresno, California, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between Royal Bancshares of Pennsylvania, Inc., Narberth, Pennsylvania, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: Hello everyone. I’d like to thank Bruce Reed for inviting me here today, and Harold Ford for that nice introduction. And it’s great to share the stage with Congresswoman Markey and others. We were, of course, supposed to have this meeting in February, until Snowmageddon intervened. But it's great to ...
By Commerce News Now | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced 10 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act investments to help bridge the technological divide, boost economic growth, create jobs, and improve education and healthcare across the country. The investments, totaling more than $63 million in grants, will ...
By Labor Gazette | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: Washington — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has granted an exemption allowing the Ford Motor Co. to transfer company securities to a voluntary employee beneficiary association trust that funds a new health plan established to provide health benefits for the company’s retirees. The new health plan will cover in excess of 285,000 retirees and their dependents, and a small number of active employees.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 25, 2010
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
