News from March 2010
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 19, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa, today announced the beginning of an investigation into reports of secret special deals the Obama Administration has made to advance the President’s government healthcare expansion plan. Letters to six organizations...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 "I applaud the Department of Justice and the FBI for leading the effort culminating in today’s guilty plea, and I commend the men and women of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2010
News Release: Innospec Inc., a Delaware corporation, pleaded guilty today to defrauding the United Nations (UN), to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and to violating the U.S. embargo against Cuba, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; Director Adam Szubin ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON—A Texas-based pipeline company has agreed to pay a $450,000 civil penalty to the United States to settle allegations that it failed to prepare and maintain proper facility response plans to deal with spills and environmental accidents at eight of its oil storage terminal facilities in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced a comprehensive settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with HRB Businesses of Florida Inc., to ensure effective communication with individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing in the provision of tax preparation services and courses. HRB is an H&R Block Inc. franchisee with multiple offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2010
News Release: David Coleman Headley, a U.S. citizen of partial Pakistani descent, pleaded guilty today to a dozen federal terrorism charges, admitting that he participated in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, as well as later planning to attack a Danish newspaper. In pleading guilty to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has reached a settlement resolving a housing discrimination lawsuit in Pennsylvania concerning discrimination against families with children, the Justice Department announced.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 18, 2010
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By Labor Gazette | Mar 18, 2010
News Release: Conference will take place in Houston on April 14 and 15 WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis will convene a National Action Summit for Latino Worker Health and Safety on April 14 and 15 in Houston, Texas.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 18, 2010
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered Tennessee Commerce Bank in Nashville to reinstate a former corporate officer and pay more than $1 million in back wages, interest, attorney's fees, compensatory damages and other relief. The department found the bank had fired the individual in violation of the whistleblower protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis has appointed Edna Primrose, workforce investment veteran and former director of the Job Corps center in Woodland, Md., as the new national director of Job Corps.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 18, 2010
News Release: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending March 13, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 457,000, a decrease of 5,000 from the previous week's unrevised figure of 462,000. The 4-week moving average was 471,250, a decrease of 4,250 from the previous week's unrevised average of 475,500.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 18, 2010
News Release: New York – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a court order appointing an independent fiduciary to manage the abandoned 401(k) plan of defunct Project Solutions Inc. of Rochester, New York.
By Fed News Journal | Mar 18, 2010
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on March 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2010
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on March 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 18, 2010
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 18, 2010
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 18, 2010
The US Energy Department published a three page notice on March 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 18, 2010
The US Energy Department published a seven page notice on March 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 18, 2010
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
