News from November 2010
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 12, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today announced he would introduce legislation to repeal requirements for businesses to file forms that would report payments made for goods and certain services to the IRS. The proposal was originally written to keep taxes low by...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 11, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander M. Levin (D-MI) and Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following joint statement on trade negotiations between the U.S. and South Korea...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 11, 2010
News Release: "Today we honor those that previously served in the U.S. Armed Forces as well as those that are currently placing their lives in danger both at home and abroad to protect our country and its citizens. I am proud to recognize and honor the men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard as well as the nearly 48,000 ...
By Commerce News Now | Nov 11, 2010
News Release: Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Remarks at Asia-Pacific Cooperation (APEC) Small- and Medium Enterprises (SME) Summit, Yokohama, Japan Thank you for the kind introduction. And I want to thank the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry for hosting this event.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 11, 2010
News Release: Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Russia’s Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina met today at the onset of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 11, 2010
News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today met with Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Akihiro Ohata at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial to discuss ways to strengthen economic relations between the two countries.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 11, 2010
News Release: Remarks The Summit was hosted by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI), which represents 515 local chambers of commerce and industry and boasts 1.35 million members all over Japan. More than 95 percent of its members are SMEs.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 11, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - While expressing disappointment that the United States and Korea were unable to reach a deal to open Korea's market to additional U.S. beef and autos exports and move forward the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA), Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) commended the President’s decision to continue the talks to fight for U.S. exporters and expanded markets for U.S. products.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 10, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on the Department of the Interior (DOI) Inspector General regarding changes made to DOI’s 30-Day Safety Report that recommended a drilling moratorium. This report comes after Hastings and other Natural Resources Committee Republicans called for an Inspector General investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Wally Herger (R-CA) today questioned if politics is driving a new round of Medicare television advertisements featuring Andy Griffith by the Obama Administration and sought details of the ad campaign...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 10, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Contacts: DHS Press Office, (202) 282-8010 U.S. Department of Justice, (202) 514-2007 Public Safety Canada, (613) 991-0657 Canada Department of Justice, (613) 957-4207 Officials Discussed Cross-Border Crime and Border Security WASHINGTON—Attorney General Eric Holder, Department ...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 10, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON–Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas today announced the expansion of the E-Verify program's capabilities ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Richard Chu, a former "VIP host" at Pure Nightclub located in Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of filing a false federal income tax return for the 2006 tax year, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS - CI) announced today. U.S. District Court Judge Kent Dawson presided over the plea hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department reached a settlement agreement with the University of South Carolina to resolve an investigation into the university’s policies and procedures related to discrimination and harassment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island to tax evasion related to his 2003 income tax filings, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha for the District of Rhode Island and Acting Assistant Attorney General John A. DiCicco of the Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – CFP Group, located in McLean, Va., and its president, Roberto Clark, have agreed to pay the United States $150,000 to settle claims that they used false statements to obtain a contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Justice Department announced today. The United States alleged ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kevin Shaffer of Sarasota, Fla., and Washington D.C., pleaded guilty to bank fraud and tax evasion before Alexandria, Va., federal district court Judge Gerald Bruce Lee, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Judge Lee set sentencing for Feb. 4, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that Harry Norman Realtors (HNR) and Jennifer Sherrouse have agreed to pay monetary damages and civil penalties of $60,000 to settle a Fair Housing Act lawsuit alleging that they discriminated against families with children.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2010
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio – Todd M. Gongwer, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced today to two years in prison for conspiring with convicted Columbus area home builder Thomas Parenteau to commit a mortgage fraud scheme in which the pair defrauded banks into lending more than $10 million to Gongwer, his nominees and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has settled two whistleblower lawsuits for $16.25 million alleging that Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) violated the competitive bidding rules of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) E-Rate Program at the Dallas and Houston Independent School Districts in connection with ...
