News from November 2010
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2010
News Release: Photographer Harry von Stark of Quilcene and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation hydropower foreman Kevin Yancy of Port Angeles will speak about the history of the Elwha and Glines Canyon hydropower projects November 9 at 7:00 p.m. at the Olympic National Park Visitor Center.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 3, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today spoke with leaders from global shipping companies, including UPS, DHL, FedEx and TNT, to discuss enhanced air cargo screening and security efforts following last week’s disrupted attempt to conceal and ship explosive devices onboard aircraft bound for the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Victor Manuel Amaya was sentenced to two years in prison for employment tax fraud, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. The court also ordered Amaya to pay $319,585 in restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice has scheduled three public hearings on its regulatory proposals concerning the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). These proposals, or Advance Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRMs), seek public comment on the possibility of revising the ADA regulations to address ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has asked a federal court in Chicago to permanently bar John E. Rogers, a Chicago tax lawyer and former partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, from promoting tax shelters that allegedly use distressed Brazilian debt to illegally lower customers’ reported income, the Justice Department announced today. The suit names two of Rogers’s companies — Sugarloaf Fund LLC and Jetstream Business Limited — as additional defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2010
News Release: DALLAS – A federal court Tuesday issued a memorandum opinion and a preliminary injunction against Arthur Piner Grider, III; Asgard Avionics Corp. of Florida; and 14 other corporate defendants who operate as employee leasing companies, from violating the Internal Revenue Code, the Justice Department announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal judge in Baltimore today sentenced a former Baltimore Police Department officer to serve five years in prison for violating the civil rights of a juvenile arrestee, the Justice Department announced today. Gregory Mussmacher was convicted by a jury in May 2010 for physically abusing a juvenile in his custody and for obstructing justice to cover up what he had done.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – David Chiaradio, 28, of Westerly, R.I., was convicted today by a federal jury in Providence, R.I., of one count of distribution of child pornography and two counts of possession of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha of the District of Rhode Island. The jury returned its verdicts after considering testimony and evidence for more than two days.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Ilya Sobolevskiy, a 25-year-old resident of Maryland, was sentenced today to serve 12 months in prison and to pay a $3,000 fine for violating the civil rights of members of an Urbana, Ill., mosque, announced the Justice Department.
By Fed Newswire | Nov 3, 2010
News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September confirms that the pace of recovery in output and employment continues to be slow. Household spending is increasing gradually, but remains constrained by high unemployment, modest income growth, lower housing wealth, and tight ...
By Commerce News Now | Nov 3, 2010
News Release: Council will support continued growth of the minority business community U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced the appointment of 25 individuals to serve on the newly established National Advisory Council for Minority Business Enterprises. The advisory council, led by the Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), is the first council focused on promoting the minority business community since the early 1970s.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 3, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is encouraging CEOs of 14 major retail companies to take precautions to prevent worker injuries during Black Friday and the holiday season's other major sales events. Toward that end, OSHA has sent a letter and fact sheet on "Crowd Management Safety Tips for Retailers" to the CEOs.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 3, 2010
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – In an unprecedented legal move, the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky a motion for preliminary injunction against Freedom Energy Mining Co.'s Mine No. 1. Located in Pike County, Ky., Freedom's Mine No. 1 is owned by Massey Energy Co.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 3, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has certified for release $205,063,552 in unemployment insurance modernization incentive funds to the state of North Carolina. North Carolina qualified for its full share of the funds available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by providing for a variety of provisions that assist recent entrants to the workforce, part-time workers and workers who become unemployed because of compelling family reasons.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2010
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Nov. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2010
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Nov. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2010
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Nov. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Nov 3, 2010
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Nov. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 3, 2010
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Nov. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 3, 2010
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Nov. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
