News published on Federal Newswire in October 2010

News from October 2010


News Release: WASHINGTON – Seventy-three defendants, including a number of alleged members and associates of an Armenian-American organized crime enterprise, were charged in indictments unsealed today in five judicial districts with various health care fraud-related crimes involving more than $163 million in fraudulent ...


News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that the evidence does not reveal a violation of the applicable federal criminal civil rights statute or warrant further federal criminal investigation in the death of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, a Detroit Muslim cleric, who was shot during an Oct. 28, 2009, arrest by FBI agents in Dearborn, Mich.


News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal jury in Utica, N.Y. has found Certified Environmental Services Inc. (CES); two of its managers, Nicole Copeland and Elisa Dunn; and one of its employees, Sandy Allen, guilty of conspiring to aid and abet Clean Air Act violations, commit mail fraud, and defraud the United States, ...


News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against the owner and manager of Royal Arms Apartments, a 26-unit apartment building in Ravenna, Ohio, for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating on the basis of familial status in the rental of apartments.


News Release: WASHINGTON – Curtis Keith Cooper of Princeville, Hawaii, was sentenced today to 97 months in prison for molesting a minor while aboard a flight from Hawaii to California in July 2003, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii Florence T. Nakakuni.


News Release: Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Remarks at National Export Initiative Event, Memphis, Tennessee It’s wonderful to be here with all of you today.


US Department of Labor recovers more than $485,000 in back wages for employees of New York City dollar store chain

News Release: NEW YORK — The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered more than $485,000 in minimum wages, overtime pay, liquidated damages and post-judgment interest for approximately 120 employees of several New York City-area dollar stores. The dollar stores and their owners agreed to two partial consent judgments ...


US Department of Labor announces more than $3.5 million to assist workers in Delaware affected by refinery layoffs

News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $3,511,254 grant to assist approximately 546 workers affected by layoffs at Valero Energy Corp. located in Delaware City, Del.


US Labor Department sues to appoint independent fiduciary  for 401(k) plan abandoned by Medford, Mass., employer

News Release: BOSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts seeking the appointment of an independent fiduciary to oversee the abandoned 401(k) plan of defunct Accurate Paving Inc., formerly located in Medford, Mass.


The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Oct. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Oct. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Oct. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Oct. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Oct. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Oct. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Oct. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Oct. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Oct. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Oct. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Oct. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.