News from August 2011
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to block AT&T Inc.’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc. The department said that the proposed $39 billion transaction would substantially lessen competition for mobile wireless telecommunications services across the United ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Bill Melot, a Hobbs, N.M., farmer, was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday to be followed by three years of supervised release for tax evasion, program fraud and other crimes, the Justice Department, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Office of Inspector General announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Melinda M. Lambert, a resident of Montgomery County, Ala., pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and assisting the filing of a false tax return, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Lambert pleaded guilty before federal Chief Magistrate Judge Susan Russ Walker in the U.S. District Court in Montgomery, Ala.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Anthony Chaudhuri and Margaret Chaudhuri, of Naples, Fla. were indicted by a federal grand jury on Aug. 8, 2011, in Detroit, with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, 11 counts of failure to account for and pay over employment taxes and one count of corruptly endeavoring ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Miami-area resident Farah Maria Perez, a registered nurse, pleaded guilty today for her participation in a $25 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false billings for home health services, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department has reached an agreement with Culpeper County, Va., that, if approved by the court, will allow for the county’s bailout from its status as a “covered jurisdiction” under the special provisions of Voting Rights Act, and thereby exempt the county from the preclearance requirements of Section 5 of the act. The agreement is in the form of a consent decree filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bernard Joseph Tully, a former Massachusetts state senator, has pleaded guilty for devising a scheme to defraud a Boston-area businessman out of approximately $18,000 by falsely representing that Tully and his co-conspirator were using the funds to bribe public officials. Unbeknownst to Tully, the businessman reported Tully’s overtures to the FBI.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 31, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board is seeking comment on a proposed rule outlining the procedures for securities holding companies (SHCs) to elect to be supervised by the Federal Reserve. An SHC is a nonbank company that owns at least one registered broker or dealer.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 31, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the location for a public meeting in Washington, D.C., on the notice by Capital One Financial Corporation, McLean, Virginia, to acquire ING Bank, Wilmington, Delaware, and indirectly to acquire shares of Sharebuilder Advisors, LLC, and ING Direct Investing, ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 31, 2011
News Release: Aims to improve safety of young workers employed in agriculture and related fields WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor is proposing revisions to child labor regulations that will strengthen the safety requirements for young workers employed in agriculture and related fields. The agricultural hazardous occupations orders under the Fair Labor Standards Act that bar young workers from certain tasks have not been updated since they were promulgated in 1970.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 31, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Aug. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 31, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Aug. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 31, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Aug. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 31, 2011
The US Labor Department published a one page proposed rule on Aug. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 31, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Aug. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2011
The US Interior Department published a two page proposed rule on Aug. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 31, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Aug. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 31, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a seven page proposed rule on Aug. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Aug 31, 2011
The US Justice Department published a one page rule on Aug. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 31, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
