News from December 2011
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Aon Corporation, a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Chicago and one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in the world, has entered into an agreement with the Department of Justice to pay a $1.76 million penalty to resolve violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Chinese perfume importer was sentenced in Brooklyn yesterday to 12 months in prison for trafficking in counterfeit perfume, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch for the Eastern District of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – An attorney for a South Carolina health care device company, Signalife, was arrested on Dec. 18, 2011, at Los Angeles International Airport on charges related to his alleged role in a multi-million dollar market manipulation fraud scheme, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash. – The Justice Department announced today that Kevin William Harpham, 37, of Colville, Wash., has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for the placement of the improvised explosive device alongside the planned Martin Luther King Jr. Day Unity March held on Jan. 17, 2011, in Spokane, Wash. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A 10-count civil forfeiture complaint was filed yesterday in the District of New Mexico seeking forfeiture of assets related to a gun shop in Deming, N.M., whose owner and employees were previously indicted on charges related to firearms smuggling and money laundering, announced Assistant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that a federal grand jury in Cleveland returned a seven-count indictment charging 10 men and two women, all residents of Ohio, with federal crimes arising out of a series of religiously-motivated assaults on practitioners of the Amish religion. The ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that it has reached a consent decree with the town of Rome, Wis., to resolve allegations that the town retaliated against an employee after she made a complaint of discrimination based on sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury in Des Moines, Iowa, returned an indictment today charging two former Des Moines Police Department Officers Mersed Dautovic and John Mailander with violations of federal criminal laws related to an incident involving an alleged assault against a civilian on Sept. 13, 2008, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Bureau of Prisons employee Jack Chris Jackson, 45, pleaded guilty today to the charge of sexual abuse of a ward, announced the Department of Justice.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday proposed steps to strengthen regulation and supervision of large bank holding companies and systemically important nonbank financial firms. The proposal, which includes a wide range of measures addressing issues such as capital, liquidity, credit exposure, stress testing, risk management, and early remediation requirements, is mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: The Commerce Department's U.S. Census Bureau today released data on new residential construction in November 2011. Permits for new housing units rose 5.7 percent in November, well-above private-sector expectations of a 1.7 percent decline. Housing starts soared to their highest level since April 2010, increasing 9.3 percent from October to November and 24.3 percent from November 2010. Private-sector analysts had expected an 0.3 percent rise.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: SEATTLE – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered Omaha, Neb.-based Union Pacific Railroad Co. to immediately reinstate an employee in Idaho who was terminated after reporting a work-related injury. OSHA also has ordered the company to pay the employee more than $300,000 in back wages, compensatory damages, attorney's fees and punitive damages.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs has awarded a $13 million cooperative agreement to nongovernmental organization Desarrollo y Autogestión to combat exploitative child labor in Peru. To implement the project, Desarrollo y Autogestión will partner with World Learning, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization, and DESCO, a development organization.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a $1,424,500 National Emergency Grant increment to provide re-employment services to approximately 1,100 workers affected by layoffs that occurred in multiple industries throughout Louisiana. Today's increment will continue assistance for the original ...
By DOE Gazette | Dec 20, 2011
The US Energy Department published a six page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Dec 20, 2011
The US Energy Department published a four page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Dec 20, 2011
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Dec 20, 2011
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 20, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a four page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 20, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
