News from February 2011

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: NEW YORK, NY. - John P. Gilbride, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement ("DEA")and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Jorge Abel Ibarguen-Palacio, aka "Turbo," and Yarlei Bañol-Ramos, aka "Diana," ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Mississippi-based PowerTrain Inc., Wood Sales Inc., and Tool Mart Inc., (collectively known as “PowerTrain”) will jointly pay a civil penalty of $2 million to resolve claims that the company imported and sold almost 80,000 nonroad engines and equipment that were not covered by emissions-related ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Edward Lee Sullivan, of Oakland, Calif., was convicted on Feb. 25, 2011, of one count of producing and one count of possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag of the Northern District of California and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis today released data on personal income and outlays for January 2011. Personal income increased 1.0 percent in January, exceeding private-sector expectations of a 0.4-percent rise. Wages and salaries, the largest component of income, rose 0.3 ...

By Labor Gazette | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: CHICAGO Federal contractor InterCall will pay $700,000 in back wages, interest and benefits to 151 minority job applicants who were subjected to discrimination by the company. The settlement follows an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which ...

By Labor Gazette | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: PHILADELPHIA – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today announced a solicitation for grant applications for the national Career Pathways Innovation Fund Grant Program. Over the next year, the department will award approximately $122 million through this program, including $65 million for health care-focused ...

By Labor Gazette | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: PHILADELPHIA – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today announced the availability of approximately $17 million in funds for two grants to support the employment prospects of young offenders, ages 16 to 24, in high-poverty, high-crime communities.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: ALTUS, Okla. – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and order permanently barring the owner of defunct Quartz Mountain Aerospace Inc., which operated in Altus as well as in Coffeeville, Kan., from serving in a fiduciary capacity to any employee benefit plan unless he obtains fiduciary training by Jan. 31, 2012.
By USDA Wire | Feb 28, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 28, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a six page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 28, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a two page proposed rule on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 28, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 28, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a four page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 28, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 28, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 28, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 28, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 28, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 28, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 28, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.