News from February 2011
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated today the New Ansari Money Exchange, a major money laundering vehicle for Afghan narcotics trafficking organizations, along with 15 affiliated individuals and entities under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation (Kingpin Act).
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), chair of the Health Subcommittee, today responded to the Obama Administration’s announcement to rescind rules protecting the conscience of health workers across the country. The rules, in place since 2008, protected workers from being discriminated against for their objection to certain controversial practices and pharmaceuticals.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), chair of the Health Subcommittee, today responded to the Obama Administration’s announcement to rescind rules protecting the conscience of health workers across the country. The rules, in place since 2008, protected workers from being discriminated against for their objection to certain controversial practices and pharmaceuticals.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2011
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to re-open a crossing in the Boquillas area of the Rio Grande River and International border in Big Bend National Park. The National Park Service (NPS) is exploring issues associated with establishing and constructing a Port of Entry (POE) at the crossing between the U.S. and Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2011
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By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after an amendment to deny funds for implementing and enforcing the gainful employment regulation passed by a bipartisan vote of 289 to 136...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2011
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Acting Special Agent in Charge, Mark Thomas and United States Attorney Karen Loeffler announced today that a Wasilla man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for drug conspiracy.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to Deputy White House Chief of Staff Nancy-Ann DeParle calling for the release of documents and information regarding closed-door negotiations between the Obama administration and various industries and special interests...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Thursday convened a hearing to examine the unintended consequences of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 on American job creators including small...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Medicare Fraud Strike Force today charged 111 defendants in nine cities, including doctors, nurses, health care company owners and executives, and others, for their alleged participation in Medicare fraud schemes involving more than $225 million in false billing, announced Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – An Arkansas woman who operates Foster’s Income Tax Service in Knobel, Ark., has been permanently barred from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The injunction order against Betty J. Foster, to which she consented, was entered by Judge J. Leon Holmes of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The former president of Infinia Healthcare LLC, a company that operated long-term healthcare facilities in several states, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court in Utah for three counts of tax evasion, the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – An owner of bar in Guam was found guilty today of sex trafficking, and coercion and enticement for prostitution related to a scheme to force young women and one juvenile girl into prostitution, the Department of Justice announced. The jury in Guam found Song Ja Cha, 69, guilty on all 20 counts of an indictment returned on July 23, 2008. The trial lasted eight days.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Romanian man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly in Chicago to one count each of wire fraud and conspiracy for his role in moving and hiding the illicit proceeds of an international fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald for the Northern District of Illinois and U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. for the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A developer of a condominium complex in Post Falls, Idaho, has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging that they violated the Fair Housing Act by developing the complex with features that made it inaccessible to persons with disabilities, announced the Department of Justice. Under the settlement, ...
By Fed Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the following enforcement action: Westside Banking Company, University Place, Washington Written Agreement dated Feb. 14, 2011 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions
By Fed Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve System in February will conduct its Survey of Finance Companies as part of an effort to paint a complete and continuing picture of the sector in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today appointed Teresa Stanek Rea to the post of deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
By Commerce News Now | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Remarks at National Export Initiative Small Business Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota Thanks for those kind words, Governor Dayton, and thanks everyone for having us here today.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending Feb. 12, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 410,000, an increase of 25,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 385,000. The 4-week moving average was 417,750, an increase of 1,750 from the previous week's revised average of 416,000.
