News from January 2011
By State Newswire | Jan 12, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, announced today that Gabby Adler will be serving as the Communications Director for the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Adler will also act as the Communications Director in Berman’s Congressional office serving California’s 28th Congressional District.

By State Newswire | Jan 12, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement in response to Hezbollah’s forced collapse of the Lebanese Government.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2011
News Release: IDAHO - Ricardo Rodriguez-Avila, 26, a Mexican national charged by two separate indictments, was sentenced on January 5, 2011, to serve 126 months in each case for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and illegal re-entry into the United States. The sentences will run concurrently. Rodriguez-Avila must also serve five years of supervised release after his release from prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2011
News Release: The Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission will convene for its regular quarterly meeting at 9:00 A.M. on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 at park headquarters located on the corner of Red Jacket Road and Hwy. US-41 in Calumet. Agenda items include updates from the Executive Director, a update...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Greenbelt, Md., today indicted Thomas Robert Turner, a resident of Prince George’s County, Md., for corruptly endeavoring to obstruct and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws between 2004 and January 2009, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Turner is also charged with filing two false amended individual income tax returns with the IRS for 2004 and 2005.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: PHILADELPHIA – Yakov Babchinetskiy, 43, of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., was sentenced today in Philadelphia by U.S. District Court Judge Legrome D. Davis to 100 months in prison plus three years of supervised release for his role in a conspiracy to alter odometers on used motor vehicles, provide false odometer ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, will deliver remarks regarding the division’s 2011 priorities to the Washington, D.C., Bar Association’s Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Section on THURSDAY, JAN. 13, 2011, at 12:00 P.M. EST. Following her remarks, Assistant Attorney General Moreno will hold a pen and pad briefing with reporters at 2:30 P.M. EST.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homer Lee Richardson of Loveland, Ohio, was sentenced today for corruptly endeavoring to obstruct and impede the due administration of the Internal Revenue Code, aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false income tax return on the behalf of another individual, and filing his own false ...

By Fed Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its discount rate meetings on November 22 and Dec. 13, 2010.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke met today with India’s Ambassador to the United States, Meera Shankar, to discuss bilateral trade and investment issues.

By Labor Gazette | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: CHICAGO — The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $1,368,946 in back wages and fringe benefits for 140 employees of Total Enterprise Inc., a bus transportation company, following an investigation by the department's Wage and Hour Division under the Service Contract Act.

By Labor Gazette | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor has completed its expansion of the Site Exposure Matrices website, an effort that began in May 2010. The final six additions to the website include the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, Calif.), the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant (also known ...

By Labor Gazette | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Labor-Management Standards today published a request for information notice seeking public comments to assist the department in issuing guidance concerning the use of electronic voting systems in union officer elections.

By Labor Gazette | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that a federal judge with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has issued a preliminary injunction against Rosebud Mining Co. In a federal lawsuit filed on Dec. 30, 2010, ...

By Labor Gazette | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: SCANDIA, Minn. – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against Thommes and Thomas Land Clearing Inc. of Scandia and its owners in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota for their alleged failure to remit and timely forward employee contributions owed to the company’s retirement plan, in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
By DOE Gazette | Jan 11, 2011
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Jan 11, 2011
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Jan 11, 2011
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Jan 11, 2011
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Jan 11, 2011
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.