News from June 2011
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2011
News Release: At around 1:00 p.m., Thursday, June 16, park rangers were notified of a single bicycle accident on Trail Ridge Road. A 30 year-old man from Toronto, Canada, had been blown over on his bicycle by heavy wind gusts one quarter mile east of Lava Cliffs on Trail Ridge Road. A thunderstorm had moved through...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States quarterly oil and gas lease sale resulted in competitive bids for all parcels offered. The sale was held at the BLM-Eastern States Office, Springfield, Virginia on June 16, 2011. The combined bids brought in $7,922,705.50 that is distributed between the Federal government and states where the parcels were located. Regulations require the bidding to open at $2.00 per acre. More than 137,000 acres were offered in the sale parcels.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 “Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to London, the Netherlands, and Brussels on June 21-23 to meet with her international counterparts to discuss global collaboration to ensure the security and resilience ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal court has permanently barred HedgeLender LLC from promoting a stock-loan tax scheme, the Justice Department announced today. According to court findings, HedgeLender, which maintained offices in Philadelphia and Reston, Va., promoted a scheme purportedly allowing owners of appreciated stock to obtain cash through purported loans without reporting or paying tax on capital gains.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Swift Beef Company, a subsidiary of JBS S.A, the world’s largest beef producer, has agreed to pay $1.3 million to the United States and state of Nebraska to settle alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act and Nebraska state law at its Grand Island, Neb., beef processing plant, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A group of five tax return preparers were indicted in the Middle District of Alabama on tax fraud charges, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. James E. Moss, who owned and operated “Flash Tax,” was charged with four of his employees by a grand jury ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) today announced the Building Neighborhood Capacity Program (BNCP) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Coordinator Solicitation, part of an innovative approach to build capacity in distressed neighborhoods. The BNCP, a core ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON –Midwest BankCentre will open a full-service branch in an African-American neighborhood and invest approximately $1.45 million in majority African-American areas of the St. Louis metropolitan area as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that they engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of race and color, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Betty Washington, a resident of Montgomery County, Ala., was sentenced today to 21 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,440,632 for conspiring to file false claims for refunds, the Justice Department announced. Wendy Delbridge, also of Montgomery County, was ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Dimitrios Grifakis, 57, of Kallithea, Greece, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis to six months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for obstructing a Coast Guard inspection that took place in May 2010 aboard a Liberian-operated cargo ship M/V Capitola at the Port of Baltimore. Grifakis was then the Chief Engineer of the Capitola.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Remarks at U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Global Flow of Information on the Internet I’m sorry I wasn’t able to be here for your discussion earlier, but I look forward to hearing what you came up with.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Mongolia’s President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj today announced agreements to expand cooperation on trade and economic issues, and support Mongolia’s aviation sector with technical assistance and training programs at a Blair House ceremony. Below is the fact sheet ...
By Commerce News Now | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: Locke applauds historic Boeing aircraft deal U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Mongolia’s President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj today announced agreements to expand cooperation on trade and economic issues, and support Mongolia’s aviation sector with technical assistance and training programs at a Blair House ceremony.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: The Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau today released data on new residential construction for May 2011. Permits for new housing units jumped 8.7 percent in May. Private-sector analysts had expected a 0.7 percent decline. Housing starts advanced 3.5 percent in May. Private-sector analysts had expected a 4.8 percent increase. Both permits and starts in April were revised up.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: Major step forward in President’s reform initiative to modernize export control system U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced the next step in President Obama’s export control reform (ECR) initiative aimed at strengthening U.S. national security and ensuring the competitiveness of American ...
By Commerce News Now | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: Locke applauds historic Boeing aircraft deal U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Mongolia’s President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj today announced agreements to expand cooperation on trade and economic issues, and support Mongolia’s aviation sector with technical assistance and training programs at a Blair House ceremony.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: MIDDLETON, Tenn. — ThyssenKrupp Elevator Manufacturing Inc. has agreed to pay a total of $288,333 to 248 female job applicants who were systematically rejected for assembler/packer and utility positions at the company's facility in Middleton from January to December 2005, following an investigation by ...
By Labor Gazette | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis, Guatemalan Ambassador Francisco Villagrán De Léon and Nicaraguan Ambassador Francisco Campbell today signed declarations that will make it easier to protect the rights of Guatemalan and Nicaraguan citizens who work in the United States.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 16, 2011
News Release: SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending June 11, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 414,000, a decrease of 16,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 430,000. The 4-week moving average was 424,750, unchanged from the previous week's revised average of 424,750.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 16, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on June 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
