News from May 2011
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2011
News Release: Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park will not open for the Memorial Day Weekend. The amount of winter snowpack that faced park snowplow operators when plowing began, combined with recent storms, have hampered park snowplowing efforts. Last week's snowstorm produced 17 foot drifts above Rainbow...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2011
News Release: Today, after the House Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee Hearing on litigation’s effect on America’s global competitiveness, Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) dismissed the fallacy that tilting the playing field in favor of corporations and leaving individual citizens without recourse in the courtroom would solve all of America’s economic woes.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Observations and predictions by climate scientists have for years pointed to global warming causing more intense rainfall; damaging floods and intense droughts; and increasingly unpredictable weather that will expose more people to danger. Recent reports by the National Research Council, an advisory board to the Vatican, and others have pointed to an increasing need for action to reduce the carbon pollution that is destabilizing the climate.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2011
News Release: Fort Frederica Superintendent Mary Beth Wester is pleased to announce the details of an upcoming living history program at the Battle of Bloody Marsh site on St. Simons Island.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power today approved two key pieces of legislation under the American Energy Initiative, the Jobs and Energy Permitting Act and the Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act, or TRAIN Act. Both bipartisan bills passed out of the subcommittee by voice vote.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A report released today by Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa highlights evidence that the statements by President Obama and Energy Secretary Chu about intentionally raising energy costs for Americans can be seen across the federal government: from blocking production in the Gulf of Mexico, to hindering “fracking" technology, and stifling oil and gas production on public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2011
News Release: Today, at a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on H.R. 1932, Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) criticized the bill as a massive, unconstitutional expansion of the government’s ability to detain immigrants for many years-even indefinitely-with little or no procedural protections at all.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2011
News Release: BOSTON, MA. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Boston Field Division; United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; Bruce Foucart, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement’s Office of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston and Colonel...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today to block the proposed acquisition by H&R Block Inc. of TaxACT, a digital do-it-yourself tax preparation software provider. The department said that the proposed deal would substantially lessen competition in the growing U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. – A Hillsdale, N.J., woman was sentenced today to probation after admitting she filed a false tax return and concealed more than $750,000 in a Swiss bank account, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General John A. DiCicco of the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Garsh Lending LLC, a lender located in Miami, has agreed to pay the United States $300,000 to settle allegations involving a Small Business Administration (SBA) loan, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A superseding indictment was unsealed today against 13 members and associates of the Philadelphia organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra (LCN), including its current boss and underboss. The indictment charges various crimes involving racketeering conspiracy, extortion, loan sharking, illegal gambling and witness tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has asked a federal court to permanently bar two Broward County, Fla., tax preparers and their business from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction suit alleges that Ronald Jerome Scriven, Danesa L. Webb and ...
By Commerce News Now | May 23, 2011
News Release: Number of tourists from China, South Korea and Brazil expected to rise dramatically, boosting U.S. exports in tourism-related services According to new data released today by the Commerce Department, the U.S. can expect 6-8 percent average annual growth in tourism over the next five years, and this year, ...
By Labor Gazette | May 23, 2011
News Release: TUCKER, Ga. – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued fiduciaries of architectural company Milton Pate and Associates seeking to recover $135,516 for participants and beneficiaries of the company’s 401(k) profit-sharing plan.
By Labor Gazette | May 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched a survey of private sector employers as a tool toward better designing future rules, compliance assistance and outreach efforts. As many as 19,000 employers nationwide will receive the Baseline Survey of Safety and Health Practices, which asks questions about workplace safety and health management practices.
By Labor Gazette | May 23, 2011
News Release: FLETCHER, N.C. – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued former Fletcher-based Unicomp Inc. and its chief executive officer, Stephen Hafer, to restore losses suffered by participants in the company’s health plan.
By Labor Gazette | May 23, 2011
News Release: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued defunct mental health services provider Embrenche LLC and the company’s owners, Marty Hickman, Joe Parker and Avery Hairston, for allegedly violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The lawsuit alleges that the defendants diverted employees’ contributions away from the company’s 401(k) profit-sharing plan, and failed to administer and terminate the plan after the company ceased operating.
By Labor Gazette | May 23, 2011
News Release: STAFFORD, Texas – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued oil field equipment and machine parts manufacturer MWDay Group Inc., doing business as Paradigm Machine Works Inc., in Stafford, and its owner and president, Michael W. Day. The lawsuit alleges that the defendants failed to forward employee contributions and matching employer contributions to the company’s 401(k) plan in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
By State News Post | May 23, 2011
The US State Department published a one page notice on May 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
