News from May 2011
By DOE Newswire | May 10, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - The U.S. Agency for International Development Office of the Inspector General released a report late Monday that found weakness in USAID's management of the preaward process....
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON- The House Committee on Oversight and Government D.C. subcommittee will host the top two at-large elected officials in the District on Thursday at 8:45 a.m. Mayor Vincent Gray and Council Chairman Kwame Brown will testify at a hearing on the District’s Fiscal Year 2012 budget.
By DOE Newswire | May 10, 2011
News Release: Forging a new era of Department of Energy and tribal relations, more than 350 people, including representatives from 54 tribes across the continental United States, attended the May 4 and 5 Department of Energy Tribal Summit.
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) convened a hearing today to evaluate the fiscal stability of Social Security and examine proposals to strengthen the program’s long-term financial health where he emphasized the fact that the program is not the cause of our deficit...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2011
News Release: BOSTON, MA. - Steven W. Derr Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England announced that the New England Field Division collected 38,190 pounds of prescription medications during the DEA “Take-Back" initiative that took place April 30, 2011 throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2011
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - A grand jury returned an indictment against Eliezer Delgado-Ramos, Julio Meléndez-Rivera and Inocencio Santana-Nieves, and a criminal complaint was filed against Raymond González-Mercado, aka “Indio," for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced today Rosa Emilia...
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2011
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on internal control weaknesses within the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program, entitled "Transportation Identification Credential: Internal Control Weaknesses Need to Be Corrected to Help Achieve Security Objectives" (GAO-11-657).
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Thursday at 9:15 A.M., Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, will convene the first in a series of events to examine why the middle class is increasingly slipping out of reach for Americans. As corporate profits reach record levels, ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2011
News Release: Nanoparticles of silver are being found increasingly in the environment-and in environmental science laboratories. Because they have a variety of useful properties, especially as antibacterial and antifungal agents, silver nanoparticles increasingly are being used in a wide variety of industrial and...
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today issued a report on the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program and found that the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) background checking process is "not designed to provide reasonable assurance that only...
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2011
News Release: Public Invited to Attend Presentations on Recent Scientific Studies.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2011
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. – The Justice Department announced today that it has opened a civil pattern or practice investigation into the Newark, N.J., Police Department (NPD) involving allegations of use of excessive force, discriminatory policing, whether detainees confined to holding cells are subjected to unreasonable ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Patrick Merrill Brody was sentenced on May 6, 2011, to 10 months of prison, 12 months of supervised release and ordered to pay the costs of prosecution for willfully failing to file a federal income tax return for 2001, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Brandon Smith, aka “Little One” and “King Little One,” 26, of Hyattsville, Md., was sentenced today to 23 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr. for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise, in connection with his gang activities as a member and leader of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings). Smith also was ordered to serve five years of supervised release following his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) employee was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for theft of $104,000 in U.S. government funds, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – An Uzbek national was sentenced today for his role as the leader of a illicit enterprise that engaged in numerous criminal activities including forced labor, fraud in foreign labor contracting, visa fraud, mail fraud, identity theft, tax evasion and money laundering, the Department of Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Michael C. Finton, aka “Talib Islam,” pleaded guilty today to attempting to bomb the federal courthouse in Springfield, Ill., in September 2009 and was immediately sentenced to serve 28 years in prison, announced Todd Hinnen, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, U.S. Attorney James A. Lewis of the Central District of Illinois, and Armando Fernandez, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Springfield Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – GWC Valve International Inc., a company headquartered in Bakersfield, Calif., and its chief executive officer, David Meador, 52, were sentenced today in the Eastern District of California for conspiracy to export services related to industrial valves to Iran.
By Labor Gazette | May 9, 2011
News Release: New timesheet app to help ensure workers receive all wages earned WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the launch of its first application for smartphones, a timesheet to help employees independently track the hours they work and determine the wages they are owed. Available in English ...
