News from November 2011

By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A new Joint Committee on Taxation analysis shows that eliminating every corporate tax credit and deduction would generate only enough savings to reduce the corporate tax rate to 28 percent, well short of the 25 percent proposal Republicans have put forward. Those cuts include numerous credits...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 2, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today joined American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) President and CEO Joe McInerney, LodgeNet Interactive Corporation Chairman and CEO Scott Petersen, and W Hotel ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Twelve individuals, including three medical doctors, a doctor of osteopathy and a chiropractor, were charged today in the Eastern District of New York for their roles in separate health care fraud schemes that resulted in the submission of more than $95 million in false claims to the Medicare program, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal court has permanently barred Robert Pendell from promoting any scheme that assists or advises customers to attempt to violate the tax laws, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order was entered by Judge Owen M. Panner of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. According to the government complaint, Pendell resides in Ashland, Ore.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2011
News Release: NEW YORK – International arms dealer Viktor Bout was found guilty today of conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) – a designated foreign terrorist organization based in Colombia – to be used to kill Americans in Colombia, announced the Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former lieutenant with the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), was sentenced today for his role in a conspiracy to obstruct justice and for misprision of a felony (for concealing a known crime), in connection with a federal investigation of two police-involved shootings that left two ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal jury today convicted Spokane, Wash., Police Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr., 64, of civil rights and obstruction charges stemming from his Mar. 18, 2006, beating of an unarmed citizen and an extensive cover-up that followed, the Justice Department announced. Following a taser deployment ...

By Fed Newswire | Nov 2, 2011
News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September indicates that economic growth strengthened somewhat in the third quarter, reflecting in part a reversal of the temporary factors that had weighed on growth earlier in the year. Nonetheless, recent indicators point to continuing ...

By Fed Newswire | Nov 2, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached table and charts summarizing the economic projections made by Federal Reserve Board members and Federal Reserve Bank presidents for the November 1-2 meeting of the Committee.

By Labor Gazette | Nov 2, 2011
News Release: All-Feed Processing & Packaging failed to protect workers from dust and noise exposure PEORIA, Ill. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited All-Feed Processing & Packaging Inc., headquartered in Alpha, for 23 safety and health violations at its pet food ...

By Labor Gazette | Nov 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will publish interim final rules in the Nov. 3 Federal Register that revise the regulations governing whistleblower complaints filed under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The act protects employees of publicly traded ...
By Fed News Journal | Nov 2, 2011
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Nov 2, 2011
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Nov 2, 2011
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Nov 2, 2011
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Nov 2, 2011
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Nov 2, 2011
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Nov 2, 2011
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Nov 2, 2011
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Nov 2, 2011
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.