News from October 2011
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2011
News Release: The bookstore at Bandy Creek is getting ready for a renovation; therefore, we need to clear our shelves. The staff has selected a number of items to deeply discount in order to make room for new, incoming titles. Most items are up to 40 percent off the original price and a few items have even lower prices. This is an excellent opportunity to find a bargain on quality books and other items. The sale will begin immediately and continue through November 13.
By State Newswire | Oct 14, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - The following is Congressman Howard L. Berman’s, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, opening statement as prepared for delivery at today’s committee hearing entitled “Iran and Syria: Next Steps - Part II.".
By EPA Newswire | Oct 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a common-sense new approach to regulation today that will improve environmental protections while protecting jobs and access to affordable electricity. H.R. 2273, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act, provides for the safe management and disposal of coal ash in a way that preserves jobs and encourages recycling. The legislation passed the House with strong bipartisan support by a vote of 267 to 144.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 14, 2011 - The House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands today held an oversight hearing on “Payments in Lieu of Taxes" (PILT). Witnesses at the hearing underscored the importance of the program to rural communities with federally owned land, especially in the West, and the impact federal land management decisions have on surrounding communities.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee today heard startling testimony and released illuminating new documents regarding the unfolding Solyndra investigation. Officials from the Department of the Treasury were called to testify about that agency’s belief that...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2011
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: We are writing to request that you reverse your recent decision to prevent Committee Democrats from spending their own portion of Committee travel funds under the Committee budget. Your new policy continues an unfortunate pattern of attempting to control the actions of Democrats, ...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee today heard startling testimony and released illuminating new documents regarding the unfolding Solyndra investigation. Officials from the Department of the Treasury were called to testify about that agency’s belief that...
By State Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following opening statement at today’s committee briefing entitled “Emerging Threats and Security in the Western Hemisphere: Next Steps for U.S. Policy"...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has sued Judy Grace Sellers to bar her from promoting an alleged scheme involving fraudulent tax refund claims, the Justice Department announced today. The government’s amended complaint for a civil injunction alleges that Sellers, of Chipley, Fla., helps her customers ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli today announced the establishment of the Attorney General’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence. The task force is part of the Attorney General’s Defending Childhood initiative, a project arising from the need to respond to the epidemic levels of exposure to violence faced by our nation’s children.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder was joined today by Senior Counselor for Access to Justice Mark Childress at a White House “Champions of Change” event to honor and recognize the work of legal leaders from communities large and small who are dedicating their professional lives to closing the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former civilian employee of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), a component of the Department of Defense, pleaded guilty today in Washington, D.C., to making more than $485,000 in false travel claims using the Defense Travel System, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: ATLANTA- Bidemi Bello, 42, formerly of Suwanee, Ga., was sentenced today in Atlanta by U.S. District Judge William S. Duffey Jr. on human trafficking charges including forced labor, trafficking with respect to forced labor, document servitude, harboring for financial gain and procurement of naturalization ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Elmo Antonio George and Nasheba Necia Hunte were indicted today by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida on charges of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and with filing false tax returns for 2005 and 2006 which claimed false refunds totaling more than $1.2 million, the Justice Department and the IRS announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into a consent decree with the Board of Education of Berkeley School District 87 in Berkeley, Ill. that, if approved by the court, will resolve a religious accommodations lawsuit filed in December 2010. In its lawsuit, the United ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Miami-area residents Angel Gonzalez and Jorge Zamora, who were the owners and operators of a fraudulent physical therapy company in Lakeland, Fla., were sentenced yesterday and today to 42 months in prison and 46 months in prison, respectively, for their leading roles in a scheme to defraud Medicare, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By Fed Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the following enforcement action: Anchor Commercial Bank (PDF), Juno Beach, Florida Prompt Corrective Action Directive dated Oct. 11, 2011 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank Remarks at the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Good evening, everyone. Thank you for coming.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank issued the following statement today on the release of the August 2011 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services report by the Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Today’s report showed that U.S. exports of ...
By Labor Gazette | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor is notifying former workers of six facilities located in Wisconsin about benefits that may be available to them under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act administered by the department's Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation. Survivors of qualified workers also may be entitled to benefits.
