News from September 2011
By EPA Newswire | Sep 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Despite receiving a $535 million loan guarantee financed by U.S. taxpayers, two top executives for now-bankrupt Solyndra today refused to answer any questions from the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, instead invoking their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Some may be surprised by how much the the U.S. government spends on energy policy through our Tax Code. According to the Energy Information Administration, for 2010, the value of direct federal financial interventions and subsidies in energy markets was estimated at about $37...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 180,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2011/2012 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) issued the following statements on the Senate passage of an extension of Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - With nearly 150,000 deficient American bridges that are crippling our Nation’s economic competitiveness from coast to coast, CEOs of 20 major U.S. corporations called on Congress to pass a robust multi-year surface transportation bill to create jobs and rebuild America. U.S. Representative...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A year ago the U.S. House in overwhelming bipartisan fashion passed a measure to crack down on China’s manipulation of its currency. Despite more than 200 co-sponsors of the reintroduced measure this year and increasing signs that the Senate is also prepared to act, House Republican leaders...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today joined U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Deputy Administrator Rich Serino in Joplin, Mo. to survey recovery efforts and meet with state, local and community officials following the May 2011 tornado that struck the region.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has asked a federal court in Detroit to bar Damian Jackson and his wife, Holly Jackson, from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. According to the government complaint, the civil injunction lawsuit also seeks to bar the Jacksons, of Sterling Heights, Mich., and a third defendant, Tammy Daniels, an attorney from Farmington Hills, Mich., from promoting an alleged tax-fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – After a two day hearing in federal court in Rochester, N.Y., that ended late yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa sentenced Keith Gordon-Smith, 54, of Rochester, to six years in prison for knowingly violating the Clean Air Act and making false statements to a federal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department, at the request of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), today filed a complaint and a consent decree in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida against Hill Dermaceuticals Inc., Hill Labs Inc., Jerry S. Roth and Rosario G. Ramirez. The complaint and consent decree are being filed today in accordance with an agreement with the defendants resolving numerous allegations of violations of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Alan James Watson, 46, of Clinton Township, Mich., pleaded guilty today to fraudulently soliciting and accepting $40 million from more than 750 members of his investment club and losing nearly all of it through non-disclosed, high-risk investments. Victims were located in Virginia and nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A member and an associate of the Barrio Azteca (BA) gang each pleaded guilty today to participating in a racketeering conspiracy involving, among other things, the Mar. 13, 2010, murders in Juarez, Mexico, of a U.S. Consulate employee, her husband and the husband of another U.S. Consulate ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former project manager of a construction company that had substantial business at Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army installation in El Paso, Texas, pleaded guilty today to soliciting and accepting kickbacks from subcontractors on a federal contract with the U.S. Army, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - CH2M Hill Hanford Group Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Colorado-based CH2M Hill Companies Ltd., has agreed to pay the United States $1.5 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted false claims and paid kickbacks relating to a contract to operate and manage mixed radioactive ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former member of the U.S. Army employed by a private security firm was arrested at Miami International Airport today on charges of bribery, fraud and theft of government funds, in connection with the award of a contract to provide services to a U.S. government provincial reconstruction team in Farah, Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Paul W. Miller, of Denham Springs, La., was convicted late yesterday of two counts of producing and one count of possessing child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux Jr. of the Middle District of Louisiana. Miller, 44, was convicted by a federal jury following a two-day trial. U.S. District Judge James J. Brady presided over the trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON- The Justice Department announced today that it has resolved claims made by U.S. Army Reserve member Kyle A. Sharp against ServiceMaster 24-Hour and Gregory Tullar, ServiceMaster’s owner and operator, alleging that they violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act ...
By Fed Newswire | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the following enforcement action: SWNB Bancorp, Inc. (PDF), Houston, Texas Written Agreement dated Sept. 19, 2011 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: These public-private partnerships are expected to create more than 4,800 jobs and 300 new businesses, as well as retain another 2,400 jobs and train approximately 4,000 workers for careers in high-growth industries, according to grantee estimates. Each of the 20 awards average about $1.8 million per project, and winning clusters will contribute another $13 million in total matching funds.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a revised hazard alert to hair salon owners and workers about potential formaldehyde exposure from working with certain hair smoothing and straightening products. The revised alert was prompted by the ...
