News from August 2012
By USDA Newswire | Aug 22, 2012
News Release: Secretary Designates 23 Additional Counties Due to Drought WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2012—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today made a series of announcements that continue to underscore the Obama Administration's ongoing work to help farmers, ranchers and businesses impacted by the most severe drought ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2012
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it reached an agreement with MicroLink Devices, a manufacturer of semiconductor structures and advanced solar cells based in Niles, Ill. The agreement resolves allegations that the company violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2012
News Release: The United States has joined a whistleblower lawsuit against The Gallup Organization, the Justice Department announced today. The lawsuit was filed by Michael Lindley, a former Gallup employee, who alleges that Gallup violated the False Claims Act by making false claims for payment under contracts with the U.S. Mint, the State Department and other federal agencies to provide polling services for various government programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Detroit-area social worker pleaded guilty for his role in a $3.1 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Justice Department, FBI and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today. Gregory Lawrence, 54, of Detroit, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Victoria A. Roberts in the Eastern District of Michigan to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Sterling Suffolk Racecourse LLC will pay a civil penalty of $1.25 million to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) at its Suffolk Downs racetrack facility in Revere and East Boston, Mass., the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two former senior executives of Austin, Texas-based ArthroCare Corp., a publicly traded medical device company, were arrested this morning in Morristown, N.J. and Orange County, Calif., for their alleged roles in a scheme to defraud the company’s shareholders and members of the investing ...
By Fed Newswire | Aug 22, 2012
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on July 31-Aug. 1, 2012.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 22, 2012
News Release: Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank today issued a statement on Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), which will help increase U.S. exports and thereby create thousands of American jobs. The membership means that Russia has committed to opening its goods and services markets, ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 22, 2012
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. Utica food processing company Delorio Foods Inc. has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration with 14 alleged serious violations at the company's Bleecker Street manufacturing facility for exposing workers to unsafe working conditions. Proposed penalties total $54,900 following an inspection initiated by OSHA in May.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 22, 2012
News Release: ANDOVER, Mass. – Employees at a Haverhill residential construction site were exposed to potentially deadly or disabling falls of up to 16 feet from a roof and a scaffold that lacked fall protection. Conditions found during inspections by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement regarding the Bureau of Labor Statistics' "Employment and Unemployment Among Youth Summary" released Aug. 21: "As young Americans all across the country prepare to head into a new school year, I'm excited to say that many more will take with them lessons learned through summer jobs.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 22, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 22, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Aug. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 22, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Aug 22, 2012
The US State Department published a two page notice on Aug. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Aug 22, 2012
The US State Department published a one page notice on Aug. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 22, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Aug. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 22, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Aug. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 22, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 22, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
