News from February 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee this evening received 463 pages of internal White House documents and emails produced in response to subpoenas issued by the committee on Nov. 3, 2011. On Dec. 12, 2011, committee investigators went to the White House for good faith negotiations...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 “Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to McAllen, Texas on Feb. 20-21 and will join U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Acting Commissioner David Aguilar to see CBP operations at the Southwest border, ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2012 – Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and USDA's National Agricultural Library, in partnership with the American Farm Bureau Federation, announced Start2farm.gov, a new online portal that helps provide assistance for beginning farmers and ranchers. The portal includes links ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 16, 2012—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and China's Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu today signed an historic Plan of Strategic Cooperation that will guide the two countries' agricultural relationship for the next 5 years. The plan was signed as part of the U.S.-China Agricultural ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: Stanley Wardle of Spanish Fork, Utah, was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Salt Lake City with nine counts of filing false claims for income tax refunds, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. According to the indictment, Wardle prepared one such false ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Massoud Habibion, 49, aka “Matt Habibion” and “Matt Habi,” a U.S. citizen and co-owner of a Costa Mesa, Calif., company, Online Micro LLC, pleaded guilty today in the District of Columbia to conspiracy to illegally export computers from the United States to Iran through the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Additionally, Mohsen Motamedian, 44, aka “Max Motamedian” and “Max Ehsan,” a U.S. citizen and co-owner of Online Micro, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: Andrew Isaac Chance of Clinton, Md., was sentenced Wednesday to 65 months in prison for filing false claims for tax refunds and for filing a false retaliatory lien against a federal prosecutor. The sentencing was announced today by the Justice Department, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Five Rhode Island men previously identified as leaders or associates of the New England organized crime family of the La Cosa Nostra (NELCN) have agreed to plead guilty to racketeering-related charges, according to documents filed today with the U.S. district court in Providence, R.I.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called “underwear bomber,” was sentenced today to life in prison as a result of his guilty plea to all eight counts of a federal indictment charging him for his role in the attempted Christmas Day 2009 bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Glenn E. Morgan Jr., 41, of Detroit, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert H. Cleland to three months in prison followed by two years supervised release after pleading guilty to sending a threatening communication through the mail to a Detroit couple, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: A federal court has permanently barred Maria Teresita Viray from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order, to which Viray consented, was signed by Judge George Wu of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON –Danilo Velasquez, aka “Triste,” a local leader of La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in San Francisco by U.S. District Judge William H. Alsup to life in prison, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, ...
By Commerce News Now | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: As part of the president’s blueprint for an American economy built to last, the Energy Department and the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program have announced up to $1.3 million for training programs to provide commercial ...
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Government Accountability Office recently released and testified today on its report titled Workforce Investment Act: Innovative Collaborations Between Workforce Boards and Employers Helped Meet Local Needs (GAO-12-97). Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis has issued the following statement: ...
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that overall compliance with safety and health regulations is improving among the nation's more than 12,000 metal and nonmetal mining operations. Preliminary data indicate a 14 percent decrease in citations ...
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending Feb. 11, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 348,000, a decrease of 13,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 361,000. The 4-week moving average was 365,250, a decrease of 1,750 from the previous week's revised average of 367,000.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of approximately $30 million in grants through its Training and Service Learning program for projects to help young adult ex-offenders gain valuable jobs skills while giving back to their communities through service.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today awarded a $3,145,776 National Emergency Grant increment to continue providing re-employment assistance to about 600 workers impacted by layoffs at 21 Houston-area companies. The layoffs primarily resulted from the termination of the Space Shuttle Program by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Many of the workers were contractors for the program at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of America Saves Week, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration and the America Saves campaign of the Consumer Federation of America will host a free webcast on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012, from 2 to 4 p.m. EST, for small businesses, their accountants and service providers. Topics include choosing a retirement savings plan and the advantages of direct deposits to small businesses and their employees.
By State News Post | Feb 16, 2012
The US State Department published a two page notice on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
