News from January 2012
By EPA Newswire | Jan 31, 2012
News Release: “(Q)uestions will be asked as to why the Administration made a bad investment not just once but twice"
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2012
News Release: Golden Gate National Recreation Area shares the general public's concern over the unfortunate incident between a National Park Service law enforcement ranger and a man walking his dog off leash at Rancho Corral de Tierra, in San Mateo County, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012.As is standard practice, the park has initiated a review of the incident, which will be concluded in the next two weeks.At that time, another statement will be released.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2012
News Release: “(Q)uestions will be asked as to why the Administration made a bad investment not just once but twice"
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week, Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) outlined a 2012 agenda that focuses on job creation and medical innovation, with Congress continuing to dismantle a broken and unpopular law and creating in its place the framework for a health care system that puts patients first. The agenda includes...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 31, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week, Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) outlined a 2012 agenda that focuses on job creation and medical innovation, with Congress continuing to dismantle a broken and unpopular law and creating in its place the framework for a health care system that puts patients first. The agenda includes...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today said the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Budget and Economic Outlook should serve as a wakeup call about the failed economic policies of the Obama Administration.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week, Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) outlined a 2012 agenda that focuses on job creation and medical innovation, with Congress continuing to dismantle a broken and unpopular law and creating in its place the framework for a health care system that puts patients first. The agenda includes...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Asset Acceptance LLC, a Michigan-based debt buyer, has agreed to a consent decree to settle a civil lawsuit regarding its debt collection activities, the Justice Department announced today. In the decree, Asset agrees to implement a range of new practices to protect consumers and to pay ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Charles Kizer, 53, from Memphis, Tenn., was sentenced late Friday by U.S. District Judge Samuel H. Mays, Jr. to 10 years in prison for violating the Mann Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two Japanese suppliers of automotive electrical components–Yazaki Corporation and DENSO Corporation–have agreed to plead guilty and to pay a total of $548 million in criminal fines for their involvement in multiple price-fixing and bid-rigging conspiracies in the sale of parts to automobile ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former soldier who also served as a contract military recruiter pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to obtain more than $200,000 in fraudulent recruiting bonuses from various U.S. military components and their contractor, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2012
News Release: A federal court has permanently barred David Champion from promoting a tax fraud scheme designed to assist his customers evade federal taxes, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order was signed by Judge Percy Anderson of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2012
News Release: CHICAGO – A federal jury today convicted Alex Campbell, 45, a northwest Chicago suburban massage parlor owner, of various federal crimes including sex-trafficking, forced labor, harboring illegal aliens, confiscating passports to further forced labor and extortion involving four foreign women whom he ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Three men and a demolition company were convicted by a federal jury in Chattanooga, Tenn., of environmental crimes and obstruction of justice charges related to the illegal demolition of a Chattanooga factory containing large amounts of the toxic air pollutant asbestos, announced William ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2012
News Release: Phoenix-area businessmen Stephen M. Kerr and Michael Quiel and former San Diego attorney Christopher M. Rusch were charged in Phoenix with conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for concealing millions of dollars in assets in numerous secret Swiss bank accounts held at UBS and elsewhere, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2012
News Release: MIAMI – Two corrections officers were sentenced to prison today for civil rights and obstruction charges stemming from prisoner abuse that took place at the South Florida Reception Center (SFRC), a state prison in Doral, Fla., the Justice Department announced. Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – An Ohio man was sentenced today in Riverside, Calif., to 35 years in prison and lifetime supervised release for his participation in an online child pornography bulletin board, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney ...
By Labor Gazette | Jan 30, 2012
News Release: Rule would expand military family leave provisions, incorporate special eligibility provision for airline flight crew employees WASHINGTON — Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today announced that the U.S. Department of Labor is issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking to implement new statutory amendments to the Family and Medical Leave Act that would expand military family leave provisions and incorporate a special eligibility provision for airline flight crew employees.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 30, 2012
News Release: BURLINGTON, Vt. – A federal judge has granted the U.S. Department of Labor a preliminary and permanent injunction to enjoin the operators of a Pawlet slate milling operation from interfering with, hindering or delaying an inspection by the department's Mine Safety and Health Administration.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 30, 2012
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
