News from July 2012
By USDA Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: Rental Assistance Available to Eligible Households WASHINGTON, July 18, 2012 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA Rural Development is accepting pre-applications for loans and grants to build or rehabilitate rural rental housing for domestic farmworkers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: Michael R. Elliott, former chief financial officer of Caremerica Inc., pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Justice Department and IRS announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Aleksandr Suvorov, of Estonia, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for his role in two separate hacking schemes involving a total of more than 240,000 stolen credit card numbers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a federal lawsuit against Rutherford County, Tenn., alleging that the county violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when, in compliance with a state chancery court ruling, it refused to process or issue ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON — A former financial institution employee pleaded guilty today for his participation in a conspiracy related to municipal bonds, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Maine resident was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed today in the District of New Hampshire for allegedly engaging in a type of cyber extortion known as “sextortion,” announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Cincinnati landlord Henry E. Bailey agreed to the entry of an $855,000 civil judgment against him, after admitting that he violated the Fair Housing Act as alleged in a complaint filed by the Justice Department in federal court, the department announced today. The department’s complaint ...
By Commerce News Now | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank Remarks at Senate Aerospace Caucus Luncheon Thank you, Marion (Blakey). Thanks for your leadership at AIA as well as the FAA and NTSB before that. I know at one point you were head of Public Affairs at the Commerce Department and it’s always good to greet former Commerce staffers who’ve done well.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: The Commerce Department's U.S. Census Bureau today released June 2012 data on new residential construction (PDF). Housing starts in June 2012 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 760,000, up 6.9 percent from May’s revised estimate and up 23.6 percent from June 2011. Starts of multifamily structures ...
By Commerce News Now | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: Today, Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank commended the Senate Finance Committee’s bipartisan approval of legislation which would authorize the President to establish permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia. The bill would terminate application of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment to Russia ...
By Labor Gazette | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio – In a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor that followed an investigation by its Employee Benefits Security Administration, a federal judge has ordered the president of Columbus-based Clark Graphics, Mary Clark, to restore $505,551.46 to the company’s two employee retirement plans. Additionally, Marcia Dowdell, the president of Pension Retirement Planning who served as administrator for the plans, has been ordered to restore funds to both plans.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration has announced improved procedures for plan sponsors who wish to obtain fiduciary relief for a service provider’s failure to comply with the department’s plan-level fee disclosure rule. http://webapps.dol.gov/FederalRegister/HtmlDisplay.aspx?DocId=26218&AgencyId=8&DocumentType=2 ...
By DOT News Wire | Jul 18, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 18, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a six page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 18, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 18, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 18, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Jul 18, 2012
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Jul 18, 2012
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Jul 18, 2012
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
