News from November 2012
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2012
News Release: Flagstaff, AZ. -Flagstaff Area National Monuments will be joining national park units around the country in celebrating Veterans Day in honor of U.S. veterans and current members of the U.S. Armed Forces.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2012
News Release: Fee Free Weekend - November 10-12 at all Flagstaff Area National Monuments.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 2, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— As a result of impacts caused by Hurricane Sandy, today Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano issued a temporary, blanket waiver of the Jones Act to immediately allow additional oil tankers coming from the Gulf of Mexico to enter Northeastern ports, to provide additional fuel resources to the region.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 2, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.— Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Deputy Administrator Richard Serino and Red Cross President Gail McGovern today traveled to Staten Island, N.Y. where they met ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2012 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a comprehensive effort to help USDA-financed homeowners in areas affected by Hurricane Sandy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2012
News Release: Orthofix International NV, has agreed to pay the United States $30 million to settle allegations that an Orthofix subsidiary, Blackstone Medical Inc., paid illegal kickbacks to physicians in order to induce use of the company’s products, the Justice Department announced today. Orthofix, which manufactures spinal implants and other spinal surgery products, is a publicly traded company headquartered in Curacao.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2012
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor portions of the early voting period for the Nov. 6, 2012, general election in Miami-Dade County, Fla., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Voting Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the election process on the basis of race, color or membership in a minority language group.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Houston resident and member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) gang was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for his role in an aggravated assault that took place in Tomball, Texas, in September 2008, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2012
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that its Civil Rights Division plans to deploy more than 780 federal observers and department personnel to 51 jurisdictions in 23 states for the Nov. 6, 2012, general election.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two German shipping companies pleaded guilty today in federal court in Houston to criminal charges that they concealed the illegal dumping of oil at sea from U.S. Coast Guard inspectors.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2012
News Release: Bruce King, the owner and operator of Premier Tax, pleaded guilty in federal court this week to charges of conspiring to defraud the United States and filing false tax returns, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Additionally, on Thursday, Vonecia Orum, a return preparer who worked at Premier Tax, pleaded guilty to delivering false tax returns to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2012
News Release: A bail bondsman in Portsmouth, Va., was sentenced today to serve 30 months in prison for bribing public officials in exchange for receiving favorable treatment, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Neil H. MacBride.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2012
News Release: The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today that attorney Aristotle R. Matsa (Rick Matsa), of Worthington, Ohio, was sentenced to 85 months in prison by the Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Judge Sargus also ordered ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2012
News Release: Lisa Wright, 46, and Cathy Saffer, 52, of Pompano Beach, Fla., were sentenced today to serve 66 and 60 months respectively for defrauding homeowners and mortgage lenders as part of a foreclosure rescue scheme, the Justice Department announced. The two women were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra in the Southern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two members of the Internet piracy group “IMAGiNE” were sentenced to prison today in Virginia, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia and Special Agent in Charge John P. Torres of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) in Washington, D.C.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on the October 2012 Employment Situation report released today: "Our nation's labor market added 171,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in October, while the unemployment rate remained essentially unchanged at 7.9 percent. Additionally, our economy added back more than 84,000 jobs in August and September than had been initially reported.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Continuing efforts to heed President Obama's call for federal agencies to act as quickly as possible to support state and local partners in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $27,792,296 National Emergency Grant to assist ...
By DOT News Wire | Nov 2, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 2, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 2, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
