Wage Gap Still Exists Between Women and Men in the Workplace CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 8, 2014. Governor Pat Quinn today joined local elected officials to recognize Equal Pay Day and raise awareness of the disparity that remains between workplace earnings among women and men. This date, proclaimed by the Governor and designated[Read More…]
Day: April 8, 2014
IDNR Announces New Management for Eagle Creek Golf Course
Course will be open to public on Friday, April 11th FINDLAY, IL–(ENEWSPF)–April 8, 2014. Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) Director Marc Miller today approved a contract with Green Golf Partners to maintain and operate the Eagle Creek Golf Course, located on the shore of Lake Shelbyville in Findlay, Illinois. [Read More…]
Secretary of State Kerry’s Opening Statement Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Situation in Ukraine, April 8, 2014
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 8, 2014. Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much, Ranking Member Corker, members of the committee. I’m very happy to be back here and appreciate enormously the committee’s indulgence to have shifted this hearing because it came at a critical moment just before I was asked by the[Read More…]
Detroit Home Health Agency Office Manager Sentenced for Her Role in $5.8 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 8, 2014. The office manager of a Detroit-area home health agency was sentenced today to serve 46 months in prison for her role in a $5.8 million Medicare fraud scheme. Acting Assistant Attorney General David A. O’Neil of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade[Read More…]
Justice Department Files Lawsuit to Stop Pennsylvania Man from Preparing Federal Tax Returns
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 8, 2014. The United States filed a civil lawsuit today in Pittsburgh federal court to permanently bar Larry E. Snow, of Seward, Pa., from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. In February 2012, Snow pleaded guilty to[Read More…]
Chief of Bull Shoals, Ark., Police Department Arrested for Use of Excessive Force
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 8, 2014. The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arkansas and the FBI announced today that Daniel Sutterfield, 35, Chief of the Bull Shoals Police Department, was arrested yesterday on charges related to his use of excessive force in the[Read More…]
Remarks by President Obama on Equal Pay for Equal Work, April 8, 2014
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 8, 2014 – 11:58 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. (Applause.) All right. Well, thanks to my friend, Lilly Ledbetter, not only for that introduction but for fighting for a simple principle: Equal pay for equal work. It’s not that complicated. And, Lilly, I assure you, you[Read More…]
Freedom to Marry Launches National TV Ad Featuring Former GOP Senator
In ad, Sen. Alan Simpson says, “Whether you’re gay or lesbian or straight, if you love someone and you want to marry them, marry them.” New York–(ENEWSPF)–April 8, 2014. As federal appeals courts begin to hear marriage cases across the country, Freedom to Marry released a national television ad featuring former U.S.[Read More…]
Chinatown Civic Leader Pleads Guilty to Theft From Charity and Filing a False Federal Income Tax Return
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—April 8, 2014. A leader of two Chinatown charitable organizations, GENE LEE, pleaded guilty today to federal charges of theft and filing a false federal income tax return for misappropriating as much as $92,800 from one of the charities, which received federal funds as well as donations, and failing to[Read More…]
Washington’s Mazama Pocket Gophers Protected Under Endangered Species Act
Gophers’ Rare Puget Prairie Home Threatened by Sprawl, Invasive Species PORTLAND, Oregon–(ENEWSPF)–April 8, 2014. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized Endangered Species Act protection today for four subspecies of Mazama pocket gophers and designated 1,607 acres of protected critical habitat in Washington’s Thurston County, including at the Olympia Airport.[Read More…]
