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Assessment of the SECs Bounty Program, March 29, 2010 – Report No. 474 “Although the SEC has had a bounty program in-place for more than 20 years for rewarding whistleblowers for insider trading tips and complaints, our review found that there have been very few payments made under this program. Likewise, the Commission has not …
Campus Attacks – Targeted Violence Affecting Institutions of Higher Education, April 2010. United States Secret Service, United States Department of Education, Federal Bureau of Investigation “In response to the Virginia Tech incident on April 16, 2007, former cabinet Secretaries Michael Leavitt and Margaret Spellings, and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales submitted the Report to the …
News release: “Today, Chairman Phil Angelides and Vice Chairman Bill Thomas announce that the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) has issued a subpoena to Moodys Corporation for failing to comply with a request for documents in a timely manner. In seeking documents and testimony from public agencies and companies, the Commission has made it clear …
News release: “Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., a builder of residential homes nationwide, has agreed today to pay a $1 million civil penalty to resolve alleged Clean Water Act violations at 591 construction sites in 18 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department announced today. As part …
News release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced draft guidance that would expand transparency and disclosure when the agency grants a conflict of interest waiver to permit an individuals participation at an FDA advisory committee meeting. The draft guidance would expand the information disclosed about waivers prior to committee meetings. Specifically, the FDA …
News release: “The Federal Communications Commission took an important step today toward promoting nationwide mobile connectivity for consumers and encouraging continued mobile innovation, investment, and deployment. The Commissions Order on Reconsideration enhances mobile voice service through roaming agreements that provide consumers with access to other carriers networks. In a Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, …
Federal Reserve Banks: Areas for Improvement in Information Security Controls, GAO-10-640R, April 21, 2010 National Flood Insurance Program: Continued Actions Needed to Address Financial and Operational Issues, GAO-10-631T, April 21, 2010 Next Generation Air Transportation System: Challenges with Partner Agency and FAA Coordination Continue, and Efforts to Integrate Near-, Mid-, and Long-term Activities Are Ongoing, …
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau reported today more women than men are expected to occupy professions such as doctors, lawyers and college professors as they represent approximately 58 percent of young adults, age 25 to 29, who hold an advanced degree. In addition, among all adults 25 and older, more women than men had …
Follow up to previous postings on childhood and adolescent obesity, this new report: Too Fat to Fight – Retired Military Leaders Want Junk Food Out of Americas Schools. A report by Mission: Readiness, Military Leaders for Kids, April 2010. “Mission: Readiness, an organization of retired senior military leaders, is warning Congress that at least nine …
Official Google Blog: “…it’s no surprise that Google, like other technology and telecommunications companies, regularly receives demands from government agencies to remove content from our services. Of course many of these requests are entirely legitimate, such as requests for the removal of child pornography. We also regularly receive requests from law enforcement agencies to hand …
Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, April 20, 2010 – Quarterly Report to Congress Related postings on financial system
U.S. Initiatives to Promote Global Internet Freedom: Issues, Policy, and Technology. April 5, 2010 Modern means of communications, led by the Internet, provide a relatively inexpensive, open, easy-entry means of sharing ideas, information, pictures, and text around the world. In a political and human rights context, in closed societies when the more established, formal news …
