Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 27, 2015. Sanden Corp., an automotive parts manufacturer based in Gunma, Japan, has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $3.2 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition for the purchase of compressors used in air conditioning systems sold to[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Chicago Twins’ Cooperation Against Sinaloa Cartel Yields 14-Year Prison Terms; New Charges Target Cartel’s Top Echelon
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 27, 2015. Twin brothers Pedro and Margarito Flores, regarded as Chicago’s most significant drug traffickers who rose from street level dealers to the highest echelons of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel and a rival cartel before they began providing unparalleled cooperation to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), were each[Read More…]
Congresswoman Robin Kelly Tapped for House Oversight Committee
Will Serve as Ranking Member on Information Technology Subcommittee WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)—January 27, 2015. Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-IL) has been tapped to serve on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for the 114th Congress. Kelly will serve as the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Information Technology. She will[Read More…]
Grassroot Support Builds For Candidates Seeking to Give Voice to Neighborhood Residents
Grassroots Illinois Action Endorses Slate of Progressive Candidates Committed to Neighborhood Investment and Democratizing Chicago Public Schools CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. Today, Grassroots Illinois Action (GIA) publicly endorsed Jesus ‘Chuy’ Garcia for Mayor of Chicago, and twenty-three Aldermanic Candidates ready to take on Mayor Emanuel and a rubber-stamp City Council.[Read More…]
Interior Department Announces Draft Strategy for Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing
Regionally-tailored plan continues balanced approach to leasing, development; Draft proposal would protect sensitive resources, makes available nearly 80% of estimated undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources on U.S. Outer Continental Shelf WASHINGTON, DC –-(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand safe[Read More…]
UN Moves Swiftly to Help People in South-eastern Ukraine Forced to Flee Deadly Weekend Blast
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has provided aid to people affected by rocket fire in the town of Mariupol. The agency has also distributed blankets to people lacking heating in their homes, like this lady. Photo: UNHCR GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–27 January 2015 – The United Nations refugee agency said it has “reacted[Read More…]
FTC Requires Albertsons and Safeway to Sell 168 Stores as a Condition of Merger
Agency’s Largest Supermarket Divestiture Order to Date Requires Sales to Four Buyers Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. Supermarket operators Albertsons and Safeway Inc. have agreed to sell 168 supermarkets to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their proposed $9.2 billion merger would likely be anticompetitive in 130 local markets in Arizona,[Read More…]
NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Captures Best-Ever View of Dwarf Planet
This animation of the dwarf planet Ceres was made by combining images taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on Jan. 25. The spacecraft’s framing camera took these images, at a distance of about 147,000 miles (237,000 kilometers) from Ceres, and they represent the highest-resolution views to date of the dwarf planet.[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel Announces ContextMedia Will Expand Workforce in Chicago
Company to Hire an Additional 600 Jobs in Chicago; Growing Chicago’s Technology Workforce is A Key Initiative of the Plan for Economic Growth and Jobs CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and ContextMedia CEO Rishi Shah announced yesterday that the company plans to hire an additional 200 jobs in Chicago[Read More…]
NRDC: Administration Drilling Plan Would Expose Eastern Seaboard, Atlantic and Arctic Waters to Blowout Risk
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015 — The Obama Administration proposed a five-year offshore drilling lease plan today that would expose much of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans to oil and gas production. The Natural Resources Defense Council’s Executive Director Peter Lehner made the following statement: “This takes us in exactly the wrong[Read More…]
