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Federal Tipoffs Involving California Newsletter for Tuesday April 09, 2024 ( 7 items )  

BLS: Unemployment Rate 1.9 Percent in Ames, Iowa, in February 2024
WASHINGTON, April 9 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document on April 8, 2024, from Economics Daily: * * * In February 2024, Ames, Iowa, had the lowest unemployment rate, 1.9 percent, among metropolitan areas. The next lowest rate was in Burlington-South Burlington, Vermont, 2.0 percent. El Centro, California, had the highest rate, 17.2 percent. * * * Chart: Metropolitan area unemployment rates, February 2024, not seasonally adjusted  more

DEA-San Francisco Division: Concord Resident Charged With Assaulting DEA Agent With a Deadly Weapon and Other Crimes
OAKLAND, California, April 9 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's San Francisco Division issued the following news release: A federal grand jury has charged two defendants with various crimes, including one defendant with extortion and assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Brian M. Clark; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent i  more

Deadline Approaching in Nevada for SBA Working Capital Loans Due to Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, Landslides, Mudslides
SACRAMENTO, California, April 9 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on April 8, 2024: Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration, today reminded Nevada small businesses of the May 8, 2024, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury caused by severe winter storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides in Lyon County that occurred March 8 - 19, 20  more

Innovation Accelerates Through Naval Postgraduate School' Ongoing Joint Interagency Field Experimentation Program
WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Naval Postgraduate School issued the following news: Every three months, like a high-tech pilgrimage, dozens of industry technologists journey from across the nation to a backcountry gathering at Camp Roberts, a U.S. Army National Guard base in southern Monterey County, California. They bring cutting-edge equipment of all shapes and sizes, functions and capabilities - and stages of development - for a unique five-day event. They come for the Naval Postgraduate School  more

LLNL's Yang Honored Among 2024 SIAM Class of Fellows
LIVERMORE, California, April 9 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) announced the selection of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) computational mathematician Ulrike Meier Yang as one of the 2024 Class of SIAM Fellows, the highest honor the organization bestows on its members. Yang, who leads the Mathematical Algorithms and Computing group in LLNL's Cente  more

SBA Disaster Assistance Available to Alaska Private Nonprofit Organizations
SACRAMENTO, California, April 9 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on April 8, 2024: Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to certain private nonprofit organizations in Alaska following President Biden's federal disaster declaration for Public Assistance as a result of severe storm, flooding, and landslides on Nov. 20, 2023, announced Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Private nonprofits that prov  more

SEC Litigation: Jury Returns Verdict Finding Defendant Matthew Panuwat Liable for Insider Trading
WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 4:21-cv-06322; N.D. Cal. filed Aug. 17, 2021) involving Matthew Panuwat: * * * On April 5, 2024, after an eight-day jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a verdict in its favor in its case alleging insider trading in violation of the federal securities laws against defendant Matthew Panuwat. The SEC'  more