Personal Income and Outlays, March 2009
April 30, 2009 by Bill
Filed under Finance/Credit
Personal income decreased $34.4 billion, or 0.3 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI)
decreased $1.8 billion, or less than 0.1 percent, in March, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) decreased $24.2 billion, or 0.2 percent. In February,
personal income decreased $24.3 billion, or 0.2 percent, DPI increased $0.2 billion, or less than 0.1
percent, and PCE increased $39.1 billion, or 0.4 percent, based on revised estimates.
Fryzel Marks Financial Literacy Month, Notes Importance for Credit Unions
April 30, 2009 by Bill
Filed under Finance/Credit
April 30, 2009, Alexandria, Va.– National Credit Union Administration Chairman Michael E. Fryzel commemorated Financial Literacy Month by encouraging a broader and more extensive role for credit unions in the improvement of the Nation’s financial know-how.
Written agreement with Heritage Bank
April 30, 2009 by Bill
Filed under Finance/Credit
Written agreement with Heritage Bank
Three South Carolina Men Indicted on Civil Rights Charges
Three men from Marlboro County, South Carolina were indicted on federal charges relating to their attack on an African-American man and two white men in December 2007.
Missouri Men Indicted for Trafficking in Counterfeit DVDs, CDs
Robert L. Henderson, Reginald R. Collier, and Stephen Garrett were indicted in separate and unrelated cases in Kansas City, Missouri for trafficking in counterfeit DVDs and CDs.
Missouri Brothers Indicted in $4 Million Nationwide Spamming Conspiracy
Two Missouri men and their company are among those indicted by a federal grand jury in a nationwide e-mail spamming case that victimized more than 2,000 colleges and universities.
Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Life in Massachusetts
Jose DeJesus Ruvalcaba, of Chino, California, was sentenced to life in prison for trafficking approximately 30 pounds of methamphetamine to Boston and laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug money using a sophisticated system of cash deposits, wire transfers, and bogus checks.
Dutch Airline Exec to Plead Guilty in Price-Fixing Conspiracy
Franciscus Johannes de Jong, a Dutch citizen and executive of Martinair Holland N.V., has agreed to plead guilty, serve time in jail, and pay a criminal fine for participating in a conspiracy to fix cargo rates for international air shipments.
Three Brothers Sentenced to Life for Conspiring to Kill U.S. Soldiers
Brothers Dritan Duka, Shain Duka, and Eljvir Duka were each sentenced to life prison terms for plotting to kill members of the U.S. military during an armed attack on the Ft. Dix military base in New Jersey.
Final Two Conspirators in Ft. Dix Terror Plot Sentenced
The remaining two men convicted of plotting to kill members of the U.S. military during an armed attack on a military base were sentenced today to federal prison terms of life for one defendant and 33 years for the other.