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Chicago, Illinois - The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has obtained a consent judgment and order requiring the Clinic in Altgeld Inc. of Chicago to restore $67,997 to the company's 401(k) plan as restitution for delinquent employee contributions and loan payments that were not forwarded to the plan.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment permanently barring the former trustees of the profit sharing plan of Bama Wood Inc. in Montgomery, Alabama, from serving as fiduciaries or in positions of trust to employee benefit plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

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New York, New York - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained an order from a federal court in Syracuse, New York, requiring the former principals of Bennett Funding Group Inc. to restore $2.66 million plus interest to the company’s pension, profit sharing and 401(k) plans.

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Grand Rapids, Michigan - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the owner of Van-Kal Truck Equipment Inc. of Mattawan, Michigan, for failing to forward employee contributions to the company’s 401 (k) plan. The department also sued owner Steven P. Mullins to prevent him from discharging any debt owed to the plan.

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Kansas City, Missouri - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the owner of Ver-Sa-Til Associates, Inc. in Chanhassen, Minnesota, for failing to timely forward employee contributions owed to the company’s profit sharing plan.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today released a Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) providing enforcement guidance to field investigators on Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).

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Grand Rapids, Michigan - The U.S. Department of Labor sued Kalamazoo, Michigan-based companies Magic P.I. & Security, Inc., and Magic Civil Process, Inc., the companies’ owner and the 401(k) plan trustee of Magic P.I. for misusing $511,157 in plan assets.

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SILVER SPRING, Md.—The U. S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment permanently barring the president of SAI Plus in Rockville, Md., from serving as a fiduciary or doing business with any employee benefit plan governed by federal benefits law.

WASHINGTON—The U. S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced the appointment of Bradford P. Campbell to the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy.

Mr. Campbell directs the policy, legislative and research functions of the agency that administers the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). He serves as a liaison to other government agencies and the private sector on a variety of issues relating to ERISA.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has extended to May 5, 2004 the deadline for providing comments on proposed changes to the ERISA Filing Acceptance System (EFAST).

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Cleveland, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor sued the former trustee of the 401(k) plan of defunct White’s Information Systems, Inc., of Cleveland, Ohio, for failing to forward to the account contributions withheld from employees’ paychecks.

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WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Labor has filed settlement agreements providing for restitution of $4.875 million to 12 pension and welfare plans in California, Nevada and Utah that invested plan assets in risky private placement schemes with Capital Consultants LLC. The consent orders also require payment of $975,000 in civil penalties to the government.