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Newark, New Jersey - The U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit to appoint an independent fiduciary for Paramus, New Jersey-based Medserv Corporation’s 401(k) Savings & Profit Sharing Plan after the plan was abandoned by its trustee. The independent fiduciary will terminate the plan and distribute the plan’s assets to participants.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The former chief executive officer and 401(k) plan trustee of defunct Innopet Brands Corporation, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, have agreed to restore $12,500 as restitution for their failure to forward employee contributions to the company’s 401(k).

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San Francisco, California - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit alleging the president of a Diamond Bar, California, mortgage lender withdrew employees’ contributions from the company’s 401(k) plan and failed to return the money to the plan participants.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The owners of defunct Galloway Trucking, Inc. in Monroe, North Carolina agreed to restore $27,766.91 to the company’s retirement plan as restitution for failure to remit employee contributions and loan repayments to the plan.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The U.S. Department of Labor sued RW Construction Inc., Hoschton, Georgia, and its owner to recover more than $12,132.44 in employee contributions owed to the company’s SIMPLE IRA Plan. The suit charged Ronald B. Woodward and his company with failure to timely remit assets to the plan and allegedly using the money to pay corporate expenses.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor obtained a judgment ordering Washington, DC-based A & D Insurance, Inc. and its president to restore $955,515 to its employee benefit plan clients. The defendants allegedly deposited money collected to purchase insurance for the 27 plans into the company’s corporate accounts.

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New York, New York - The former plan administrator of the Solidarity of Labor Organizations Health Benefit Fund, Bronx, New York, has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison plus three years of supervised release for embezzling from a health fund. William Fagello also was ordered to restore $107,000 to the health plan.

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Chicago, Illinois - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the Hirschy, Inc., doing business as Germania Hall, Menasha, Wisconsin, and Christopher Fiedler, president and sole shareholder of Hirschy, for failing to forward employee contributions to the company’s IRA plan and to segregate the plan contributions from the general operating assets of the company.

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San Francisco, California - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced an extension of the deadline for filing Form 5500 and Form 5500 EZ annual report/returns due to damages from severe storms, flooding and mudslides in California.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued bankrupt Foley Jewelers Christiana, Inc. (FJC) of Newark, Delaware, its president, and the administrator of its 401(k) plan for failing to remit and timely forward employee contributions to the 401(k) plan. The department also filed an adversary legal action in bankruptcy court against FJC’s president seeking to have his debt to the plan deemed non-dischargeable.

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San Francisco, California - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued two senior executives of Oakland-based Manna Consultants Inc. for failure to transfer employees’ contributions to the company’s 401(k) plan.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced proposed rules to implement provisions of the Pension Funding Equity Act of 2004, which require plan administrators of multiemployer pension plans to furnish annually a notice on the funding status of the plans.

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Charleston, West Virginia - Trustees of the defunct Gordon Gasket & Packing Co. 401(k) plan in Charleston, West Virginia, were sued by the U.S. Department of Labor for failure to forward or timely remit employee contributions to the plan. The department also sued trustee Beverly Louise Bowman to prevent her from discharging $34,108.11 in debts owed to the plan in bankruptcy proceedings.

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Detroit, Michigan - The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Michigan has entered a default judgment against Jeffrey M. Grenke, owner of defunct American Tool & Mold Inc., St. Joseph, Michigan. The judgment removes from bankruptcy proceedings Grenke’s liability for failing to forward employee premium withholdings and employer contributions to the company’s health plan insurance carrier.

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Minneapolis, Minnesota - The U.S. Department of Labor today obtained a consent judgment requiring Liberty Tool and Engineering Corp., Minneapolis, and its president to restore $14,387.47 to the company’s 401(k).

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced an extension of the deadline for filing Form 5500 and Form 5500 EZ annual report/returns due to damages from severe winter storms and flooding in Indiana.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor reached an agreement with Perris, California-based Modtech Holdings Inc. in which the company will pay a $75,000 civil penalty for failing to file required annual reports for its 401(k) plan for two plan years and for filing a deficient annual report for a subsequent year. This settles the department’s reporting compliance enforcement action against the company for plan years 2000 through 2002.

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San Francisco, California - The U.S. Department of Labor obtained an agreement with the former owners of defunct Russett Diesel, a Fremont-based trucking company, to restore assets to the company’s 401(k) plan.