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Chicago, Illinois - Under a consent judgment obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor, the owner and chief executive officer of Relco Locomotives, Inc., was removed as a fiduciary of the company’s 401(k) plan because he failed to forward employee contributions to the plan in a timely manner.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) today announced the release of the 2003 Form 5500, tips to avoid common filing errors and frequently asked questions (FAQs) for small pension plans that use the audit exception.

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San Francisco, California - The U.S. Department of Labor will hold a first-of-it’s-kind workshop to help employers and pension plan administrators better comply with federal pension law. The workshop will be held on January 15, 2004 at the Pasadena Convention Center.

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Chicago, Illinois - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Meade Communications, Inc., of Berkeley, Illinois, and the fiduciary of the company’s 401(k) plan for failure to remit employee contributions and loan repayments to the plan.

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Dallas, Texas - The U.S. Department of Labor sued several fiduciaries to the retirement plans and a health plan of client employers of Seirios Staff Services, Inc., a defunct professional employee organization (PEO) that operated out of Addison, Texas. The fiduciaries allegedly failed to forward employee and matching employer contributions to the retirement plans and to forward premiums to the health plan.

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Chicago, Illinois -  The U.S. Department of Labor sued an executive of Omni Circuits, Inc., in Glenview, Illinois, to prevent him from avoiding debts he owes to the company’s welfare plans during his personal bankruptcy proceeding.

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Albuquerque, New Mexico - The U.S. Department of Labor sued Automated Solutions of Albuquerque, Inc., and the company’s two 401(k) plan trustees for allegedly failing to forward $9,111 in employee contributions to the plan.

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Houston, Texas - The U.S. Department of Labor obtained a consent order barring Aeropanel Corporation of Houston, Texas, and its president from violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) in the future and requiring them to provide financial information to the government to resolve a lawsuit alleging they failed to forward employee contributions to the company’s 401(k) plan.

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WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today proposed a rule that would require state-registered investment advisers seeking investment manager status under federal benefit law to register electronically through the Investment Adviser Registration Depository (IARD).

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New York, New York - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit seeking an independent fiduciary to manage and distribute more than $300,000 in retirement assets for the benefit of participants of the Geophysical and Environmental Research Corporation’s (Geophysical) 401(k) plan in Millbrook, New York.

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