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Des Moines, Iowa - A free compliance assistance seminar focusing on laws that cover health benefits will take place August 2 and 3 in Des Moines at the Holiday Inn Downtown at Mercy Campus. The seminar is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Iowa Insurance Division.

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San Francisco, California - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued two senior executives of Torrance-based Advanced Hi-Tech Corporation for failing to forward employee contributions to the company’s 401(k) profit sharing plan.

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Minneapolis, Minnesota - The U.S. Department of Labor filed suit today against Neupak Inc., its majority shareholder, and its 401(k) plan fiduciaries to recover employee contributions and loan repayments that they failed to forward to the workers’ 401(k) plan.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - The former benefits administrator of the Riggers’ Local 161 Annuity Fund, located in Philadelphia, today was sentenced to six months of home confinement, three years of probation, and fined $2,000 after pleading guilty to embezzling approximately $21,888 from the fund between 2000 and 2002.

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Los Angeles, California - The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) today announced that Margo Wainwright Harris has been ordered to repay $80,936 to the money purchase retirement plan of the Frederick Douglass Child Development Center Inc. in Los Angeles. Harris also was sentenced to three years’ supervised release and six months of home detention and was barred from dealings with employee benefit plans in the future.

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San Francisco, California - The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has reached an agreement with three executives of now-defunct Irvine, California-based Esynch Corporation providing for them to pay more than $23,500 owed to11 former employees and a civil monetary penalty to the federal government of more than $4,700. The agreement resolves a lawsuit alleging the company failed to forward employee contributions to its 401(k) retirement savings plan.

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San Francisco, California - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued a Phoenix car repair business and its owner for failing to deposit employee contributions into the company’s 401(k) plan.

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San Francisco, California - The U.S. Department of Labor will hold a free workshop here August 1 to help employers and health and pension plan fiduciaries better comply with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the federal law governing private employer pension and health benefit plans. The workshop will be at the Arizona Small Business Association Conference Center, 4811 E. Grant Road, Suite 261 (second floor).

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New York, New York - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the trustees of the welfare, annuity and pension funds covering members of the Material Yard Workers Local 1175, Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA), based in Howard Beach, New York, to restore any losses caused by the trustees.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and order requiring Elk Valley Professional Affiliates, Inc. (EVPA) of Fayetteville, Tennessee, to restore $295,455 to the company’s retirement plan and to pay $29,545 in civil monetary penalties to the federal government for violating federal employee benefits law.

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Charleston, West Virginia - A free compliance assistance seminar focusing on laws that cover health benefits will take place July 19-20 at the Marriott Charleston Town Center. The seminar is sponsored by the Employee Benefits Security Administration of the U.S. Labor Department and by the West Virginia Insurance Commission.

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San Francisco, California - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a suit against the former president and CEO of a Bay Area technology firm to clear the way to returning $149,500 in 401(k) assets to participants in the firm’s retirement plan.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed an adversary complaint in federal bankruptcy court against the owner of now defunct G&M Land Development Inc., Wescosville, Pennsylvania, to prevent her from discharging $118,736 owed to participants of the company’s pension plan. G&M Land Development Inc. was a mobile home business that ceased operations in 1999.

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Chicago, Illinois - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued former corporate officers of Monroe Cheese Corp., Monroe, Wisconsin, for failing to forward employee contributions to the company’s pension and health plans and retaining the contributions co-mingled with the general operating assets of the company.

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Detroit, Michigan - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued former president of now-defunct Employee Resource Management Inc., Auburn Hills, Michigan, for failing to administer and terminate the company’s 401(k) plan so that assets could be distributed to plan participants.

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Boston, Massachusetts - The former president of the defunct Fine Line Drywall, Inc. of Keene, New Hampshire, has been indicted on two counts of theft by misapplication of property in the State of New Hampshire Superior Court. The defendant, Mark R. Blanchard, was arraigned June 1, 2006 in Superior Court in Keene.

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St. Joseph, Michigan - The Labor Department has sued Edward L. Krieger, president of the now defunct National Sales Inc., St. Joseph, Michigan, for using a portion of the company’s 401(k) plan assets for purposes other than to pay plan expenses. In a separate complaint, the department sued Krieger in bankruptcy court to ensure that any debts owed to the plan are not discharged.