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Shreveport, Louisiana - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and order requiring Carl Pons Electric Motor Service Inc. in Shreveport, Louisiana, and its owner to repay losses suffered by the company’s 401(k) plan for failing to timely remit and forward retirement contributions deducted from employees’ paychecks.

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Phoenix, Arizona - The U.S. Department of Labor sued DMT Engineering, Inc. and Ductmole Inc., both of Phoenix, Arizona, and the companies’ chief executive officer for failing to timely remit employee contributions to Ductmole Inc.’s Simple IRA plan and to segregate the contributions from the general operating assets of the companies.

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Chicago, Illinois - The U.S. Department of Labor today sued the former president of Bimet Corporation in Morris, Illinois, for failing to timely remit employee contributions to the company’s 401(k) profit sharing plan and retaining the assets with those of Bimet.

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Newark, New Jersey - The U.S. Department of Labor sued The Learning Edge Inc. of Montvale, New Jersey, and its president for failing to properly remit more than $25,000 in employee contributions to the company’s 401(k) plan.

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Topeka, Kansas - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed an adversary complaint to require the owner of the now- defunct Standard Hart Printing Inc. of Topeka, Kansas, to pay $14,794 owed to the company’s SIMPLE IRA and health plans as restitution for employee contributions that weren’t forwarded to the plans.

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San Francisco - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed an adversary complaint in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California at Santa Barbara, to protect over $37,000 owed to the 401(k) profit sharing plan of now-closed Digital Reflection, Inc. in San Jose, California.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today issued a final rule requiring state-registered investment advisers who are seeking investment manager status under federal benefits law to register electronically through the Investment Adviser Registration Depository (IARD).

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor is soliciting nominations to fill five three-year vacancies on the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans, known as the ERISA Advisory Council. The deadline for receipt of nominations is October 1, 2004.

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Washington, DC - U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao today announced that an independent fiduciary will be appointed to represent the interest of the participants and beneficiaries in United Airlines’ (UAL) pension plans.

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Detroit, Michigan - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Salvage One Leasing Company Inc. and related companies in Detroit -- along with their president -- for failing to remit or timely forward contributions and loan repayments deducted from employees’ paychecks.

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Grand Rapids, Michigan - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the former trustee of the Grand Rapids Plastics Inc. 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan of Grand Rapids, Michigan, for failing to remit employee contributions to the plan and retaining the contributions in the company’s general assets.

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Helena, Montana - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued to obtain the court appointment of an independent fiduciary to manage the abandoned retirement plan of the defunct Meteorological Technical Institute, Inc. in Helena, Montana, distribute $15,583 in assets to participants and terminate the plan.

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