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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - A federal judge has barred Plan 3 Inc., Plan 3 Technologies, and owner Dennis Kelly from serving for 15 years as fiduciaries to employee benefit plans covered by the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The U.S. Department of Labor alleged that the Rockville, Maryland companies and Kelly violated ERISA when they failed to properly administer health and welfare plans across the country.

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Boston, Massachusetts - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the owner and operator of Landry Architects of Salem, New Hampshire, seeking restoration of funds to the company’s profit sharing plan.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit to restore losses to the 401(k) plan of Commetrex Corp., Roswell, Georgia.

“Trustees of a 401(k) plan have a responsibility to ensure that the assets of the plan are used solely to benefit participants,” said Howard Marsh, director of the Atlanta regional office of the department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA).

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP) has placed more than 300 qualified college students and recent graduates with disabilities in summer positions. The placements were made through a free database of 1,900 candidates seeking summer and full-time employment that was distributed on a compact disc this past spring to public and private sector employers.

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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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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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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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Recommendations Would Strengthen DOL's Enforcement Authority

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Department of Labor official testifying today before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims, highlighted the department's strong enforcement record despite limited enforcement authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act's H-1B visa program.

ATLANTA — The U.S. Labor Department announced today that Atlanta Erosion Consultants of Norcross, Ga., has agreed to pay $574,486 in overtime back wages to 193 workers after a Wage and Hour Division investigation found they had not been paid in accordance with the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

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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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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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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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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.