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An Iowa congressman likely violated a host of ethics rules in his private business dealings, including his ownership in a company that used false claims and House resources to promote itself, according to an independent report released Monday. The Office of Congressional Ethics launched the review into Republican Rod Blum and his internet marketing business, Tin Moon Corp., following an investigation by The Associated Press earlier this year.
A report by the Postal Service Office of Inspector General demonstrates just how valuable the mail is as a marketing tool for drug pushers: "For example, a cocaine trafficker claimed to have used the Postal Service to successfully distribute nearly 4,000 shipments, stating that they had a 100 percent delivery success rate. In addition, of the 96 traffickers who indicated they used the Postal Service as their shipping provider, 43 percent offered free, partial, or full reshipment if the package did not arrive to the buyer's address because it was confiscated, stolen, or lost."
A Textron Aviation Cessna Citation Longitude rose off the runway at Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower National airport on a blistering hot day in September. The super-midsize jet climbed swiftly under the power of two Honeywell HTF7700L engines to nearly 45,000ft, at which point Textron executives reviewed why they think Longitude is a winner.
As the global produce community comes together in Orlando at the Produce Marketing Association's Fresh Summit, let me rank the top ten reports from the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service this year. If you are not familiar with the USDA FAS, the agency issues Global Agricultural Information Network reports that provide market intelligence from global growing regions and U.S. export markets.
ABC executives reportedly are now saying that they regret firing the star of their hit comedy, Roseanne, who made a bad tweet and got canned for it. Barr was abruptly let go from ABC following an allegedly Ambien-fueled Twitter tirade in which she tried to draw a parallel between Valerie Jarrett, a former aide to President Barack Obama, and "Planet of the Apes."
Tired of being cast as the poster child for big banks behaving badly, Wells Fargo & Co. has been expanding its presence in the nation's capital to convince lawmakers it has changed and talking up its charitable work in their districts.
The Winchester family of Philip Baldwin, who fatally overdosed in July 2017, participated in a protest Sunday against Purdue Pharma, the makers of OxyContin. The all-day protest took place outside the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution and at Freedom Park near the White House, according to Beth Baldwin, Philip Baldwin's mother.
USDA Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Greg Ibach and Caroline Young , with the National Peanut Board, get the facts about mushrooms from Mushroom Council Chairperson Gale Ferranto and Mushroom Council Foodservice Director Steve Solomon . Celebrating their record of success, 16 commodity groups and marketing orders participated Sept.
President Trump has long wielded the word "Nafta" like an epithet, deriding the North American Free Trade Agreement as the worst trade deal in history. So when he renamed it the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement - or U.S.M.C.A. - this week, he may have short-circuited attempts to criticize the new deal.
No-siree, the chief gets paid the big bucks to step forward confidently and seize control... by ringing up the company's PR consultants and having them try to dodge the issue. Jeff Bezos, Amazon Inc.'s boss, is an expert at this.
USDA ANNOUNCES $102.7 MILLION INVESTMENT TO EXPAND MARKETS FOR SPECIALTY CROP Sep. 19, 2018 Source: USDA news release Under Secretary Greg Ibach today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing $102.7 million to increase opportunities for farmers, ranchers and other growers across the country through five grant programs. The funding supports a variety of locally-led projects intended to expand markets for local food promotion and specialty crops.
Gov. Bill Walker, left, former U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, center, and former state Sen. Mike Dunleavy, right, are running for governor. Walker and Begich criticized Dunleavy for not attending four candidate forums or speaking events.
It can be difficult to get politicians to open up and reveal a bit of their true selves because staying on message is the real sport of campaigning. This time of year, each day seems to bring a deluge of panic and self-doubt from candidates concerned that their campaigns are on the verge of collapse if they fall short of yet another fundraising deadline.
Breitbart on Wednesday published leaked video of a town-hall-style meeting with employees shortly after the 2016 election, in which Google executives appeared dismayed at President Trump's win. Google co-founder and Alphabet President Sergey Brin described the results as "pretty upsetting," while Google Senior Vice President of Global Affairs Kent Walker described a global political environment of "tribalism."
The Tax Court of Canada has ruled that a trip to outer space by billionaire Quebec businessman Guy Laliberte in 2009 was a taxable benefit. At issue was a $41.8-million price tag for a trip the Cirque du Soleil's founder had been reimbursed for as a business expense.
After over 40 years of ownership, Revo Inc. is offering for sale the assets of Lake Aircraft, the only FAA-certified single-engine amphibious airplane produced in the world. The offering includes all of the intellectual property and equipment needed to manufacture the Lake Renegade, Seafury and Seawolf airplanes.
Aero-Terms are designed to be a daily reminder of the terms, names, acronyms and explanations of the unique language that populates the aviation world. Aerospace, sport aviation, fixed wing, helo, you name it... it's all fair game.
Global commerce, reliant on ever-increasing development, makes it all too easy to pick a product off the shelf, take a quick glance, bring it up to the counter without a second thought. The many facets of production are often ignored by the consumer, leaving opportunities for manufacturers to commit harmful actions against the environment with minimal public outcry.
Farmers who supply crops to local exporters can expect a greater level of scrutiny due to the implementation of more stringent regulations by foreign governments aimed at protecting their consumers. With the introduction of the Food Safety Modernisation Act by the Barack Obama administration in 2011 and the establishment of a regional office by the US Food and Drug Administration , local manufacturers say that they are increasingly being required to provide more technical details about their products.