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Georgian Art Lighting Designs, Inc. of Lawrenceville, Ga., and its owner have been sued by the U. S. Department of Labor for failing to deposit $48,988 of employee contributions into the company’s 401(k) plans and medical plan accounts.

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The Secretary of Labor’s Advisory Committee on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans will hold meetings for its three working groups on Oct. 5 and 6. All sessions will be held in Room N3437 A-B at the Department of Labor’s Frances Perkins Building at 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC.

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The U. S. Department of Labor’s ERISA Section 3(40) Negotiated Rulemaking Advisory Committee will hold public meetings on October 13 and 14 to continue its discussion of the process and criteria to be used in developing a proposed rule on whether an employee benefit plan is established or maintained under a collective bargaining agreement.

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The U.S. Department of Labor reached a settlement in three related lawsuits with trustees of three pension fund plans, based in Utica and Massena, which result in $3 million being repaid to the plans.

The defendants in the three separate lawsuits, which were filed concurrently June 12, 1998, in the Federal District Court in Binghamton, and the amounts they agreed to pay the pension plans are:

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William David Dickinson of Waterport, New York, has agreed to plead guilty to a one count criminal information regarding the misuse of employee pension funds in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), which is administered by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Marine Midland Bank, based in Buffalo, New York, has been sued by the U.S. Department of Labor to recover losses to a North Tonawanda, New York, employee stock ownership plan for which the bank had served as Trustee.

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The U.S. Department of Labor's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) has selected National Computer Systems, Inc. of Iowa City, Iowa, to complete the development of its new Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) Filing Acceptance System, known as EFAST.

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The U. S. Department of Labor has sued the trustees, an accountant and a “shell investment entity” for imprudently investing nearly all of the retirement plan assets of Montgomery Academy, located in Gladstone, N.J., in unsecured investments.

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Buckeye Technical Services, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio, and trustees of its 401(k) plan have been ordered to repay $34,944.63 and the trustees have agreed to waive any rights to benefits from the plan as part of a consent order and judgment obtained today by the U. S. Department of Labor.

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As the result of a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No. 99, based in Cranston, Rhode Island, and members of the Board of Trustees of the union’s Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee Trust have agreed to restore a total of $246,700.66 to the trust (which is considered to be an employee benefit plan under federal law).

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The U.S. Labor Department today filed a lawsuit against a bankrupt Nashville, Tenn.- based firm, its affiliate and 401(k) plan official for failing to forward employee contributions to the plan.

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The U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against a Bloomfield Hills, Mich., company and its 401(k) plan trustee for failing to forward employee contributions to the plan.

Defendants are Mica Resources Limited, its wholly-owned subsidiary Mica Metals, Inc. and president of both companies William Zebedee. Zebedee also served as trustee to the 401(k) plan.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Bette Briggs has been named regional director of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration in San Francisco, Calif.

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The U.S. Department of Labor's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration today published two proposed rules under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) implementing changes in ERISA's summary plan description requirements made by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (TRA '97).

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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. The deadline for receipt of nominations is Oct. 1.

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A federal jury in Watertown, New York, has reached a guilty verdict in the eight-day trial of a Canadian charged with embezzling from the pension plan of a Massena, New York, nursing home.

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Baton Rouge-based Faith Home Health Care Services, Inc. officials were indicted by a federal grand jury in the Middle District of Louisiana for fraud involving Medicare reimbursements to the company’s pension plan.

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The U. S. Department of Labor’s ERISA Section 3(40) Negotiated Rulemaking Advisory Committee will hold public meetings on August 25 and 26 to continue discussions to develop a proposed rule that would lay out a process and criteria for determining whether an employee benefit plan is established or maintained under a collective bargaining agreement.