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- Former Education Consultant Sentenced to 7 1/2 Years in Prison for Fraud and Bid Rigging in the Federal E-Rate Program
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2007 WASHINGTON, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A former education consultant from California was sentenced to serve 7 1/2 years in prison for rigging bids and defrauding the E-Rate program, the Department of Justice announced. Judy N....
- Research articles 2008-03-19
- Former Telecom Owner Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Scheme to Defraud Federal E-Rate Program
- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2007, or TDD, +1-202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- The former president and owner of ATE Tel Solutions Inc., which does business as ATE Telecom Solutions Inc. ATE Tel, was sentenced to serve three years in prison following...
- Research articles 2007-11-20
- Former Telecom Owner Convicted for Scheme to Defraud Federal E-Rate Program
- To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORSContact: The U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007, or TDD +1-202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal jury in McAllen, Texas, convicted the former president and owner of ATE Tel Solutions Inc., which does business as ATE Telecom Solutions Inc. ATE Tel, on seven of nine counts...
- Research articles 2007-02-09
- Lawmakers Ask FCC To Maneuver Funds To Safeguard USF
- Some 31 members of the House of Representatives from both political parties have asked the Federal Communications Commission FCC to manipulate available rollover universal service fund USF money to keep the entire subsidy program viable -- especially the so-called E-Rate segment for U.S. schools and libraries....
- Research articles 2006-12-11
- WCB Cuts Some Slack For Universal Service E-Rate Recipients
- The Federal Communications Commission FCC in recent weeks has been cutting school and libraries districts that receive universal service fund USF E-Rate subsidies some slack regarding some procedural and bureaucratic transgressions. One of its bureaus has been authorizing the consideration of monetary outlays that may have...
- Research articles 2006-09-25
- State Of Indiana & Its Intelenet Commission Agree To Pay U.S. Over $8.2M to Settle False Claims Involving E-Rate Program
- WASHINGTON, June 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The state of Indiana and the Intelenet Commission, an entity controlled by the state of Indiana, have agreed to pay the United States nearly $8.3 million as a civil settlement relating to allegations of making false claims and false statements in connection with the...
- Research articles 2006-06-27
- Houston Company Charged in Scheme to Defraud E-Rate Program in South Dakota; Company Sentenced to Pay $4.6M Fine & Restitution
- WASHINGTON, April 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- NextiraOne LLC, a Houston- based networking company, was charged and sentenced today to pay a $4.6 million criminal fine and restitution for defrauding the Federal Communications Commission's FCC E-Rate program and schools on a South Dakota reservation, the Department of Justice announced. According to...
- Research articles 2006-04-20
- 'Dear Senator ...': to save the future of technology in schools, members of Congress need to hear your success stories--from you.(policy & advocacy)
- I WALKED INTO the senator's outer office a few minutes late, having gotten lost in the underground tunnel that connects the two Senate office buildings near the Capitol in Washington, DC. I checked in with the receptionist, who called the staffer I was supposed to meet. In...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- Calif. Co. agrees to E-rate fraud plea; promises to pay $1.7m for actions.
- A California company has agreed to plead guilty and pay $1.7 million in criminal fines and restitution for its part in defrauding the E-rate program, which provides schools and libraries with $2.25 billion annually in discounts on telecommunications services, internal connections and Internet access. ...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- A conference call to arms: the upcoming CoSN gathering arrives at a critical time for educators, who in the face of dwindling funds must continue their push for more technology in schools.(policy & advocacy )(Consortium for School Networking)
- IT COMES AS no surprise that, according to Webster's dictionary, the words policy and politics derive from the Greek word for citizen politicos, since it was Classical Greece that invented citizen politics. A unique opportunity to act like a Classical Greek citizen is coming March 5...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- Budget, funding to be key factors for ed tech community in 2006.(Outlook 2006)
- Funding will be the primary issue for education technology proponents in 2006, say experts. "The two super issues for the ed tech community are the funding of the No Child Left Behind Act and the E-rate," said Keith Krueger, executive director of the Consortium...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Uncovering E-Rate mismanagement: new subcommittee report details the waste, fraud, and abuse of the E-Rate program over a 2 1/2-year investigation.
- A SUBCOMMITTEE of the Committee on Energy and Commerce last month released the report, Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Concerns with the E-Rate Program (full report at www.thejournal.com/Erate_Report_Oct05.p df), on the heels of more than 2 1/2 years of investigation into the E-Rate program. The report's findings...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- Should schools pay more for E-rate? Congressional investigators think so.
- A Congressional report is calling for major reforms in the E-rate program, including a suggestion that schools get smaller E-rate discounts, effectively raising technology costs for schools. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation released a scathing, 52-page report...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- Congressional Report Presses USF E-Rate Reforms
- While its conclusions about "waste, fraud and abuse" in the Universal Service Fund's current education rate (E-rate) mechanism for funding school and library Internet access certainly can't surprise anyone, last week's report from the House of Representatives on management problems and possible fixes will likely weigh...
- Research articles 2005-10-24
- School E-Rate Net program blasted
- A $2.3 billion-a-year program to fund Internet access in schools and libraries is riddled with waste, fraud and abuse, according to a report issued Tuesday by lawmakers who vowed to seek reforms. Among other things, the so-called E-Rate program is poorly managed by the Federal Communications Commission and has...
- Research articles 2005-10-19
- FCC Orders $211M USF Hurricane Plan
- The Federal Communications Commission late Friday issued its formal order to implement a $211 million emergency services plan for supporting the Universal Service Fund USF program under adverse circumstances in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina within the Gulf Coast states of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi (TPR,...
- Research articles 2005-10-17
- House Questions FCC/USAC E-Rate Hurricane Capabilities
- Although its members wanted and welcomed Federal Communications Commission initiatives to enhance the application of universal service fund USF programs in the Gulf Coast region ravaged by two recent hurricanes, a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee last week raised many questions about the federal regulator's ability...
- Research articles 2005-10-10
- FCC seeks comments to help improve operation of the universal service fund.
- The Federal Communications Commission is launching a "broad inquiry" into the operation of the Universal Service Fund, which is responsible for the federal E-rate program. The inquiry comes a little less than a year after the FCC changed rules to curb waste, fraud and...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Industry coalition seeks to exempt universal service funding from ADA.(News)
- A large coalition of government, public interest and telecom industry groups sent a letter to Capitol Hill urging the Senate Commerce Committee to pass a bill that would permanently exempt the universal-service fund from the Anti-Deficiency Act. More than 30 organizations, including Alcatel, Western Wireless Corp....
- Research articles 2005-05-09
- Justice department prosecutes eleven for bid rigging, defrauding program.
- The Department of Justice has charged six companies and five people for colluding to defraud the E-rate program. The E-rate program provides discounts to schools and libraries on telecommunications service, Internet access and internal connections. Companies compete to offer services for schools, who are...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
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