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...
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....
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...
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...
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 FCCE-Rate program and schools on a South Dakota reservation, the Department of Justice announced. According to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
A U.S. Senate committee on Monday heard testimony on whether the Universal Service Fund's so-called E-rate program for subsidizing Internet access by U.S. schools and libraries should be spared from stringent government- accounting requirements on a permanent or temporary basis, including an optional Government Accountability Office GAO...
Congress Scrutinizes 'Fraud, Waste & Abuse' The Universal Service Fund's scandal-ridden schools-and-libraries Internet access subsidy program known as "E-Rate" - currently handled by the third party Universal Service Administrative Co. USAC - clearly needs more hands-on control and internal process improvements by the Federal Communications Commission,...
More than one-third of nearly $15 billion raised to help connect public schools and libraries to the Internet has gone unspent, even as some cities go begging for cash, a new report says. The Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative arm, on Wednesday said the Federal Communications Commission has done...
The E-Rate program, which helps link schools and libraries to the Internet, has ended a four-month moratorium on new projects. According to a November 23 Associated Press AP story, more than $400 million in projects were delayed, and although the funds began flowing again, the Federal...
New Report Details Future School Plans, But What About Funding? The U.S. Department of Education DoE recently offered the nation its long-term visions and views on implementing the wider use of computers, software and networking in the country's elementary, middle- and high-school classrooms, with suggestions on implementations and applications...
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER A key lawmaker Thursday called universal service "the 800-pound gorilla'' and said that last week's action by the Federal Communications Commission to raise the universal-service contribution factor above 10 percent amounted to "bait-and-switch.'' ...
Last month at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) "voiced her concern" that schools and libraries could lose important access to the FCC's E-Rate funds, designated for broadband and other telecom technology updates, due to new accounting rule changes governing the E-Rate program. Snowe co-authored the...
By Darla Martin Tucker, The Business Press, San Bernardino, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 18--A Corona computer networking firm is feeling the pinch from a federal moratorium on a funding program through which the 140-employee firm derives 60 percent of its...
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