BUSINESS NOTES : CONSTRUCTION FIRM CHARGED IN SCHEME.Three brothers who own a South Central construction firm were arraigned Wednesday on felony insurance fraud charges that prosecutors say enabled them to obtain an illegal competitive advantage to win government contracts, State Compensation Insurance Fund The State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF or State Fund) is a workers' compensation insurer that is operated as a public enterprise created by the U.S. state of California. officials said. Unimax Construction owners Rafer, Kevin and Jonathan Quarles were charged by Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Deputy District Attorney Barry Gale with one count of workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. fraud, three counts of state unemployment insurance fraud and two counts of grand theft, authorities said. If convicted, the brothers each face a maximum of seven years in prison. A message left at Unimax's office Wednesday afternoon was not returned. - Daily News Fox nearing sellout of Super Bowl ads NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of - Fox is approaching a sellout of advertising time during next month's Super Bowl telecast despite raising the price for a half-minute slot by 23 percent over a year ago. Network officials said Wednesday that four 30-second commercial spots remained unsold out of an inventory of 58 ad slots on the Super Bowl telecast set for Jan. 31 in Miami. Fox said four or five advertisers were discussing buying the slots, which cost $1.6 million each. - Associated Press FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. set to tighten rules on `slamming' WASHINGTON - Swamped with complaints, the government is expected to adopt tougher rules today to reduce illegal ``slamming,'' in which telephone companies switch customers' long-distance service without their consent. The biggest change expected from the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. : Exempting slamming victims from paying any long-distance phone charges to the offending company for a period of time, probably 30 days, according to telecommunications and government sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. Slamming victims don't have that flexibility under current rules. - Associated Press |
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