| Oritani buys into Morris
Oritani Financial Corp. said Wednesday that it has agreed to buy Greater Community Bancorp for $187 million in stock and cash, to nearly double its size and expand its reach into Morris County. The combined institution, to be called Oritani Community Bank, will have $2.3 billion in assets and 36 branches in Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Morris. .
The Queen's speech: bill by bill
Apprenticeships (draft) bill
This bill, which will apply only in England, aims to give 16-to-18-year-olds an entitlement to an apprenticeship. It is designed to reduce the number of young people not in education, training or employment. Channel Tunnel rail link bill
This will clarify the legal and regulatory position of the Channel Tunnel rail link, ahead of a restructuring of the company that built the link. Child maintenance and other payments bill
This will replace the Child Support Agency with a Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission for England, Scotland and Wales. The new body will be able force absent parents to pay for their children. It will also set up a scheme to pay a lump sum to people suffering from the asbestos-related disease mesothelioma, who are not yet eligible for compensation.
What's at Issue
Among the disputed issues surrounding Brian Mulroney's relationship with Karlheinz Schreiber, there are probably five key questions the public inquiry will try to answer: 1 Did Mulroney, as prime minister, help Schreiber in his business dealings and receive kickbacks as a result? Schreiber is alleged to have received commissions from European companies doing business in Canada. The principal accusation in the Airbus affair is that he paid some of that money to Mulroney and Progressive Conservative lobbyist Frank Moores, for influencing the 1988 sale of Airbus jets to Air Canada. Mulroney denies any wrongdoing, and has been exonerated by an RCMP investigation. Yet Mulroney admits accepting three, separate, $100,000 cash payments from Schreiber soon after the former prime minister left office.
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