To: Frederick Testa, FSW, OCSE, Hall of Records
From: David H. Weiner, President, CWA Local 1081
Date: May 12, 2008
Re: 162nd CWA Local 1081 E-mail Trivia Contest Winner
Congratulations, you are last week's CWA Local 1081 Trivia Contest winner. Please contact CWA Local 1081 Secretary Treasurer Vera Winns at (973) 623-1081, or preferably by E-mail at vwinns@oel.state.nj.us, to collect your $50.00 prize. You were the first to correctly answer all of the following questions:
State officials say they will soon ask Congress for more power to regulate the marketing of what type of private insurance plans to older Americans because they are still receiving complaints of high-pressure sales tactics that have led some beneficiaries to sign up for unsuitable policies.
Answer: Medicare.
Federal agencies are intensifying a criminal investigation of which industry and focusing on whether some lenders turned a blind eye to inflated income figures provided by borrowers.
Answer: Mortgage.
For years, City Councilwoman Sandy Annabi of Yonkers was among the most vigorous critics of an enormous $600 million development proposal that called for 1,000 housing units, shops and a movie multiplex in the cliffs here over Sprain Lake. Now, however, federal prosecutors are investigating the development deal and leaning toward indicting Ms. Annabi, a 37-year-old Democrat, on corruption charges or other misconduct, according to a person involved in the investigation. Why?
Answer: She provided the crucial fifth vote on the seven-member Council that the courts made clear the deal needed to proceed.
On May 5, 1961, which astronaut became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.?
Answer: Alan B. Shepard, Jr.