NEW YORK, June 13 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued the following report on the average energy prices in New York-Newark-Jersey City for May 2020: Gasoline prices averaged $2.151 per gallon in the New York-Newark-Jersey City area in May 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Chief Regional Economist Martin Kohli noted that gasoline prices were down 84.6 cents from last May, and that this was the low  more

NEW YORK, June 11 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued the following report on the consumer price index in New York-Newark-Jersey City for May 2020: Prices in the New York-Newark-Jersey City area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), rose 0.5 percent in May, after declining 0.5 percent in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Chief Regional Economist Martin Kohli a  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following article from the Economics Daily: In April, 377 metropolitan areas had over-the-year decreases in nonfarm payroll employment and 12 were essentially unchanged. The largest over-the-year percentage losses in employment occurred in Atlantic City-Hammonton, New Jersey (-32.9 percent), Norwich-New London-Westerly, Connecticut-Rhode Island (-27.4 percent), and Barnstable Town, Massachusetts (-25.0 p  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management issued the following news: Middlesex Borough, New Jersey, is working toward acquiring a Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) site for its Department of Public Works, supporting a $40 million adjacent development and a larger community redevelopment zone. To help make the borough's plan a reality, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM) has accelerated the process of transferr  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 2:15-cv-06076; D.N.J. filed August 10, 2015): The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has obtained court approval of settlements with eight defendants charged in connection with an international scheme to trade on hacked news releases. In August 2015, the Commission filed a civil action and then an amended complaint in New Jersey federal court charging the eight settling   more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, June 12 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, issued the following news release on June 11: The former owner of a construction company today admitted his role in defrauding a retirement plan set up by the company, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Joshua Ferrell, 34, of Chatsworth, New Jersey, the former owner of Indian Mills Contracting Services Inc. (Indian Mills), pleaded guilty plea by videoconference before U.S. District Judge Jos  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, June 12 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, issued the following news release on June 11: A Passaic County, New Jersey, man who founded and owned a business consulting firm admitted today to orchestrating a multimillion-dollar bank fraud and securities fraud scheme operated through that firm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Edward Espinal, 44, of Wayne, New Jersey, the chief executive officer of Cash Flow Partners LLC (Cash Flow) p  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, June 10 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, issued the following news release: Three people will begin their service as part of the selection committee for the Department of Justice's Project Safe Neighborhoods grants program, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. "I'm pleased that these three distinguished public servants have agreed to serve as members of an external panel that will review applications for grants under the Project Safe  more

MIDDLETOWN, New Jersey, June 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release: The demolition of buildings 119 and 120 located within the Fort Hancock and Sandy Hook Proving Ground National Historic Landmark will begin on June 15. These historic buildings were flooded and extensively damaged during Hurricane Sandy. Buildings 119 and 120 were two of nearly one hundred temporary buildings constructed as part of the U.S. Army's 700 series of tempo  more

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, New Jersey, June 12 -- The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command issued the following news release: Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Lakehurst supplied more than 2,000 face shields to its military partners and the local community in Ocean County, New Jersey to help protect personnel from the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Approximately 1,900 face shields were provided to the Ocean County Office of Emergency Management. Face shields were also provide  more

PALISADES PARK, New Jersey, June 11 -- The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is proposing penalties against BB Frame LLC - operating as Frame Q and as Juan Quevedo (the owner and principal) - for exposing workers to multiple safety hazards at four Bergen County, New Jersey, worksites. OSHA conducted five investigations beginning in December 2019 of the Palisades Park, New Jersey, framin  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- The White House issued the following readout on June 10 of First Lady Melania Trump's call with Tammy Murphy, first lady of New Jersey: Today, First Lady Melania Trump and New Jersey First Lady Tammy Murphy held a call to discuss child welfare and well-being. The call follows their last interaction during a video-teleconference briefing with our Nation's governors in May. Carole Johnson, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Human Services, also participated in the  more