NEW YORK, Aug. 7 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, issued the following news release on Aug. 6: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has entered into an agreement ("Remedial Order") with New York City and the New York City Department of Correction ("DOC") to address ongoing non-compliance with core provisions of a Court-ordered Consent Judgment entered in O  more

ROME, New York, Aug. 4 -- The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory issued the following news: The Air Force Research Laboratory's Information Directorate here is one of several U.S. Department of the Air Force and Department of Defense entities that are changing the way they approach building secure and resilient space systems by inviting the global security research community to hone their space domain hacking skills in an open and collaborative environment. On August 7-9, the Department of the  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued the following report on Aug. 3 on the changing compensation costs in the New York metropolitan area for June 2020: Total compensation costs for private industry workers increased 2.2 percent in the New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA metropolitan area for the year ended June 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Chief Regional Economist Martin Kohli  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following article from Economics Daily: August 9 is National Book Lovers Day. More than 6,300 privately owned book stores operated in more than 1,300 U.S. counties (including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) a year ago, in August 2019. Los Angeles County, California, had the most book stores in August 2019, with 195. New York County, New York (Manhattan Borough), had the  more

UPTON, New York, Aug. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $40M in funding over five years for a new research center aimed at developing hybrid photoelectrodes for converting sunlight into liquid fuels. Chemists from DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory will be key partners in this effort, dubbed the Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels (CHASE), which will   more

NEW YORK, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Court of International Trade issued the following slip opinion (Court No. 15-00033): DANZE, INC., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant. Before: Mark A. Barnett, Judge and the cases identified in the Annex attached hereto OPINION AND ORDER [Plaintiff's motions for test case designation and suspension are denied. The court adopts Plaintiff's proposal for consolidating certain cases and staying certain cases.] John M. Peterson and Patrick B. Klein, Neville Pete  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 5 -- The U.S. Court of International Trade issued the following slip opinion (Court No. 17-00246): CHANGZHOU TRINA SOLAR ENERGY CO., LTD., ET AL., and SOLARWORLD AMERICAS, INC., Plaintiffs, and Consolidated Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant, SOLARWORLD AMERICAS, INC., CHANGZHOU TRINA SOLAR ENERGY CO., LTD., and CHANGZHOU TRINA SOLAR ENERGY CO., LTD., Defendant-Intervenor and Consolidated Defendant-Intervenor. Before: Jane A. Restani, Judge OPINION [Commerce's Second Re  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 6 -- The U.S. Court of International Trade issued the following slip opinion (Court No. 19-00133): JSW STEEL (USA) INC., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant. Before: Claire R. Kelly, Judge Court No. 19-00133 OPINION AND ORDER [Remanding the U.S. Department of Commerce's denials of plaintiff's requests for exclusion of certain steel articles from Section 232 tariffs, ordering further explanation of the steps taken to complete the record and supplementation of the record as  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- The Federal Maritime Commission issued the following news release: Operations and cargo flow at the Port of New York and New Jersey have been minimally impacted by COVID-19 and the leadership at the bi-state organization has prioritized improving the container return process to further increase efficiencies and better serve shippers and truckers. Those are the two central observations highlighted by Commissioner Rebecca F. Dye in Phase Two of her review under Fact Finding  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 7 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued the following news release on Aug. 6: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Center for Microeconomic Data today issued its Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, which shows that total household debt decreased by $34 billion (0.2%) to $14.27 trillion in second quarter of 2020. This marks the first decline since the second quarter of 2014 and is the largest decline since the second quarter of 2013. The Report is based on da  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division issued the following news release on Aug. 7: A federal court in the Southern District of New York today terminated the Paramount Consent Decrees, which for over seventy years have regulated how certain movie studios distribute films to movie theatres. The review and termination of these Decrees were part of the Department of Justice's review of legacy antitrust judgments that dated back to the 1890's and has resulted in t  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 6 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued the following remarks on Aug. 5 by Executive Vice President Daleep Singh to the Official Sector Service Providers (OSSP)-Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM)-South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) Research and Training Centre Forum on Central Bank Foreign Currency Operations: It's an honor to be invited to speak to you./1 Let me begin by offering my best wishes to you and your loved ones in these challenging times. Since its inception in   more

NEW YORK, Aug. 7 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, issued the following news release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL AESTHETIC P.C. d/b/a ADVANCED COSMETIC SURGERY OF NEW YORK ("ADVANCED COSMETIC"), and EMMANUEL O. ASARE, M.D. ("ASARE"), a plastic surgery practice and surgeon in that practice, were found by federal district judge Analisa Torres, after a b  more

BINGHAMTON, New York, Aug. 6 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Grant C. Jaquith, issued the following news release on Aug. 5: TammyLynn Sterling Barthelmess, age 62, of Little Falls, New York, was sentenced today to serve 24 months (two years) in federal prison for her guilty pleas to Conspiracy to Steal Government Funds and three Counts of Bank Fraud, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Special Agent in Charge John Grasso-Social Security Administration-  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Aug. 6 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Seth D. DuCharme, issued the following news release on Aug. 5: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Yakov Moroz, the president of Great Movers Inc. and its successor company New City Movers, and company employee Tal Ohana with wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy by misrepresenting estimated charges for moving services and then requiring customers to pay addition  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 5 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued the following news release on Aug. 4: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today released a brief discussing the effects of COVID-19 on Black communities and Black-owned businesses in particular. The brief looks at why Black-owned firms have been almost twice as likely to shutter as firms overall during the pandemic. The study draws on epidemiological data on COVID-19 cases, Census data on business locations, data on the geographi  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- The National Labor Relations Board issued the following decision (Case No. 02-RC-262518) by Region 2 Regional Director John J. Walsh, Jr.: LAZ PARKING NEW YORK NEW JERSEY LLC Employer And Case GARAGE EMPLOYEES UNION LOCAL NO. 272 Petitioner DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION Laz Parking New York New Jersey, LLC, (the Employer) is engaged in providing cleaning, landscaping, and maintenance services at parking facilities. Most locations are run by the Metropolitan Transit   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release on Aug. 4: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced that the Honorable Vernon S. Broderick of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent order resolving CFTC charges against the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and former employees William Byrnes and Christopher Curtin for the employees' repeated disclosure of material non-public i  more

KINGS POINT, New York, Aug. 6 -- The Maritime Administration's U.S. Merchant Marine Academy issued the following news release on Aug. 5: Today, the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) conducted the annual Academic Convocation to celebrate the beginning the 2020-2021 Academic Year. The ceremony, hosted by Rear Admiral John Ballard, Ph.D., Academic Dean and Provost, was conducted via livestream with the faculty, staff, and Regiment of Midshipmen in attendance. The word convocation come  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- The White House issued the following remarks by Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany in a news briefing on Aug. 4: MS. MCENANY: Hello. Sorry to keep you all waiting. Before I begin, it is day 42 of the botched New York City primary, where still there is no election results in one congressional race. This, as the New York Times notes, is due to, quote, "the deluge of 400,000 mail-in ballots," previewing the, quote, "challenges facing the nation as it looks towards conducting th  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- The White House issued the following news release: WITHDRAWALS SENT TO THE SENATE: Michael P. O'Rielly, of New York, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission for a term of five years from July 1, 2019. (Reappointment), which was sent to the Senate on March 18, 2020. Anthony J. Tata, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, vice John C. Rood, resigned, which was sent to the Senate on June 11, 2020.  more