NEW YORK, Oct. 16 -- 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 the successful conclusion of the United States' long-running investigation into Westchester County Jail (the "Jail") under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"). After conducting an investigation and issuing a Findings Letter in January 2016,  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 16 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, issued the following news release on Oct. 15: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has settled two related federal Fair Housing Act ("FHA") lawsuits against ATLANTIC DEVELOPMENT GROUP, LLC ("ATLANTIC"). Under the settlement, ATLANTIC has agreed to make retrofits at 71 rental buildings in the Bronx, Manhatt  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 13 on the consumer price index in New York-Newark-Jersey City for September 2020: Prices in the New York-Newark-Jersey City area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), rose 0.4 percent in September, after ticking down 0.1 percent in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Chief  more

UPTON, New York, Oct. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: Dorota Grabowska, a senior fellow in the department of theoretical physics at CERN, Europe's particle physics laboratory, has been named a recipient of the Leona Woods Distinguished Postdoctoral Lectureship Award. The award was established by the physics department at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in honor of renowned physicist Leona Wood  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- The U.S. Census Bureau issued the following tip sheet: The U.S. Census Bureau updated the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) statistics with the release of earnings tabulations for four more higher education systems: the City University of New York (CUNY), the State University of New York (SUNY), Pennsylvania State University, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The addition of these new higher education systems increases the number of institutions r  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 17 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued the following news release on Oct. 16: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today announced that Charles Phillips, chairman of Infor, Inc., has stepped down from its Board of Directors effective today. Mr. Phillips joined the Board in 2017 as a Class B director. His three-year term was set to expire on December 31, 2020. Class B directors are elected by the member banks to represent the public and may not be affiliated with bank  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. Court of International Trade issued the following slip opinion and order (Court No. 18-00083): NEXTEEL CO., LTD., Plaintiff, and SEAH STEEL CORPORATION, Consolidated Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant, and UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, ET AL., Defendant-Intervenors. Before: Jennifer Choe-Groves, Judge OPINION AND ORDER [Sustaining the U.S. Department of Commerce's remand redetermination following the 2015- 2016 administrative review of the antidumping d  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. Court of International Trade issued the following slip opinion and order (Court No. 18-00199): UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE VANDEWATER INTERNATIONAL, INC., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant, and ISLAND INDUSTRIES, Defendant-Intervenor. Before: Leo M. Gordon, Judge OPINION and ORDER [Remanding Final Scope Ruling to Commerce to conduct (k)(2) analysis.] Dated: October 16, 2020 Richard Preston Ferrin, Dorothy Alicia Hickok, and Douglas John He  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 14 -- The U.S. Court of International Trade issued the following slip opinion (Court No. 19-00111): BOURGAULT INDUSTRIES, LTD., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant. Before: Richard K. Eaton, Judge OPINION [United States Department of Commerce's final scope ruling sustained.] Dated: George W. Thompson, Thompson & Associates, PLLC, of Washington, DC, argued for Plaintiff. Kelly A. Krystyniak, Trial Counsel, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, U.S. Department of  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 16 -- The U.S. Court of International Trade issued the following slip opinion (Court No. 19-00192): INVENERGY RENEWABLES LLC, Plaintiff, and SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION, CLEARWAY ENERGY GROUP LLC, EDF RENEWABLES, INC. and AES DISTRIBUTED ENERGY, INC., Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE, UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT E. LIGHTHIZER, U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, and ACTING COMMISSIONER OF   more

NEW YORK, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following news release: The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has ordered the trustees of four benefit plans for United Derrickmen & Riggers Association, Local Union 197, in Long Island City, New York, to restore $475,000 to the plans, pay a $95,000 penalty to the U.S. Department of Labor and take other corrective actions to resolve violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The action fo  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 16 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: To date, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 has issued 29 Advisory Letter and 8 Notices of Warning to entities operating in New York and New Jersey to address pesticide products and devices that were found to be marketed with unsubstantiated claims of efficacy against the novel coronavirus (the cause of COVID-19) and other pathogens. These advisory letters were sent to a variety of bu  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 14 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued the following news release: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Center for Microeconomic Data released the September 2020 Survey of Consumer Expectations, which shows improvements in labor market and spending expectations, as well as less pessimistic views about households' expected financial situation. Home price growth expectations returned to their pre-COVID-19 levels, and debt delinquency expectations remained low. In contr  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 14 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued the following statement announcing changes to the operating polices for conducting open market operations: The New York Fed undertakes certain small value open market transactions from time to time for the purpose of testing operational readiness to implement existing and potential policy directives from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The FOMC authorizes the New York Fed's Open Market Trading Desk (the Desk) to conduct  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Oct. 15 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Seth D. DuCharme, issued the following news release on Oct. 14: Seth D. DuCharme, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY), announced today strategies that are being implemented, in coordination with federal and local law enforcement partners, to address the significant spike in gun-related violence in the district. The strategies represent an expansion of the Office's   more

BROOKLYN, New York, Oct. 15 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Seth D. DuCharme, issued the following news release on Oct. 14: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, J&F Investimentos SA (J&F), a global conglomerate holding company based in Brazil and primarily involved in the meat and agriculture businesses, pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and agreed to pay a criminal fine of more than $256 million. The charg  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 15 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued the following remarks via videoconference on Oct. 14 by Executive Vice President Kevin Stiroh to the panel "regulatory and policy landscape for sustainable finance," 2020 IIF Annual Membership Meeting: * * * Thank you for the invitation to participate in the 2020 IIF Annual Membership Meeting. I am pleased to share my perspective regarding the current regulatory and policy initiatives in the area of sustainable finance. My remark  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 16 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued the following news release on Oct. 15: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today announced that one of its sponsored groups, the Education and Industry Forum on Financial Services Culture (EIF), is releasing a set of case studies designed to facilitate the teaching of ethical norms to those in or entering the financial services industry. Developed jointly by academics and industry members of the EIF, the case studies are written  more