NEW YORK, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 12 on the consumer price index in New York-Newark-Jersey City for October 2020: Prices in the New York-Newark-Jersey City area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), decreased 0.2 percent in October, following a 0.4-percent increase in September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.   more

UPTON, New York, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: The American Physical Society (APS) has selected physicist Ivan Bozovic of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory as a co-recipient of the 2021 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials. Established in 1997 and endowed by IBM and the APS Division of Materials Physics, this prize recognizes outstanding achievement in the science and applicati  more

UPTON, New York, Nov. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: Three-dimensional (3-D) nanostructured materials--those with complex shapes at a size scale of billionths of a meter--that can conduct electricity without resistance could be used in a range of quantum devices. For example, such 3-D superconducting nanostructures could find application in signal amplifiers to enhance the speed and accuracy of quantum computers and ultras  more

UPTON, New York, Nov. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University (SBU), the Materials Project at DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the University of California, Berkeley, and European collaborators have developed a new way to decipher the atomic-level structure of materials based on data gleaned from gro  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release on Nov. 9: U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced today 15 tentative selections for new reimbursable services agreements that will promote cross-border trade and facilitate essential travel to the United States. These public-private partnerships will allow approved private sector and state and local government entities to reimburse CBP for expanded services fo  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 -- The U.S. Court of International Trade issued the following slip opinion (Court No. 20-00108): HYUNDAI ELECTRIC & ENERGY SYSTEMS CO., LTD., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant, and ABB ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE INC. AND SPX TRANSFORMER SOLUTIONS, INC., Defendant-Intervenors. Before: Mark A. Barnett, Judge OPINION AND ORDER [Granting Defendant's request to remand the U.S. Department of Commerce's final results in the sixth administrative review of the antidumping duty order  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Court of International Trade issued the following slip opinion (Court No. 20-00068): INTERCONTINENTAL CHEMICALS, LLC, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant. Before: Timothy M. Reif, Judge OPINION [Granting defendant's motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.] Matthew K. Nakachi, Junker & Nakachi, of San Francisco, CA for plaintiff. Kelly Ann Krystyniak, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, of Washington  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 11 -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, a district bank in the Federal Home Loan Bank System, issued the following news release on Nov. 10: The Federal Home Loan Bank of New York ("FHLBNY") announced today the results of the 2020 election for five positions on the FHLBNY's Board of Directors whose terms will each commence on January 1, 2021. All the terms will run for four years, expiring on December 31, 2024. The specific results of the election, which took place on Novem  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued the following news release on Nov. 12: The Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury did not intervene in foreign exchange markets during the July - September 2020 quarter, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said today in its quarterly report to the U.S. Congress. The U.S. dollar, as measured by the Federal Reserve Board's broad trade-weighted dollar index, depreciated 2.9 percent in the third quarter of 2020. The depreciation was driv  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 -- 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 October 2020 Survey of Consumer Expectations, which shows a decline in income and spending growth expectations. Changes in labor market expectations were mixed showing declines in both average job loss and job finding expectations. Median inflation expectations declined at the short-term horizon, while remaining unchanged   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces its eleventh settlement of an enforcement action in its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative. OCR announced this initiative as an enforcement priority in 2019 to support individuals' right to timely access to their health records at a reasonable cost under the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Dr. Rajendra  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Nov. 10 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Seth D. DuCharme, issued the following news release on Nov. 9: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Douglas Roth, the former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Aceto Corporation (Aceto), a pharmaceutical company based in Port Washington, New York, pleaded guilty to securities fraud for insider trading. Roth obtained material non-public information about Aceto's financial condition w  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Nov. 10 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Seth D. DuCharme, issued the following news release on Nov. 9: Dr. Dominick Piacente, a New York family physician, has agreed to pay the United States $150,000 to resolve civil allegations that he paid kickbacks and caused false claims to be submitted to Medicare in connection with care that he purportedly provided to residents of adult homes. Seth D. DuCharme, Acting United States Attorney for the E  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 11 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued the following remarks on Nov. 10 by Executive Vice President Kevin Stiroh at the 2020 Climate Risk Symposium, Global Association of Risk Professionals: * * * Good morning and thank you for the opportunity to participate in GARP's 2020 Climate Risk Symposium. As shown by the strong turnout today, attention on climate-related financial risks is clearly growing within finance, both for the private sector and the public sector. Toda  more

SYRACUSE, New York, Nov. 11 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Antoinette T. Bacon, issued the following news release on Nov. 9: Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon announced today that the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York has a new Law Enforcement Coordinator, Dennis Murphy. Mr. Murphy, who has a Masters of Science, Criminal Justice, has lengthy and broad law enforcement experience. Since March 2016, he has in  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Nov. 12: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it has implemented the EPA Lean Management System (ELMS) to 83% of the agency across the United States. The program has enjoyed success in EPA's Region 2 office, covering New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and eight federally recognized Indian Nations. "Region 2 has embraced the ELMS program as a way t  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, issued the following news release on Nov. 12: A Michigan man today admitted his role in a large-scale conspiracy to commit bank fraud in several states, including New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Michigan, over the course of two years, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today. Rana Sharif, 36, of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, pleaded guilty by videoconference before   more

ROCHESTER, New York, Nov. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration issued the following news release: The Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Greater Rochester International Airport is now utilizing new state-of-the-art technology that confirms the validity of a traveler's identification (ID) and confirms their flight information in near real time. "The technology we've now installed at the Rochester checkpoint enhances detection   more

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has entered into an Early Resolution Conciliation Agreement with JP Morgan Chase & Co., resolving allegations that the financial institution engaged in systemic compensation discrimination against female employees in certain professional positions, and establishes enhanced future compliance commitments. The parties have submit  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Nov. 10 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached a settlement with Quest USA Corp. for violations of federal pesticide law. The company, based in New York, illegally imported alcohol wipes that were not registered with the EPA through the Port of Long Beach. As the product was not EPA-registered, neither its public health claims or potential effects on human health and environmen  more