NIAGARA FALLS AIR RESERVE STATION, New York, Dec. 15 -- The U.S. Air Force Reserve Command issued the following news: Dozens of Airmen from the 914th Operations and Maintenance Groups along with four KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft returned home to Niagara on December 12 and 13, following a four month deployment to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, assigned to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing. The return marked the completion of the first deployment for the 914th Air Refueling Wing in the KC-135 since con  more

ALBANY, New York, Dec. 15 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Antoinette T. Bacon, issued the following news release on Dec. 14: Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon announced today that her office has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Special Inspector General Brian D. Miller of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery (SIGPR), regarding the investigation and prosecution of fraud relating to CARES Act fund  more

UPTON, New York, Dec. 12 (TNSRes) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment collaboration - which made a precise measurement of an important neutrino property eight years ago, setting the stage for a new round of experiments and discoveries about these hard-to-study particles - has finished taking data. Though the experiment is formally shutting down, the collaboration will continue to analyze it  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release on Dec. 14: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent order against defendants TFS-ICAP LLC and TFS-ICAP Ltd., interdealer brokers located in New York and London, requiring them to pay a $7 million civil monetary penalty for representing to clients bids and offers that had not been made, and f  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Dec. 19 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Seth D. DuCharme, issued the following news release on Dec. 18: A complaint and arrest warrant were unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Xinjiang Jin, also known as "Julien Jin," with conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and unlawful conspiracy to transfer a means of identification. Jin, an employee of a U.S.-based telecommunications company (Company-1) who was based in the People  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 19 -- The U.S. Court of International Trade issued the following slip opinion (Court No. 19-00158): BIO-LAB, INC., CLEARON CORP., and OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORP., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant, and JUANCHENG KANGTAI CHEMICAL CO., LTD. and HEZE HUAYI CHEMICAL CO., LTD., Defendant-Intervenors. Before: Richard K. Eaton, Judge OPINION [United States Department of Commerce's Final Results are sustained.] James R. Cannon, Jr. and Ulrika K. Swanson, Cassidy Levy Kent (USA) L  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- The Federal Communications Commission issued the following news release on Dec. 18: The Federal Communications Commission today announced that its Media Bureau has denied a permanent waiver request of the newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership rule sought by Fox Corp regarding the continued common ownership of WWOR-TV, Secaucus, New Jersey and the New York Post. Instead, the Bureau has granted a temporary waiver to preserve the status quo while the fate of the newspaper/broa  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 17 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued the following statement announcing changes to the operating polices for conducting open market operations: Effective December 17, 2020, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) directed the Open Market Trading Desk (the Desk) at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to continue to increase the System Open Market Account (SOMA) holdings of Treasury securities by $80 billion per month and of agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) by  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 15 -- 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 November 2020 Survey of Consumer Expectations, which shows that despite flat income and earnings growth expectations, households' year-ahead spending growth expectations rose sharply in November to 3.7%, the highest level recorded in more than 4 years. Labor expectations were mixed with deteriorating expectations about the  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, issued the following news release on Dec. 16: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the Police Department   more

BUFFALO, New York, Dec. 19 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, James P. Kennedy Jr., issued the following news release on Dec. 18: U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that the Algoma Central Corporation, headquartered in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder, Jr. to a negligent violation of the Clean Water Act and will face a significant fine. "The Great Lakes represent one of the most valuable r  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- The White House issued the following news release on Dec. 16: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key positions in his Administration: Andrew H. Giuliani, of New York, to be a Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Nicholas F. Luna, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Mitch Webber, of Maryland, to be a Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Counc  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- The White House issued the following news release on Dec. 14: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate the following individual to a key position in his Administration: Roy A. Bernardi, of New York, to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service. Roy A. Bernardi is currently a managing partner of The Bernardi Group, LLC, where he offers expertise, counsel and advice to various companies and organizations. Mr. Bernardi was most recently a S  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- The U.S. Agency for Global Media issued the following news release on Dec. 15: Several of the estimated 274 journalists imprisoned globally because of their work contribute to networks of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) announced today that China, which arrested a number of journalists for their coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, was the world's worst jailer for the second year in a row. "Our journalist  more

ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 16 -- U.S. Embassy in Greece issued following remarks on Dec. 15 by Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt at 22nd annual Capital Link Invest in Greece Forum: * * * Ambassador Papadopoulou, friends, it's a pleasure, really, for me to speak at another Capital Link Invest in Greece Forum and to see so many prominent folks from both sides of the Atlantic in this year's program. I'm only sorry not to be doing it in New York this year. I particularly want to thank Nico and the Capital Link  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The White House issued the following news release on Dec. 17: NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: Terrence M. Andrews, of California, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen years, vice Edward J. Damich, term expired. Romolo A. Bernardi, of New York, to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service for a term expiring December 8, 2023, vice Carolyn L. Gallagher, term expired. Daniel Z. Epstein, of Texas, to be Chairman of the Ad  more