WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 -- The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts issued the following news: James C. Duff has announced he will retire as the director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on Jan. 31. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., has appointed Chief Judge Roslynn R. Mauskopf, of the Eastern District of New York, as his successor, effective Feb. 1. She will be the 11th director since the AO was established in 1939 and the first woman to hold the position. Duff served as direc  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $1.6 million to New York as part of its effort to strengthen the nation's infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the nursery production system. Overall, USDA is providing more than $70 million in funding this year to support 383 projects  more

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued the following report on Jan. 7: Over 140,000 nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses were reported among New York's private industry employers in 2019, resulting in an incidence rate of 2.2 cases per 100 full-time equivalent workers, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table A.) Chief Regional Economist Martin Kohli noted that New York was  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following article from Economics Daily: From November 2019 to November 2020, 242 metropolitan areas had over-the-year decreases in nonfarm payroll employment and 147 were essentially unchanged. The largest over-the-year employment decreases occurred in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA (-999,600), Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California (-514,900), and Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI (-341,000).  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Jan. 8 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Seth D. DuCharme, issued the following news release: Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft (Deutsche Bank or the Company) has agreed to pay more than $130 million to resolve the government's investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and a separate investigation into a commodities fraud scheme. The resolution includes criminal penalties of $85,186,206, criminal disgorgement of  more

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan, Jan. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news: If an observer was judging just by the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services support level at upstate New York's Fort Drum in 2020, they might not know that the nation was having a rough go of things. DLA's enduring property disposal presence at Fort Drum was emblematic of the can-do attitude that its personnel adopted across the North-East directorate despite major in  more

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: New York State has submitted an amended Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan that if fully implemented would meet its share of the pollutant reduction targets agreed to by a multi-state partnership, an analysis by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shows. In an evaluation of New York's Amended Draft Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan, EPA identified sector-by-sector strengths in the revised commitments  more

NEW YORK, Jan. 9 -- The Federal Reserve issued the following speech on Jan. 8 by Vice Chair Richard H. Clarida at the C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics Council on Foreign Relations: * * * Vice Chair Richard H. Clarida At the C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York It is my pleasure to meet virtually with you today at the Council on Foreign Relations./1 I regret that we are not doing this session in person, as we  more

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, issued the following news release on Jan. 7: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Dermot Shea, Police Commissioner of the City of New York ("NYPD"), and Russell W. Cunningham, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General Washington Field Office ("DOJ-OIG"), announced today that SALLY SPINOSA was charged in  more

BUFFALO, New York, Jan. 6 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, James P. Kennedy Jr., issued the following news release on Jan. 4: U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Brandon Wilson, 27, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy to delay or destruction of U.S. Mail. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura A. Higgins, who is handling the case, s  more

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, issued the following news release on Jan. 7: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANDREI TYURIN, a/k/a "Andrei Tiurin," was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 144 months in prison for computer intrusion, wire fraud, bank fraud, and illegal online gambling offenses in connection with his involvement in a massive computer  more

ROCHESTER, New York, Jan. 8 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, James P. Kennedy Jr., issued the following news release on Jan. 6: U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Trisha Cassidy, 55, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to bank fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan K. McGuire, who is handling the case, stated that on February  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Jan. 6 (TNSJou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: If everything moved 40,000 times faster, you could eat a fresh tomato three minutes after planting a seed. You could fly from New York to L.A. in half a second. And you'd have waited in line at airport security for that flight for 30 milliseconds. Thanks to machine learning, designing materials for new, advanced technologies could accelerate that much. A   more

BUFFALO, New York, Jan. 8 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, James P. Kennedy Jr., issued the following statement on Jan. 7: * * * "We have received a number of leads and tips regarding yesterday's events at the Capitol Building. Working with our law enforcement partners, we are actively investigating the information we have obtained. "Should we determine that there is a legal nexus between the crimes committed at the Capitol and our jurisdiction, we will not hesitate  more

KINGS POINT, New York, Jan. 6 -- The Maritime Administration's U.S. Merchant Marine Academy issued the following news release: On Dec. 3, 2020, The American Merchant Marine Museum, located on the McNulty Campus of the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, took delivery of its newest ship model, the S.S. President Harrison. Professor Joshua M. Smith, Ph.D., Director, American Merchant Marine Museum said, "the ship is highly representative of the federal government's commitment t  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 -- The U.S. Navy issued the following news release: The newly established United States Naval Community College (USNCC) is launching a pilot program this month with nearly 600 students from the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard participating in the first phase of the program, serving as a template for future USNCC students. Northern Virginia Community College, the University of Arizona, the University of Maryland Global Campus, Alexandria Technical and Community College, an  more