WAVERLY HILL, Georgia, June 14 -- The U.S. Army Contracting Command issued the following news: By Kristen Rounsaville, Army Contracting Command-New Jersey Contracting officials attended the 2023 Product Director Crew Served Weapons Demonstration Day to increase their familiarity with many of the weapons Army Contracting Command-New Jersey procures May 17-18 at the Strongpoint Shooting Complex in Waverly Hill, Georgia. ACC-New Jersey members Matthew Endrizzi, a procurement analyst, Marlene San  more

NEW YORK, June 14 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued a report on June 13, 2023, entitled "Consumer Price Index, New York-Newark-Jersey City - May 2023": * * * Area prices up 0.2 percent over the month and 3.5 percent over the year * * * Prices in the New York-Newark-Jersey City area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), inched up 0.2 percent in May, the U.S. Bureau   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 13 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, Ismail J. Ramsey, posted the following news release on June 12, 2023: Michael Podhurst pleaded guilty in federal court today to charges related to his role in a multi-million-dollar fraudulent kickback scheme, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Darren Lian. The guilty plea was accepted by the Hon. Ric  more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, June 13 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on June 12, 2023: EPA Regional Administrator Lisa F. Garcia was joined today by U.S. Representative Donald Norcross and Camden Mayor Vic Carstarphen to announce that Camden has been selected to get $1 million from President Biden's Investing in America Agenda to expedite the cleanup of Judge Robert B. Johnson Park. In all, EPA recently selected 262 communities to receive 267 grants totaling more  more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, June 14 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's New Jersey Division issued the following news release on June 13, 2023: A Gloucester County, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding his employer's health insurance plan out of more than $4 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary compounded medications, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's New Jersey Division Cheryl Ortiz and Attorney for the Uni  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, June 16 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Philip R. Sellinger, issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: An Essex County woman was sentenced to 21 months in prison for her role in defrauding insurers by submitting fraudulent claims for chiropractic services that were never rendered, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today. Tiffany Marsh, 45, of Orange, New Jersey, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Claire C. Cecchi to  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, June 16 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Philip R. Sellinger, posted the following news release on June 15, 2023: The Justice Department today announced charges against a Russian national for his involvement in deploying numerous LockBit ransomware and other cyberattacks against victim computer systems in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov, 20, of Chechen Republic, Russia, is charged by complaint unsealed today in   more

NEWARK, New Jersey, June 13 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Philip R. Sellinger, issued the following news release on June 12, 2023: A South Korean company today admitted that it evaded customs duties on clothing that it imported into the United States, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Anyclo International Inc. (Anyclo) pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Esther Salas in Newark federal court to an information charging the company with evading customs dut  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- The National Labor Relations Board issued the following decision (Case No. 22-RC-312610; 22-RC-313082) by Region 22 Director Suzanne Sullivan: * * * GARDAWORLD SECURITY SERVICES, Employer and FEDERAL CONTRACT GUARDS OF AMERICA (FCGOA), Petitioner DECISION AND ORDER DISMISSING REPRESENTATION PETITIONS GardaWorld Security Services (the Employer) is a Delaware corporation headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, with facilities located throughout the United States. The Emplo  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following notice (Docket No. FD 36703) entitled "Dover and Delaware River Railroad, LLC - Lease Containing Interchange Commitment and Trackage Rights Exemption - Norfolk Southern Railway Company and New Jersey Transit Corporation": * * * Dover and Delaware River Railroad, LLC (DDRR), a Class III rail carrier, has filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 C.F.R. Sec. 1150.41 to amend an ex  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following notice (Docket No. FD 36676) entitled "New Jersey Transit Corporation - Acquisition Exemption - Norfolk Southern Railway Company in the Counties of Morris and Warren, New Jersey": * * * The New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit), a noncarrier, has filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 C.F.R. Sec. 1150.31 to acquire from Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR) an approxim  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on June 16, 2023: A New Jersey man pleaded guilty today to a felony charge for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Ezekiel Kurt Stecher, 48, of Sewell, New Jersey, plead  more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, June 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on June 12, 2023: A Gloucester County, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding his employer's health insurance plan out of more than $4 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary compounded medications, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced. Christopher Gualtieri, 50, of Franklinville, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. Dis  more