WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 -- The U.S. Navy's Chief of Naval Operations issued the following news release: In a small ceremony attended by family and colleagues, Adm. Lisa Franchetti was sworn in as the 33rd Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), the highest ranking officer of the United States Navy, Nov. 2. Her confirmation makes Franchetti not only the first woman to become the CNO and the first woman on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but also the first CNO who commissioned through the Naval Reserve Officer   more

LOS ANGELES, California, Nov. 9 -- The U.S. Attorney for Central District of California, Martin Estrada, issued the following news release on Nov. 7, 2023: A disbarred New York City lawyer, who simultaneously represented the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and a ratepayer suing the City of Los Angeles in the wake of an LADWP billing debacle, was sentenced today to 33 months in federal prison for accepting a kickback of nearly $2.2 million for causing another lawyer to purporte  more

BUFFALO, New York, Nov. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Port of Buffalo, Peace Bridge border crossing, seized a stolen vehicle. Yesterday, CBP officers encountered a commercial car-carrier attempting entry through the commercial inspection lanes. The driver presented importation paperwork to CBP officers for a 2015 Mercedes Benz G63 AMG. However, officers no  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- The Central Intelligence Agency issued the following feature story on Nov. 6, 2023: 1986 was a momentous year in the United States. The country wept as the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff with seven crewmembers aboard, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, the first ordinary American set to travel into space. More than 6 million people formed a human chain stretching from New York City to California with the "Hands Across America" campaign to raise m  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (TNSrpt) -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following news release on Nov. 6, 2023: The Inter-Agency Working Group on Treasury Market Surveillance (IAWG)--which is composed of staff from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission--today issued a staff progress report to provide   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency issued the following news: * * * SIGMA+ detects chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive threats * * * DARPA's SIGMA+ program, which provides city-to-region scale detection of CBRNE threats, conducted a three-week capstone exercise with Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, adding another layer of protection to the largest metro region in the country. In advance of   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release on Nov. 6, 2023: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York entered an order of final judgment against Mark A. Ramkishun, a former resident of Brooklyn, New York. The order resolves the CFTC's January 9 lawsuit against Ramkishun and finds him liable for fraudulently soliciting investments in a purported commodity   more

NEW YORK, Nov. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration issued the following news release on Nov. 6, 2023: Today, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joined New York Governor Kathy Hochul, Senator Chuck Schumer, Congressman Adriano Espaillat, and MTA CEO Janno Lieber to announce the investment of more than $3 billion in an extension of the New York City subway system that will provide convenient and improved transit service to Harlem. The Second Avenu  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement on Nov. 6, 2023, by Commissioner Mark C. Christie on a decision (Docket No. EL23-96-000) involving New York Power Authority's Abandoned Plant Incentive: * * * I concur in today's order because it is consistent with the Commission's existing policies regarding the Abandoned Plant Incentive, as articulated in Order No. 679.[1] Moreover, and importantly, any costs that result   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release: The Inter-Agency Working Group on Treasury Market Surveillance (IAWG)--which is composed of staff from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission--today issued a staff progress report to provide an additional update on a wide  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: The Department of the Interior today announced that the National Park Service will distribute $21.9 million in funding through the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership (ORLP) program for the redevelopment or creation of new local parks in Anchorage, Alaska; Moorhead, Minnesota; Greensboro, North Carolina; Buffalo, New York; and Norfolk, Virginia. In addition, the Department is launching a nationwide to  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release: The Department of the Interior today announced that the National Park Service will distribute $21.9 million in funding through the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership (ORLP) program for the redevelopment or creation of new local parks in Anchorage, Alaska; Moorhead, Minnesota; Greensboro, North Carolina; Buffalo, New York; and Norfolk, Virginia. In addition, the Department is l  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: Four individuals were arrested, and an indictment and criminal complaint were unsealed this week in the Eastern District of New York regarding two separate conspiracies to unlawfully export controlled, dual-use technologies to Russia following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Yesterday, a criminal complaint was unsealed, and a Brooklyn, New York, resident and two Canadian nationals were arrested in   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: A Serbian man has been extradited to the United States, where he faces charges in two separate federal indictments in the Northern District of Texas and Eastern District of New York for his alleged participation in coordinated cryptocurrency and binary options schemes. On Feb. 3, pursuant to a request for provisional arrest followed by a request for extradition, Georgian authorities arrested Kristijan Krsti  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: NEW YORK CITY - As part of an ongoing investigation into fentanyl trafficking in New York City, federal, state and local law enforcement officers disrupted an active drug packaging mill in the Bronx and recovered up to 400,000 packages of suspected fentanyl/heroin, plus quantities of loose powdered narcotics, carrying an estimated street value  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Nov. 9 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, Jane E. Young, issued the following news release: A Manchester man was arrested for his involvement in a scheme to fraudulently obtain CARES Act funds from the United States government and the State of New York, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces. Kyereem Sackey, 23, was indicted on October 25, 2023, on one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of bank fraud. Sackey was arrested this mor  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Nov. 7 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, Jane E. Young, issued the following news release on Nov. 6, 2023: A New York man was sentenced today in federal court in Concord for transporting stolen goods from Home Depot and Lowe's across state lines, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces. Jalil McIntyre, 32, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Paul J. Barbadoro to 24 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release. McIntyre was also ordered t  more

BUFFALO, New York, Nov. 10 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, Trini E. Ross, issued the following news release on Nov. 9, 2023: U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Isaiah Spain a/k/a Q, 39, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 10 grams or more of butyryl fentanyl, heroin, fentanyl, and furanyl fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 250 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. As  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 9 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, issued the following news release on Nov. 7, 2023: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), announced the unsealing of an Indictment today charging DOUGLAS RAYMOND ARNTSEN with masterminding a fraudulent scheme to obtain more than $1.3   more

BUFFALO, New York, Nov. 9 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, Trini E. Ross, issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2023: U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Steven Glover, Sr., 39, of Jamestown, NY, with being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of methamphetamine. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua A. Viola  more

ALBANY, New York, Nov. 9 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Carla B. Freedman, issued the following news release: Former New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) employee Wendell Giles, age 53, of Albany, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for engaging in a fraudulent scheme to obtain more than $800,000 in unemployment insurance benefits by abusing his position with the NYSDOL. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman; Alfred A.   more

BROOKLYN, New York, Nov. 11 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Breon Peace, issued the following news release on Nov. 10, 2023: A 16-count indictment and 16-count superseding indictment were unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging Indonesian national Francius Marganda with securities fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and related conspiracy counts for running a Ponzi scheme from May 2019 to May 2021 that targeted hundreds of victim investors residing in more than  more

BUFFALO, New York, Nov. 9 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, Trini E. Ross, issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2023: U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a five-count indictment charging Zaid Mendoza a/k/a Diamond, 45, of Jamestown, NY, with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes and being a felon in possession of a firearm  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Nov. 8 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Breon Peace, issued the following news release on Nov. 7, 2023: A third superseding indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Brian Michael Sutton, Brycen Kay Millett, Anthony Santamaria, Joshua Manuel Alegria, Hershel Tsikman and Hafizullah Ebady with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud and money laundering conspiracy. As alleged, the defendants participated in   more

ROCHESTER, New York, Nov. 10 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, Trini E. Ross, issued the following news release on Nov. 9, 2023: U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that James Fulton, 41, and his brother, Preston Fulton, 39, both of Rochester, NY, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer in separate cases stemming from the investigation into the murder of Rochester Police Department Investigator Anthony Mazurkewicz and the assault of Investigator S  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Nov. 9 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Breon Peace, issued the following news release: A 16-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging 10 defendants with racketeering conspiracy, extortion, witness retaliation, and union-related crimes committed in an attempt to dominate the New York carting and demolition industries. All ten defendants are in custody and are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United Stat  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Nov. 8 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Breon Peace, issued the following news release on Nov. 7, 2023: Later Today, Nikolaj Sofinskij will be arraigned before United States Magistrate Judge Ramon E. Reyes, Jr., at a federal courthouse in Brooklyn on an indictment charging him and others with three counts each of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and money laundering conspiracy and one count of aggravated identity theft, in connection with sc  more

BUFFALO, New York, Nov. 9 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, Trini E. Ross, issued the following news release on Nov. 7, 2023: U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Cody R. Bemish, 30, and Zakary A. Bemish, 22, both of Yorkshire, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with narcotics conspiracy and distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attorne  more

ROCHESTER, New York, Nov. 9 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, Trini E. Ross, issued the following news release on Nov. 7, 2023: U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Alicia Torres, 48, of Webster, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud, was sentenced to serve one year in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. Torres was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $578,943.86. Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard A. Resnick, who handled the case, stated that To  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 7 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, issued the following news release on Nov. 6, 2023: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced earlier today that RUSSELL DWAYNE LEWIS, a/k/a "Clifford Ari Getz," a/k/a "Clifford Ari Getz Cohen," a/k/a "Ari Getz," a/k/a "Aryeh Getz," was sentenced by U.S. District Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain to 102 months in prison for defrauding multiple individuals   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Nov. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL experts took part in the recent Global Direct Air Capture Conference, a two-day event that brought together global leaders and innovators who are working to develop direct air capture (DAC) as a robust, cost-effective and environmentally just technology to remove greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. Held Oct. 16-17 at Columbia University in New York City, the  more

ROME, New York, Nov. 9 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall and leaders from the North American Aerospace Defense Command, U.S. Northern Command, Joint Staff, Royal Canadian Air Force and Office of the Secretary of Defense were recently in attendance at NOARAD's Eastern Air Defense Sector in Rome to underscore the Air Force's commitment to modernizing its air defense capabilities. The event marked a pivotal milestone in the service's modern  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: A New York man was sentenced on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, on a felony assault 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. Edward Rodriguez, 31, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sen  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 -- The U.S. Navy's Chief of Naval Operations issued the following directive: By Lt.j.g. Nickolas West The Amphibious Assault Ship USS New York (LPD 21) arrived in New York Harbor, Nov. 8, kicking off the week-long 2023 Veterans Day New York celebration. The USS New York will be in New York City for five days. While in New York City, the ship's crew, along with Marine and Coast Guard personnel, will engage in a range of activities throughout the week to pay tribute to the ser  more