BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on Feb. 14, 2024: A Brooklyn man was convicted today by a federal jury in Boston for his role in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) in which he transported more than 50 kilograms of cocaine from New York to Boston. Dinelson Hernandez-Rodriguez, a/k/a "Gordo," 30, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. U.S.   more

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on Feb. 13, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Boston-Cambridge-Newton - January 2024": * * * Area prices up 0.7 percent over two months and 2.0 percent over the year * * * The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton area rose 0.7 percent for the two months ending in January 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labo  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 14 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on Feb. 13, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, New York-Newark-Jersey City - January 2024": * * * Area prices were up 1.0 percent over the past month and 3.1 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), advanced 1.0 percent in January, the U.S.   more

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on Feb. 15, 2024, entitled "Fatal Work Injuries in New York City - 2022": * * * Fatal work injuries totaled 83 in 2022 for New York City, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that the number of work-related fatalities in New York City was up from the previous year. (See chart 1.) Fatal occupa  more

UPTON, New York, Feb. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2024: Yimei Zhu, a senior physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and leader of the Lab's Nanoscale Structure and Structural Defects in Advanced Materials Group within the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Division, has been awarded the 2023 Vernon Cosslett Medal by the International Federation of Societies for   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Feb. 13, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that WINIFER ACOSTA JIMINEZ, 29, and OVIDALIS JIMINEZ PUJOLS, 38, both of New York, have been charged by indictment with a fentanyl trafficking offense.   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Feb. 16, 2024: Charles F. McGonigal, 55, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office, was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for his undisclosed receipt of $225,000 in cash from an individual with ties to the Albanian government while McGonigal was supervising counterintelligence investigations. The sentence was an  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Feb. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Drug Enforcement Administration's New York Division issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2024: A fifth superseding indictment was filed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Ismael Zambada Garcia, also known as "El Mayo," with conspiring to manufacture and distribute a substance, containing N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)-4-piperidinyl] propanamide ("fentanyl"), a Schedule II controlled substance intending and knowing   more

ROCHESTER, New York, Feb. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Drug Enforcement Administration's New York Division issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2024: U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Ebony Shine, 37, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 400 grams or more of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert A. Ma  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Drug Enforcement Administration's New York Division issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Frank A. Tarentino III, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration; and Edward A. Caban, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, announced today the unsealing of a Complaint charging Ivan Collado with conspiracy to co  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Drug Enforcement Administration's New York Division issued the following news release on Feb. 14, 2024: James Mack, 40, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today to serve 15 years (180 months) in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Syrac  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 14 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Feb. 13, 2024: The Municipality of Toa Alta has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to address environmental and public health risks at its landfill in Puerto Rico. The settlement, announced today, requires the Municipality of Toa Alta to deal with the contaminated liquid, known as leachate, in the southeast portion of the   more

NEW YORK, Feb. 16 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2024: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Clean Air Act permit for Empire Offshore Wind LLC. The offshore wind farm will be in federal waters on the Outer Continental Shelf about 12 nautical miles (13.8 miles) south of Long Island, NY and 17 nautical miles (19.6 miles) east of Long Branch, NJ. To ensure transparency, EPA sought and received public comment before the   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- The Interior Inspector General issued the following audit report (No. 2022-ER-033) on Jan. 31, 2024, entitled "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Grants Awarded to the State of New York, Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Fish and Wildlife, From April 1, 2019, Through March 30, 2021, Under the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program." Here are excerpts: * * * Memorandum To: Martha Williams, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service From: Colleen Kotz  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Naomi Gruchacz, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General ("HHS-OIG"); Brian J. Solecki, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Field Office of the U.S. Department of Defense Off  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROBERT WISNICKI was sentenced to 78 months in prison today by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe for operating an $18.8 million Ponzi scheme run through his New York-based law firms, Wisnicki & Associates LLP and Wisnicki Neuhauser LLP (the "Wisnicki Firms"), and a separat  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the conviction of JATIEK SMITH, a/k/a "Tiek," of racketeering and extortion conspiracies. The verdict was issued yesterday following a two-week bench trial before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff in December 2023. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: "Jatiek Smith's audacious t  more

BUFFALO, New York, Feb. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York issued the following news release on Feb. 14, 2024: U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Jariel Cobb a/k/a Doobie a/k/a Black, 52, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of narcotics conspiracy, conspiracy to obstruct justice, use of fire to commit a felony, and conspiracy to damage and destroy a vehicle used in interstate commerce by fire, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison by Chief  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Feb. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release: A fifth superseding indictment was filed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Ismael Zambada Garcia, also known as "El Mayo," with conspiring to manufacture and distribute a substance, containing N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)-4-piperidinyl] propanamide ("fentanyl"), a Schedule II controlled substance intending and knowing that such substances would be unl  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the guilty pleas today of LOUIS LLUBERES and MOISES LLUBERES for their roles in orchestrating a years-long scheme to fraudulently boost the revenues of their staffing company ("Company-1"). The scheme allowed Company-1 to fraudulently obtain hundreds of millions of dollars on its  more

ALBANY, New York, Feb. 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release on Feb. 16, 2024: Teirra Pickering, age 59, of Middleburgh, New York, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison on four counts of distributing controlled substances, including heroin-fentanyl mixtures. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division,   more

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Frank A. Tarentino III, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA"); and Edward A. Caban, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department ("NYPD"), announced today the unsealing of a Complaint charging IVAN COLLADO with conspiracy to commit kidnapping  more

ALBANY, New York, Feb. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release on Feb. 14, 2024: Calvin Bautista, age 38, of Richmond Hill, New York, was sentenced today to one year of probation and fined $5,000 for smuggling three Burmese pythons into the United States at the Champlain Port of Entry. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Ryan Noel, Regional Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Law Enfor  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DANIEL ABAYEV was sentenced to four years in prison and PETER LEYMAN was sentenced to two years in prison for their roles in a scheme to hack the electronic taxi dispatch system (the "Dispatch System") at John F. Kennedy International Airport ("JFK").   more

BROOKLYN, New York, Feb. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2024: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Kristina Puzyreva pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy for her role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to send components used in unnamed aerial vehicles (UAVs) and guided missile systems and other weapons to sanctioned entities in Russia. The components shipped in violation of export control and  more

SYRACUSE, New York, Feb. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release on Feb. 14, 2024: James Mack, age 40, of Syracuse, was sentenced today to serve 15 years (180 months) in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Syracuse Police   more

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Edward A. Caban, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department ("NYPD"), announced today the filing of a criminal Complaint in Manhattan federal court charging RUBINSKY PADILLA and LUIS ROSARIO, a/k/a "Gallo," with conspiracy to distribute narcotics. ROSARIO was arrested yest  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Feb. 16, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Matthew G. Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security; James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"); and Edward A. Caban, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: NEW YORK CITY - Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Frank A. Tarentino III, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration; and Edward A. Caban, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, announced today the unsealing of a Complaint charging Ivan Collado with con  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following news release: On February 8th, the U.S. Department of State hosted the inaugural meeting of the C5+1 Critical Minerals Dialogue (CMD), an initiative announced by President Biden and the presidents of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan at the September 19, 2023, C5+1 Presidential Summit in New York. Following the largest mining conference in Africa, Mining Indaba, where Under Secretary fo  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - James Mack, 40, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today to serve 15 years (180 months) in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. United States Attorney Carla   more

NEW YORK, Feb. 16 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on Feb. 14, 2024: * * * Federal Agency Charged That Technology Company Refused to Hire Qualified Applicant When It Learned He is Deaf * * * Tech Mahindra, Inc., a New York-based IT services company, will pay $255,000 to a job applicant to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. According to  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: A New York man has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges, including for assaulting law enforcement 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. Mitchell Bosch, 44, of Brooklyn, Ne  more