NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 26 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, John H. Durham, issued the following news release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Leigh-Alistair Barzey, Special Agent in Charge of the DCIS Northeast Field Office, today announced that DR. PHILIPPE R. CHAIN has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal government in which he will pay $300,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claim  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 23 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, John H. Durham, issued the following news release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SUSANNA KURUS, 44, of Garner, North Carolina, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 30 days of imprisonment, followed by 60 days of home confinement, for embezzling more than $130,000 from her former Connecticut employer. Kurus also must   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 23 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, John H. Durham, issued the following news release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Administrator Carmen Rottenberg, U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service, announced that DEBBIE L. SMITH, 60, of Ellington, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to a charge related to a Connecticut meat processi  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 25 -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, a district bank in the Federal Home Loan Bank System, issued the following news release: Jose R. Gonzalez, president and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, announced that the FHLBNY has awarded $45.8 million in subsidies to fund 45 affordable housing initiatives throughout New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland and Pennsylvania. These awards are funded through the FHLBNY's Affordable Housing Program (AHP),   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 54275) involving Materials Testing, New Haven, Connecticut: DAMAGED DENSITY GAUGE The following is a synopsis of information received via phone: On September 12, 2019, at approximately 1130 EDT, a Humboldt gauge (Model 5001C; S/N 3267), containing 10 mCi of Cs-137 and a 40 mCi Am-241/Be source, was damaged during a field inspection. The inspector notified the radiation safety officer (RSO) a  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $914,981 grant to the town of Newtown, Connecticut, to install a reliable sanitary sewer system that will encourage economic development, job creation and retention, and private investment on the Fairfield Hills Campus in the Naugatuck Valley Corridor Region. The project,   more