WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it expects to award a mandatory grant for enhanced hunter education, safety in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $240,000. The agency said the grant was associated with natural resources. The funding is open to state go  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it expects to award a mandatory grant for sport fish populations restoration in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $10 million. The agency said the grant was associated with natural resources. The funding is open to stat  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it expects to award a mandatory grant for wildlife restoration and basic hunter education in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $10 million. The agency said the grant was associated with natural resources. The funding is  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced today the filing and settling of enforcement actions against Hard Eight Futures, LLC and Igor Chernomzav for spoofing - bidding or offering with the intent to cancel the bid or offer before execution - and for engaging in a manipulative and deceptive trading scheme. Hard Eight is a proprietary trading firm located in Chicago, Ill  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release: * * * - Agency Charges First Ever Violation of Swap-Dealer Risk Management Regulations * * * The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced that it issued orders yesterday against HSBC Bank USA, N.A., Societe Generale International Limited, The Northern Trust Company, NatWest Markets Plc, The Bank of New York Mellon, and PNC Bank, National Association for reporting fai  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced today that it issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Aron Seidenfeld, a New York-based futures trader, for causing material misrepresentations to be made in account opening documents submitted to multiple futures commission merchants (FCMs). The order was entered on Monday, September 30, 2019. "This mat  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce issued the following op-ed by Secretrary Wilbur Ross on export and investment promotion trade enforcement, which was submitted to the Miami Herald: As leaders of the world met last week at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, trade was an important topic of discussion. Unlike in past years, when the status quo ate away at the wealth of the United States and at the strength of its workforce, this year's meeting featured a sea chan  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today charged Jon Barry Thompson of Easton, Pennsylvania, with knowingly or recklessly making false representations to customers in connection with the purported purchase of bitcoin worth over $7 million. In a complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the CFTC alleges that contrary to Thomps  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Thomas J.E. Crotty, 30, of Buffalo, New York, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 10, 2019. (This identification was initially published Sept. 17, 2019.) In 1942, Crotty served aboard the USS Quail in the Philippines as part of the 16th Naval District-in-Shore Patrol He  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has entered into an early resolution conciliation agreement with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC to resolve findings of race and gender-based compensation discrimination. Under the terms of the agreement, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC will voluntarily provide make-whole relief for approximately 600 affected workers at its corporate headqu  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Enforcement Bureau issued the following notice of apparent liability for forfeiture (File No.: EB-FIELDNER-17-00024492): In the Matter of Harold Guretzky, Licensee of Amateur Station K6DPZ, Richmond Hill, New York NAL/Acct. No.: 201932010005 FRN: 0002000503 NOTICE OF APPARENT LIABILITY FOR FORFEITURE Adopted: October 3, 2019 Released: October 3, 2019 By the Regional Director, Region One, Enforcement Bureau: I. INTRODUCTION 1.  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued the following news release: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today announced the appointment of John F. Vogel as Deputy Director Operations and Chief of Staff in the Division of Risk Management Supervision (RMS), effective September 16, 2019. Mr. Vogel previously served as Regional Director for the New York Region. Replacing him as Regional Director is Frank R. Hughes, who previously served as Deputy Region  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- The Federal Reserve issued the following news release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced its approval of the application by Absa Bank Limited, Johannesburg, South Africa, to establish a representative office in New York, New York. Attached is the Board's order relating to this action. For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955. Attachment (https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/files/orders20191001a1.pdf) * * * FRB Order No. 2019-14 October   more

BROOKLYN, N.Y., Sept. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Drug Enforcement Administration's New York field office issued the following news release: Four individuals, including two doctors, a pharmacist who had previously lost his license and been excluded from participating in the Medicaid and Medicare programs and a pharmacy owner have been charged for their participation in schemes in which the Medicare and Medicaid programs were fraudulently billed more than $17 million. A fifth individu  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: The United States has maintained its measles elimination status of nearly 20 years. The New York State Department of Health yesterday declared the end of the state's nearly year-long outbreak that had put the U.S. at risk of losing its measles elimination status. "We are very pleased that the measles outbreak has ended in New York and that measles is still considered eliminated in the Unit  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 4 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S. Berman, issued the following news release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHRISTIAN DAWKINS was sentenced to twelve months and a day in prison, and MERL CODE was sentenced to 3 months in prison, after having been found guilty in May 2019 of engaging in a scheme to bribe multiple NCAA Division I men's college basketball coaches. The defend  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 3 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S. Berman, issued the following news release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CAMERON COLLINS, the son of former United States Congressman Christopher Collins, and STEPHEN ZARSKY, the father of CAMERON COLLINS's fiancee, pled guilty to participating in a scheme to commit insider trading in the stock of Innate Immunotherapeutics, a bioph  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 30 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S. Berman, issued the following news release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Peter C. Fitzhugh, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations ("HSI"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging JAMES T. BOOTH with securities fraud, wire fraud, and investment adviser fraud charges in connecti  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 3 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S. Berman, issued the following news release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID BRITT, a former KPMG partner who was the co-head of the Banking and Capital Markets Group within the audit group of KPMG's Department of Professional Practice ("DPP"), pled guilty today to participating in a scheme to defraud the PCAOB by obtaining, disseminat  more

SYRACUSE, New York, Oct. 2 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Grant C. Jaquith, issued the following news release: * * * - Gary Hallinan Negligently Allowed Polluted Water to Flow into Lake Ontario * * * Gary Hallinan, 61, of Oswego, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 2 years of probation and a $1,000 fine after previously pleading guilty in federal court in Syracuse to negligently discharging wastewater from the City of Oswego Wastewater Treatment Plant into Lake   more

NEW YORK, Oct. 3 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S. Berman, issued the following news release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOHN GERACI pled guilty in Manhattan federal court today to conspiring to commit securities and wire fraud. GERACI's plea stems from his participation in a scheme to defraud clients of his company, Meridian Capital Asset Management. GERACI caused two clients ("Victi  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 30 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S. Berman, issued the following news release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that a grand jury in the Southern District of New York has returned an indictment charging JON BARRY THOMPSON, a/k/a "J. Barry Thompson," the principal of the cryptocurrency escrow company Volantis Escrow Platform LLC and the related company Volantis Market Makin  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 2 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S. Berman, issued the following news release: * * * - Christopher Collins resigned his seat in Congress on September 30, 2019 * * * Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today [Oct. 1] that CHRISTOPHER COLLINS, who represented the 27th District of New York as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, pled guilty to participating in a scheme to c  more

KINGS POINT, New York, Sept. 25 -- The Naval Surface Warfare Center issued the following news: A Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) employee was inducted into the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) Athletic Hall of Fame Sept. 20. Jena (Jeffries) Rhea, project manager for Amphibious Assault Systems Integration and the lead test director for the Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) 100/ Ship Interface Test at NSWC PCD was inducted into the Hall of Fame for her at  more

OYSTER BAY, New York, Sept. 26 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Sagamore Hill National Historic Site issued the following news release: On September 17, 2019, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site hosted its annual Naturalization Ceremony. There were 63 new citizens representative of 34 countries. The ceremony, which took place on Constitution Day, recognized the upcoming 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment. The New York State Police Color Guard began the ceremony wi  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 1 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued the following news release: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today announced the appointment of Lisa Whitaker to its Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council (CDIAC), effective immediately. Council members are representatives from commercial banks, thrift institutions, and credit unions with assets under $10 billion and headquartered in the Second District (New York, Northern New Jersey, Fairfield County Connecticut,  more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Oct. 2 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following story: * * * - Please call the NOAA Enforcement Hotline (800) 853-1964 with information. * * * The NOAA Office of Law Enforcement is offering a reward of up to $20,000 in exchange for information leading to the successful prosecution of individuals suspected of being involved in significant unreported or misreported landings of summer flounder (fluke) in New York and New Jersey. NOAA   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release: The National Transportation Safety Board (https://u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=G62jSYfZdO-2F12d8lSllQBzjOMoJMZc-2FEdIV1tjiI2TPiGsK0L9aL3M-2FtgGDleEMa_0Wg9Nh1n4pGFtplDTkv8PtnY1rChQHh6guRbd111Ehukhxa-2B4y2qgQ76oS85hQZleB-2BOdZHoCjMlWAGTZUTa6NdSOKatMlx8MtSrg2lrzO78TUXW6A73TYTo51bPTtWCECiR02VU1r5IugwyxCmOdbSoGZlyzEsLLa-2FX0NbdqlZQTTwnxskYjtZcoLz8u3G-2F405spgnb4LiL6O-2B2mRM7vvgxdt1DO86c3Rs0A-2B  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued the following news release: A New York man was sentenced here in U.S. District Court to 36 months in prison and fined $30,000 for conspiring to illegally purchase firearms. Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, and Jonathan McPherson, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), announced the sen  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 2 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: * * * - Healthcare Provider Fired Jehovah's Witness for Request to Skip Party, Federal Agency Charges * * * Pediatrics 2000, which provides pediatric health services at two locations in Manhattan, unlawfully fired an employee who asked to be excused from attending a company party as a religious accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed tod  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration issued the following news release: * * * - REAL ID deadline is just one year away * * * The one-year countdown for needing a REAL ID-compliant driver's license has begun. New York residents will need an enhanced driver's license or a REAL ID compatible driver's license by October 1, 2020, if they want to use it to get on a domestic flight, enter certain federal buildings or enter military  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 -- The U.S. Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons issued the following briefing by Ambassador-at-Large John Cotton Richmond; Carlos Trujillo, U.S. permanent representative to the Organization of American States; John Barsa, U.S. Agency for International Development assistant administrator; and Carrie Filipetti, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs deputy assistant secretary: MS ORTAGUS: I am Morgan Ortagus, the spokesperson for the U.S. Sta  more

RONKONKOMA, New York, Oct. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration issued the following news release: Residents of Long Island will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration's popular TSA Precheck(R) application program inside the Long Island MacArthur Airport terminal from October 14 to 18, where officials will host a temporary "pop-up" TSA Precheck(R) enrollment center. The airport is a convenient location to enroll in the  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration issued the following news release: President Trump and over 130 foreign heads of state attended the 74th United Nations General Assembly in New York City, and TSA played a key role in security. TSA teamed with the U.S. Secret Service in providing operational support. Fifty-five TSA officers from Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston and the National Deployment Office were on the frontlines with US  more

CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 1 -- The U.S. Embassy in Egypt issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Charge d'Affaires Thomas Goldberger joined Minister of Antiquities Khaled Al-Anany at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization to welcome the return of the Coffin of Nedjemankh. This coffin of a high-ranking Egyptian priest from the first century B.C.E. was stolen from Egypt in October 2011, smuggled and transported through a number of countries and then sold with fraudulent paperwork to New Yo  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service issued the following news release: As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the PACA against New York Mart Group Inc. The company, operating from New York, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to 23 produce  more