MONTAUK POINT, New York, June 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement issued the following news release on June 12, 2024: In a sign of the continuing growth and maturity of the offshore wind industry in the United States, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) today conducted an inspection at the South Fork Wind project, the bureau's first inspection of an operational offshore wind turbine in U.S. waters. Located offshore New  more

NEW YORK, June 14 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on June 13, 2024: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $315,000 in grant funding to help New York's coastal and Great Lakes communities protect the health of beachgoers. The funding will assist New York in conducting water quality monitoring and public notification programs for their beaches. "This funding helps keep beaches and coastal waters clean so that people can have fun,  more

NEW YORK, June 13 -- 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 MUKHIDDIN KADIROV was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to launder millions of dollars from a health care fraud scheme that primarily targeted the Medicare and Medicaid programs. KADIROV controlled three shell company bank accounts, o  more

BROOKLYN, New York, June 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release: Today, in federal court in Central Islip, Klaus Pflugbeil, a resident of the People's Republic of China (the PRC or China) and a Canadian and German national, pleaded guilty to conspiring to send trade secrets that belonged to a leading U.S.-based electric vehicle company (Victim Company-1). Pflugbeil and his co-defendant, Yilong Shao, who remains at large, are   more

NEW YORK, June 13 -- 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, Elysia Doherty, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General ("HHS-OIG"), and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), announced today tha  more

WEST POINT, New York, June 14 -- The U.S. Military Academy issued the following news: By Eric S. Bartelt, West Point Public Affairs Specialist In simplest terms at its most basic level, data is information, facts or statistics that can be collected, stored and analyzed, which in turn enables leaders of organizations to make more sound, less risky decisions and strategies based on facts provided by data instead of going off of intuition. Whether it's in business, a sports organization or the m  more