NEW YORK, July 11 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on July 10, 2024, entitled "Occupational Employment and Wages in Manchester - May 2023": * * * Workers in the Manchester, NH Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $31.97 in May 2023, compared to the nationwide average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley note  more

NEW YORK, July 11 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on July 10, 2024, entitled "Occupational Employment and Wages in the U.S. Virgin Islands - May 2023": * * * Workers in the U.S. Virgin Islands had an average (mean) hourly wage of $24.34 in May 2023, compared to the United States average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that hi  more

NEW YORK, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Office of the Solicitor issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: * * * Smoothstack Inc., co-founder demanded up to $30K if employees did not stay about 2 years * * * The U.S. Department of Labor has asked a federal court to stop improper employment practices by a Virginia-based IT staffing agency that bind employees to their jobs, extract huge sums from them if they leave the firm and forbid them from engaging in protected activity  more

NEW YORK, July 11 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * EPA to hold a virtual informational meeting on August 21; Public can comment on draft report until October 8 * * * The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released its third review of the cleanup of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the Upper Hudson River. The EPA's review concludes that PCB levels in water and fish are going down overall, but the EPA needs more years of fish data to dete  more

NEW YORK, July 11 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on July 9, 2024: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the selection of three organizations in New York and New Jersey to receive a total of $300,000 in grant funding for Environmental Education projects. "Advancing environmental education advances EPA's mission because it better equips our communities with the information they need to protect public health today and in the future," s  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: A federal jury in New Jersey convicted the former CEO of SCWorx Corp. (SCWorx), a publicly traded health care company, today for his role in a scheme to mislead investors about SCWorx's procurement of COVID-19 rapid test kits in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Marc Schessel, 64, of New Paltz, New York, caused SCWorx to   more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on July 9, 2024: Defendants Exported Millions of Dollars of Electronics Used by Russia in Missiles and Drones Note: View the plea agreement for Nikolay Goltsev here (https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-07/2024-07-02_pm_goltsev_plea_agreement_signed.pdf) and plea agreement for Salimdzhon Nasriddinov here (https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-07/2024-07-02_pm_nasriddinov_plea_agreement.pdf). Nikolay Goltsev, 38, of M  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, July 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: A federal jury today convicted the former chief executive officer of SCWorx Corp. (SCWorx), a publicly traded health care company, on two counts of securities fraud for his participation in a scheme to mislead investors about SCWorx's procurement of COVID-19 rapid test kits in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to court documents and   more

NEW YORK, July 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Christie M. Curtis, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), announced that HDR GLOBAL TRADING LIMITED, a/k/a "Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange" or "BitMEX" ("BITMEX"), pled guilty today to violatin  more

ALBANY, New York, July 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Strauss Ventures LLC doing business as The Grand Health Care System and 12 affiliated skilled nursing facilities (collectively, the Grand), have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing federal health care programs for therapy services that were unreasonable, unnecessary, unskilled, or that simply  more

BROOKLYN, New York, July 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Alexi Saenz, also known as "Blasty" and "Plaky," the leader of the Brentwood/Central Islip chapter of the Sailors Locos Salvatruchas Westside (Sailors) clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in connecti  more

NEW YORK, July 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that YAKOV WEINGARTEN, SHMIEL WEINGARTEN, and YOIL WEINGARTEN were sentenced yesterday to 14 years, 14 years, and 12 years in prison, respectively, for child sexual exploitation and kidnapping offenses. The defendants, leaders of an extremist religious sect calle  more

BROOKLYN, New York, July 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Four separate indictments were unsealed today at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn charging five defendants with crimes related to the fraudulent theft and deposit of checks issued by the United States Department of the Treasury. As alleged in the indictments, two of the defendants, both former United States Postal Service (USPS) employees, all  more

NEW YORK, July 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that VITALY FARGESEN and IGOR PALATNIK were sentenced to 4 years and 78 months in prison, respectively, by U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska for participating in a fraudulent scheme to defraud investors in CanaFarma Corp. and, later, CanaFarma Hemp Prod  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: The National Park Service (NPS) today awarded $1,183,993.50 to eight recipients of Preservation Planning Grants through the American Battlefield Protection Program, helping recipients from the metropolitan edge of New York City to the grasslands of Las Animas County, Colorado, preserve battlefields and other sites of armed conflict. "The diverse grant opportun  more

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The White House Office of Management and Budget issued the following statement of administration policy on the Refrigerator Freedom Act (H.R. 7637), which was introduced by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, and the Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act (H.R. 7700) by Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-New York, and four cosponsors: * * * The Administration is advancing commonsense appliance energy efficiency standards that lower costs for American families and businesses a  more