WASHINGTON, July 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on July 22, 2024: NEW YORK - Today, in a significant investment to improve water infrastructure in New Jersey, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Lisa F. Garcia, Shawn LaTourette, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and other dignitaries' broke ground for a major upgrade to the drinking water system serving the Township of Irvington, NJ. The  more

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: NEW YORK Enforcement and Removal Operations New York City officers arrested a Mexican national July 18 previously convicted of assault in the second degree and removed from the United States. "This individual has proven himself a danger to the community at large," said ERO New York City Field Office Director Kenneth Genalo. "In addition, his reentry into the   more

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on July 23, 2024: Andrezj Boryga, 67, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today to 24 months in prison and two years of supervised release for willfully transmitting in interstate commerce threats to injure other people and for choosing his victims because of their religion. According to the records filed in the case, between July 9 and Dec. 14, 2022, Boryga left voicemails at Anti-Defamation League offices lo  more

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: A grand jury returned a 22-count indictment charging Spencer Christjencody Gear, 32, of Las Vegas, Nevada, with threatening to assault and murder federal officials, including federal judges, and state employees in Washington, D.C., New York, New Jersey and Montana. "The citizens we rely on to serve the public must be able to do their jobs without fearing for their lives," said Attorney General Merrick B. G  more

BROOKLYN, New York, July 23 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Francius Marganda, an Indonesian national, pleaded guilty to securities fraud in connection with a $23 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of predominantly Indonesian and Indo-American victim investors. The plea proceeding took place before United States Magistrate Judge Marcia M. Henry. As part of his plea,   more

SYRACUSE, New York, July 24 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release: Kevin Harrington, age 50, of Oneonta, New York, pled guilty to a federal indictment charging him with two counts of mail fraud, United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Craig L. Tremaroli, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced. At his change of plea, Harrington admitted that he was the for  more

BROOKLYN, New York, July 23 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Marquis Douglas, a narcotics trafficker who operated a narcotics business that was responsible for the distribution of large quantities of cocaine, fentanyl and other illicit substances throughout the North Fork of Long Island, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert to 25 years' imprisonment  more