PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Dec. 23 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Dec. 22, 2023, entitled "Employer-reported workplace injuries and illnesses in New Jersey - 2022": * * * Private industry employers reported 69,200 nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in New Jersey in 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table A.) Regional Commissioner Alexandra Hall B  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Dec. 22 -- The U.S. Justice Department Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division issued the following news release on Dec. 21, 2023: A Slovakian man was indicted this week on charges that accuse him of running a darknet market that sold drugs and stolen personal information. Investigators have shut down the market. Alan Bill, 30, of Bratislava, was charged by complaint in U.S. District Court in St. Louis Dec. 14. Bill was arrested Dec. 15 at the Newark Liberty Int  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- The Federal Communications Commission Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau issued the following public notice (PS Docket No. 23-237; WT Docket 02-378) on Dec. 21, 2023: * * * The Region 28 (Delaware, Eastern Pennsylvania, and Southern New Jersey Area) Public Safety 700 MHz RPC and 800 MHz Regional Planning Committees (RPCs)/1 will hold their 2024 quarterly meetings on the following dates. All 2024 meetings will be conducted remotely via Microsoft Teams. The January  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Dec. 19, 2023: A criminal complaint was unsealed today charging a New Jersey man for his alleged participation in a scheme to obtain, through multiple fraudulent loan applications, more than $2 million in COVID-19 relief money guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Program under the Coronavirus Aid, Re  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Dec. 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued the following news release: A federal jury convicted a Raleigh man last week on charges of drug trafficking, conspiracy, and illegal firearm possession for his role as a leader of a Raleigh-based drug organization that sourced drugs from Los Angeles, California and Newark, New Jersey. Lawrence Levon Jones, age 45, has eight prior felonies including seven drug trafficking offense  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Dec. 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on Dec. 18, 2023: BioTelemetry Inc. and its subsidiary, LifeWatch Services Inc., headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and Rosemont, Illinois, respectively (collectively LifeWatch), have agreed to pay more than $14.7 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting claims to federal health care programs for a higher level  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Dec. 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on Dec. 18, 2023: The former co-owners of a New Jersey marketing company were each sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for their roles in a scheme to defraud public and private health benefits programs of at least $8.8 million for the billing of medically unnecessary compounded prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Lisa Curty, 46,  more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Dec. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2023: A North Carolina man today admitted orchestrating a large-scale market manipulation scheme related to two publicly traded companies, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. James Patten, 64, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Christine P. O'Hearn to securities fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fra  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Dec. 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on Dec. 19, 2023: A Sussex County, New Jersey, man was arrested today on charges related to fraudulently obtaining Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) totaling over $2 million, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today. Nikenson Jean Mathurin, aka "Nik Mathurin," aka "Jean Mathurin," 44, of Sparta, New Jersey, is c  more

ALBANY, New York, Dec. 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release on Dec. 19, 2023: Richard "Richie" Sinde, age 59, of Fort Lee, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 168 months in prison, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release, for conspiring to traffic about 15 kilograms of cocaine in March and April 2021. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enfor  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 56889) involving Hope Creek Nuclear Plant, New Jersey: * * * Facility: Hope Creek Region: 1 State: NJ Unit: [1] [] [] RX Type: [1] GE-4 NRC Notified By: Jordan Halstead HQ OPS Officer: Adam Koziol Notification Date: 12/14/2023 Notification Time: 21:05 [ET] Event Date: 12/14/2023 Event Time: 19:39 [EST] Last Update Date: 12/14/2023 Emergency Class: Non Emergency 10 CFR Section: 50  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: ST. LOUIS - A Slovakian man was indicted this week on charges that accuse him of running a darknet market that sold drugs and stolen personal information. Investigators have shut down the market. Alan Bill, 30, of Bratislava, was charged by complaint in U.S. District Court in St. Louis Dec. 14. Bill was arrested Dec. 15 at the Newark Liberty  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Dec. 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on Dec. 19, 2023: A Georgia man and operator of a marketing company today admitted his role in conspiracies to commit health care fraud and to pay and receive illegal kickbacks, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced. Nicco Romanowski, 31, of Roswell, Georgia, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Esther Salas in Newark federal court to an informati  more