PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 2 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on March 29, 2024, entitled "Fatal Work Injuries in New Jersey - 2022": * * * Fatal work injuries totaled 116 in 2022 for New Jersey, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Alexandra Hall Bovee noted that the number of work-related fatalities in New Jersey was up from 110 the previous   more

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, New Jersey, April 2 -- The U.S. Air Force's 514th Air Mobility Wing issued the following news: The Air Force Reserve has released the results of the calendar year 2024 colonel promotion board. Please join us in congratulating the following Freedom Wing selectees. Lt. Col. Michael Gibbs - 514th Mission Support Group Lt. Col. Brian Huster - 78th Air Refueling Squadron Lt. Col. Shawn Mosher - 78th Air Refueling Squadron Lt. Col. Christopher Ryan - 514th Main  more

WASHINGTON, April 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on April 5, 2024: A New Jersey man was arrested today on an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Trenton, New Jersey, charging him with tax evasion and obstructing the IRS. According to the indictment, in 2015 and 2016, Matthew Tucci, of West Long Branch, received millions of dollars in income from purported refunds by the Customs and Tax Administration of the Kingdom of Denmark. Tucci allegedly   more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: A federal grand jury in Newark, New Jersey, returned an indictment today charging a New Jersey tax preparer with fraudulently seeking more than $150 million from the IRS by filing more than 1,600 false tax returns for himself and his clients that claimed COVID-19-related employment tax credits. Leon Haynes, of Teaneck, New Jersey, was charged with 55 counts of aiding and assisting in the   more

NEWARK, New Jersey, April 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Bergen County, New Jersey, tax preparer with fraudulently seeking more than $150 million from the IRS by filing more than 1,600 false tax returns for himself and his clients that claimed COVID-19-related employment tax credits, U.S. Attorney Phillip R. Sellinger for the District of New Jerse  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, April 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: An Essex County man was convicted today for ordering and committing three murders and for his role in a large-scale narcotics enterprise, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Michael Healy, 43, of Montclair, New Jersey, was convicted by a federal jury of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute narcotics, conspiring to murder a feder  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, April 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on April 1, 2024: Two laboratory marketers, their marketing companies, and five doctors have agreed to pay over $1.5 million to resolve allegations of False Claims Act allegations of involvement in laboratory kickback schemes in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. "The kickbacks resulted in the submission of fraudulent laboratory testing claims to Medicare. Clinic  more

ALBANY, New York, April 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release: Victoria Shaw, of Mahwah, New Jersey, the owner of Suffern, New York-based Wellcore, Inc., has agreed to pay $500,000 for her role in a scheme whereby she and a former Wellcore official forged signatures of community leaders on federal grant applications and then diverted for personal use federal funds intended to combat youth substance use, announced United Stat  more

WASHINGTON, April 6 -- President Biden issued the following remarks on April 5, 2024, before the Marine One departure: * * * Q:Your reaction to the earthquake, sir -- the New York City earthquake? Can you talk about it briefly? Your reaction, sir, to the New York -- THE PRESIDENT: With regard -- with re- -- Q:Did you threaten to stop military -- THE PRESIDENT: With regard -- Q:-- aid to Israel? THE PRESIDENT: With regard to the earthquake, I spoke to the governor. He thinks everything is   more

WASHINGTON, April 5 -- 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. Army Pvt. 1st Class (Pfc.) Anthony J. Lopa, 17, of North Arlington, New Jersey, who was killed during the Korean War, was accounted for July 21, 2023. In July 1950, Lopa was a member of Delta Battery, 82nd Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons (Self Propelled) Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He w  more