WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: * * * JRW Service Group also barred from obtaining federal contracts for 3 years * * * NEW YORK - An administrative law judge has ordered a Pennsylvania-based federal contractor to pay $85,284 in back wages for failing to pay prevailing wages, fringe benefits and overtime pay owed to workers employed on multiple federal construction projects, after an investigation and litigation by   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2024: * * * Thanks to the Biden-Harris Administration's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, these New York communities are accelerating access to lead-free drinking water. * * * NEW YORK - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency marked the launch of the Get the Lead Out Initiative in the Village of Catskill and announced similar partnerships with the City of Amsterdam, Fonda, Herkimer  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: NEW YORK On Oct. 11, Enforcement and Removal Operations New York City arrested a Venezuelan citizen and suspected member of the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization who convicted by the Queens County Criminal Court of second-degree assault: causing injury to non-participant during the commission of a felony. The noncitizen has multiple charges pe  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: NEW YORK On Oct. 10, Enforcement and Removal Operations New York City arrested Darwin Andres Gomez Izquiel, an unlawfully present noncitizen and national of Venezuela, who was convicted by the New York County Supreme Court of assault in the second degree with intent to cause injury to an officer/fireman/EMT July 29 for his participation in the widely publicize  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- The Federal Communications Commission issued the following dissent on Oct. 15, 2024, by Commissioner Brendan Carr on an action entitled "Data Caps in Consumer Broadband Plans, Notice of Inquiry" (WC Docket No. 23-199). * * * In its decision to reinstate utility-style, Title II controls on the Internet, the FCC promised to forbear from all forms of price controls--namely, both ex ante and ex post rate regulation. The first crack in this commitment emerged immediately when  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Oct. 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2024: Genaro Garcia Luna, the former Secretary of Public Security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Brian M. Cogan to 460 months' imprisonment and a $2 million fine for his decade-long assistance to the Sinaloa Cartel in exchange for millions of dollars in bribes. Following a four-week trial in February 2  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that FELIX HERRERA GARCIA was sentenced to 45 years in prison for trafficking fentanyl out of a daycare in the Bronx, which resulted in the death of one child and the poisoning of three others. Herrera Garcia pled guilty on June 10, 2024, before United Stat  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Oct. 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2024: Raytheon Company (Raytheon), a subsidiary of Arlington, Virginia-based defense contractor RTX (formerly known as Raytheon Technologies Corporation), entered into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with the Department of Justice in connection with a criminal information unsealed today in the Eastern District of New York charging Ra  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service issued the following news on Oct. 16, 2024: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) New York announces Friday, November 1, as the first batching date for Farm Bill programs and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) CSP helps farmers and forest landowners expand their conservation activities and take their conservation to the next level. Through CSP, agricul  more