SYRACUSE, New York, Feb. 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release on Jan. 31, 2025: United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman announced today that the Northern District of New York's Asset Recovery Unit collected $39,262,324 in civil, criminal and forfeiture actions in Fiscal Year 2024. Of this amount, $14,085,025 was collected in criminal actions, $15,874,944 was collected in civil actions, and $9,302,354 was collected in asset  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Jan. 31, 2025: Danielle R. Sassoon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JUAN MERCADO, a former superintendent for the New York City Housing Authority ("NYCHA"), was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for soliciting and accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from contractors in exchange for awarding those con  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * Union membership rates highest in Hawaii and New York, lowest in North Carolina in 2024 January 31, 2025 The union membership rate in the United States (the percentage of wage and salary workers who were members of unions) was 9.9 percent in 2024, little changed from the prior year. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.  more