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- By: Jacob H. Zoghlin, Esq.
- Government & Corporate Investigations
On Friday, June 12, 2020, New York State passed a package of police reform bills in response to weeks of widespread demonstrations. The reform measures (1) ban the use of chokeholds by law enforcement officers, (2) give the state attorney general power as a special prosecutor in cases of police-involved…
- By: Jacob H. Zoghlin, Esq.
- Government & Corporate Investigations
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (the “DEC”) recently proposed changes to its regulations governing enforcement hearing procedures under 6 NYCRR Part 622.
The proposed rule change to Part 622 would “clarify the hearing process for administrative enforcement proceedings by: 1) making the regulations clearer and more accessible;…
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- Government & Corporate Investigations
A local recycling company in Wayne County was recently fined $725,000.00 by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (the “DEC”) for the illegal handling of electronic waste (“e-waste”)1. This whopping fine consisted of $225,000.00 that was to be payable within two years and an additional $500,000.00 fine that…
- By: Jacob H. Zoghlin, Esq.
- Government & Corporate Investigations
In January of 2019, three hunters were charged in the Town of Mount Morris when a stray bullet struck a nearby house. Although the residents of the home were inside, nobody was injured. According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (the “DEC”), the hunters could end up…
- By: Jacob H. Zoghlin, Esq.
- Government & Corporate Investigations
DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos announced in late 2018 that New York State had executed an Order on Consent with SA Dunn & Company, LLC (“Dunn”), which operates the Dunn Facility (a landfill and sand mine operation), for ongoing violations of its state mining permit1.
The Order was the culmination of…
- By: Jacob H. Zoghlin, Esq.
- Government & Corporate Investigations
The Town of Carmel’s “decision to dump mounds of asphalt millings eight feet high near the … shore [of Lake Mahopac]” sparked an Investigation by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (the “DEC”)1. That’s because a January 2019 DEC ruling prohibited the use of asphalt milling as fill…