The developer for two projects in the Hudson Valley that the Cuomo administration awarded $25 million – even though they were already being built – was Columbia Development, the Albany-based firm whose principal is facing a state bid-rigging charge in a unrelated matter.Read More…

Not enough workers are going into the building trades, and that could place a speed bump on economic development effort in the Mohawk Valley, experts say. “It’s hard to find a young man that wants to go into the trades. Or a woman,” said Bobby Catrombone, owner of RFC Contracting Inc. in Utica.Read More…

An attorney for fomer LPCiminelli CEO Louis Ciminelli claimed the Buffalo-based development company has lost $3.88 billion dollars worth of inventory and work because of the company’s alleged involvement in a bid-rigging scheme. According to documents filed with the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York, about 21 contracts were lost or…Read More…

New Jersey’s federal and state politicians are proposing plans to expand apprenticeship programs, through public-private partnership funding, in order to fill skilled labor jobs that remain vacant in the U.S. Though there are roughly 10 million unemployed individuals in the country, 4 million jobs exist in manufacturing and other skilled labor jobs, according to U.S….Read More…

The Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School District has expanded its partnership with the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters and will now offer carpentry training to students at its Perth Amboy campus. Previously available only to students on the East Brunswick and Piscataway campuses, the program, through the New Jersey Carpenters Apprentice Training and Education…Read More…

An Illinois man has been arrested as a result of a investigation conducted by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Financial Crimes Unit.Read More…

A recent post by Joe Paduda, principal of Health Strategies Associates, in his blog, Managed Care Matters, titled “Construction Labor Fraud is Screwing Everyone” was the second in his series on labor fraud and the damage it is doing to the insurance industry. In this issue, he interviewed Matt Capece, representative of the General President…Read More…

Northampton County contractor was charged Friday with violating state law regarding the hiring of employees, and lying about it to a grand jury. Mark J. White, 48, owner of Salukas & White Contracting Inc. in Bethlehem, said little during a 30-minute arraignment by District Judge Antonia Grifo of Easton. Grifo told White, of the 100…Read More…