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A.G. settles with companies in home-value inflation case
The office of New York’s attorney general has reached a $7.8 million settlement with companies it says contributed to the housing-market meltdown by helping to
Equity Crowdfunding: Issuers Assemble
More than five months have passed since enactment of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the JOBS Act), and its much-heralded third article, the Capital Raising Online While Deterring Fraud and Unethical Non-Disclosure Act (the CROWDFUND Act). Only four months remain until the acts’ provisions are scheduled to go into effect, and for a business
Survey: Small-business owners uncertain about new 401(k) fee notices
New U.S. Department of Labor required 401(k) fee disclosures haven’t given small-business owners a shot of confidence about explaining their retirement-plan offerings, according to a new survey. The rules, which the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration put into effect this summer, require plan administrators to provide participants and beneficiaries with plan-related information like
Governor: NY property tax average stayed within cap last year
Property taxes in New York grew by an average of 2 percent in the first year since a law capping them passed, according to a
A.G. sends settlement funds to new foreclosure prevention program
New York’s attorney general will use money from a February foreclosure abuse settlement to replace the state’s expiring Foreclosure Prevention Services Program. The attorney general’s
Mackenzie Hughes seminar tackles election-year HR headaches
DeWITT — Business human-resources departments should be ready to head off potential problems resulting from this year’s heated political-campaign period, attendees of a recent Central New York seminar heard. “It’s election season,” said Christian Jones, a partner in Mackenzie Hughes LLP’s business department. “Along with that season can come some difficult issues for employers with
HSLD&G law firm diversifies into private-practice work
JOHNSON CITY — For more than three decades, the law firm of Hogan, Sarzynski, Lynch, DeWind & Gregory (HSLD&G) has provided legal services to school
Upstate venture funds back hurricane-protection firm
An Ithaca–based venture-capital fund has joined with the Rochester manager of another venture-capital fund to invest in StormBlok Systems, Inc. StormBlok Systems, based in the
Legislation would provide grants for waterfront redevelopment
SYRACUSE — Proposed federal legislation would award grants of up to $500,000 to local government and nonprofit organizations redeveloping abandoned waterfront properties. “I don’t think
SYRACUSE — The Bonadio Group, a Rochester–based accounting firm with an office in Syracuse, named a new chief operating officer this week. Robert Enright, who
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