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Email The path to winning appointment to Long Island’s highly paid police forces has been more than three times tougher for Black would-be officers than for white applicants and twice as tough for Hispanic job seekers in recruitment by the Nassau and Suffolk County departments, a Newsday investigation has found. With thousands more people seeking jobs than the number needed by the two forces, the investigation revealed that since 2012, each county’s hiring process rejected minorities at rates that exceeded a federally established benchmark used to detect evidence of unlawful discriminati...

Bottom line Alex Gangitano American Fair Credit Council, an association of debt settlement companies, hired Allon Advocacy LLC to work on issues related to consumer unsecured debt settlement, debt relief and debt consolidation. Steven Boms, former legislative director to ex-Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), will work on the account. The RLJ Companies LLC, a holding company for investments in media, entertainment, automotive and financial industries, hired Arent Fox LLP to work on legislation to incentivize equity investment in businesses owned by socially disadvantaged individua...

Former Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) has joined a Washington-based firm, he and the company announced this week. Jones ...

Reps. Grace Meng and Ted Lieu Join Anti-Semitism Task Force Leadership WASHINGTON (JTA) — Two Taiwanese-American members of Congress have joined the leadership of its anti-Semitism task force. Reps. Grace Meng of New York and Ted Lieu of California, both Democrats, were listed among eight-co-chairs of the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism in a release Monday, the first for the new Congress. The task force has over 100 members from the U.S. House of Representatives. The newcomers replace two Jewish members, also Democrats, in leadership positions: Nita Lowey of New York, who r...