News from April 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) sent a letter to Chair Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) highlighting recently conducted roundtables and forums advertised as official committee proceedings. These discussions were posted under official committee hearings on the majority website, came without invitation or notice to Republican members, and sought executive branch witnesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Burlington - United States Attorney General William Barr has directed Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Eric Dreiband and Christina Nolan, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont, to oversee and coordinate the Department of Justice’s efforts to address this issue during the current pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Anthony Martinez, 27, of Williamson, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to being felon in possession of ammunition, and was sentenced to serve 42 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison and Special Agent in Charge Karl Stiften, IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), St. Louis Field Office, are warning taxpayers to be on the lookout for scam artists trying to use the COVID-19 economic impact payments as cover for schemes to steal personal information and money.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the Trump Administration announced that recently unemployed Americans would have 60 days after the national emergency declaration for COVID-19 is lifted to sign up for COBRA...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: National Park Service (NPS) staff at Curecanti National Recreation Area and Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park are working with state and local health officials, and with NPS offices regionally and nationally, to plan for a phased reopening of both areas.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: National Park Service (NPS) staff at Curecanti National Recreation Area and Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park are working with state and local health officials, and with NPS offices regionally and nationally, to plan for a phased reopening of both areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Bank Hapoalim B.M. (“BHBM"), an Israeli bank with international operations, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Hapoalim (Switzerland) Ltd. (“BHS"), have agreed to forfeit $20,733,322 and pay a fine of $9,329,995 to resolve an investigation into their involvement in a money laundering conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Mark A. Klaassen announced today that Neoal Guyeal Hayes, age 45, was arrested on March 27, 2020 after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and Alprazolam. He was also charged with possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Vanity Sua, 27, of Waipahu, was charged on April 27, 2020 by federal complaint with armed carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2119 and 2.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Special Agents with the NPS Investigative Services Branch (ISB) are investigating the vandalism and defacing of a historic landmark that occurred within City of Rocks National Reserve on or about April 21, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar:. We write to raise concerns about reports of political interference in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and whether turmoil and staff turnover are hindering your agency’s work. Recent reports about the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Terrell Javon Jones (28, Jacksonville) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Jones had pleaded guilty on Nov. 15, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Bank Hapoalim Agrees to Pay More Than $30 Million for Its Role in FIFA Money Laundering Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 32-year-old Pearland resident is set to appear on federal charges that he illegally sold firearms to convicted felons, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Today - Ranking Member Jim Jordan - joined by the five ranking members of the Oversight Committee Subcommittees -sent a letter to Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney urging her to hold hearings on the “Communist Party of China (CCP) and its widely criticized response to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Wednesday, April 29, 2020, Mitchell Evan Gandy, a 32-year-old man from Evergreen, Alabama, was sentenced to 48 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Following his prison sentence, Gandy will be on supervised release for three years.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, Rep. Peter King, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Emergency Preparedness Subcommittee, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today led a bicameral letter with 15 other Democratic lawmakers pressing the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service to disburse overdue funds to Puerto Ricans suffering from the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawmakers...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Sammy Horace Williams, II, to 84 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release on child pornography charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Williams, 55, of Asheville, was also ordered to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison, and to pay a $5,000 special assessment and $3,000 in restitution.
