News from August 2020
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: In an effort to ensure the safety and protection of the public, park staff, resources, and facilities, Cane River Creole National Historical Park will close Thursday, August 27 based on the impending threat of Hurricane Laura. The closure is expected to last through Thursday, August 27 until the storm safely passes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Unauthorized Access Led to Deletion of 16,000 WebEx Teams Accounts in the Fall of 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR), Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), today offered a bill to protect seniors across the country by reauthorizing and funding the Elder Justice Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of DELFONZO DENELL WALLACE, 30, to 97 months in prison. WALLACE, who pleaded guilty on Feb. 27, 2020, to eight counts of interference with commerce by robbery, known as the Hobbs Act, was sentenced yesterday before Senior U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a Fashion District clothing importer and the company’s owner in a scheme to undervalue imported garments and avoid paying millions of dollars in duties to the United States. The cases also allege a tax fraud scheme in which the company’s owner failed to report on tax returns millions of dollars derived from cash transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of FORNANDOUS CORTEZ HENDERSON, 32, to one count of aiding and abetting arson. HENDERSON entered his plea today before Judge Susan Richard Nelson, in U.S. District Court, in St. Paul, Minnesota. HENDERSON’s sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme that netted tens of thousands of dollars in government funds using fraudulently procured electronic benefits transfer (EBT) cards, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Yaser Abdel Said Now in Custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RONNIE GORDON, also known as “Pop," 39, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that PENH KANG (“KANG"), age 41, of Covington, Louisiana, was charged by a bill of information on Aug. 25, 2020 with Making a False Declaration, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 152(3).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Selvin Geovani Velazquez-Villanueva, 33, an illegal alien from Honduras, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to 24 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for smuggling other illegal aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, and Gilbert Trill, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Melissa C. Daniels-Johnson, 39, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer to assaulting a federal officer. The charges carry a maximum penalty of one year in prison, and a $100,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: In Waco, U.S. District Judge Alan Albright sentenced two men to lengthy federal prison terms for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. O’Donnell: On July 21, 2020, the Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence requested that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DOD IG) open an investigation into the Trump Administration’s apparent retaliation against U.S. Army Lieutenant...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03), Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor, called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to reverse its decision and take action to provide healthy meals to students for the duration of the school year.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: (Asheville, NC) - Blue Ridge Parkway officials are pleased to announce that park volunteer Virginia Ward has been awarded the 2019 Youth Award as part of the George and Helen Hartzog Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service, an annual recognition of volunteer excellence in the National Park Service. This national award celebrates outstanding service performed by a volunteer under 18 years of age, in fiscal year 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAMEL GENERAL, also known as “Ra," 38, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a southeastern Connecticut drug trafficking ring.
By State Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul, Republican Leader on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released the following statement on recent developments in Sudan, including Secretary Pompeo’s historic trip to Khartoum...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Koesters, a user of methamphetamine with previous felony convictions for possession of a deadly weapon, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, and forgery, was found in possession of a gun.
