News from August 2020
By USDA Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Kansas guide is losing his hunting privileges for three years because he violated the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Owes more than $800,000 to the IRS.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Hopkins, SC - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Congaree National Park is increasing access and services. 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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former Army Green Beret was arrested today for allegedly conspiring with Russian intelligence operatives to provide them with United States national defense information.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Dino Crnalic, 33, of Charlotte, appeared in federal court today following his arrest on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, for various fraud schemes that defrauded the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and others of more than $800,000, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration collected $926,030.44 in unclaimed money that passengers left behind at airport security checkpoints during Fiscal Year 2019, including $18,899.09 in foreign currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, KY- A Cornith, Ky., man, Robert Stanton Sexton, 28, was sentenced in federal court on Friday to 132 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, for transporting child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VERONICA HUITZIL, 39, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to six months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for preparing false tax returns for numerous clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - As part the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California’s strategy to reduce violent crime by focusing on firearms prosecutions, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced that a federal grand jury returned indictments in the following cases involving illegal firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Aug. 20, 2020, Elvin O. Cruz-Verges, a/k/a “Mellao," was arrested in a joint law enforcement operation by the FBI, Police of Puerto Rico San Juan Strike Force, and the U.S. Marshals, in the municipality of Aguas Buenas, PR. Defendant Cruz-Verges was a fugitive since February of 2019, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a felony information charging ALEXANDER STEVEN HEIL, 24, with one count of conspiracy to commit arson. HEIL will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Michael Baez, 40, of Pelham, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for distributing cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) will celebrate its 104th anniversary on August 25 by providing free entrance to all accessible NPS sites. It will also observe the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment on August 26 with a variety of engaging virtual events related to the suffrage movement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Troy Gene Duchesne, age 29, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma was sentenced to 5 years’ probation for Felon in Possession of Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2). The charges arose from an investigation by the Tahlequah Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: DETROIT, MI - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, grilled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy at today’s committee hearing over recent changes that have left people in Michigan and across the country struggling with delayed mail deliveries.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent a series of oversight letters to pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers and the relevant trade associations today as...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- The Bureau of Reclamation this week responded to unusually high energy demands across the western United States, demonstrating hydropower’s integral role as a renewable, reliable, abundant, carbon-free source of electricity that provides great value to the West and protects our nation’s energy security.
