News from July 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Join us on Facebook Live at 6:00 pm on Friday July 24th and 10:00 am on Saturday July 25th for a virtual screening of the new park film, “Layers of Life: Stories of Ancient Oregon." We will also premier a new park webisode on Facebook Live at 10:00 am each day of the week of July 20th. The videos will be show with captions and audio description. Park staff will be available for live commentary and to respond to questions live.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Carlos Eduardo Lopez-Romero, age 25, a Mexican national in the United States illegally, was sentenced to serve 180 months (15 years) in federal prison, followed by 5 years on supervised release, for methamphetamine and heroin trafficking, possession...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named Amy Bracewell as the new superintendent of the Home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt National Historic Site, Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (Val-Kill) and Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York. She will also oversee management of the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site in Kinderhook, New York. Bracewell will begin her new assignment on Sept. 13, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Glendive man today admitted producing and possessing videos containing images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A convicted sex offender was sentenced today to eight years in federal prison for possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The Montachusett Regional Transportation Authority (MART), a transportation broker for MassHealth, has agreed to pay $300,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting reimbursement claims for rides that never happened.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - James Robert Wissmann, IV, age 35, of Baltimore, Maryland, a police officer with the Baltimore City Police Department, pleaded guilty today to possession of child pornography. Baltimore Police Department officials suspended Wissmann on July 31, 2019, after a search at his residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging LEE ANTHONY FISHER, 46, with one count of providing contraband in prison, and CURTIS BRENT CARICO, 28, with one count of attempting to obtain contraband in prison. FISHER made his initial appearance today before Magistrate...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Nevada’s COVID-19 Task Force, formed by U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich and Attorney General Aaron D. Ford, has recently received reports suggesting that personal identifying information of some present and past Nevada residents is being used to file fraudulent applications for unemployment benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Crimes Included Drug Trafficking, Torture & Witness Tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two residents of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Nevada’s COVID-19 Task Force, formed by U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich and Attorney General Aaron D. Ford, has recently received reports suggesting that personal identifying information of some present and past Nevada residents is being used to file fraudulent applications for unemployment benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton has sentenced Conrad Paul Golding (49, Orlando) to three years and one month in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States after being deported. Golding had pleaded guilty on April 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: OAKLAND - Sergio Luiz Cruz Esparza was charged with distribution of child pornography in a criminal complaint, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Tatum King. Cruz Esparza appeared in federal court today in San Francisco for a detention hearing in the matter before the Honorable U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim, who detained Cruz Esparza pending trial.
By State Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
Release: More information about Denmark is available on the Denmark Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Two Colombian men and two Massachusetts men have been arrested and charged in connection with organized crime in the Republic of Colombia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Two Colombian men and two Massachusetts men have been arrested and charged in connection with organized crime in the Republic of Colombia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff sentenced Charles Edward Skipp of Grand Rapids to 42 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge. Skipp pleaded guilty to 10 felony offenses in February 2020, which included being a felon in possession of firearms, stealing firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Defendant also Spent $2.9 million on an “Opulent Lifestyle" While Evading Income Tax.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: In Austin today, the federal grand jury indicted 35-year-old Joshua Colin Honigberg for possessing an improvised explosive device, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
