News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: In El Paso today, a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment against Patrick Wood Crusius, 21, with new hate crime and firearm charges stemming from the death of a hospitalized shooting victim, announced Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Eric D. Dreiband and U.S. Attorney John F. Bash.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) promotes the use of geospatial tools in long-term stewardship of LM sites, and in communication with stakeholders about the history and current management of the sites.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: * Campfires are only allowed within designated fire grates in developed campgrounds (i.e. metal, in- ground containment structure). Fire pans and rock campfire rings are not acceptable. Beach fires are prohibited.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that WARREN G. TREME (“TREME"), age 55, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana, was charged July 8, 2020 with conspiracy to defraud First NBC Bank, the New Orleans-based bank that failed in April 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By State Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman McCaul, Republican Leader on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement applauding the Administration for placing sanctions on top Chinese Communist Party officials for their human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. Sanctions were placed on high-ranking officials within the Chinese Communist Party, including one of the most senior leaders Chen Quanguo.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Today, chairs of the House committees with jurisdiction over health care condemned the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for finalizing a rule that weakens protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for LGBTQIA+ individuals, women, people with limited English proficiency, immigrants, people of color, people with disabilities, and patients from other marginalized communities and urged HHS Secretary Alex Azar to immediately rescind it.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Defendant Jason Van Hoesen possessed more than 10,500 child pornography images and videos.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Timothy Lakendrick Liddell, 25, of Ridgeland, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Carlton W. Reeves to illegally possessing a machine gun, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: West Glacier, MT - In keeping with Glacier National Park’s adaptive operations recovery, the Going-to-the-Sun Road will open to motorized vehicles from the west entrance to Logan Pass and as far as Rising Sun on July 13, pending any last-minute changes due to weather.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-In separate criminal cases, three men, Mitch Bryan Schoonover, 37, of Portland; Isaiah Holt, 32, also of Portland; and Jay Rodney Ferdig, 44, of Salem, Oregon; were sentenced this week to federal prison for illegally possessing firearms as convicted felons, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Superseding Indictment Contains New Charges Related to the Death of a Hospitalized Shooting Victim.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, July 9, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced Utah has been approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), a new program authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), signed by President Trump, which provides assistance to families of children eligible for free or reduced-price meals dealing with school closures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago today charged a north suburban man with illegal sports bookmaking and filing a false federal income tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - The leader of a large-scale St. Louis based distribution organization has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine, over one kilogram of heroin, and over 400 grams of fentanyl from March 11, 2018 to March 12, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Richard Gaines, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has admitted to opioid distribution, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An associate of the DeCavalcante crime family was sentenced today to 76 months in prison for possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute and possession of a firearm during the course of a drug crime, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Today, chairs of the House committees with jurisdiction over health care condemned the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for finalizing a rule that weakens protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for LGBTQIA+ individuals, women, people with limited English proficiency, immigrants, people of color, people with disabilities, and patients from other marginalized communities and urged HHS Secretary Alex Azar to immediately rescind it.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division reminds all Minnesotans that this year’s deadline for filing federal income tax returns is Wednesday, July 15. Due to COVID-19, the original filing deadline and tax payment due date was postponed from April...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today released its analysis of a proposed amendment to the management plan for the Sonoran Desert National Monument that would change the management of grazing allotments in the Monument. The analysis was prepared in response to a 2016 Federal court decision that required the BLM to complete a new Land Health Evaluation and Grazing Compatibility Analysis to be incorporated into the Resource Management Plan (RMP).
