News from July 2020
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: More information about Nepal is available on the Nepal Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - Lucas Isaiah Newton-Grant, a California man who previously lived in the City of Charlottesville, was arrested yesterday in California and charged with threatening to bomb Charlottesville City School buildings. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and David W. Archey, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, joined the Department of Justice in officially announcing the expansion of Operation Legend to Milwaukee. Operation Legend is a sustained, systematic, and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today federal charges against eight defendants associated with a drug trafficking organization operating in Southeastern Wisconsin and Chicago. The co-conspirators are members and associates of the Black Disciples Street Gang.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. The Jewish population in Ireland is 2,557 according to the 2016 census, more than half of whom are Israelis working for multinational corporations. The Jewish community has generally been accepted in Irish life, but there have been instances of anti-Semitism. Ireland accepted approximately ...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Portugal was a neutral country during World War II (WWII). The government extended favorable trade terms to Great Britain, with which it had a centuries-old treaty, but continued supplying goods and tungsten - an essential material for the arms industry - to Nazi Germany until mid-1944. The ...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Finland has taken affirmative steps to fulfill the objectives of the Terezin Declaration with respect to education and remembrance of the Holocaust. Despite some strong efforts by researchers, the Government of Finland has yet to make significant progress toward documenting possible confiscated ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Roberto Manuel Marquez, 43, of Tooele, pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to one count of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - The alleged leader of the Black Disciples street gang in Chicago is among 23 individuals facing criminal charges as part of a federal investigation into drug and gun trafficking on the city’s South Side.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement criticizing Republicans’ recent COVID-19 proposals for failing to include a requirement the Trump Administration develop, publish, and implement a comprehensive, end-to-end national vaccines plan or ensure a vaccine will be available to patients free of cost.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: The Finance Committee meets today to discuss how to fix the WTO to get a better deal for American workers and businesses.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. The 1939 Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic national census registered 375,092 Jewish residents. After the Nazi occupation of Poland in 1939 and the annexation of Polish territory under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Jewish population rose to an estimated one million, including 404,500 ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held an emergency hearing on the Trump Administration’s latest attempt to ban undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census count for apportionment purposes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: A U.S. citizen who formerly resided in the Dominican Republic has pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme to steal debit cards from bank customers, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Arrest Announced in Ongoing Operation Legend.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA), and Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-AR) applauded House passage of the bipartisan Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (WRDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Timothy J. Chowaniec, 62, of West Seneca, NY, was arrested and charged by complaint with possessing with the intent distribute, and distributing, five grams of more of methamphetamine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, and a maximum of 40 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas David Clay Fowlkes, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch of the FBI Little Rock Field Office, announced today that Simon Saw-Teong Ang, 63, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Western District of Arkansas on forty-two counts of wire fraud and two counts of passport fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Raynaldo Mendez, 44, South Beloit, Illinois, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 30 months in federal prison for failing to comply with sex offender registration, and an additional 24 months for revocation of his federal supervised release. This prison term will be followed by 10 years of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Approximately 94,000 Jews resided in Latvia prior to World War II (WWII). The Soviet Union occupied Latvia in June 1940 and annexed the country that August. Following Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Nazis occupied Latvia. Detachments of German Einsatzgruppen (mobile ...
