News from July 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Six defendants were sentenced on Tuesday in the Eastern District of Virginia to a combined 81 years in prison for their respective roles in the sex trafficking of a minor victim and an adult victim at multiple locations in Northern Virginia and Maryland in 2018 and 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service-Wildlife Services (APHIS-WS) today renewed their partnership for alleviating human-wildlife conflicts on BLM-administered public...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Stephen Thomas Parshall, aka “Kiwi," 35, of Las Vegas - who was charged last month with violations of federal and state law for conspiracy to cause destruction during protests in Las Vegas, and possession of an unregistered destructive device (specifically, an improvised incendiary...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Release date: Immediate. Contact(s): Heather Yates. Phone number: 928 524-6228 x226. Email: heather_yates@nps.gov. Date: July 29th, 2020. Release code: NPS. Fire Restrictions Lifted at Petrified Forest National Park. National Park Service Superintendent Jeannine McElveen has announced the recension...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: FORT MYERS, Fla.- Christopher Gloster, Sr. (57, Fort Myers), aka “OG," was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute crack cocaine. Gloster’s son, Christopher Gloster, Jr. (30, Fort Myers), aka “Jitt," was sentenced to five years in federal prison earlier this year for the same offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Arminda Martin, age 49, formerly of York County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on July 28, 2020, to 12 months’ and one day imprisonment to be followed by two years of supervised release, by Chief District...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Lithuania was a significant center of Jewish cultural, economic, and intellectual life before World War II (WWII). According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the pre-war Jewish population was approximately 160,000, or seven percent of the total population. Vilnius, which boasted 106 synagogues ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed, the Child Care is Essential Act, urgently-needed legislation to immediately address the problems child care providers have in staying open and covering their increased operating costs with limited revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Hicham Khallad, 47, and Karim Euchi, 47, both of Rochester, NY, who were convicted of food stamp fraud, were sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. Khallad was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 45 days...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) managed debate as the U.S. House of Representatives considered Sami’s Law (H.R. 4686). This legislation, sponsored by Representatives Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Thomas Suozzi (D-NY), would require...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Three people have been charged for their alleged roles in a years-long conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) by providing military equipment parts that were not authorized by contract, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Kelaukila Estabilio, 40, of Hilo, Hawaii, was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Judge Derrick K. Watson to 60 months imprisonment for embezzling funds from the Hawaiian charter school where she worked.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: . WS is a program with the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Its mission is to provide Federal leadership and expertise to resolve wildlife conflicts to allow people and wildlife to coexist. The program’s efforts help people resolve wildlife damage to a wide variety of resources and to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A California man was sentenced today for agreeing to pay more than $500,000 to participate in the college admissions scheme for his two children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the arrest today of FRANCIS HUGHES. HUGHES, 65, a pastor at a religious institution...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Australia declared war on Nazi Germany on Sept. 3, 1939, and almost one million Australians served in World War II (WWII). Australia’s Jewish population grew significantly during the 20th century. The community numbered an estimated 23,000 in 1933. Between 1933 and 1939, Australia absorbed ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -At today’s emergency hearing on the Trump Administration’s latest attempt to ban undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census, four former Census Bureau Directors testified that the President’s July 21 legal memorandum is unconstitutional and violates federal law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Timothy J. Bush, 49, of Fort Edward, New York, appeared on July 23, 2020 in federal court on charges that he attempted to patronize a child under the age of 14 for a commercial sex act, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Foreword. A Message From the Secretary of State. The Holocaust was one of the most horrific atrocities in world history. The Nazi regime murdered six million Jews - including one and a half million children - and millions of other individuals, motivated by its twisted ideology and ethnic hatred. The ...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. The Jewish diaspora has had a significant presence in Argentina since the middle of the nineteenth century. The country received an influx of Jewish immigrants from Europe during World War II (WWII). Argentina has one of the largest Jewish communities in the world and the largest in Latin America ...
