News from July 2020
By USDA Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
Release: NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY - Nevada: Wildlife Services (WS), a program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, has issued a Decision and Finding of no Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Environmental Assessment (EA) entitled “Environmental Assessment for Predator ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MATTHEW MADONNA, the Acting Boss of the Luchese Family, CHRISTOPHER LONDONIO, a soldier in the Luchese Family, and TERRENCE CALDWELL, an associate of the Luchese Family, were sentenced today to life...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Now that so many of us are covering our faces to help reduce the spread of COVID-19, how well do face recognition algorithms identify people wearing masks? The answer, according to a preliminary study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is with great difficulty. Even the best...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to new reporting on Republicans’ plan to slash unemployment benefits and sabotage state unemployment offices...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio, a federal judge sentenced 28-year-old Angelica Reyes-Vasquez to 70 months in federal prison for her role in smuggling black tar heroin into the United States, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) San Antonio Office Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and Bureau of Land Management Southern Nevada District have established temporary area closures in the area of the Cottonwood Fire on portions of the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and Las Vegas Field Office due to public safety concerns during fire suppression and rehabilitation activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Florence, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that Claude Junior Moore, IV, 26, of Hartsville, was sentenced to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that 10 defendants pleaded guilty during June and July 2020, to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, five grams or more of methamphetamine before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Washington - The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing more than $3 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in North Carolina. This investment is part of the $100 million in grant funding made available for the ReConnect Pilot Program through the CARES Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that David Charles Hayes, 33, of Sharon Hill, PA, was sentenced to 151 months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $43,632 in restitution by United States District Judge Mark A. Kearney for robbing nine banks in Montgomery and Delaware counties between April and December 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Yesterday marked the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Today, William M. McSwain, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, commemorated President George H.W. Bush’s historic July 26, 1990 signing of the ADA into law and announced that his Office will be hosting a virtual roundtable event with community leaders to discuss the ADA and his Office’s enforcement work under the statute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 21 unsealed Indictments charging 26 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
Release: DULLES, Va. - A Transportation Security Administration officer detected a replica military anti-personnel mine in a woman’s checked bag at.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Troy Jackson, age 43, of Syracuse, was sentenced today to serve 46 months in prison for his conviction for participating in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Ferdinand Cruz, aka “Feldi," 39, and Bridgette Lawlor, 33, both of Bellows Falls, Vermont, were arrested last week. The federal grand jury has accused Lawlor of unlawfully purchasing a Ruger.380 pistol for Cruz, whom...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Colombian national residing in Lighthouse Beach, Fla., has agreed to plead guilty in connection with submitting more than $109 million in false and fraudulent claims for durable medical equipment (DME) such as arm, back, knee and shoulder braces.
By State Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
Release: More information about the Netherlands is available on the Netherlands Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Noel Quintana-Carbajal has been deported 8 times with 6 felony illegal reentry convictions.
By State Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
Release: More information about Sri Lanka is available on the Sri Lanka Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Within the Finance Committee’s jurisdiction, our proposals take on several issues facing Americans during this crisis.
