News from July 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 25, 2020
News Release: The Bottom Line: The violent situation in Portland for the past 56 straight days continues with violent anarchists rioting on the streets as federal law enforcement officers work diligently and honorably to enforce federal law; they do so by defending federal property and the lives of their fellow officers.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2020
News Release: Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau NHP will close in advance of Hurricane Douglas beginning 5:00 pm on Saturday July 25. The park will be closed through Sunday. Park management will be monitoring the storm and assessing damage, if any. The park will determine an appropriate opening time and date based on this assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2020
News Release: Richmond, VA - Two violent felons who escaped from the Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center in Chesterfield County, Virginia, are back behind bars. The Grand Rapids Fugitive Task Force apprehended both escapees this evening without incident at a hotel in Battle Creek, Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the Cory Proplesch, 29, of La Vista, Nebraska, was sentenced in federal court on July 24, 2020 for Cyberstalking and Possession of Child Pornography. United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Proplesch to concurrent terms of 60 months for...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2020
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will close beginning at 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 25th, in anticipation of Hurricane Douglas. Douglas may bring damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and high surf to parts of Hawaiʻi beginning as early as tonight.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 25, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY), Chairwoman of the Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations Subcommittee, announced they are commencing an investigation into revelations that Trump’s Department of...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security convened a virtual version of the XIII edition of the Meeting of Ministers and Secretaries of Security of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama and the Department of Homeland Security of the United States of America otherwise known as the Regional Security Conference (RSC).
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON— Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad F. Wolf recently hosted the inaugural meeting of the Department’s China Working Group. The Group’s purpose is to holistically articulate, prioritize, and coordinate the Department’s response to evolving threats to the Homeland posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
By USDA Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., July 24, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will launch a third round of Farmers to Families Food Box Program purchases with distributions to occur beginning by September 1 with completion by Oct. 31, 2020. The purchases will spend the balance of $3 billion authorized for the program. So far, over 46 million Farmers to Families Food Boxes have been invoiced and delivered.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Michael Bailey, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, Jill Sanborn, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, and Sean Kaul, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Phoenix Field Office, announced that on July 22, 2020, Jill Marie Jones was arrested for attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda, a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice has released a final agenda for the Antitrust Division’s July 28-29 public workshop on competition in the licensing of public performance rights in the music industry. The workshop will provide a venue for industry stakeholders to further weigh in on the American Society of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: Jun Wei Yeo, also known as Dickson Yeo, entered a plea of guilty today to one count of acting within the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign power without first notifying the Attorney General, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 951. Yeo’s plea was entered via videoconference before the Honorable ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: The CEO and co-founder of Trustify Inc. (Trustify), a privately-held technology company founded in 2015 and based in Arlington, Virginia, was charged in an indictment unsealed today for his alleged role in a fraud scheme resulting in millions of dollars of losses to investors. Acting Assistant Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: Indivior Solutions today pleaded guilty to a one-count felony information and, together with its parent companies Indivior Inc. and Indivior plc, agreed to pay a total of $600 million to resolve criminal and civil liability associated with the marketing of the opioid-addiction-treatment drug Suboxone. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury in Philadelphia returned an indictment that was unsealed today, charging the owners of a popular cheesesteak restaurant with conspiracy to defraud the IRS, tax evasion, and aiding and assisting in filing false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: A resident of Juncos, Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty today to two felony violations of the Lacey Act for collecting, falsely labeling, and shipping protected marine invertebrate species as part of an effort to subvert Puerto Rican law designed to protect corals and other reef species, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: Six former National Football League (NFL) players have been charged in a superseding indictment in the Eastern District of Kentucky for their alleged roles in a nationwide fraud on a health care benefit program for retired NFL players.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Eric Dreiband released the following statement on the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): “With the passage of the ADA, our nation committed itself to a clear and comprehensive mandate: the elimination of discrimination ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: A California man was charged today with one count of unlawfully affecting the entry of goods into the United States upon false classification as to quality and value.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: Last week, the Ad Council and some of the nation’s leading companies launched an advertising campaign that reflects a promising change in how employers view the training and credentials American workers need to land a job.
