News from July 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Beginning Saturday, Aug. 1, people may apply to the 2020-2021 winter lottery for permits to snowmobile in Yellowstone without a commercial guide. Authorized in 2013, the Non-commercially Guided Snowmobile Access Program allows one group of up to five snowmobiles to enter Yellowstone from each of its four winter entrances per day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - On July 26, 2020, our nation reflects on the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (the ADA), a landmark civil rights law that aims to eliminate discrimination against people with disabilities. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Wisconsin is committed to vigorous enforcement of the ADA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: GUILTY PLEA - AMBER RENEE PRICE.
By State Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after the administration announced it would modernize drone export rules in relation to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), an agreement between the United States and 34 other nations that aims to restrict the proliferation of missiles capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction:
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: Former CEO and Founder of Technology Company Charged in Investment Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Juan Casarubias-Garcia, 29, a citizen of Mexico, with being a removed alien found in United States, and fraud and misuse of an alien registration receipt card. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: Failed to Report More Than $400,000 in Commissions from Investment Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: In Midland on Wednesday, a federal grand jury indicted 44-year-old Jeffrey Allen Smerud on one count of possession of a destructive device, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Luis M. Quesada, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Rochester, Ill., man, Randall E. Tarr, today entered a plea of guilty to making a threat against U.S. Congressman Rodney Davis. Tarr, 65, of the 200 block of E. Mill St., Rochester, Ill., entered his plea by video conference before U.S. Magistrate Judge Tom Schanzle-Haskins in Springfield. Sentencing for Tarr has been scheduled on Nov. 20, 2020, before U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Romanian citizen pleaded guilty to attempted bank fraud on Tuesday morning, July 21, 2020, admitting that he used an ATM skimming device in an attempt to steal money from the City Savings Bank in Deridder, Louisiana. U.S. District Judge James D. Cain, Jr. presided over the hearing.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after President Donald Trump released Executive Orders on drug pricing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man made his initial appearance today on charges stemming from a July 9, 2020, attempted carjacking in Jersey City during which a victim was shot in the abdomen, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - An Eagle Rock, Virginia man was sentenced today for a sex offense involving a minor, according to United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Joshua T. Haynes, 42, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release, for attempted sex trafficking of a minor. He also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Robert J. Bell, Special Agent in Charge of DEA Chicago Division and U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II announced that John Clark, age 53, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was charged in a criminal complaint with drug and weapon violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: FBI Portland Statement on Portland Violence.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.8 million grant to the Spokane Tribe of Indians, Wellpinit, Washington, to make critical roadway infrastructure improvements needed to support business...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: A man who assaulted his girlfriend before leading police on a high-speed chase was sentenced today to ten years in federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nonimmigrant students and schools certified by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) should abide by SEVP guidance originally issued in March 2020. The guidance enables schools and students to engage in distance learning in excess of regulatory limits due to the public health emergency...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY TEIXEIRA, 50, of Danbury, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez to a fraud offense related to $1.1 million embezzlement scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2020
News Release: (FORT BENTON, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to construct a new warehouse and equipment storage facility in Fort Benton to replace an old warehouse which was no longer adequate. The work should begin before the end of July and finish this winter.
