News from June 2020
By State Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after the administration announced 39 designations under the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act and Executive Order 13894 to begin a sustained campaign of increased economic and political pressure against the Assad regime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tyler C. King, age 31, of Dallas, Texas, pled guilty today to obstruction of justice for a scheme to falsify evidence during his federal criminal trial.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The BLM is seeking applicants who wish to volunteer as campground hosts in a beautiful northern California outdoor setting, along the Trinity River, at Douglas City and Junction City campgrounds. The seasonal opportunity will last until November.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Mammoth Cave, Ky - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 552,000 visitors to Mammoth Cave National Park in 2019 spent $48.1 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 637 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $66.1 million.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Administration Outlines Steps to Help Black Americans and Other Racial and Ethnic Minorities Fight COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Rochester, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years (120 months) in prison to be followed by seven years of supervised release on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national who previously resided illegally in Methuen was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS -JESUS ADRIAN LEDESMA BERNAL, a/k/a JSS, age 31, and JULIO CESAR RIVERA ROJAS, a/k/a JCP, age 32, both residents and citizens of Mexico, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud before U.S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo of the Eastern District of Louisiana, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, NY-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Frankie Cook, 26, and Shawntee Ellison, 26, both of Buffalo, NY, with narcotics conspiracy, possessing with intent to distribute 100 grams of heroin and 40 grams of fentanyl, maintaining...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, NY-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Frankie Cook, 26, and Shawntee Ellison, 26, both of Buffalo, NY, with narcotics conspiracy, possessing with intent to distribute 100 grams of heroin and 40 grams of fentanyl, maintaining...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Russell Richardson, former DeKalb Medical Center, Inc. (DeKalb Medical) Director of Security, has pleaded guilty to fraudulently using hospital funds to acquire multiple handguns that he then sold for his personal benefit and financial gain.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Fact Check: No, America Wasn’t Heading Into a Recession Before Coronavirus.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced Donald Daigle, age 63, of Plaquemine, Louisiana, to twelve months and one day in federal prison following his conviction for fraudulently obtaining disability payments from the Social Security Administration. The Court further sentenced Daigle to two years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tyler C. King, age 31, of Dallas, Texas, pled guilty today to obstruction of justice for a scheme to falsify evidence during his federal criminal trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - The admitted leader of a drug trafficking organization that distributed dozens of kilograms of fentanyl and cocaine in New England was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Grand Coulee Man Sentenced to 10 Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DANIEL VANSLYKE, age 34, of Franklinton, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today to one count of theft of government funds, before U.S, District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo in the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Jacob Samuel Green, age 26, of Denison, Texas, was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release and ordered to pay $145,272.25 in ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: This is our fourth annual hearing on the Trump trade agenda, which means it’s the fourth time the committee will hear a familiar old routine about Trump getting tough on China and protecting American jobs everywhere - the president cracking down once and for all, big changes right around the corner, an American economy on the brink of transformation. It’s been three and a half years of those big promises. What are the results?.
