News from June 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Republic, Mo. - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield is increasing visitor services. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: After May Jobs Surprise, Back-to-Work Bonus Would Ensure Continued Growth.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Worked Using a Fraudulent Green Card and Someone Else’s Social Security Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton man was charged today with attempting to ignite a marked police vehicle during the recent violent outburst in Trenton following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jacob Graham, 19, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara possessing with intent to distribute five grams or more of actual methamphetamine, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a fine of $5,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: In Waco today, U.S. District Judge Alan Albright handed down lengthy federal prison sentences to multiple defendants in four separate cases, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, FBI Special Agent in Charge Chris Combs, San Antonio Field Office, and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Steve Whipple, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Chad Swartwood Posed as a Teenage Girl While Online.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “Health Care Inequality: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 and the Health Care System."
By USDA Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, which oversees the U.S. Forest Service, today issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate passed the Great American Outdoors Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Marius Brown, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 120 months incarceration for a firearm charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: “Thank you, Chairman Neal. “And thank you, Ambassador Lighthizer, for joining us today in person. “It’s good to finally be back in this historic room. Our Committee has remained busy and productive throughout this pandemic, albeit different than before COVID. “This is the room where we write laws...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Brian Northup, age 29, of Hudson, New York, was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for repeatedly accessing a child pornography web site available only through an anonymous Internet network.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that On June 10, 2020, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs Border Patrol-Air Marine Operation (CBP-AMO) personnel reported that while on duty in the western vicinity of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, they spotted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at an oversight hearing titled “Responding to the Challenges Facing Recycling in the United States."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: A man who sold a mixture of fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), Chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, and Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) wrote to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt today seeking an explanation for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) recently released guidance making it easier for companies to pay less in public royalties for producing oil and gas on public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A former Coahuila, Mexico, governor has entered a guilty plea for his role in a money laundering scheme that includes offenses against a foreign nation involving bribery of a public official, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: A new online tool designed to help the public report civil rights violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal, 33, of Philadelphia, PA has been charged by criminal complaint for the arson of two Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) vehicles.
