News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, tax preparer was arrested today for allegedly using false information to increase her clients’ tax refunds and filing her own false tax returns, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Twenty-four individuals are facing federal charges following an investigation targeting two street gangs responsible for firearms offenses, narcotics trafficking, and violence on the West Side of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A gang member and convicted felon will spend the next decade in federal prison after sentencing in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA-For the second straight year, murders, robberies and aggravated assaults in Missoula County have decreased as law enforcement continues investigating and prosecuting methamphetamine trafficking, firearms offenses and armed robberies through Project Safe Neighborhoods, announced federal, state and local prosecutors today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After ignoring numerous calls from bicameral Democratic health committee leaders to create a broad special enrollment period and release data on health care enrollment trends, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finally released limited data yesterday. In response, House...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Antonie Latimore (36, Winter Haven) to 10 years and 10 months years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine base. Latimore had pleaded guilty on March 6, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to request that he provide Congress the state testing plans that the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act required to be submitted to HHS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank today advised the public that cards and other documents bearing the Department of Justice seal and claiming that individuals are exempt from face mask requirements are fraudulent.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: FILLMORE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Fillmore Field Office is seeking public comment on a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) analyzing a wild horse gather, removal, and use of population growth suppression in the Confusion Herd Management Area (HMA). The public comment period is open for 30 days.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: June 26, 2020, Ashford, WA-Searchers continue to look for Talal Sabbagh in the Paradise area of Mount Rainier National Park. This is the fifth day of search operations. Moving forward the search will continue to focus on high probability areas; however, press releases will be suspended until significant information becomes available.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: National Park Service is seeking information related to the theft of approximately 30 pink lady slipper plants (Cypripedium acaule) along Leatherwood Loop Trail, on or about June 8-9, 2020. On June 11, park staff discovered holes where the plants were known to be present. Flowering and vegetative individuals at the site had been counted by park staff two weeks earlier, on May 28, so an accurate count of how many plants were dug was possible.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management issued a decision today approving the American Gypsum Company’s proposal to expand its Eagle-Gypsum Mine in Eagle County by about 100 acres. The expansion will allow Colorado’s largest gypsum mine to continue supporting nearly 100 jobs and economic development in the state and throughout the construction industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Timothy J. Smith, 43, of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced to 18 months’.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, June 26, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced Oklahoma and Montana have been approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), a new program authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), signed by President Trump, which provides assistance to families of children eligible for free or reduced-price meals dealing with school closures.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement in response to a new proposed rule from the Department of Labor which would discourage financial advisors from considering...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two Colorado counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Cheyenne and Lincoln counties who suffered losses due to recent drought, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - The Department of Justice (DOJ) has not issued any notice or other public information regarding the use of face masks and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Greensboro, North Carolina, business owner was sentenced to 18 months in prison yesterday for failing to pay employment taxes, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: MEMPHIS, TN - Dwayne Tullous, 57, has been sentenced to 240 months in federal prison for distribution of heroin and fentanyl resulting in death. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: PRICE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Price Field Office will soon begin operations to manage wild horse populations by gathering them from within and around the Range Creek Herd Management Area in Carbon County. The gather will begin on July 1 and is expected to last approximately six days.
