News from June 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park’s annual Cultural Festival, normally scheduled the first Saturday in July for nearly 40 years, will instead be held virtually July 5 through July 11 on social media due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Seattle Doctor Charged with COVID Relief Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Eric Dreiband reiterated today that cards and other documents bearing the Department of Justice seal and claiming that individuals are exempt from face mask requirements are fraudulent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: ADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Charles Dickerson, 46, Madison, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty on June 26 to possessing cocaine with intent to distribute cocaine. Immediately following the guilty plea, U.S. District Judge William M. Conley sentenced Dickerson to 60 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Staten Island, N.Y. - Gateway National Recreation Area’s Fort Wadsworth will not be open for fireworks viewing this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Joseph William Burns, 37, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard to 15 years and two months, (182 months), in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Martin Nicholson, age 32, of Geddes, New York, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Hon. Thomas J. McAvoy to serve 15 years in federal prison for willfully causing the Sexual Exploitation of a Child, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and New York State Police Superintendent Keith Corlett.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Chinese national was sentenced in absentia today to 37 months in federal prison for participating in a large-scale birth tourism scheme that engaged in visa fraud that allowed foreign nationals to come to the United States and give birth so their children would receive U.S. birthright citizenship.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Defendant was second in command of Massachusetts Latin Kings Leadership.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal criminal complaint against MATTHEW SCOTT WHITE, 31, charging him with arson. MATTHEW WHITE, who was arrested on June, 29, 2020, made his initial appearance earlier today before Magistrate Judge Hildy Bowbeer in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A convicted felon who was stopped for a traffic violation by Dublin, Ohio Police officers pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to illegal possession of a firearm after officers found a loaded gun in his car.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, released a majority staff report detailing how the Committee has worked to respond to the coronavirus pandemic facing our nation. The Committee kicked off its oversight effort with three hearings on coronavirus in March. After social distancing protocols took effect, the Committee continued its robust oversight of the Trump Administration’s preparedness and response activities.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: House Democrats are pushing a partisan infrastructure bill, H.R. 2, which includes school construction provisions that will result in increased costs to taxpayers, increased costs to states and school districts, and onerous new requirements for the entire education community.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Guam Ambulance Company Owners Sentenced to Prison for Their Roles in Medicare Ambulance Fraud Scheme.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: The following are the prepared remarks of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) from today’s opening debate on the Speaker’s partisan infrastructure wish list bill (H.R. 2):
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Thank you, M/ Speaker. America’s infrastructure is in woeful disrepair. Our roads and bridges are crumbling; many areas still lack reliable internet service; and there are even places in the United States where the tap water is unsafe to drink.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Two owners of Guam Medical Transport (GMT) were sentenced to prison terms today for their roles in a health care fraud and money laundering scheme that resulted in a loss to the United States of approximately $10.8 million, one of the largest single Medicare ambulance fraud cases ever prosecuted by the Justice Department.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Greater Eastern Oregon Development Corporation, Pendleton, Oregon, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: When a disaster strikes, there’s never time to waste. With so much at stake, responders from the private sector, state governments, and federal support must be prepared to spring into their lanes of action to face the challenges each is best equipped to address.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Two Soledad men were sentenced this week for conspiracy to rob the Chase Bank in Modesto, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Robert Zavala, 24, was sentenced today to five years in prison, and Moises Misael Garcia DeLeon, 27, was sentenced to on Monday to four years and nine months in prison.
