News from June 2020
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: URUGUAY: Tier 2. The Government of Uruguay does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period; therefore Uruguay remained on Tier 2. These...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, spoke on the House floor in support of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell Coleman today announced that a federal grand jury has indicted a man for attempting to rob a pharmacy during civil unrest in Louisville. This indictment is additive to multiple charges recently announced by the United States Attorney’s Office for the looting of neighborhood pharmacies for controlled substances, carjacking, and illegal possession of firearms by convicted felons.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA -Tiffany Markle, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 120 months incarceration for a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: ITALY: Tier 2. The Government of Italy does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period; therefore Italy remained on Tier 2. These efforts ...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: SENEGAL: Tier 2 Watch List. The Government of Senegal does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. These efforts included collaborating with an international organization to establish an anti-trafficking database and planning...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: PORTUGAL: Tier 1. The Government of Portugal fully meets the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The government continued to demonstrate serious and sustained efforts during the reporting period; therefore Portugal remained on Tier 1. These efforts included opening a new government-funded...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Tier 2 Watch List.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: BURUNDI: Tier 3. The Government of Burundi does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; therefore Burundi remained on Tier 3. Despite the lack of significant efforts, the government took some steps to address trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: Indictment unsealed June 25, 2020. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand jury last week indicted a felon in connection to a burglary of a gun and pawn shop in Jasper, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Explosives and Firearms Acting Special Agent in Frank Haera. A four-count...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: BOTSWANA: Tier 2. The Government of Botswana does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period; therefore Botswana remained on Tier 2.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: COLOMBIA: Tier 1. The Government of Colombia fully meets the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The government continued to demonstrate serious and sustained efforts during the reporting period; therefore Colombia remained on Tier 1. These efforts included hosting two roundtable discussions...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: On Wednesday, all five Republican members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, as well as Republican members of the New York, California, Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania delegations, urged the attorneys general of those states to investigate the origins of their governors’ deadly nursing home orders and the impact those orders had on their states’ elderly populations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: GUILTY PLEA - DALTON HARRIS. On June 16, Dalton Harris, 21, pled guilty to making a false statement to a firearms dealer. Harris visited a local firearms deal to purchase a Ruger AR-556 rifle. To purchase the rifle, Harris made fictitious statements intended to deceive the firearms dealer into believing...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: KYRGYZ REPUBLIC: Tier 2 Watch List.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Tier 1. The Government of the United States fully meets the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The government continued to demonstrate serious and sustained efforts during the reporting period; therefore the United States remained on Tier 1. These efforts...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement in response to the Bureau of Land Management’s release of a Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Trump administration’s new management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, which would open up roughly 6.8 million additional acres of public lands for oil and gas leasing...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Fort Larned National Historic Site is increasing recreational access. 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 State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: ETHIOPIA: Tier 2. The Government of Ethiopia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period; therefore Ethiopia remained on Tier 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: Illegally purchased gun conversion kits from China.
