News from June 2020
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: CANADA: Tier 1. The Government of Canada fully meets the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The government continued to demonstrate serious and sustained efforts during the reporting period; therefore Canada remained on Tier 1. These efforts included increasing its investigations...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: ESTONIA: Tier 1. The Government of Estonia fully meets the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The government continued to demonstrate serious and sustained efforts during the reporting period; therefore Estonia remained on Tier 1. These efforts included investigating and prosecuting ...
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 State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: GREECE: Tier 2. The Government of Greece 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 Greece remained on Tier 2. These...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that JOSE DE LA ROSA BUSTILLO-CASTRO (“BUSTILLO"), a Honduran National, age 51, was sentenced on June 24, 2020 by U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman to seven months in prison and one year of supervised release on a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: DENMARK: Tier 2. The Government of Denmark 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 Denmark remained on Tier 2. These ...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: INDONESIA: Tier 2. The Government of Indonesia 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 Indonesia remained on Tier...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A High Point, North Carolina woman pleaded guilty today to her role in an international drug-trafficking organization.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: Today, leaders of the Energy and Commerce and Science, Space, and Technology Committees submitted a comment to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler for the proposed rule on the Review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Particulate Matter (PM), ...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: GUATEMALA: Tier 2. The Government of Guatemala 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 Guatemala remained on Tier...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: ALBANIA: Tier 2. The Government of Albania 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 Albania remained on Tier 2. These ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Xzavier Earl Damon Wilson, 24, of Gulfport, entered a guilty plea today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Brad L. Byerley, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) new report on opportunities to improve the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) today released a report on the Committee’s year-long investigation into the anti-consumer practices of Short-Term, Limited Duration Insurance (STLDI) health care plans and the insurance brokers who sell and sign people up for these junk plans.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: GUINEA-BISSAU: Tier 2 Watch List. The Government of Guinea-Bissau does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. These efforts included continuing to identify child forced begging victims, cooperating with Moroccan authorities...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: TAIWAN: Tier 1. Taiwan authorities fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. Authorities continued to demonstrate serious and sustained efforts during the reporting period; therefore Taiwan remained on Tier 1. These efforts included improved interagency coordination to combat...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: CHILE: Tier 1. The Government of Chile fully meets the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The government continued to demonstrate serious and sustained efforts during the reporting period; therefore Chile remained on Tier 1. These efforts included investigating more cases, prosecuting...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: SERBIA: Tier 2. The Government of Serbia 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 Serbia remained on Tier 2. These...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: June 25, 2020, Ashford, WA-Today, Mount Rainier National Park rangers and Mountain Rescue Association teams continued to search for Vincent Djie in the Longmire area and Talal Sabbagh at Paradise. Both men remain missing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Salt Lake City man pleaded guilty Thursday to a conspiracy to commit bank fraud that attempted to defraud financial institutions of more than $1.5 million, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
