News from March 2020

By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: La Junta, CO - Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site is announcing modifications to operations to implement the latest guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), and local and state authorities to promote social distancing. In accordance with this guidance, Frontier...

By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: The National Parks of Southern Idaho are modifying operations to implement the latest guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), and local and state authorities to promote social distancing. As of March 18, visitor facilities at Craters of the Moon National Monument...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced DUSTIN LEE BISHOP, 32, of Raleigh, NC to 120 months’ imprisonment, followed by an eight-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn today announced that the operators of Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, Colorado, were arrested for illegally selling body parts or entire bodies without the consent of the family of the deceased. The two operators, Megan Hess, age 43, and her mother...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.- Karanjit Singh Khatkar, 23, and Jagroop Singh Khatkar, 24, residents of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, were sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for conspiring to commit wire fraud and money laundering in a scheme to steal bitcoin from an Oregon resident.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Cecil Gunnels, Jr., 36, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on March 13, 2020 in Omaha by United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. for possession of child pornography. Gunnels was sentenced to 97 months in prison to run concurrent to a 15- to...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jimmie and Thanikwa Thompson, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, were sentenced today for to wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – Effective Monday March 16th at 11:59PM flights from the United Kingdom and Ireland will also be added to the previously announced arrival restrictions that are in effect for the Schengen Area, China, and Iran. DHS will soon publish a Notice of Arrival Restrictions in the Federal Register outlining specifics.

By USDA Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 16, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is standing up a new team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) staff that will lead a department-wide effort focused on serving beginning farmers and ranchers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: A man who did not file tax returns for several years in a row pleaded guilty Friday, Mar. 13, 2020, to evading his income taxes, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: A federal jury in Salt Lake City, Utah, convicted California businessman Lev Aslan Dermen, also known as Levon Termendzhyan, of criminal charges today relating to a $1 billion renewable fuel tax credit fraud scheme, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: A federal court in Tampa, Florida has permanently barred Steven Doletzky, formerly doing business as Liberty Tax Service, from operating a tax return preparation business and preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The court also ordered Doletzky to disgorge ...

By Fed Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: The federal bank regulatory agencies today released a statement encouraging banks to use the Federal Reserve's "discount window" so that they can continue supporting households and businesses.

By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: SAN JOSE, CA – Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to pay $2,000,000 in lost wages and interest to affected employees in San Jose, California, and provide at least $2,750,000 in pay-equity adjustments to its employees nationwide in the next five years in an Early Resolution Conciliation Agreement (ERCA) after ...

By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of up to $25 million in available funding for organizations that help young adults enter the workforce following involvement with the justice system. The funding is available under the Young Adult Reentry Partnership 2020 ...

By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: SAN JOSE, CA – Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to pay $2,000,000 in lost wages and interest to affected employees in San Jose, California, and provide at least $2,750,000 in pay-equity adjustments to its employees nationwide in the next five years in an Early Resolution Conciliation Agreement (ERCA) after ...

By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of up to $25 million in available funding for organizations that help young adults enter the workforce following involvement with the justice system. The funding is available under the Young Adult Reentry Partnership 2020 ...
By Fed News Journal | Mar 16, 2020
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Mar 16, 2020
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 16, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.