News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Thursday, March 2, 2017, Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced a Lincolnton, N.C. man to 112 months in prison on child pornography charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Daniel Lee Rathbone, 38, was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Liberia is a constitutional republic with a bicameral national assembly. In 2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of the Unity Party won a second term in multiparty presidential elections domestic and international observers considered generally free and fair. Civilian authorities generally maintained effective control over the security forces.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe is a multiparty constitutional democracy. In a second round of presidential elections held on August 7, voters elected President Evaristo do Espirito Santo Carvalho as head of state. The Independent Democratic Action (ADI) party of Prime Minister Patrice...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Minden man was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in prison for selling his employer’s equipment and pocketing the money.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Djibouti is a republic with a strong elected president and a weak legislature. In 2010 parliament amended the constitution to remove term limits, facilitating the 2011 and 2016 re-election of President Ismail Omar Guelleh for a third and fourth term. Three independent and two opposition candidates also...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Saint Kitts and Nevis is a multiparty parliamentary democracy and federation. In February 2015 national elections, Team Unity, a coalition of three opposition parties, defeated the previously ruling Saint Kitts and Nevis Labor Party and won seven of the 11 elected seats in the legislature. Team Unity...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is a constitutional, parliamentary democracy. Prime Minister Perry Christie’s Progressive Liberal Party won control of the government in May 2012 elections that international observers found generally free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A San Angelo, Texas, man was sentenced to 78 months in prison today for running two investment fraud schemes that defrauded investors out of approximately $900,000 over a four-year period and obstructing a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Bolivia is a constitutional, multiparty republic with an elected president and a bicameral legislature. In October 2014, in a process deemed free but whose fairness was questioned by international observers, citizens re-elected President Evo Morales Ayma, leader of the Movement Toward Socialism Party...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Eritrea is a highly centralized, authoritarian regime under the control of President Isaias Afwerki. The People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), headed by the president, is the sole political party. There have been no elections since the country’s independence from Ethiopia in 1993.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The Republic of Macedonia is a parliamentary democracy. A popularly elected president is head of state and commander in chief of the armed forces. A unicameral parliament exercises legislative authority. The country held parliamentary elections in December and presidential elections in 2014. In its preliminary ...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Lesotho is a constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliamentary government. Under the constitution, the king is head of state but does not actively participate in political activities. The prime minister is head of government and has executive authority. All major parties accepted the outcome of...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has a constitutional monarchy and a democratic, parliamentary form of government with a popularly elected unicameral Chamber of Deputies (parliament). The prime minister is the leader of the dominant party or party coalition in parliament. In October 2013 the country held parliamentary elections that were considered free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Venezuela is formally a multiparty, constitutional republic, but for more than a decade, political power has been concentrated in a single party with an increasingly authoritarian executive exercising significant control over the legislative, judicial, citizen, and electoral branches of government. Nicolas...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is an authoritarian state in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the paramount authority. CCP members hold almost all top government and security apparatus positions. Ultimate authority rests with the CCP Central Committee’s 25-member Political Bureau (Politburo)...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Crimes Took Place in Summer of 2015.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Mexico, which has 32 states, is a multiparty federal republic with an elected president and bicameral legislature. In 2012 President Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) won election to a single six-year term in elections observers considered free and fair. Citizens elected members of the Senate in 2012 and members of the Chamber of Deputies in 2015. Observers considered the June gubernatorial elections free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DEVONTE WEST, age 21, of Hammond, was indicted on one count of possession with intent to distribute a quantity of heroin and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Principality of Monaco is a constitutional monarchy in which the sovereign prince plays the leading governmental role. The prince appoints the government, which consists of a minister of state and five ministers. The prince shares the country’s legislative power with the popularly elected National Council. Multiparty elections for the National Council in 2013 were considered free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Republic of Serbia is a constitutional, multiparty, parliamentary democracy. In April the country held early parliamentary elections that international observers stated offered voters a variety of choice and respected fundamental freedoms, despite some reports of biased media coverage, an undue advantage...
