News from March 2017
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Bulgaria is a constitutional republic governed by a freely elected unitary parliament. The constitution vests legislative authority in the unicameral National Assembly. A coalition government headed by a prime minister led the country. A presidential election was held in November, and the Central Election ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that on March 2, 2017, before U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris, Delvin Conrad Chad Red Eagle was sentenced to 158 months of imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and required to pay a special assessment of $100.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Sri Lanka is a constitutional, multiparty republic with a freely elected government. In January 2015, voters elected President Maithripala Sirisena to a five-year term. The Parliament shares power with the president. August 2015 parliamentary elections resulted in a coalition government between the two major political parties. Both elections were free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Cuba is an authoritarian state led by Raul Castro, who is president of the Council of State and Council of Ministers, Communist Party (CP) first secretary, and commander in chief of security forces. The constitution recognizes the CP as the only legal party and the leading force of society and of the...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Czech Republic is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. Legislative authority is vested in a bicameral parliament, consisting of a Chamber of Deputies (Poslanecka snemovna) and the senate (Senat). The president is head of state and appoints a prime minister from the majority party or coalition. In 2013 ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARYANNE STEPHENS, 69, of Ireland, formerly of Rocky Hill, Conn., was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to three months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Guinea is a constitutional democratic republic in the early stages of a transition from decades of authoritarian rule. On Oct. 11, 2015, the country held its second democratic presidential election, and incumbent President Alpha Conde won with 58 percent of the vote. The political campaign was more peaceful than the 2010 presidential and 2013 legislative elections, but a few deaths occurred during skirmishes between demonstrators and security forces.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Travis Butler, 30, of Meridian, Mississippi, was sentenced on Feb. 28, 2017, to five years’ probation with five months’ home confinement for violating the Endangered Species Act, and for a felony offense of obstructing the federal investigation that eventually led to his arrest, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Knowingly Submitted Fraudulent Test Data of Fecal Coliform Levels in Wastewater.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joshua Butler, 42, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Union of the Comoros is a constitutional, multiparty republic. The country consists of three islands-Grande Comore (also called Ngazidja), Anjouan (Ndzuani), and Moheli (Mwali)-and claims a fourth, Mayotte (Maore), which France administers. In February 2015 successful legislative elections were held.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park calls on photographers to share their spectacular Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem winter photos at the 8th Annual Winter Photo Festival that will be held Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at the West Yellowstone Visitor Information Center at 7 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ORANE NELSON, a/k/a “Amaze," 28, was convicted today of murdering Jennifer Rivera and Jason Rivera on Jan. 16, 2013, in the Bronx, in connection with a dispute over a drug debt, as well as narcotics conspiracy...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Gabon is a republic with a presidential form of government dominated by the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), which has held power since 1968. On Aug. 31, the National Electoral Commission announced incumbent president Ali Bongo Ondimba defeated opponent Jean Ping in the August 27 election by a margin...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - District Court Judge Raymond L. Finch, on March 2, 2017, sentenced Dwayne Wesselhoft, 29, of St. Croix, to 24 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a drug user, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Finch also sentenced Wesselhoft to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay a fine of $1,000 plus a special assessment of $100.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Burma has a quasi-parliamentary system of government in which the national parliament selects the president, and constitutional provisions grant one-quarter of national, regional, and state parliamentary seats to active duty military appointees; all other seats are open to elections. The military also...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
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
News Release: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the UK) is a constitutional monarchy with a multiparty, parliamentary form of government. Citizens elect representatives to the House of Commons, the lower chamber of the bicameral Parliament. They last did so in free and fair elections in May...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Thailand is a constitutional monarchy, with the king serving as head of state. King Bhumibol Adulyadej held this role until his death on October 13. On Dec. 10, his son, King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, became head of state. In a 2014 bloodless coup, military and police leaders,...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Poland is a republic with a multiparty democracy. The bicameral parliament consists of an upper house, the senate (Senat), and a lower house (Sejm). The president, the prime minister, and the Council of Ministers share executive power. Observers considered the May 2015 presidential elections and the October 2015 parliamentary elections free and fair.
