News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: FBI Boston Presents 2017 Director’s Community Leadership Award to Suzanne Walmsley.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Afghanistan is an Islamic republic with a directly elected president, a bicameral legislative branch, and a judicial branch. Based on the electoral calendar specified in the constitution, parliamentary elections were to have taken place in 2015; however, these elections were not held by year’s end.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: The Gambia’s constitution enumerates a full range of provisions and assurances for a multiparty democratic republic. On Dec. 1, 2016, Adama Barrow, the candidate of a coalition of seven political parties, defeated incumbent president Yahya Jammeh in what international observers deemed a peaceful...
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Equatorial Guinea is nominally a multiparty constitutional republic. Since a military coup in 1979, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has dominated all branches of government in collaboration with his clan and political party, the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE), which he founded in 1991. In April 2016 President Obiang received a claimed 93.7 percent of the vote in an election that was considered neither free nor fair.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Rwanda is a constitutional republic dominated by a strong presidency. The ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) led a governing coalition that included four smaller parties. In August voters elected President Paul Kagame to a third seven-year term with a reported 99 percent of the vote and a reported...
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Solomon Islands is a constitutional multiparty parliamentary democracy. Observers considered the 2014 parliamentary election generally free and fair, although there were incidents of vote buying. Parliament elected Manasseh Sogavare as prime minister, and he formed a coalition government.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Lebanon is a parliamentary republic based on the 1943 National Pact, which apportions governmental authority among a Maronite Christian president, a Shia speaker of the Chamber of Deputies (parliament), and a Sunni prime minister. In October 2016 parliament elected Michel Aoun to the presidency, ending...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - Julia S. Kouragian (60, Sebring), also known as “Julia Newell" and “Jewels," today pleaded guilty to four counts of mail fraud and four counts of wire fraud. She faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: The Federated States of Micronesia is a constitutional republic composed of four states: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap. Individual states enjoy significant autonomy, and their traditional leaders retain considerable influence, especially in Pohnpei and Yap. The elected unicameral national congress...
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Brazil is a constitutional, multiparty republic. In 2014 voters re-elected Dilma Rousseff as president in elections widely considered free and fair. In August 2016 Rousseff was impeached, and the vice president, Michel Temer, assumed the presidency as required by the constitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced two Snow Hill men, ISIAH KIRKMAN, 24, to 113 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release and MALIK THOMAS, 22, to 98 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Cameroon is a republic dominated by a strong presidency. The country has a multiparty system of government, but the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM) has remained in power since its creation in 1985. In practice, the president retains the power to control legislation. In 2011 citizens re-elected...
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Costa Rica is a constitutional republic governed by a president and a unicameral legislative assembly directly elected in multiparty elections every four years. In 2014 voters elected Luis Guillermo Solis of the Citizen Action Party (PAC) during a second round of elections. In simultaneous legislative...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND -Melinda Milton, 37, of East Chicago, Indiana was sentenced by District Court Judge Philip P. Simon to 204 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release following her conviction by guilty plea to one count of sex trafficking of a minor and one count of sex trafficking by fraud and coercion, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Kiribati is a constitutional multiparty republic. The president exercises executive authority. Following legislative elections, the House of Assembly nominates at least three and no more than four presidential candidates from among its members, and the public selects the president for a four-year term.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Nepal is a federal democratic republic. The political system is based on the constitution, which was promulgated in 2015, replacing the Interim Constitution of Nepal 2063 (2007). The constitution establishes a framework for a prime minister as the chief executive, a bicameral parliament, and seven provinces.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an Indictment charging ISMAEL SANCHEZ COLON, 44, with violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Panama is a multiparty constitutional democracy. In May 2014 voters chose Juan Carlos Varela Rodriguez as president in national elections that international and domestic observers considered generally free and fair. Varela assumed the presidency in July 2014.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Nigeria is a federal republic composed of 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In 2015 citizens elected President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress party to a four-year term in the first successful democratic transfer of power from a sitting president in the country’s history.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Angola is a constitutional republic. On February 4, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos announced he would not seek re-election after 37 years in power. The government held presidential and legislative elections on Aug. 23, which the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) won with 61 percent of the vote. On Sept. 26, Joao Lourenco was inaugurated president for a five-year term.
