News from April 2018
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Thailand is a constitutional monarchy, with a king serving as head of state. King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun ascended to the throne in December 2016, following the death of his father King Bhumibol Adulyadej. In a 2014 bloodless coup, military and police leaders, taking the name National...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal grand jury sitting in Charlotte has indicted Saundra Torrence, a/k/a Saundra Scales, 61, of Charlotte, for her role in defrauding a Charlotte-based credit union of more than $375,000 in the aftermath of the financial crisis, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: A Miami, Florida man was sentenced to 97 months in prison today for his role in an approximately $10 million health care fraud scheme involving a now-defunct home health clinic and two sham physical rehabilitation clinics located in Miami.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
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. On March 1, former prime minister Pakalitha...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the final Strategic Plan for 2018-2022 published by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: President Bashar Assad has ruled the Syrian Arab Republic since 2000. The constitution mandates the primacy of Baath Party leaders in state institutions and society, and Assad and Baath party leaders dominate all three branches of government. An uprising against the government that began in 2011 continued...
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Portugal, which includes the archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, is a constitutional semi-presidential representative democracy with a president, prime minister, and parliament elected in multiparty elections. Presidential elections held in January 2016, and local government elections held on Oct. 1, were considered free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Janet A. Cabral (619) 546-8715.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Benjamin G. Greenberg, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Amos Rojas, Jr., United States Marshal, U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), and William D. Snyder, Sheriff, Martin County Sheriff's Office (MCSO), announced that Michael Gene Justus, who had failed to register as a sex offender, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Robin L. Rosenberg to 27 months in federal prison.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
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: 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 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 2016 gubernatorial elections free and fair.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Iceland is a constitutional parliamentary republic. The president is the head of state, and a prime minister, usually the leader of the largest party, is head of government. There is a unicameral parliament (Althingi). In 2016 voters elected Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson president in a free and fair election. On Sept. 15, the governing coalition collapsed, leading to new parliamentary elections on October 28 that were also considered free and fair.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Honduras is a constitutional, multiparty republic. The country held national and local elections in November. Voters elected Juan Orlando Hernandez of the National Party as president for a four-year term to begin in January 2018. International observers generally recognized the elections to be free, but disputed the fairness and transparency of the results.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Togo is a republic governed by President Faure Gnassingbe, whom voters re-elected in 2015 in a process international observers characterized as generally free and fair. In 2013 the ruling Union for the Republic party (UNIR) won 62 of 91 seats in the National Assembly. International and national observers declared it generally free, fair, transparent, and peaceful, although there were logistical shortcomings.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Ca.) released the following statement after the Committees received former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey’s memos.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Colombian national was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Yemen is a republic with a constitution that provides for a president, a parliament, and an independent judiciary. In 2012 former vice president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi was chosen by the governing and opposition parties as the sole consensus candidate for president. Two-thirds of the country’s eligible...
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
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 DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: MANA de San Diego Accepts 2017 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award in Washington, D.C.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced that it is seeking public nominations for positions on 30 citizen-based sounding boards for BLM initiatives, proposals, and policy changes.
