News from May 2018
By Commerce Newswire | May 30, 2018
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent letters on Tuesday to eight call aggregators, who play a role in connecting individuals seeking treatment to sober living homes. The letters pose several detailed questions about the business practices of these call aggregators, and request information about how their employees are trained, as well as what they disclose to callers about any affiliations with treatment centers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Providence man who stole the personal banking information of several individuals, including a retired Providence firefighter, and used that information to gain access to their funds, pleaded guilty today to federal bank fraud and identity theft charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Martinsburg, West Virginia man has admitted to distributing heroin, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
Release: The constitution provides for religious freedom and prohibits discrimination based on religion. A legal revision will remove certain religious tax exemptions in January 2018. Watchtower International, a Jehovah’s Witnesses-affiliated nongovernmental organization (NGO), reported there were 277 Jehovah’s...
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
Release: The constitution provides for the free exercise of religious profession and religious worship and prohibits the establishment of religion by law. The government continued to implement the “strategic peace roadmap," which it said would address the aspirations of Muslim and other separatist groups in Mindanao.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: Maalik Jones Trained and Fought with the Terrorist Organization’s Specialized Fighting Force, Jaysh Ayman.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a settlement agreement with The UPS Store #1217 in the Riverside section of Greenwich (the “Riverside UPS Store"), to resolve allegations that the store was not operating in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA").
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
Release: The constitution and laws provide for freedom of religion and the right to profess freely one’s faith. The constitution provides that the government will grant the Roman Catholic Church preferential legal status, but there is no official state religion. By law, public schools are secular, but private...
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
Release: The constitution guarantees freedom of religion and its public expression and prohibits compelling participation in religious ceremonies. Roman Catholicism is the state religion and state ceremonies often include Catholic rituals. Religious groups have to apply to the government to build a public place ...
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: The constitution establishes a secular state and protects freedom of religion, conscience, and belief. It also mandates the separation of religion and state. The constitution prohibits discrimination based on religious affiliation and inciting hatred or “disaffection" against any religious group. Religious...
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
Release: The constitution provides for the right, individually or jointly with others, to adhere to any religion or to no religion, and to participate in religious customs and ceremonies. The constitution says religious organizations shall be separate from the state and “shall not interfere in state affairs."...
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: The constitution provides for freedom of conscience and worship. The law prohibits religious discrimination. Religion and state are officially separate. The National Office of Religious Affairs (ONAR), an executive government agency, is charged with facilitating communication between faith communities...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Guadalupe Joseph Huerta, age 35, of Pueblo, Colorado, was sentenced late last week to serve 21 months in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore for stealing mail from the back of a mail truck, U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and U.S. Postal Inspector in Charge of the Denver Division...
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: The constitution establishes Islam as the state religion and requires all provisions of the law to be consistent with Islam. The constitution also states, “subject to law, public order, and morality, every citizen shall have the right to profess, practice, and propagate his religion." The courts continued...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JOEL FLORES-GONZALES, age 42, a native of Mexico, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal entry of a removed alien.
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: The constitution provides protections for religious freedom with “reasonable restrictions" to ensure public order and the rights of other individuals. The constitution provides for the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and belief and to the free exercise of religion. Ahmadi Muslims continued to report some difficulties in receiving government approval for conducting community-sponsored social welfare projects and in obtaining meetings with government officials.
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: The constitution declares the state shall respect all religions and shall ensure the freedom to perform religious rituals as long as these “do not disturb the public order." There is no official state religion. Membership in the Muslim Brotherhood or “Salafist" organizations is illegal and punishable...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - An eight-count indictment was unsealed on Tuesday following the arrest of Loretta Darlene Stewart-Cabrera, 52, of Sacramento, for her role in a scheme to defraud beneficiaries of a trust she administered as a professional fiduciary, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
Release: The constitution declares there is no state church and protects the freedom of individuals to practice their religion. It prohibits the incitement of religious hatred, violence, or discrimination. The law provides the procedure for registration of religious associations and religious societies and regulates ...
By Homeland Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: On May 29, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen met with United Kingdom Home Secretary Sajid Javid in Washington, D.C. Secretary Nielsen and Home Secretary Javid discussed U.S. and UK counterterrorism cooperation, including enhancing aviation security and preventing the misuse of the internet by terrorists. They also discussed information sharing efforts between the two countries.
