News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA-On March 10, 2020, Christopher Lee Schultz, age 41, of Geneseo, Illinois, pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa for five bank robberies in Iowa and Illinois, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Aaron Hiner, 55, Ferguson, MO, was sentenced to a five year term of probation and six months home confinement for stealing prescription medicine from the United States Mail. Hiner appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Henry A. Autrey.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey today delivered the following remarks to the House Rules Committee in support of an appropriate rule for the House to consider, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
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 April 2018 voters elected Carlos Alvarado of the Citizen’s Action Party (PAC) as president during a second round of elections. All elections were considered free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
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. On March 5, national elections were held...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Maryland man late yesterday on twenty-three charges of intentional misapplication of funds, money laundering, false declaration, perjury, and obstruction of justice.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is a constitutional parliamentary democracy. Prime Minister Hubert Minnis’s Free National Movement won control of the government in 2017 elections international observers found free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A former inmate of the Chesapeake City Jail pleaded guilty today to conspiring to bribe a Chesapeake Sheriff’s Deputy to smuggle contraband - including cocaine and heroin - into the Chesapeake City Jail.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is looking for additional victims of a Tampa area man charged Monday with a 25-count indictment including eight counts of mail fraud, eight counts of making false statements in immigration documents, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: OAKLAND - A federal complaint charges Jose Miguel Rodriguez Montano with committing bank robbery and using, carrying, and possessing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRIAN K. BACKMAN, also known as “B," “NYB" and “New York B," 55, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 121 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Niger is a multiparty republic. President Issoufou Mahamadou won a second term in 2016. He won 92 percent of the vote in a second round boycotted by the opposition. The African Union certified the election as free and fair despite the criticism of some domestic observers who noted the jailing of the...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Ecuador is a constitutional, multiparty republic with an elected president and unicameral legislature. In 2017 voters elected President Lenin Moreno from the ruling party Alianza PAIS (Proud and Sovereign Fatherland) and chose members of the National Assembly in elections that were generally free and fair, marking a successful democratic transfer of power.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Nigeria is a federal republic composed of 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. In February citizens re-elected President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress party to a second four-year term. Most independent observers agreed the election outcome was credible despite logistical challenges, localized violence, and some irregularities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington today sentenced Timothy CathCart (33, Pasco County) to 27 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute a substance containing detectable amounts of fentanyl and norfentanyl, the use of which resulted in serious bodily injury to multiple individuals.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Armenia’s constitution provides for a parliamentary republic with a unicameral legislature, the National Assembly (parliament). The prime minister elected by the parliament heads the government; the president, also elected by the parliament, largely performs a ceremonial role. During December 2018 parliamentary ...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: The Principality of Liechtenstein is a multiparty constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government. Prince Hans Adam II is the official head of state, although in 2004 Hereditary Prince Alois assumed the day-to-day duties of head of state, exercising the rights of office on behalf of the reigning ...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
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...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Honduras is a constitutional, multiparty republic. The country last held national and local elections in November 2017. Voters elected Juan Orlando Hernandez of the National Party as president for a four-year term beginning January 2018. International observers generally recognized the elections as free but disputed the fairness and transparency of the results.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Haiti is a constitutional republic with a multiparty political system. Voters elected Jovenel Moise as president for a five-year term in national elections held in November 2016, and he took office in February 2017. The most recent national legislative elections were held in 2016; international observers...
