News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing the firearm stolen from a vehicle in the parking lot at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Vanuatu is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with a freely elected government. Observers considered the March 19-20 parliamentary election generally free and fair. Parliament elected Bob Loughman as prime minister. The president is head of state. Parliament elected Tallis Obed Moses president in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Russian national and his engineering company have admitted to charges that they violated U.S. national security laws.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: The Republic of Cabo Verde is a parliamentary representative democratic republic largely modeled on the Portuguese system. Constitutional powers are shared between the head of state, President Jorge Carlos Fonseca, and the head of government, Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva. The Supreme Court of Justice, the National Electoral Commission, and international observers declared the 2016 nationwide legislative and presidential elections generally free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Panama is a multiparty constitutional democracy. In May 2019 voters chose Laurentino Cortizo Cohen as president in national elections that international and domestic observers considered generally free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Robert Costello, 53, of Bethlehem, PA, entered a plea of guilty before United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Leeson, Jr., to all five counts of child pornography offenses with which he was charged last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Emerson Pinto, 58, of Crownpoint, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, made his initial appearance in federal court on March 29 on an indictment charging him with two counts of aggravated sexual abuse in Indian Country. Pinto will remain in custody pending an arraignment scheduled for March 31.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Mali has a constitutional democratic system that was upended on August 18-19 when members of the military overthrew the elected government. Following a brief period of military rule, in September a civilian-led transition government was installed. The country last held presidential elections in 2018,...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Grenada is a parliamentary democracy with a bicameral legislature. Observers considered the 2018 elections to be generally free and fair. The New National Party won all 15 seats in the House of Representatives and selected Keith Mitchell as prime minister.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The Republic of the Congo is a presidential republic in which the constitution vests most decision-making authority and political power in the president and prime minister. In 2015 the country adopted a new constitution that extends the maximum number of presidential terms and years to three terms of...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Germany is a constitutional democracy. Citizens choose their representatives periodically in free and fair multiparty elections. The lower chamber of the federal parliament (Bundestag) elects the chancellor as head of the federal government. The second legislative chamber, the Federal Council (Bundesrat) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that PENH KANG (“KANG"), age 42, of Covington, Louisiana, was sentenced today for Making a False Declaration, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 152(3).
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Eritrea is a highly centralized, authoritarian regime under the control of President Isaias Afwerki. A constitution, although drafted in 1997, was never implemented. The People’s Front for Democracy and Justice, headed by the president, is the sole political party. There have been no national-level elections since an independence referendum in 1993.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
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 dominated all three branches of government as an authoritarian regime. An uprising against the regime...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The United Republic of Tanzania is a multiparty republic consisting of the mainland region and the semiautonomous Zanzibar archipelago, whose main islands are Unguja (Zanzibar Island) and Pemba. The union is headed by a president, who is also the head of government. Its unicameral legislative body is...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Somalia is a federal parliamentary republic led by President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed “Farmaajo," whom the bicameral parliament elected in 2017. Farmaajo is the country’s second president since the Federal Government of Somalia was founded in 2012. The federal parliament consists of the 275-member House...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Alleged Allocation and Wage-Fixing Scheme Targeted Nurses Staffed at the Clark County School District Who Were Serving Medically Fragile Students.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The Republic of the Marshall Islands is a constitutional republic led by President David Kabua. On January 6, the Nitijela, the country’s parliament, elected Kabua following free and fair multiparty parliamentary elections in November 2019.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Gabon is a republic with a presidential form of government dominated by the Gabonese Democratic Party and headed by President Ali Bongo Ondimba, whose family has held power since 1967. Bongo Ondimba was declared winner of the 2016 presidential election. Observers noted numerous irregularities, including...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Namibia is a constitutional multiparty democracy. In the presidential and parliamentary elections in November 2019 President Hage Geingob won a second five-year term, and the South West African People’s Organization retained its parliamentary majority, winning 63 of 96 National Assembly seats. International observers characterized the 2019 election as generally free and fair.
