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https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/aln/News/December%202011/December%2015,%202011%20Sommerville.html.txt.gz
Somerville Man Convicted for Structuring Currency Transactions DECATUR – A federal jury Wednesday convicted the owner of a Somerville recycling business for structuring currency transactions totaling more than $500,000 to evade reporting requirements of U.S. banks and financial institutions, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and IRS, Criminal Investigation Division, Special Agent in Charge Rodney E. Clarke. The jury in U.S. District Judge Virginia E. Hopkins’ courtroom in Decatur convicted JERRY DWAYNE LANG, 45, on 70 of 85 counts of structuring cash transactions with two separate banks between February and October 2008. Lang’s transactions were designed to avoid the legal requirement for banks to report currency transactions in excess of $10,000 to the federal government. According to court records, Lang, a scrap metal dealer who ran C & J Recycling, structured his transactions as follows: Lang would sell scrap metal to American Recycling, which would issue him multiple checks of less than $10,000, instead of one check of more than $10,000. Lang would cash the checks at different times. "This type of structuring allows for significant cash transactions to occur using the U.S. financial system, but with no way to track the transactions. This is criminal behavior,” Vance said. The maximum penalty for structuring transactions is five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The maximum penalty can be enhanced to 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine if it is determined that the transactions occurred while another law of the United States was violated, or if the transactions are part of a pattern of illegal activity involving more than $100,000 in a 12-month period. The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Davis Barlow and Pat Meadows prosecuted the case.
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/sd/pressreleases/2011/Pierre-2011-06-01-Red%20Hawk.html.txt.gz
South Dakota Defendants Arraigned on Federal Charges of Illegally Trafficking in Eagle and Migratory Bird Remains Assistant United States Attorney 605-357-2360 U.S. Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission couple has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Unlawfully Trafficking in Eagles, Unlawfully Trafficking in Migratory Birds, and Aiding & Abetting. Shane Jones a/k/a Shane Red Hawk, age 37, and his wife, Noella Red Hawk, age 41, were indicted by a federal grand jury on March 8, 2011. Each appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno on June 1, 2011, and pled not guilty to the indictment. The maximum penalty upon conviction is one year of imprisonment on the trafficking eagles charges and two years of imprisonment on the trafficking migratory birds charges. The charges are merely accusations, and Mr. And Mrs. Red Hawk are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. The investigation, entitled “Operation Rolling Thunder,” was conducted by agents from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Law Enforcement, from March 2008 through February 2011. The focus of “Operation Rolling Thunder” was the unlawful trafficking in protected migratory birds, primarily Bald and Golden eagles. The federal statutes violated include the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and the Lacey Act. Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Kelderman is prosecuting the case. Both of the defendants were remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal. A trial date has not yet been set.
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/ian/news/2010/aug_10/8_24_10_Engelkes.html.txt.gz
Spencer Man Charged With Illegal Possession Of A Firearm As A Convicted Felon Contact: Peter Deegan Billy Joe Engelkes, age 44, Spencer, Iowa, has been charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The charges are contained in an Indictment filed August 19, 2010, in United States District Court in Sioux City. The Indictment alleges that, on or about May 19, 2010, Engelkes possessed a shotgun and ammunition after having been convicted of a felony drug charge on July 16, 2007, in O’Brien County, Iowa. If convicted, Engelkes faces a possible maximum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, $100 in special assessments, and up to three years of supervised release following any imprisonment. Engelkes appeared on August 20, 2010, in federal court in Sioux City and was released on bond. Engelkes’s next appearance for trial is set for October 4, 2010. As with any criminal case, a charge is merely an accusation and a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. This case is being prosecuted as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a cooperative local, state and federal program aimed at the enhanced prosecution of gun crimes. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kevin C. Fletcher and was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 10-CR-4072.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/spiro-baltatzidis-former-founder-and-chief-executive-officer-starwich-inc-sentenced.txt.gz
Spiro Baltatzidis, Former Founder And Chief Executive Officer Of Starwich, Inc., Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To Six Months In Prison For Wire Fraud Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SPIRO BALTATZIDIS, the former Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Starwich, Inc. (“Starwich”), was sentenced today to six months in prison for wire fraud. BALTATZIDIS pled guilty in January 2013 before United States District Judge Ronnie Abrams, who also imposed today’s sentence. According to the Information and statements made at the plea proceeding: Starwich was a privately held corporation headquartered in New York that engaged in the food services business, and more specifically, the upscale specialty sandwich business. Starwich operated a micro-chain of restaurants located around Manhattan and maintained multiple corporate bank accounts (collectively, the “Starwich Bank Accounts”) at Citibank, N.A. (“Citibank”) into which investor funds were deposited. From the summer of 2007 through May 2008, BALTATZIDIS solicited a $25 million investment from a financial institution (the “Victim Financial Institution”). BALTATZIDIS represented that the purpose of the investment was to expand the business operations of Starwich. In connection with the investment solicitation, the Victim Financial Institution conducted due diligence to determine whether Starwich was a prudent investment opportunity. This due diligence included, among other things, a review of Starwich’s financials. Accordingly, at the Victim Financial Institution’s request, on September 16, 2007, it received a fax from Starwich containing Citibank statements for one of the Starwich Bank Accounts. The first statement purported to cover the period December 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006, and reflected an ending balance of approximately $450,000. Another statement for the same account purported to cover the period June 1, 2007 through June 30, 2007, reflected an ending balance of approximately $1.2 million – an increase in the ending balance of well over 100% in the six-month period between December 2006 and June 2007. Based in part on the June 2007 statement, the Victim Financial Institution entered into a Memorandum of Terms (“the Memorandum”) with Starwich in November 2007. The Memorandum detailed the principal terms of a proposed $25 million investment in shares of Starwich to be divided into three stages of disbursements. However, the bank statements provided to the Victim Financial Institution were fraudulent. The actual bank account records from Citibank showed a balance of approximately $400 as of December 31, 2006, and approximately $200 as of June 30, 2007. In furtherance of its due diligence, the Victim Financial Institution requested a further update of Starwich’s financials and in response to this request, BALTATZIDIS forwarded an email chain between BALTATZIDIS and an employee of Citibank (the “Bank Employee”) on November 15, 2007. The content of the email chain forwarded to the Victim Financial Institution (the “Victim Financial Institution Email”) reflected that BALTATZIDIS asked the Bank Employee for the balance of one of the Starwich accounts for the period ending September 30, 2007, and the Bank Employee purportedly responded that the account’s current balance was approximately $1.3 million. In fact, the email chain forwarded by BALTATZIDIS to the Victim Financial Institution on November 15, 2007, was materially altered from its original version (the “Authentic Citibank Email”). Specifically, in the Authentic Citibank Email, the Bank Employee wrote that the account’s current balance was “-$3,963.93,” whereas the Victim Financial Institution Email reflected a balance of “$1,317,963.93.” In addition, the Authentic Citibank Email included a copy of the account statement for the period ending September 30, 2007, whereas the Victim Financial Institution Email omitted the account statement. From November 15, 2007 through May 2008, BALTATZIDIS and the Victim Financial Institution continued their discussions regarding the solicited financial investment in Starwich. By May 2008, however, the Victim Financial Institution decided against investing with Starwich and ended its discussions with BALTATZIDIS. In August 2008, Starwich filed for bankruptcy. In addition to his prison term, BALTATZIDIS, 38, was also sentenced to 30 months of supervised release, six months of which are to be served on home confinement. Mr. Bharara praised the investigative work of the United States Postal Inspection Service. This case was brought in coordination with President Barack Obama’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, on which Mr. Bharara serves as a Co-Chair of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Working Group. The task force was established to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. With more than 20 federal agencies, 94 U.S. attorneys’ offices and state and local partners, it’s the broadest coalition of law enforcement, investigatory and regulatory agencies ever assembled to combat fraud. Since its formation, the task force has made great strides in facilitating increased investigation and prosecution of financial crimes; enhancing coordination and cooperation among federal, state and local authorities; addressing discrimination in the lending and financial markets and conducting outreach to the public, victims, financial institutions and other organizations. Over the past three fiscal years, the Justice Department has filed nearly 10,000 financial fraud cases against nearly 15,000 defendants including more than 2,900 mortgage fraud defendants. For more information on the task force, please visit www.stopfraud.gov. The case is being handled by the Office’s Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force. Assistant United States Attorney Julian J. Moore is in charge of the prosecution.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-vi/pr/st-thomas-man-arrested-possession-crack-cocaine-intent-distribute.txt.gz
St. Thomas Man Arrested for Possession of Crack Cocaine with the Intent to Distribute St. Thomas, USVI – Delroy Tatum, Jr., 53, of St. Thomas was arrested on an indictment charging him with four counts of possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. Tatum made his initial appearance before Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller on Tuesday and was detained pending further proceedings. According to the indictment, between May and September of 2014, Tatum sold crack cocaine to an individual on four separate occasions. The rock-like substances purchased from Tatum field-tested positive for crack cocaine on each occasion. If convicted of possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine, Tatum faces a statutory term of imprisonment up to twenty years and a $250,000 fine. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigated this case and it is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Sigrid M. Tejo-Sprotte. United States Attorney Shappert reminds the public that an indictment is merely a formal charging document and is not evidence of guilt. Every defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
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St. Thomas Man Sentenced to 25 years in Prison for Child Exploitation Offenses St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Raheem T. Creque, 37, of St Thomas, to 25 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for production of child pornography, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Gomez also sentenced Creque to 60 months in prison and three years of supervised release for escape from custody. Both sentences will run concurrently. Creque was arrested on January 21, 2014 by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and charged with enticing and coercing a minor to engage in sexual activity through use of a facility of interstate commerce. After his detention hearing on January 22, 2014, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller ordered Creque held without bail, and remanded him to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. On January 23, 2014, Creque escaped from the V.I. Bureau of Corrections at the Alexander A. Farrelly Criminal Justice Complex. On January 24, 2014, Judge Gomez issued an arrest warrant for Creque, and after an aggressive, multi-agency manhunt, Creque was arrested on February 28, 2014. On July 9, 2014, he pleaded guilty to three counts of child pornography and one count of escape from custody. According to court records, Creque came to the attention of law enforcement when a female minor contacted the V.I. Police Department (VIPD) and complained that the defendant had extorted her for sex, threatening to place nude images of her on the Internet. Creque first contacted the minor when she was 15 years old, and told her that he had a sexually explicit video of her, and that he would post it on Facebook if she did not have sex with him. The female minor begged Creque not to release the video, but he continued to threaten her until she complied with his demands. During his sexual assault of the female minor, Creque took a photo of the minor, which he used to further extort her by threatening to post it on Facebook. Court records also reveal that searches of Creque’s cell phone and Facebook account revealed multiple nude images of other minor females, the youngest being 12, with some of the minors engaged in sexual contact with Creque. When he made his initial contact with the female minors, Creque pretended to be a teenage boy named “Carlos,” and would send images of “Carlos” to the minor victims. This case was investigated by HSI and VIPD, and prosecuted by Assistant U.S Attorney Everard E. Potter.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/27/europe/london-attack/.txt.gz
Story highlights - Muslim women take to Westminster Bridge Sunday to publicly show horror over the attack - 12th person arrested Sunday, Metropolitan Police say (CNN)Muslim women linked arms along Westminster Bridge Sunday in a show of solidarity with the victims of last week's London terror attack. The women, many of whom wore blue to symbolize peace, were joined by supporters who stood in silence for five minutes as Big Ben struck 4 p.m. Four days prior, lone attacker Khalid Masood rammed a car into pedestrians on the bridge, killing three and leaving dozens injured. He crashed the vehicle before later stabbing an on-duty police officer in the grounds of Parliament. Masood was shot dead by police at the scene. A fourth victim died later in the week, when his life support was withdrawn. The vigil, which was organized by the Women's March on London, came after a photo of a woman wearing an Islamic head covering crossing the bridge in the aftermath of the attack went viral on social media. Some commentators criticized what they perceived to be the woman's indifference to an injured victim in the image. 'Sadness, fear and concern' The woman in the photograph released a statement Friday to set the record straight. "Not only have I been devastated by witnessing the aftermath of a shocking and numbing terror attack, I've also had to deal with the shock of finding my picture plastered all over social media by those who could not look beyond my attire, who draw conclusions based on hate and xenophobia," she told Tell MAMA, a UK-based organization which monitors anti-Muslim attacks. "My thoughts at that moment were one of sadness, fear, and concern," the unnamed woman said in a statement. Full coverage - Police name London attacker - London unites against terror - A city stilled, shocked, enraged - Opinion: Attack was long overdue - Analysis: Don't bet on lone wolf - Challenge of low-tech terror - Politician rushes to victim's aid "What the image does not show is that I had talked to other witnesses to try and find out what was happening, to see if I could be of any help... My thoughts go out to all the victims and their families." The photographer who took the photo has spoken out in the woman's defense. "The people who took on that picture are being rather selective," freelance photographer Jamie Lorriman told Australian broadcaster ABC. "In the other picture in the sequence, she looks truly distraught... personally I think she looks distressed in both pictures." Another arrest made In all, twelve people were arrested in relation to the attack. The latest was a 30-year old man who was detained Sunday in Birmingham "on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts" under the TACT or Terrorism Act 2000, Metropolitan Police said. Nine people who had been arrested earlier have been released "with no further action." A 58-year-old man who was arrested Thursday in Birmingham remains in custody. A 32-year-old woman, arrested in Manchester, is out on bail, pending further inquiries. Investigators: No direct ISIS link Investigators do not currently see a direct ISIS hand in the attack, a British counterterrorism official said earlier in the weekend. Khalid Masood was active on the encryption messaging service WhatsApp two minutes before he started his attack on Westminster Bridge, but no evidence has emerged to show he was communicating with ISIS at any point, the official told CNN. Investigators are looking into communications he had with individuals leading up to the attack, the official added. But investigators currently believe Masood was more likely inspired by ISIS rather than directed by the terrorist group, the official told CNN. Investigators are still assessing whether the attacker plotted alone or acted as part of a broader conspiracy. They're continuing to probe his contacts in radical circles in Birmingham, Luton and London, the official told CNN. Investigation underway Authorities are also investigating how Masood, who used multiple aliases, became radicalized. He was born Adrian Russell Ajao but also used the name Adrian Elms, police said Friday. Born in Kent, Masood had previous convictions, including some for violent offenses, but none for terrorism, police said. His most recent conviction was in 2003 for possession of a knife. Attack victims In addition to four deaths, last week's attack wounded at least 50 others, 31 of whom needed hospital treatment, Rowley said. American tourist Kurt Cochran and college administrator Aysha Frade, a British citizen with Spanish roots, died Wednesday along with police constable Keith Palmer. A fourth victim, Leslie Rhodes, 75, from Streatham in south London, died Thursday night after his life support was withdrawn, according to the Metropolitan Police. Cochran and his wife, Melissa, from Utah, were visiting London to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary when they were hit by the car on the bridge. Melissa suffered a broken leg, a broken rib and a cut to her head. The couple ran a recording studio in West Bountiful, near Salt Lake City. The Metropolitan Police issued a statement from their family Monday in which they said Melissa's health is improving. "So many people have been so kind, and we are deeply touched by their goodness and generosity. Your notes, prayers, donations and love have helped us so much," they said. "The most difficult part of all of this is that Kurt is no longer with us, and we miss him terribly. He was an amazing individual who loved everyone and tried to make the world a better place. He left a legacy of generosity and service that continues to inspire us. "We are deeply saddened to lose him but are grateful that the world is coming to know him and be inspired by him."
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https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2539386921442/studios-fume-over-amc-theatres-greedy-surge-pricing-on-movie-tickets-it-s-all-take-and-no-give.txt.gz
Studios Fume Over AMC Theatres’ ‘Greedy’ Surge Pricing on Movie Tickets: ‘It’s All Take and No Give’ ”Any consumer that hears or reads that is going to feel that they’re being gouged,“ one industry exec says. Hollywood movie studios are fuming over AMC CEO Adam Arons’ public reveal this week that his theater chain charged extra for opening week tickets to “The Batman” and would continue to pursue...www.thewrap.com
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https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2541350558086/suspected-dui-driver-takes-out-electric-pole-causes-pch-closure-in-malibu.txt.gz
Suspected DUI driver takes out electric pole, causes PCH closure in Malibu MALIBU, Calif. (KNX) — A suspected drunken driver who allegedly downed a utility pole was responsible for a traffic jam on Pacific Coast Highway Monday morning. PCH was closed for several hours after the crash, which occurred just after midnight at Rambla Vista, according to authorities. The suspected DUI driver crashed into a parked car, flipped and knocked down a utility pole, authorities said. One pole was knocked down and another utility pole was leaning toward a house, Sgt. James Arens of the Malibu-Lost Hills Sheriff's Station told City News Service. A female driver was arrested at the scene but it wasn’t immediately clear if anyone was seriously hurt, according to CBS Los Angeles . Utility crews were sent to make repairs in the early hours of the morning. People on social media shared images of major backups on surrounding side streets and the Santa Monica Unified School District reported its school buses were being rerouted due to the closure. SCE reported that 51 customers were without power as of 7:30 a.m., according to CBS. PCH was closed in both directions until about 7:15 a.m., when one lane was reopened in each direction, the sheriff's department said. Follow KNX News 97.1 FM Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok
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TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s election system is poisoned by dirty tricks, dark money, lax laws and phony candidates. Only the state Legislature can fix these problems. And right now the face of this broken system belongs to one man — Frank Artiles, a proud Republican. Artiles is a former state senator accused of rigging a state Senate race last fall by recruiting a phony and destitute candidate to run for office with the lure of serious money. Artiles was charged Thursday with crimes that could send him to prison for years. Prosecutors filed three felony counts against Artiles over his alleged role in recruiting and financing the “ghost” candidacy of Alex Rodriguez in a race both parties needed to win badly. Rodriguez was on the ballot to confuse voters and siphon votes from the real Rodriguez, Jose Javier, a Democratic incumbent targeted for defeat by Republicans. The dirty scheme worked to perfection. The winner by 32 votes was Republican Ileana Garcia, who has not been implicated in any wrongdoing. Alex Rodriguez pretended to live in the Senate district, when he lived in Boca Raton (that’s legal in our lax system). He switched parties from Republican to NPA, no party affiliation, the day he filed papers (also legal). He benefited from an infusion of — so far at least — untraceable money in a system built by Tallahassee politicians. Artiles knew its weak spots and exploited them all, but it took money. Artiles is accused of illegally steering $45,000 to Rodriguez, in obscene excess of campaign donation limits. As the magnitude of this scandal seeps in, it’s doubtful this was solely Artiles’ idea. How could he have afforded it? (His most recent financial disclosure, filed in 2017, shows a middling net worth of $463,000). The arrest warrant shows a paper trail leading to the door of Artiles’ Palmetto Bay home with Facebook messenger chats, text messages, credit card statements and multiple cash withdrawals from a safe. What prosecutors have not said is where that money came from. “We don’t know at this point,” State Attorney Kathy Fernandez Rundle told reporters. “We have not completed this investigation.” Rundle and her staff stayed on this case, to their credit, as they chased leads and followed the solid reporting of The Miami Herald and WPLG Local 10 News. Tracing the source of that money may unlock the true mystery and possibly expose a much bigger scandal. “Where did Artiles get this money?” Senate Democratic Leader Gary Farmer asked Friday, noting that prosecutors said Artiles repeatedly used the pronoun “we” in talking to Rodriguez. “It’s ‘we’ did this and ‘we’ did that.” Senate Democrats called on Sen. Garcia to resign — an overreach since she has not been implicated in any wrongdoing. They also called for another election not tainted by corruption. So when will the Republican Legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis clean up this horrible mess? That won’t be easy, because they’re busy working on what they call “election integrity.” They’re making it more difficult for honest voters to get mail ballots, by eliminating vote-by-mail drop boxes or by imposing $25,000 fines on election supervisors who leave drop boxes unsupervised. They’re very concerned about election fraud, you know, and it’s the height of hypocrisy with the Artiles case staring them in the face. The Artiles scandal has broken wide open smack in the midst of a legislative session, which should make it much harder to ignore. But we’re dealing with the Florida Legislature here. At a Thursday news briefing, Senate President Wilton Simpson referred to the Artiles case as “the topic of the day” and was asked if real election reform will get more attention now. “It will get accelerated based on the will of the Senate,” Simpson said. Senators could close those evil dark-money loopholes. They could tighten the residency requirements for candidates. They could pass a common-sense bill by Sen. Tina Polsky, D-Boca Raton, to prevent any last-minute party switching. Or they could do nothing. Next week is Week 4 of the nine-week session. Polsky’s bill is not scheduled for a hearing. For Florida Republicans, “election integrity” begins at home. The party of Frank Artiles has to get its own house in order before it makes phony claims of fraud against others. Steve Bousquet is a Sun Sentinel columnist in Tallahassee. Contact him at sbousquet@sunsentinel.com or (850) 567-2240 and follow him on Twitter @stevebousquet.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida teen identified as the mastermind of scheme that gained control of Twitter accounts of politicians, celebrities and technology moguls has pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of fraud. Seventeen-year-old Graham Clark is accused of using the hijacked Twitter accounts to scam people around the world out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin. He faces numerous charges including 17 counts of communications fraud and 11 counts of fraudulent use of personal information. Two other men were also charged in the case. Mason Sheppard, 19, of Bognor Regis, U.K., and Nima Fazeli, 22, of Orlando were charged separately last week in California federal court. Court papers in the California cases say Fazeli and Sheppard brokered the sale of Twitter accounts stolen by a hacker who identified himself as “Kirk,” and said he could “reset, swap and control any Twitter account at will” in exchange for cybercurrency payments, claiming to be a Twitter employee. The documents do not specify Kirk’s real identity but say he is a teen being prosecuted in the Tampa area. Twitter has said the hacker gained access to a company dashboard that manages accounts by using social engineering and spear-phishing smartphones to obtain credentials from “a small number” of Twitter employees “to gain access to our internal systems.” Spear-phishing uses email or other messaging to deceive people into sharing access credentials. The prosecution believes Clark called a Twitter employee and was able to convince the employee he was a coworker, according to the Wall Street Journal. A blog post from Twitter last week shared some details of the hack. "Using the credentials of employees with access to these tools, the attackers targeted 130 Twitter accounts, ultimately Tweeting from 45, accessing the DM inbox of 36, and downloading the Twitter Data of 7." Clark was arrested Friday and entered the not-guilty pleas Tuesday. He remains in jail with bond set at $725,000. A bond hearing is set for Wednesday.
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THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – With Texas Republicans poised to sign off on a sweeping voting bill, President Joe Biden said Saturday that legislation like Senate Bill 7 that restricts voting access is “un-American.” “Today, Texas legislators put forth a bill that joins Georgia and Florida in advancing a state law that attacks the sacred right to vote, ” Biden said in a statement to The Texas Tribune. “It’s part of an assault on democracy that we’ve seen far too often this year — and often disproportionately targeting Black and Brown Americans.” SB 7, the Texas GOP’s priority voting bill, would limit early voting hours, curtail local voting options and further clamp down on mail-in voting, among several other provisions. Biden’s denouncement of the bill came just as a draft of the final version began circulating at the Texas Capitol. The House and Senate are expected to take final votes on the bill in the next day and send it to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature before it becomes law. RELATED: U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz, John Cornyn vote against commission to investigate January insurrection “It’s wrong and un-American,” Biden said. “In the 21st century, we should be making it easier, not harder, for every eligible voter to vote.” Texas Republicans began the 2021 legislative session staging a sweeping legislative campaign to pass new voting restrictions, proposing significant changes to nearly the entire voting process and taking particular aim at local efforts to make voting easier. It was formally touched off by Abbott, when he named “election integrity” one of his emergency items for the legislative session despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick also named “election and ballot security” one of his priorities. SB 7 ultimately emerged as the main vehicle through which state lawmakers, like Republicans across the country, would further restrict how and when voters cast ballots following the 2020 election. “Overall, this bill is designed to address areas throughout the process where bad actors can take advantage, so Texans can feel confident that their elections are fair, honest and open,” Republican state Sen. Bryan Hughes said while presenting the bill to the Senate earlier this year. RELATED: 'Don't Mess with Texas' Abortions' rally held at Texas Capitol While Republicans have tried to frame the legislation as one that standardizes voting rules across the state, substantial portions of SB 7 were written to specifically outlaw voting initiatives carried out last fall in largely Democratic Harris County, the state’s largest county where voters of color make up a high share of the electorate. That includes drive-thru voting to allow people to vote from their cars, extended early voting hours after the usual 7 p.m. cutoff and a day of 24 hours of uninterrupted early voting to reach shift workers who have trouble casting ballots during regular hours. Both initiatives — which proved particularly successful in reaching voters of color — would be banned under SB 7. SB 7 also sets new windows for early voting — generally from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. — that would also slightly shorten the extra hours other large counties offered in the last election. The legislation has been condemned by advocates for voters with disabilities, voter advocacy groups and civil rights organizations with histories of fighting laws that could harm voters of color. Throughout the legislative session, they’ve repeatedly warned lawmakers that SB 7 would raise new barriers to the ballot for marginalized voters, including voters of color and voters with disabilities, and that it likely violates federal safeguards for those voters. RELATED: Texas bill limiting teaching of current events, historic racism appears headed for governor after Senate revives it The final version of the bill was negotiated behind closed doors over the last week after the Senate and the House passed significantly different versions of the legislation. “It is fitting that the final push to get anti-voter Senate Bill 7 to the Governor’s desk would take place behind closed doors, hidden from public scrutiny,” MOVE Texas communications director Charlie Bonner said Saturday. “This bill does nothing to improve the security of our elections — it only makes our democracy weaker by limiting access for young, disabled, Black and Brown Texans.” SB 7 also clamps down on voting by mail, making it a state jail felony for local officials to distribute applications to request mail-in ballots to voters who didn’t ask for them. This ban was also a response to Harris County’s failed attempt to send applications to all 2.4 million registered voters last year, even though other Texas counties sent applications to voters 65 and older without controversy. Although those voters automatically qualify to vote by mail, SB 7 bans counties from proactively mailing unrequested applications to them in the future. Political parties can still send unsolicited applications, as both Republicans and Democrats often do before elections. On Saturday, Biden also cited the imminent passage of SB 7 to a call on Congress to act on federal voting legislation that would significantly reform elections and another measure that would bring back federal oversight of state changes to voting law. Until 2013, Texas was among the states under federal supervision of its election and voting laws to ensure they did not hamper the voting rights of people of color. Federal courts repeatedly found that Texas lawmakers discriminated against voters of color in their political mapmaking and in writing up new voting requirements, including the state’s original voter ID law in 2011. Texas Tribune mission statement The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune. PEOPLE ARE ALSO READING: Thousands of Austin Energy customers still without power; some could be without through Sunday Firefly Aerospace expanding in Cedar Park, creating more than 680 jobs Biden's $6T budget includes multimillion-dollar transportation projects in Austin
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TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese man accused of defrauding the government of 1 billion yen ($7.3 million) intended for small Japanese businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic was arrested on board a flight Wednesday after being deported from Indonesia, where he fled 1 1/2 years ago. Mitsuhiro Taniguchi, 47, was arrested by Japanese police who accompanied him from Indonesia. He was taken to a police station after landing at Tokyo's Narita airport, Japanese media reported. Police confirmed his arrest. Indonesian immigration official Douglas Simamora said earlier Wednesday that Taniguchi was deported after his passport was revoked by the Japanese government and because he had no Indonesian residence permit. Indonesian authorities arrested Taniguchi on June 4 at a house owned by a fish trader in Lampung province. During his stay there, he described himself as an investor interested in fisheries. Indonesian authorities are investigating whether other people in that country were involved in the fraud scheme linked to Taniguchi. In one case, Taniguchi and his accomplice Koichiro Ota, 34, who was separately arrested Wednesday, allegedly defrauded the government of 2 million yen ($14,700) by submitting a false application behalf of someone lacking eligibility for a subsidy, the Tokyo police said. Taniguchi and a group of acquaintances allegedly submitted about 1,700 false applications for COVID-19 relief funds to the Japanese government and illegally received subsidies on more than 960 of those applications, taking with them about 1 billion yen ($7.3 million), reports say. Police arrested Taniguchi’s ex-wife and their two sons — believed to be part of a larger group — in May on fraud allegations and were preparing to place Taniguchi on an international wanted list. The three suspects allegedly defrauded the government of 3 million yen ($22,500) in COVID-19 subsidies from June to August 2020. The case surfaced in August 2020 when the office offering the subsidies consulted with Tokyo police. Taniguchi entered Indonesia two months later on an investor visa. Jatmiko and Tarigan reported from Jakarta, Indonesia.
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TOQUERVILLE, Utah — The fourth Utah man accused of participating in the US Capitol insurrection was scheduled to appear virtually in federal court Wednesday. According to court documents obtained by FOX 13, Willard “Jake” Peart came to the FBI with an attorney two weeks after the incident and before investigators were looking for him. Peart declined to comment to FOX 13 News about the charges Wednesday, but it appears he has been cooperating with investigators months before he was charged. Read - Fourth Utah man charged with participating in U.S. Capitol riot Peart lives in Toquerville and is a well-known real estate agent Washington County and father of five. For nearly four years, Peart served on the Toquerville Planning Commission beginning in 2015. Meeting minutes show he would occasionally lead commissioners in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. The Department of Justice investigators said Peart admitted to going to the nation’s capitol for a President Trump rally. They say the 45-year-old confessed he went into the capitol near the Senate Chamber and was chanting and yelling out for politicians. At one point, he is seen on camera wrapped in a red Trump flag. Read - 'It breaks my heart' - Romney comments on insurrection at US Capitol In court documents, an FBI agent wrote Peart intended to disrupt the Electoral College certification. “While inside, Peart’s conduct was disorderly and disruptive,” the agent wrote. “At no time did Peart have permission to be inside the US Capitol Building.” Surveillance shows Peart interacting with FBI agents who escorted him out of the building. Peart joins three other Uthans charged with their alleged involvement on January 6, including a St. George man, a former Salt Lake City Police Officer, and political activist.
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TRANSITION WATCH: Perdue is Trump’s Ag pick Trump has picked former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to lead the Department of Agriculture. The Washington Post: “Three of Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks came under growing fire Wednesday on ethical issues, potentially jeopardizing their nominations. The most serious concerns surround personal investments by Trump’s health and human services nominee, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), in health-care firms that benefited from legislation that he was pushing at the time. Additionally, Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), Trump’s choice to head the Office of Management and Budget, has acknowledged during his confirmation process that he failed to pay more than $15,000 in state and federal employment taxes for a household employee. And Commerce Department nominee Wilbur Ross revealed that one of the “dozen or so” housekeepers he has hired since 2009 was undocumented, which he said he discovered only recently. The employee was fired as a result, he added.” NBC’s Leigh Ann Caldwell offers five takeaways from this week’s confirmation hearings so far. The New York Times, on Tom Price’s hearing: “Representative Tom Price, the man President-elect Donald J. Trump has chosen to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, promised on Wednesday to make sure people do not “fall through the cracks” if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, and set a goal to increase the number of people with health insurance. But at a hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Mr. Price provided only vague reassurance to members of both parties who pressed him for specific policies.” Rex Tillerson’s nomination is still up in the air, POLITICO writes. And here’s the New York Times on Rick Perry: “When President-elect Donald J. Trump offered Rick Perry the job of energy secretary five weeks ago, Mr. Perry gladly accepted, believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry that he had long championed in his home state. In the days after, Mr. Perry, the former Texas governor, discovered that he would be no such thing — that in fact, if confirmed by the Senate, he would become the steward of a vast national security complex he knew almost nothing about, caring for the most fearsome weapons on the planet, the United States’ nuclear arsenal.” From the Washington Post: “Trump is trying to put the bully back into the bully pulpit, modeling his governing style after Theodore Roosevelt, the president whose attacks on industry barons inspired the term.” From POLITICO: “By the time he is sworn in tomorrow, Donald Trump will have undergone a haunting rite of passage: the classified briefing given to every incoming president that explains how he can order a nuclear attack. While neither U.S. nor Trump officials would confirm the exact time or location of Trump’s briefing, several past presidents have been briefed on the nuclear codes at the historic Blair House, on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House, hours before their inauguration.” In his final press conference, Barack Obama said: “At my core, I think we're going to be OK.” Trump resistance update, per a release: "Today, on the eve of the least popular and most divisive President-elects in modern history, Purpose launched launched a new web tool that will help ordinary Americans stay engaged in the resistance to Trump. The new site -- http://This.IsNotNormal.com -- will allow people to record the reasons they are concerned about a Trump presidency in a letter to themselves, which will be automatically sent back to them in one year to remind them of their fears and encourage them to remain active in resisting Trump if those concerns were realized." TRUMP AGENDA: The “unprecedented” contrast between Obama and Clinton One of us(!) notes that the contrast between Donald Trump and Barack Obama is unprecedented. What can we expect with history’s oldest incoming U.S. president? The Washington Post takes a look. POLITICO: “Just days before he ascends to the presidency, there are lingering questions about whether President-elect Donald Trump’s team is fully prepared to take over the sprawling federal government, according to more than two dozen interviews with Trump and Obama administration officials, lobbyists, experts and others close to the process. A deep distrust has taken hold between Trump’s transition officials and Obama’s political appointees at a number of federal agencies, slowing down the handover of agency responsibilities on everything from meat inspections to drug pricing. There’s confusion over policy on several major agenda items, as Trump gives conflicting signals and often disagrees with his Cabinet nominees. And a number of federal agencies are far from having the staff they need to run on Day One, people close to the transition say.” BloombergBusinessweek’s Josh Green profiles Corey Lewandowski and Barry Bennett’s new lobbying firm in Washington D.C. “To advertise their support, they’re taking the highly unusual step for a lobbying firm of creating a pro-Trump super PAC (the Great American Agenda PAC) that they’ll fund with their own money. The PAC’s purpose, Bennett says, will be to “build grass-roots energy and support for the Trump agenda, the cabinet nominees, and the Supreme Court pick.” While the PAC won’t be especially large (it will probably raise less than $1 million), Bennett says he hopes it will “build a list of a million people who we can count on raising their voices to Congress—we’ll help them every day with something they can do to push the agenda forward.” The New York Times notes that the Trump Organization has been removing imagery of Trump and his daughter from their websites. The AP: “Donald Trump has vowed his company will do "no new foreign deals" while he is president. But he's left "new" and "deals" open to interpretation. Now those words are drawing scrutiny as his company confirms plans to expand its golf resort near Aberdeen, Scotland, raising concerns about conflicts of interest. A spokeswoman for the resort says the expansion is not a new deal, but just another construction phase that was included in the broad plan approved by the local government in 2008.” DEM WATCH: What’s next for Joe Biden? The New York Times: “The Bidens will vacate the vice-presidential residence at the Naval Observatory to head to Wilmington on Friday, but the couple intend to find a small house in Washington near their friends Barack and Michelle Obama so that Dr. Biden can continue teaching English at a community college in Northern Virginia.”
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https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/portchester/police-fire/tuckahoe-man-charged-with-cashing-same-check-twice/555000/.txt.gz
TUCKAHOE, N.Y. – A 21-year old Tuckahoe man was arrested on Thursday after allegedly trying to cash a check twice from two separate businesses, the New York State Police reported. Kevin Moultrie, Jr. was charged with fourth-degree grand larceny after cashing a payroll check from Hughes Financial Services in Yonkers that he had already deposited electronically with another business. The loss to Hughes was in excess of $1,000, police said. Moultrie is scheduled to appear at Yonkers City Court on August 18. Click here to sign up for Daily Voice's free daily emails and news alerts.
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/ma/news/2011/September/PressRelease2.html.txt.gz
TWELVE BOSTON MEN CHARGED WITH FEDERAL AND STATE DRUG DISTRIBUTION CHARGES Boston, Mass...In federal and state indictments that were unsealed today, 12 Boston men have been charged with distributing cocaine and heroin in Roxbury and Dorchester. According to a complaint affidavit, these charges are the result of a three-month investigation targeting drug trafficking in areas particularly hard hit by drug dealing and related violence: the area around the Warren Gardens Apartments near Dudley Square, and areas around Codman Square and Uphams Corner in Dorchester. All of the federal defendants are charged with distribution of cocaine; and five are also charged with having conducted their drug deals within 1,000 feet of area parks or schools. “This investigation reflects the commitment of the Department of Justice to work closely with our local and state agencies to bring the full spectrum of federal resources to bear on the violence plaguing our local communities,” stated United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz. “As we begin the new school year, state and federal law enforcement working cooperatively, and guided by strategic crime statistics demonstrating where the need is greatest, will continue their efforts to remove dangerous drug traffickers from the street. Law abiding citizens in every neighborhood should be able to live without fear or exposure to drug activity and the violence that so often accompanies it.” “The ATF will continue to aggressively partner with its federal, state and local law enforcement partners to remove dangerous felons from the streets and improve the quality of life for every citizen of Boston,” stated ATF Special Agent-in-Charge Guy N. Thomas. “This investigation is an example of what cooperative law enforcement can accomplish when agencies pull together to accomplish a common goal and send a message that violent crime and drug trafficking will not be tolerated.” Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis stated, “This latest development demonstrates our ongoing and collaborative commitment to Warren Gardens and other areas of the city effected by illegal drug trade. Our goal is to provide peace and safety to the many residents in this community who deserve a healthy and safe environment to live and work.” “Drug trafficking and violent crime go hand in hand,” District Attorney Daniel Conley said. “The evidence is in the drug-related homicides, shootings, and robberies that too often target innocent families. By targeting distribution networks such as these, local, state and federal partners are working to make Boston and the Commonwealth safer for everyone who lives and works here.” Charged in federal indictments with distribution of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school or playground are: 1. James Boyd of Dorchester 2. James Jones of Dorchester 3. Deondre Snow of Dorchester 4. Byron Dudley of Roxbury 5. Tyson Jenkins of Dorchester Charged in a federal criminal complaint with distributing cocaine is: 6. Luis Otero of Dorchester Upon conviction, the federal defendants each face a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years. If convicted of distribution of crack cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school or playground, the defendants each face up to 40 years in prison. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office today announced the return of criminal complaints charging the following individuals with Distribution of a Class A or B substance and Distribution of a Controlled Substance in a School Zone: 7. Michael Negron of Dorchester 8. Fugitive 9. Fugitive 10. Fugitive Charged in additional state criminal complaints alleging distribution of a counterfeit substance are: 11. Shaheed Flowers of Dorchester 12. Randy Ogie of Dorchester U.S. Attorney Ortiz; District Attorney Conley; SAC Thomas; and Commissioner Davis made the announcement today. The federal cases are being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys in Sullivan’s Organized Crime Strike Force/Gang Unit. The state cases are being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys in Conley’s Gang and Narcotics Units. The details contained in the indictments and complaints are allegations. The defendants are presumed to be innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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Tax Scheme Nets 32 Month Prison Sentence For Philadelphia Man PHILADELPHIA - Steven Young, 32, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 32 months in prison for his role in a tax fraud conspiracy. Young pleaded guilty on May 13, 2014 to one count of conspiracy and six counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of fraudulent federal income tax returns. Young was providing personal identifying information to his co-conspirators for use in creating and filing fraudulent income tax returns. Young was charged with Tanita Chapman who pleaded guilty to 23 counts of preparing and filing of false and fraudulent federal income tax returns, as well as conspiracy, and is awaiting sentencing. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge J. Curtis Joyner ordered restitution to the IRS in the amount of $42,889, three years of supervised release and a $700 special assessment. According to court documents, Young’s then-girlfriend, Wendy Vandyke, charged separately, was friends with Chapman. In 2009, Chapman prepared federal income tax returns for Vandyke and others. In many of these returns, although not in the one that she prepared for Vandyke, Chapman filed an accompanying form 5405 in which she unlawfully claimed the First Time Home Buyer’s Credit (“FTHBC”) for individuals whom she knew were not eligible to receive it. To this end, Vandyke provided to Chapman identifiers of individuals whom Vandyke and Chapman knew were ineligible to receive the FTHBC, in order for Chapman to prepare returns unlawfully claiming the FTHBC. Vandyke received these identifiers from Young who was incarcerated at the time at a State Correctional Institution. Young obtained these identifiers from inmates with whom he was incarcerated and, in exchange for their identifiers, Young arranged for each inmate to receive a portion of the FTHBC that was fraudulently claimed on that inmate’s behalf. However, the larger portions of the fraudulently received credits were split between Vandyke/Young (as a unit) and Chapman. Ultimately, as a result of the scheme, $42,889 in FTHBCs were fraudulently claimed in tax returns prepared by Chapman, ostensibly for six inmates. The government issued refunds for this same amount. The case was investigated by Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Linwood C. Wright, Jr. UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, EASTERN DISTRICTof PENNSYLVANIA Suite 1250, 615 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 PATTY HARTMAN, Media Contact, 215-861-8525
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-ut/pr/taylor-pleads-guilty-contempt-court-after-forging-letter-avoid-reporting-federal-prison.txt.gz
Taylor Pleads Guilty to Contempt of Court after Forging Letter to Avoid Reporting to Federal Prison SALT LAKE CITY – Jason Taylor, age 42, of Highland, Utah, convicted last year of bilking thousands of credit card customers and the banks that issued the credit cards out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, pleaded guilty to contempt of court Tuesday afternoon in U.S. District Court. Taylor was involved in in two separate fraud schemes timed a little more than a year apart. In the first one, the credit cards of about 90,000 consumers were billed approximately $38 each for diet pills they never ordered. The banks caught onto the second fraud quickly and shut down the account, but not before more than 48,000 customers’ cards were billed approximately $70 each for a non-existent online coaching scheme. He pleaded guilty to one count of access device fraud and one count of making a false statement to a bank in May of last year. U.S. District Judge David Sam imposed a sentence of 40 months in federal prison in November and ordered Taylor to serve 60 months of supervised release when he finished his prison sentence. Additionally, Judge Sam ordered him to forfeit almost $600,000 in proceeds from his criminal conduct. According to Tuesday’s plea agreement on the contempt of court charge, follow Taylor’s sentencing hearing in November he asked to be allowed to report to prison in March 2017. Judge Sam allowed Taylor to remain out of custody over the holidays and ordered him to report to a facility designated by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons on Jan. 27, 2017. Taylor received notification of his prison designation on Jan. 4, 2017. Taylor admitted that on Jan. 11, 2017, his attorney filed a motion to postpone his reporting date indefinitely to allow for surgeries and a heart condition. The motion from his attorney was followed a day later by a letter purporting to be from a doctor identified in the plea agreement as Dr. R.R. The letter detailed some medical issues and recommended Taylor not be required to report to prison on his designated day of Jan. 27, 2017. As a part of his plea agreement, Taylor admitted he wrote the letter purporting to be from Dr. R.R., using the doctor’s name, title, phone number, and professional address without his prior knowledge or authorization. He admitted he transferred it by electronic means to his attorney, knowing his attorney would submit it to the court. He admitted he forged and submitted the letter from Dr. R.R. with the purpose and intent of avoiding reporting to prison as ordered. Taylor was arrested on a violation of supervised release in January and on Jan. 18, 2017, Judge Sam found him in violation of his pretrial release and ordered him held in custody. U.S. District Judge Dee Benson presided at the change of plea hearing Tuesday and sentenced Taylor to 12 months in federal prison for the contempt of court conviction. The 12-month sentence will be served consecutive to the 40-month sentence Taylor initially received. “Not only did this defendant misrepresent himself to fraud victims, he perpetrated a lie upon the federal court. His blatant dishonesty cost him one more year in federal prison,” U.S. Attorney John W. Huber said today. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Salt Lake City is prosecuting the Taylor case. The case is being investigated by inspectors with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and special agents of the U.S. Secret Service.
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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/tennessee-medical-doctor-and-advanced-practice-registered-nurse-charged-scheme-unlawfully.txt.gz
Tennessee Medical Doctor and Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Charged in Scheme to Unlawfully Distribute Controlled Substances A Tennessee medical doctor and an advanced practice registered nurse were charged in an indictment unsealed today for their roles in unlawfully distributing controlled substances. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee, Special Agent in Charge Derrick L. Jackson of the Atlanta Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), Special Agent in Charge M.A. “Mo” Myers of the FBI’s Memphis Field Office and Director David B. Rausch of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) made the announcement. Hemal V. Mehta, M.D., 49, of Brentwood, Tennessee, and Heather L. Marks, APRN, 36, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, were charged in an indictment filed Oct. 23, 2019, in the Middle District of Tennessee with one count of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute controlled substances and nine counts of unlawful distribution of controlled substances. According to the indictment, between 2016 and 2018, Mehta and Marks, whom Mehta supervised, conspired to distribute Schedule II controlled substances, including oxycodone, morphine sulfate and oxymorphone, to patients outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose. Mehta and Marks also allegedly dispensed and distributed oxycodone and oxymorphone on various occasions between 2016 and 2018. An indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. The FBI, HHS-OIG and TBI investigated the case. Trial Attorney William M. Grady of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section is prosecuting the case The Fraud Section leads the Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid (ARPO) Strike Force. Since its inception in October 2018, the ARPO Strike Force, which operates in 10 districts, has charged more than 70 defendants who are collectively responsible for distributing more than 40 million pills. The Health Care Fraud Unit, in general, maintains 15 strike forces operating in 24 districts, and has charged nearly 4,200 defendants who have collectively billed the Medicare program for more than $15 billion. In addition, the HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with HHS-OIG, are taking steps to increase accountability and decrease the presence of fraudulent providers. Individuals who believe that they may be a victim in this case should visit https://www.justice.gov/criminal-vns/case/ARPO for more information.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/texas-man-wanted-federal-authorities-pleads-guilty-credit-card-fraud.txt.gz
Texas Man Wanted By Federal Authorities Pleads Guilty To Credit Card Fraud Jacksonville, Florida – Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Jose Carlos Terra Izquierdo (23, Amarillo, TX) has pleaded guilty to credit card fraud. He faces an enhanced penalty of up to 20 years in federal prison and has agreed to forfeit his computer media and to pay restitution to his victims. A sentencing date has not yet been set. According to court documents, in 2016, Izquierdo was convicted of credit card fraud in the District of Nebraska. He was scheduled to turn himself in and begin his prison sentence in March 2017, but instead traveled to Florida in violation of his conditions of release. Federal authorities in Nebraska subsequently issued a warrant for his arrest. On March 2, 2017, Izquierdo was pulled over in Columbia County by the Florida Highway Patrol for an expired Texas tag. During a subsequent search of the vehicle, troopers located a credit card reader and stolen credit card information belonging to more than 50 victims. He faces the enhanced penalty as a result of his prior fraud conviction. This case was investigated by the Florida Highway Patrol and the U.S. Secret Service - Jacksonville Field Office. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kevin C. Frein.
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https://www.examiner.net/2022/03/03/second-suspect-charged-in-kansas-city-triple-murder/.txt.gz
The Associated Press<\/b><\/div>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 A 21-year-old man has been charged in the deaths of three people in Kansas City, the Jackson County Prosecutor\u2019s office said Wednesday.<\/p>\r\nJoshua Bell, of Kansas City, was charged with three counts of second-degree accessory murder, unlawful use of a weapon and four counts of armed criminal action.<\/p>\r\nHe is the second man charged in the Oct. 2, 2021, shooting deaths of Kanen X. Wheaton, 24; Johnnai Owens, 23; and 24-year-old Devon Key.<\/p>\r\nThe victims were at a home in eastern Kansas City when the suspects drove up and fired at them, prosecutors said.<\/p>\r\nCo-defendant Lucas Baker was charged in October with nine counts, including three counts of second-degree accessory murder.<\/p>\r\nCourt documents show Bell\u2019s phone was in the area of the suspect vehicle before and after the shootings. Bell also admitted that he had earlier helped steal ammunition that was found at the shooting scene.<\/p>\r\nProsecutors have requested a $500,000 cash-only bond for Bell.<\/p>
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https://www.businessinsider.com/ftc-sues-endo-and-allergan-over-generic-competition-2017-1.txt.gz
The Federal Trade Commission has re-filed complaints against two drug companies for obstructing generic drug competition, with one company agreeing to settle with the agency. The re-filed case is related to one the FTC filed in March 2016 against Endo International and Allergan. The FTC said at the time that Endo delayed the arrival of generic competition to its drugs Opana ER (an extended-release opioid painkiller) and Lidoderm (a patch used to treat pain related to shingles), a practice called pay-for-delay. The company that made the generic versions of Opana ER and Lidoderm, known as Watson before being acquired by Allergan, is still being sued by the FTC for entering the pay-for-delay agreement. Endo was down as much as 5% on the news Monday afternoon, while Allergan was up slightly. Teva, which acquired Allergan's generics business, was down 3%. Allergan declined to comment on the FTC's complaint. Here's what Endo agreed to, according to the FTC: "The proposed Endo order prohibits Endo and its subsidiaries from entering into the type of anticompetitive patent settlements that the FTC charged Endo used to eliminate the risk of generic competition, including its use of no-authorized generic, or “no-AG,” commitments, in which a brand company agrees not to compete with an authorized generic version of a drug for a period of time. Because Endo is now prohibited by Commission order from entering into pay-for-delay settlements, the order also releases Endo from liability for its use of reverse-payment settlement agreements concerning the branded drug AndroGel." Endo said in a release that the company made no admission of liability and won't have to pay the FTC.
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https://journalstar.com/entertainment/television/the-great-vikings-more-stylish-historical-series-to-stream-on-hulu/article_70bfe525-5aa9-563d-801d-2a5f0d596a0f.html.txt.gz
The Great, a witty take on Russian Empress Catherine (Elle Fanning), returns with more court intrigue and opulent costumes. Binge it…and these best-dressed shows too. The Great The princess married Peter III (Nicholas Hoult) in Season 1, but his poor management of the kingdom drove her to stage a coup. Her dresses went from whimsical florals to attention-grabbing hues like hot pink. Now she’s with child — meaning flowy gowns! Season 1 available; Season 2 debuts Friday, Nov. 19 People are also reading… Black Narcissus This erotically charged tale set in the 1930s sees a group of nuns, including lustful Sister Clodagh (Gemma Arterton), in white habits establishing their order in the Himalayas, where bold silks left behind by concubines hint at another life. Season 1 available Salem A witch (Janet Montgomery) feeds into Puritan hysteria in the 17th century. Her goth getups wouldn’t have cut it in Colonial times (one gown is festooned with silver spiders), but that’s part of the fun. Seasons 1–3 available Harlots London madams duke it out for dominance in the 1700s as scrappy Margaret (Samantha Morton, above, second from right) goes up against her ex-boss. Part of the game: corsets, silks, and back-stabbing. Seasons 1–3 available Vikings Nordic hero Björn Ironside (Alexander Ludwig) is one of many warriors who uses grit, guts, and leather armor to fight to the top of an expanding kingdom. Seasons 1–6 available
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The Harbor Management Commission is a group in turmoil, with its members deeply divided by its chairman’s leadership and its failure to develop a state-approved harbor management plan, despite two years of work and tens of thousands of dollars spent. Vice Chairman Steve Kinner unexpectedly resigned in late March from the HMC, just halfway through his four-year term. Having served more than 25 years in the U.S. Coast Guard, the Greenwich middle school teacher brought considerable maritime expertise and experience to the group. However, after submitting his letter of resignation to HMC Chairman Frank Mazza, Kinner had conversations with fellow commissioner Lile Gibbons and others about staying on and succeeding Mazza as chairman, according to people familiar with the inner workings of the HMC. Those people said Kinner had grown frustrated with Mazza’s unilateral decisions and public representations of the commission’s positions on various issues, as well as his inability to build consensus within the seven-member panel. Kinner did not respond to phone messages seeking comment. The HMC is expected to elect its officers for the coming year at its meeting Wednesday night. As of Saturday afternoon, it was unclear whether Kinner would rescind his resignation and seek the chairmanship. For several months now, several HMC members have been seeking a candidate to replace Mazza as chair. Kinner’s resignation comes on the heels of an RTM report that was strongly critical of the HMC and Mazza for its “considerable bias” against the state harbormaster, and for the HMC’s failure to adequately address concerns about governance issues raised by other town agencies with jurisdiction over specific aspects of Greenwich waterfront and harbors. The resignation also follows Greenwich Police Lt. James Bonney’s decision to leave the commission when his term expires this month, and First Selectman Peter Tesei’s decision to replace him with William Ingraham, a close Mazza ally, who had neither served as an alternate nor attended an HMC meeting. Tesei passed over two HMC alternate members to insure more support for Mazza. The Conservation Commission is one of the town agencies that had serious issues with the draft harbor plan. “If the harbor management plan does not address dock regulations, then regulations remains with the state, and the state is stretched very thin,” said Sue Baker, a Conservation Commission member and its ex-officio member of the HMC. “All the plan says it that docks will be handled on a case by case basis. That doesn’t help property owners know what they have to do, and it doesn’t give Greenwich the power to enforce environmental and other concerns.” “Right now the state approves docks, and they don’t have the manpower to do it. Brian Thompson of the state DEEP has said, ‘Please develop a harbor management plan’ so that the state can rely on Greenwich agencies to regulate dock installations,” Baker said. However, to win state approval, the town’s dock regulations would have to be consistent with state law, and a “case by case basis” not only provides no specificity, it is an invitation to abuse and favoritism. As it stands now, the draft harbor plan is more than 275 pages long, considerably longer and more vague than any other Connecticut harbor plan. Plus, it does not include specific mooring regulations and instead of recognizing the state harbormaster’s authority as established by state law, the plan proposes making all harbormaster decisions subject to review and possible veto by the Board of Selectmen, a deliberate breach of state harbor management law and another provision that could lead to abuse and favoritism. While the HMC continues its slow slog toward creating an ineffective and unworkable harbor plan, it is vigorously opening new fronts in its efforts to stymie the work of State Harbormaster Ian Macmillan. Chairman Mazza has placed on the HMC’s agenda Wednesday night petty and unworkable restrictions on Macmillan’s use of the Boston Whaler motorboat owned by the Shellfish Commission. Among the rules are a prohibition against anyone other than the harbormaster or his deputy being on the boat without Mazza’s approval. The boat cannot be used to “haul or drag for moorings” and cannot be used to “tow or give assistance” unless there is “imminent danger to life or property”; and the harbormaster must log every detail about dates and times of each trip and submit that log monthly to the HMC. “These guys have no idea what my job is or how I use the boat. Just today (Saturday) I am scheduled to go out on the boat with people from the Old Greenwich Yacht Club who own moorings or are in charge of moorings for club boats. The club owns five sailboats that it wants to move into deeper water to avoid expensive damage to keels at low tide. I need someone to drive the boat, someone to use the GPS and depth sounder, and a third person to pull the mooring chain taut. And I’m supposed to ask someone permission to do this? It’s my job,” Macmillan said. And in a final, gratuitous insult, Mazza included one final proposed boat rule: “Alcoholic beverages are prohibited on the boat.” The need to specifically ban alcohol is meant to imply yet again that Macmillan uses the boat as a personal party platform, which to anyone who has seen the small boat or knows Macmillan is patently absurd. Last year, the HMC posted an unattributed, undated photograph of the harbormaster’s boat after a long day’s work dragging for abandoned moorings and other navigational hazards. The photo was accompanied by unsubstantiated allegations by Commissioner Bruce Angiolillo about Macmillan’s stewardship of the vessel. At the end of his list of complaints, Angiolillo wrote, “And, please take one more look at it (the photo) and note the empty Miller Lite beer can in the drink holder at the helm.” The can was full, not empty, and, according to Macmillan, had been pulled from Greenwich Harbor two years earlier during a patrol of the Greenwich Town Party. Mazza undermines his own credibility by allowing HMC time and town resources to be wasted on his and Tesei’s longstanding feud with Macmillan. Someone needs to put a stop to this and get the HMC back on track to developing a long-term governance plan for Greenwich Harbor. And that should start with finding a new HMC chairman. Bob Horton can be reached at bobhorton@yahoo.com.
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/12/4/20995223/trump-impeachment-judiciary-committee-hearing-misconduct.txt.gz
The House Judiciary Committee is moving swiftly to weigh findings by fellow lawmakers that President Donald Trump misused the power of his office for personal political gain and then obstructed Congress’ investigation as possible grounds for impeachment. Responsible for drafting articles of impeachment, the Judiciary Committee prepared Wednesday morning for its first hearing since the release of a 300-page report by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee that found “serious misconduct” by the president. The full House will decide whether Trump’s actions stemming from a July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president rose to the constitutional level of “high crimes and misdemeanors” warranting impeachment. The report laid out evidence of Trump’s efforts to seek foreign intervention in the U.S. election. ”The evidence that we have found is really quite overwhelming that the president used the power of his office to secure political favors and abuse the trust American people put in him and jeopardize our security,” Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told The Associated Press. “It was a difficult decision to go down this road, because it’s so consequential for the country,” Schiff said. But “the president was the author of his own impeachment inquiry by repeatedly seeking foreign help in his election campaigns.” Schiff added: “Americans need to understand that this president is putting his personal political interests above theirs. And that it’s endangering the country.” The session Wednesday with legal scholars will delve into possible impeachable offenses, but the real focus will be on the panel, led by Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and made up of a sometimes boisterous, sharply partisan division of lawmakers. In a 53-page opening statement obtained by the AP, Republican witness Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, will say that the Democrats are bringing a “slipshod impeachment” case against the president based on secondhand information. Still, Turley doesn’t excuse the president’s behavior. “It is not wrong because President Trump is right,” according to Turley. He calls Trump’s call with Ukraine “anything but ‘perfect,” as the president claims. “A case for impeachment could be made, but it cannot be made on this record,” he says. The remaining three witnesses, all called by Democrats, will argue for impeachment, according to statements obtained by the AP. Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argues, “If Congress fails to impeach here, then the impeachment process has lost all meaning.” The political risks are high for all parties as the House presses only the fourth presidential impeachment inquiry in U.S. history. In a statement, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said, “Chairman Schiff and the Democrats utterly failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by President Trump.” She said the report “reads like the ramblings of a basement blogger straining to prove something when there is evidence of nothing.” Trump, attending a NATO meeting in London, called the impeachment effort by Democrats “unpatriotic” and said he wouldn’t be watching Wednesday’s hearing. The “Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report” provides a detailed, stunning, account of a shadow diplomacy run by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, resulting in layers of allegations that can be distilled into specific acts, like bribery or obstruction, and the more amorphous allegation that Trump abused his power by putting his interests above the nation. Based on two months of investigation sparked by a still-anonymous government whistleblower’s complaint, the report relies heavily on testimony from current and former U.S. officials who defied White House orders not to appear. The inquiry found that Trump “solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, to benefit his reelection,” Schiff wrote in the report’s preface. In doing so, the president “sought to undermine the integrity of the U.S. presidential election process, and endangered U.S. national security,” the report said. When Congress began investigating, it added, Trump obstructed the investigation like no other president in history. Along with revelations from earlier testimony, the report included previously unreleased cell phone records raising fresh questions about Giuliani’s interactions with the top Republican on the intelligence panel, Rep. Devin Nunes of California, and the White House. Nunes declined to comment. Schiff said his panel would continue its probe. Republicans defended the president in a 123-page rebuttal claiming Trump never intended to pressure Ukraine when he asked for a “favor” — investigations of Democrats and Joe Biden. They say the military aid the White House was withholding was not being used as leverage, as Democrats claim — and besides, the $400 million was ultimately released, although only after a congressional outcry. Democrats, they argue, just want to undo the 2016 election. For Republicans falling in line behind Trump, the inquiry is simply a “hoax.” Trump criticized the House for pushing forward with the proceedings while he was overseas, a breach of political decorum that traditionally leaves partisan differences at the water’s edge. House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy called on Democrats to end the impeachment “nightmare.” He said, “They’re concerned if they do not impeach this president they cant beat him in an election.” Democrats once hoped to sway Republicans to consider Trump’s removal, but they are now facing a ever-hardening partisan split over the swift-moving proceedings that are dividing Congress and the country. Possible grounds for impeachment are focused on whether Trump abused his office as he pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open investigations into Trump’s political rivals. At the time, Trump was withholding $400 million in military aid, jeopardizing key support as Ukraine faces an aggressive Russia at its border. The report also accuses Trump of obstruction, becoming the “first and only’’ president in U.S. history to “openly and indiscriminately” defy the House’s constitutional authority to conduct the impeachment proceedings by instructing officials not to comply with subpoenas for documents and testimony. For Democrats marching into what is now a largely partisan process, the political challenge if they proceed is to craft the impeachment articles in a way that will draw the most support from their ranks and not expose Pelosi’s majority to messy divisions, especially as Republicans stand lockstep with the president. While liberal Democrats are pushing the party to go further and incorporate the findings from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and other actions by Trump, more centrist and moderate Democrats prefer to stick with the Ukraine matter as a simpler narrative that Americans understand. Democrats could begin drafting articles of impeachment against the president in a matter of days, with a Judiciary Committee vote next week. The full House could vote by Christmas. Then the matter moves to the Senate for a trial in 2020. The White House declined an invitation to participate Wednesday, with counsel Pat Cipollone denouncing the proceedings as a “baseless and highly partisan inquiry.” Cipollone, who will brief Senate Republicans on Wednesday, left open the question of whether White House officials would participate in additional House hearings. House rules provide the president and his attorneys the right to cross-examine witnesses and review evidence before the committee, but little ability to bring forward witnesses of their own.
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The Los Angeles Police Department arrested a man in connection to the fatal shooting of a Taco Bell worker during a feud over a fake $20 bill over the weekend, a report said. LAPD Chief Michel Moore announced the bust during a Tuesday night vigil for the victim, Alejandro Garcia – a 41-year-old father who was gunned down while working with his son at the fast food restaurant on Saturday night, Fox 11 reported.
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https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/crime/article/Man-allegedly-fires-gun-at-MCSO-deputies-14278675.php.txt.gz
The Midland County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man MCSO says fired a weapon at deputies, according to the Midland Crime Stoppers. Jair Ruiz was arrested on the aggravated assault warrants Saturday afternoon. Deputies responded to a disturbance July 28 at South County Road 1175. A man -- identified by Midland Crime Stoppers as Ruiz — discharged a weapon towards the deputies, according to the post injuries were reported. MCSO, along with the Midland Police Department, Department of Public Safety and Ector County Sheriff’s Office, began the manhunt for Ruiz after failing to locate him, according to a previous Reporter-Telegram report.
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https://trib.com/search/?k=%22racca%27s%22&t=article,collection,video,youtube&l=25&display=topic.txt.gz
The New Year brings celebrations of all kinds to the Casper and around the Cowboy State. It’s the day before New Year’s Eve and you’re finally getting around to deciding what to do, or you’ve just decided you’ll brave the cold after all. Dana Packard isn’t afraid of competition. A Casper man pleaded guilty Friday to shooting an acquaintance after an argument at a central Casper home in February. Stage III presents murder mystery "Murder at Cafe Noir' dinner theater production at Racca's. Can you figure out "who done it" in this interac… The Wyoming Business Council unanimously approved a $500,000 grant for Casper’s David Street Station public plaza Thursday, despite a recommen… The Wyoming Business Council unanimously approved a $500,000 grant for Casper’s David Street Station public plaza Thursday, despite a recommen… How do four people who’ve never owned a retail space or worked in the beverage industry end up owning a boutique liquor store in Casper?
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The New York Mets announced Monday that they declined manager Luis Rojas's 2022 contract option after a season his team began with playoff aspirations and ended with a losing record. The team said decisions on Rojas's coaching staff will be made in the coming days but that Rojas will be offered the opportunity to stay in the organization in some capacity. Rojas, 40, took over as Mets manager before the 2020 season, after the Mets parted ways with then-manager Carlos Beltrán before Beltran ever managed a game because of his role in the Houston Astros' sign-stealing scandal. He had spent years in the Mets' organization, giving him plenty of long-standing relationships with current players, something that seemed well-suited to the task of ushering in Queens's next wave of championship contenders. He managed the Mets to a record of 103-119 during his two seasons as an even-keeled dugout presence who never seemed to lose the clubhouse, even as his team lost its way this season. As evidenced by the team's offer to move Rojas to another job within the organization, he was not exactly at the center of a hostile implosion. A roster full of players who were notoriously unafraid of making their thoughts known never tossed public blame toward their manager, who is a rarity in receiving an offer to stay with the club that fired him from his job as manager. "I want to share such heartfelt gratitude to so many in the Mets organization for not only the last two seasons as manager, but for the last 16 years in a variety of roles," Rojas said in a statement. "In each and every position I held, striving for excellence was our daily mission. I will always hold the relationships and friendships, developed over the years, dear to my heart, and am forever grateful to have been able to wear the Mets uniform for so long. We live in a results oriented business, and am deeply disappointed for our staff and fans that we didn't reach our goals this season." Whatever goodwill lingers, the Mets will nevertheless move on from the rookie manager who was unable to guide them through crucial injuries or away from a tendency to turn baseball into a soap opera. From celebratory booing of Mets fans, to fights in the tunnel to Twitter battles with reporters and everything in between, the Mets always seemed to be dealing with a side show of their own making. In fairness to Rojas, the Mets front office was unable to reign any of it in either, and contributed its fair share of unflattering news to a season uncommonly full of it. "The entire Mets organization is grateful for the dedication and devotion that Luis has exhibited over the last two seasons as manager," Alderson said in a statement. "He has shown a great commitment to the Mets over many years in multiple capacities. These decisions are never easy, but we feel a change is needed at this time." Yet it is Rojas who is the first to go because the Mets finished third in the unusually winnable National League East after a new owner splurged this winter and made World Series promises. Team President Sandy Alderson will return next year. He will do so looking for a new general manager after the one he hired last winter admitted to making unwanted sexual advances to women in the workplace and the one he promoted as a replacement was charged with driving under the influence after a team party. Exactly where the Mets turn for their managerial opening remains to be seen, and may have to wait until Alderson can install someone to oversee baseball operations. The expectation in the industry is that the Mets will aim high in their search, according to reports that have tied them to such front office stars as Theo Epstein and Billy Beane - the kind of veteran executives who would likely want to handpick their manager. Read More 'These are our ancestors': Descendants of enslaved people are shifting plantation tourism The new James Bond film aims to steady a shaken industry - but no one seems to know what will leave audiences stirred From novelist to climate crusader: How one woman is working to put a stop to natural gas Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.
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The arrest, posted on the NYPD Hate Crimes' Twitter account early Wednesday, comes after the man was seen on video kicking and stomping the woman near New York City's Times Square on Monday. In a separate statement, police identified the man as Brandon Elliot, 38, of New York City, and said he faces charges of attempted assault as a hate crime, assault as a hate crime, assault and attempted assault. The 65-year-old woman, whose name has not been made public, was discharged from the hospital Tuesday after being treated for serious injuries, a hospital spokesperson said. Elliot was identified by residents as a local homeless man; multiple Crimestoppers tips directed police to a hotel serving as a homeless shelter on West 40th Street. Police spent Tuesday watching the hotel and surrounding neighborhood before taking Elliot into custody. He will be arraigned later Wednesday. Elliot was previously arrested in July 2002 in the fatal stabbing of his mother when he was 19. After serving 17 years in state prison, he was released on lifetime parole in November 2019. Search continues in brutal NYC attack on Asian woman heading to church Police on Tuesday blanketed the midtown Manhattan neighborhood with wanted posters and offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of the man seen on the surveillance video. At the same time, officials admonished bystanders for doing nothing to stop the man as police say he kicked the 65-year-old woman in the stomach, knocked her to the ground, stomped on her face, shouted anti-Asian slurs and told her, "you don't belong here." The attack Monday was among the latest in a national spike in anti-Asian hate crimes, and happened just weeks after a mass shooting in Atlanta that left eight people dead, six of them women of Asian descent. The surge in violence has been linked in part to misplaced blame for the coronavirus and former President Donald Trump's use of racially charged terms like "Chinese virus." New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called Monday's attack "absolutely disgusting and outrageous." He said it was "absolutely unacceptable" that witnesses did not intervene. "I don't care who you are, I don't care what you do, you've got to help your fellow New Yorker," de Blasio said, evoking the post-9/11 mantra of "see something, say something." The attack happened late Monday morning outside an apartment building two blocks from Times Square, a bustling, heavily policed section of midtown Manhattan known as the "Crossroads of the World." Two workers inside the building who appeared to be security guards were seen on surveillance video witnessing the attack but failing to come to the woman's aid. One of them was seen closing the building door as the woman was on the ground. The attacker was able to casually walk away while onlookers watched, the video showed. The building's management company said they were suspended pending an investigation. The workers' union said they called for help immediately. "If you see someone being attacked, do whatever you can," de Blasio said. "Make noise. Call out what's happening. Go and try and help. Immediately call for help. Call 911. This is something where we all have to be part of the solution. We can't just stand back and watch a heinous act happening." Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, said the victim "could easily have been my mother." He too criticized the bystanders, saying their inaction was "exactly the opposite of what we need here in New York City." This year in New York City there have been 33 hate crimes with an Asian victim as of Sunday, police said. There were 11 such attacks by the same time last year. On Friday, in the same neighborhood as Monday's attack, a 65-year-old Asian American woman was accosted by a man waving an unknown object and shouting anti-Asian insults. A 48-year-old man was arrested the next day and charged with menacing. He is not suspected in Monday's attack. Police Commissioner Dermot Shea announced last week that the department would increase outreach and patrols in predominantly Asian communities, including the use of undercover officers to prevent and disrupt attacks. The neighborhood where Monday's attack occurred, Hell's Kitchen, is predominantly white, with an Asian population of less than 20%, according to city demographic data. Shea called Monday's attack "disgusting," telling TV station NY1: "I don't know who attacks a 65-year-old woman and leaves her on the street like that." According to a report from Stop AAPI Hate, more than 3,795 incidents were reported to the organization from March 19, 2020, to Feb. 28. The group, which tracks incidents of discrimination, hate and xenophobia against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S., said that number is "only a fraction of the number of hate incidents that actually occur." ---- The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/cortlandt/news/family-of-gabby-petito-files-notice-of-50m-wrongful-death-lawsuit-against-police/840001/.txt.gz
The family of Gabby Petito has filed a notice of a $50 million lawsuit against a police department in Utah, accusing it of negligence in the 22-year-old Long Island native's death. Petito, age 22, of Blue Point in Suffolk County, was strangled and beaten to death last year in Wyoming by her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, also from Blue Point, but who relocated to North Port, Florida. Laundrie, labeled a person of interest in the case by the FBI, later took his own life. When his remains were found in a remote Florida nature reserve, a notebook was also discovered in which he confessed to the crime. The notice of claim was filed on Friday, Aug, 5 by Petito's parents against Moab City Police and a dozen of its officers. “Moab City Police Department has been plagued by high turnover, lack of leadership, and dangerous mismanagement for years,” said James McConkie, one of the attorneys representing the Petito family. In the claim, McConkie says Laundrie murdered Petito shortly after the Moab City Police Department failed to adequately respond to reports and evidence of domestic violence between the couple. The incident took place on August 12, 2021, after Moab Police received a 911 call reporting Laundrie hitting Petitio. Police dispatch alerted officers to the report, including the fact that a witness had seen Brian assault Gabby, the claim says. Two officers located the van the couple was traveling in and pulled it over. During the stop, according to body cam footage, Petito was crying uncontrollably and visibly in crisis. During the encounter, Petito told officers have grabbed her face and told them he "gets frustrated with me a lot." Laundrie told officers that he and Gabby had been under increasing emotional strain, which led to them arguing more frequently over the previous few days. Brian admitted pushing Petito as she grabbed for her phone. But instead of following state law of arresting someone or writing a ticket, police separated the two for the night and put Laundrie in a hotel room. Roughly two weeks later, Laundrie murdered Petito, leaving her body in the woods of Grand Teton National Forest. In a subsequent review of the Moab police officers’ handling of the incident, an independent investigator concluded that the officers made several mistakes and could not rule out that Gabby’s murder might have been prevented if the officers had handled the situation properly, the claim says. In the notice to file, Petito's parents, Joseph and Tara Petito and Nichole and Jim Schmidt, have named the police department, numerous officers, and the assistant chief of police for failing to "understand and enforce the law of the State of Utah." The Petito family recently filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Laundrie’s parents for alleged “intentional acts” that led to Petito's death. Click here to sign up for Daily Voice's free daily emails and news alerts.
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The family of a man killed on Friday on Hassell Avenue in North Las Vegas wants his killer to be charged. North Las Vegas police have said that the man was shot by his wife in self-defence. At this time, she has not been charged. The man has been identified by his family as Jamal Jelkes. His mother told 13 Action News that Jamal was a hard-working man and a good father and they don't know anything about possible past cases of domestic violence. Jamal's mother says he was shot in the back, which means he could not have been the agressor. Jamal's mother says that what happened is not fair to the family and the kids and they want answers.
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The family of the late British novelist and screenwriter Roald Dahl has given the Jewish people an early Hanukkah gift. What could that be, you will ask? What do you get the people who have everything? The Dahl family has issued an apology for the late author’s anti-Semitism: “The Dahl family and the Roald Dahl Story Company deeply apologise for the lasting and understandable hurt caused by some of Roald Dahl’s statements. Those prejudiced remarks are incomprehensible to us and stand in marked contrast to the man we knew and to the values at the heart of Roald Dahl’s stories, which have positively impacted young people for generations. We hope that, just as he did at his best, at his absolute worst, Roald Dahl can help remind us of the lasting impact of words.” “Incomprehensible?” We can only shake our heads and wonder: What had the Dahl family been ignoring? Like, “The Witches” — which, as Dara Horn explained in the Jewish Review of Books, contains latent and even blatant anti-Semitism. Here are some of Dahl’s greatest “hits” against the Jewish people, per The Forward: • “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason … if you and I were in a line moving towards what we knew were gas chambers, I’d rather have a go at taking one of the guards with me; but they (the Jews) were always submissive.” • “I am certainly anti-Israel, and I have become anti-Semitic.” • He accused the United States government of being “utterly dominated by the great Jewish financial institutions over there.” • The Israeli military activity in Lebanon, he said, “was very much hushed up in the newspapers because they are primarily Jewish-owned.” • When further discussing the Lebanon war, he wrote: “makes one wonder in the end what sort of people these Israelis are. It is like the good old Hitler and Himmler times all over again.” Dahl was engaging in a particularly British style of anti-Semitism: what Anthony Julius has characterized as the anti-Semitism of the “remark” — an intellectual, snarky, often subtle offhand comment, which is like a paper cut. You don’t realize that you have been hurt until you see the blood. You will ask: Can they apologize for the sins of Roald Dahl? In a Jewish sense: no. Each person is responsible only for his/her own sins. Sins are not hereditary; they do not follow the bloodline. Dahl’s relatives can certainly regret, be saddened by, be angered by, even be shocked by the late author’s statements. But they cannot — and should not — apologize. But let’s broaden this discussion. Among great literary figures, Dahl was certainly not alone in his anti-Semitism. Consider the great American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Anti-Semitism rumbled beneath the surface of this great writer. In “The Great Gatsby,” Fitzgerald described the Jewish gambler Meyer Wolfsheim as “small flat-nosed,” with his “tiny eyes” and “two fine growths of hair” in his nostrils. In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” he wrote of “a fat Jewess, inlaid with diamonds.” Again, in “Gatsby,” he put white supremacist diatribes into the mouth of Tom Buchanan. They accorded with his own opinions; in a 1921 letter to Edmund Wilson, Fitzgerald wrote: “The negroid streak creeps northward to defile the Nordic race. Already the Italians have the souls of blackamoors.” Or, consider one of my favorite subjects — rock music. • John Lennon. Dec. 8 happens to be his 40th yahrzeit. I will yield to no one in my admiration of Lennon’s gifts and almost unsurpassed influence on popular culture. But that should not blind us to his many flaws — which, according to his biographer, Albert Goldman, included anti-Semitic remarks and anti-Semitic poems in his book “A Spaniard in the Works.” • Roger Waters. The former Pink Floyd frontman called for an international cultural boycott of Israel. More than this: He performed with the floating image of a pig adorned with the Star of David, dollar signs and the hammer and sickle. Or, if not specific anti-Semitism, then flirtations with fascism: • The iconic guitarist Eric Clapton supported Enoch Powell and his racist platform: “I think Enoch’s right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white.” • The late David Bowie expressed support for fascism and Hitler: “I think Britain could benefit from a fascist leader” and “Adolph Hitler was one of the first rock stars.” How do we interpret these manifestations of cruelty, emerging from the hands and mouths of those whom we might otherwise admire? It would be impossible to impose an asterisk on the music of Lennon, Waters, Clapton and Bowie. I still love the music, mostly (I could never stomach Pink Floyd), even as their ideologies sicken me. As for Dahl’s work: It is still being performed. Perhaps it would be useful to reproduce the apology in the program notes, in order to admit the mixed legacy of this author. One last thing about Dahl’s anti-Semitism. It was inconsistent — typically inconsistent. In one breath, he says that he despises the Jews because they were weak and “submissive” during the Shoah. In quite another breath, Dahl did not like it when “the Jews” were too aggressive, as well; in his eyes, in the war in Lebanon, Israel became like the Nazis. There you have it: the classic double bind of anti-Semitism. For anti-Semites, Jews are simultaneously: • Too clannish, or too eager to mix in. • Communist and capitalist. • Stingy or overly generous. • Asexual, or too sexual. • Too rigid, or too compromising. And, yes: unwilling to defend themselves, or too willing to defend themselves. Yes, Roald Dahl — the author of those sweet children’s books — was a Jew-hater. As I have often noted: Inside the warmest of hearts there beats a heart that is cold to the Jews. Editor’s note • The views expressed in this opinion piece do not necessarily reflect those of Religion News Service.
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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/crime/fl-plantation-missing-teen-dad-arrest-20160205-story.html.txt.gz
The father of a missing Plantation teenager was ordered held on $1 million bond Friday after his arrest while allegedly trying to leave the country. Bruce Jorgensen, 58, is charged with unlawful desertion of a child and was nabbed as he tried to board a flight to New Zealand out of Miami International Airport, police say. Jorgensen had not reported his son's disappearance in late December and was uncooperative with detectives during the search for the boy, Aage Jorgensen, 16. "He wouldn't talk to us," Plantation Detective Phil Toman said. "He didn't give us any explanation." The FBI Child Exploitation Task Force and Miami-Dade police helped Plantation police arrest Jorgensen at the airport. The teenager remains missing, police say. On Friday, Jorgensen, a civil attorney who has for years practiced in the South Pacific and Hawaii, told Broward Judge John Hurley that he was traveling for a court appearance when he was arrested at the airport. According to Assistant State Attorney Eric Linder, authorities said they could not confirm Jorgensen was due in court overseas. "I cant imagine a responsible father or a parent flying to the other side of the world not knowing if his child is alive or dead," Linder said. Jorgensen told the judge that he had left his car at home and money in the vehicle for his son in case he returned home. "My son is somewhere in this jurisdiction, you couldn't pry me away with a crowbar, Your Honor," Jorgensen said. "This prosecution, for some reason, is trying to vilify me." Attorney Glenn Roderman, who represented Jorgensen during his hearing Friday, said that although his client did not work with police, he made efforts to search for his son. According to Toman, father and son had a spat and Jorgensen kicked his son out of the car somewhere along Northwest 136th Avenue. Police learned of the teenager's disappearance from a security guard at the Hawk's Landing development, where the teen often played tennis. Aage, a former student at American Heritage School, disappeared Dec. 27, authorities say. According to an arrest warrant, while Jorgensen dropped off fliers of his missing son, he told a security guard that the boy had run away because he was upset about his school grades. But he didn't contact police. Not seeking police help and simply spreading fliers around the community is not enough, Linder said. "Frankly, that's what families do when a pet runs away," he said. Later, when police initiated contact with Jorgensen, he told an officer that he argued with his son over directions while driving to a tennis event. Jorgensen said he kicked Aage out and drove away thinking his son would walk home, but the teen never showed up. During their investigation, police also learned that Jorgensen withdrew his son from school 10 days after Aage went missing, the warrant said. Detectives also learned that Jorgensen paid his son's tuition and their rent in cash and Aage told a school employee that his father did so in an attempt to "stay off of the radar," the warrant said. Police have continued their search for the teen boy and passed out fliers at area hotels, libraries, bookstores and businesses in the city and at college campuses in nearby Davie, Toman said. Aage has been spotted twice since he parted ways with his father, police say. On Dec. 27, after the argument with Jorgensen, the teenager asked a woman for a ride along Nob Hill Road and Torchwood Avenue, but she didn't let him in her car. The woman later noticed news reports about the missing teen and alerted police. On Jan. 10, an employee spotted Aage sleeping in the stairwell of the Extended Stay America hotel in Plantation, but didn't realize it was the missing juvenile until officers visited the hotel with fliers, police said. The 16-year-old briefly went missing about a year ago, but the incident was not reported to police, detectives said. Breaking News Alerts When Aage was 13 and living in Hawaii, he vanished for months before he was found sleeping in a stranger's backyard, authorities said. According to Linder, the prosecutor, it took Jorgensen 17 days to reach out to authorities for help at the time. Authorities say Jorgensen left the island of Palau in the South Pacific with his son in the early 2000s. After Aage's disappearance in Plantation, Aage's mother gave detectives a sworn statement and said Jorgensen and her son suddenly vanished when Aage was about 3 years old. Jorgensen told Hurley he took his son lawfully. After ordering him held on $1 million bond, the judge prohibited Jorgensen from leaving Broward County and requested he surrender his passport and wear an ankle bracelet with GPS monitoring. Police say Aage is about 5-feet-9, weighs about 140 pounds and has short brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a peach-colored adidas T-shirt, white cargo shorts and flip-flops. Authorities urge anyone with information on Aage's whereabouts to contact police at 954-797-2100. epesantes@tribpub.com or 954-356-4543 or Twitter @epesantes
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https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/readers-respond/bs-ed-rr-church-shooting-20171107-story.html.txt.gz
The latest mass-murder shooting at a church in Texas joins a long list of atrocities (“Domestic violence may have been at the heart of the Texas shootings; federal law does far too little to stop it,” Nov. 7). Where is it safe? Church, school, concerts, the workplace — just about anywhere could be the next murder scene. And there will be more. Why? Because we no longer live in a fact-based society — or perhaps I should say the nation is under the thumb of a Republican Party for which facts are an inconvenience. As much as this party wants everyone to believe that mental illness (or just plain evil) is at the root of these murders, the fact is that if guns were less available, there would be fewer mass murders. That is particularly true for the so-called assault weapons that have been used in many of these incidents. These are military-style weapons only differing in the lack of full automatic fire. Yet we have recently seen how even that tiny difference was breached. There was a ban on assault rifles from 1994-2004. Had that still been in place, yesterday’s tragedy and the mass murder in Los Vegas would have been far less likely to have occurred. Background checks with no loopholes and gun registration are also vital parts of a solution to this problem. Are not guns at least as dangerous as automobiles? We license the latter, but heaven forbid the former (“Second Amendment rights” and all that baloney). Will anything be done to stem this series of tragedies? No. Offering prayers for the bereaved is all they will do. Sorry, that’s not enough. The Republican Party is in thrall to the National Rifle Association, pure and simple. And the NRA is quite simply a lobbyist for the gun industry. We all have to think about where we are going in this nation. Can we allow our elected representatives to always ignore facts and vote just on ideology or pressure from powerful interest groups? Think about it. John A. McCauley, Monkton
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/chi-charges-in-school-buses-scrapped-20130310-story.html.txt.gz
The owner of a scrap company where the remains of several school buses were found after being stolen from the Far South Side has been charged with illegal possession of auto titles, police said. The name of the Sunrise Transportation bus company could be seen on shards of metal in the yard at SRV Metal Scrapper and Gonzalez Auto Parts & Dismantling, 3405 S. Lawndale Avenue, police said. Initially, four people were taken into custody, including the owner of the company, Sergio Quintero, 44, who was charged late Saturday with felony possession of a title or registration that has not been assigned, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli. Quintero, of the 4400 block of South Drake Avenue, was ordered held in lieu of $25,000 bail in a hearing in Cook County Bond Court midday today. Those involved in scrapping stolen vehicles often will use partially blank title documents to make it appear that they held title to a stolen vehicle prior to its being scrapped, officials say. Police searched the scrap dealer starting about 7 a.m. Friday, and about 2:15 p.m., they found Quintero in the false ceiling of the parts yard's office, trying to hide from officers, Mirabelli said. Daywatch The 40-foot-long buses, capable of seating 75 people, were stolen sometime overnight Thursday from the bus company's yard in the 10000 block of South Torrence Avenue on the far South Side and were not discovered missing until the next morning, police said. The buses were all equipped with GPS tracking devices, and police were able to track "their entire movement" to the scrap yard on the West Side, police said. Three of the buses were torn apart using heavy equipment, police said. When officers arrived at the business, several people who apparently worked in the scrap yard ran into a building, police said. Officers initially apprehended one person and later took two others into custody. The owner was arrested about 2:15 p.m. on Friday. "There was a pile of shredded school buses about two stories high," one police official said. Some pieces were large enough that police could see the Sunrise bus logo, the official said. Engines and transmissions from the buses had already been cut in half, and the seats tossed in a "big pile of scrap." chicagobreaking@tribune.com Twitter: @ChicagoBreaking
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There's another controversy over a cellphone in the criminal case involving Rochester developer Robert C. Morgan. For the second time in two separate federal fraud cases, the attorneys for Morgan are once again crying foul over prosecutors' handling of a personal cellphone related to one of the defendants, and the evidence contained on it. This time, the phone in question belongs to the girlfriend of one of the defendants, Buffalo mortgage broker Frank Giacobbe. And again it's being used to argue misbehavior by prosecutors, as the defense now wants the entire case to be thrown out permanently – before any of it is heard on the merits. Morgan, his son, his finance chief and Giacobbe are accused of orchestrating a wide-ranging mortgage and insurance fraud scheme in which they falsified documentation to deceive lenders, as well as government-sponsored entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Prosecutors assert the defendants conspired to provide fake rent rolls, financial reports, appraisals and other information to trick banks into loaning more on apartment properties than they were worth. In March 2021, prosecutors filed a new 104-count indictment against Morgan and his son Todd, as well as Giacobbe and Michael Tremiti, after the original complaint against them was dismissed in a way that allowed for new charges to be filed. The latest charges are similar to the first go-around, accusing the four of conspiring with Kevin Morgan, Patrick Ogiony, Scott Cresswell and others "to fraudulently obtain funds from financial institutions," by submitting inflated and false rent rolls, with non-existent tenants and boosted rents to bolster a property's income. The defendants allegedly told lenders they were getting fake fees, such as for cable service, and also "reduced and improperly capitalized expenses in order to make the property appear to generate more income" to "justify a larger mortgage loan than they would otherwise qualify for," according to the announcement from the U.S. Attorney's Office. And they allegedly sought to conceal the fraud by making units appear occupied during inspections. Since March, the case has wound through the typical "discovery" process, including technical issues related to the massive data dump of 5.6 million documents provided to defense attorneys in June. But now Morgan's attorneys are calling for the federal judge handling the case, Elizabeth A. Wolford, to reconsider her earlier "dismissal without prejudice." They argued that the government has again misrepresented its disclosures. At issue is a reportedly new disclosure by the government that it has material from a cellphone belonging to Julia Besant – Giacobbe's girlfriend – that it has had in its possession since February 2018, when it seized the phone under a court-ordered search warrant that specifically mentioned Morgan by name. Defense attorneys said prosecutors never previously revealed either the cellphone's existence nor the affidavit filed in support of that original warrant. Both should have been disclosed under discovery in the first criminal case, they said. And they concluded that the failure to do so and the government's "blatant misrepresentations to the court" mirrors prosecutors' prior problems that led to the original case being dismissed. The government, for its part, claims it never considered Besant's cellphone to be part of the evidence it needed to disclose, and it's only now doing so out of extra caution to make sure it complies fully with the requirements. Hence, the 5.6 million documents that have been disclosed this time, a 50% increase over the 3.8 million files provided to the defendants last time. Last time, during the first prosecution of Morgan that began three years ago, Morgan and his attorneys demanded the return of the developer's phone, saying prosecutors had possessed it since the FBI raided Morgan's offices in May 2018, but hadn't done anything with it. And they claimed Morgan's privacy and property interests in the phone outweighed the prosecutors' needs. Prosecutors countered that they had been trying but couldn't access the cellphone – despite three forensic labs and two software programs – because Morgan used a six-digit passcode and additional security features, and wouldn't cooperate with the government by allowing them access. So they had to test two to three randomly generated codes every hour for 19 months. That was in late 2019 and early 2020. In October 2020, Wolford threw out the entire 114-count indictment against Morgan and three co-defendants, because prosecutors had been moving too slowly in producing and providing evidence to the defense as required. Agreeing with repeated defense complaints, she said prosecutors had mishandled the discovery process and blew past court deadlines, violating Morgan's right to a speedy trial. But she determined that the government's "lackadaisical approach" was not intentional or willful, so she dismissed the case "without prejudice," allowing the prosecution to refile their indictment. She also noted the seriousness of the charges and significant potential penalties if the case were proven, saying that outweighed any harm to the defendants from the delays.
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There's the boy named Steven. You may have read about him in the Tribune series "Harsh Treatment," which began this week. When he was 5, after his mother's boyfriend physically abused him, Steven was taken from his home on Chicago's West Side and put into the protective custody of the state of Illinois. Protective. Remember that word. For years, Steven bounced from one foster home to another, until finally, at 14, he was sent to Lawrence Hall, a residential treatment center in Chicago for troubled young people. Treatment. Remember that word. At the treatment center, he was bullied by other residents, but he found a way to survive. He became a criminal. "Steven came into Lawrence Hall without a criminal record," said my colleague David Jackson when I called him on Thursday to talk about the series he has written with Gary Marx and Duaa Eldeib. "Within days, he was taunted by other kids. He got beat up. The staff took notes as this kid tried to keep his head above the water. He's a tough little guy and he decided to fit in. Within weeks, he's out on the streets of Chicago with tougher kids from that facility, robbing people. He's now in prison." And here's the clincher: Steven feels safer in juvenile prison than he did in Lawrence Hall. Steven. Albert. Arthur. Keyona. Kierra. Krystle. Those are just some of the lives that Jackson, Marx and Eldeib have chronicled in their series on the violence that infects the state's residential treatment system for young people. As they wrote in their opening piece, there is a "crisis in Illinois' loosely monitored system for housing disadvantaged youths who have behavioral and mental health problems. Amid staff shortages, youths are raped, assaulted and running away by the thousands." In many of these facilities, brutal fights among residents are frequent. So is overt drug use. Residents are forced into sex by their peers. Intimidation is the common currency. Some of the residents, like Steven, carry the trouble out onto Chicago's streets. They steal, or trade sex for money, then go home to the violent place that exists to treat and protect them. When I asked Marx and Jackson what had struck them particularly as they were reporting the series, they both quickly used the same word. Courage. "The courage of these kids to come forward to talk about their incredible histories of sexual abuse in these facilities, and outside," said Marx. "They've come back to us and said, 'Thank you for listening to us.' They've always been treated as bad kids, as kids who were kind of worthless. These are kids who have been thrown aside and suffered, through no fault of their own." The young people in the series are so isolated from the mainstream, so invisible to many of us, so inured to accepting the abnormal as normal, that their lives may be difficult to comprehend. Eldeib talks of interviewing a young woman who was placed in state protective custody at 14. "She started telling me about the abuse she suffered," Eldeib said, "and it was so horrific, I remember thinking, how could she have endured so much? And when we were able to independently verify it, I remember thinking, 'Oh my God, she really went through all of the things she told me.'" The young people who land at Lawrence Hall and the other centers documented in the series aren't easy to help. They arrive with the worst kinds of wounds. Sexual abuse. Mental illness. Assorted neglect. These centers do save some lives, but in too many cases the prevailing chaos causes only more damage. "A lot of girls we spoke to," Eldeib said, "went to these residential centers thinking they would be able to heal from their wounds, and unfortunately they didn't." Like all social problems, this one is a tangle of causes, with no single solution. But one thing is sure: You can't solve a problem until you see it clearly. This series casts light on a problem that leaks into life for the entire city. I keep thinking about one young woman who was repeatedly attacked by her peers in the center designed to treat and protect her. She was interviewed for the story not far from where I live, carrying her one change of clothes in a plastic bag. "I hate living like this," she said, "but the world isn't fair, and I have to make my way." She shouldn't have to make it alone. More stories in the series will be in print this weekend and next week. The series is available online at chicagotribune.com/rtc. Twitter @MarySchmich
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The views expressed on this page are those of the author, not CBS Local Chicago or our affiliated television and radio stations. Opinion by Mason Johnson North Carolina's bill limiting bathroom use of transgender and gender non-conforming citizens shares some similarities with a bill proposed by Illinois legislators, but there are also many differences. North Carolina's legislation is a Frankenstein of a bill, broadly touching on the restroom rights of transgender people, minimum wage and anti-discrimination protections for veterans. Filed and passed in the same day, it's questionable whether members of North Carolina's legislature had time to understand the nuances of the bill. Illinois House Bill 4474, referred to as the Child Privacy Act, solely deals with bathroom use at Illinois schools. Filed in January, the bill currently sits in the Human Services Committee. Will it become law? On one hand, it may never make it out of committee. On the other hand, the bill is currently co-sponsored by 23 Republicans and six Democrats in the state house. Illinois State Representative Thomas Morrison (R-Palatine) referred to the bill as a compromise. "I've attended meetings with PFLAG, I've tried to be knowledgeable from all perspectives, I've heard tragic stories from students who don't drink water during the day because they don't know which bathroom to use," Rep. Morrison told me over the phone. "That's not appropriate, that's not caring and compassionate. Why not create accommodations that are in the school building without interfering with the privacy rights of the other students?" The Child Privacy Act would require school boards to provide students uncomfortable with the bill's ramifications with accommodations, albeit by request. This is the compromise Rep. Morrison is referring to: single-use bathrooms. Meggan Sommerville, a local organizer for International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31st, knows what it's like to be denied access to a bathroom for being transgender: Sommerville's employer has been denying her access to the women's washroom for years. Sommerville thinks bills like Illinois's Child Privacy Act are horrendous. "It puts a target on trans students' backs," Sommerville told me over the phone. "These are kids that are struggling to find their place and really live who they are, and now the state wants to tell them, 'No, you can't be who you are, regardless of how you present, how long you've lived in your authentic gender.'" Bills like the Child Privacy Act dictate bathroom use with strict definitions of gender, usually relying on the gender individuals are assigned by a doctor at birth. Definitions of gender that solely rely on biology can be interpreted as offensive, since they disregard gender identity: people's self-interpretations of gender. For those comfortable with the anatomy they were born with, it's easy to disregard the idea of someone feeling distressed by their biological gender. But gender dysphoria -- the internal knowledge that you are not the gender you were assigned at birth -- is serious. Recognized by the American Medical Association as a condition that should be treated and covered by health insurance, it "can result in clinically significant psychological distress ... debilitating depression and, for some people without access to appropriate medical care and treatment, suicidality and death." Treatments AMA recommends include mental health care and sex reassignment surgery. Before Rep. Morrison filed the Child Privacy Act, a Palatine school in his district was sued for barring a transgender student from accessing the girl's locker room. Ultimately, the U.S. Department of Education found that the school district was in violation of the student's Title IX rights. Emphasizing that the issue doesn't necessarily fall along "normal Republican, Democrat, religious, non-religious lines," Rep. Morrison said he talked to hundreds of people on the issue, from concerned parents to gay-rights groups. He claimed that most of the people he talked to want an objective standard for bathrooms, such as anatomy. At the same time, he acknowledged that school districts have a responsibility to provide accommodations for trans students. "We don't want to infringe on the rights of anybody," he said. While some constituents do call for bills that control which bathrooms transgender Americans can use, evidence of these bills' need is thin. As opinion pieces at both CNN and The Daily Beast point out, in the more than a dozen states and hundreds of cities that have recently enacted laws protecting transgender people's bathroom rights, law enforcement officials have reported zero bathroom attacks. You can find a handful of news stories from the past 20 years detailing attacks by men in wigs and dresses in women's washrooms, or the occasional fistfight that involved a transgender person, but few of these cases actually happened in places that protected the rights of transgender people to use the bathroom. Not only are these instances statistically insignificant, but their connections to the transgender community are tenuous. For Rep. Morrison, the dynamics of bathrooms and locker rooms create a "vulnerable place." Staunchly opposed to bullying, he argues the Child Privacy Act would protect all kids, transgender children included. "There is a dynamic there unlike what we would see in a classroom, or a hallway, or a coffee shop," he said. "There's a reason why bathrooms are set aside." To Sommerville, lawmakers are not basing these bills on fact, but "ignorance, fear and myths." "These lawmakers need to sit down with a transgender student who has experienced this on a day-to-day basis," she suggested. After South Dakota's republican Governor Dennis Daugaard did just that, he vetoed a bill restricting bathroom access for transgender people. While it's difficult to find evidence that laws inclusive of the transgender community create unsafe environments, evidence that our society poses multiple dangers to transgender people is plentiful. The transgender community -- especially transgender people of color -- face some of the highest poverty and suicide rates. Hate crimes against transgender people have also been on the rise, according to FBI statistics. Arguably, laws that undermine the existence of transgender Americans are a greater danger than laws inclusive of transgender people. "I know what these kids go through. Being refused. It's an every-day occurrence for me," Sommerville said. "And there are some days where I have the strength to handle it, and then there's other days when being segregated to a unisex bathroom feels like I'm being segregated to an eight by eight cell. It's dehumanizing, it's demoralizing, it's embarrassing, and it doesn't do anything to recognize the person's true identity." In its current form, Rep. Morrison thinks Illinois's proposed bill is a reasonable compromise, but also admits that it isn't perfect. "If anyone wants to add a suggestion, I'm open to that," he told me. "I want to make my bill better." Mason Johnson is a Web Content Producer for CBS Chicago. You can find him on Twitter.
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The white man charged Wednesday with killing eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at three Atlanta-area spas told authorities he was not driven by bigotry and that he had a "sexual addiction" and saw the businesses as "a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate," investigators said. Capt. Jay Baker, the director of communications of the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office in Georgia, sparked outrage when he said at a news conference Wednesday that the suspect, Robert Aaron Long, 21, had had "a really bad day" Tuesday, "and this is what he did." On Thursday, the sheriff's office acknowledged that Baker's comments "have become the subject of much debate and anger" and claimed they "were not intended to disrespect any of the victims, the gravity of this tragedy, or express empathy or sympathy for the suspect." Investigators said they had not ruled out a racial motive, and experts say they should not. "You can't ask perpetrators what they think," said Elaine Gross, president of the New York-based civil rights organization ERASE Racism. "That's not how we determine whether something is or isn't a hate crime." If Long "had a bad day," she asked, "then why wasn't there a variety" among the victims? "That has to count for something." Determining what constitutes a hate crime is not simple or easy, Gross said. But it cannot be ignored that most of those killed in the rampage were women of Asian descent. "There's been a tendency not to call things hate crimes to want to avoid that categorization," she said. "And I think part of that is because they're looking for explicit intent, which might not be immediately evident." Rep. Marilyn Strickland, D-Wash., took it a step further Wednesday, saying "the default position when violence is committed against people of color or women is to defer from confronting the hate that is often the motivation." "Racially motivated violence must be called out for exactly what it is, and we must stop making excuses or rebranding it as economic anxiety or sexual addiction," Strickland said on the floor of Congress. "As a woman who is Black and Korean, I am acutely aware of how it feels to be erased or ignored." Georgia had been one of a few states without any hate crime legislation protecting specific groups until last summer after Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, was shot by armed white men. The law added penalties for crimes motivated by a person's race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender or disability. Authorities in Georgia also should take into account the broader context, Gross and others said: an increase in anti-Asian American violence across the country. "The larger context, we know that this has been the targeting of Asians from the highest office under the previous administration," Gross said, referring to former President Donald Trump who used racist slurs to describe the coronavirus. "So that has been the immediate impact from what I see. Targeting Asians even if they're not killing them. Targeting them for abuse and violence." In a statement Wednesday, Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, said that while details of the shootings are still emerging, the broader context cannot be ignored. "The shootings happened under the trauma of increasing violence against Asian Americans nationwide, fueled by white supremacy and systemic racism," the organization said. Gross said authorities need to consider not just a person's actions, but also their intent. In this case, authorities should not take the word of the suspect in the killings and not consider the victims, she said. Activist and writer Brittany Packnett Cunningham, an NBC and MSNBC contributor, said Thursday that you don't need a person's permission to categorize their actions as racist or biased. "If Asian women are targeted as a 'temptation' you feel the need to 'eliminate,' you're a racist" misogynist, she tweeted. "We shouldn't have to say this." Steven Freeman, vice president of civil rights at the Anti-Defamation League, said the reason why some crimes are charged as hate crimes is because there's an impact that's broader than an individual victim. "It impacts communities, it impacts neighborhoods, it impacts cities" as we're seeing in Atlanta, he said. "But you still have to be able to show by the criminal standards that you need to meet that the selection or the targeting took place for those reasons," he said. Freeman agreed with Gross that on its face, the shootings in Atlanta should be investigated as a series of hate crimes. He also said that hate crime laws are not mainly intended for murder cases where it would add a couple of years to the sentence of a person who could already face lengthy jail time. "I think it's more about the way it is described than it is about the criminal justice piece of it," he said. "Whether or not they can make out the legal charges, these acts are having an impact similar to what a hate crime would have on a community, and city officials need to understand the vulnerability people are feeling and the sense of anger that people are feeling, and speak to that and commit to that and be aware of that in a sensitive kind of way."
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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 101 There are some things you can expect to find at San Francisco International Airport, despite how odd they might seem: a therapy pig wearing a tutu, for example, or a ban on the sale of plastic water bottles (but only the small ones). One thing SFO passengers could not anticipate, however, was witnessing famous actress Jennifer Garner practicing ballet in the middle of a moving walkway. On Thursday, Garner, who is best known for her roles in "13 Going on 30," "Dallas Buyer's Club" and the TV series "Alias," posted a video on Instagram of herself doing just that, while confused airport-goers looked on. "I’ve been working on my #Giselle. Is this right, Cindy?" she captioned the video, then went on to tag a bunch of ballerinas. In the post, Garner also sent "healing love" to ballerina Misty Copeland, who announced Thursday that she would no longer be able to dance the role of Giselle with the American Ballet Theater at the Kennedy Center due to an injury. According to Women's Health, Garner follows ballet closely and partakes in ballet-inspired dance workouts herself. She's been a longtime supporter of the American Ballet Theatre, even posting a video on Instagram back in December in which she dressed up as a nutcracker to promote the ABT cast's upcoming shows. Madeline Wells is an SFGATE associate digital reporter. Email: madeline.wells@sfgate.com | Twitter: @madwells22
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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Chris von Keyserling, a former member of the Greenwich RTM, was sentenced to 90 days of house arrest Tuesday morning in Superior Court in Stamford, following his conviction this summer on a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree sexual assault. Von Keyserling was found guilty by a jury of touching and grabbing a woman at the Nathaniel Witherell, a town-owned and -managed nursing home and rehabilitation facility in 2016. He will be required to wear an electronic monitor for the 90-day period. Judge Kevin Randolph said von Keyserling will be allowed to leave his residence only for medical treatment, religious services, Christmas and Thanksgiving. The judge also required von Keyserling, 76, to undertake counseling and therapy, and Randolph also imposed two years of probation. The judge did not accept a request from Assistant State’s Attorney Elizabeth Moran for a 90-day jail sentence for von Keyserling. Outside the courthouse, Lynn Mason, the victim in the criminal case, said the sentence was “fair.” She said she had feared that von Keyserling might face no real consequences. “I think it addresses the issue, and I’m satisfied. ... The justice system took it seriously,” she said of the sentence requiring house arrest, counseling and probation. Mason also said she was relieved that the litigation was over. Before the sentencing, Mason, who was working in musical therapy at the Nathaniel Witherell at the time of the incident, told the judge of the hardships she faced afterward both psychologically and from being at the center of an international news story. The arrest played out against the presidential victory of Donald Trump in 2016, and raised issues about workplace harassment across the nation. “These years have been enormously stressful for me,” said Mason, who told the judge she had suffered from insomnia and taken anxiety medication. “I have lost countless hours of sleep, had sleep plagued by nightmares, and felt an enormous amount of my time and energy taken up in seeing this case through to the end.” Mason, who still works for the town by programming events at the Senior Center, said she had “repeated and relived the assault innumerable times for relevant authorities and town workers and residents.” The last five years “would have been different and assuredly happier if this had never happened,” she said. “Sexual assault is devastating, no joke, and not something to which anyone, under any circumstance is entitled,” Mason said as she read from a prepared statement. She told the judge she came forward because she wanted to “ensure that sexual assault be taken seriously by our judicial system.” Von Keyserling read a brief statement to the judge before the sentence was imposed, stating that he was “sincerely sorry” for the incident in 2016. “I offended her, and I’m very, very sorry, and I apologize….I am sincerely sorry. It was a total abnormality on my part,” he told the judge. The defense lawyer for von Keyserling, Phil Russell, said, after the court hearing was completed, “I wouldn’t speak for Ms. Mason, but I think everyone is relieved this in the rearview mirror.” Russell said his client had experienced serious consequences as a result of his actions. “Chris is an honorable guy, and he felt deeply the shame of being arrested and convicted, and he’ll live with that for the rest of his life,” said Russell. Russell told the judge that his von Keyserling did not deserve prison time for the misdemeanor conviction. “He, too, has had his life turned upside down by this offense,” Russell said. Speaking of the attention paid to the arrest and the subsequent trial, Russell said, “I think this is another example of how Trump, the president, supercharged feelings on both sides of the spectrum.” Von Keyserling will also have to pay $215 in fees, the judge ruled. The maximum possible penalty in the case had been one year in prison. Randolph reiterated testimony from the case, highlighting a statement that von Keyersling made before the groping incident, that he was happy that Trump has been elected and that he “did not have to to be politically correct in this new world.” “Mr. von Keyserling became an ungracious winner,” Randolph said. “And that manifested itself in the conversation they had. When there is an ungracious winner, the winner may believe that the winner takes the spoils, he takes what he wants, and that’s what led to the allegations of this case,” the judge said, calling that conduct wrong. Moran, the prosecutor, said prison time was warranted in the case. “He refused to accept responsibility and believes he is immune from the consequences of his actions,” she said. The prosecutor said there was no “demonstration of acceptance or remorse” from the defendant. The judge said later he did not believe prison time was warranted, while contending that serious consequences were necessary in the form of house arrest. After his arrest in January 2017, von Keyserling refused to step down from his position on the Representative Town Meeting, despite many calls for him to resign. He later that year lost reelection to represent District 8 on the RTM.
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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Evander Kane was the rare NHL prospect to bypass the minor leagues. A hockey prodigy, he made his professional debut with the Atlanta Thrashers in October 2009, just two months removed from his 18th birthday. But there Kane was Tuesday morning, wearing a yellow practice jersey with the logo of the San Jose Barracuda, the Sharks’ top minor-league affiliate, across his chest as he worked through drills at Solar4America Ice alongside two dozen NHL hopefuls. Now age 30, Kane might be the most overqualified player in American Hockey League history — an elite left winger with 506 NHL points spanning 769 games. Few doubt his talent, but a slew of off-ice issues threaten to end his career when he should still be in his prime. With his NHL teammates reportedly unwilling to play with him, the Sharks placed Kane on waivers Sunday, then assigned him to the Barracuda a day later when no other team picked him up. This was the most logical place to put him as management tries to figure out what to do with him next. Kane’s 21-game suspension for reportedly submitting a fake COVID-19 vaccination card ended Sunday, thrusting the Sharks into a strange sort of limbo. He has four years left on his seven-year, $49 million contract. Though the Sharks could free themselves from one of the biggest dressing-room issues in recent NHL history by buying him out of his deal, they would have to keep him on their books until 2028. Six years of dead salary-cap space is far from ideal for a team eager to put together a roster that can win the franchise’s first Stanley Cup. That’s why, instead of paying Kane $7 million to stay home for the rest of the season until they can buy him out, the Sharks have opted to assign him to the Barracuda as they scour the league for a trade. The problem is that Kane’s well-chronicled history of injuries and run-ins make him a toxic asset. Just within the past 18 months, he has been accused of sexual and physical abuse by his estranged wife; filed for bankruptcy while facing lawsuits from nine different lenders over a reported $26 million gambling debt; been investigated for — and later cleared — of betting on Sharks games; and been suspended a quarter of the season for that false vaccination card. A recent report from the New York Post suggested that an Eastern Conference team might be interested in acquiring Kane. But if that franchise isn’t one of the three teams Kane lists in his no-trade clause as a suitable destination, the Sharks could have a near-impossible time unloading him. And that’s assuming San Jose would retain up to half of his salary in any potential trade — the maximum allowed in the collective-bargaining agreement. Asked Tuesday about his no-trade clause, Kane said, “I have that in there for a reason. That’s my right. … It’s definitely important.” But given all that has transpired in recent months, he should just hope that any NHL team will want him. If Kane stays in the AHL and is bought out next summer, he’ll make only $14 million of the $19 million left on his contract after his season. Even a dominant run with the Barracuda might not be enough for Kane to land another NHL deal. The AHL is a league loaded with 19-, 20- and 21-year-olds striving for the chance to someday realize their childhood goal of playing at the sport’s highest level. Kane lived that dream for 12 seasons, only for it to become somewhat of a nightmare for many who worked with him. After watching him pace the Sharks in goals (22), assists (27) and points (49) last season, some of his teammates reportedly told management that they didn’t want him back. His antics had so worn on those who shared a dressing room with him that they were willing to see how they fared without one of the league’s most talented forwards. Kane is aware that, like his new, less famous teammates, he is playing for another shot at the NHL. When Barracuda head coach Roy Sommer texted him Monday about the expectations for him, he wrote back all the right things. By Tuesday morning, Kane was arriving early to practice at the north rink — a short walk from the Sharks’ south rink — as more than a dozen media members snapped photos, shot video or jotted notes. When teammates made goals during drills, Kane offered encouraging words. Toward the end of practice, when his team lost a shootout competition, he stayed to complete extra laps while the winning team skated off the ice. “I don’t think we’re going to have a problem,” said Sommer, who coached Kane as an assistant with the Sharks during the 2019-20 season. “I know there’s been issues in the past. But I think he knows that, if anything good is going to come out of this, he better be on his best behavior.” Added Barracuda defenseman Jaycob Megna: “A lot of guys haven’t been around him. Myself, I haven’t been around him. … Today, he came in and worked hard. He was a good leader. That’s all you can ask.” Kane isn’t expected to join the Barracuda for their two-game trip this weekend to Abbotsford, B.C., but Sommer implied that Kane would be inserted into the lineup soon enough. A minor-league team mired in a four-game skid hopes that the addition of a proven NHL goal-scorer is all it needs to turn around its season. But after a year-plus of watching Kane’s personal turmoil cause off-ice distractions, the Sharks’ brass is proceeding with caution. Assistant general manager Joe Will, who is filling in for Doug Wilson while the general manager takes a temporary medical leave, told reporters recently, “We’re going to see how things go. He’s assigned there until he’s not assigned there.” Few should fault the Sharks for not having a detailed plan in place. Sommer has been in pro hockey for more than four decades, and even he admitted that he has never encountered a situation quite like the one San Jose faces with Kane. Perhaps the only certainty is that, for it not to end in disaster for both parties, Kane must abstain from the behavior that got him to this point. And if his news conference Tuesday was any indicator, that could prove difficult. For more than 10 minutes, he called his string of bad press “misinformation” that has “happened my whole career,” skirted questions about the fake vaccination card and referenced his production last season as proof that he can tune out chatter. Shortly after Kane stated that “everything was all positive” during his end-of-year meeting last May, he conceded that he hasn’t spoken to any of his Sharks teammates. “I’ve been doing my own thing,” said Kane, who will miss practice Wednesday to attend a court hearing as part of the ongoing legal dispute with his estranged wife. “Getting myself prepared, handling my business — as I’m sure they have.” Connor Letourneau is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: cletourneau@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @Con_Chron
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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former NBA and reality TV star Lamar Odom was hospitalized after he was found unconscious Tuesday at a Nevada brothel, authorities said. The former Los Angeles Laker and member-by-marriage of the Kardashian family was in a Las Vegas hospital Tuesday night and there was no immediate word on his condition, officials said. The Nye County Sheriff's Department was called at about 3:15 p.m. to Love Ranch in Crystal, Nevada, about 70 miles outside of Las Vegas for a report of an unresponsive man needing an ambulance, Sheriff Sharon A. Wehrly said in a statement. The 35-year-old was stabilized and taken to Desert View Hospital in nearby Pahrump, the statement said. Officials then tried to have him airlifted to Las Vegas, but the 6-foot-10-inch Odom was too tall for the helicopter that was available and he was driven by ambulance to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center. Dennis Hof, who owns the Love Ranch and other legal brothels in Nevada, said his staff had picked up Odom from a home in Las Vegas on Saturday. "He just wanted to get away, have a good time and relax," Hof told The Associated Press in a phone interview. Hof said Odom was "happy, he was sleeping every night," while visiting, but two women went to check on Odom Tuesday afternoon after not hearing from him since early morning, and found him face down and unconscious. When they turned him on his side at the direction of a 911 operator, Odom started "throwing up all kinds of stuff." Hof said Odom had been taking herbal Viagra and had drunk part of a bottle of cognac since arriving, but had no knowledge of his use of any other drugs. "It's incredibly sad," said Hof, who turns 69 on Wednesday. Hof is known for his own onetime reality show, "Cathouse," on HBO. Odom's hospitalization was first reported by TMZ. Odom, who won two NBA championships with the Lakers in 2009 and 2010, last played in the NBA in 2013, and saw recent reality TV fame through his marriage to Khloe Kardashian. Kardashian filed for divorce in 2013, citing irreconcilable differences. The divorce has not yet received final approval from a judge. The two were married in 2009 in a large ceremony that was taped for the E! network, following a whirlwind engagement that was also filmed. The Lakers played an exhibition game in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, losing 107-100 to Sacramento. Kobe Bryant and Metta World Peace are Odom's only remaining teammates on the roster. World Peace clearly was distraught about Odom's health after the game. "There's not one word I could say that would make sense," World Peace told reporters, declining further comment. Bryant left the arena without speaking to reporters. Odom spent the best years of his career with the Lakers, winning two championship rings and the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year award in 2011. After seven years in purple and gold, he was crushed in December 2011 when the Lakers attempted to trade him to New Orleans in a multiplayer trade for Chris Paul. He eventually went to Dallas in another deal, but was out of the NBA just two years later. Some troubles that met Odom before and during his career appeared to worsen after he left the league, and included a no-contest plea to drunken driving shortly before his divorce. Odom was suspended during the 2000-01 season for violating the NBA's anti-drug policy for the second time in eight months. During the 2010-11 season, a cousin he was close to died and Odom was a passenger in a vehicle involved in an accident in New York that killed a cyclist. Odom played one season at Rhode Island before being drafted in the first round with the No. 4 overall pick by the Clippers in the 1999 NBA draft. He attended Redemption Christian Academy in Troy as a teenager. Born Lamar Joseph Odom on Nov. 6, 1979, in New York City, he was raised by his grandmother after his mother died of cancer when he was 12. His father was a drug addict. In 2006, Odom's 6-month-old son Jayden died from SIDS while sleeping in his crib in New York. He has a daughter, Destiny, and a son Lamar Jr., from a previous relationship. ____ Dalton reported from Los Angeles. AP Sports Writers Beth Harris and Greg Beacham also contributed to this story from Los Angeles.
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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate NEW HAVEN — A federal judge recently dismissed a lawsuit by a nonprofit organization that alleged it had been discriminated against when a statue of Christopher Columbus was removed from Wooster Square Park. In granting the city’s motion to dismiss, U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall ruled the American Italian Women for Greater New Haven had standing to sue over the removal but it brought no specific claim of injury warranting further consideration by the court. In its October lawsuit, the Italian-American group had alleged that the decision to remove the statute was discriminatory, made in obedience to a “pro-African American/anti-Italian American policy” that was “established and perpetuated” by the city, according to the dismissal order. Hall found that the group had standing to bring the case, ruling it had suffered a direct injury as a result of the statute’s removal. As the monument is no longer there, she noted, the group is prevented from laying a wreath at its base each year, and thus from enjoying an activity “core to the group’s mission” of acknowledging and supporting the contributions of Italian-Americans in the region. However, Hall found that the group had not been specifically discriminated against through the decision. In considering the arguments raised, Hall determined the IAW still has the right to access Wooster Square; were not treated “less favorably than any other similarly situated individual, group, or organization;” had no specific property interest in the monument; and that the statute was an example of speech on behalf of the government, not the group. “For the reasons discussed above, the court grants the Motion to Dismiss without prejudice,” said Hall in her decision. “Plaintiff may move to Amend their Complaint in accordance with the local rules if — and only if — it has a basis in light of this Ruling to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.” The statue of Columbus occupied the same space in Wooster Square Park from 1892 until it was removed on June 24, 2020, amid a series of protests about statues across the country. At the time, protesters who favored the statue’s removal and those who wanted it to stay confronted each other and there were several skirmishes. william.lambert@hearstmediact.com
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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate The 39-year-old gym owner arrested Wednesday in connection with the May blaze that killed a San Antonio firefighter admitted to starting the fire to get out of his lease, according to court documents. Emond Javor Johnson, 39, now faces one charge of murder, two arson charges and two additional charges of arson causing bodily injury. Online records indicate he was also booked into the Bexar County Jail on two domestic violence charges. According to a lengthy arrest affidavit, Johnson's motive for setting the blaze stemmed from his disarrayed finances. At the time of the May 18th fire at the Ingram Square Shopping Center, he had five open collection accounts for more than $12,000 and he was behind on rent for his gym, The Spartan Box, by nearly $7,000. RELATED: Gym owner charged with murder in death of S.A. firefighter Scott Deem When the fire broke out around 9 p.m. that night, Deem, Phipps and other firefighters entered Spartan Box. They reported zero visibility and zero ventilation, according to recordings of scanner traffic, and a commander ordered all firefighters out of the building. Soon after, a mayday was called over the radio. San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said conditions inside the building changed at some point during the battle, forcing an evacuation, but Deem never made it out. "It was a very rough decision to leave a firefighter behind. That is not what we do, but we had the risk of losing probably an additional 15 to 20 firefighters if we did not go defensive on this fire," Hood said in a brief statement to the media after the fire. Firefighters Brad Phipps and Robert Vasquez were injured in the blaze, Phipps severely. Johnson met with authorities the day following the fire. He reportedly told investigators he held a class the night of the fire that ended around 8:30 p.m. and he saw three homeless people when he went out back to close the gym's double doors. "He was unable, however, to provide any specifics about these individuals other than they were Hispanic males," according to his arrest warrant. He also told investigators the lights had been "flickering more than usual" that night. He said he closed the gym at precisely 8:54 p.m. and that he knew the time because he was on the phone with a friend and saw the clock, according to the affidavit. His phone records, however, contradicted his statements, officials said. According to his arrest warrant, he received a call at 8:42 p.m. and there was no other activity on his number until 8:59 p.m., when he received a text from a different number. On May 31 he told authorities he had only seen two Latino men outside the gym, contradicting his earlier statement of having seen three, according to the affidavit. Authorities watched surveillance footage from the back of the gym and didn't see any people, the warrant says. Investigators also discovered Johnson's poor financial situation at the time of the fire. He had five open accounts for collection totaling more than $12,000. He was the sole lease of the the Spartan Box's property and was behind on rent by more than $6,800 at the time of the blaze, authorities said. Thirteen hours after the fire, Johnson started a GoFundMe page called "The Spartan Box Recovery" with a goal of $10,000. Employment records show he applied for a job at Lifetime Fitness in April and his first day at work was the day before the fire. RELATED: Man charged in death of S.A. firefighter started crowdfunding page for gym he's accused of burning Investigators also caught him in lies regarding which doors he had wedged shut before the fire, and nearby surveillance cameras caught him walking toward the rear of the gym where the fire began moments before smoke started pouring out of the structure. Authorities finally interviewed a final time on Wednesday and Johnson said someone spilled a container of gasoline mixed with oil, that was used for a gas blower, that day around 3:30 p.m. and a large spill had flowed towards the rear double doors of the gym. Johnson eventually admitted to using a cigarette lighter to ignite the gas inside the gym that night because "he wanted to get out of his lease and had begun receiving eviction notices." "He said he used a disposable cigarette lighter, which he threw out of his truck window after the fire was set," according to the affidavit. "Johnson stated he applied the open flame from the lighter to the spilled gasoline mix, igniting the fire responsible for the death of Scott Deem, bodily jury to Brad Phipps and Robert Vasquez and damage to the buildings housing the Texas Thrift Store and Ingram Square Center..." Text "NEWS" to 77453 for breaking news alerts from mySA.com cdowns@mysa.com | Twitter: @calebjdowns
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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate WASHINGTON >> It’s hardly a dog’s life of just eating and sleeping for President Barack Obama’s pets, Bo and Sunny. The pair of Portuguese water dogs — Bo with his distinctive white chest and front paws, and the all-black Sunny — are canine ambassadors for the White House, very popular and so in demand that they have schedules, like the president. “Everybody wants to see them and take pictures,” Michelle Obama said. “I get a memo at the beginning of the month with a request for their schedules, and I have to approve their appearances.” The dogs have entertained crowds at the annual Easter Egg Roll and Bo has been at Mrs. Obama’s side when she welcomes tourists on the anniversary of the president’s inauguration. The dogs also have cheered wounded service members, as well as the hospitalized children the first lady visits each year just before Christmas. In a sign of just how recognized Bo and Sunny are, authorities in January arrested a North Dakota man who they say came to Washington to kidnap one of the pets. Bo, now 7, joined the Obama family in April 2009. He was a gift from the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., a key supporter of Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign who became close to the family. Bo helped Obama keep a promise to daughters Malia and Sasha that they could get a dog after the election. Sunny, nearly 4, came along in August 2013. Bo already had a job as a “helper” to Dale Haney, the head groundskeeper at the White House, which happens to be a national park. “He leaves every morning and he goes down with Dale ... and he’s with all the National Park Service guys. And you’ll see him, and he’s like walking around with them, and looking at the plants,” Mrs. Obama said. “I think he thinks he has a job because he takes it very seriously. So if I go out and see him, he kind of ignores me when he’s with his worker crew people.” The dogs have a pretty nice life. “They can sit on my lap, they sit on my chair, they cuddle with me,” Mrs. Obama said. “I like to lay on the floor with them and blow in their face. I like to make them run and chase each other. But they’re so cute, I just love to just cuddle them and massage them.” Presidential pets are always popular and many presidents kept dogs as companions. President Harry S. Truman famously advised: “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” President George H.W. Bush’s English Springer Spaniel, Millie, “wrote” the best-seller “Millie’s Book.” President Bill Clinton’s chocolate Labrador Retriever, Buddy, helped Clinton weather the scandal over his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. President George W. Bush’s Scottish Terrier, Barney, had an official web page and starred in “Barneycam” videos that were filmed from a camera hung around his neck. Like Mrs. Obama, first lady Laura Bush was involved with the video scripts and the taping schedule. President Lyndon B. Johnson angered animal lovers by lifting his pet beagle, Him, by the ears in front of news photographers. Obama promised last year to “clean things up a little bit” before leaving the White House in January because the dogs “have been tearing things up occasionally.” Mrs. Obama said her four-legged family members had been nice overall, but she exposed Sunny’s naughtier side. “You know what she does sometimes? She leaves the kitchen and she’ll sneak and she’ll go poop on the other end of the White House,” the first lady said.
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This past Sunday, the Star-Advertiser carried an insert detailing the location of the Voter Service Centers (VSC) for those who want to vote in-person, exercise their right of same-day voter registration, drop off their ballots, or seek help with voting. Read more Mahalo for reading the Honolulu Star-Advertiser! You're reading a premium story. Read the full story with our Print & Digital Subscription.Subscribe Now Read this story for free: Watch an ad or complete a survey Print subscriber but without online access? Activate your Digital Account now. This past Sunday, the Star-Advertiser carried an insert detailing the location of the Voter Service Centers (VSC) for those who want to vote in-person, exercise their right of same-day voter registration, drop off their ballots, or seek help with voting. I suspect I was not the only one who missed seeing it amid the many sections of the paper. In 2016, more than 50% voted by absentee ballot. That still leaves nearly half of all voters accustomed to voting in person. Yet, no signs are planned for the old polling places, except possibly on the Big Island. There are no plans for staffing to direct those who might turn up from habit on Oahu where most voters are located. Concerned volunteers are trying to organize themselves to be at the old polling places, just in case. Just eight Voter Service Centers are planned: two for Oahu, two for Hawaii island, and one each for Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Kauai. Why are we not setting up more VSCs? Isn’t that the least we can do in this inaugural year of vote-by-mail? Every day we listen with anxiety to the latest on what COVID-19 has in store for us. Every day we learn something alarming about the failures of government at the highest level. More than ever it is clear that it is up to each of us to defend our democracy. That is what makes this year’s elections so critically important. Every vote counts, more than it ever has. Lawmakers must quit dragging their feet and spend the money provided through the CARES Act for election security. We cannot afford to once again leave federal money on the table because we could not get our act together to spend it in the stipulated time. The state Office of Elections says it has spent $1.9 million of the approximately $3.3 million provided for election security. Every last cent of that funding should be released to the counties without further delay to ensure that there are enough Voter Service Centers, enough ballot drop boxes, enough PPE (personal protective equipment) for election workers and voters who arrive in person, enough training and enough public announcements— in short, enough of everything needed to avert the kind of election-day debacle that we saw in states like Maryland, Wisconsin and Georgia. Those charged with managing the elections have expressed confidence that they have things under control. Really? Everyone, almost without exception, reacts with surprise when I ask them if they know that this year, Hawaii votes by mail universally. Some say that they always vote absentee. Some insist they will be voting where they always have. All are taken aback when told the “usual polling places” will not be there for them. Anecdotal? Yes. But just try asking those around you. We have every reason to worry about the Aug. 8 primary election, for which voting starts this month on July 21. And we should worry even more about the general election on Nov. 3. How many have checked to make sure their voter registration is in order at olvr.hawaii.gov? Will our low voter turnout go even lower? In this 100th year of women’s suffrage let’s make voting more accessible to women who are already juggling work and caregiving in a pandemic. The same goes for the disabled; those living paycheck to paycheck — or without a paycheck. These often marginalized voices need to be heard in our current abnormal reality. If our elected leaders are sincere about creating a “new normal,” they would send the counties the money that has been provided to improve access to voting. To not do so is to help suppress the vote. There is no other way to read it. Dawn Morais Webster, who advocates with nonprofits on societal issues, is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
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Thom Mrozek (213) 894-6947 Return to the 2008 Press Release Index Release No. 08-002 January 17, 2008 HUNTINGTON PARK POLICE OFFICER AND ONE OF HIS INFORMANTS ARRESTED ON FEDERAL DRUG TRAFFICKING CHARGES A Huntington Park Police Officer, who was a member of a federal drug trafficking task force, and one of his informants were arrested this morning on federal charges that allege they conspired to “ripoff” cocaine and marijuana from drug dealers. Sergeant Alvaro Murillo, 44, of West Covina, who sometimes was called El Padrino (The Godfather), was arrested without incident this morning. He is expected to make his initial appearance this afternoon in United States District Court in Los Angeles. The informant, Alberto Del Real-Gallardo, 40, of Palmdale, also known as Panzon (Fat Man), was also arrested without incident. He is expected to make his first court appearance tomorrow. According to an indictment unsealed this afternoon, Murillo recruited Del Real to be an informant in 2000, and by 2002 they were working with additional informants to identify drug dealers from whom they could steal narcotics. Once a target was identified, Murillo sometimes would check law enforcement databases to obtain information about the dealer and to make sure there were no legitimate investigations into the target. After planning the “ripoff,” Del Real and a second informant would trick the drug dealer into turning over narcotics or otherwise cause the drug dealer to leave without payment. Once they had secured the narcotics, Murillo and the people involved in the ripoffs allegedly made arrangements to store and then to sell the stolen drugs. The indictment details a series of ripoffs: five kilograms of cocaine in November 2002, 250 pounds of marijuana in February 2003, another 250 pounds of marijuana in August 2003, 160 pounds of marijuana in early 2004, 90 pounds of marijuana in April 2004. The indictment also alleges that Murillo attempted to steal cocaine from an undercover DEA agent who was posing as a drug trafficker. “Sergeant Murillo abused his position of trust to line his pockets with money earned from the sale of illicit drugs,” said United States Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien. “As a result of his long-running scheme, Murillo now finds himself on the wrong side of the law, facing a lengthy stint in federal prison.” Murillo was suspended by the Huntington Park Police Department in September 2006. The indictment charges Murillo and Del Real with one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, a charge, that because of the quantities of narcotics involved, carries a statutory maximum penalty of life in federal prison. An indictment contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. This case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Office of Professional Responsibility and the Huntington Park Police Department. IRS-Criminal Investigation also participated in the investigation. ##### Release No. 08-002 Return to the 2008 Press Release Index
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-edla/pr/three-men-charged-drug-related-homicide-two-men-tangipahoa-parish.txt.gz
Three Men Charged in Drug Related Homicide of Two Men in Tangipahoa Parish U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DON RAINES, age 34, TRAVON PITTS, age 28, and BARON SMITH, age 36, all of Tangipahoa Parish, have been charged in a superseding Bill of Information with participating in the October 9, 2015 murders of QUANDELL BEARD and ELLIOT SMITH in Tangipahoa Parish. Count One charges RAINES and PITTS with committing second degree murder by using a firearm during the course of a drug trafficking crime. Count Two charges SMITH with committing first degree murder as a result of the same firearms offense. RAINES, PITTS and SMITH are currently in federal custody and have been detained without bond. Trial in this matter is currently set before U.S. District Judge Lance M. Africk on April 4, 2016. All three defendants face a sentence of up to life in prison, a fine of up to $250,000 and up to five years of supervised release. United States Attorney Polite reiterated that the Bill of Information is merely a charged and that the guilt of the defendants much be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. U.S. Attorney Polite praised the work of the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration in investigating this matter. Assistant United States Attorney Maurice E. Landrieu, Jr. is in charge of the prosecution.
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https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/public-safety/2018/05/17/child-exploitation-federal-michigan-broome-christian-maire/615005002/.txt.gz
Three men plead guilty in multi-state child sexual exploitation enterprise Three men have pleaded guilty to their roles in a multi-state online child sexual exploitation ring, while a Broome County man accused of leading the criminal enterprise is expected to admit guilt later this month. Trials were anticipated for early May at a Michigan federal courthouse, but on May 11, three of the nine defendants — William T. Phillips, 39, of Highland, New York, Caleb Young, 38, of Olmsted Falls, and Odell Ortega, 36, of Virginia Gardens, Florida — struck plea deals with the U.S. Attorney's Office. Phillips, Young and Ortega pleaded guilty to felony counts of child exploitation enterprise and could face at least 20 years in prison. Prosecutors allege Christian Maire, a 39-year-old Port Dickinson resident, was the ringleader of the internet-based group, whose adult members are accused of posing as teenagers to solicit underage girls to engage in sexual acts. Court records say Maire is expected to plead guilty May 23 in federal court, about three months after a Michigan-based grand jury's 10-count indictment formally charged him and others with acting together. Read more coverage:Hunters. Talkers. Loopers. How the FBI cracked an online child exploitation ring More coverage:Feds followed online trail, arrested Port Dickinson man, in child sexual exploitation case Don't miss this feature:Why newly minted lawyers are practicing in upstate New York According to Assistant U.S. Attorney April Russo, the group's members used fake monikers to identify themselves to target victims; their conspiracy dated back to January 2012. Defendants maintained a spreadsheet with information about the victims and their so-called "hunt strategy," Russo said in court papers. Some of the men called themselves "hunters," some were "talkers," and those who pretended to be teen boys by playing recorded web videos of a minor chatting were "loopers." Phillips, who helped convince numerous underage girls to produce child porn, was also found with more than 1,000 child porn videos on his computer, according to prosecutors. Young was accused of enticing at least four girls and prosecutors said he was active on the website utilized by the defendants. In March 2017 alone, Young had logged into the site more than 800 times. Prosecutors said Ortega recorded hundreds of girls engaged in sexual conduct, then strategized with fellow group members about how to get other victims, though some of the minors that were contacted ultimately declined to participate. Sentencing for Phillips has been scheduled for July 18, while Ortega and Young are expected to be sentenced Aug. 24, each of them at a federal court in Michigan. A judge will determine how long they spend in prison. Maire, who worked as a computer professional in the Binghamton area, was cooperative with investigators who arrived at his home with a search warrant. Publicly available court records have not revealed how he, along with the other eight defendants, became acquainted. The investigation by the FBI followed an online trail that began with one victim's testimony in Oakland, Michigan last year. It took federal agents across eight states, before arrests were made in October 2017. FBI officials said 50 minors, including girls in Michigan, Oklahoma and Canada, were believed to be victims of the group's activities. On Twitter: @PSBABorrelli More:EDDIE BLOCK GANG: Two years later, 9 behind bars in federal drug trafficking case More:CHERI LINDSEY'S LEGACY: 34 years after their child's murder, parents keep her memory alive More:'I explode': Cheri Lindsey's killer was denied parole in 2017
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https://lasvegassun.com/blogs/final-take/2009/jun/04/brave-new-cyberworld/.txt.gz
Thursday, June 4, 2009 | 1:55 p.m. First Amendment champion Dominic Gentile - out to tamp free speech? As Jon asks at the beginning of today's program, "Are we in some parallel universe?" Media law experts, news organizations and their Web site editors are navigating (some more carefully than others) the vast unknowns of Cyberspace, a place where anonymous message posters purge themselves of all manner of vile substance and, once in awhile, a pearl of wisdom. In order to glean those pearls and protect a right our forefathers deemed important enough to put first in the Bill of Rights, lawmakers and courts will be challenged to grapple with questions posed in just the last decade. Are newspapers and television stations obligated to monitor the content on their message boards? What obligation do those organizations have to provide identifying information about posters to plaintiffs alleging libel? And does failure to identify an offending poster constitute participation in a conspiracy on the part of the news outlet? Those are just a few of the questions raised by a lawsuit filed by Gentile on behalf of the owners of a local business who claim they were libeled by a Channel 13 message board poster identified only as "Jacob." Gentile explains why, at least for now, the lawsuit names the phantom "Jacob" but not Channel 13. Fascinating stuff for legal minds, media types and message board posters.
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/tne/news/2011/March/033111%20Martin%20Conviction%20Child%20Porn%20PSC%20.html.txt.gz
Thursday, March 31 2011 Department of Justice United States Attorney William C. Killian Eastern District of Tennessee FEDERAL JURY CONVICTS FRANCISCO MARTIN ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES GREENEVILLE, Tenn - Following a two-day trial in U.S. District Court, Greeneville, Tenn., on March 30, 2011, a jury convicted Francisco Martin of Jefferson City, Tenn., of receipt of child pornography, possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography. Sentencing is set for August 29, 2011, at 9:00 a.m., in U.S. District Court in Greeneville. Martin faces a sentence of at least five years up to 20 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000 and up to life on supervised release following the prison term. The investigation of Martin began when an Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force officer at the Morristown Police Department, in an undercover online investigation, downloaded child pornography from Martin’s computer. The FBI executed a search warrant at Martin’s home where numerous computers were seized. A forensic examination of the seized computers revealed over 2,400 images containing child pornography and hundreds of videos containing child pornography. Martin exercised his right to represent himself at trial. He argued before the court that the court did not have jurisdiction over him and that the United States Constitution created and protected a right to obtain the images of child pornography from the internet. Both arguments were rejected by the court. Law enforcement agencies participating in the joint investigation which led to indictment and subsequent conviction of Martin included the Morristown Tennessee Police Department ICAC Task Force and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Gregory Bowman represented the United States. This case was brought as part of Public Safe Childhood (PSC), a Department initiative launched in 2006 that aims to combat the proliferation of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes against children. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, PSC marshals federal, state, tribal and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information visit ProjectSafeChildhood.gov.
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https://lasvegassun.com/news/2011/oct/06/nv-weapons-smuggling-navy-seal1st-ld/.txt.gz
Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011 | 10:38 a.m. A federal jury in Las Vegas is considering the fate of an active-duty Navy SEAL facing charges that he smuggled machine guns from Iraq and Afghanistan and conspired to sell weapons and explosives in the United States. The jury begins deliberating Thursday, a day after Petty Officer Nicholas Bickle sat in his Navy uniform during closing arguments while his attorney, James Pokorny (poh-COR'-nee), said he should be acquitted. Bickle didn't testify during the 2 1/2 week trial, and Pokorny says prosecutors failed to prove their case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Phillip N. Smith Jr. asked for the conviction of the 34-year-old Bickle on 15 conspiracy, weapons and explosives charges. He showed the jury AK-47 and M92 machine guns, a sniper rifle and other weapons that Bickle is accused of dealing.
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Thursday, Sept. 5, 1996 | 11:59 a.m. The Nov. 5 general election is to Tuesday's primary like the Thomas & Mack Center is to a casino lounge. There are a lot more seats up for grabs. The safest bet in town is that the abysmal 24.9 percent turnout in Clark County for the primary won't be repeated two months from now. One reason is that the presidential race pitting President Clinton against Republican challenger Bob Dole is bound to generate more enthusiasm than the local races on the primary ballot. The Clinton-Dole battle will have plenty of company on the ballot. Also at stake are several high-profile local and statewide offices and initiatives that could have a major effect on taxes, schools, growth and crime-fighting. Clark County Registrar of Voters Kathryn Ferguson predicted the turnout could reach 75 percent for the general election. That's slightly below the 76.7 percent from the 1992 presidential election, but well above the 61.2 percent who showed up for the 1994 gubernatorial race. UNLV political science Professor Michael Bowers also predicted turnout in the 70 percent range. "That's typical in a presidential election year," he said. Among other highlights on the November ballot: * Both of Nevada's congressional districts are being contested. Most local voters will choose between Rep. John Ensign, R-Nev., and state Sen. Bob Coffin, D-Las Vegas, in the 1st Congressional District, which includes urban parts of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Henderson. Other voters will choose in the 2nd Congressional District, which encompasses the remainder of the state and 31 percent of Clark County. In that district, former Republican Assemblyman Jim Gibbons and former Democratic state Sen. Spike Wilson, both of Reno, are vying to succeed Rep. Barbara Vucanovich, R-Nev., who is retiring after seven two-year terms. * Two of the five seats on the Nevada Supreme Court, each carrying six-year terms, are up for grabs. Justice Cliff Young in Seat D is running for re-election against Clark County Family Court Judge Steve Jones. In the Seat B race, Clark County District Judge Bill Maupin and Las Vegas attorney Kenneth Hall are competing to replace retiring Justice Tom Steffen. * Several local and statewide ballot initiatives and bond issues are on the ballot. Among the 24 questions on the local ballot is a $643 million school bond issue that would raise property taxes to build new schools and renovate older ones. Also facing city of Las Vegas voters is a nonbinding measure asking the city and county to consolidate services and adopt uniform taxes. Another ballot issue that would raise property taxes would add 450 Metro Police officers and 200 more police cars. North Las Vegas residents also face a property tax increase if they approve a plan, called Safe Streets 2000, that would add 68 police officers and 36 civilian employees to that police department. Sixteen statewide ballot questions also face voters, including Question 9, which would amend the state Constitution to limit the terms of elected state, local and judicial officials; and Question 11, which would amend the Constitution to require two-thirds of both houses of the Legislature to approve new taxes or fees, or allow the Legislature to refer tax decisions to a vote of the people. Also on the ballot: Question 12, which proposes a statewide property tax hike to control erosion and restore natural watercourses in the Lake Tahoe Basin, and Question 16, requiring new taxes or fees to be approved twice by both houses of the Legislature. * Four of the seven Clark County Commission seats, each carrying four-year terms, are up for grabs. District A incumbent Bruce Woodbury, a Boulder City Republican, will be challenged by Independent American Lee Wayne Haynes of Henderson. North Las Vegas City Councilwoman Mary Kincaid, a Democrat, will face Republican Gary Davis in District B, with the winner replacing retiring Commissioner Jay Bingham, who has said he is contemplating a run for lieutenant governor in 1998. District C incumbent Democrat Paul Christensen will meet Republican Lance Malone, and District D Democrat Yvonne Atkinson Gates will face Republican Earl Swift. * Seven of the 21 state Senate seats are on the ballot. Political observers say the most heated races are those pitting Sen. Sue Lowden, R-Las Vegas, against Democrat Valerie Wiener in District 3, and Sen. Ann O'Connell, R-Las Vegas, and Democrat Steve Sisolak in District 5. In another closely watched race, Mike Schneider, a Democratic assemblyman, is running against Republican Dennis Cobb for the District 8 seat being vacated by Sen. O.C. Lee, D-Las Vegas. Other races include Sen. Ray Shaffer, D-Las Vegas, against Republican Terry Holtz in District 2; Sen. Joe Neal, D-North Las Vegas, vs. Republican David Wallace in District 4; Sen. Ray Rawson, R-Las Vegas, against Democrat Daryl Nakamura in District 6; and Sen. Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, opposing Republican Charles Muth. * Twenty-six of the 42 state Assembly seats, each with two-year terms, are also on the ballot. At stake is an effort by the Democrats and Republicans to break a 21-21 deadlock in the Legislature's lower chamber. * Four of the seven Clark County School Board seats, each carrying four-year terms, are being contested. Competitors include Mary Beth Scow and Cynthia Kimball in District A, Eleanor Chow and Ruth Johnson in District B, incumbent James McMillan and Shirley Barber in District C, and incumbent Lois Tarkanian and Mark Hutchison in District E. archive
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Today in History Today is Saturday, Aug. 13, the 225th day of 2022. There are 140 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 13, 1961, East Germany sealed off the border between Berlin’s eastern and western sectors before building a wall that would divide the city for the next 28 years. On this date: In 1521, Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez captured Tenochtitlan (teh-natch-teet-LAHN’), present-day Mexico City, from the Aztecs. In 1792, French revolutionaries imprisoned the royal family. In 1846, the American flag was raised in Los Angeles for the first time. In 1889, William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut, received a patent for a coin-operated telephone. People are also reading… In 1910, Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, died in London at age 90. In 1932, Adolf Hitler rejected the post of vice chancellor of Germany, saying he was prepared to hold out “for all or nothing.” In 1960, the first two-way telephone conversation by satellite took place with the help of Echo 1. In 1995, Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle died at a Dallas hospital of rapidly spreading liver cancer; he was 63. In 2003, Iraq began pumping crude oil from its northern oil fields for the first time since the start of the war. Libya agreed to set up a $2.7 billion fund for families of the 270 people killed in the 1988 Pan Am bombing. In 2004, TV chef Julia Child died in Montecito, California, two days short of her 92nd birthday. In 2011, seven people were killed when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair during a powerful storm just before a concert was to begin. In eastern Pakistan, al-Qaida gunmen kidnapped an American development expert, Warren Weinstein. (Weinstein was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Jan. 2015.) In 2020, in an interview on Fox Business Network, President Donald Trump acknowledged that he was starving the U.S. Postal Service of money in order to make it harder to process an expected surge of mail-in ballots. Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced that they were establishing full diplomatic relations in a deal brokered by the U.S.; it required Israel to halt its plan to annex occupied West Bank land sought by the Palestinians. Ten years ago: A routine serving of an eviction notice to a man living near the Texas A&M University campus turned deadly when the resident opened fire, leading to the death of a law enforcement officer and another man before the gunman was killed. Helen Gurley Brown, 90, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, died in New York. Five years ago: In a statement, the White House said President Donald Trump “very strongly” condemned individual hate groups such as “white supremacists, KKK and neo-Nazis;” the statement followed criticism of Trump for blaming the previous day’s deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on “many sides.” Protesters decrying hatred and racism converged around the country, saying they felt compelled to respond to the white supremacist rally in Virginia. Actor, director and writer Joe Bologna died at the age of 82. One year ago: The Taliban completed their sweep of Afghanistan’s south, taking four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that brought them closer to Kabul, just weeks before the U.S. was set to officially end its two-decade war. U.S. weather officials said the average global temperature in July made it the hottest month ever recorded. Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith died at 68. Today’s Birthdays: Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders is 89. Actor Kevin Tighe is 78. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is 76. Opera singer Kathleen Battle is 74. High wire aerialist Philippe Petit is 73. Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Clarke is 73. Golf Hall of Famer Betsy King is 67. Movie director Paul Greengrass is 67. Actor Danny Bonaduce (bahn-uh-DOO’-chee) is 63. TV weatherman Sam Champion is 61. Actor Dawnn (correct) Lewis is 61. Actor John Slattery is 60. Actor Debi Mazar is 58. Actor Quinn Cummings is 55. Actor Seana Kofoed is 52. Country singer Andy Griggs is 49. Actor Gregory Fitoussi is 46. Country musician Mike Melancon (Emerson Drive) is 44. Actor Kathryn Fiore is 43. Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is 40. Actor Sebastian Stan is 40. Actor Eme Ikwuakor (IK’-wah-ker) is 38. Pop-rock singer James Morrison is 38. Actor Lennon Stella is 23.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-colbert-in-iraq_b_212818/amp.txt.gz
To remind everyone about the war, The Colbert Report has gone to Iraq, taping shows for the troops, which is sure to inspire others to follow the lead. In upcoming weeks, viewers can look forward to: Jeopardy: Alex Trebek elicits humorous anecdotes from the troops about holidays, births of babies, graduations, anniversaries, weddings and other significant events they've missed while serving multiple tours of duty. The Bachelorette: Jillian has dinners with 8 remaining troops, trying to single out the lucky guy who will then get e-mails from her, written after she returns to the safety of home. Gossip Girl: Panic ensues when Blair and Serena board the wrong plane and instead of flying to Barcelona on the class trip, find themselves in Iraq without their luggage. Maury: After a lengthy and heated dispute, Taliban terrorists agree to take paternity tests to determine who is the father of an 11-month old baby. Curb Your Enthusiasm: An impatient Larry David, cranky about standing in line, cuts in front of starving, battle-weary troops in the mess hall and is caught by the General, whose brother is the Dean of Admissions at Harvard, which, if Larry should have kids, will jeopardize their chances of being accepted. Jon & Kate Plus 8: Kate and Jon introduce variety to their bickering by doing it in a different time zone. My Life on the D List: Kathy Griffin books a haircut with Gen. Ray Odierno after watching him shave Colbert's head, then complains, "There will be no tip. You took off too much!" Martha Stewart: Martha and her crack team of home design experts show the troops how to redo their barracks with lighter, pastel shades for summer in Iraq. David Blaine Special: A film crew covers an uninterrupted, 72 hours of American interrogators waterboarding David Blaine, trying to get him to reveal the secrets of how he survived his other stunts.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/troy-man-sentenced-92-months-cocaine-and-crack-conspiracy.txt.gz
Troy Man Sentenced to 92 Months for Cocaine and Crack Conspiracy ALBANY, NEW YORK – Tyrone D. Marshall, age 37, of Troy, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 92 months in prison, to be followed by 6 years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in Albany and Rensselaer Counties. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In pleading guilty on August 15, 2018, Marshall admitted that from February 2017 to April 2017, he worked with others to acquire cocaine; cook and otherwise convert the cocaine into cocaine base (a/k/a crack cocaine); and sell crack cocaine and cocaine in Albany and Rensselaer Counties. Marshall admitted that a co-conspirator typically acquired cocaine from a source of supply in the City of Albany and then brought the cocaine to his residence in Troy, where they would cook the cocaine into crack for resale. This case was investigated by the FBI and its Capital District Safe Streets Gang Task Force, which includes FBI Special Agents and members of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, including the New York State Police and New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Barnett.
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Trump's pardons are troubling, but presidential pardon power is absolutely essential Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter made wise use of pardons. It is up to voters to choose presidents of character who won't abuse the power as Trump has. President Donald Trump’s pardon of Michael Flynn has again put the pardon power back in the headlines and fueled speculation that Trump might even use it to spare himself and his family criminal prosecution. The Flynn pardon typifies Trump’s use of clemency to reward loyal allies. Unsurprisingly, Trump has demonstrated a special affinity for this unique presidential power. Unlike almost every other presidential responsibility, granting clemency is entirely the president’s decision, with no requirement to consult Congress or any other government agency. Clemency comes closest to fulfilling Trump’s view that he has “the right to do whatever I want as president." This view aligns with a long line of judicial opinions which recognize that currently there are no legal constraints on the clemency power. Chief executives can grant clemency for “good reasons or bad, or for any reason at all,” as the Florida Supreme Court put it. No wonder Trump refers to his clemency power as a “beautiful thing.” Trump has not used the power of pardon excessively Yet, despite his affection for it, Trump has used the pardon power sparingly. As of Nov. 25, he has pardoned, commuted or rescinded the conviction of only 45 individuals. This is the fewest of any president since William McKinley, who served from 1897 to 1901. President Barack Obama, by comparison, granted clemency 1,927 times during his two terms. And when Trump has granted clemency, he has favored a rogue's gallery of people whose crimes convey contempt for the constraints imposed by the rule of law. This has been true from his first pardon, in August 2017, of Arizona’s notorious sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had defied a court order directing him to stop engaging in racial profiling, to last week’s pardon of Flynn, his former national security adviser who had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Trump's uses of the pardon power, however, are not the first time in recent memory that presidential grants of clemency caused an uproar, although his contempt for the rule of law may make him unique. Earlier examples include Gerald Ford’s controversial 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes arising from the Watergate scandal and George H.W. Bush's grant of clemency to former Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger for obstruction of justice in the so-called Iran-Contra scandal. Eight years later, President Bill Clinton stirred up controversy by pardoning financier Marc Rich on charges of tax evasion. Rich’s family had made substantial contributions to the Clinton library. Calls for limits on the president’s clemency power have followed each of those scandals. But none succeeded in generating new legal limits. Unconstitutional:President Donald Trump shouldn't be able to pardon himself Today, scholars and commentators are again looking to law to control the pardon power. They are calling on Congress to enact criminal penalties if pardons are granted for corrupt reasons, in the hope that “the legislature can prevent or deter the most egregious abuses.” Some are advocating a constitutional amendment which would require others to sign off on pardons and restrict when the power could be exercised. Cycles of scandal and reform are very much part of American history. But for every pardon scandal there are countless examples of its wise use, like Obama’s record number of clemencies granted to correct the injustice of draconian drug sentences or Jimmy Carter’s 1977 pardon of Vietnam War era draft resisters in an effort to heal national divisions after the war’s end. Voters are the check on pardon power I am deeply troubled by Trump’s pardons and understand the desire for reform, yet I think the current proposals would do more harm than good. The power to pardon without limit is both a dangerous and essential one. The framers of the Constitution understood that, but they believed that no system of government could or should rely solely on legal formula to achieve all that would be necessary in a good society. Quid pro quo:Trump's clemency for Roger Stone is an admission of the president's guilt in Russia probe Writing in 1833 about the president’s clemency power, the chief justice of the United States, John Marshall, said it would always entail “an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws.” This grace, Marshall emphasized, is beyond the reach of legal compulsion or regulation and its proper use depends on the judgment and propriety of those who wield it. No set of laws can specify all the occasions which warrant grace and mercy. In a society that too often looks to law to solve its problems, Marshall’s words are a salutary caution. They suggest that the remedy for Trump’s abuses of the pardon power rests with the people, not the legislatures or courts. It is up to voters to choose presidents of character and wisdom who will use the clemency power wisely to advance the causes of decency, democracy and compassion. Austin Sarat is Associate Provost and Associate Dean of the Faculty and William Nelson Cromwell Professor Jurisprudence & Political Science at Amherst College and author of "Mercy on Trial." Follow him on Twitter: @ljstprof
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Trump calls Clinton a ‘bigot’ at surreal rally with U.K. Independence Party leader JACKSON, Miss. — As he seeks to make inroads with African-Americans and other minority voters, Donald Trump dramatically escalated his rhetoric against rival Hillary Clinton, accusing her of being a “bigot” who does not truly care about blacks and Hispanics. “Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future,” the GOP presidential nominee declared at a rally here Wednesday night. “She’s going to do nothing for African-Americans. She’s going to do nothing for the Hispanics. She’s only going to take care of herself, her husband, her consultants, her donors. These are the people she cares about.” Trump’s accusation, delivered before a overwhelmingly white audience in a heavily Republican state, was a variation of a line he’s been using over the last week. Beginning with a speech last week outside Milwaukee, the GOP nominee has repeatedly condemned “the bigotry of Hillary Clinton” while arguing that Democrats have failed minority voters and taken them for granted. The sharp jab punctuated an unusual and somewhat surreal rally here in the Deep South, where the celebrity businessman was joined onstage by Nigel Farage, the outgoing leader of the United Kingdom’s Independence Party. Farage was an architect of the successful “Brexit,” in which the U.K. voted earlier this summer to leave the European Union. Trump has repeatedly likened his own campaign to Brexit in arguing for “peaceful regime change” in the U.S. on Election Day. The mogul recently predicted that he would soon be known by the moniker “Mr. Brexit.” Inviting the British politician to the stage at his Wednesday rally, the GOP nominee called it an “honor” to stand with Farage, who all but endorsed Trump as he likened his own campaign against the European establishment to the brash developer’s insurgent bid for the White House. Speaking to audience members who appeared somewhat baffled at his presence, Farage spoke of how he and allies overcame opposition from the political establishment and even a set of foreign leaders that included U.S. President Obama. As the crowd here booed, Farage pointedly accused Obama of talking down to the British. “He treated us as if we were nothing,” Farage said. “One of the oldest functioning democracies in the world, and here he was telling us to ‘vote remain.’” As Trump stood over his shoulder, a smile on his face, Farage pointedly did not endorse Trump — but he came very, very close. “I could not possibly tell you how you should vote in this election,” he said. “But I will say this, if I was an American citizen, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton if you paid me!” Farage urged Trump supporters to take advantage of the “fantastic opportunity” they face in November. “You can go out. You can beat the pollsters. You can beat the commentators. You can beat Washington. And you’ll do it by doing what we did for Brexit in Britain. We had our own people’s army of ordinary citizens,” he said. “Anything is possible if enough people are prepared to stand up against the establishment.” Walking back to the podium, Trump nodded, calling Election Day a chance for the country to “re-declare” its independence. “It’s time to recapture our destiny,” he said. Hillary Clinton responds to Trump calling her a bigot: "He is taking a hate movement mainstream" https://t.co/xyYjhBKRms — Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) August 25, 2016 For her part, Clinton responded to Trump’s “bigot” attack during a Wednesday night interview with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. “It reminds me of that great saying that Maya Angelou had, that, ’When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time,’” the Democratic nominee said. “And Donald Trump has shown us who he is. And we ought to believe him. He is taking a hate movement mainstream.” Clinton added that Trump was “someone who has questioned the citizenship of the first African-American president — who has courted white supremacists, who has been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color, who attacked a judge for his Mexican heritage, and promised a mass-deportation force.” She said she would “have more to say about this” in a Thursday speech in Reno, Nev.
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Tulare administrators work to bring more mental wellness services to students Soon, some Tulare high school students will have more options when looking for social-emotional support on campus. On Thursday, Tulare Joint Union High School District trustees approved a contract with Tulare County Office of Education to bring a social worker to Mission Oak High School. The position will work on the campus one day a week and provide additional support to the mental wellness services already in place, said Tammy Aldaco, assistant superintendent of Student Services and Special Programs. "We're finding that more students are dealing with social-emotional issues and some are at a point where it negatively impacts their focus on academics," Aldaco said. "We need to provide support to help work them through those issues." More:Get to know candidates vying to be the next Tulare County superintendent Aldaco said students find comfort in knowing they have someone on campus to talk to about struggles they may be facing. During the eight-hour shift, the social worker will coordinate with the on-campus psychologist, administrators and counselors to reach out to students and help target early intervention. The person will meet with students and their parents to provide additional support. More:Tulare County student arrested after threating Mission Oak High School The two-year contract comes at no cost to the district and is part of a grant TCOE received to promote mental health services to students in all grades, Aldaco said. Once those two years are up, TJUHSD will pick up the cost. "We’re extremely excited about a state Triage Grant we were awarded — in partnership with Tulare County Health and Human Services — and the work that will be done throughout Tulare County to support students, families, and schools," said Jennifer Newell, TCOE Behavioral Health Services director. Mission Oak was selected for the extra support because of its new special education program. The social worker will work hand-in-hand with the program, Aldaco said. "There are some situations where parents don't understand how to help their child or don't have the resources to help their child and those students tend to not get support," Aldaco said. "To have that someone they can talk to every day provides that ongoing support. We want to do everything we can to support our students so they can be successful." More:Highlights: Delano vs. Mission Oak More:State audit blasts former Tulare hospital board members
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https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/two-bismarck-mandan-men-charged-for-child-pornography/article_4f9464dc-cc6c-11e1-aa5b-001a4bcf887a.html.txt.gz
Two Bismarck-Mandan men face felony charges for alleged possession of child pornography. Law enforcement officials served search warrants at a Bismarck man’s home and a Mandan man’s home on Wednesday after a special agent with the Bureau of Criminal Investigation identified them as possible participants in peer-to-peer networks that shared child pornography. Harold Fetzer, 68, and Robert Schmaltz, 36, were charged Thursday with Class C felony possession of certain materials prohibited. South Central District Judge Bruce Romanick set bond for Fetzer at $15,000 cash. South Central District Judge Cynthia Feland set bond for Schmaltz at $25,000 cash. According to affidavits in the two court files, BCI Agent Jesse Smith in Cass County investigates cyber crimes and identified Fetzer and Schmaltz as possible participants in peer-to-peer networks that share child pornography. Law enforcement officials served search warrants on Fetzer’s Mandan home and Schmaltz’s Bismarck home on Wednesday. People are also reading… Officials seized a hard drive from Fetzer’s home that Smith found to have more than 1,000 images and more than 300 videos of child pornography. Fetzer admitted to a Homeland Security agent that he knowingly downloaded the materials. Officials seized a computer from Schmaltz’s home, and Smith found more than 3,000 images of child pornography. “Schmaltz did indicate that there would be search terms on his computer for child pornography,” Bismarck Police Det. Scott Betz wrote in an affidavit. Reach reporter Jenny Michael at 250-8225 or jenny.michael@bismarcktribune.com.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdky/pr/two-charged-federally-connection-carjackings.txt.gz
Two Charged Federally In Connection With Carjackings LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, returned an indictment on June 16, 2021, charging two Louisville men with carjacking and brandishing firearms. According to court documents, Cameron Burnett, 30, carjacked a Toyota Camry while brandishing a firearm on January 18, 2021, in Louisville Kentucky. Additionally, Burnett and Timothy McCurley, 33, carjacked a Hyundai Tucson on January 22, 2021, in Mt. Washington, Kentucky. During the course of that crime, McCurley brandished a firearm. Burnett is charged with carjacking and brandishing a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence. The defendant made his initial court appearance on June 22, 2021, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Regina S. Edwards of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. If convicted, he faces a mandatory maximum penalty of 15 years in prison for each carjacking and a mandatory minimum penalty of 7 years in prison for brandishing a firearm. McCurley is charged with carjacking and brandishing a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence. The defendant will make his initial court appearance on July 29th at 1:30 pm, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Colin H. Lindsay of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison for carjacking and a mandatory minimum penalty of 7 years in prison for brandishing a firearm. For each defendant, a federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors. Acting U.S. Attorney Michael A. Bennett of the Western District of Kentucky; and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge of the Louisville Field Office Robert Brown made the announcement. The FBI, Louisville Metro Police Department, Mt. Pleasant Police Department, and Elizabethtown Police Department are investigating the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Ann Marie Blaylock is prosecuting the case. An indictment is merely an allegation and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. ###
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-ut/pr/two-indicted-conspiracy-commit-money-laundering-charges-allege-they-laundered-money.txt.gz
Two Indicted On Conspiracy To Commit Money Laundering; Charges Allege They Laundered Money For Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations SALT LAKE CITY – A federal grand jury returned an indictment last week charging two Salt Lake City women with conspiracy to commit money laundering. The charges allege they conspired to launder drug proceeds for Mexican drug trafficking organizations from Utah to Mexico. The indictment, returned Wednesday, was unsealed Friday afternoon. Charged in the indictment are Rosa Rodiguez, age 41, and her sister, Yadira Rodriquez, age 35, both of Salt Lake City. According to a complaint filed in the case, Rosa Rodriguez owns and operates two money services businesses in Utah. These businesses provide money transfer services from Utah to Mexico and other areas. One business, Happy Travel, is located in West Valley City. Rosa Rodriguez is the primary operator of this location, the complaint alleges. The second business, Happy Travel 2, is located in Salt Lake City. Yadira Rodriguez is the primary operator of this location. The two were arrested last week. A detention hearing for Rosa Rodriguez is scheduled for Dec. 22, 2016, at 2:15 p.m. in Magistrate Judge Evelyn J. Furse’s courtroom. Yadira Rodriguez has been released on conditions. According to the indictment, those who own and operate money services businesses are subject to various laws and regulations that govern, among other things, record keeping, filing reports on certain transactions, and ensuring anti-money laundering compliance. Charges allege that the Rodriguez sisters used their money service businesses to send money transfers for the drug trafficking organizations and took steps to conceal and disguise the source and ownership of the illegal proceeds. The charges allege they split up money transfer amounts to avoid having to produce or provide identification information for money transfers in an attempt to conceal and disguise the source and ownership of the illegal proceeds. The charges also allege the pair concealed the traffickers’ identity by falsifying sender information on the money transfers. Investigators believe that by structuring transactions and sending money under fictitious names, the defendants laundered an estimated $1 million for Mexican drug trafficking organizations. The case is being investigated by the DEA Metro Narcotics Task Force, IRS-Criminal Investigation and the U.S. Marshals Service.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/two-kc-men-indicted-drug-trafficking-part-national-takedown.txt.gz
Two KC Men Indicted for Drug Trafficking as Part of National Takedown KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two Kansas City, Mo., men have been indicted, in separate cases, as part of a nationwide enforcement action related to the distribution of opioids and other dangerous narcotics. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, M.D., announced earlier today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 charged defendants across 41 federal districts. Many of the defendants included in today’s national announcement are medical professionals, including doctors and nurses. In the two local cases, however, the defendants are not medical professionals but are charged with conduct related to the possession and distribution of controlled substances. USA v. Toombs William E. Toombs, Jr., also known as “Zorro” or “Big Z,” 59, of Kansas City, was charged in a 10-count indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., on June 29, 2017. That indictment was unsealed and made public upon Toombs’s arrest and initial court appearance on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. The federal indictment charges Toombs with nine counts of possessing controlled substances with the intent to distribute. On June 19, 2015, Toombs allegedly possessed crack cocaine, Oxycodone, Morphine, Hydrocodone, Codeine, Alprazolam and Diazepam with the intent to distribute. On April 25, 2016, Toombs allegedly possessed heroin with the intent to distribute. On May 4, 2016, Toombs allegedly possessed Oxycodone, Methadone, Hydrocodone and Alprazolam with the intent to distribute. Toombs is also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Toombs, who has a prior felony conviction, allegedly possessed a Taurus .45 Long Colt/410 gauge revolver on June 19, 2015. USA v. Cunningham Josef Cunningham, Jr., also known as Carl Thomas, 31, of Kansas City, Mo., was charged in a six-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury on June 29, 2017. The federal indictment charges Cunningham with one count of possessing Oxycodone between April 25 and June 10, 2015, with the intent to distribute. Cunningham is also charged with five counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. Cunningham allegedly obtained Oxycodone and Codeine using fraudulent prescriptions. Larson cautioned that the charges contained in these indictments are simply accusations, and not evidence of guilt. These cases are being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Trey Alford. They were investigated by the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department and the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General.
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Two Plead Guilty in Scheme to Defraud Factoring Companies of over $1 Million Greenbelt, Maryland - Rafael Simmons, age 30, of Laurel, Maryland and Texas, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme to defraud accounts receivables finance companies, known as factoring companies, of more than $1 million. Co-defendant Rodney A. Mathis, age 34, of Stafford, Virginia, pleaded guilty on February 22, 2010, to wire fraud in connection with his role in the scheme. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Richard A. McFeely of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Special Agent in Charge C. Andre' Martin of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation; Special Agent in Charge Kathryn Jones, U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Inspector General, Washington Regional Office; and Special Agent in Charge Robert Craig of the Mid-Atlantic Field Office, Defense Criminal Investigative Service. According to their plea agreements, from November 2007 through July 2009, Simmons and others, including Rodney Mathis, engaged in a scheme to defraud factoring companies, which purchase account receivables from federal government contractors and others. For example, Simmons contacted Federal National Payables (FNP), a factoring company, and held himself out as the Director of Omega Rho International (ORI), a management consultant company located in Odenton, Maryland, and falsely represented that ORI had a lucrative contract to supply telecommunications services to the U.S. government. Simmons represented to FNP that ORI was willing to assign its rights to payments under the contract to FNP, in exchange for advances on those payments. Rodney Mathis falsely held himself out as a Contracting Officer for the United States Army in order to convince FNP that ORI had a genuine government contract and that government payments would be made to FNP. As part of the scheme, Simmons submitted a fictitious financial statement to FNP reflecting that Simmons’ net worth was $12 million and that he had more than $1.9 million in cash available in banks in the Phillipines and in the United Arab Emirates, in order to entice FNP to send the factoring payments. Mathis and Simmons also created a fraudulent classified version of a government contract which they faxed to FNP to further convince FNP that the contract was genuine. As a result, Simmons and Mathis caused FNP to make several wire transfers, including a wire transfer of approximately $315,124 to a bank account controlled by Simmons. Simmons subsequently laundered the payment through other accounts he controlled. The total loss resulting from the scheme was between $1 million and $2.5 million. Simmons and Mathis face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for wire fraud and Simmons also faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for money laundering. U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus has scheduled sentencing for May 17, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., respectively. United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein commended Assistant United States Attorney David I. Salem, who is prosecuting the case.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/two-postal-carriers-and-marijuana-organizations-charged-bribery-connection-marijuana.txt.gz
Two Postal Carriers And Marijuana Organizations Charged With Bribery In Connection With Marijuana Trafficking Philadelphia - Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen today announced three indictments[1] that collectively charged postal carriers Steven C. Williams, 42, and Felicia Charleston, 35, with using their positions as United States postal carriers to distribute large quantities of marijuana to conspiring with Chester Wynter, 49, Barrington Russell, 44, Damion Parkes, 44, Gillion Watson, 32, Marvia Shirley, 32, Patrick Purrier, 38, and Anthony Washington, 27. In each of the three indictments, Williams was charged with conspiring with members of marijuana organizations to commit bribery, bribery of a public official, and conspiring with the members of the marijuana organizations to distribute at least 100 kilograms of marijuana. According to the indictments, Williams was a postal carrier at the West Market Post Office in Philadelphia and was responsible for delivering United States Postal Services’ packages to addresses in West Philadelphia, which included 48 N. Hobart Street and other addresses in West Philadelphia. Williams allegedly used his position as a postal carrier to divert packages from the addressee to Wynter, Russell, Parkes, Purrier and Washington for the purposes of distributing the marijuana contained within the packages, in return for cash. In two of the three indictments, Charleston was similarly charged with conspiring with members of marijuana organizations to distribute at least 100 kilograms of marijuana. According to these indictments, Charleston also worked at the West Market Post Office in Philadelphia and was responsible for delivering United States Postal Services’ packages to addresses in West Philadelphia, but she left her postal route to divert packages from the addressee to Wynter, Russell, and Washington for the purposes of distributing the marijuana contained within the packages. According to the indictments, once the packages were delivered to Wynter, Russell, Parkes, Watson, and Shirley at 48 N. Hobart Street, and to Purrier and Washington at various locations in West Philadelphia, these marijuana conspiracy members distributed the marijuana to their customers. Based on the quantity of the marijuana involved, the defendants face the following sentences: Williams – a statutory maximum sentence of life imprisonment, a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years’ imprisonment, and a $28,500,000 fine Charleston – a statutory maximum sentence of life imprisonment, a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years’ imprisonment, and a $20,250,000 fine Wynter and Russell – a statutory maximum sentence of life imprisonment, a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years’ imprisonment, and a $10,500,000 fine Parkes - a statutory maximum sentence of life imprisonment, a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years’ imprisonment, and a $10,250,000 fine Watson and Shirley - a statutory maximum sentence of life imprisonment, a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years’ imprisonment, and a $10,000,000 fine Purrier - a statutory maximum sentence of 65 years’ imprisonment, a mandatory minimum sentence of five years’ imprisonment, and a $5,750,000 fine Washington - a statutory maximum sentence of life imprisonment, a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years’ imprisonment, and a $12,500,000 fine. “This indictment is a great example of how our different law enforcement partners can combine resources to combat corruption within the federal government," said Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. "The U.S. Attorney’s Office will continue to investigate and prosecute postal service and other federal employees who undermine the integrity of government operations through bribery and other unlawful conduct.” “The vast majority of the Postal Service’s 600,000 employees nationwide are dedicated, hard-working individuals worthy of America’s trust," said Monica Weyler, U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge, Philadelphia, PA. "However, a very small number of them choose to violate that trust by engaging in misconduct or criminal activity. Special agents with the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General work with other law enforcement agencies to find those employees, investigate them, and seek their criminal prosecution and removal from the Postal Service, as we did in this case. To report criminal activity or serious misconduct by postal employees, contact USPS OIG special agents at 888-USPS-OIG or www.uspsoig.gov.” The case was investigated by the United States Postal Service, Office of Inspector General (USPS-OIG), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Border Enforcement Security Taskforce (BEST), and the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Bureau of Narcotics Investigations (BNI) and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Anita Eve and Tomika N.S. Patterson.
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https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-sanford-road-rage-wrecck-20171228-story.html.txt.gz
Two drivers in a deadly road-rage incident have a history that includes allegations of domestic violence. Darrius Grooms, who was killed in a crash Wednesday in Sanford, was facing kidnapping and assault charges and was arrested about three weeks ago. The victim, according to Seminole County court records, was Chriskesha Pierce, who has been charged in his death. Pierce, 21, told officers that Grooms — who was prohibited from having contact with her — started driving behind her in the Georgetown area of Sanford, according to an arrest report. She said Grooms followed her as she drove east on 11th Street and onto Mellonville Avenue going south, according to the report. Her description of what happened next was redacted in the police report. Witnesses described a road-rage incident before Grooms crashed into a tree and the car caught fire. Pierce fled. Grooms, 26, was taken to Central Florida Regional Hospital, where he died. Police found Pierce’s vehicle with damage to the front right bumper, the right rear fender and a flat tire. she was not with the vehicle and was found at Charleston Club Apartments, about three miles away. Officers think that she struck the left rear fender and rear bumper of the black Volkswagen Jetta Grooms was driving. The bump caused him to lose control and crash into a tree, according to the arrest report. Pierce’s green Chevrolet ran off the road, jumped a curb and struck a mailbox, the report states. Pierce faces a negligent homicide charge. She is being held without bail in the Seminole County Jail. ktorralva@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5417 or Twitter @KMTorralva
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https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/student-hospitalized-la-school-beating-video-fight/2726527/?amp=1.txt.gz
Two high school students from Los Angeles are facing felony charges for a beating caught on camera, which sent the injured classmate to the hospital. School police say it's unclear what prompted the fight, but that there was a longstanding dispute between the girls involved. Warning: The video below contains disturbing images of violence. The disturbing video shows students gathered in a girl's locker room at Miguel Contreras Learning Complex's School of Social Justice. Two high school girls in red and yellow hoodies push each other to the ground, at which point a third girl in black joins the fight. As the video continues, the girls in red and in black begin stomping on the student in the yellow hoodie, throwing punches and picking her up by her hair while she is defenseless and on the ground. Other students surround the fighting girls in the video, some recording the incident, without intervening. The incident happened Monday at 11 a.m., with a girl in yellow the only victim in the fight, according to LA School Police. She was taken to the hospital for her injuries. Maria Lourdes Gonzalez, a parent, said in Spanish that it's sad that it could have been one of her kids, and no one was helping the girl or getting help. "That's concerning to me, because I think all of us as human beings cannot allow that to happen," said Sergeant Rudy Perez of LA School Police. According to him, the two girls who punched and beat the one in yellow are facing felony battery charges. "I think this went a little bit beyond a typical fight, and that's what made it hard to watch that video of the young lady being hurt," Perez said. Frances Baez, the local district central superintendent, released a statement on the incident. "I want to reassure families that any type of violent behavior is never tolerated in Los Angeles Unified," she said. "The safety of our students remains our top priority, and again, any violence of any kind, will simply not be tolerated on our campuses." School police say the victim's guardian showed up Tuesday morning in the school, upset that the two girls involved in the fight did not get suspended or reprimanded following the incident - instead, attending class on Monday and Tuesday. The girls were arrested at the school with minimal issues Tuesday. Tanya Ortiz Franklin, board member for the Los Angeles Unified School District, says the district moved away from generic suspensions for most school misbehaviors. They now encourage a restorative approach, where they investigate and talk to all parties and ask them what they think needs to be done to hold them accountable. Because all three girls are minors, not much is being released about their identities or ages.
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https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/hackensack/police-fire/secaucus-walmart-carjackers-nabbed-in-newark-police/838398/.txt.gz
Two men who robbed and carjacked a woman at knifepoint in the Secaucus Walmart parking lot were arrested in two separate stolen cars in Newark, authorities said. Xavier Cenpin and Caliente Gaillard, both 19, of Newark, robbed and carjacked the 66-year-old woman at the Park Plaza Drive Walmart around 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, July 20, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said. The victim was uninjured, but the suspects stole cash and her 2016 BMW M23 convertible, police said. Upon the arrival of police, the Secaucus Police Anti-Crime Unit conducted an on-scene investigation. The suspects came to Secaucus in a 2022 Nissan Altima, which was later confirmed to have been carjacked from New York City the day before, Miller said. Secaucus Police Anti-Crime Unit Detectives developed information that the BMW M23 was in the area of Brenner Street in Newark and responded to the area. Secaucus Police Anti-Crime Unit Detectives, with the assistance of members of the Newark Police Department, found the stolen 2022 Nissan Altima occupied by Cenpin and Gaillard, Miller said. Cenpin had the knife used in the crimes at the time of his arrest, the chief said. Police saw the victim’s 2016 BMW M23 while in the area. operator of the vehicle fled and remains at large. The Essex County Sheriff’s Office recovered the unoccupied 2016 BMW M23 a short time later within the confines of Newark. The investigation is ongoing and additional arrests may be made. Xavier Cenpin and Caliente Gaillard were arrested and charged with various counts of armed carjacking, robbery and more. Click here to sign up for Daily Voice's free daily emails and news alerts.
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Two packages addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden bearing similarities to the other packages were recovered at two postal facilities in Delaware. Another was addressed to Robert De Niro and sent to a Manhattan address associated with the actor. None of the devices exploded, and no one was injured. But the packages, sent to prominent Democrats critical of President Donald Trump, heightened nationwide tensions and fears two weeks before major congressional midterm elections. The packages sent to Biden were found in New Castle and Wilmington. The FBI and ATF responded to the facilities as part of the ongoing investigation into the devices, with authorities believing these to be ninth and 10th packages tied to the case. The packages addressed to Biden never reached their destination. The first crude bomb to be discovered had been delivered Monday to the Westchester County compound of George Soros, a liberal billionaire and major contributor to Democratic causes. Soros has called Trump's presidency "dangerous." Similar packages were addressed to the Clintons' home in Chappaqua and the Obamas' home in Washington, DC, though the Secret Service said neither package reached their intended recipients. Two more were sent to Waters, a frequent Trump critic, and another to Holder. His package never made it to its destination due to a delivery error and was bounced back to the return address, listed as Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's office in Sunrise, Florida, which was briefly evacuated. Lastly, a police bomb squad removed a package addressed to for CIA Director John Brennan, an NBC News contributor, at CNN's New York City office at the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle. TIMELINE of pipe bomb mailings to politicians, others The object appeared to be a small pipe bomb with wires extending from it, which was removed from the building at 11:37 a.m. and taken to a remote location to be detonated. Mayor Bill de Blasio called it an act of terrorism. "What we saw here today was an effort to terrorize," he said. "This clearly is an act of terror, attempting to undermine our free press and leaders of this country through acts of violence. I want to make very clear that the people of New York City will not be intimidated, that we are going to go about our lives undeterred because the very concept of terrorism to change us, and we will not allow that to happen." The bombs seized Wednesday, each with a small battery, were about six inches long and packed with powder and broken glass, said a law enforcement official who viewed X-ray images and spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. The official said the devices were made from PVC pipe and covered with black tape. They were sent to an FBI lab in Virginia to be studied. They are being treated as potentially explosive devices, but at this point, it remains unclear if they were designed to actually explode. Officials provided no details on a possible suspect or motive, and the investigation is ongoing.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/us-attorney-500000-grant-ywca-help-protect-women.txt.gz
U.S. Attorney: $500,000 Grant to YWCA To Help Protect Women TOPEKA, KAN. – A $500,000 federal grant to YWCA of Northeast Kansas will help the agency serve victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today. “Our goal is to reduce violence against women and strengthen services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking,” McAllister said. “Statistics show that a shocking number of women and girls are the victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. The Department of Justice strongly supports partners such as the YWCA Northwest Kansas and Jana’s Campaign in their important efforts to combat such violence and assist survivors.” The grant comes from the Department of Justice’s Office of Violence Against Women (OVW) through its Rural Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking Program. The OVW issued a grant notification this week saying YWCA of Northeast Kansas and its partner Jana’s Campaign will use this award to enhance and expand access to direct advocacy services to victims and survivors in Brown, Jackson and Wabaunsee counties. Other goals include increasing awareness and understanding of domestic violence, sexual assault dating violence and stalking for youth through outreach and training in schools, youth programs and community meetings on healthy relationships and stalking. Grant funds will be used to support three full-time and one part-time staff position, provide crisis counseling and individual counseling and support groups, assistance with Protections from Abuse and Protection from Stalking Orders, provide case management, advocacy with medical, court and social service systems and provide school- and youth-based prevention programs. The timing for performance of this award is 36 months. For more information about this grant, contact the Office on Violence Against Women at 202/307-6026 and ask for the Outreach and Communications Division.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/us-attorney-urges-public-report-suspected-covid-19-fraud.txt.gz
U.S. Attorney Urges the Public to Report Suspected COVID-19 Fraud Appoints Coronavirus Fraud Coordinator KANSAS CITY, Mo. – U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison today urged the public to report suspected fraud schemes related to COVID-19 (the coronavirus) by calling the National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) hotline (1-866-720-5721) or writing to the NCDF email address at disaster@leo.gov. The Department of Justice is committed to preventing, pursuing, prosecuting, and punishing individuals and businesses that take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to engage in criminal fraud. “I have no tolerance for criminals who seize upon this public health crisis as an opportunity to prey on anxious Missourians,” said Garrison. “In contrast to the many citizens who are courageously and generously coming forward to help their neighbors, the actions of a few criminals threaten to make a difficult situation more dangerous. I am therefore making it a priority to investigate and prosecute those who try to profit by selling bogus cures, soliciting fake donations, engaging in online or email phishing scams, or engaging in any other fraud.” Some examples of these fraud schemes include: • Individuals and businesses selling fake cures for COVID-19 online and engaging in other forms of fraud. • Phishing emails from entities posing as the World Health Organization or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. • Malicious websites and apps that appear to share coronavirus-related information to gain and lock access to your devices until payment is received. • Seeking donations fraudulently for illegitimate or non-existent charitable organizations. • Medical providers obtaining patient information for COVID-19 testing and then using that information to fraudulently bill for other tests and procedures. Garrison announced the appointment of Assistant U.S. Attorney Kate Mahoney as the designated Coronavirus Fraud Coordinator. Mahoney, who is the chief of the Fraud and Corruption Unit, will serve as the legal counsel on matters relating to the coronavirus, direct the prosecution of coronavirus-related crimes, and conduct outreach and awareness activities. The NCDF can receive and enter complaints into a centralized system that can be accessed by all U.S. Attorneys, as well as Justice Department litigating and law enforcement components to identify, investigate and prosecute fraud schemes. The NCDF coordinates complaints with 16 additional federal law enforcement agencies, as well as state attorneys general and local authorities. To find more about Department of Justice resources and information, please visit www.justice.gov/coronavirus.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmo/pr/us-attorney-urges-public-report-suspected-covid-19-fraud.txt.gz
U.S. Attorney Urges the Public to Report Suspected COVID-19 Fraud St. Louis – U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen of the Eastern District of Missouri today urged the public to report suspected fraud schemes related to COVID-19 (the Coronavirus) by calling the National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) hotline (1-866-720-5721) or by contacting the NCDF e-mail address disaster@leo.gov. In coordination with the Department of Justice, Attorney General William Barr has directed U.S. Attorneys to prioritize the investigation and prosecution of Coronavirus fraud schemes. The NCDF Hotline can receive and enter complaints into a centralized system that can be accessed by all U.S. Attorneys, as well as Justice Department litigating and law enforcement components to identify, investigate and prosecute fraud schemes. The NCDF coordinates complaints with 16 additional federal law enforcement agencies, as well as state Attorneys General and local authorities. “My office will continue to work with federal, state and local law enforcement to protect zealously the public from fraudsters who try to take advantage of a vulnerable time for our nation,” said U.S. Attorney Jensen. “A national crisis is in no way a safe harbor for criminal activity.” Some examples of these schemes include: - Individuals and businesses selling fake cures for COVID-19 online and engaging in other forms of fraud. - Phishing emails from entities posing as the World Health Organization or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. - Malicious websites and apps that appear to share Coronavirus-related information to gain and lock access to your devices until payment is received. - Seeking donations fraudulently for illegitimate or non-existent charitable organizations. - Medical providers obtaining patient information for COVID-19 testing and then using that information to fraudulently bill for other tests and procedures. In connection with a memorandum to U.S. Attorneys issued March 19 by Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, the United States Attorney’s Office has appointed a Coronavirus Fraud Coordinator to serve as the legal counsel for the Eastern District of Missouri on matters relating to the Coronavirus, and to direct the prosecution of Coronavirus-related crimes. Anyone with such information concerning such matters is encouraged to contact the United States Attorney’s Office immediately.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/us-attorney-william-m-mcswain-announces-doj-statement-interest-filed-lawsuit.txt.gz
U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain Announces DOJ Statement of Interest Filed in Lawsuit Challenging Philadelphia’s Public Event Moratorium PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a Statement of Interest (“SOI”) today in a case pending in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania that challenges the City of Philadelphia’s “Event Moratorium” that prohibits issuing permits for expressive gatherings of 150 or more people on public property. The lawsuit claims that the Moratorium violates the rights of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment. The SOI was filed in support of the plaintiff, the Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial Society (“PVV”), an organization that seeks to promote, honor, and dignify the memory of military veterans who served in Vietnam. PVV does so by sponsoring honor guards and rifle teams to attend veteran burial details and by participating in parades and other public events. PVV contends that it and other groups are adversely impacted by the City’s blanket ban on issuing permits for public gatherings. On July 14, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Philadelphia instituted the Event Moratorium, imposing a blanket ban on issuing permits for any public gatherings through February 2021. While the City claims that the Event Moratorium does not apply to First Amendment protected activity, nevertheless it will not issue permits for any such activity – and it simultaneously cancelled all festivals, parades, and public gatherings on City property initially involving 50 (but now 150) people. At the same time that it has imposed the Event Moratorium, the City has explicitly allowed a group of any size to take to the streets without a permit if their stated purpose is to protest -- even if that group ignores social distancing, masking, or any other CDC guidelines. This is true even though concerns about virus transmission obviously apply with equal force to groups protesting without a permit and those parading with one. As set forth in the SOI, this disparate treatment (and double standard) is illogical, not narrowly tailored to serve a legitimate public health purpose, and unconstitutional. “This is a case about more speech, not less,” said U.S. Attorney McSwain. “The City’s double standard – whereby is treats protests one way and any other First Amendment gathering a completely different way -- is illogical, favors particular messages, does not serve public health purposes, and is unconstitutional. The solution is not to limit protests. Rather, the solution is to eliminate the Event Moratorium and allow all speakers to express themselves in accordance with their constitutional rights.” “The First Amendment to United States Constitution makes illegal any attempt by government to abridge the rights of the people to speak and assemble peacefully. Our Founders established these rights to enshrine in our law a very simple ideal: tyranny has no place in this free country. At a small town west of Philadelphia, at Gettysburg in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln observed that this United States of America was ‘conceived in liberty,’ and he challenged all of us ‘to be dedicated’ to a ‘new birth of freedom.’ We must and do accept President Lincoln’s challenge,” said Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the Civil Rights Division. “The Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial Society honors those brave patriots, living and dead, who fought, suffered, and died for our freedom and for the freedom of all humanity. The United States Department of Justice stands with them, and we will continue to fight for their liberty and the liberty of all people.” The case is docketed as Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial Society v. Kenney, et al., Civil Action No. 20-cv-05418.
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/txn/PressRel09/worthan_PSC_sen_pr.html.txt.gz
U.S. Department of Justice James T. Jacks |FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE| MEDIA INQUIRIES: KATHY COLVIN |FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2009 | WWW.USDOJ.GOV/USAO/TXN PHONE: (214)659-8600 FEDERAL JUDGE SENTENCES WEST TEXAS MAN LUBBOCK, Texas — Rory Dale Worthan, 43, of Big Spring, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 78 months in prison to be followed by a 30-year term of supervised release, announced James T. Jacks, acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Judge Cummings remanded Worthan to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service at the conclusion of the hearing. Worthan pled guilty in January to one count of possession of child pornography. He admitted that on February 8, 2007, he had an image of child pornography on his computer’s hard drive that he had downloaded from the Internet. The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov The case was investigated by the Department of Justice - Office of Inspector General and the FBI. Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven M. Sucsy of the Lubbock, Texas, U.S. Attorney's Office was the prosecutor. ###
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/txn/PressRel07/guerra_PSC_ple_pr.html.txt.gz
U.S. Department of Justice United States Attorney Richard B. Roper |FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE| CONTACT: KATHY COLVIN |THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2007 | WWW.USDOJ.GOV/USAO/TXN PHONE: (214)659-8600 SAN ANGELO, TEXAS, MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO Defendant Faces Up to Life in Prison Guerra was charged in an indictment returned on November 21, 2006, in the Western District of Tennessee. That case was later transferred to the San Angelo Division of the Northern District of Texas for prosecution. Guerra entered his plea today before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings who ordered a pre-sentence investigation with sentencing to be scheduled after that investigation is completed. Guerra, 47, faces up to life in prison and will be required to register as a sex offender. He has been in federal custody since his arrest on November 22, 2006, on the charges set out in the indictment. According to documents filed in Court, in September 2006, Roland E. Guerra began making contact, via the Internet, with a Memphis Task Force officer, who had assumed an undercover identity by posing as a 13 year-old female. During the next month Guerra contacted the undercover officer and expressed an interest in having a sexual relationship. On September 14, 2006, Guerra forwarded digital images to the undercover officer which depicted Guerra engaged in sexually explicit conduct with a minor. Then on October 5, 2006, Guerra used his computer to send a computer video depicting a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. On October 19, 2006, Guerra began to discuss with the undercover officer the possibility of meeting in Abilene, Texas, for the purpose of engaging in a sexual relationship. Guerra believed the undercover officer to actually be a 13 year-old female. During multiple Internet conversations that occurred over a one-week period, Guerra discussed the details of how thesexual encounter would be arranged. Guerra understood that the 13 year-old girl was coming to Abilene, Texas, for a youth tennis tournament, and he requested the name of the motel where the girl would be staying so he could book a room there during that time. Guerra provided his cell phone number, so he could be called when the 13 year-old girl’s father was away from the hotel, at which time they would engage in sexual activity. On November 9, 2006, the undercover officer received a package from Guerra containing a Web cam, a camera memory stick, and a digital camera. Guerra had previously explained to the undercover officer, in his identity as the girl, that he wanted the girl to have the items so they could have a closer encounter with each other. On November 17, 2006, law enforcement personnel contacted Guerra at a Hotel in Abilene, where Guerra had instructed the girl to meet him for the sexual encounter. Guerra was confronted about his actions and was interviewed by law enforcement officers. Guerra admitted he was at the hotel to engage in sexual intercourse with a 13 year-old minor. Guerra consented to a search of his hotel room and among other things, law enforcement officers found a gift bag containing a Sony camera, a laptop computer, condoms, and another camera that was attached to a camera stand facing the bed. # # #
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/txn/PressRel11/leathers_sen_pr.html.txt.gz
U.S. Department of Justice |FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE| MEDIA INQUIRIES: KATHY COLVIN FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2011 FORMER CITY OF GARLAND EMPLOYEE SENTENCED TO 57 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR EMBEZZLING $1.9 MILLION DALLAS — Patricia Leathers, a former risk management adjustor for the City of Garland, Texas, was sentenced this morning by Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 57 months in prison, following her guilty plea in December 2010 to one count of conspiracy involving theft of City funds, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. In addition, Judge Fitzwater ordered that Leathers, 62, of Rowlett, Texas, pay $1,968,479 in restitution to the City of Garland. She must surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on July 26, 2011. The investigation was conducted by the FBI, the Garland Police Department, and the Garland Offices of the City Attorney and Internal Auditor. Assistant U.S. Attorney Katherine Miller prosecuted the case.
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/txn/PressRel10/trejo_PSC_sen_pr.html.txt.gz
U.S. Department of Justice |FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE| MEDIA INQUIRIES: KATHY COLVIN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2010 PHONE: (214)659-8600 BIG SPRING, TEXAS, MAN SENTENCED TO 87 MONTHS IN FEDERAL PRISON Specifically, Trejo pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. According to filed documents, Trejo admitted that in 2009, while living in Big Spring, Texas, he used a peer-to-peer file-sharing program on his computer to download images depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. To avoid detection, and so he did not have to keep the images on his computer after he received them over the Internet, Trejo set up multiple email accounts to use to send images of child pornography to himself. On November 12, 2009, using one of those email accounts, Trejo received a zip file entitled "2.zip," that he had sent to himself, containing at least three images depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. The case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Dallas Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force and the Big Spring Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven M. Sucsy of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Lubbock, Texas, prosecuted. ###
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/chi-gag-order-issued-in-beavers-trial-20130313-story.html.txt.gz
U.S. District Judge James Zagel issued a gag order today at the federal tax trial of Cook County Commissioner William Beavers, telling attorneys on both sides they could not make any public statements about the case. The order remains in effect until a verdict is reached, he said. The judge's order came a day after Beavers’ defense team – particularly Sam Adam Sr. – strongly criticized the randomly selected jury pool for racial imbalance and said the selection process was “rigged.” The panel of 50 prospective jurors had no black men and just a handful of black women. Beavers, accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of thousands of dollars he diverted from his campaign funds for personal expenses, is African-American. Beavers’ legal team formally raised concerns to Zagel on Tuesday about the racial makeup of the jury pool, prompting the judge to tell both sides to inquire with the district’s clerk office to make sure the proper protocols were followed. Zagel said he would continue with selection in the meantime. Beavers’ attorneys then addressed the media outside the courthouse at the end of the day. Zagel issued the gag order this morning as his first order of business without any request from either side, saying public commentary “frequently distracts lawyers from the purpose.” Beavers is also represented by Adam’s son, Sam Adam Jr. Both attorneys are known for their banter with the news media during trials, and Zagel made clear to the attorneys how serious he was about his restriction. “When I say no statements, I mean no statements,” he said. A jury could be seated by early afternoon, clearing the way for opening statements to be heard today in court.
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U.S. Intervenes in ‘Whistleblower’ Lawsuits Alleging Insys Therapeutics Paid Illegal Kickbacks to Promote Subsys LOS ANGELES – The United States has intervened in five “whistleblower” lawsuits that accuse Insys Therapeutics, Inc. of paying illegal kickbacks and defrauding federal health programs in connection with the marketing of Subsys, an opioid painkiller manufactured and sold by the Arizona-based company, the Department of Justice announced today. The five cases brought pursuant to the False Claims Act were ordered unsealed late last week, as was the government’s complaint in intervention. The government learned the cases had been unsealed Monday afternoon. The cases allege illegal marketing tactics related to Subsys, a sublingual spray form of fentanyl, a highly addictive opioid painkiller. In 2012, Subsys was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of persistent breakthrough pain in adult cancer patients who are already receiving, and tolerant to, around-the-clock opioid therapy. The government’s complaint alleges that Insys paid kickbacks to induce physicians and nurse practitioners to prescribe Subsys for their patients. Many of these kickbacks allegedly took the form of sham speaker fees to physicians, jobs for the prescribers’ relatives and friends, and lavish meals and entertainment. The United States also alleges that Insys improperly encouraged physicians to prescribe Subsys for patients who did not have cancer, and that Insys employees lied to insurers about patients’ diagnoses in order to obtain reimbursement for Subsys prescriptions that had been written for Medicare and TRICARE beneficiaries. “Our intervention in these cases is just one part of the Justice Department’s multi-pronged efforts to combat the opioid crisis,” said United States Attorney Nicola T. Hanna. “The illegal marketing activities alleged in the government’s case helped fuel the crisis by improperly introducing opioids into the market. We are committed to hold accountable opioid manufacturers who use kickbacks, off-label promotions and other illegal activities to sell lethal and highly addictive narcotics. Our goal is to bring about an end to the tragic epidemic that is harming untold numbers of people across the United States.” “Improper financial relationships between physicians and drug companies can distort a physicians’ best judgment for their patients, in addition to undermining patient health and trust. This is especially troubling when the drugs are opioids,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Chad A. Readler of the Justice Department’s Civil Division. “Lying to federal health programs about patients’ medical diagnoses is also completely unacceptable. The Justice Department will pursue these illegal actions and continue to hold drug companies and doctors accountable for their roles in contributing to this deadly epidemic.” “Insys allegedly bribed doctors who are more concerned with profits than patients,” said Christian J. Schrank, Special Agent in Charge for the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “Encouraging the inappropriate use of this too-often deadly opioid is intolerable enough, but the abuse is compounded when taxpayers are forced to pick up the bill.” “I applaud the Civil Division and the U.S. Attorney for their untiring efforts to hold health care providers accountable to the American taxpayer,” said Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, director of the Defense Health Agency. “The Department of Justice's efforts safeguard the health care benefit for American service members, veterans and their families. The Defense Health Agency continues to work closely with the Justice Department, and other state and federal agencies to investigate those who participate in fraudulent practices.” The qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act allow whistleblowers to file lawsuits on behalf of the United States when they believe that a party has submitted false claims for government funds, and to receive a share of any recovery. The United States has the right to intervene and take over responsibility for litigating these cases. Here, the United States has intervened in five separate lawsuits that have been consolidated in United States District Court in Los Angeles. The civil claims asserted against Insys are allegations only, and there has been no determination of liability. The United States has separately pursued a number of criminal cases against Insys employees and Subsys prescribers. The cases announced today are being handled by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, the Justice Department’s Civil Division, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Defense Health Agency.
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U.S. journalist jailed for 11 years in army-ruled Myanmar - Summary - Fenster faces more charges of sedition, terrorism act breach - First foreign journalist jailed in Myanmar in years - Jailing intended as a warning to media, U.S. - group - U.S. calls ruling 'unjust conviction of an innocent person' Nov 12 (Reuters) - A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday jailed American journalist Danny Fenster for 11 years, his lawyer and his employer said, despite U.S. calls for his release from what it said was unjust detention. Fenster, 37, managing editor of online magazine Frontier Myanmar, was found guilty of incitement and violations of immigration and unlawful associations laws, his magazine said and described the sentences as "the harshest possible under the law". He is the first Western journalist sentenced to prison in recent years in Myanmar, where a Feb. 1 coup by the military against an elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi ended a decade of tentative steps towards democracy and triggered nationwide protests. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com His trial had not been made public and a spokesman for the junta did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "There is absolutely no basis to convict Danny of these charges," said Thomas Kean, editor-in-chief of Frontier Myanmar, one of the country's top independent news outlets. Fenster was arrested while trying to leave the country in May and has since been held in Yangon's Insein prison, where hundreds of opponents of the Tatmadaw, as the military is known, were jailed, many beaten and tortured, during decades of dictatorship. Fenster's family has repeatedly called for his release. He was charged with additional, and more serious, offences of sedition and violations of the terrorism act earlier this week, without an explanation by authorities. Those charges are punishable by a maximum 20 years in prison each. read more Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch, said Fenster's jailing was also intended as a warning to the United States and the media. "The junta's rationale for this outrageous, rights abusing sentence is first to shock and intimidate all remaining Burmese journalists inside Myanmar by punishing a foreign journalist this way," he said. "The second message is more strategic, focused on sending a message to the U.S. that the Tatmadaw's generals don't appreciate being hit with economic sanctions and can bite back with hostage diplomacy," he said. 'UNACCEPTABLE' The United States condemned the ruling as an "unacceptable attack on freedom of expression in Burma" and a reminder of the continuing human rights and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar. read more "The ruling today represents an unjust conviction of an innocent person," a State Department spokesperson said by email. "We are closely monitoring Danny’s situation and will continue to work for his immediate release." The American is among dozens of journalists detained in Myanmar after protests and strikes erupted following the coup, hampering the military's efforts to consolidate power. Independent media has been accused by the junta of incitement. More than 1,200 civilians have been killed in protests and thousands detained since the coup, according to activists cited by the United Nations. Myanmar authorities overlooked Fenster in a recent amnesty for hundreds of people detained over anti-junta protests, which included some journalists. During nearly half a century of harsh rule by the military, news reporting was tightly controlled by the state but Myanmar's media blossomed after the a quasi-civilian government introduced tentative reforms from 2011. Since the February coup, however, the military has rescinded media licenses, curbed the internet and satellite broadcasts and arrested dozens of journalists, in what human rights groups have called an assault on the truth. Frontier Myanmar's publisher, Sonny Swe, who spent eight years in prison during the previous era of military rule, announced Fenster's imprisonment on Twitter under the message: "A lot of things are going so wrong in this country." Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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UPDATE 2-Britain denies supporting violent Hong Kong protests as China media slam 'Western ideologues' * Chinese media says Western 'ideologues' trying to foment unrest * UK-China diplomatic row grows over Hong Kong protests * British foreign secretary denies supporting violence (Recasts, updates throughout, previous SHANGHAI/HONG KONG) By Costas Pitas and Ben Blanchard LONDON/BEIJING, July 4 (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday that he had not backed violent protests in Hong Kong, after Chinese state media blamed "Western ideologues" for fomenting unrest in the former British colony. Hundreds of protesters broke into the Hong Kong legislature on Monday after a demonstration marking the anniversary of the return to Chinese rule in 1997 under a "one country, two systems" formula that includes freedoms not enjoyed in mainland China, including the right to protest. That followed weeks of protests against a now-suspended extradition bill that opponents say would undermine Hong Kong's much-cherished rule of law and give Beijing powers to prosecute activists in mainland courts, which are controlled by the Communist Party. China has stepped up a war of words with Britain over Hong Kong, especially after Hunt warned of consequences if China neglects commitments made when it took back Hong Kong to allow its way of life for at least 50 years. State media in particular has blamed London, Washington and other Western capitals for offering succour to the demonstrators. "Ideologues in Western governments never cease in their efforts to engineer unrest against governments that are not to their liking, even though their actions have caused misery and chaos in country after country in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia," the official China Daily said in an editorial. "Now they are trying the same trick in China," the English-language newspaper said. Hunt, speaking to BBC radio, reiterated his condemnation of the violence. "Let me be clear what I said. I said that I condemned, and we as the United Kingdom condemn, all violence and that people who supported the pro-democracy demonstrators would have been very dismayed by the scenes they saw," said Hunt, who is vying to become Britain's next prime minister. China has said Britain has no more responsibility for Hong Kong. Britain says it still considers the Joint Declaration in 1984 on the terms of the return of Hong Kong, which guarantees its freedoms, to be valid. "I don't think it's a big surprise that China would react that way but they need to understand that Britain is a country that honours its international obligations and what I was saying was something very uncontroversial, actually, which is that we signed an agreement in 1984 which lasts for 50 years and we would expect all sides to honour that agreement," Hunt said. "Hong Kong has an independent judiciary and it's not for me as foreign secretary of the UK to second guess how that judiciary works. What I was saying was that there would be serious consequences if the legally binding international agreement between the UK and China, if that was violated." On Wednesday, British Prime Minister Theresa May also said China must respect the rights and freedoms of people in Hong Kong and that she had been in touch with Beijing to raise concerns. Hunt warned on Tuesday of consequences if China did not abide by the Sino-British Joint Declaration. His comments were met by a sharp rebuke from China's ambassador to the UK, who told Britain to keep its hands off Hong Kong. Speaking at a daily news briefing in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang did not offer any new criticism about Britain having the day before accused Hunt of being "shameless" for his remarks on Hong Kong. "For the time being today, I'll restrain myself and won't say anymore. But if certain people in Britain obstinately stick to the wrong path, and keep repeating their mistakes, then I fear I may have more to say." Widespread damage inside the Legislative Council building, where protesters smashed furniture and daubed graffiti over chamber walls, forced the government to close it for two weeks. The Legislative Council Commission is due to hold a closed-door special meeting at an undisclosed venue later on Thursday. The China Daily accused Western forces of instigating unrest against Hong Kong's government "as a means to put pressure on the central government". "The violent behaviour that these Western agitators are emboldening tramples on the rule of law in Hong Kong and undermines its social order," it said. An editorial in the widely read tabloid The Global Times, published by the Communist Party's People's Daily, criticised Hunt's comments and said "the UK's diplomacy toward China will pay for his behaviour". (Additional reporting by Andrew Galbraith in SHANGHAI and Anne Marie Roantree in HONG KONG Editing by Nick Macfie)
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UPDATE APRIL 30: The teacher accused of leaving a threatening voicemail at a Catholic school in Las Vegas is out of work. Todd Pomeroy's latest job was at Coral Academy of Science Las Vegas and parents have been notified he's no longer there. A parent told 13 Action News he was a PE instructor and track coach at the school. Coral Academy sent emails to parents explaining Pomeroy’s verbal threat was made to its campus but the focus was directed at a different school. The Clark County District Attorney's office said Pomeroy had no previous criminal convictions in the Las Vegas court system. However, 13 Action News looked into his past and found he had several arrests dating back until 1993. Las Vegas Metropolitan police arrest records also showed Pomeroy had a history stretching back 26 years. In 1993, he was arrested for battery and domestic violence but was not convicted. A justice court search showed Pomeroy faced a misdemeanor charge in 2005 for making threatening phone calls - a year later that charge was dropped. In 2017, the 56-year-old was charged with misdemeanor battery. A year later, it was also was dropped after he completed community service and received counseling. Tuesday, an inmate in-custody report showed Pomeroy was being held at the Clark County Detention Center. Monday, he allegedly made a threat to St. Viator Catholic School and classes were canceled that day. Now, Pomeroy faces three criminal counts related to this latest threat. ORIGINAL STORY LAS VEGAS (KTNV) -- Police have a person in custody related to threats made towards a Catholic school in Las Vegas. Monday, detectives arrested 56-year-old Todd Pomeroy after an investigation into voicemail threats directed at St. Viator Catholic School, located at 4246 South Eastern Avenue, near Flamingo Road. RELATED: Las Vegas Breaking News April 29 The Diocese of Las Vegas reported it received a voice message from a former employee, who has not worked at the school for several years and that the message was threatening in nature specific to the school. The Diocese also released the following statement: "Our Director of Security immediately contacted law enforcement. In these instances, we always err to the side of caution, so he directed the school to cancel classes for the safety of our students and staff. As this is now an active investigation, we cannot comment any further and would refer questions to law enforcement. Classes will resume Tuesday, April 30, 2019, as scheduled." RELATED: Serious incidents involving Las Vegas schools in 2018-19 Police later identified Pomeroy as the suspect in this incident and transported him to the Clark County Detention Center. The 56-year-old is facing three counts of threatening to cause bodily harm or death to a pupil or school employee employing verbal, written or electronic communication, according to the Las Vegas police. Authorities also said no additional threats were found and no further suspects were under investigation.
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https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/sports/olympics/2018/12/05/usa-gymnastics-bankruptcy-filing-solution-problems/2221078002/.txt.gz
USA Gymnastics finds a solution for its worst problems, but it might create new ones Unable to settle lawsuits with hundreds of Nassar survivors or fend off the U.S. Olympic Committee on its own, USA Gymnastics is looking to bankruptcy court for a bailout. By filing for Chapter 11, as the governing body did Wednesday afternoon in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana, USA Gymnastics gets to hit the pause button on all “pending actions” it faces. The legal wranglings with survivors, the USOC’s efforts to revoke its national governing body status, even the almost $340,000 in severance it still owes former CEO Steve Penny — they all come to a halt. At least temporarily. But USA Gymnastics hopes it will buy enough time to resolve the lawsuits and convince the USOC that its days of embarrassing — and avoidable — missteps are over. “We’re not looking to close our doors. We absolutely will continue as a not-for-profit organization to serve our sport,” Kathryn Carson, new chair of the USA Gymnastics board, said on a conference call. “We are continuing to pursue all aspects of our current operating model and hope to maintain our NGB status.” It’s a gamble, though. Already seen by many as caring more about its own interests than the health and safety of its athletes, the bankruptcy filing could be viewed as one more craven move designed to limit USA Gymnastics’ legal liability and preserve its NGB status. "The leadership of USA Gymnastics has proven itself to be both morally and financially bankrupt,” John Manly, an attorney for many Nassar survivors, said in a statement. “They have inflicted and continue to inflict unimaginable pain on survivors and their families.” More:USA Gymnastics files for bankruptcy, a move related to Nassar lawsuits The USOC isn’t necessarily sold, either. It said it is reviewing the filing to see what effect it has on the Section 8 complaint, its process to revoke an organization’s governing body status. “Financial stability and viability are essential for a national governing body to operate in the best interests of the athletes,” spokesman Patrick Sandusky said in a statement. “The USOC is committed to fulfilling its responsibility and obligation to ensure that each organization accepted for membership as a national governing body has the capacity and capability to provide the support, protection, and services that we expect for all Olympic athletes in the United States.” That’s where it gets tricky. With a few exceptions, Chapter 11 protects debtors — USA Gymnastics, in this case — from losing their assets. NGB status isn’t one of those exceptions, but the USOC could go to the bankruptcy court and ask that the Section 8 complaint be allowed to proceed. The USOC had already picked the three-person panel to hear the complaint before USA Gymnastics filed for bankruptcy, though no hearing date had been set. The USOC could argue that it’s not in the best interests of athletes or the gymnastics community to have to wait for USA Gymnastics to emerge from Chapter 11 before determining whether it should keep its NGB status. It also could point to the bankruptcy itself as reason USA Gymnastics should not be the NGB. USA Gymnastics has lost all of its major sponsors in the two years since it was revealed that Larry Nassar, the longtime USA Gymnastics physician, had molested more than 350 girls and young women under the guise of medical treatment. The federation does not have enough assets to pay plaintiffs in the 100 lawsuits it faces, and will instead rely on its insurers to settle the claims. It will be the bankruptcy judge now who decides how much the claims are worth. But in financial statements released last month, USA Gymnastics estimated it would cost between $75 million and $100 million to settle the lawsuits. “Despite being a highly successful sporting organization … they’re financially insolvent. Because of their failure to handle the Nassar situation, they’ve rendered themselves financially fragile,” said Dionne Koller, director of the Center for Sport and the Law at the University of Baltimore. “I don’t see how evaluating their fitness going forward needs to be stayed,” added Koller, who specializes in Olympic and amateur sport law. “There’ll be a legal fight about it, for sure. I think ultimately the USOC has the winning argument there.” Bankruptcy provides a sure solution to the worst of USA Gymnastics’ problems. But for how long, and what happens after, is far from certain.
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/inn/press_release/documents/2011/May_11/may%206%2011%20sb%20hibshman%20grant%20et%20al.htm.txt.gz
United States Attorney David Capp Northern District of Indiana M01-204 S. Main Street South Bend, IN 46601 Hammond South Bend Fort Wayne FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Mary L. Hatton May 6, 2011 PHONE: (219) 937-5603 www.usdoj.gov/usao/inn/ Fax: (219) 852-2770WEEK IN REVIEW-FEDERAL COURT South Bend, Indiana—The United States Attorney's Office announced: David Resnick, 31, of Fort Pierce, Florida, and formerly of Elkhart, Indiana, was charged in an indictment with one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor, and one count of transportation of child pornography from July, 2008 to August, 2008. The indictment alleges that Resnick crossed a State line with intent to engage in a sexual act with a person who had not attained the age of 12 years, that is, a 9 year-old boy. These charges were filed as the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This case has been assigned to and will be prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jill Koster. If members of the public have information regarding Resnick, they should call the Merrillville FBI office at 219-769-3719. Franklin Hibshman, Jr., 22, of Elkhart, Indiana, was sentenced by Judge Robert Miller, Jr. to 12 months and one day imprisonment and 2 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to count one of an indictment charging him with unlawful transport of firearms in the case US v Arthur el al. This case was the result of an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Frank Schaffer. Andreo Harris, 25, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by Judge Robert Miller, Jr. to 24 months imprisonment and 2 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to count two of an indictment charging him with possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. This case was the result of an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Donald Schmid. Renato Debartolo, 44, of New Carlisle, Indiana, pled guilty before Judge Robert Miller, Jr. to count two of an indictment charging him with manufacturing marijuana. Sentencing has been set for 8/11/11. These charges were filed as the result of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration. This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Frank Schaffer. The United States Attorney's Office emphasized that an Indictment is merely an allegation and that all persons charged are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in court. The specific sentence in each case to be imposed upon conviction will be determined by the judge after a consideration of federal sentencing statutes and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/waw/press/2011/jul/saenger.html.txt.gz
United States Attorney Jenny A. Durkan Western District of Washington FORMER WHIDBEY ISLAND RESIDENT PLEADS GUILTY TO MAIL FRAUD FOR TAKING MORE THAN $2 MILLION FROM ELDERLY VICTIM Woman Preyed Upon Vulnerable Alzheimer’s Patient to Enrich Herself and Her Relatives SHEA SAENGER, 60, formerly of Whidbey Island, Washington, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to mail fraud. SAENGER admits she scammed an elderly man with memory problems out of more than $2 million. SAENGER has been imprisoned in the Kittitas County Jail for contempt of court. She faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard A. Jones on October 7, 2011. According to records filed in the case, in 2005 SAENGER struck up an online relationship with an elderly Ellensburg man. The victim’s wife had died just ten months earlier. SAENGER falsely represented to the man that she was single, and available for a romantic relationship. In fact, SAENGER was married and living in Coupeville, Washington with her husband. Over the next few years SAENGER invented multiple stories to get the victim to send her money. She claimed she would marry the victim if he would help her with financial needs. SAENGER requested and received hundreds of thousands of dollars for an uncle who did not exist, for surgeries she never had and did not need, and for her purchase of a car. SAENGER knew the victim suffered from memory problems and would tell him he had not sent her a check when, in fact he had already sent significant amounts of money. SAENGER obtained more than $2 million from the victim, and transferred about half the money to relatives in Arkansas and Tennessee. The case was investigated by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS). The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Aravind Swaminathan and Richard E. Cohen.
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/waw/press/2011/jun/axtell.html.txt.gz
United States Attorney Jenny A. Durkan Western District of Washington Justice Department Sues James J. Williams Bulk Service Transport In Washington To Protect Employment Rights Of Air Force Reservist WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice today filed a lawsuit on behalf of Dave Axtell, a U.S. Air Force reservist, against James J. Williams Bulk Service Transport Inc. (JJW), its parent company Trans-System Inc., and another Trans-System subsidiary, System TWT Transportation Inc. The lawsuit alleges that the companies violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) by failing to promptly and properly reemploy Axtell in April 2009, after he returned from military service in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The complaint also alleges that the defendants unlawfully terminated Axtell’s employment without cause shortly after he was reemployed. Subject to certain conditions, USERRA requires employers to promptly reemploy returning service members in the positions they would have held had their employment been not interrupted by military service or in a position of like seniority, status and pay. In addition, any individual with Axtell’s length of absence for military service who is reemployed cannot be terminated, except for just cause, within one year after the date of reemployment. JJW is a trucking company that specializes in hauling hazardous materials. According to the department’s complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Tacoma, the defendant companies violated USERRA by not promptly or properly reemploying Axtell in his previous pre-service position as a driver supervisor, or in a position with comparable seniority status and pay. The defendants waited three months to reemploy Axtell, and thereafter employed him in an unsalaried, lower status position requiring longer hours. Defendants terminated Axtell’s employment without cause shortly after reemploying him, also in violation of USERRA. In its lawsuit, the Justice Department seeks the lost wages and benefits that Axtell would have received if he had been properly reemployed in his pre-service position as a driver supervisor, or a comparable position, as well as damages resulting from the unlawful termination of his employment. The complaint also seeks double damages because the defendants’ actions constituted a willful violation of USERRA. The case will be litigated by the U.S. Attorney’s Office based in Seattle. “The men and women who wear our nation’s uniform deserve the comfort of knowing that they do not have to sacrifice their civilian employment in order to serve our country,” said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. “The Civil Rights Division is committed to aggressive enforcement of USERRA to protect the rights of those who, through their bravery and sacrifice, secure the rights of all Americans.” “Just as our dedicated men and women of the military protect our freedoms overseas, we must protect their interests here at home,” said U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington Jenny A. Durkan. “These soldiers have made many sacrifices, and the loss of a career or appropriate pay when they return home, cannot be allowed.” The Labor Department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service investigated and attempted to resolve Axtell’s USERRA complaint before referring it to the Justice Department for litigation. “Our two agencies work closely together to ensure that our service members are treated right when they return from service” said Ray Jefferson, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans’ Employment and Training. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has given a high priority to the enforcement of service members’ rights under USERRA. Additional information about USERRA can be found on the Justice Department’s websites at www.usdoj.gov/crt/emp and www.servicemembers.gov, as well as on the Labor Department’s website at www.dol.gov/vets/programs/userra/main.htm.
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United States Reaches An Agreement With XTO Energy To Prevent Waste Spills From Natural Gas Exploration And Production WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice announced a settlement with XTO Energy Inc., a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation, to resolve an alleged violation of the Clean Water Act (CWA) related to the discharge of wastewater from XTO’s Penn Township, Lycoming County, Pa. facility used for the storage of wastewater generated by natural gas exploration, commonly known as fracking, and production. The federal settlement requires that XTO pay a penalty of $100,000 to the United States and spend a federal government-estimated $20 million on a comprehensive plan to improve wastewater management practices to recycle, properly dispose of, and prevent spills of wastewater generated from natural gas exploration and production activities in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Among other things, XTO must install a continuous, remote monitoring system for all of its permanent production located throughout Pennsylvania and West Virginia with alarms that will be triggered to alert operators immediately in the event of any future spills and implement a program to actively monitor interconnected wastewater storage tanks located throughout Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The discharge was discovered by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) during an inspection of the Penn Township facility, where a PADEP inspector observed wastewater spilling from an open valve from a series of interconnected tanks. At the time, XTO stored wastewater generated from energy extraction activities conducted throughout Pennsylvania at its Penn Township facility and, at the time of the release, stored produced fluid from its operations in the area. Pollutants from the release were found in a tributary of the Susquehanna River basin. EPA, in consultation with PADEP, conducted an investigation and determined that wastewater stored in the tanks at the Penn Township facility contained the same variety of pollutants, including chlorides, barium, strontium, and total dissolved solids, that were observed in those surface waters. “Today’s settlement holds XTO accountable for a previous violation of the Clean Water Act and requires operational changes and improved management practices to help ensure the safe and responsible handling of wastewater produced during natural gas exploration and production activities,” said Robert G. Dreher, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. “The Justice Department is committed to ensuring that our natural resources are developed in an environmentally responsible manner.” Under the settlement with the United States, the substantial improvements to XTO’s wastewater management are estimated by the federal government to reduce discharges of total dissolved solids by 264 million pounds over the course of the next three years. These reductions will occur in large part because XTO will increase wastewater recycling and will properly dispose of wastewaters generated by its natural gas activities across the mid-Atlantic region. In addition XTO will implement a region-wide program of operational best management practices which include: secondary containment for tanks used to store wastewater, improved standard operating procedures designed to reduce the risk of a spill, a prohibition on using pits or open-top tanks to store wastewater which will prevent air emissions, remote monitoring of tank volumes to prevent overfilling and spills, and proper signage on all tanks with safety information and a manned, 24-hour emergency phone number. “The operational improvements required by today’s settlement will help to protect precious surface and drinking water resources in Pennsylvania and West Virginia,” said Cynthia Giles, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. “EPA continues to push for responsible development of domestic sources of energy and to insist that companies play by the rules that protect public health.” “This consent decree establishes a program of best practices that should be a model for the industry and, if followed, will give a level of assurance to the people of the Commonwealth that their waters will be protected. This settlement is in the long-term best interest of the taxpayers, the industry, and our children,” stated Peter J. Smith, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Untreated discharges of wastewaters from natural gas exploration and production activities typically contain high levels of total dissolved solids and other pollutants and can adversely impact fresh water aquatic life and drinking water quality. The consent decree, lodged in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, is subject to a 30-day public comment period and court approval. The consent decree is available for review at www.justice.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html More information about the settlement: http://www2.epa.gov/enforcement/xto-energy-inc-settlement More information about EPA Region III’s activities related to natural gas extraction: http://www.epa.gov/region3/marcellus_shale/ IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, PLEASE CALL THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AT 202-514-2007.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/united-states-settles-false-claims-act-allegations-against-trinity-medical-pharmacy-and.txt.gz
United States Settles False Claims Act Allegations Against Trinity Medical Pharmacy And Principals For More Than $2.2 Million Tampa, FL – United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Trinity Medical Pharmacy, LLC, (TMP) and several of its principals have agreed to pay the United States $2,244,270.14 to resolve allegations that TMP violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing TRICARE and other government programs for claims generated by illegal kickbacks and by knowingly omitting material information from TMP’s application to become a certified Express Scripts provider. The settlement relates to TMP’s marketing and sale of compounded medicine that should be uniquely tailored to an individual patient’s need and is often extremely expensive. Between 2013 and 2015, TMP, formerly located in New Port Richey, billed TRICARE seeking millions of dollars in reimbursement for compounded medicine. At the time, Krutika Patel was TMP’s president and chief executive officer, Devan Patel was the company’s chief operating officer, Jay Martinez was TMP’s national sales director, and Nicholas Petrillo was the national account director and top sales representative. The United States alleges that TMP and these individuals knowingly sought reimbursement for compounded medicine claims generated through illegal kickbacks to patients and providers. The United States also alleges that TMP knowingly failed to disclose a material fact—COO Devan Patel’s previous felony conviction—when seeking to become an authorized provider with Express Scripts. Express Scripts is the pharmacy benefit manager for TRICARE and several carriers associated with the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). “Protecting TRICARE and other federal health care programs from fraud is a priority of the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” said U.S. Attorney Chapa Lopez. “Those who defraud TRICARE misappropriate money intended to provide quality health care to members of our military and their families. We will continue to protect those who serve our country.” “This settlement demonstrates the effectiveness of investigations by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service and our law enforcement partners to ensure that precious taxpayer dollars are not used for unjust enrichment by fraudulent providers. DCIS protects the integrity of DoD programs by rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse which negatively impacts critical programs such as TRICARE,” said Special Agent in Charge John F. Khin, Southeast Field Office. “I would like to commend the work of our criminal investigators, their law enforcement partners, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for their tireless efforts on this case,” said U.S. Office of Personnel Management Acting Inspector General Norbert E. Vint. “Their excellent work safeguards the integrity of the FEHBP and serves to protect the millions of Federal employees, retirees, and dependents who benefit from the program.” “The improper CHAMPVA billings made by Trinity Medical Pharmacy diverted funds intended for the care of Veterans who honorably served in the Armed Forces of the United States,” stated David Spilker, Special Agent in Charge, VA Office of Inspector General. “The continued oversight of the companies that do business with VA, as shown in this investigation, safeguard the integrity of VA programs and funding.” The government’s action in this matter illustrates the emphasis on combating health care fraud, and one of the most powerful tools in this effort is the False Claims Act. Tips from all sources about potential fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement can be reported to the Department of Health and Human Services, at 800-HHS-TIPS (800-447-8477). This settlement resulted from a coordinated effort by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida; the Defense Criminal Investigative Service; the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Office of the Inspector General; and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the Inspector General. Assistant United States Attorney Lindsay Saxe Griffin led the investigation. The claims resolved by the settlement are allegations only, and there has been no determination of liability.
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https://buffalonews.com/search/?k=%22court%20ofappeals%22&t=article,collection,video,youtube&l=25&display=topic.txt.gz
Updating results Shirley Troutman, a Buffalo resident and veteran jurist now serving on the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court, sailed through the session with unanimous approval en route to Wednesday's expected confirmation of the full State Senate following her appointment by Gov. Kathy Hochul to the Court of Appeals.
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https://www.standard.net/news/education/2021/dec/16/utah-state-police-chief-resigns-after-sex-assault-comments/.txt.gz
Utah State police chief resigns after sex-assault comments SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah State University police chief has resigned after a recording came to light of him telling football players that some religious women may say sex was not consensual because they regret it. The institution called his comments “reprehensible.” Chief Earl Morris stepped down Thursday, the school confirmed to The Salt Lake Tribune, shortly after the newspaper obtained a recording of his comments about women who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the predominant faith in Utah. He had been placed on administrative leave the day before. After claiming that Latter-day Saint women might tell their religious leaders they didn’t consent to sex, Morris said that if players are accused of assault, officers have to investigate and “the cards are stacked against you.” Morris and the assistant police chief for the city of Logan — where the university is located — also gave players their personal cellphone numbers to call if they needed advice or had complaints about officer treatment, according to the recording. The recording was also described in a lawsuit filed against the university this week by a female student who said the school had mishandled her sexual-assault report involving a football player despite promising to improve in the wake of a previous scandal involving a school athlete. “The leader of the university’s police department must have the trust of the campus community,” Utah State had said in a statement Wednesday. His recorded comments “are not consistent with the university’s values or the trainings provided on sexual misconduct at Utah State, nor do they reflect USU’s efforts to prevent sexual misconduct and reduce barriers to reporting.” Morris, who had been chief since July 2019, declined to comment when reached by The Associated Press. The school’s previous scandal involved Torrey Green, who was convicted in 2019 of sexually assaulting six women between 2013 and 2015 when he was on the university football team. Four women reported to police being assaulted by Green, but no charges were filed until after the Tribune published a story about the case. The U.S. Department of Justice later found Utah State often closed cases involving football players after minimal investigation. The school promised to improve, but the student who sued this week said her 2019 sexual assault allegation against a different football player was still mishandled. She said in the lawsuit the university continues to protect its football team and brushes aside women who report assaults by players, assertions that run counter to the chief’s comments about investigations on the recording. Utah State, for its part, says it has made progress in the last five years, including mandating prevention training for students and additional education for student athletes. The recording surfaced shortly before Utah State is set to face Oregon State in the inaugural Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl on Saturday.
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Uvalde survivor, 11, nearly suffers cardiac arrest at friend’s memorial A preteen survivor of the Uvalde mass shooting in Texas has been hospitalised after she was on the brink of a cardiac arrest while attending her best friend’s memorial last week.The parents of 11-year-old Illiana Trevino were told by doctors that their daughter was “going into cardiac arrest” after her heart rate spiked.“Illiana is in Children’s Methodist Hospital in San Antonio at the moment. Her heart can’t take the stress and trauma of this past week. The medication that she’s been given is not working,” a GoFundMe page started by her family read.It added that the doctors’s “biggest worry...
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Virginia Beach Man Pleads Guilty to Producing Child Pornography NORFOLK, Va. – Billy Theodore Powell, 53, of Virginia Beach, Va., pleaded guilty today in Norfolk federal court to production of child pornography. Powell faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison when he is sentenced on May 21, 2012. Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, made the announcement after Powell’s plea was accepted by United States District Senior Judge Henry Coke Morgan, Jr. Powell was previously indicted by a federal grand jury on December 19, 2011. According to court documents, Powell was identified by Virginia Beach Police Department when the mother of a 13 year-old girl discovered that Powell had multiple images of her daughter engaging in sexually explicit conduct that he had produced with his iPod touch. The images were produced in Virginia Beach, where Powell was residing. This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov. This case was investigated by the Virginia Beach Police Department and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Assistant United States Attorney Elizabeth M. Yusi is prosecuting the case on behalf of the United States.A copy of this press release may be found on the website of the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia at http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/vae. Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia at http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov or on http://pacer.uspci.uscourts.gov.
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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/virginia-man-sentenced-more-11-years-providing-material-support-isil.txt.gz
Virginia Man Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Providing Material Support to ISIL Ali Shukri Amin, 17, of Manassas, Virginia, was sentenced today to 136 months in prison to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release and monitoring of his internet activities for conspiring to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente of the Eastern District of Virginia, Assistant Director in Charge Andrew G. McCabe of the FBI’s Washington, D.C., Field Office and Chief Stephan Hudson of the Prince William County, Virginia, Police Department made the announcement after sentencing by U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton of the Eastern District of Virginia. “Ali Shukri Amin is a young American who used social media to provide material support to ISIL,” said Assistant Attorney General Carlin. “ISIL continues to use social media to send their violent and hateful message around the world in an attempt to radicalize, recruit and incite youth and others to support their cause. More and more, their propaganda is seeping into our communities and reaching those who are most vulnerable. The Department of Justice will continue to use all tools to disrupt the threats that ISIL poses, and our efforts will be furthered by parents and other members of our community willing to take action to confront and deter this threat wherever it may surface.” “Today’s sentencing demonstrates that those who use social media as a tool to provide support and resources to ISIL will be identified and prosecuted with no less vigilance than those who travel to take up arms with ISIL,” said U.S. Attorney Boente. “The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.” “Today marks a personal tragedy for the Amin family and the community as we have lost yet another young person to the allure of extremist ideology focused on hatred,” said Assistant Director in Charge McCabe. “Amin’s case serves as a reminder of how persistent and pervasive online radicalization has become. The FBI, through our Joint Terrorism Task Forces, remains dedicated to protecting the United States against the ongoing violent threat posed by ISIL and their supporters.” “Observations made by school staff and subsequent follow-up by the School Resource Officer were some of the earlier indicators of suspicious behavior regarding this individual,” said Chief Hudson. “Those observations were quickly relayed to our partners with the JTTF who acted upon this information very quickly. We greatly appreciate that these observations were observed and reported to the proper authorities proved to be instrumental in the overall investigation in stopping a dangerous network such as ISIL from further infiltrating our community.” Amin pleaded guilty on June 11, 2015. According to court documents, Amin admitted to using Twitter to provide advice and encouragement to ISIL and its supporters. Amin, who used the Twitter handle @Amreekiwitness, provided instruction on how to use Bitcoin, a virtual currency, to mask the provision of funds to ISIL, as well as facilitation to ISIL supporters seeking to travel to Syria to fight with ISIL. Additionally, Amin admitted that he facilitated travel for Reza Niknejad, an 18-year-old Prince William County resident who traveled to Syria to join ISIL in January 2015. Niknejad was charged on June 10, 2015, in the Eastern District of Virginia with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, conspiring to provide material support to ISIL and conspiring to kill and injure people abroad. This case was investigated by the FBI’s Washington Field Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael P. Ben’Ary and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Caroline H. Friedman of the Eastern District of Virginia prosecuted the case, with substantial assistance provided by Trial Attorney Stephen Sewell of the National Security Division's Counterterrorism Section.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndwv/pr/virginia-man-indicted-sex-offender-charge.txt.gz
Virginia man indicted on sex offender charge ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA – Eddie Reese Cason, of Buckingham, Virginia, was indicted today on a sex offender charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced. Cason, 37, was indicted today on one count of “Failure to Update Sex Offender Registration.” Cason, a person required to register as a sex offender, is accused of failing to update his sex offender registration from October 2020 to January 2021 in Randolph County after traveling from Virginia to West Virginia. Cason is facing up to 10 years of incarceration and a fine of up to $250,000. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed will be based upon the seriousness of the offenses and the prior criminal history, if any, of the defendant. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah E. Wagner is prosecuting the case on behalf of the government. The U.S. Marshal Service and the West Virginia State Police investigated. An indictment is merely an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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https://www.12news.com/amp/article/news/crime/castile-man-pleads-guilty-to-attempted-murder-of-wyoming-county-sheriff/71-f70d931a-c2c7-4614-ac72-518e26232eec.txt.gz
WARSAW, N.Y. — A Castile man accused of trying to kill the Wyoming County Sheriff in December of 2018 has pleaded guilty to attempted murder in the second degree. Lynn Michael Hall made the plea Wednesday in Wyoming County Court. He faces 20 to 25 years in prison, which would be followed by up to five years of post-release supervision. Sentencing is scheduled for September 17. Hall is being held at the Niagara County Jail without bail. Hall had been ruled unfit to stand trial in January of 2019 . He had been given two psychiatric exams by different doctors who ruled that, "(Hall) is incapacitated and thus unable to assist in his defense or able to understand the nature of the proceedings." That changed in June of 2019, however, after treatment by physicians. Court proceeding got underway in September, though two different trial dates had been postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Police say Hall was tailgating and flashing his lights at Wyoming County Sheriff Gregory Rudolph on State Route 238, as he was on his way to work in December 2018. When Sheriff Rudolph pulled over to see if Hall needed help, that is when Hall pulled in front and blocked him. Police say Hall got out of his car, met Sheriff Rudolph at the door of his police vehicle, and started a physical altercation. Hall allegedly tried to get Sheriff Rudolph's gun, as they both continued to struggle to the ground at the side of the road. Hall ended up on top of the Sheriff with a knife threatening to kill him. "If not for the actions of civilian John Harzynski and Trooper Ron Ensminger during the early morning hours of December 11th, the result could have been grave," District Attorney Donald O’Geen said in a statement. Ensminger is the New York State Trooper who was injured when he was run over by a vehicle during a June 1 protest on Bailey Avenue in Buffalo. He is still in the hospital recovering from his injuries. “Today, Sheriff Rudolph and his family received justice and peace knowing that Mr. Hall will be sentenced to a lengthy prison sentence," O’Geen said. "This case is a true example of the fact that police officers risk their lives every day to protect the public." RELATED: Man accused of trying to kill Wyoming Co. Sheriff ruled unfit to stand trial RELATED: Man who saved Wyoming County Sheriff receives Liberty Medal RELATED: Man accused of trying to kill Wyoming County Sheriff in court RELATED: Wyoming County Sheriff back to work following roadside attack RELATED: Wyoming County Sheriff injured in roadside incident
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Four years ago, Amy Coney Barrett was a little-known law professor in Indiana. Within weeks, she is likely to be the newest associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Barrett's fast-track rise, set to drive the nation's highest court to the right for a generation or longer, is the fulfillment of a decadeslong effort by conservatives to remake the federal bench that kicked into high gear after President Donald Trump was elected. For Trump, whose 2016 victory was bolstered by white evangelicals’ reluctant support of his candidacy tied to his promise to fill the seat vacated by the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with a conservative, the latest nomination brings his first term full circle. Even before Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, Trump was campaigning for reelection in 2020 on his record of confirming more than 200 federal judges during his first term, fulfilling a generational aim of conservative legal activists. “Today’s nomination is the capstone of a more than four-year process where the president seized upon the issue, stayed focused, and called attention to a small bench of very talented people who he could put on the Supreme Court," said Leonard Leo, of the conservative Federalist Society. The following account is based on information from five people familiar with the process and the president's thinking who were not authorized to speak publicly about the details. Within weeks of Trump's victory in 2016, incoming White House counsel Don McGahn, Leo and a handful of other attorneys set about drawing up lists of potential nominees for more than 100 federal judicial vacancies. First among them was the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Scalia, but they also dug deeper. Barrett, then a law professor at Notre Dame, was not well known in political circles in Indiana and almost unheard of nationally. But she found herself on the list of potential picks for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in large part thanks to McGahn. A fellow Notre Dame alum, McGahn knew Barrett from conservative legal circles, like Leo's influential Federalist Society, and talked her up to the Indiana congressional delegation. Barrett faced a bruising nomination battle for the appellate seat in 2017 that caught the attention of Trump, who was impressed with her ability to keep her cool under critical questioning by Democratic senators, including a grilling by Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California regarding her Catholic faith. “I think in your case, professor, when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you," Feinstein said. "And that’s of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for, for years in this country.” Barrett's was the only confirmation hearing for an appellate judge that McGahn sat through in person on Capitol Hill, and the only investiture he attended when she took her seat on the 7th Circuit. After Barrett was confirmed 55-43, with three Democrats voting to confirm, some White House lawyers made coffee mugs with the phrase: “The dogma lives loudly within you." Months later, in the fall of 2017, Trump set about updating his list of potential nominees to the Supreme Court. Five names were presented to him in an Oval Office meeting with McGahn and Leo. Among the names: Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh. McGahn unveiled the list weeks later at a Federalist Society conference in Washington. The following year, after Justice Anthony Kennedy retired, Barrett found herself on the short list, undergoing a White House vetting and a 25-minute interview with Trump. But some conservatives were concerned about her sparse record, worried she'd end up like other potentially conservative justices who veered in a more moderate direction, a trap they fell into with Justice David Souter. Still, Trump saw something he liked, and allies like Scalia’s widow, Maureen, and Fox News host Sean Hannity spoke highly of her. Trump and McGahn set about elevating Barrett's profile for the next opening on the high court –- with Trump telling some aides he was “saving” her for Ginsburg's seat. Meanwhile, Barrett was making a name for herself on the 7th Circuit on conservative hot-button issues. She twice wanted decisions to be thrown out and reheard by the full appeals court that had blocked laws enacted by abortion-rights opponents. Oftentimes, the full panel comes to a different conclusion. Last year, after a three-judge panel blocked an Indiana law that would make it harder for a minor to have an abortion without her parents being notified, Barrett voted to have the case reheard by the full court. In a dissent in the 2019 gun-rights case of Kanter v. Barr, Barrett argued that a conviction for a nonviolent felony — in this case, mail fraud — shouldn’t automatically disqualify someone from owning a gun. Barrett wrote a unanimous three-judge panel decision in 2019 making it easier for men alleged to have committed sexual assaults on campus to challenge the proceedings against them. This summer, when Trump announced he wanted to update the Supreme Court list once again in hopes of motivating conservative voters, Barrett was on the top. And that's where she stayed. Barrett, in some ways, was the standard by which Trump judged other women for the list, including Florida's Barbara Lagoa and North Carolina's Allison Rushing. Their names made the list, but they weren't threatening to bump Barrett from the top, the people said. After Ginsburg's death, Trump quickly turned his focus to Barrett and never truly looked elsewhere. Conservative outside groups, aware of Trump's interest in Barrett from the Kennedy replacement, were already on board, offering public statements of support even before Trump had made a final determination. In the end, Barrett was the only candidate Trump interviewed in person for Ginsburg's seat. And on Saturday evening, he formally announced his choice at a Rose Garden ceremony that included a military band and a display of American flags hanging between the columns of the White House colonnade. “Today it is my honor to nominate one of our nation's most brilliant and gifted legal minds to the Supreme Court," Trump said of Barrett, calling her “a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials and unyielding loyalty to the Constitution.” Barrett, for her part, thanked the president as she introduced herself to the country. “I am truly humbled by the prospect of serving on the Supreme Court,” she said.View This Story on Our Site
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection issued a new batch of subpoenas Tuesday to some of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, including Rudy Giuliani, as the committee inches closer to the former president. The committee is continuing to widen its scope into Trump’s orbit, this time demanding information and testimony from Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Boris Epshteyn. All four publicly defended the president and his baseless voter fraud claims in the months after the 2020 election. “The four individuals we’ve subpoenaed today advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in direct contact with the former President about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes,” Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, Democratic chairman of the panel, said in a statement. The committee said it is seeking records and deposition testimony from Giuliani in connection to his promotion of election fraud claims on behalf of Trump. The panel is also seeking information about Giuliani’s reported efforts to persuade state legislators to take steps to overturn the election results.