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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Robert J. Stein, a former U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) contractor, pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiracy, bribery, money laundering, unlawful possession of machine guns, and being a felon in possession of a firearm in connection with a scheme to defraud the Coalition Provisional Authority - South Central Region (CPA-SC) in Al-Hillah, Iraq, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today. Stein, 50, of Fayetteville, N.C., entered his pleas of guilty this morning before Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly at the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. At today’s hearing, Stein admitted that, beginning in about December 2003 while serving as the comptroller and funding officer for the CPA-SC, he -- along with other public officials, including several U.S. Army officers -- conspired to rig the bids on contracts being awarded by the CPA-SC in order to steer contracts to a co-conspiring contractor. According to a document filed in U.S. District Court and agreed to by Stein, the total value of the contracts awarded to Stein’s co-conspirator in Al Hillah exceeded $8 million. Stein also admitted today that he and others received bribes exceeding $1,000,000 in money, cars, jewelry and other items of value from the co-conspirator contractor in return for using their official positions to award contracts to that contractor and his companies. In addition, Stein admitted that he and others stole over $2,000,000 of currency that had been designated to be used for the reconstruction of Iraq and smuggled a portion of that stolen currency into the United States aboard commercial aircraft. Stein also pleaded guilty to the unlawful possession of various weapons including machine guns, silencers and grenade launchers, and as a convicted felon, he pleaded guilty to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Stein faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, a five-year term of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000. He presently remains in custody. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled. Others arrested and charged in connection with this investigation include: -Philip Bloom, a U.S. citizen living in Romania and Iraq, and the owner and operator of numerous construction and service companies doing business in Iraq, was arrested Nov. 13, 2005 on a criminal complaint charging him with conspiring to commit money laundering and wire fraud. Bloom remains in custody. -Michael Wheeler of Amherst Junction, Wis., a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserves, was arrested Nov. 30, 2005 on a criminal complaint charging him with of conspiring to commit bribery, money laundering, possession of automatic weapons, theft, and wire fraud. He is presently released on bond. -Debra Harrison of Trenton, N.J., also a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserves, was arrested Dec. 15, 2005 on a criminal complaint charging her with conspiracy, bribery, interstate transportation of stolen property and money laundering She is presently released on bond. These cases are being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Mark Yost and Patrick Murphy of the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, headed by Section Chief Richard Weber; and Trial Attorneys James A. Crowell IV and Ann C. Brickley of the Public Integrity Section, headed by Acting Section Chief Andrew Lourie, all of the Department of Justice, Criminal Division. These cases are being investigated by Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations Division, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of State Office of Inspector General, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation-Washington Field Office. ### 06-056
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https://www.kens5.com/amp/article/news/local/dc/brett-kavanaugh-high-school-yearbook-raises-new-questions-about-supreme-court-nominee/65-595626391.txt.gz
WASHINGTON -- Amid accusations of sexual assault against a woman while in high school, the high school yearbook of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has prompted more questions about his character. Kavanaugh graduated from Bethesda’s Georgetown Prep high school in 1983. Washington, D.C.-area attorney Seth Berenzweig received the yearbook from a woman who did not want her name revealed. Berenzweig says she brought it forward after seeing Judge Kavanaugh’s repeated denial of engaging in inappropriate behavior with a then 15-year-old girl at a high school party. “The question of integrity and character and fitness,” said Berenzweig. “There’s information here that appears to potentially be inconsistent with what the judge said earlier this morning.” The yearbook has pages dedicated to each graduating high school senior. Kavanaugh’s page includes references to the "Keg City Club" and "100 kegs or bust." “[He's] someone who apparently may have had a reputation for some heavy drinking,” said Berenzweig. RELATED: Sex assault accusations against Kavanaugh were kept silent for decades Kavanaugh’s page also includes a reference to the ‘Devil’s Triangle’, one possible interpretation of which is slang for a sexual situation involving two men and a woman. The allegations against Kavanaugh are that he attempted to sexually assault a woman at a high school party during his junior year. Published reports and the alleged victim’s recollection is that another Georgetown Prep student, and friend of Kavanaugh’s, named Mark Judge was also present in the room during the alleged assault. Judge’s yearbook page includes this quote, “Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.” His page also references “100 kegs or bust” and “Alcoholics Unanimous [Founder].” “It raises questions and I think the purpose of the disclosure of this is not to attack Judge Kavanaugh, not to attack his credibility. But just to make sure the American people and the Senate Judiciary Committee have all the information available when considering this lifetime appointment,” said Berenzweig. Just a day after The Washington Post published the account of Christine Blasey Ford, who alleges that Kavanaugh attempted to sexually assault her while they were both in high school, the Senate Judiciary Committee moved to postpone the confirmation vote for Kavanaugh. Following a four-day hearing earlier this month, Kavanaugh and his accuser will now publicly testify at a hearing on Monday. RELATED: Public hearing scheduled for Kavanaugh, accuser The federal appeals court judge was chosen by President Donald Trump to succeed retired Justice Anthony Kennedy. President Trump said Tuesday he would continue to back Kavanaugh, and he does not think an FBI investigation of allegations against him is necessary before the hearing. "We’re looking to get this done as soon as possible," Trump told reporters at the White House. "It’s a process, speaking for all of the Republicans, we want to give everybody a chance to say what they want to say." RELATED: Republicans push ahead with showdown between Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser amid Democrats' complaints The public hearing has been compared to the testimony of Anita Hill, who accused Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in 1991. It comes just weeks before the November midterm elections. USA Today contributed to this report.
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2008/February/08_crm_110.html.txt.gz
WASHINGTON - FBI employee Curtis Jones was indicted today in Baltimore on charges of accepting an illegal gratuity for the performance of his official duties, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today. Jones, a resident of Annapolis, Md., is a physical security specialist with the FBI, working at the Bureau’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Jones was charged today in a single count indictment by a federal grand jury with acceptance of an illegal gratuity. According to the indictment, as an equipment program manager for the FBI, Jones was responsible for negotiating, reviewing and making recommendations regarding a blanket purchase agreement valued at nearly $2 million for the purchase of upgraded shredders to meet new national security standards for the destruction of classified information. While in that capacity, Jones reviewed and approved the bid of an undisclosed company (Company A) and subsequently served as the liaison for all FBI field offices to submit their purchase requests to Company A for new shredders. Shortly after visiting the company and approving its machines for purchase, Jones accepted an offer from Company A for him and his family to join Company A’s top executives and sales people on a Caribbean cruise over the 2003-2004 New Year’s holiday. The total value of the gratuity was approximately $7,500, including airfare and lodging. If convicted, Jones faces up to two years in prison, a fine of $250,000, and supervised release following his incarceration. The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Daniel Schwager and Peter Koski of the Department of Justice Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section. The case is being investigated by the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Justice. ### 08-110
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WASHINGTON >> House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, declaring he “betrayed the nation” with his actions toward Ukraine as they pushed toward historic proceedings that are certain to help define his presidency and shape the 2020 election. The specific charges aimed at removing the 45th president of the United States: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, flanked by the chairmen of impeachment inquiry committees at the U.S. Capitol, said they were upholding their solemn oath to defend the Constitution. Trump responded angrily on Twitter: “WITCH HUNT!” Voting is expected in a matter of days by the Judiciary Committee, which begins deliberations today and by Christmas in the full House. The charges, if approved, would then be sent to the Senate, where the Republican majority would be unlikely to convict Trump, but not without a potentially bitter trial just as voters in Iowa and other early presidential primary states begin making their choices. In the formal articles announced Tuesday, the Democrats said Trump enlisted a foreign power in “corrupting” the U.S. election process and endangered national security by asking Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, including Democrat Joe Biden, while withholding U.S. military aid as leverage. That benefited Russia over the U.S. as America’s ally fought Russian aggression, the Democrats said. Trump then obstructed Congress by ordering current and former officials to defy House subpoenas for testimony and by blocking access to documents, the charges say. By his conduct, Trump “demonstrated he will remain a threat to national security and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, ” the nine-page impeachment resolution says. “If we did not hold him accountable, he would continue to undermine our election,” Pelosi said later at a forum sponsored by Politico. “Nothing less is at stake than the central point of our democracy – a free and fair election.” Trump tweeted that to impeach a president “who has done NOTHING wrong, is sheer Political Madness.” He later headed to Pennsylvania for a reelection campaign rally, where he called the effort “impeachment lite” and promised it would lead to his reelection in 2020. The outcome appears increasingly set as the House presses ahead toward impeachment as it has only three times in history against U.S. presidents, a test of the nation’s system of checks and balances. Democrats said they had a duty to act in what is now a strictly partisan undertaking, as Republicans stand with the president because Trump has shown a pattern of behavior that, if left unchecked, poses risks to the democratic process. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., the Judiciary chairman, said the president “holds the ultimate public trust. When he betrays that trust and puts himself before country, he endangers the Constitution; he endangers our democracy; he endangers our national security.” “No one, not even the president, is above the law,” he said, announcing the charges before a portrait of George Washington. Chairman Adam Schiff of the Intelligence Committee said, “We stand here today because the president’s abuse of power leaves us with no choice.” Trump’s allies immediately plunged into the fight that will extend into the new year. White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said Democrats are trying to “overthrow” the administration. Campaign manager Brad Parscale said Democrats “don’t have a viable candidate for 2020 and they know it.” The president’s son, Eric, embraced his father’s penchant for name calling, assailing Pelosi and “her swamp creatures.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would be “totally surprised” if there were 67 votes in the chamber to convict Trump, and signaled options for a swift trial. He said no decision had been made whether to call witnesses. In drafting the charges against the president, Pelosi faced a legal and political challenge of balancing the views of her majority while hitting the Constitution’s bar of “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Some liberal lawmakers wanted more expansive charges encompassing the findings from special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Centrist Democrats preferred to keep the impeachment articles more focused on Trump’s actions toward Ukraine as a clearer case. The final resolution, slim in length yet broad in concept, attempted to find common ground by linking the Ukraine inquiry to the Mueller probe in two separate lines.It said the abuse of power was consistent with Trump’s “previous invitations of foreign interference in United States elections” while the obstruction charge was consistent with his efforts to undermine U.S. government ”investigations into foreign interference.” Democratic leaders say Trump put his political interests above those of the nation when he asked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a July phone call to investigate his rivals, including Democrat Joe Biden, and then withheld $400 million in military aid as the U.S. ally faced an aggressive Russia. They say he then obstructed Congress by stonewalling the House investigation. The articles say Trump “used the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromised the national security of the United States and undermined the integrity of the United States democratic process.” The first article, on abuse of power, says Trump “corruptly” solicited Ukraine to investigate his political rivals. The second article, obstruction of Congress, says that Trump directed defiance of the House’s ability to conduct its legal oversight like no other president “in the history of the republic.” Trump insisted in a new tweet that when he asked Ukraine’s president “to do us a favor” with the investigations, “‘us’ is a reference to USA, not me!” Democrats, however, say Trump’s meaning could not have been clearer in seeking political dirt on Biden, his possible opponent in the 2020 election. Republicans stand with the president even if they don’t fully address his actions. House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy said, the vote will be on impeachment not “whether a call is perfect.” While the impeachment is focused on the Ukraine matter, Trump’s actions toward Russia continue underlie the debate. On Tuesday Trump met at the White House with Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister just back from Paris efforts to revive peace talks with Ukraine. At the same time, a top adviser to the Ukraine president, Andriy Yermak, disputed key impeachment testimony from U.S. Ambassador Gordon Sondland, telling Time magazine the two did not speak of the investigations Trump wanted during a Warsaw meeting. The next steps are expected to come swiftly after months of investigation into the Ukraine matter and special counsel Mueller’s two-year Russia probe. In his report, Mueller said he could not determine that Trump’s campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia in the 2016 election. But he said he could not exonerate Trump of obstructing justice and left it for Congress to determine. Even as she pushed ahead with the impeachment proceeding, Pelosi announced an agreement with the White House on a new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal, a top priority for the president as well as many centrist Democrats. It, too, could get a vote next week.
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WASHINGTON >> The Senate confirmed 15 more judges late today, all but wrapping up its pre-election work on a top Republican priority days after Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. Clearing the judicial nominees provided a signature walk-off for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has focused on reshaping the judiciary with more conservative judges. Once final action was finished later this evening, senators were not expected back to session full-time until after the November election. While many of the judges were approved with bipartisan support, almost half were confirmed on mostly party-line votes. Democratic opponents and their allies swiftly objected to some of the nominees, in large part over views aligned with stricter abortion access. “Make no mistake, today was yet another step in the GOP’s takeover of our courts, stacking the deck against women and families at every level,” Ilyse Hogue, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said after the votes. She said the back-to-back votes coming so soon after Kavanaugh’s confirmation were especially painful. Singled out for opposition were David Porter, who was confirmed as a circuit court judge in Pennsylvania over the objection of that state’s Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, and Mark Norris, confirmed as a district court judge for the Western district of Tennessee. Republicans have seen a bump in polling since Kavanaugh’ confirmation. McConnell has marveled at the way the Supreme Court fight is animating Republican voters — who, polls showed, had been less enthusiastic before Kavanaugh advanced. Control of Congress is at stake this fall as Republicans are fighting to keep their majority hold on the House and Senate. Underscoring liberal anger over Trump’s conservative judicial nominees, People for the American Way criticized them as “ideological extremists and narrow minded elitists.” The group also chided Democrats for not delaying the votes, saying, “Allowing these confirmations to be rushed through as senators head out of town does a disservice to our democracy and the rule of law.” Among the handful of senators who missed the day’s votes were Democrats Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Bill Nelson of Florida, who face tough re-election races, and Florida Republican Marco Rubio. Florida was battered this week by Hurricane Michael.
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WASHINGTON D.C. (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett batted away Democrats’ skeptical questions Tuesday on abortion, health care and a possible disputed-election fight over transferring presidential power, insisting in a long and lively confirmation hearing she would bring no personal agenda to the court but decide cases “as they come.” The 48-year-old appellate court judge declared her conservative views with often colloquial language, but refused many specifics. She declined to say whether she would recuse herself from any election-related cases involving President Donald Trump, who nominated her to fill the seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and is pressing to have her confirmed before the the Nov. 3 election. “Judges can’t just wake up one day and say I have an agenda — I like guns, I hate guns, I like abortion, I hate abortion — and walk in like a royal queen and impose their will on the world,” Barrett told the Senate Judiciary Committee during its second day of hearings. “It’s not the law of Amy,” she said. “It’s the law of the American people.” Barrett returned to a Capitol Hill mostly locked down with COVID-19 protocols, the mood quickly shifting to a more confrontational tone from opening day. She was grilled by Democrats strongly opposed to Trump’s nominee yet unable to stop her. Excited by the prospect of a judge aligned with the late Antonin Scalia, Trump’s Republican allies are rushing ahead to install a 6-3 conservative court majority for years to come. The president seemed pleased with her performance. “I think Amy’s doing incredibly well,” he said at the White House departing for a campaign rally. Trump has said he wants a justice seated for any disputes arising from his heated election with Democrat Joe Biden, but Barret testified she has not spoken to Trump or his team about election cases. Pressed by panel Democrats, she skipped past questions about ensuring the date of the election or preventing voter intimidation, both set in federal law, and the peaceful transfer of presidential power. She declined to commit to recusing herself from any post-election cases without first consulting the other justices. “I can’t offer an opinion on recusal without short-circuiting that entire process,” she said. A frustrated Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the panel, all but implored the nominee to be more specific about how she would handle landmark abortion cases, including Roe v. Wade and the follow-up Pennsylvania case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which confirmed it in large part. “It’s distressing not to get a good answer,” Feinstein told the judge. Barrett was unmoved. “I don’t have an agenda to try to overrule Casey,” she said. “I have an agenda to stick to the rule of law and decide cases as they come.” She later declined to characterize the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion as a “super-precedent” that must not be overturned. Democrats had no such reticence. Let’s not make any mistake about it,” said California Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, appearing remotely due to COVID concerns as the hearing pushed into the evening. Allowing Trump to fill the seat with Barrett “poses a threat to safe and legal abortion in our country,” Harris said. The committee chairman, Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, opened the day-long session under coronavirus protocols that kept it off limits to in-person attendance by members of the public. Republicans have been focused on defending Barrett and her Catholic faith against possible criticism concerning issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage, and Graham asked if she would be able to shelve her personal beliefs to adhere to law. “I have done that,” she said. “I will do that still.” He said, “I will do everything I can to make sure that you have a seat at the table. And that table is the Supreme Court.” The Senate, led by Trump’s Republican allies, is pushing Barrett’s nomination to a quick vote before Nov. 3, and ahead of the latest challenge to the “Obamacare” Affordable Care Act, which the Supreme Court is to hear a week after the election. Democrats warn that she would be a vote to undo the law and strip health coverage from millions of Americans. “I’m not hostile to the ACA,” Barrett told the senators. She distanced herself from her past writings perceived as critical of the Obama-era health care law, saying those pieces were not addressing specific aspects of the law as she would if confirmed to the court. “I’m not here on a mission to destroy the Affordable Care Act.” She appeared stumped when Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., tried to put her on the spot about several details of the health care law’s effects. She could not recite specifics, including that 23 million people are covered by the law or that more than 2 million young people are on their parents’ health insurance. The Indiana judge, accompanied by her family, described herself as taking a conservative, originalist approach to the Constitution. A former law professor, she told the senators that while she admires Scalia, her conservative mentor for whom she once clerked, she would bring her own approach. “You would not be getting Justice Scalia, you would be getting Justice Barrett,” she declared. Senators probed her views on gun ownership, gay marriage and racial equity, at one point drawing an emotional response from the mother of seven, whose children include two adopted from Haiti, as she described watching the video of the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. “Racism persists,” she said, adding that Floyd’s death had a “very personal” effect on her family and that she and her children wept over it. But she told Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., that “making broader diagnoses about the problem of racism is kind of beyond what I’m capable of doing as a judge.” Republicans were thrilled when she held up a blank notebook, apparently showing she had been fielding questions without aid. Overall, Barrett’s conservative views are at odds with the late Ginsburg, the liberal icon. While Ginsburg testified at her 1993 confirmation hearing that the decision to have a child is one a woman “must make for herself,” Barrett says as a judge she must reserve opinions, despite having made her anti-abortion views known before joining the bench. “You would be the polar opposite of Justice Ginsburg,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. Barring a dramatic development, Republicans appear to have the votes to confirm Barrett to a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court, and they spent their time portraying her as a thoughtful judge with impeccable credentials. She would be Trump’s third justice. Underscoring the Republicans’ confidence, Graham set an initial committee vote on the nomination for Thursday, the last day of hearings, which would allow final approval by the full Senate by the end of the month. Protesters rallied outside the Senate building, unable to come inside the hearing room. Other issues aside, Democrats are outraged that Republicans are moving so quickly, having refused to consider President Barack Obama’s nominee after Scalia’s death in February 2016, well before that year’s election.
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2006/December/06_crt_850.html.txt.gz
WASHINGTON – Former Overton County, Tenn., sheriff’s deputy Gary Grigg and Lt. Johnny Gann were sentenced late yesterday for their roles in violating the civil rights of an inmate detained in the Overton County Jail, the Justice Department announced. Two other co-defendants, Overton County Sheriff’s Jail Administrator Michael Gilpatrick and Lieutenant James Loftis, still await sentencing. Four Overton County law enforcement officers have either been convicted or pleaded guilty in this matter. For his role the crime, Grigg received 41 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release. Grigg is report to begin his sentence on Jan. 19, 2007. Gann who was placed on probation for two years with a special condition that he spend six months in home detention. Grigg previously pleaded guilty to conspiring with Gilpatrick and Loftis to have the victim assaulted, and co-defendant Gann previously pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators during the investigation of this incident. In October, Gilpatrick was found guilty of orchestrating the beating of an inmate at the request of Grigg, who was trying to find someone who would beat the inmate. Gann pleaded guilty for his role in covering up the episode. “These law enforcement officers pledged to protect and serve, not to victimize and lie,” said Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. “The criminal behavior of these aberrant officers seriously undermines the dedicated efforts of the vast majority of law enforcement officers who serve honorably.” The Civil Rights Division is committed to the vigorous enforcement of every federal criminal civil rights statute, such as laws that prohibit the willful use of excessive force or other acts of misconduct by law enforcement officials. In fiscal year 2006, nearly 50 percent of the cases brought by the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division involved such prosecutions. Since fiscal year 2001, the Division has convicted 50 percent more defendants for excessive force and official misconduct than in the preceding six years. Assistant U.S. Attorney William Cohen for the Middle District of Tennessee and Civil Rights Division attorneys Gerry Hogan and Jim Felte prosecuted this case for the government. ### 06-850
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2007/July/07_crm_559.html.txt.gz
WASHINGTON –Joseph P. Nacchio, 57, the former chief executive officer of Qwest Communications International Inc., was sentenced to 6 years in prison for insider trading, the Justice Department announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham for the District of Colorado also ordered Nacchio to forfeit $52 million, pay a $19 million fine and serve two years of supervised release. On April 19, 2007, a federal jury convicted Nacchio of 19 counts of insider trading, covering $52 million in stock sales. The conviction came after 15 days at trial and six days of deliberation. “Today’s prison sentence of 72 months holds Mr. Nacchio accountable for lining his pockets at the expense of investors,” said Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher. “The Justice Department will continue to pursue corporate fraud cases to ensure the integrity and transparency of our financial marketplace.” “In an age of cynicism, justice can still prevail and even inspire,” said U.S. Attorney Troy A. Eid of the District of Colorado. “This is one of those moments.” Nacchio served as Qwest’s chief executive officer and was a member of the company’s board of directors from about January 1997 through June 2002. According to the indictment, Nacchio sold Qwest stock from January to September 2001 when he knew, but did not disclose publicly, that Qwest was unlikely to continue to meet its publicly announced earnings targets as that year progressed. Federal law prohibits corporate insiders, such as officers or directors, from trading on material information regarding the company’s stock that has not been publicly disclosed. In particular, the indictment states that Nacchio knew that Qwest’s 2001 financial targets were overly aggressive, that Qwest did not have a good track record in growing recurring revenue, that the company’s business units were underperforming, and that there would be insufficient non-recurring revenue sources to close the gap between Qwest’s publicly stated financial targets and its actual performance. It further states that Nacchio was specifically warned about this information. The Nacchio investigation was conducted by the FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. The case was prosecuted by First Assistant U.S. Attorney Cliff Stricklin and Assistant U.S. Attorneys James Hearty and Kevin Traskos of the District of Colorado, and Senior Litigation Counsel Colleen Conry and Trial Attorney Leo Wise from the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. ### 07-559
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2007/September/07_crt_711.html.txt.gz
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that it has reached an agreement resolving a housing discrimination lawsuit against the Walter Perlick Family Trust, Robert Perlick, Patricia Russell, and the estate of Toney Russell concerning alleged discrimination on the basis of familial status. Under the consent decree, filed today in federal court in Milwaukee, the defendants will pay $50,000 in monetary relief to the complainants and the United States. The Department’s complaint alleged that these landlords and apartment managers violated the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against potential renters by refusing to rent an apartment to a woman and her minor daughter, employing rental practices that discouraged families with children from renting the apartments, and making statements that discriminated based on familial status. “The Fair Housing Act ensures that families searching for a place to live are protected from discrimination,” said Rena J. Comisac, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. “The Justice Department’s vigorous enforcement of the federal fair housing laws helps ensure that parents can search for homes in which to shelter their families without fear of this kind of discrimination.” The consent decree, which must be approved by the U.S. District Court in Milwaukee, calls for training, a nondiscrimination policy, record keeping, and monitoring. Additionally, defendants will pay $39,000 in damages to the complainants and $11,000 in civil penalties to the United States. The case originated when Sharon Spears and her daughter filed discrimination complaints with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD conducted an investigation, found that the defendants discriminated on the basis of familial status, and the case was referred to the Justice Department. The federal Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability and familial status. Since Jan. 1, 2001, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has filed 232 cases to enforce the Fair Housing Act, 46 of which have alleged discrimination based on familial status. More information about the Civil Rights Division and the laws it enforces is available at http://www.usdoj.gov/crt. Individuals who believe that they may have been victims of housing discrimination can call the Housing Discrimination Tip Line (1-800-896-7743), email the Justice Department at fairhousing@usdoj.gov, or contact the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development at 1-800-669-9777. ### 07-711
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https://www.kgun9.com/news/national-politics/fbi-report-warned-of-possible-war-at-capitol-on-january-6-contradicting-officials-reports-say?_amp=true.txt.gz
WASHINGTON — According to a report in The Washington Post, the FBI had warned that extremists were preparing to come to Washington, attack Congress and engage in “war.” The report says the warning was issued internally by the FBI’s field office in Norfolk, Virginia, a day before the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol. The warning directly contradicts statements from the Justice Department and FBI officials that they had no intelligence to suggest a storming of the Capitol. The Post says the memo described how people had been sharing maps of the Capitol’s tunnels and discussing rallying points to meet up to travel to Washington. The newspaper reported that the document detailed posts calling for violence, including that “Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Antifa slave soldiers being spilled.” The posts also told followers to “go there ready for war.” Five people died as a result of the violent riots at the Capitol on January 6, including a Capitol Police officer. The FBI and other agencies are facing criticism for not being more aware of publicly-available conversations and posts talking about plans for January 6 in Washington, D.C., and seemed to do little to prepare for the possibility of violence. At the end of last week, the head of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, Steven D’Antuono, told reporters “there was no indication” of anything planned for the day of Trump’s rally “other than First Amendment-protected activity," according to the Washington Post. The Associated Press has not obtained the document. The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2006/August/06_enrd_494.html.txt.gz
WASHINGTON — A grand jury in Newark, N.J. returned a three-count indictment today charging the Chief Engineer and the Second Engineer of a bulk carrier vessel called the M/V Sun New with conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and a violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships in connection with the use of two bypass hoses used to discharge sludge and oil contaminated bilge waste overboard into the ocean. According to the indictment, Chang-Sig O was a licensed Chief Engineer of the M/V Sun New and at all times was responsible for managing engine room operations and crew members on board the vessel and assuring compliance with the laws regulating the discharge of oil from the vessel. Mun Sic Wang was a licensed Second Engineer and was responsible for operating the vessel’s Oily Water Separator - a required pollution prevention device. Engine room operations on board large oceangoing vessels such as the Sun New generate large amounts of waste oil. International and U.S. law prohibit the discharge of waste oil without treatment by an Oily Water Separator. The regime also requires that all overboard discharges be recorded in an Oil Record Book, a required log which is regularly inspected by the Coast Guard. According to the indictment, the defendants used two hoses on a trip from Korea to Camden, N.J. between November 20, 2005, and December 31, 2005, to circumvent required pollution prevention equipment and dump sludge and oily bilge waste into the ocean. This bypass equipment was discovered by the U.S. Coast Guard during an inspection of the vessel in Camden, N.J. on January 3, 2006. The defendants are charged in the indictment with conspiracy and a violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships for using these bypass hoses and failing to record these discharges in the Oil Record Book. The indictment further alleges that the defendants obstructed the Coast Guard inspection by making false statements designed to prevent the Coast Guard from finding out about these discharges. If convicted, each defendant faces a maximum statutory sentence of 5 years in prison on the conspiracy charge, 5 years in prison on the obstruction charge, and 5 years in prison on the violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships. An indictment contains only allegations. The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. ### 06-494
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WASHINGTON — Amid scrutiny stemming from fresh revelations of rampant discrimination, bullying, retaliation and sexual misconduct at the U.S. Forest Service, the agency’s new chief pledged Thursday that she will “do everything in my power to put us on a path to no harassment.” Vicki Christiansen acknowledged to a congressional panel that the Forest Service is in need of a culture change. She pledged to enact new systems and overhaul existing processes to ensure a safe and functional work environment. "I know our actions past and present are not enough, we must do more," said Christiansen, who was named interim chief in March and took over the position permanently just a month ago. She was appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The Forest Service is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The agency's struggles date to at least the 1970s, when a class-action lawsuit was filed alleging discrimination against women in hiring and promotions. In December 2016, the oversight panel held a hearing to address reports of systemic discrimination, bullying and harassment within the Forest Service. The matter has gained renewed attention as female Forest Service employees recently stepped forward with tales of harassment, retaliation and even rape. In March, the USDA Office of Inspector General released a report that showed widespread mistrust in the complaint reporting process, prompting the agency to change the way it handles sexual harassment and misconduct allegations. Earlier this month, Oversight Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sent a letter to Christiansen and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue requesting information and documents related to recent misconduct claims. "Despite taking some steps to address the problem, "alarming reports of misconduct and retaliation at the USFS persist," Gowdy wrote. Prior to becoming Forest Service chief, Christiansen spent more than three decades as a forester and wildland firefighter. "I know what it means to encounter harassment and discrimination in my workplace," she said. "I know the deep anguish it causes. I know how it feels to fear retaliation." Those experiences, she said, "fuel my commitment to the Forest Service." Christiansen on Thursday discussed progress made, and laid out her plans to further reform the agency. She said the agency has updated its anti-harassment policy and hired outside contractors to investigate allegations of sexual harassment. Additionally, Christiansen said the agency has created a Work Environment and Performance Office and plans to establish a victim advocacy and support structure. It also launched a call center to handle harassment and abuse allegations, formed a new employee advisory group, hired case managers and is requiring all 25,000 permanent Forest Service employees to attend "listen-and-learn sessions" to discuss workplace conduct. Shannon Reed, who said she was harassed and assaulted, then fired after she reported the abuse, shared her story at Thursday's hearing. She said Christiansen's plan to reform the agency doesn't go nearly far enough. "Chief Christiansen's action plan is merely a check-the-box process to make the agency appear as if it is addressing sexual harassment, gender harassment, bullying and retaliation," Reed said. She told the panel that she was forced to attend a listening session with her harassers. "The agency is telling us to stand up and report harassment, but when we do, we are retaliated against. Chief Christiansen has not made it a safe environment for us to report harassment," she said. Gowdy asked USDA Inspector General Phyllis K. Fong, who also testified at the hearing, why victims and abusers would ever be in the same session. "How in the hell can you have the perpetrator in the room with the victim?" Gowdy said. "I can't think of anything that has a more chilling effect on someone being able to tell their story." "I understand your concern," Fong said. "We want to send a very clear message in our office that if people have concerns or issues they would like to bring forward, we have multiple ways and avenues where we can help people." Christiansen admitted there is still "big work to do." "I'd like to say I could change it in six months. But to be absolutely honest, I don't think you change the culture of an organization that's existed for 113 years and has 40,000 people overnight," she said. Prior to working for the Forest Service, Reed worked for the National Park Service, where she said she also experienced bullying, harassment and assault. "Little did I know that transferring from the Park Service to the Forest Service was jumping from the frying pan to the fire," she said. At the same time in a separate hearing room on Capitol Hill, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the park service — also under fire for its handling of sexual harassment and assault claims — faced demands from senators to confront what park employees have told lawmakers is rampant abuse at national parks. "This is really a dark cloud over our National Park Service," Sen. Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican and chairwoman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, told David Vela at a committee hearing on his nomination to lead the agency. Murkowski cited a "long-term pattern of sexual harassment and hostile work environment" at the park service. Vela, currently park chief at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, said he would hold "people and processes accountable" in dealing with widespread allegations of male colleagues and bosses preying upon and bullying female co-workers, including complaints at iconic national parks such as Grand Canyon and Yosemite. "The scourge of sexual and workplace harassment ... at the National Park Service must stop," Vela told lawmakers. A Park Service preliminary report in 2016 concluded "the environment is indeed toxic, hostile, repressive and harassing." ___ Ellen Knickmeyer contributed from Washington.
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WASHINGTON — If it’s Monday ... President Joe Biden heads later this week to a NATO conference in Brussels. ... Ukraine rejects Russia's demand to surrender Mariupol. ... Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is hospitalized. ... China Eastern 737 crashes in southern China. ... Ohio Senate forum gets combative… And RIP, Don Young. But first: You have to go back to the 1990s with Stephen Breyer to find a Supreme Court confirmation on the political backburner as much as Ketanji Brown Jackson’s has been since Biden nominated her to the court a month ago. Part of the reason is the war in Ukraine, which has dominated the news over the last month. The other part is that this Supreme Court seat doesn’t change the court’s balance of power — with Jackson replacing Breyer on what’s already a 6-to-3 conservative majority court. Still, this confirmation fight finally heats up this week, with four days of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings that start Monday morning. “The day is set to feature opening remarks by the chair and members of the committee, followed by remarks from Jackson,” who is seeking to become the Supreme Court’s first Black female justice, NBC’s Sahil Kapur reports. Introducing Jackson, NBC's Ali Vitali adds, will be conservative former D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Thomas Griffith and University of Pennsylvania law professor Lisa Fairfax. The hearings come as some Republican senators have ramped up their attacks on Jackson, portraying her as being soft on crime. “Last week, [Sen. Josh] Hawley issued a series of tweets arguing that Jackson isn’t tough enough on sex offenders who prey on children. White House spokesman Andrew Bates, pointing to fact checks that debunk the claims as misleading or distortions of her record, assailed Hawley’s ‘desperate conspiracy theory’ and said it was based on “toxic and weakly-presented misinformation,” Kapur writes. Sign up for First Read; Get First Read from Meet the Press for fresh reporting and analysis on the top political stories. Data Download: The number of the day is … 55 percent That’s the portion of Americans who say Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson should be confirmed to the Supreme Court, according to a new Monmouth University poll, with 21 percent saying she couldn’t be confirmed and 24 percent with no opinion. Forty seven percent say she’s at least very or somewhat qualified, 9 percent say she is not qualified and 43 percent don’t know enough to share their opinion. A slim majority, 53 percent, approve of Biden’s pledge to name a Black woman to the court with his first pick (with 41 percent disapproving). And 69 percent say that having a court that’s more reflective of the nation’s diversity is important. Other numbers you need to know today: 0: The number of Republican members of Congress who served longer than the late Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, whose tenure spanned 49 years. At least 30: How many state legislative leaders (House speakers, Senate presidents and majority leaders) have retired or will retire at the end of their terms, per The Hill and the National Conference of State Legislatures. $4 million: How much spending has been tracked by AdImpact on ads this cycle that use the phrase “RINO” (Republican in Name Only). 28: The number of people shot (with one killed) at an Arkansas car show this past weekend. 94 percent: How effective a third dose of Covid vaccination (Moderna or Pfizer) was at preventing death and the need for a patient to be ventilated in January, per a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study reported on by The Washington Post. 10 million: The number of people who have fled their homes as Russia attacks Ukraine, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. 238: The number of bills filed in state legislatures that would limit the rights of LGBTQ people. Tweet of the day Midterm roundup: Almost a Buckeye brawl “Everyone’s coming out swinging tonight,” the moderator of a FreedomWorks forum featuring Ohio’s GOP Senate candidates said with a laugh Friday night after former state Treasurer Josh Mandel called out investment banker Mike Gibbons. The moderator probably didn’t think punches would actually be thrown, but 10 minutes later, Mandel and Gibbons seemingly almost came to blows as Mandel knocked Gibbons’ stock holdings and business dealings in China. “You’ve never been in the private sector,” Gibbons said, prompting Mandel to stand up and go nose-to-nose with Gibbons. “You don’t know squat,” Gibbons added, and Mandel responded, “Two tours in Iraq, don’t tell me I haven’t worked!” The crowd booed as the pair had to be separated. The episode highlights how nasty some GOP primaries have become, overshadowing discussions about more substantive policy differences. Case in point? The altercation came after a question about the U.S. response to the war in Ukraine. Elsewhere on the trail: Oklahoma Senate: Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt phoned former President Donald Trump to ask for his endorsement as he considers a run for the state’s open Senate seat, NBC’s Julie Tsirkin reports. Pennsylvania Senate: Former first lady Melania Trump has told her husband she supports celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz in the state’s crowded GOP Senate primary race. Pennsylvania governor: State Attorney General Josh Shapiro is embracing his support for abortion rights in his gubernatorial bid with the future of Roe v. Wade hanging in the balance. South Carolina 01: NBC News heads down to Summerville to take a look at the Trump-backed attempt to oust GOP Rep. Nancy Mace. Ad watch: Drug price focus Wisconsin state Treasurer Sarah Godlewski is focusing on drug prices in her new TV ad, criticizing both GOP Sen. Ron Johnson and her fellow Democrats. “For decades, Washington politicians have promised to lower the cost of prescription drugs. But every year, the prices go up. Why? Because Republicans like Ron Johnson — and let’s be honest, too many Democrats — don’t have the guts to stand up to the pharmaceutical companies,” Godlewski says in the 30-second spot, shared first with NBC News. The ad is part of a “seven-figure” ad buy across TV and digital platforms in the state’s major media markets, per Godlewski’s campaign. ICYMI: What else is happening in the world Maryland and Georgia have temporarily suspended their gas taxes to give residents a break at the pump. A small, but vocal, minority of Republicans continues to argue for “America First” isolationism over supporting Ukraine. Many Democrats want to shake up the presidential nominating calendar. But that could prove more difficult than it sounds. Political campaigns are taking to TikTok as they look to win over younger voters. Sign up for First Read; Get First Read from Meet the Press for fresh reporting and analysis on the top political stories.
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WASHINGTON —Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed” as he took the helm of a deeply divided nation and inherited a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors. Biden’s inauguration came at a time of national tumult and uncertainty, a ceremony of resilience as the hallowed American democratic rite unfurled at a U.S. Capitol battered by an insurrectionist siege just two weeks ago. The chilly Washington morning was dotted with snow flurries, but the sun emerged just before Biden took the oath of office, the quadrennial ceremony persevering even though it was encircled by security forces evocative of a war zone and devoid of crowds because of the coronavirus pandemic. “The will of the people has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded. We’ve learned again that democracy is precious and democracy is fragile. At this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed,” Biden said. “This is America’s day. This is democracy’s day. A day in history and hope, of renewal and resolve.” And then he pivoted to challenges ahead, acknowledging the surging virus that has claimed more than 400,000 lives in the United States. Biden looked out over a capital city dotted with empty storefronts that attest to the pandemic’s deep economic toll and where summer protests laid bare the nation’s renewed reckoning on racial injustice. Watch the inauguration ceremony here: His predecessor’s absence underscored the healing that is needed. Flouting tradition, Donald Trump departed Washington on Wednesday morning ahead of the inauguration rather than accompany his successor to the Capitol. Though three other former presidents — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — gathered to watch the ceremonial transfer of power, Trump, awaiting his second impeachment trial, instead flew to Florida after stoking grievance among his supporters with the lie that Biden’s win was illegitimate. Biden, in his third run for the presidency, staked his candidacy less on any distinctive political ideology than on galvanizing a broad coalition of voters around the notion that Trump posed an existential threat to American democracy. Biden did not mention Trump by name in the early moments of his inaugural address but alluded to the rifts his predecessor had helped create. “I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we all are created equal and the harsh, ugly reality of racism, nativism, fear, demonization that have long torn us apart,” Biden said. “This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge, and unity is the path forward and we must meet this moment as the United States of America.” Biden came to office with a well of empathy and resolve born by personal tragedy as well as a depth of experience forged from more than four decades in Washington. At age 78, he was the oldest president inaugurated. More history was made at his side, as Kamala Harris became the first woman to be vice president. The former U.S. senator from California is also the first Black person and the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency and will become the highest-ranking woman ever to serve in government. The two were sworn in during an inauguration ceremony with few parallels in history. Tens of thousands of troops are on the streets to provide security precisely two weeks after a violent mob of Trump supporters, incited by the Republican president, stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the certification of Biden’s victory. “Here we stand, just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people,” Biden said. “To stop the work of our democracy. To drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen. It will never happen. Not today, not tomorrow. Not ever. Not ever.” The tense atmosphere evoked the 1861 inauguration of Lincoln, who was secretly transported to Washington to avoid assassins on the eve of the Civil War, or Roosevelt’s inaugural in 1945, when he opted for a small, secure ceremony at the White House in the waning months of World War II. The day began with a reach across the aisle after four years of bitter partisan battles under Trump. At Biden’s invitation, congressional leaders from both parties bowed their heads in prayer in the socially distanced service just a few blocks from the White House. - Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Jill Biden holds the Bible during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, as their children Ashley and Hunter watch. AP Photos - Vice President Kamala Harris bumps fists with President-elect Joe Biden after she was sworn in during the inauguration, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. AP Photos - President Joe Biden is congratulated by first lady Jill Biden, his son Hunter Biden and daughter Ashley Biden after being sworn-in during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Vice President Kamala Harris applauds at left. AP Photos - Joe Biden is sworn in as U.S. President during his inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today’s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. Getty - Kamala Harris is sworn in as Vice President of the United States as her husband Doug Emhoff looks on during the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today’s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. Getty - Dr. Jill Biden reacts after her husband, President Joe Biden was sworn in during his inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today’s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. Getty - President Joe Biden is congratulated by first lady Jill Biden, his son Hunter Biden and daughter Ashley Biden after being sworn-in during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. AP Photos - President Joe Biden hugs his wife Jill Biden and children Hunter and Ashley Biden after he is sworn in as the 46th President of the United States Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. AP Photos - President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. AP Photos - President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 AP Photos - (L-R) Doug Emhoff, U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Jill Biden and President-elect Joe Biden wave as they arrive on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol for the inauguration on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today’s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. Getty - Flags decorate the “Field of Flags” at the National Mall near the U.S. Capitol ahead of the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today’s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. Getty - Flags line the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol before the start of the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Getty - President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill, walk out for the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool) AP Photos - President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill, walk out for the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. AP Photos - Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen, arrive for the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol for President-elect Joe Biden in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. AP Photos - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton arrives with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today’s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. Getty - Former U.S. President George W. Bush and Laura Bush arrive to the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today’s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Getty - U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff arrive to the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today’s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. Getty - Former President Barack Obama greets Vice President-elect Kamala Harris ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. AP Photos - Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle arrive for the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol for President-elect Joe Biden in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. AP Photos - Lady Gaga arrives to sing the National Anthem at the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today’s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. Getty - Kamala Harris is sworn in as Vice President of the United States as her husband Doug Emhoff looks on during the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today’s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. Getty - Jennifer Lopez sings during the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today’s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. Getty - Garth Brooks performs at the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today’s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. Getty - American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. AP Photos - President-elect Joe Biden steps out to the portico to be sworn in as 46th president of the United States during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. AP Photos - President-elect Joe Biden gestures as he arrives for his inauguration, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. AP Photos - Guests and spectators attend the 59th Presidential Inauguration for President Joe Biden at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. AP Photos Biden was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts; Harris was sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina member of the Supreme Court. Vice President Mike Pence, standing in for Trump, sat nearby as Lady Gaga, holding a gold microphone, sang the National Anthem accompanied by the U.S. Marine Corps band. Biden oversaw a “Pass in Review,” a military tradition that honors the peaceful transfer of power to a new commander in chief. Later, Biden, Harris and their spouses were to be joined by that trio of former presidents to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Ceremony. Still later, Biden was to join the end of a slimmed-down inaugural parade as he moves into the White House. Because of the pandemic, much of this year’s parade was to be a virtual affair featuring performances from around the nation. In the evening, in lieu of the traditional glitzy balls that welcome a new president to Washington, Biden will take part in a televised concert that also marks the return of A-list celebrities to the White House orbit after they largely eschewed Trump. Among those in the lineup: Bruce Springsteen, Justin Timberlake and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Lady Gaga sang the national anthem at the Capitol earlier in the day. “I protested 45’s inauguration, and I wanted to be here when he left,” said Raelyn Maxwell of Park City, Utah. ”And I wanted to celebrate the new president.” She brought a bouquet of roses she hoped to toss to Harris and some champagne to toast the occasion. Trump will be the first president in more than a century to skip the inauguration of his successor. In a cold wind, Marine One took off from the White House and soared above a deserted capital city to his own farewell celebration at nearby Joint Base Andrews. There, he boarded Air Force One for the final time as president for the flight to his Florida estate. “I will always fight for you. I will be watching. I will be listening and I will tell you that the future of this country has never been better,” said Trump, who wished the incoming administration well but once again declined to mention Biden’s name. The symbolism was striking: the very moment Trump disappeared into the doorway of Air Force One, Biden stepped out of the Blair House, the traditional guest lodging for presidents-in-waiting, and into his motorcade for the short ride to church. Trump did adhere to one tradition and left a note for Biden in the Oval Office, according to the White House, which did not release its contents. And Trump, in his farewell remarks, hinted at a political return, saying “we will be back in some form.” And he, without question, will shadow Biden’s first days in office. Trump’s second impeachment trial could start as early as this week. That could test the ability of the Senate, poised to come under Democratic control, to balance impeachment proceedings with confirmation hearings and votes on Biden’s Cabinet choices. Biden was eager to go big early, with an ambitious first 100 days that includes a push to speed up the distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations to anxious Americans and pass a $1.9 trillion virus relief package. On Day One, he’ll also send an immigration proposal to Capitol Hill that would create an eight-year path to citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally. He will also take a series of executive actions — on the pandemic, climate, immigration and more. Biden also planned a 10-day blitz of executive orders on matters that don’t require congressional approval — a mix of substantive and symbolic steps to unwind the Trump years. Among the planned steps: rescinding travel restrictions on people from several predominantly Muslim countries; rejoining the Paris climate accord; issuing a mask mandate for those on federal property; and ordering agencies to figure out how to reunite children separated from their families after crossing the border. The difficulties he faces are immense, to be mentioned in the same breath as Roosevelt taking office during the Great Depression or Obama, under whom Biden served eight years as vice president, during the economic collapse. And the solution may be similar. “There is now, as there was in 1933, a vital need for leadership,” said presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, “for every national resource to be brought to bear to get the virus under control, to help produce and distribute the vaccines, to get vaccines into the arms of the people, to spur the economy to recover and get people back to work and to school.” Additional reporting by Associated Press writers Jill Colvin and Darlene Superville in Washington and Michelle L. Price in Las Vegas.
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https://www.deseret.com/2019/7/16/8936718/former-supreme-court-justice-john-paul-stevens-dies-at-99.txt.gz
WASHINGTON — John Paul Stevens, the bow-tied, independent-thinking, Republican-nominated justice who unexpectedly emerged as the Supreme Court's leading liberal, died Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after suffering a stroke Monday. He was 99. During nearly 35 years on the court, Stevens stood for the freedom and dignity of individuals, be they students or immigrants or prisoners. He acted to limit the death penalty, squelch official prayer in schools, establish gay rights, promote racial equality and preserve legal abortion. He protected the rights of crime suspects and illegal immigrants facing deportation. He influenced fellow justices to give foreign terrorism suspects held for years at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval base the right to plead for their release in U.S. courts. Stevens served more than twice the average tenure for a justice, and was only the second to mark his 90th birthday on the high court. From his appointment by President Gerald Ford in 1975 through his retirement in June 2010, he shaped decisions that touched countless aspects of American life. "He brought to our bench an inimitable blend of kindness, humility, wisdom and independence. His unrelenting commitment to justice has left us a better nation," Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement. The White House issued a statement saying President Donald Trump and the first lady offered their condolences to Stevens' family and friends and praising "his passion for the law and for our country." He remained an active writer and speaker into his late 90s, surprising some when he came out against Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation following Kavanaugh's angry denial of sexual assault allegations. Stevens wrote an autobiography, "The Making of a Justice: My First 94 Years," that was released just after his 99th birthday in April 2019. At first considered a centrist, Stevens came to be seen as a lion of liberalism. But he rejected that characterization. "I don't think of myself as a liberal at all," Stevens told The New York Times in 2007. "I think as part of my general politics, I'm pretty darn conservative." The way Stevens saw it, he held to the same ground, but the court had shifted steadily to the right over the decades, creating the illusion that he was moving leftward. He did change his views on some issues, however. He morphed from a critic of affirmative action to a supporter, and came to believe the death penalty was wrong. His legal reasoning was often described as unpredictable or idiosyncratic, especially in his early years on the court. He was a prolific writer of separate opinions laying out his own thinking, whether he agreed or disagreed with the majority's ruling. Yet Stevens didn't consider his methods novel. He tended toward a case-by-case approach, avoided sweeping judicial philosophies, and stayed mindful of precedent. The white-haired Stevens, eyes often twinkling behind owlish glasses, was the picture of old-fashioned geniality on the court and off. He took an unusually courteous tone with lawyers arguing their cases, but he was no pushover. After his fellow justices fired off questions, Stevens would politely weigh in. "May I ask a question?" he'd ask gently, then quickly slice to the weakest point of a lawyer's argument. Stevens was especially concerned with the plight of ordinary citizens up against the government or other powerful interests — a type of struggle he witnessed as a boy. When he was 14, his father, owner of a grand but failing Chicago hotel, was wrongly convicted of embezzlement. Ernest Stevens was vindicated on appeal, but decades later his son would say the family's ordeal taught him that justice can misfire. More often, however, Stevens credited his sensitivity to abuses of power by police and prosecutors to what he learned while representing criminal defendants in pro bono cases as a young Chicago lawyer. He voiced only one regret about his Supreme Court career: that he had supported reinstating the death penalty in 1976. More than three decades later, Stevens publicly declared his opposition to capital punishment, saying that years of bad court decisions had overlooked racial bias, favored prosecutors and otherwise undermined his expectation that death sentences could be handed down fairly. One of his harshest dissents came when the court lifted restrictions on spending by corporations and unions to sway elections. He called the 2010 ruling "a rejection of the common sense of the American people" and a threat to democracy. As he read parts of that opinion aloud, Stevens' voice wavered uncharacteristically and he repeatedly stumbled over words. For the 90-year-old who'd worried he wouldn't know when to bow out, it was a signal. "That was the day I decided to resign," Stevens said later. He also disclosed in his autobiography that he had suffered a mini-stroke. Justice Elena Kagan took Stevens' seat on the court. The retirement of Stevens, known as a defender of strict separation of church and state, notably left the high court without a single Protestant member for the first time. "I guess I'm the last WASP," he joked, saying the issue was irrelevant to the justices' work. Justice Neil Gorsuch, who joined the court in 2017, was raised Catholic, but attends a Protestant church. A great-grandfather, Stevens eased into an active retirement of writing and speaking, still fit for swimming and tennis in Fort Lauderdale, where he and his second wife, Maryan, kept a home away from Washington. He is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth and Susan, who were with him when he died. Other survivors include nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Stevens' first wife, Elizabeth, second wife, Maryan, and two children died before him. Funeral arrangements are pending, the Supreme Court said in a statement announcing his death. But he is expected to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, next to Maryan. Born in 1920, Stevens was a privileged child of a bygone era: He met Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh at the family hotel and was at the ballpark when Babe Ruth hit his famous "called-shot" home run in the 1932 World Series. He joined the Navy the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service with a Japanese code-breaking team. The code breakers' work enabled the U.S. to shoot down a plane carrying the commander of the Japanese Navy, and that targeted wartime killing later contributed to his misgivings about the death penalty. After World War II, Stevens graduated first in his class at Northwestern University's law school and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge. As a lawyer he became an antitrust expert, experience he brought to Supreme Court rulings such as one ending the NCAA's control over televised college football games. President Richard Nixon appointed Stevens, a lifelong Republican, to the federal appeals court in Chicago. Judge Stevens was considered a moderate conservative when Ford — whose nominee would need the approval of a Democratic-controlled Senate — chose him for the Supreme Court. Stevens won unanimous confirmation after uneventful hearings nothing like today's partisan shows. Stevens' liberal bent once on the high court was "different than I envisioned," Ford acknowledged decades later, but he still supported and praised him as "a very good legal scholar." Stevens' influence reached its height after other liberals retired in the early 1990s, leaving him the senior associate justice and the court's leader on the left. For a dozen years after, he proved adept at drawing swing votes from Republican appointees Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy, often frustrating conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Stevens' clout diminished after Roberts arrived in 2005 and O'Connor was replaced by the more conservative Samuel Alito. But he didn't lose spirit. Throughout his career, Stevens unleashed some of his most memorable language in defeat. He wrote a scathing dissent in Bush v. Gore, the 2000 case that ended Florida's presidential recount and anointed George W. Bush: "Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law."
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-venezuela-releases-utah-man-20180526-story.html.txt.gz
WASHINGTON — Joshua Holt, who traveled to Venezuela from Utah in 2016 to marry a Spanish-speaking Mormon woman but soon found himself jailed and later branded the CIA's top spy in Latin America, was set free by the anti-American Maduro government on Saturday, saying he was "overwhelmed with gratitude." Holt and his wife, Thamara Caleno, arrived Saturday evening at Washington Dulles International Airport for a tearful reunion with his parents, Laurie and Jason Holt. A few hours later President Donald Trump welcomed them to the White House. "Those two years, they were a very, very, very difficult two years," said an emotional Holt, sitting next to Trump in the Oval Office. "Not really the great vacation that I was looking for ... I'm just so grateful for what you guys have done." To Holt, Trump said: "You've gone through a lot. More than most people could endure." The Utah man's mother, Laurie Holt, thanked Trump and the lawmakers for her son's safe return, adding: "I also want to say thank you to President Maduro for releasing Josh and letting him to come home." Their release came one day after Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., held a surprise meeting in Caracas with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who the Trump administration says runs a "dictatorship" and just won re-election in a "sham" vote. Trump, in a tweet, described Holt as a "hostage." The U.S. contended Holt was held on trumped up charges. Months of secret, backchannel talks between an aide to Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and close allies of Maduro preceded their return. Yet Holt's release had seemed unlikely even a week ago. Joining Trump in the Oval Officer were Corker, Utah Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee and Utah Rep. Mia Love. The lawmakers thanked Trump for his support. The White House learned from Corker on Friday of Holt's impending release, according to a U.S. official who has closely followed Holt's plight and spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the private talks. Holt and his wife were reunited at the Caracas airport with her daughter from a previous relationship, and all three boarded a chartered flight to Washington. "We are on our way home," Corker tweeted. When he departed the Caracas airport earlier, Holt told The Associated Press that the ordeal had left him "exhausted." Venezuela's communications minister, Jorge Rodriguez, said their release was a goodwill gesture that followed months of dialogue between the Maduro government and U.S. lawmakers. "We're praying that this type of gesture ... will allow us to strengthen what we've always sought: dialogue, harmony, respect for our independence and respect for our sovereignty," he said. Holt, now 26, set out for the South American country in June 2016 to marry a woman he met online while looking for Spanish-speaking Mormons who could help him improve his Spanish. He had planned to spend several months in Caracas that summer with his new wife and her two daughters, to secure their visas so they could move with him to the U.S. Instead, the couple was arrested that June 30 at her family's apartment in a government housing complex on the outskirts of Caracas. Authorities accused him of stockpiling an assault rifle and grenades, and suggested that his case was linked to other unspecified U.S. attempts to undermine Maduro's rule amid deep economic and political turbulence. They were held in a notorious Caracas prison, run by the secret police, that also is home to dozens of top Maduro opponents jailed during the past few years of political unrest in the country. Their trial was set to begin this month after repeated delays that led the Trump administration to question the motives for his detention. Until Trump's tweet on Saturday, the U.S. had stopped short of publicly calling Holt a "hostage." Holt's release looked unlikely a week ago, when he appeared in a clandestinely shot video railing against the Maduro government and saying his life was threatened in a prison riot. In retaliation, socialist party boss Diosdado Cabello, a powerful Maduro ally, said on state television that Holt was the CIA's top spy in Latin America. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., spoke to Trump at length Friday night and later said the couple's release "will in no way change U.S. policy toward the dictatorship in Venezuela." The White House press secretary issued a statement to that point Saturday night, saying policy was not changing even while thanking the government for releasing the Holts. The statement also called the recent elections "illegitimate" and urged the release of all political prisoners. The Trump administration has threatened crippling oil sanctions on Venezuela for Maduro's decision to go forward with the presidential election last week. The U.S. government at first avoided ratcheting up public pressure on Venezuela in light of their already strained relations, but eventually raised Holt's case with the highest levels of the Venezuelan government and decried his treatment in prison. Corker was seen live on state TV on Friday shaking hands with Maduro and being greeted by first lady Cilia Flores as he entered the presidential palace. Corker left an hour later; neither the senator nor the president made any statements. Laurie Holt worked feverishly to bring attention to her son's incarceration, hosting rallies, fundraisers and doing media interviews. She said her son has suffered numerous health problems in jail, including kidney stones and respiratory problems. He was depressed and at one point lost so much weight that he dropped several pant sizes, she said. In their statement, the Holt family said, "We thank you for your collaboration during this time of anguish. We ask that you allow us to meet with our son and his wife before giving any interviews and statements. We are grateful to all who participated in this miracle." Goodman reported from Bogota, Colombia. Associated Press writers Scott Smith in Caracas, Venezuela, and Brady McCombs in Salt Lake City contributed to this report.
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https://helenair.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/report-fbi-investigated-whether-trump-secretly-worked-for-russia/article_42354beb-e038-5e14-a99d-b4ad5a041e77.html.txt.gz
WASHINGTON — Law enforcement officials became so concerned by President Donald Trump's behavior in the days after he fired FBI Director James Comey that they began investigating whether he had been working for Russia against U.S. interests, The New York Times reported. The report Friday cites unnamed former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation. The inquiry forced counterintelligence investigators to evaluate whether Trump was a potential threat to national security, and they also sought to determine whether Trump was deliberately working for Russia or had unintentionally been influenced by Moscow. The Times reports that FBI agents and some top officials became suspicious of Trump's ties to Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign but didn't launch an investigation at that time because they weren't sure how to approach such a sensitive and important probe, according to the sources. But Trump's behavior in the days around Comey's May 2017 firing, specifically two instances in which he seemed to tie Comey's ousting to the Russia investigation, helped trigger the counterintelligence part of the investigation, according to the newspaper. People are also reading… Trump tweeted early Saturday that the report showed that the FBI leadership "opened up an investigation on me, for no reason & with no proof" after he had fired Comey. Robert Mueller took over the investigation when he was appointed special counsel soon after Comey's firing. The overall investigation is looking into Russian election interference and whether Trump's campaign coordinated with the Russians. The Times says it's unclear whether Mueller is still pursuing the counterintelligence angle. Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani told the Times that he had no knowledge of the inquiry but said that since it was opened a year and a half ago and they hadn't heard anything, apparently "they found nothing." Trump has also repeatedly and vociferously denied collusion with the Russians.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump defended himself Friday against accusations that he mocked American war dead as his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, intensified efforts to frame the election as a referendum on the president’s character. The allegations, sourced anonymously in The Atlantic, describe multiple offensive comments by the president toward fallen and captured U.S. service-members, including calling World War I dead at an American military cemetery in France as “losers” and “suckers” in 2018. The reported comments, many of which were confirmed independently by the AP, are shining a fresh light on Trump’s previous public disparaging of American troops and military families and opening a new political vulnerability for the president less than two months from Election Day. “This is more made up Fake News given by disgusting & jealous failures in a disgraceful attempt to influence the 2020 Election!” Trump tweeted late Thursday, as aides mounted a concerted defense of the president, with Trump’s campaign and allies taking to social media and broadcast interviews to denounce the report. “I’ve done more for the military than almost anyone else," he added Friday in the Oval Office. The president was alleged to have made the comments as he was set to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery during a trip to France in Nov. 2018. The White House said the visit was scrubbed because foggy weather made the helicopter trip from Paris too risky and the 90-minute drive deemed infeasible. Trump, who traveled to Pennsylvania on Thursday, told reporters after he returned to Washington that the Atlantic report was “a disgraceful situation” by a “terrible magazine.” RELATED: Trump polling place double-check suggestion raises fear of Election Day chaos RELATED: Joe Biden meets Jacob Blake's family during trip to Wisconsin “I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes,” Trump told the reporters, gathered on the tarmac in the dark. “There is nobody that respects them more. No animal — nobody — what animal would say such a thing?” Fox News, citing sources, disputed the claim that Trump called off the visit over disdain of war dead. But the sources did confirm parts of The Atlantic's report. Fox cited a former senior administration official who alleged Trump was in a bad mood and, "He just didn't want to go." The official also reportedly told Fox News that Trump said separately that the Vietnam War was "stupid" and that "Anyone who went was a sucker." On a call with reporters hosted by the Biden campaign Friday, Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth lambasted Trump for “belittling the sacrifices of those who have shown more bravery than he’s capable of.” “Of course he thinks about war selfishly,” Duckworth said of Trump. “He thinks of it as a transactional cost, instead of in human life and American blood spilled, because that’s how he’s viewed his whole life. He doesn’t understand other people’s bravery and courage because he’s never had any of his own.” Duckworth, a retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel who lost both of her legs in the Iraq War, has been a prominent critic of Trump’s handling of military issues. Knocking Trump for allegedly inventing an injury to avoid serving in the Vietnam War, Duckworth said that she’d “take my wheelchair and my titanium legs over Donald Trump’s supposed bone spurs any day.” Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who drew national attention after criticizing Trump during the 2016 Democratic National Convention, joined Duckworth on the call and said that Trump’s “life is a testament to selfishness.” “Words we say are windows into our souls. So when Donald Trump calls anyone who places their lives in service of others a loser, we understand Trump’s soul,” he said. Khan's son, Humayun, was killed in action in Iraq in 2004. In 2016, Trump responded to the criticism from Khan by claiming he'd made sacrifices of his own and making an Islamophobic attack on Khan's wife, Ghazala Khan, who was wearing a headscarf at the Democratic convention, saying, “She had nothing to say. She probably — maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me.” Trump's niece Mary Trump, who recently published a tell-all about her uncle, reacted on social media with a picture of her father who served in the National Guard. "His brother Donald and his father Fred thought he was a loser and a sucker," Mary Trump wrote. "To those of you who have loved, served, and sacrificed for our country—you are in very good company." Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the airline pilot who became a national hero after safely landing his plane full of passengers in New York's Hudson River in 2009, also reacted. The military veteran posted a photo of his father, also a veteran, and launched into a criticism of Trump on Twitter. "While I am not surprised, I am disgusted by the current occupant of the Oval Office. He has repeatedly and consistently shown himself to be completely unfit for and to have no respect for the office he holds," Sullenberger wrote in a long tweet thread. Biden said that “if the revelations in today’s Atlantic article are true, then they are yet another marker of how deeply President Trump and I disagree about the role of the President of the United States.” “Duty, honor, country — those are the values that drive our service members,” Biden said in a statement Thursday night, adding that if he is elected president, “I will ensure that our American heroes know that I will have their back and honor their sacrifice — always.” Biden’s son Beau served in Iraq in 2008-09. Trump also denied calling the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, a decorated Navy officer who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, a “loser" after his Aug. 2018 death. Trump acknowledged Thursday he was “never a fan” of McCain and disagreed with him, but said he still respected him and approved everything to do with his “first-class triple-A funeral” without hesitation because “I felt he deserved it.” In 2015, shortly after launching his presidential candidacy, Trump publicly blasted McCain, saying “He’s not a war hero.” He added, “I like people who weren’t captured.” At the time, Trump also shared a news article on Twitter calling McCain a “loser.” Trump only amplified his criticism of McCain as the Arizona lawmaker grew critical of his acerbic style of politics, culminating in a late-night “no” vote scuttling Trump’s plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That vote shattered what few partisan loyalties bound the two men, and Trump has continued to attack McCain for that vote, even posthumously. “It’s sad the depths that people will go to during a lead-up to a presidential campaign to try to smear somebody,” said White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Thursday. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told “Fox & Friends” on Friday that he was with the president for a good part of the trip to France. “I never heard him use the words that are described in that article,” Pompeo said. Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted that she was part of the discussion about visiting the cemetery. “This never happened. I have sat in the room when our President called family members after their sons were killed in action and it was heart-wrenching. ... I am disgusted by this false attack." In the article, defense officials said Trump made the comments as he begged off visiting the cemetery outside Paris during a meeting following his presidential daily briefing on the morning of Nov. 10, 2018. Staffers from the National Security Council and the Secret Service told Trump that rainy weather made helicopter travel to the cemetery risky, but they could drive there. Trump responded by saying he didn’t want to visit the cemetery because it was “filled with losers,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss it publicly. The White House blamed the canceled visit on poor weather at the time. An excerpt from former national security adviser John Bolton's book, "The Room Where It Happened," also backs the claim that the weather was bad, according to Fox News. During a signing at the White House on Friday, Trump also pointed out Bolton's book confirming his account. TEGNA Staff contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON — The Postal Service faced more questions and a federal lawsuit Wednesday over mail disruptions, despite assurances by President Donald Trump's postmaster general of no more service changes until after the November election — a pledge made only after a public outcry. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told her he has no intention of restoring removed blue mailboxes or sorting equipment and no plans for employee overtime. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said officials are withholding information about DeJoy's selection to the job. With the agency in turmoil, civil and voting rights advocates are suing to bring mail operations back to normal. Pelosi, D-Calif., said she told DeJoy in a phone call that his decision for a temporary pause was "wholly insufficient and does not reverse damage already wreaked.” RELATED: Postmaster General suspends some changes amid outcry, lawsuits The uproar over the Postal Service is expected to spill out Friday as DeJoy testifies before the Senate, and Saturday as the House convenes for a rare session. The House is set to vote on legislation to reverse the service changes and provide $25 billion to shore up operations. Widespread mail disruptions have stunned Americans and led to warnings that Trump is trying to undermine the Postal Service as he rails against mail-in ballots just as millions of people are trying vote absentee to avoid polling places during the COVID-19 crisis. RELATED: 'We’ve essentially been instructed to slow the mail down,' postal union leader says RELATED: VERIFY: Fact-checking quotes attributed to Trump about the Postal Service Civil and voting rights organizations said Wednesday they are suing to immediately halt the changes and restore operations. “We never imagined that we would be in this position with one of the oldest and most trusted institutions in our country,” said Virginia Kase, CEO of the League of Women Voters. Kase said even with DeJoy's decision to halt the changes the organization felt it had no choice but to go forward with the others in the lawsuit. “We need guarantees in place that this will not happen again, prior to the election,” she said, At the White House, Trump's team has insisted the president has no intention of disrupting mail delivery now or before Election Day. But Trump leveled more attacks on absentee voting. “IF YOU CAN PROTEST IN PERSON, YOU CAN VOTE IN PERSON!” the president tweeted. Schumer, who spoke to DeJoy late Tuesday, said he asked the postmaster for a written explanation of exactly what changes he was halting and if he would be restoring services. Schumer, D-N.Y., also called on the Postal Service's board of governors to provide “answers on why Mr. DeJoy was selected” for the job. Schumer said that the board told him previously “much of the information I requested was confidential and declined to provide it.” Flares also went up Wednesday over a little-noticed rule that prohibits postal workers from providing witness signatures on absentee ballots while they're working, which could impact rural Alaska voters. DeJoy, a former supply chain CEO, is a Republican donor, and the first postmaster general who did not come from the ranks of the Postal Service. He has pledged to revamp the Postal Service, which has struggled financially ever since 2006, confronting a decline in first-class mail and a new requirement to pre-fund its employee retiree healthcare benefits. On Tuesday, DeJoy said he was halting those initiatives until after the election “to avoid even the appearance of impact on election mail.” “We will deliver the nation’s election mail on time,” DeJoy said in a statement. DeJoy said he is halting the planned removal of mail-processing machines and blue collection boxes, as well as an initiative to change retail hours at post offices. He also said no mail processing facilities will be closed and said the agency has not eliminated overtime. The statement did not specify whether the agency would restore mail-sorting machines that have recently been taken offline. A Postal Service spokesman declined to comment beyond DeJoy’s statement. One initiative that DeJoy didn’t single out in his announcement was the newly imposed constraints on when mail can go out for delivery — a change postal workers have said is fueling delays. Along with the federal lawsuit, more than 20 states announced they would be suing to stop the changes. Several Democratic lawmakers have called for DeJoy to resign, but Republicans are also raising alarms over mail delivery disruptions, which are important not just for ballots, but prescription drugs and ordinary goods, especially in rural communities. Trump made clear last week that he was blocking $25 billion in emergency aid to the Postal Service, acknowledging he wanted to curtail election mail operations, as well as a Democratic proposal to provide $3.6 billion in additional election money to the states to help process an expected surge of mail-in ballots. Those funds are tangled in a broader coronavirus aid package that was approved in the House but stalled in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said he's not interested in a separate postal bill. He is eyeing a new virus aid package that would provide $10 billion for the Postal Service. "We’re certainly open to post office funding," said White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. But she said more important is broader virus relief with unemployment insurance and other aid. Some prominent Trump backers say that his focus on the postal service has not been helpful in his pitch to undecided voters. Dan Eberhart, a major Republican donor, said the president and DeJoy are right that the agency needs an overhaul. But he said the focus now “distracts” from broader campaign messages about the economy and policing issues. ___ Izaguirre reported from Charleston, West Virginia. Associated Press writers Aamer Madhani and Deb Riechmann in Washington, Bruce Schreiner in Frankfort, Kentucky, Gene Johnson in Seattle contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it has scheduled the first federal execution of a woman in almost 70 years, setting a Dec. 8 date to put to death Lisa Montgomery, convicted of a 2004 murder. Montgomery, who was found guilty of strangling a pregnant woman in Missouri, will be executed by lethal injection at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana, the department said in a statement. The last woman to be executed by the U.S. government was Bonnie Heady, who was put to death in a gas chamber in Missouri in 1953, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The Justice Department on Friday also scheduled a Dec. 10. execution for Brandon Bernard, who with his accomplices murdered two youth ministers in 1999. The two executions will be the eighth and ninth the federal government has carried out in 2020. The Trump administration ended an informal 17-year-hiatus in federal executions in July, after announcing last year that the Bureau of Prisons was switching to a new single-drug protocol for lethal injections, from a three-drug combination it last used in 2003. The new protocol revived long-running legal challenges to lethal injections. In August, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled the Justice Department was violating the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in not seeking a doctor’s prescription to administer the highly regulated barbiturate. But an appeals court held the violation did not in itself amount to “irreparable harm” and allowed federal executions to proceed. In 2007, a U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri sentenced Montgomery to death after finding her guilty of a federal kidnapping resulting in death. Her attorney, Kelley Henry, said that Montgomery deserves to live because she is mentally ill and suffered childhood abuse. “Lisa Montgomery has long accepted full responsibility for her crime, and she will never leave prison,” Henry said in a statement. “But her severe mental illness and the devastating impacts of her childhood trauma make executing her a profound injustice.” Bernard’s attorney, Robert Owen, said in a statement the federal government misled the jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, which in 2000 found Bernard guilty of murder. Its decision was tainted by false testimony, Owen said. “This evidence confirms that Mr. Bernard is simply not one of the ‘worst of the worst’ offenders for whom we reserve the death penalty, and that sparing his life would pose no risk to anyone,” Owen said.
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https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2017/jan/20/oklahoma-man-s-shooting-under-investiga/.txt.gz
WATTS, Okla. -- An Oklahoma man was shot and killed after he threatened officers with a metal pipe Wednesday night, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. An Adair County Sheriff's Office deputy and a Watts Police officer were sent to domestic abuse call on East 610 Road about 7:30 p.m., according to a bureau news release. Stoney McJunkin, 40, came out of the home with a metal pipe in his hands when officers arrived, according to the release . "He reportedly raised the pipe in an aggressive manner and refused officers' commands to put down the pipe," according to the release. "The Adair County deputy fired his handgun at McJunkin." McJunkin was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency personnel. His body was taken to the medical examiner's office in Tulsa, Okla., for an autopsy. The Sheriff's Office referred all questions to Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Jessica Brown, a bureau spokeswoman, said the Sheriff's Office requested help with the investigation. Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation special agents collected evidence from the scene and the investigation is ongoing. The names of the officers involved weren't released. Watts Police Chief Matt Stilwell confirmed Adair County requested a Watts officer help arrest a person in connection with domestic violence. McJunkin was on parole for charges of distribution of a controlled substance and possession with the intent to deliver, according to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Once the investigation is complete, a full report will be delivered to the district attorney's office, according to the release. NW News on 01/20/2017
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https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/4-children-killed-in-indiana-crash-after-suspected-drugged-semi-driver-rear-ends-car?_amp=true.txt.gz
WAYNE COUNTY — Four children were killed when a semi struck a car that was slowing in a construction zone on an Indiana interstate Thursday evening. It happened shortly after 5 p.m. on eastbound I-70 in Wayne County, about 70 miles east of Indianapolis. According to Indiana State Police, troopers arrived to find a Chevrolet car and a semi pulling a box trailer both on fire, just west of a construction zone. State police investigators believe the truck did not slow down when it came upon slowed traffic near the construction zone and slammed into the back of a car, pushing it into another semi. Witnesses told the Wayne County Sheriff's Office that the driver of the semi that struck the car from behind was operating in an "erratic manner" prior to the crash. Investigators say evidence revealed that stopped traffic was not a contributing factor to the crash. Preliminary toxicology reports indicated that the driver had multiple drugs in his system at the time of the crash. He was arrested and lodged into the Wayne County Jail on the following preliminary charges: - Four counts of reckless homicide - Four counts of operating while intoxicated causing death - Operating while intoxicated causing serious bodily injury Indiana State Police say a passerby was able to pull the driver of the passenger car out of the vehicle, but none of his passengers. State police say four children inside the vehicle were all pronounced dead at the scene. They have been identified as: - Anesa Noelle Acosta, 15 - Quintin Michael McGowan, 13 - Brekkin Riley Bruce, 8 - Trentin Beau Bruce, 6 The driver of the passenger car, a 34-year-old man with a Kansas City, Missouri, address, was airlifted to Indianapolis where he was admitted to the burn unit in critical condition, according to the Wayne County Sheriff's Office. The driver of the semi is a 33-year-old man from Ohio. He escaped his burning truck and was taken to a hospital in Richmond. The driver of the second semi was uninjured. The preliminary criminal investigation by the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office indicates that drugs were a contributing factor in causing the crash and that criminal charges are forthcoming. I-70 eastbound remained closed nearly 12 hours and was reopened around 5 a.m. Friday morning. This story was originally published by Katie Cox at WRTV.
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-skydive-chicago-death-illinois-20161024-story.html.txt.gz
WEDRON, Ill. — Authorities say they are continuing their investigation to find the cause of a skydiving accident that left an Illinois man dead. The La Salle County sheriff's office says 48-year-old Michael Collins of Lacon died early Sunday from injuries suffered when he struck a billboard as he neared the ground. The (LaSalle) News Tribune reports Collins had drifted off course during the skydive. Marseilles emergency responders found Collins suspended from the billboard about 1 foot off the ground. He was cut down and given life-support measures. Life Flight was contacted and Collins was flown to Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, where the DuPage County coroner's office pronounced him dead from massive traumatic injuries. In addition to the LaSalle County Sheriff's Department, the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident. Associated Press
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-asylum/trump-asylum-policy-gets-temporary-reprieve-from-court-of-appeals-idUSKCN1RO23I.txt.gz
WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - The U.S. government can continue at least temporarily to send asylum seekers back to Mexico after President Donald Trump scored a rare ruling in his favor on Friday from the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The asylum program was set to be shut down at 8 p.m. EDT (midnight GMT) by an order issued on Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg, but the Trump administration had asked for the Court of Appeals in San Francisco to intervene. The Court of Appeals issued a two-paragraph order saying the lower court injunction was temporarily stayed while the parties prepare to submit arguments next week on the government’s request for a longer stay that would remain in place for the months-long appeals process. The government told the Court of Appeals in papers filed late Thursday that the United States faced “a humanitarian and security crisis” at the southern border and needed to the policy to deal with surging number of refugees. Seeborg had ruled on Monday the policy was contrary to U.S. immigration law and ordered a nationwide injunction to halt the program, but delayed implementation of his order to allow the government to appeal. “This is an interim step while the court considers the government’s stay request,” said a statement from Judy Rabinovitz, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union who represented plaintiffs in the case and who opposed the stay. Since January, the administration has sent more than 1,000 asylum seekers, mostly from Central America, back to Mexico to wait the months or years it can take to process claims through an overloaded immigration system. Although it is appealing and the lower court order had yet to take effect, Reuters reporters confirmed that the Trump administration was allowing some asylum seekers from Mexico to return to the United States. Trump has bristled at limits on his administration’s ability to detain asylum seekers while they fight deportation, and the administration was in the midst of expanding the program when Seeborg blocked it. The 9th Circuit Court has been a frequent target for Trump’s criticisms of the judicial system, which has blocked his immigration policies on numerous occasions. After Seeborg ruled on Monday, Trump tweeted: “A 9th Circuit Judge just ruled that Mexico is too dangerous for migrants. So unfair to the U.S. OUT OF CONTROL!” Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware; Editing by Tom Brown
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WILMINGTON, Ohio (AP) — Authorities are investigating the motives of an armed man who they say tried to breach the FBI’s Cincinnati office, fled and died hours later in a rural standoff with law enforcement, a case unfolding as the FBI warns agents to take extra precautions amid increased social media threats to its employees and facilities. Officials have warned of a rise in threats against federal agents in the days following a search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. In the Cincinnati case, officials said a man tried to breach the visitor’s screening area at the FBI office Thursday morning and fled when agents confronted him. He was later spotted by a state trooper along Interstate 71 and fired shots as the trooper chased him, said Lt. Nathan Dennis, an Ohio State Highway Patrol spokesperson. People are also reading… The suspect eventually got out of his car on a rural road, exchanged gunfire with police and was injured, Dennis said. No one else was hurt. Attempted negotiations failed, and police tried unsuccessfully to use unspecified “less lethal tactics," but the suspect was shot when he raised a gun toward officers, Dennis said. The man died at the scene. Dennis said he couldn't comment Thursday on whether the suspect said anything to officers during the standoff. The man is believed to have been in Washington in the days leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and may have been present at the Capitol on the day of the attack, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the matter. The official could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The suspect was identified as Ricky Shiffer, 42, according to the law enforcement official. He was not charged with any crimes in connection with the Jan. 6 attack, the official said. Federal investigators are examining whether Shiffer may have had ties to far-right extremist groups, including the Proud Boys, the official said. There have been growing threats in recent days against FBI agents and offices across the country after federal agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. On Gab, a social media site popular with white supremacists and antisemites, users have warned they are preparing for an armed revolution. Federal officials have also been tracking an array of other concerning chatter on Gab and other platforms threatening violence against federal agents. FBI Director Christopher Wray denounced the threats as he visited another FBI office in Nebraska on Wednesday. “Violence against law enforcement is not the answer, no matter who you’re upset with,” Wray said Wednesday in Omaha. The FBI on Wednesday also warned its agents to avoid potential protesters, and to ensure their security key cards are “not visible outside FBI space,” citing an increase in social media threats to bureau personnel and facilities. The warning did not specifically mention this week’s search of Mar-a-Lago but attributed the online threats to “recent media reporting on FBI investigative activity.” Welsh-Huggins reported from Columbus, Ohio. Associated Press writers Michael Balsamo in Washington and Jim Mustian in New York contributed to this report. Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. In this Series This morning's top headlines: Friday, Aug. 12 - Updated Trump calls for 'immediate' release of Mar-a-Lago warrant - Updated Suspect who tried to breach FBI office dies in standoff - Updated House Dems set to overcome GOP for climate, health care win - 7 updates
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndin/pr/week-review-hammond-52.txt.gz
Week In Review – Hammond FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: Mary Hatton www.usdoj.gov/usao/inn/ CELL: (219) 314-9993 Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court: PLEAS: Charles Johnson, Jr., 33, of Gary, Indiana, pled guilty before Senior District Judge James Moody to the felony offense of distribution of crack cocaine.This charge was filed as a result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation GRIT Task Force.This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Chang-Adiga. Christopher Castro, 33, of Lorain, Ohio, a defendant in the case US v Yanez et al., pled guilty before Senior District Judge James Moody to the felony offense of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine.This charge was filed as a result of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration.This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Joshua Kolar. Jon Erik Lilly, 27, of Cedar Lake, Indiana, pled guilty before Senior District Judge Rudy Lozano to the felony offense of receipt of child pornography.Sentencing has been set for 9/26/13.This charge was filed as a result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and the Hammond Police Department.This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jill Koster. If convicted in court, any specific sentence to be imposed will be determined by the judge after a consideration of federal sentencing statutes and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. DISPOSITIONS: Eugene Wilson, Sr., 56, of Merrillville, Indiana, was sentenced by Senior District Judge Rudy Lozano to 60 months imprisonment and 4 years of supervised release after being found guilty at trial of felony offenses of wire fraud and structuring transactions to evade reporting requirements. Wilson stole approximately 1.5 million dollars from three groups of investors.The FBI received a complaint that Wilson had defrauded individuals of money through a Ponzi type scheme.Essentially, Wilson convinced individuals to invest money with him by promising a very high rate of return.To lure the investor into the scheme, Wilson created a written agreement and promised to keep the funds in an escrow account.In all three events, upon receiving the money, Wilson immediately wire transferred the funds to third parties, most who banked in Europe.Wilson then lied about the whereabouts of the funds and finally ended communications with the investors.In 2008, Wilson received a series of wire transfers.He then engaged in a series of bank transactions to avoid the bank reporting that he had received more than $10,000 in cash.This case was the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Gary Bell. Scott R. Becker, 47, and Christina Becker, 49, of Lafayette, Indiana, were sentenced by District Judge Joseph Van Bokkelen on June 19. Scott Becker was sentenced to 90 months imprisonment and 10 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to the felony offenses of mail fraud, wire fraud and possession of child pornography. The Court also ordered Mr. Becker to pay restitution as follows:$250,000 to Stelko, and the balance due on the mortgage to his Colorado home (jointly and severally with Christina Becker, his wife and co-defendant). To accomplish the payment of restitution, the Beckers forfeited the Colorado property to the U.S. government.From January 1, 2002 and continuing to July 27, 2009, Scott Becker devised a scheme and artifice to take advantage of his position as General Manager of Stelko Electric to fraudulently obtain tools, building materials, labor and money, which rightfully belonged to Stelko, totaling over $250,000.00 in value to aid in the building of a home in Colorado.There were three different aspects to Becker’s scheme: the theft of labor, materials and tools used to build his Colorado home; the theft of funds from Stelko via contract fraud; and the theft of Stelko materials which Becker sold for cash.In June 2009, a search of Becker’s work computer for evidence of employee theft revealed video images of a minor teenage girl in a state of undress. Christina Becker was sentenced to 1 day imprisonment with time considered served and 3 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to wire fraud affecting a financial institution. From on or about January 1, 2009 and continuing to on or about March 4, 2009, the Beckers devised a scheme and artifice to obtain mortgage funds totaling $275,000.00 from Regions Bank d/b/a/ Regions Mortgage Corporation (hereafter “Regions Bank”) located in Birmingham, Alabama, by providing false and fraudulent information on and with their mortgage application for the Colorado home and knowingly caused to be transmitted by means of a wire communication in interstate commerce, any signs, signals, or sounds, to wit: a wire transfer of $270,737.44 from Regions Bank in Birmingham, Alabama to a title company located in Durango, Colorado. This case was the result of an investigation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and the Kokomo Police Department.This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jill Koster. States Attorney Jill Koster.
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Weeks before the New York Post began publishing what it claimed were the contents of Hunter Biden’s hard drive, a Sept. 25 segment on a YouTube channel run by a Chinese dissident streamer, who is linked to billionaire and Steve Bannon-backer Guo Wengui, broadcast a bizarre conspiracy theory. According to the streamer, Chinese politburo officials had “sent three hard disks of evidence” to the Justice Department and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi containing damaging information about Joe Biden as well as the origins of the coronavirus in a bid to undermine the rule of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Three days later, a Twitter account linked to Guo and Bannon’s Himalaya movement subsequently amplified an edited clip of the segment alongside the pledge of a “Bombshell… 3 hard disk drives of videos and dossiers of Hunter Biden’s connections with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have been sent to Nancy Pelosi and DOJ. Big money and sex scandal!” Many of the claims made in the September video are absurd on their face. And the video leaves it unclear whether Guo and his media empire had foreknowledge of the Post’s impending story or whether their endless conspiracy theorizing simply handed them a lucky coincidence that only looks prescient in hindsight. But this wasn’t the first time that Guo’s media empire reinforced narratives that aligned with Team Trump’s. Guo’s outlets repeatedly pushed various debunked conspiracy theories about the origins of the coronavirus as either a Chinese lab accident or an intentional bioweapon. Nor are these social-media posts Guo’s only link to the president’s close associates. While Guo’s ties to Bannon have long been known—Bannon was arrested for fraud in August on a 152-foot-long yacht reportedly owned by Guo—the billionaire appears to have also joined forces with Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani in the former New York mayor’s relentless anti-Biden dirt-digging crusade. The Twitter accounts of Guo’s outlets GNews and the Guo-associated Voice of Guo Media retweeted unsubstantiated corruption claims about the former vice president and his son this week, including the Post report published Wednesday that centered on a hard drive that Bannon told the Post about in late September and which Giuliani later provided to the paper. Bannon was also playing up the Hunter Biden hard drive around the same time as Guo’s network first started promoting it, telling a Dutch TV station in late September, “We have the hard drive. I have the hard drive of Hunter Biden.” The Post has featured Guo- and Bannon-backed work before. In July, the story of a Chinese virologist who fled to the U.S. and accused Beijing of a massive coverup was circulated by the Post and Fox News and reposted on GNews. Two months later, the Post published a flurry of stories on the scientist, Li-Meng Yan, and her claims that COVID-19 was manufactured in a Wuhan lab. (Her claims were quickly disputed by fellow virologists.) As The Daily Beast first revealed, the study Yan referred to was published by a pair of nonprofit groups linked to Bannon. And on Oct.11—just a few days ago—an obscure pro-Guo Twitter account also posted pictures of Guo cozying up to a maskless Giuliani as they cavorted and smoked cigars. Guo, Bannon, and Giuliani did not respond to The Daily Beast’s requests for comment. While Guo has been busy smoking with Rudy and promoting COVID-19 and Biden family disinfo, he’s also been gearing up for the launch of his newest venture, a shadowy clothing line called G-Fashion. The fashion enterprise has a Rudy tie-in, too. In a weird video that Rudy Giuliani posted to YouTube on Wednesday, a young woman named Jayne Zirkle talks to Trump’s personal lawyer about some “advertising” she’s been doing—apparently unpaid—and Giuliani declares that she’s “going to be the most famous model in China.” Giuliani then proceeds to speak in an exaggerated faux-Chinese accent that plays off stereotypes, and bows to the camera while intoning, “Jayne Zirkle, Jayne Zirkle.” A quick glance at Zirkle’s MAGA-happy Twitter account reveals what she’s been modeling: G-Fashion baseball caps and bomber jackets. Both G-Fashion and its associated “G-Club” are being promoted by Guo as a vehicle for soliciting money from Chinese nationals to prop up his and Bannon’s self-declared “government in exile.” In a video uploaded to YouTube in June 2020, Guo—who also goes by Miles Guo or Miles Kwok—describes the new venture, part of his “G-Series.” As he rails at Chinese government limits on how much money nationals can transfer offshore, and exhorts his “brothers-in-arms” not to give money to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) but to him instead, Guo touts something called the “Himalaya Reserve” as a way to get better returns on investment. He announces the impending pre-sale of “G-dollar[s],” his very own cryptocurrency, along with the chance to buy membership in the “G-Club.” For $50,000—the “top-level membership” for G-Club—Guo promises a deal on “G-Fashion,” too, which he calls a “platform for everyone to enjoy the high-quality fashionable life.” Guo then urges his followers to buy “stock” in G-Fashion and assures them “we legally worked out how to run G-Fashion in the future.” The same month, “GFashion Media Group Inc.” was incorporated as a foreign business corporation at an address on East 64th Street in New York that is also linked to Guo in several other lawsuits against him (the address appears to house one of the offices of Guo’s lawyer, Aaron Aubrey Mitchell). But G-Fashion’s rollout seems to have hit some snags over the summer. In a post on his media site GNews—which, as BuzzFeed revealed, had a contract with Bannon and has been posting fake news about COVID-19 and China—Guo uploaded another video announcing that G-Fashion and G-Club would be delayed until Oct. 16. He then again pitched the sale of shares in the venture to “fellow fighters within China.” A painful-to-watch, nearly two-minute “fashion show” posted on GNews late last month hyped an upcoming “big day,” but mostly stuck to pulsating, slow-motion shots of Guo smoking a cigar in a “G” hat and smiling in a pinstriped suit. In a video for GNews, the exiled mogul explained the extent of the G-Fashion line and the origins of its namesake. “G-Fashion does not only have clothes, but also shoes, underwear, socks. Clothes for both men and women 60-70 percent of which are women's clothes,” Guo says, addressing his news channel’s audience. “There are also clothes for kids and the elderly. What I want to tell everyone is you will see that the biggest characteristic of G-Fashion is the lack of age restriction.” The “G” in G-Fashion isn’t a vanity nod to Guo’s own name, like his news channel. Instead, Guo says the letter is a reference to other less self-serving concepts “Gold, God, Good, Give. This is our G-Fashion and the origin of the entire G-Series.” The first IRL signs of the “G-Fashion” venture showed up on social media over the past few weeks, going largely under the radar on an Instagram account apparently linked to the Guo-backed Rule of Law Foundation and Zirkle’s private Twitter account. In one awkwardly cheerful group photo posted earlier this week to the Instagram account of Himalaya Canada, which is linked to Guo’s media empire, Bannon and Guo can be seen sporting “The New Federal State of China” baseball caps as they embrace Zirkle in her cap featuring the G-Fashion logo. The hats are more than just a fashion statement, however: “The New Federal State of China” refers to the vehemently anti-Beijing movement created by Guo and Bannon that seeks to establish a government in exile of China but has gotten more attention for its misinformation on COVID-19. (The movement made an awkward debut in New York City last June by flying a bunch of “New Federal State of China” banners over the city, but New Yorkers were mostly just confused by the stunt. The group also has a branch operating in Australia called Himalaya Australia. The Twitter account for Himalaya Global is also very active at pushing out Bannon and Guo media appearances and COVID-19 disinfo, including claiming Dr. Anthony Fauci is in bed with the CCP.) “From today the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will no longer be the lawful government of China!” Guo, accompanied by Bannon, said in a livestream at the time of the New York launch. G-Fashion, which is slated to launch on Friday—apparently with Giuliani’s young assistant serving as one of the brand ambassadors—certainly appears to be an extension of Guo’s New Federal State of China movement, which also has in its orbit GTV Media, a company started by Bannon and Guo last spring that is now under scrutiny by federal investigators. In one video on G-Fashion stock shares, Guo explicitly says they will go toward “supporting [the] New Federal State of China.” Several accounts linked to fundraising for GTV Media were frozen after the FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission began a probe into $300 million the company raised in a private offering this year, The Wall Street Journal reported. Some investors had also reportedly detected red flags concerning the company and subsequently demanded refunds. As part of his “G-Club” scheme—which, as Guo ticks off in one video, involves “GTV, G-Dollar, G-Coin, G-Fashion, G-Club and and the New Federal State of China”—the billionaire flogs what appears to be his own cryptocurrency. In a post on GNews, he touts G-Coin as “a tradable and exchangeable online community currency” that will “be used in the intelligence market. That is using G-coins to purchase intelligence and news that can reveal the truth.” (Guo likes purchasing intelligence—he sued a private intelligence firm after allegedly paying it to dig up dirt on his former countrymen, including porn habits, money scandals, or children out of wedlock.) “The next step is that all pure profits of G-Fashion, G-News and the platform (GTV) are used as reserves of G-coins. Then this reserve will be used to buy gold,” the post exclaims. Bannon, for one, has a long obsession with gold reserves and virtual gold farming. As The Daily Beast revealed, his nonprofit teamed up with a company linked to alleged gold scammers who preyed on elderly conservatives, and Bannon once invested in a company, founded by the extremely shady crypto-mogul Brock Pierce, that meddled in the World of Warcraft virtual gold marketplace. So far, the only glimpses of the fashion line suggest it’s not much of a fashion line at all, beyond a few cheap-looking threads. And it might not have gotten much attention if not for the intriguing comments that Zirkle, Giuliani’s young assistant, made in accidentally recorded audio after one of his podcasts earlier this week. “This is you?” Giuliani asked, as Zirkle apparently showed him pictures of herself modeling the G-Fashion clothes from out of view. “Well how ’bout he pays you? Want me to work something out with him?” Giuliani said, without naming Guo. He went on to tell Zirkle she’d be “the most famous model in China” as someone off-camera mentioned the Himalaya Australia movement linked to Guo, apparently reading off the modeling photos. Photos Zirkle posted to Twitter days earlier with the caption “Wearing G Fashion” show the teen in a plain black baseball cap with a “G” stitched in gold in Old English font, and an oversize jacket or top featuring largely the same design with the phrase “G Forever.” A promotional photo for the G-Fashion line appeared on an obscure, pro-Guo Twitter account on Tuesday. The photo, which features Zirkle with her face down to show off her hat, displayed the same clothes but with a slick and colorful background design. A separate Twitter account, which features as its avatar an inexplicably romantic illustration of the Chinese billionaire alongside a much younger looking, much more Bruce Campbell-esque Bannon in his signature brown barn jacket, also promoted Zirkle’s G-Fashion posts, exclaiming, “I love G Fashion so much, it will shock the fashion world!” A third account, posting on Oct. 14, shows off G-Fashion leggings alongside the slogan, “God Good Gold Goal Give.” It’s not the first time Zirkle has paired with a fashion line—in another Twitter post, she claimed to be an “ambassador” for Tomi Lahren’s concealed-carry athleisure wear Alexo Athletica. It’s unclear how Zirkle came into Giuliani’s, Bannon’s and Guo’s orbit, although her family has a deep GOP pedigree. Her mother, Lori Saxon—whose Facebook cover photo shows a picture of herself and Zirkle beaming on either side of Giuliani, posted in September 2019—describes herself as a “former political appointee [in the] Reagan administration” and claims that she testified on behalf of Clarence Thomas during his contentious Supreme Court nomination hearings in which he was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill. Saxon has posted pictures of herself and her daughter with Thomas, Diamond & Silk, and in the Rose Garden on Sept. 25 of this year. Zirkle and Saxon did not respond to The Daily Beast’s requests for comment. Zirkle has followed in her mother’s conservative footsteps, becoming an avid MAGA influencer. In one interview with OAN, Trump’s favorite Russian-propaganda channel, Zirkle claims she was hounded out of her high school because of her support of the president. Guo, too, has been in the Trumpworld orbit pretty much from the beginning, paying the $200,000 initiation fee to become a member of the president’s Florida golf resort Mar-a-Lago, which Trump has dubbed the “Southern White House.” But Guo’s membership soon became a headache for the administration in the run-up to Trump’s first summit meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2017, due to Guo’s fugitive status in China. At one point, Trump had reportedly considered deporting Guo after the Chinese government called for his extradition in a letter delivered to Trump by casino mogul Steve Wynn in 2017. After presenting the letter during a policy meeting, the president reportedly said “we need to get this criminal out of the country,” only for aides to remind him that Guo was a Mar-a-Lago member, eventually talking him out of the decision and ensuring the deportation was scuttled. In fact, Guo’s attempts to obtain asylum have been a dividing point among Trump allies for a while. Bannon, meanwhile, was the president’s chief strategist at the time of Wynn’s letter to Trump. Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy has also been tied to the attempt to help China extradite Guo, and in October, Broidy was charged with violating lobbying laws in connection to that case, in which he allegedly used his political ties to help China’s and Malaysia’s governments. Bannon’s financial relationship with Guo began shortly after Bannon’s ouster from the White House in August 2017. The two began lunching together in Washington during that fall and by the end of the year, Guo had loaned him $150,000. Eventually, that ballooned to a $1 million-a-year contract for Bannon to consult for Guo Media. By 2018, the pair began appearing regularly on its GNews website. Before long, Bannon was flying around on Guo’s private plane while the self-proclaimed dissident of the Chinese Communist Party—who has also been accused of being a spy for the CCP—promised to donate $100 million to a Bannon-led charity that would target China. (Guo has vehemently denied any espionage claims against him, though he has acknowledged past ties to officials in Beijing’s security agencies.) It was Guo’s yacht that Bannon was on when he was arrested by federal agents in August on charges of defrauding donors of a nonprofit group that claimed it was building a private wall on the Mexico border. At the time of his arrest, Bannon had told friends he’d been living on Guo’s boat for months. When he’s not on his boat, the Chinese mogul resides in an opulent $67 million penthouse in Manhattan, where he keeps a gigantic London Bridge statue made out of Legos and where he’s been known to give impromptu fashion shows of his alligator-skin jacket collection. That spectacular penthouse was put into bankruptcy protection this week. Guo has framed himself as a stalwart critic of the CCP and China’s corrupt elite, but his efforts have divided China’s exile community. Guo has enthusiastically attacked other critics of Beijing as jealous poseurs, including most recently a Texas Christian pastor and Tiananmen protester named Bob Fu—who was imprisoned in China for his faith before escaping to the U.S.—whom Guo accuses of being a secret agent for the CCP. (Fu has lobbed this same charge back at Guo and his followers.) As ever, Guo seems unruffled by his many critics. In his promotional video for G-Fashion, he exulted, “It is no exaggeration to say no one can stop us. GTV, G-Dollar, G-Coin, G-Fashion, G-Club and the New Federal State of China will become one of the most powerful force[s] in the world.” —With additional reporting by Lachlan Markay
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Were you affected by Hurricane Michael? Text, iMessage or WhatsApp your videos, photos and stories to CNN when it's safe: 347-322-0415 (CNN)The devastation left by Hurricane Michael in several states is still coming into focus, with coastal Florida cities destroyed beyond recognition, and homes, businesses and agriculture torn or swamped from Georgia to Virginia. More than 1 million customers were left without electricity, and emergency officials have no access to many towns. The US death toll has risen to at least 17 -- including five in Virginia and eight in Florida -- and it's expected to climb. "I expect the fatality count to rise today and tomorrow as we get through the debris," Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long said Friday morning. Hurricane Michael - Michael devastates Florida Panhandle - Damage in Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia - Live updates - Before and after images in Mexico Beach - Evacuees and survivors stunned by destruction - Aerial imagery lets evacuees check on properties - Hospitals in storm-hit areas evacuate their patients - Their store's grand opening was this week. Michael left it in ruins - Family awaits word on loved ones who've gone quiet - Florida's Mexico Beach is in tatters - The damage in pictures - The strongest hurricane to hit continental US since 1992 - How you can help Michael, which smacked Florida's Panhandle as one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the United States, left Virginia's coast as a post-tropical low early Friday -- and its trail of destruction will take weeks to take into account. Sen. Bill Nelson called the devastation left by Michael "the worst destruction that the Panhandle has seen for however long that I've been living. It's akin to Hurricane Andrew in 1992 where everything was leveled." Aerial footage shows coastal cities in the Panhandle, like Mexico Beach, wiped out. Search teams used dogs as they combed the area for people killed or trapped in debris. One death was reported in Mexico Beach -- that of an elderly man found alone, Mayor Al Cathey said. The man's name has not been released, but authorities said his body was found several hundred yards away from his home. City manager Tanya Castro said Mexico Beach won't be up and running for 12 to 18 months. Nelson said there are not enough resources -- food, shelter and water -- for those in Mexico Beach who stayed and for those residents returning. In Panama City, he said "there's going to be a period of time that it's difficult to get supplies in." Dawn Vickers rode out the storm in Mexico Beach, but her house and vehicles were demolished. Without cell phone service or transportation, she has been taking shelter in one of the few condos left standing, invited by someone she met at what's left of a gas station. "This has been the worst nightmare I've ever been through in my life," she told CNN on Friday. A psychiatric hospital in Florida is isolated after downed trees blocked roads around Chattahoochee, and a tree caused a water line to break. The facility is running on power generators, and helicopters have delivered food and water, the state's Department of Children and Families said. Key developments • No electricity: At least 1.15 million customers in seven states are without power, including 383,000 in Virginia, 365,000 in North Carolina and 301,613 in Florida. • 17 killed: Eight people have died in Florida, including three fatalities announced Friday in Jackson County, north of Apalachicola. One of those deaths was due to debris, authorities said, and circumstances of the other two deaths were not immediately known. Five people died in Virginia. Four of those drowned, and the fifth was a firefighter who died in a storm-related crash on Interstate 295 in Hanover County, officials said. Three people in North Carolina and a child in Georgia also died. • Severe crop damage: Georgia officials are receiving reports of damage to pecan, cotton, vegetable and peanut crops. "For me the cotton crop is as bad as it gets. I was picking three bale cotton (this week); today it is gone," cotton farmer and state Rep. Clay Pirkle said. "Can't tell the difference between what I've picked and what I haven't." • Poultry industry: Georgia's Department of Agriculture said it received reports that 84 chicken houses -- estimated to hold more than 2 million chickens -- were destroyed in the storm. • Public health emergency declared in Georgia: The move will help ensure those who rely on Medicare and Medicaid have access to the care they need, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said. Flooding in the Carolinas and Virginia The rapid-moving rainfall from Michael triggered flash floods in parts of Virginia and the Carolinas, including areas threatened by swollen rivers during Hurricane Florence. Hundreds of residents were rescued Thursday from cars, apartments and homes flooded by rushing water. President Donald Trump tweeted his sympathy for people affected by the storm, saying, "People have no idea how hard Hurricane Michael has hit the great state of Georgia. I will be visiting both Florida and Georgia early next week. We are working very hard on every area and every state that was hit - we are with you!" In Virginia, the Roanoke River jumped its banks and flooded nearby homes and businesses. Cory Patirlo, who lives near the river, said the impact was unexpected. It was the first time he had nearly 2 feet of water in his home. "I'm gonna be sleeping in my van, with my dogs." Video that Trina Lockhart posted on Twitter showed drivers making their way cautiously though a flooded Roanoke street Thursday afternoon. In the southern Virginia city of Danville, floodwaters turned the Grove Park neighborhood into a virtual lake Thursday, and firefighters checked on a nearly submerged car, photos taken by Jim Heffinger show. The water receded within hours in some areas, and cleanup was underway Friday. Some people are expected to remain in shelters through the weekend as river levels go down. In North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper said first responders rescued nearly 100 people and evacuated many more this week in the face of flash flooding. Fallen trees have left hundreds of primary and secondary roads closed, he said. Florida residents return to broken homes Thousands of residents in the Florida Panhandle are slowly returning to their homes and discovering that everything or almost everything they owned has been reduced to rubble. Linda Clarke gasped repeatedly at the sight of her once new home in Shell Point Beach -- now severely damaged. "But you know what ... it's just stuff, it's just stuff," she told her husband, Raoul, as they walked through the ruins. "It's just stuff we can replace." There is not much left of what used to be the parish hall of St. Dominic Catholic Church in Panama City. Despite the destruction, the Rev. Luke Farabaugh and his congregation celebrated Mass on Thursday. "Things, we can replace," Farabaugh said on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront." "We've seen a lot of signs of hope. ... I've been telling people ... to have hope. "Hope is that even if the storm does come, even if I lose my car, my house, my family, even if I lose my life, blessed be God," he said. "Our reward isn't just in this life but in the life to come. So we're just trying to give people hope at this point." In Mexico Beach, Councilwoman Linda Albrecht learned through online news video that her home was gone. "Everything in my house, it was almost like it was pushed back with a bulldozer," she said "Mexico Beach needs your prayers," Albrecht said of the town of about 1,200 people. "It's not the Mexico Beach we know." But there are signs of recovery. Delta Airlines said it resumed all operations at airports impacted by Hurricane Michael, including Panama City Airport. The City of Tallahassee reported that 90% of the traffic lights in the city were back online Friday and that power had been restored to 38,000 customers. Several businesses in the city have reopened, including Walmart, Target and various gas stations. On St. George Island, a 28-mile-long and 1-mile-wide island off the Panhandle, a few dozen people didn't evacuate and as the storm raged, those who stayed were surrounded by oncoming water. Security camera video shows water creating its own current in the streets of one neighborhood. "There were a few points and times when I thought it could happen, that I could die," said Tiara Walker, who stayed in an apartment on the island. "There was a point in time where I thought the roof was going to fly away, so I flipped a couch over and just tried to prepare for the worst situation." 'A freak accident' Sarah Radney saw trees falling down all around her grandparents' home when Hurricane Michael roared over Georgia. She was safe until a carport came crashing through the roof, killing her. "It was just a freak accident, I never heard of anything like that," said her father, Roy Radney. Sarah, 11, had just started the sixth grade and joined the drama club and the band. Her father says she loved playing the trumpet, acting and singing. A man who died when a tree fell on a home near Greensboro, Florida, has been identified as Steven Sweet, 44, according to Lt. Anglie Hightower, the spokeswoman for the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office. CNN's Anderson Cooper said Friday on "AC360" that Sweet managed a local car dealership. His wife, Gayle Sweet, was with him when he died. "He's one of a kind, so kind he'll help anybody. Always giving money to people at the stop sign and stuff. He would help anybody," Gayle Sweet said of her husband. Three others died in Gadsden County, Hightower said. Authorities did not discuss the circumstances of their deaths, but their bodies have been taken to the medical examiner's office to determine the cause of death. In North Carolina, a 38-year-old man died when a large tree fell on his vehicle Thursday on US 64 east of Statesville, Iredell County Fire Marshal David Souther said. Cooper also said Friday that firefighter Lt. Brad Clark, 43, was killed when a tractor trailer lost control on a rainy highway and hit his truck in Hanover County, Virginia. A colleague said he loved the military, loved his family and loved the fire service dearly. Two people also were killed Thursday night in Marion, North Carolina, when their vehicle struck a tree that had fallen because of high winds, said Adrienne Jones, deputy director for the McDowell County Emergency Medical Services. In Nottoway County, Virginia, state police and local authorities were searching for a missing motorist, said Jeffrey Stern, the director of the Virginia Department of Emergency Management Agency. Virginia State Police Superintendent Col. Gary Settle said crews recovered a vehicle but not the person known to be in it. Hundreds of people have been rescued from the debris, and authorities fear the toll could climb higher as search-and-rescue efforts continue. Lack of resources Sen. Nelson said Friday on "AC360" that Mexico Beach does not not have enough shelters, water or food. Nelson said Panama City was "a city in the dark." A cavalry of utility trucks arrived Friday in Bay County, Florida, according to post from the Panama City Beach Government Facebook page. The Federal Emergency Management Agency approved individual assistance families in for Jackson, Liberty, Calhoun and Gadsden counties Friday according to a press release from Florida Gov. Rick Scott's office. The approval expands the individual assistance program — the original major disaster declaration made individual assistance available in five Florida counties: Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Taylor, Wakulla. Jackson County Emergency Management Director Rodney Andreassen said the county is hoping to get two or three trailers worth of food and water from FEMA but had not yet received them. A distribution center set up at a Walmart in Jackson County handed out food for a few hours Friday and will be open again Saturday. A Red Cross shelter with food and water has also been set up at Marianna High School The impact of climate change on storms Michael's strength may reflect the effect of climate change on storms. The planet has warmed significantly over the past several decades, causing changes in the environment. Human-caused greenhouse gases in the atmosphere create an energy imbalance, with more than 90% of remaining heat trapped by the gases going into the oceans, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. While we might not get more storms in a warmer climate, most studies show storms will get stronger and produce more rain. Storm surge is worse now than it was 100 years ago, thanks to the rise in sea levels. And unless the rate of greenhouse gas emissions changes, hurricanes are expected to intensify more rapidly in the coming decades, the scientific research group Climate Central said. Get the latest delivered to your inbox: Sign up for storm email alerts here. CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story gave the incorrect surname for storm victim Steven Sweet. It has been corrected.
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We spend a small fortune on perfume, so it’s important to try and make it last as long as possible. My wife wanted to get away for the weekend. The Hop Jam drew thousands of music and beer lovers to downtown Tulsa’s Brady Arts District. Michael Bedford, who retired last year after 25 years as organist/choirmaster for St. John’s Episcopal Church, will be the first Oklahoman to hold the position. You’ve of course heard the story — the three wise men brought baby Jesus gold, frankincense and myrrh. Thunder guard Russell Westbrook’s imprint on fashion has expanded to include a signature Jordan Brand shoe, a cologne and an eyeglass frame collaboration with a high-end retailer. "The Paris" is an aviator-style "Oklahoma City blue" frame featuring mirrored gold lenses. Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle has turned his shoplifting arrest into an act of charity for the Salvation Army. The packages will go to residents of the Claremore Veterans Home and patients at the Ernest Childers VA Outpatient Clinic in Tulsa. Travelers walk toward a train station Thursday ahead of the opening of the traditional street carnival in Cologne, Germany. The traditional women's carnival "Weiberfastnacht" marks the beginning of the crazy days in Germany that reach a high point with mass processions of millions on Rosemonday. A suicide bomber attacked the main border crossing for convoys ferrying supplies to U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least 19 security officers, officials said. Two stories, today. Fans of Penn State can smell like the school for $ 60. If one reality star has her way, you ’ll soon be wearing "Oh de Cologne." Hippo Albert, 15, opens his mouth to catch a pumpkin fed to him by his keeper Thursday in Cologne Zoo in western Germany. Feeling floral? Then, what about woodsy? "I love you."
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Wheeling man indicted on failure to update his sex offender registry WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Wheeling man was arraigned today on a charge of failing to update his sex offender registration after being indicted by a federal grand jury in Wheeling on June 6, 2017, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced. Jeremy Crinkey, age 40, was indicted on one count of “Failure to Update Registration as a Sex Offender.” Crinkey, having previously being convicted of Possession of Child Pornography in U.S. District Court, Northern District of West Virginia, allegedly failed to update his registry to his North 8th Street, Wheeling, address. The crime is alleged to have occurred from March 17, 2017 to May 30, 2017 in Ohio County. Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen L. Vogrin is prosecuting the case on behalf of the government. The United States Marshal Service is investigating. An indictment is merely an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. U.S. Magistrate Judge James E. Seibert presided.
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When F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" was published in 1925, it wasn't popular, and, in fact, the book was no longer in print when Fitzgerald died in 1940. But today it is considered by many to be one of the best novels in modern American fiction. Mark Schenker, associate dean of Yale College, has taught and lectured on numerous authors and their books for 30 years. He describes "The Great Gatsby" as a novella with a clear plot, and one that's not loaded with complicated imagery and symbolism, yet it keeps readers coming back to discover more and more layers. "You have to love the prose; it's so beautifully written," he said. "You can read it for its romanticism, and you can read it for its sordid story of adultery, violence, accidental death and intentional murder. People love it for those two aspects -- the romanticism and gritty tawdriness. They are inextricable from one another; that's the glory of the book." The novel, set in the summer of 1922 in the fictional town of West Egg, Long Island, tells the tale of millionaire Jay Gatsby, who uses his ill-gotten wealth to buy his way into high society so he can woo back the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan. She still has feelings for him, but is married to wealthy Tom Buchanan, a bully who cheats on her. As secrets unravel, Tom's mistress winds up dead and so does Gatsby. In the end, the Buchanans simply drive away. Not everyone loves the characters in this tale of romance, greed and murder. Mary Rindfleisch, assistant director of the Ridgefield Library, said she abhors them. But that doesn't stop her from appreciating the charms of the book and its exquisite prose about summer parties, where men and women "came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars." "You don't have to like the characters for an author to achieve his goal," Rindfleisch said. Like many in Ridgefield, Rindfleisch has given much thought to Fitzgerald's book in recent months, thanks to the Big Read program that featured "The Great Gatsby" as this year's townwide book selection. More than 24 events have been held since October -- everything from jazz concerts to parties. When they conclude this week with films at the Ridgefield Playhouse, more than 1,000 people will have participated, including high school students and staff who did an unabridged, out-loud reading of the novel that took about four hours to complete. "It was in the library media center and people came and went over the course of the day, and read and listened," Rindfleisch said. She said Fitzgerald talks about these characters, these "society goof-offs," in great detail, but isn't celebrating them; he's condemning them. "That's where the movie versions kind of miss the boat on some level," Rindfleisch said. "They get so caught up in the splendor and glamour ... they run the risk of losing the author's point." Several lectures also were given as part of the Big Read, including two by Schenker. When asked to share a line from the book that resonates with him, Schenker quoted Nick Carraway (Daisy's cousin and the book's narrator), who tells Gatsby, "They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." "Nick means it as the complicated statement it is -- you're the best of a really shady crowd," Schenker said. "None of the people are normative or heroic, including Nick." Schenker said he's always happy to discuss "Gatsby" because he's excited to add a deeper dimension that goes beyond simple information, beyond sharing fun facts. Ridgefield resident Christie Mitchell attended one of Schenker's lectures, "What's So Great About `The Great Gatsby.' " "It was my first time attending one of his sessions," she said. "I got a much better understanding of the whole time period and how it fit together with the book; he has a vast knowledge of history." "I'm very gratified to think that people are leaving my discussion with a greater appreciation of literature in a way that informs their everyday life," Schenker said. When organizers under the leadership of the Ridgefield Playhouse and the town library were choosing a book for the Big Read, they wanted one that met the program's goals, such as encouraging reading for pleasure and enlightenment. It had to be a book that offered many ways for people to engage with the theme. "Gatsby," set in the Jazz Age when there were changes in fashion, dance and music, as well as the intrigue of prohibition, was perfect. Ridgefield resident Susan Dumont-Bengston said knowing the Big Read was to focus on "Gatsby" inspired her to read it on a trip to China last summer. "I took care to really think about the prose and even reread key passages," she said. "Then I went to the Cab Calloway Orchestra kickoff event in October at the Ridgefield Playhouse because I love the Jazz Age music, clothing, dancing, champagne and all that glitz and glamour that I did not live through." She said she gained new insight into the book through that and other programs she attended. She said she certainly understands "why we never tire of the Gatsby story and how complex a character he really was." Screenings of "The Great Gatsby" will be at the Ridgefield Playhouse, Sunday, Nov. 23, at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The afternoon film, from 1974, stars Robert Redford as Gatsby and Bridgewater resident Mia Farrow as Daisy. The evening film, from 2013, stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan. lkoonz@newstimes.com; Twitter@LindaTKoonz
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https://buffalonews.com/news/local/mans-teary-face-symbolizes-bills-fans-reaction-to-playoff-win/article_66c1a5b6-5363-11eb-92de-37b401e703d7.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share.txt.gz
When Jason Poch left his Hamburg home Saturday for the Buffalo Bills-Indianapolis Colts playoff game at Bills Stadium, he suggested what seemed an unlikely scenario to his 7-year-old son. "I said to Ethan: 'Hey, there's only going to be 6,700 fans there, maybe you'll see me on TV,' " Poch said Sunday. Oh yeah, he made it to TV, all right – during the game, later on ESPN's SportsCenter and all over Twitter, too. Poch's tearful reaction to the batting down of the Colts' Philip Rivers' Hail Mary pass that sealed a 27-24 Bills playoff victory – the team's first since 1995 –seemed to symbolize the explosion of emotion felt by the Bills' long suffering fans. So I’m a meme. #GoBills #BillsMafia pic.twitter.com/HvYHDKhMEq— Jason Poch (@JayPochBaby) January 9, 2021 "I've been a season ticket holder for 20 years – going to all the games with my dad, my aunts and uncles and my late grandfather. I even visited my grandpa's grave on Friday to tell him I was going to this one," Poch told The Buffalo News. "So when it was over, I was overcome with emotion. It just hit me." The image of Poch's crinkled face shown on SportsCenter and posted on Twitter by his cousin elicited all kinds of reaction from legions of Bills fans around the country. "I cried b4 & after the came and idc who knows it," tweeted one fan. "This man is all of us," said another. Indeed, people from all over have been reaching out to the 40-year-old project manager for a Buffalo software company and father of three. He said people tell him he is a "symbol" for so many haunted by dreaded terms such as "the Ronnie Harmon drop," "wide right" or "home run throwback" – all reminders of heart-breaking post-season losses. Now he's gearing up for what he hopes will be more playoff wins and a solid team for years to come. "I think they've got a really good shot at this," he said. "They've got a great coach, a great quarterback and a great defensive core. We'll see how far it all takes them." Poch is just one of so many Bills fans anticipating another round of playoff games, unaccustomed as they are in recent years after the early 1990s run of four straight Super Bowls. The path ahead follows Saturday's first game of the year in which Covid-19 restrictions were at least partially relaxed in Bills Stadium, allowing less than 10% of normal attendance. And it appears that officials from Erie County and the Buffalo Bills are still evaluating the Saturday "experiment" that allowed approximately 6,700 socially distanced, mask-wearing fans into the stadium. Scott Zylka, spokesman for the Erie County Sheriff's Office, said post commanders working Saturday's playoff contest would not submit their reports until Monday. A Bills security official, meanwhile, did not return a call seeking information on the success of the Saturday restrictions and whether there were any problems. Peter Anderson, spokesman for Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz, said via email that 10 fans were ejected from Saturday's game, though he did not know why. He did not return phone calls seeking information on the ejections or whether restrictions may be loosened or tightened for next weekend's second round of NFL playoffs at Bills Stadium. But Poch, for one, is looking forward to what lies ahead. He said the SportsCenter exposure and Twitter attention only underscores the importance of the team to Western New York's collective psyche. He's also becoming accustomed to the sudden notoriety. "So I guess I've become a 'meme,' " he said of his teary face, before referencing a Buffalo culinary controversy. "And on top of that, my wife posted: 'This is what happens when you have ranch dressing with your chicken wings.' "
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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/sfl-flduh-crime-mentor-20130702-story.html.txt.gz
When starting out in your criminal career, having that special mentor can help lead you in the wrong direction. These two dudes found out the hard way. Last May deputies responded to a Spring Hill home burglary. The homeowners reported an acoustic guitar, white electric tuner, 19-inch TV, black guitar and a silver and black aluminum bat were stolen, according to a news release from the Hernando County Sheriff's Office. While canvassing the area, a neighbor told deputies that she remembered two dudes between the ages of 17-20 years of age walking around carrying a TV, guitar and bat -- but since she was unaware of the break-in, the neighbor didn't think it was suspicious, deputies said. The neighbor also reported seeing these two guys walking in the neighborhood many times before. Detectives developed leads that eventually lead them to James Pfluke, 19, and Dakota, a 17-year-old, who, when questioned Post Miranda, both 'fessed up to the break-in, as well as several other burglaries, according to the Sheriff's Office. The young duo would reportedly target vacant houses to burglarize and then take their pilfered goodies to a buddy's house. But there was an odd aspect to their crime wave. It seems the duo had a crime 'mentor' -- an older dude named David Guyer, who "provided his services to the two younger males by accompanying them on the burglaries, teaching them to target the vacant houses where families had recently been evicted," the release stated. Guyer, 40, was also arrested by detectives for his part in the crime spree. Guess the mentor forgot to teach these guys the lesson on not being obvious when transporting your loot.
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https://www.abc15.com/news/national/redskins-name-could-cost-nfl-tax-exempt-status?_amp=true.txt.gz
While many headlines regarding the NFL are criticizing the league and its players over domestic abuse cases, the NFL might soon have a whole new issue on its hands. As reported by The Washington Post, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., backed by Native American tribal leaders, is pushing the NFL to force Redskins team owner Dan Snyder to change the team's name, calling the franchise "guilty of conduct detrimental" to the sport. Critics say "Redskins" is undoubtedly a racial slur against Native Americans. And there's a long-running debate over whether the team's name should be changed. Owner Dan Snyder has stood by it, saying the name's staying put. But the federal government also grants the NFL a tax exempt status. Last year, Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn called for an end to tax exemption for the NFL and other leagues. As reported by Bloomberg, he estimated the NHL and NFL could "generate at least $91 million of federal revenue every year." Find out more by watching this Newsy video.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-story-of-the-my-pillow-king-mike-lindell/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab4i.txt.gz
Who better to share some pillow talk with than a pillow tycoon? Martha Teichner does the honors (This story was originally aired on April 15, 2018): Mike Lindell spends $1.5 million a week on commercials to make sure that you know about his pillow. He's sold more than 41 million of them. An incredible success, you bet … astonishing, considering the back story. "I actually had a dream, which I believe is right from God, about My Pillow," said Lindell. "And I dreamt the logo first, actually, the name "My Pillow.'" The dream came true. But before any of it could exist, back in 2004, Lindell, a man with life-long sleeping issues, had to invent the pillow of his dreams. "It took about a year. I kept trying different things. My youngest son would come home, we'd tear up different foams." Their eureka! moment came when they combined different-sized foam chunks. "All three sizes are in every pillow, and wherever you move it, they interlock together, and you have the most amazing adjustable pillow in history," he said. At first, Lindell sewed the pillows himself. The big box stores had no interest. So, back in December 2004, he set up a table at his neighborhood mall, like a lemonade stand, but with pillows. "We sold only about 80 pillows in about a month," he said. Sales picked up, but Lindell had a problem … a big one. "I was a cocaine addict since the mid-1980s, and then switched to crack cocaine in the early 2000s," he said. His habit cost him anywhere from $500 to $1,000 a week. "We were down to nothing, living day-by-day, and then we were losing our house, and my wife of 20 years, she left," Lindell said. One night in the spring of 2008, his crack dealers – yes, his dealers – staged an intervention. Lindell recalled: "One guy says, 'Mike's been up for 14 days. We're shuttin' you off, you're not getting anything.'" The following year he quit, cold. And it changed his life... "That infomercial launched October 7, 2011, at 3 a.m. in the morning," he said. "Now at that time, I had about 5-10 employees, and 40 days later, I had 500." He has around 1,600 now, most of them working in two huge factories outside Minneapolis. But wait -- there's more! Lindell says at any one time, 20 to 30% of My Pillow's employees are second-chancers or, like him, former addicts, among them Chelsea Friendshuh. "I was a heroin addict for about eight years, and I was in and out of jail," Friendshuh said. "All I did was call here and right away they said, 'You're hired.' Most places won't even give me a chance because of my background." Lindell considers his business a vehicle for a greater calling – his success, a gift from God. He's proud that his pillows are made in America, and is an enthusiastic supporter of President Donald Trump. When the Better Business Bureau dropped My Pillow from an A+ rating to an F, claiming that a long-running buy-one-get-one-free offer was really a regular price, Lindell dismissed the demotion, saying he was targeted because of his political views. "They brought the level of My Pillow fame up, up here," he said. "So they helped me. Thank you, BBB!" About politics, Mike Lindell is unapologetic. About pillows, he's passionate. "If you make every pillow like it's your only pillow, and every customer like it's your only customer, I mean, that's an amazing concept," he said. For more info: Story produced by David Rothman.
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https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/2018/08/27/florida-permit-rule-could-game-changer-palmetto-berry-business/980187002/.txt.gz
Will first-time Florida permit be palmetto berry industry game-changer? Times are changing for the saw palmetto berry harvest. For at least 50 years, picking the berries of this largely uncultivated native plant has yielded income in a season when most agriculture in Southwest Florida is dormant. Extract from saw palmetto berries is commonly used in Europe and the United States as a treatment for enlarged prostate. It's been a bit like the Wild West out in the pine flatwoods and cattle country, with numerous unconfirmed reports of trespassing on private property and picking on public lands. Previously, it was legal to pick and sell palmetto berries from your own property or from property where you'd been given permission to pick the fruits. This year, the state agriculture department issued rules requiring a harvesting permit and written permission from owners to pick on property that’s not yours. If palmetto berry harvesters, buyers, transporters or processors don’t have the required permits and permission letters, they can be charged with a misdemeanor. About a month into the harvest, it’s too early to know how big a game-changer this is. However, berry pickers and buyers recently interviewed say: - Pounds of berries brought to market are down compared with this time last year. - Prices are up, reaching $3 a pound or more from buyers in Immokalee. - So are arrests and citations for pickers. “A lot of people have been locked up for it, but the business is still going,” said Daniel Rios during breaks between receiving berries Aug. 20 at a makeshift weigh station at a parking lot along Immokalee’s New Market Road. Halfway into August, at least 16 people had been arrested in Collier County alone, on suspicion of harvesting palmetto berries without a permit. Most of the people were from Immokalee. In Lee County, palmetto-related arrests have come in at a pace of roughly two per day. Previous coverage:Harvest time in Immokalee for saw palmetto berry, prized as black bear food and herbal remedy What do the new rules mean? The new rules mean law enforcement doesn’t have to catch people in the act of picking or trespassing to issue an arrest or a notice to appear in court on charges of illegal harvesting. Some people are arrested following traffic stops when deputies find bags of berries in the back of their cars or truck beds. Landowners also are using the rules to assert their private property rights. For example, a Golden Gate Estates resident called the Collier County Sheriff's Office to report a group trespassing on her property. She confronted the people, who were picking berries, and asked them if they had a permit, according to an arrest report. The people fled after being confronted. But, deputies caught up with the truck, saw bags of berries in the truck bed, and arrested the eight people, the arrest report said. Since the new rule went into effect on July 17, the state agriculture department has received 1,425 permit applications, spokesman Aaron Keller said on Friday. Asked about a rumored backlog in permit-processing, Keller said “all complete applications are reviewed within 14 days.” The permit application doesn't look as arduous to complete as an IRS long form. However, it does ask such details as the Latin and common name of the plant to be harvested – and the location of the harvest property, including township, range, section, latitude and longitude. Although saw palmetto grows throughout the U.S. Southeast, Florida and Georgia are the main states. Palmetto berries thrive here Immokalee is the hub for the region's palmetto berry harvest. On a recent weekday, a sporadic stream of pickups, vans and cars stopped to off-load and weigh palmetto berries at produce businesses clustered near the State Farmers Market. New Market Road and its offshoots are dotted with signs saying something like "Se compra bolitas," which roughly translates to "we buy palmetto berries." In Spanish, bolitas literally means "little balls." Scott Niebel operates the Blue Skies repacking operation on New Market Road that takes crops harvested in the region and packs them for sale to wholesale produce buyers. It specializes in packing green bell peppers and hot peppers but won't have work in either of these crops until November. So Niebel and his dad, Jerry, are buying palmetto berries from local pickers, which they’ll sell to a broker in Georgia. Jerry Niebel thinks the new rules are hypocritical. They were touted as helping to promote the welfare of a commercially exploited native plant, he said. But, “as soon as some developer wants to put in a development, they push the palmettos out of the way. “It’s all politics, to me.” The elder Niebel also believes the permit rules lack compassion for people of very modest means who are barely getting by until the farm crops come in. There’s no charge to apply for a permit. But the forms come only in English, something many pickers aren’t fluent in, Jerry Niebel said. He then shared the story of an older woman who broke down crying after selling some 300 pounds of berries. She told Niebel this money would help save her home. On the other hand, the Niebels also regaled visiting journalists with stories of nattily dressed people pulling up with trunk loads of berries in their Mercedes, fresh-picked off Naples golf courses. Those scenarios are the exception. Picking saw palmetto berries on wild tracts of land is hot, dirty work. The palmetto’s saw-toothed fronds can draw blood. The twisted trunks and dense foliage are great cover for snakes, rodents and creepy-crawlies. A treat for humans – and Florida black bears Still, in summer at least two species can't get enough of the slow-growing, sprawling shrub. Those are the humans who harvest and sell the berries – and Florida black bears. Saw palmetto berries are a primary food source for the bears, who even in Florida bulk-up before winter. Wildlife scientists wonder whether declining acreage in saw palmetto and increased real estate development are putting hungry bears closer to homes and businesses. More:No Florida black bear hunt this year More:Waffles used to lure wandering black bear into trap at Fort Myers apartment complex Although they respect private property rights, these scientists would like owners of big and small private lands to just say no to berry picking. In some ways, it’s hard to believe people would go to so much bother for a bitter berry that would make a human mouth pucker in disgust. But there’s gold in those gunnysacks. The $3 per pound and more the berries were fetching along the streets of Immokalee on Aug. 20 was roughly three times more than a year ago. Ultimately, the berries are dried, ground-up and then sold to pharmaceutical and herbal supplement manufacturers. They reputedly lessen the symptoms of prostate enlargement, which makes it difficult for some men to urinate. "More than two million American men use saw palmetto for enlarged prostate, and it is commonly recommended as an alternative treatment by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration," according to the Mayo Clinic's consumer web pages. Palmetto berry extracts also have been used for low sperm count, low sex drive, hair loss, bronchitis, diabetes, inflammation, migraine, and prostate cancer, "although there is limited evidence supporting its effectiveness for these conditions," the Mayo Clinic website added. Large landowners in Southwest Florida increasingly have struck deals with palmetto berry harvesters in which the two parties typically split the profits. However, on remote parcels, unauthorized strangers often beat harvesting crews to prime spots and picked the saw palmettos clean. And, these early-bird berry poachers often picked before the berries were fully ripe, which can hurt their market value. Ray March oversees land management for Naples-based Collier Enterprises, which owns some 50,000 acres in rural portions of Collier and Hendry counties. March calls the new rules “a big improvement, although we’ll have to see how it works out.” Some 20 years ago, the Florida Legislature named the saw palmetto an emerging agricultural crop. However, the commercial potential for the berries has lagged well behind its initial promise, said agricultural economist Fritz Roka. He’s worked for almost two decades at the University of Florida's Southwest Florida Research and Education Center in Immokalee, but as of today became director of the new Center for Agribusiness at Florida Gulf Coast University. What's needed, Roka said, is a complete legal infrastructure, much like there is in the citrus industry, in which berry ownership can be tracked from landowner to harvester, to shipper, to intermediaries and finally to the herbal/dietary supplement manufacturer. “You can have all the rules and regulations you want. But once you sell (berries) on the streets of Immokalee, there’s no traceability,” Roka said. Regulations control how a product is sold, “so you can get full value,” Roka said, adding: “If even 15- to 25 percent of those berries are poached, those berries will influence the price on the market.” The Naples Daily News reporter Alexi Cardona contributed to this report.
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https://doctor.webmd.com/doctor/stephen-smythe-5a32806b-dd47-41b6-a022-c66cf4e05e47-overview.txt.gz
William Smythe has dentistry in his blood. His father was a dentist before him and he became fascinated by his father's work. Dr. Bill Jr. graduated from dental school in 1966, and started the practice. Since then he's dedicated himself to continual dental education to keep abreast of the latest in dental techniques to provide his patients the highest level of dental care possible. In fact, he is ...
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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/wilton-manors/fl-esb-transgenderflag-0816-20170816-story.html.txt.gz
Wilton Manors city officials raised the transgender flag recently in a show of solidarity with the minority community after President Donald Trump tweeted his intention to prohibit transgender people from serving in the military. The Commander in Chief's announcement offended many residents and leaders. "Transgender persons are U.S. citizens who pay taxes, support their communities and currently serve with distinction in the military," Wilton Manors Mayor Gary Resnick said. "President Trump's decision to exclude all such persons from the military flies in the face of what our country stands for and is not based on anything other than bigotry and misunderstanding." The city finds it appropriate to get involved in issues that are harmful toward gay, lesbian and transgendered groups, Resnick said. Although, a presidential tweet does not morph into legally binding policy, if advanced it could have a "real effect on people's lives," Resnick said. "It has the potential of affecting many members of our community directly," he said referring to Wilton Manors' large populations that identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Marginalizing such groups reflects Trump's disturbing pattern of discrimination toward minorities, Resnick said. Transgendered folks have little political clout and are often overlooked by regulators, he continued. Statutes against discrimination based on sexual identity or gender identity are not included in Florida state law, but some local counties and cities have ruled against it. "Under the federal government, it's not protected," he said. For solidarity, the transgender flag was displayed for about a week. It stands in the city center at Jaycee Park located at Wilton Drive and Northeast 21st Court. Typically, the colors fly only on days of commemoration, because the city hoists the LGBT rainbow flag daily, and it includes the transgender stripe. Next on the flag's schedule are Transgender Pride Flag Day on Aug. 19 and International Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20. "The city has long supported the right of all patriotic citizens to serve in the armed forces," said Vice Mayor Justin S. Flippen. "Wilton Manors shall remain a beacon of hope to those most tempest-tossed by foes of equality, even if they hold the highest office in our land."
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/voting-rights-act-was-gutted-its-not-yet-dead-flna6C10565931.txt.gz
With lightning speed, state Republican policymakers responded to the Supreme Court's ruling on the Voting Rights Act by moving on a series of new voting restrictions, primarily targeting minority groups, students, and the poor. Before two weeks ago, many states would have needed Justice Department approval for these changes -- approval they would not have received -- but it is now "open season" on Americans' access to their own democracy. There is, however, a possible hurdle for those waging the "war on voting." The Supreme Court undermined the Voting Rights Act by targeting Section 5 of the law -- the provision related to pre-clearance -- ordering Congress to come up with new standards and leaving this area of the law unenforceable. But Section 2 of the VRA -- described by Chief Justice John Roberts in his ruling as "permanent" and applicable "nationwide" -- remains intact. One side effect of the Supreme Court's decision to stop enforcement of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is clear: a flood of new lawsuits that have already begun. The ruling all but guarantees that voting rights advocates will pivot toward filing lawsuits relying on a separate piece of the law, Section 2, to challenge procedures which might impede voters. [...] Section 2 ... bans voting procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in one of the language minority groups.... To win a Section 2 case, the Justice Department or a plaintiff doesn't need to prove that a voting procedure had an invidious intent -- only that it had the result of denying a racial or language minority an opportunity to take part in the political process. Given the discriminatory nature of so many of the Republican voting restrictions, these are cases that can be won. There's ample evidence, for example, that voter-ID laws have an inherently discriminatory effect. The same can be said for GOP efforts to eliminate early voting opportunities and scrapping Sunday voting altogether. This isn't to say voting-rights advocates have a silver bullet. On the contrary, the litigation will be costly, time-consuming, and difficult -- the burden will be on the plaintiffs to prove that the laws are discriminatory, not on the state to prove that they're not. For that matter, legal outcomes are uncertain -- Republican-appointed judges may be less sympathetic to litigants fighting for equal voting rights. But it's nevertheless an angle to the fight worth watching, and may well be the saving grace for those who hope to see equal access for all.
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With the Nov. 6 election right around the corner, here is a list of Owasso-area precincts, including early voting information. Voters will go to the polls Tuesday, November 6 for the federal, state and county general election, the Berryhill Fire Protection District Boa… The state and county runoff election is August 28. Here’s what you need to know: The state and county primary elections are Tuesday, June 26. Oklahoma Trooper Spouses sponsoring blood drives across state during 'critical summer blood shortage' The organization will sponsor four blood drives Tuesday in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Durant and Muskogee. The organization will sponsor four more blood drives Aug. 22 in Enid, Sallisaw, McAlester and Shawnee. Grief delayed: Tulsa family struggles to accept loss of man gunned down after years of harassment, ethnic slurs The homicide of 37-year-old Khalid Jabara made headlines around the globe because the suspect had reportedly harassed the Lebanese, Orthodox Christians as “dirty Arabs” and “Mooslems” for years. Outdoors calendar even listings for April 9 -16, 2017 County Election Board Secretary Patty Bryant said a total of 765 votes were cast in the first hour at the election board offices and at Hardesty Library. Countdown to Election Day: What do I do if I suspect someone has voted improperly or tried to interfere with the election? The election is Tuesday, Nov. 8, and the Tulsa World will have daily coverage, including sample ballots in our election preview Sunday. Our el… State Baptist volunteers head to East Coast to help hurricane victims Khalid Jabara's family sits down for first in-depth interview, sharing new details of his life and death In their first sit-down interview, Jabara's surviving family members said that is what they want the world to know about him. That he died in the same manner in which he lived — for others. VIDEO: Khalid Jabara slaying: Evil and hate exist The fatal Aug. 12 shooting of a Tulsa man of Lebanese descent has drawn international outrage over the alleged actions of the man's neighbor, … Police chief defends officers' decision to leave neighbor's 'suspicious activity' call minutes before homicide Police Chief Chuck Jordan told the Tulsa World on Wednesday that the officers had no choice but to turn around and leave, based on the information they had at the time. Stanley Vernon Majors had been in the Tulsa Jail for eight months before he was released in May while awaiting trial on charges alleging that he drove his vehicle into a woman who had obtained a protective order against him two years earlier. That woman is the mother of the man who was killed Friday evening. A man who was found dead at an east Tulsa convenience store early Wednesday has been identified as 36-year-old Kyle Thomas. The victim from a fatal shooting on Friday has been identified as 37-year-old Khalid Jabara. Voters will go to the polls Tuesday, June 28, for the state and county primary elections. Some upcoming events Registered residents can vote from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Tulsa County Election Board or Hardesty Regional Library. Rookies get a quick intro to fly tying at the monthly Tulsa Fly Fishers meeting. Outdoors calendar of events listing for Nov. 15-22, 2015. Every elected official in the city of Tulsa is up for election at the same time, although several seats could be decided in earlier primary elections. The first of five community forums is scheduled to discuss a proposal to capture a portion of the expiring Vision 2025 sales tax for public safety needs. Sharon Draper talked to Hoover Elementary sixth-graders in advance of receiving the Tulsa Library Trust's 2015 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature on Friday evening. Activities coming up include a sand bass fishing talk, a big kayak bass tourney, quail field days and a short window to to deadline for the "Outdoor Oklahoma" photo contest.
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Woman accused of torturing Instagram date on Facebook Live until he was barely breathing for $100k ransom A 22-year-old woman has appeared in Manhattan ’s criminal court on attempted murder charges after she allegedly kidnapped her Instagram date for 24 hours and demanded a $100,000 (£76,500) ransom from his family. A spokesperson for the New York Police Department told The Independent on Tuesday that Valerie Rosario was arrested last month after a man was “assaulted” at her address in the Bronx. Court documents seen by the New York Post say Ms Rosario , who appeared in court for her arraignment on Thursday, had met her victim on Instagram before they arranged to meet at her apartment on Marble Hill Avenue. Shortly after his 1am arrival at her home, Ms Rosario and her accomplices began to torture him for “several hours” by taping his mouth, and they “placed him in a bathtub, poured flammable substances on him, and burned him with a flame”, according to the charging document. He was also struck with a knife around his “legs, back and body,” and the suspect demanded a $100,000 ransom from his family for almost 24 hours, including a video call with his brother demanding payment. Police say they later found the male victim in the back of a van in Queens along with an accomplice, 24-year-old Javier Vargas, who was sitting in the vehicle with a knife, the court documents were reported as saying. The victim was meanwhile found “barely breathing” and “unconscious, wrapped in a blanket with tape covering his mouth”, District Attorney Andrew Kluger told the court. Police told The Independent that “the victim received treatment at an area hospital in stable condition”, and that a third man, 24-year-old Michael Candelario, was also arrested on attempted murder, assault, robbery and kidnaping charges. The Post reported that the court heard that the victim was targeted because they wanted to scam him for money after seeing his Instagram account, where he flashed his wealth. Mr Rosasrio will appear again on Tuesday and her lawyer told the newspaper that she “denies all the allegations that have been leveled against her”. She has been held. The Independent has approached the New York District Attorney’s office for comment.
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Woman suffers severe injuries, loses both arms after vicious dog attack in South Carolina ABBEVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - A South Carolina woman is fighting for her life after suffering a vicious dog attack. The Abbeville County Sheriff’s Office said the woman was mauled by three dogs at a home in Abbeville County. She was seriously injured and had to be airlifted to a medical facility, according to WHNS. Family confirmed the victim’s name is Kyleen Waltman. They said she had to have both arms amputated and part of her colon removed after the attack. She may have to have her esophagus removed as well, they said. Deputies said a witness was able to scare the dogs away from the victim to stop them from mauling her further. Emergency first responders began rendering aid to Waltman as soon as they arrived on scene. Kyleen’s sister said she is a mother of three and recently became a grandmother. The family has set up a GoFundMe for donations to support Kyleen’s recovery. They also said they are in need of prayers. The dogs have been seized by Abbeville County Animal Control. An investigation into the attack is ongoing. Copyright 2022 WHNS via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Woolf: Vermont is big -- in terms of government How can we measure the size of government? Using dollars, it’s the level of taxes or the amount government spends. Another way is to focus on how many people government employs. The U.S. Census Bureau measures it all three ways and it recently released its estimates of public employment by state. It shows that Vermont’s state and local governments employed 50,720 full-time and part-time people in March 2016, or 40,130 full-time equivalent personnel. The total number of full-time equivalents employed by state and local governments in Vermont, normalized by our population, is 26 percent more than the national average and only three states — Wyoming, Alaska, and Kansas — employ more government workers than Vermont as a share of total population. Vermont’s high ranking is entirely due to the large number of employees in public education. We employ 55 percent more people in K-12 education than the national average and we have more full-time equivalents employed in our public schools, relative to our population, than any other state in the nation. The Census Bureau considers state colleges and universities instruments of the state so their employees (me, for example) are counted as public employees. Vermont also has more full-time equivalent personnel at institutions of higher education than the national average, which means our higher education system is larger than our small population size would justify. If we ignore both K-12 and higher education, Vermont’s state and local employment is very close to the national average. - More:Woolf: Vermont's record on health care spending deflates confidence - Woolf: Picture of poverty in Vermont is complex - Woolf: Believe it or not, housing is more affordable today That does not mean that Vermont staffs every other governmental function just like the average state. After education, the second largest single public function by employment is government administration. Vermont’s employment in this function — 36.8 full-time equivalents per 10,000 Vermonters — is 75 percent more than the national average. This doesn’t necessarily mean that there is an abundance of state workers in Montpelier, but it might. It also might just be a reflection of Vermont’s decentralized local government structure. And that is a reflection of the large number of small towns in Vermont, each with its own administrative employees. We also have more than the national average employees in transportation — twice as many as the national average. This also is a function of the large number of small towns, but it’s also because of our weather and small size. We need more snowplows and drivers because of all the snow we get, and our roads need more maintenance because of our weather. We also have a lot of miles roads to maintain given our population. There are good reasons, then, for the large number of people we employ to maintain our transportation system. For some government functions, Vermont has a fewer public employees than average. This is most notable in health, where Vermont has 30 percent fewer public workers than the average state. This is primarily because we don’t have any public hospitals that exist in many cities. It also may be that many states provide health care services directly but Vermont contracts them out to the private sector. Just because public employment in health is low does not indicate a lack of public spending on health care. Finally, Vermont has fewer public employees than the national average on what many consider one of the core services of government — protection. We have fewer police and fewer people working in corrections. That is probably because Vermont has less crime, so voters don’t pressure politicians to increase the number of police or the number of prison cells. The U.S. Department of Justice’s Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics show that in 2014 Vermont’s violent crime rate — including murder, robbery, assault, and rape — was 99.3 crimes per 100,000 people, 75 percent less than the national average. Property crime rates — burglary, larceny, and car thefts—were nearly half the U.S. average. Vermont has a big government, if we measure government by how many people it employs. Somewhat paradoxically, our government is big because of the large number of people we employ in our small local schools. Government employment in Vermont Art Woolf is associate professor of economics at the University of Vermont.
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Wounded teacher expected shots at school, not on drive home SEATTLE (AP) — Longtime schoolteacher Deborah Judd has grown accustomed to active-shooter drills in her second-grade classroom. She was less prepared to see a gunman in the street on her way home. She became the first to be shot by a man as he opened fire on cars in a Seattle neighborhood, apparently at random, leaving two people dead and wounding a bus driver who was praised for getting the passengers to safety. "He walked straight out in the middle of the road and he shot me, then he shot me again," Judd, 56, told reporters from her hospital bed Thursday. "I guess I always thought something like that would happen in school because we talk so much about school shootings. "But I never thought I'd be driving home in my car and someone would step out in the street and shoot me," she said. Judd was headed home to suburban Snohomish on Wednesday after a meeting at Laurelhurst Elementary School, "zipping along, I think I was eating Cheez-Its," she said. Then she saw the gunman. He fired into her windshield as she got close and fired again after the car came to a stop on a road that follows a ridge above Lake Washington in residential northeast Seattle. Bullets lodged in her arm, shoulder and lung. Judd said she slumped over the emergency brake of her car and stayed still — wondering why no one was helping her — until the shooting stopped. The gunman next fired into a King County Metro bus, striking the driver, and approached a car that had slowed down and shot again, killing the 50-year-old man behind the wheel and fleeing in his car as officers arrived, authorities said. Police say suspect Tad Michael Norman, 33, then crashed head-on into another vehicle, killing the 70-year-old man driving. Norman was taken into custody after a brief standoff, police said. Investigators offered no information about a potential motive. Norman, who lives near the shooting scene, was jailed on suspicion of homicide, assault and robbery. He was expected to make his first court appearance Friday, and it was not clear if he had obtained a lawyer who could speak on his behalf. Norman did not appear to have any significant criminal history in Washington state. He was a vendor with Microsoft and his contract ended last year, a company representative said. The bus driver, Eric Stark, 53, was shot in the torso but still managed to drive his passengers to safety, authorities said. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said he "saved lives and took action even after being harmed." Stark, recovering in a hospital Thursday, told ABC's "Good Morning America" that "it's what any other driver would be able to do if they were physically able." "I ducked down really quick for some cover, did like a two-second assessment of my injuries and figured, 'Well, I can breathe, I can think, I can see, and I can talk,'" Stark said. "So for me, that was enough to go, 'OK, we're getting out of here. I've gotta get these people out of here.'" None of the passengers aboard the bus got hurt, King County Metro said. John Barrett told Seattle news station KOMO-TV that he was in his garage when he heard what sounded like firecrackers. Barrett went outside and saw a man pointing a gun at people as he walked down a street, "firing at anything just without any regard." Judd wept as she recounted hearing the shot that killed the 50-year-old and wondered if he had stopped to help her. She said she decided to speak with reporters so her students could see that she was all right. "I want to make sure the kids know I'm OK and that I'll be back soon and I love them," she said. "You're 7 years old and you have to process your teacher being shot. It's not OK. It's not OK. That'll be something that sticks in their lives forever."
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You are here News News April 1, 2016 Press Release Monmouth County Man Gets 87 Months In Prison For Intent To Distribute Over 150 Grams Of Methamphetamine March 22, 2016 Press Release March 21, 2016 Press Release March 17, 2016 March 16, 2016 Press Release Somerset County, New Jersey, Man Who Was Found With Air Tank Filled With 26 Kilograms Of Narcotics Gets 70 Months In Prison March 14, 2016 February 24, 2016 Press Release Crack-Cocaine Wholesaler For The New Jersey Grape Street Crips Gang Pleads Guilty To Drug Trafficking Charges February 11, 2016 Press Release Alleged Leader Of Grape Street Crips Street Gang Charged In Connection With Four Murders, Three Attempted Murders As Part Of Decades-Long Racketeering Conspiracy February 10, 2016 February 8, 2016 January 26, 2016 Press Release Union County, New Jersey, Man Sentenced To 63 Months In Prison For Role In Scheme To Smuggle More Than Three Kilograms Of Cocaine Into The United States January 22, 2016 January 13, 2016 Press Release Colombian Cartel Leader Sentenced To 11 Years In Prison For Trafficking Narcotics Sold In The United States December 22, 2015 Press Release Member Of Grape Street Crips Street Gang Sentenced To Five Years In Prison; Two Other Members Plead Guilty To Drug Trafficking Charges Press Release Two Monmouth County, New Jersey, Members Of Drug Trafficking Organization Each Sentenced To More Than 20 Months In Prison December 18, 2015 Press Release December 16, 2015 Press Release Leader Of Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison For Conspiring To Sell Kilograms Of Heroin In New Jersey December 9, 2015 Press Release Previously Convicted Felon From Newark, New Jersey, Charged With Firearms Possession, Drug Distribution Offenses October 2, 2015 Press Release Two Members of Camden Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to Prison for Roles in Conspiracy to Distribute September 18, 2015 Press Release Member Of Drug Trafficking Organization Admits Role In Conspiracy To Sell Heroin In New Jersey; Another Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison September 14, 2015 September 2, 2015 Press Release August 18, 2015 Press Release August 11, 2015 Press Release
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You are here News News April 30, 2020 Press Release Former Naturopath charged criminally for trafficking in misbranded drugs claiming they could prevent COVID-19 April 29, 2020 April 28, 2020 Press Release Prominent Physician of Dunn, North Carolina, Agrees to Pay Up to $8.8 Million to Resolve Allegedly Fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid Claims April 27, 2020 Press Release April 24, 2020 Press Release Florida Man Sentenced to Over 15 Months in Prison and $3.4 Million in Restitution for Health Care Fraud Scheme Involving Liberation Way Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers Press Release Ex-Doctor’s Office Manager Pleads Guilty for Role in Illegal Oxycodone Distribution, Health Care Fraud, and Money Laundering Scheme and for Stealing Social Security Benefits Press Release Surgeon Agrees to Pay $1.75 Million to Resolve Allegations that He Accepted Kickbacks from SpineFrontier April 23, 2020 April 21, 2020 Press Release April 17, 2020 April 16, 2020 Press Release Press Release United States Attorney William M. McSwain Seeks Partnerships with Health Care Institutions to Stop Coronavirus-Related Fraud Press Release Operator of durable medical equipment company charged in multi-million-dollar telemedicine kickback scheme April 15, 2020 Press Release Baltimore Doctor to Pay $436,000 to the United States to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Medically Unnecessary Procedures Press Release Florida-Based Laboratory, Pain Clinic, and Two Former Executives Agree to Pay $41 Million to Resolve Allegations of Unnecessary Drug Testing April 13, 2020 Press Release April 10, 2020 Press Release April 9, 2020 April 8, 2020 Press Release United States Attorney Michael Bailey and Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich Launch Covid-19 Fraud Task Force Press Release PUBLIC REPOSITORY OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO PRACTICE FUSION, INC.’S RESOLUTION OF CONSPIRACY AND KICKBACK CHARGES IN CONNECTION WITH PHARMA CO. X NOW AVAILABLE ON-LINE April 2, 2020 Press Release Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Settlement Of Fraudulent Billing And Kickback Lawsuit Against Compounding Pharmacies And Owners
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You are here News News August 26, 2020 Press Release Acting U.S. Attorney Announces Extradition Of Ghanaian National For Multimillion-Dollar Fraud Scheme Involving Business Email Compromises And Romance Scams Targeting Elderly August 25, 2020 Press Release Press Release August 21, 2020 Press Release Bay Area Man Pleads Guilty to Operating Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business that Facilitated International Fraud Scheme August 20, 2020 Press Release Nigerian Citizen Residing in Canada Extradited to the Western District of Texas to Face Federal Charges Related to Fraudulent “Sweepstakes” Scheme August 19, 2020 August 18, 2020 Press Release Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges In $7 Million Scheme To Defraud Loan Programs Intended To Help Small Businesses During COVID-19 Pandemic August 17, 2020 Press Release North Suburban Financial Adviser Indicted on Fraud Charges for Allegedly Swindling $450,000 From Clients Press Release August 14, 2020 Press Release August 13, 2020 August 12, 2020 Press Release August 11, 2020 Press Release August 6, 2020 Press Release Press Release Arkansas Project Manager Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud and False Statements in Connection with COVID-Relief Fraud August 5, 2020 Press Release Former Kane County Resident Charged In Alleged Financial Fraud Scheme That Exploited Senior Citizens August 4, 2020 Press Release Texas Entrepreneur Charged with Spending COVID Relief Funds on Improper Expenses Including Lamborghini and Strip Club
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You are here News News August 27, 2015 Press Release Fayette County Public Schools and U.S. Attorney’s Office Partner On Anti-Bullying Education for High School Students August 20, 2015 August 6, 2015 Press Release Leader of Large Heroin and Marijuana Conspiracy in Northern Kentucky and Ohio Sentenced to 353 Months August 14, 2015 Press Release Sex Offender from California Sentenced to 30 Years for Coercing a Kentucky Teenager to Send Sexually Explicit Photos of Herself August 26, 2015 Press Release U.S. Attorneys And Federal Law Enforcement Leaders Conduct Summit To Target Heroin And Opioid Trafficking And Overdose Epidemic
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You are here News News August 8, 2018 August 2, 2018 July 30, 2018 Press Release Jordanian National Arrested in New York to Face Charges for a Conspiracy to Bring Aliens Into the United States July 25, 2018 July 18, 2018 Press Release Federal Grand Jury Indicts Driver and Four Others Involved in Dimmit County Crash that Resulted in Deaths of Five Illegal Aliens Press Release Texas Man Charged in New Mexico with Conspiracy to Transport Illegal Aliens Within the United States July 17, 2018 Press Release July 13, 2018 July 11, 2018 Press Release July 5, 2018 June 26, 2018 June 19, 2018 Press Release Federal Criminal Complaint Filed Against Driver and Four Others Involved in Dimmit County Crash that Resulted in Deaths of Five Illegal Aliens June 18, 2018 June 4, 2018 Press Release Mexican and Honduran Men Pled Guilty to Smuggling and Transporting Fourteen Illegal Aliens in Derby, Vermont May 30, 2018 May 22, 2018 May 16, 2018 May 11, 2018 Press Release Alien Smuggler Sentenced for Blowing Through Checkpoint at High Speed, Seriously Injuring Border Patrol Agent May 11, 2017 Press Release Alien Smuggler Sentenced for Blowing Through Checkpoint at High Speed, Seriously Injuring Border Patrol Agent May 10, 2018 Press Release Third Colombian National Extradited to the United States to Face Charges for Encouraging and Inducing Aliens to Come to the United States
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You are here News News December 1, 2016 Press Release Executives, Surgeons, Physicians, and Others Affiliated with Forest Park Medical Center (FPMC) in Dallas Indicted in Massive Conspiracy November 29, 2016 Press Release Five Affiliated with Physician Home Visit and Health Care Companies in Dallas Plead Guilty in Health Care Fraud Conspiracy November 14, 2016 Press Release Federal Jury Convicts Two Former Postal Employees in Scheme to Defraud Worker's Compensation Program October 24, 2016 October 14, 2016 August 31, 2016 Press Release Former Senior Claims Examiner at DOL Worker’s Compensation Office in Dallas Sentenced to 15 Months in Federal Prison for Taking Bribes August 8, 2016 Press Release The Estate of Dr. Kenneth Michael Rice and UMC Physicians Pay a Total of $3,280,000 to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations July 22, 2016 June 22, 2016 Press Release June 16, 2016 May 20, 2016 Press Release May 18, 2016 Press Release Licensed Professional Counselors Sentenced for Roles in $9.5 Million Fraudulent Billing Health Care Fraud Scheme to Siphon and Steal Money from Workers’ Compensation Program April 13, 2016 Press Release Dallas Doctor and Three Dallas-Area Home Health Agency Owners Convicted for Running Large-Scale, Sophisticated Health Care Fraud Scheme April 8, 2016 March 4, 2016 Press Release Federal Jury Convicts Dallas Anesthesiologist on Health Care Fraud Offenses Involving Approximately $10 Million in Fraudulent Billings February 26, 2016 Press Release February 24, 2016 Press Release North Texas Men Indicted for Running Health Care Fraud Scheme That Caused TRICARE to Suffer More Than $65 Million Loss
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You are here News News December 10, 2018 Press Release Towson Pharmacist Sentenced To 40 Months In Federal Prison For Distributing Oxycodone In Exchange For Sexual Favors November 30, 2018 Press Release Maryland Man Sentenced to 57 Months in Federal Prison and Ordered to Forfeit at Least $5.665 Million s a Result of His Conviction on Charges Relating to Dark Web Drug Distribution and Money Laundering October 10, 2018 Press Release Pharmacist Who Owned and Operated a Baltimore Pharmacy Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Distribution Conspiracy Charges Involving Fraudulent Prescriptions for Oxycodone and Alprazolam
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You are here News News December 11, 2020 Press Release Washington, D.C. Felon Pleads Guilty in Maryland to Federal Charges for Illegal Possession of a Firearm December 3, 2020 Press Release Member of Violent Baltimore Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges, Including Murder November 13, 2020 Press Release Prince George’s County Felon Sentenced to 81 Months in Federal Prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana and Illegal Possession of a Loaded Gun November 12, 2020 Press Release Baltimore Man Sentenced to 21 Years in Federal Prison for Five Bank Robberies, Five Armed Robberies of Liquor Stores, and Related Firearms Charges November 3, 2020 Press Release Baltimore Armed Career Criminal Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Illegal Possession of a Firearm October 29, 2020 Press Release Baltimore Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Federal Prison for Distributing Fentanyl, Heroin, and Fentanyl Analogues and for Illegal Possession of a Stolen Firearm October 27, 2020 Press Release October 16, 2020 Press Release October 13, 2020 Press Release Twelfth and Final Member of Violent Baltimore “Trained To Go” Gang Sentenced to More Than Eleven Years in Federal Prison for Racketeering and Drug Conspiracies September 22, 2020 Press Release D.C. Felon Pleads Guilty in Federal Court in Maryland to Illegal Possession of a “Ghost Gun” Firearm and Ammunition August 3, 2020 July 29, 2020 Press Release Odenton Felon Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison for Charges Related to the Attempted Armed Robbery of His Former Employer—A Food Service Company—Including Shooting an Employee July 14, 2020 Press Release Baltimore Felon Sentenced to Eight Years in Federal Prison for His Role in a Southwest Baltimore Drug Shop that Distributed Heroin, Fentanyl, and Cocaine June 4, 2020 May 19, 2020 Press Release May 12, 2020 March 6, 2020 Press Release Eight Maryland Men Indicted on Federal Charges Related to a Heroin and Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy Operating in Washington County Press Release Washington DC Man Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison for the Armed Robbery of a Capitol Heights Barbershop Press Release Baltimore Felon Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison for Illegal Possession of a Stolen Firearm March 4, 2020 Press Release Baltimore Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges for Distributing Fentanyl, Heroin, and Fentanyl Analogues and for Illegal Possession of a Stolen Firearm March 3, 2020 Press Release Previously Convicted Felon Sentenced to 33 Months in Federal Prison for Illegal Possession of a Firearm February 11, 2020 Press Release Prince George’s County Felon Sentenced to More Than 5 Years in Federal Prison for Illegal Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition February 3, 2020 Press Release Member of Violent Baltimore “Trained To Go” Gang Pleads Guilty to Federal Racketeering and Drug Conspiracies
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You are here News News December 13, 2019 December 18, 2019 Press Release U.S. Attorney's Office collects more than $181 million in civil & criminal actions in fiscal year 2019 December 19, 2019 Press Release MS-13 defendant sentenced to 40 years in prison for role in 3 murders, drug trafficking, extortion, money laundering, assault January 7, 2020 Press Release January 8, 2020 Press Release January 14, 2020 January 15, 2020 January 16, 2020 Press Release MS-13 defendant sentenced to 35 years in prison for directly participating in three homicides in aid of racketeering January 21, 2020 Press Release Department of Justice Files Brief in Support of the Constitutionality of Ohio Law Prohibiting Abortion Providers From Performing an Abortion They Know Is Sought Because of Down Syndrome January 23, 2020 January 24, 2020 Press Release Columbus Pain Clinic and Owner Agree to Pay $650,000 to Resolve Allegations of Unnecessary Procedures Press Release Colerain Township man charged with sexually exploiting a minor while on probation for different sex crime January 28, 2020 January 29, 2020 February 6, 2020 February 11, 2020 Press Release Construction company owner pleads guilty to mail fraud involving worker safety and embezzlement from company 401(k) program February 12, 2020 February 14, 2020 Press Release
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You are here News News December 13, 2019 Press Release Picayune Man Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison under Project EJECT for Illegal Possession of Firearm Press Release Mexican National Sentenced to 5 Years’ Prison for Conspiring to Transport and Harbor Illegal Aliens for Profit Press Release Press Release December 12, 2019 Press Release Press Release LRGP Member Going To Prison For 25 Years For Drug Conspiracy, Murdering Man He Thought Was A Rival Drug Member Press Release Press Release Member of Montgomery Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 30 Years for Conspiracy, Drug and Gun Charges Press Release FBI sting operation nabs four men charged with attempting to entice minors to engage in sexual activity Press Release Clinton Man Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison Under Project EJECT for Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon Press Release
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You are here News News December 14, 2017 November 20, 2017 November 8, 2017 October 23, 2017 September 21, 2017 August 24, 2017 August 23, 2017 August 16, 2017 July 19, 2017 May 3, 2017 April 13, 2017 Press Release Stilwell Man Sentenced To 60 Months Probation, $52,000 Restitution For Theft From Tribal Organization
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You are here News News December 16, 2020 Press Release Press Release Owner Of Waseca Travel Agency Charged With Defrauding Travel Agents Nationwide Of Nearly $500,000 In Commission Money December 15, 2020 December 11, 2020 December 10, 2020 December 9, 2020 Press Release December 2, 2020 November 24, 2020 November 20, 2020 Press Release Antigravity Effects, Results Laboratories, Their Owner, And Employee To Pay $500,000 To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations November 19, 2020 November 18, 2020 November 16, 2020 Press Release Maple Grove Man Charged With Defrauding The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program November 10, 2020 November 9, 2020 November 6, 2020 Press Release Former Minneapolis Police Officer Charged With Illegally Acquiring Controlled Substances, Extortion, Violation Of Civil Rights Press Release Superseding Indictment Charges “Boogaloo Bois” With Conspiracy, Material Support To Hamas, Firearms Violations November 5, 2020 Press Release Minneapolis Man Sentenced To 17 Years In Prison For Violent Armed Robbery Of Downtown Minneapolis Bar And Violent Assault Of Corrections Officer While In Custody
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You are here News News December 16, 2020 Press Release Press Release Owner Of Waseca Travel Agency Charged With Defrauding Travel Agents Nationwide Of Nearly $500,000 In Commission Money December 15, 2020 December 11, 2020 December 10, 2020 December 9, 2020 Press Release December 2, 2020 November 24, 2020 November 20, 2020 Press Release Antigravity Effects, Results Laboratories, Their Owner, And Employee To Pay $500,000 To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations November 19, 2020 November 18, 2020 November 16, 2020 Press Release Maple Grove Man Charged With Defrauding The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program November 10, 2020 November 9, 2020 November 6, 2020 Press Release Former Minneapolis Police Officer Charged With Illegally Acquiring Controlled Substances, Extortion, Violation Of Civil Rights Press Release Superseding Indictment Charges “Boogaloo Bois” With Conspiracy, Material Support To Hamas, Firearms Violations November 5, 2020 Press Release Minneapolis Man Sentenced To 17 Years In Prison For Violent Armed Robbery Of Downtown Minneapolis Bar And Violent Assault Of Corrections Officer While In Custody Press Release
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You are here News News December 18, 2019 Press Release December 17, 2019 Press Release Duncan Man Sentenced to Ten Years for Possessing Firearms While Subject to a Victim Protective Order December 12, 2019 December 4, 2019 November 15, 2019 Press Release November 13, 2019 November 6, 2019 October 17, 2019 October 11, 2019 Press Release October 7, 2019 Press Release U.S. Attorney Downing Announces Progress in Making Our Communities Safer Through Project Safe Neighborhoods August 28, 2019 August 19, 2019 July 26, 2019 Press Release Burglary Investigation Leads to Two Sentences of More Than Eight Years Each for Possession of Firearms and Ammunition July 23, 2019 July 3, 2019 June 19, 2019 Press Release Two Assistant U.S. Attorneys Named Prosecutors of The Year by the Oklahoma Gang Investigators Association June 11, 2019 Press Release Attorney General William P. Barr Appoints U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing To A New Working Group On Gun Crimes Connected To Domestic Violence June 10, 2019 Press Release June 6, 2019 May 31, 2019 Press Release
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You are here News News December 19, 2017 Press Release December 13, 2017 Press Release Kayenta Man Sentenced to 37 Months in Federal Prison for Involuntary Manslaughter Related to Drunk Driving December 4, 2017 November 28, 2017 October 18, 2017 September 20, 2017 Press Release Mesa Man Sentenced to Over 20 Years in Federal Prison for Second Degree Murder and Aggravated Assault Related to Drunk Driving
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You are here News News December 2, 2015 December 3, 2015 Press Release Vermont U.S. Attorney’s Office Collects $1,295,116.75 in Civil and Criminal Actions for U.S. Taxpayers in Fiscal Year 2015 December 8, 2015 Press Release Vermont Dairy Farm Agrees To Permanent Injunction Barring Unlawful Administration Of Veterinary Drugs December 9, 2015 December 10, 2015 December 11, 2015 Press Release Two Montreal Men Sentenced For Possession Of Counterfeit Access Devices At The Highgate Springs Port Of Entry December 14, 2015 December 22, 2015 January 4, 2016 Press Release January 14, 2016 Press Release January 15, 2016 January 20, 2016 February 3, 2016 Press Release Press Release February 11, 2016 Press Release February 17, 2016 Press Release Press Release Press Release Adam Chartier Arrested For Bomb Threat Called Into The United States Post Office In Burlington, Vermont
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You are here News News December 21, 2016 December 20, 2016 December 7, 2016 December 2, 2016 Press Release Governor’s Security Officer Pleads Guilty to Smuggling More Than 21 Kilograms of Cocaine Through St. Thomas Airport November 22, 2016 Press Release November 18, 2016 Press Release Correctional Officer and Two Others Plead Guilty to Racketeering Conspiracy at Eastern Correctional Institution October 24, 2016 Press Release Former Bakersfield Police Detective Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Methamphetamine Trafficking Conspiracy October 5, 2016 Press Release Federal Indictments Charge 80 Defendants in Alleged Racketeering Conspiracy at Maryland’s Eastern Correctional Institution July 14, 2016 July 13, 2016 June 28, 2016 Press Release Columbia Man Sentenced to 8 Years in Federal Prison for Bribing Letter Carriers to Divert Packages Containing Marijuana May 20, 2016 May 4, 2016 Press Release March 9, 2016 March 7, 2016 Press Release February 24, 2016 Press Release Former State Senator Leland Yee Sentenced To Five Years’ Imprisonment On Racketeering Conspiracy Charges February 9, 2016 Press Release
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You are here News News December 21, 2017 December 12, 2017 Press Release Coordinated Federal and State Law Enforcement Operation Results in the Arrest of More Than 35 Bakersfield Gang Members and Associates October 23, 2017 October 19, 2017 September 29, 2017 September 28, 2017 Press Release Solano County Man Indicted For Possession Of Methamphetamine With Intent To Distribute, And Unlawful Possession Of A Firearm September 20, 2017 September 8, 2017 Press Release August 17, 2017 August 11, 2017 Press Release Sacramento Man Sentenced to 5.5 Years in Prison for Illegally Manufacturing and Selling Assault Rifles July 10, 2017 Press Release June 26, 2017 May 26, 2017 March 9, 2017 March 6, 2017 Press Release February 23, 2017 February 16, 2017 Press Release Sacramento Gun Manufacturer Sentenced to Prison for Manufacturing and Assisting Others to Manufacture AR-15 Rifles
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You are here News News December 21, 2017 Press Release Former Executive Of Defunct Tampa Technology Company Sentenced To Five Years In Prison For Investment Fraud Press Release Press Release Florida Resident Guilty of Theft of Federal Student Aid Funds and Aggravated Identity Theft Sentenced to 44 Months of Imprisonment Press Release Gentilly Resident Sentenced to over 10 Years Imprisonment for Money Laundering and other Financial Crimes Press Release Press Release Former Delhi City Clerk Sentenced To Over a Year in Federal Prison for Stealing Over $100,000 from the City December 15, 2017 December 29, 2017 December 28, 2017 December 27, 2017 December 26, 2017 December 22, 2017 Press Release Clear Lake Man Sentenced To Nearly Three Years In Prison After Creating Fake Collateral Documents In Connection With $3.8 Million Loan Request December 18, 2017 Press Release December 20, 2017 Press Release Former Washington State Auditor Convicted of Nine Criminal Counts for Fraud Relating to Business He Operated Prior to Statewide Elective Office Press Release Former SunTrust Bank Employee Sentenced To More Than Six Years In Federal Prison For Embezzling Almost $600,000
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You are here News News December 21, 2018 December 20, 2018 Press Release Former Georgia correctional officer sentenced to federal prison for smuggling drugs into state prison Press Release Cleveland employee indicted for extortion and accepting bribes after he accepted below-market improvements on his property from a contractor seeking city business and directed city projects to benefit himself, his outside businesses and his clients December 19, 2018 December 18, 2018 Press Release December 17, 2018 December 14, 2018 Press Release Business Owner Who Conspired With Former Baltimore City Employee To Extort Bribes From Other Business Owners Ordered To Pay $100,000 Fine Press Release Former Local State Senator Sentenced On Public Corruption Conviction Involving Incident With A Staff Member December 12, 2018 Press Release Press Release December 11, 2018 December 10, 2018 Press Release Richard Brega, Owner Of Rockland County Bus Companies, Sentenced To More Than Four Years In Prison For Bribery And Fraud Press Release Texas Businessman Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice in Connection with Venezuela Bribery Scheme Press Release Former Non-Profit President Pleads Guilty to Scheme to Conceal Foreign Funding of 2013 Congressional Trip
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You are here News News December 22, 2020 Press Release Idaho Falls Man Sentenced to 5 Years for Knowingly and Fraudulently Concealing Assets in Bankruptcy Proceeding December 3, 2020 October 13, 2020 September 3, 2020 Press Release New York Hedge Fund Founder Arrested And Charged With Fraud, Extortion, And Obstruction Of Justice In Connection With Neiman Marcus Bankruptcy August 28, 2020 Press Release Federal Criminal Probe Into Failure of Chicago Bank Adds New Charges and Four Former Employees as Defendants July 30, 2020 Press Release East Idaho Man Pleads Guilty to Knowingly and Fraudulently Concealing Assets in a Bankruptcy Proceeding June 11, 2020 May 27, 2020 Press Release
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You are here News News December 22, 2021 Press Release Great Hills Man Sentenced to Over Six Years in Federal Prison for Federal Firearm and Drug Trafficking Charges December 3, 2021 Press Release Member of Southwest Baltimore “NFL” Gang Pleads Guilty to a Federal Racketeering Conspiracy Charge, Including Two Murders and an Attempted Murder December 2, 2021 December 1, 2021 Press Release Davante Harrison (“YGG Tay”) Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Drug Conspiracy and Related Gun and Drug Charges October 6, 2021 Press Release Elkridge Felon Facing Federal Indictment for Federal Drug Distribution and Firearms Charges Allegedly Committed While on Federal Supervised Release September 16, 2021 Press Release Cecil County Felon Sentenced to More Than Four Years in Federal Prison for Illegal Possession of Firearm and Narcotics Conspiracy August 20, 2021 Press Release Davante Harrison (“YGG Tay”) Convicted For Drug Conspiracy and Related Gun and Drug Charges After a Five-Day Federal Trial June 25, 2021 Press Release Baltimore Career Offender Sentenced to 12 Years in Federal Prison for Illegal Possession of Firearms in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking June 15, 2021 Press Release Ellicott City Drug Trafficker Sentenced to More Than 13 Years in Federal Prison for Drug Distribution, Possession of Firearms in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, and for Illegal Possession of Firearms June 3, 2021 Press Release Fifteen Alleged Members and Associates of Baltimore “Triple C” Gang Facing Federal Indictment on Charges Related to Their Participation in Drug Distribution and/or Racketeering Conspiracies, Including 18 Murders and 27 Attempted Murders December 3, 2020 Press Release Member of Violent Baltimore Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges, Including Murder November 13, 2020 Press Release Prince George’s County Felon Sentenced to 81 Months in Federal Prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana and Illegal Possession of a Loaded Gun October 29, 2020 Press Release Baltimore Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Federal Prison for Distributing Fentanyl, Heroin, and Fentanyl Analogues and for Illegal Possession of a Stolen Firearm October 13, 2020 Press Release Twelfth and Final Member of Violent Baltimore “Trained To Go” Gang Sentenced to More Than Eleven Years in Federal Prison for Racketeering and Drug Conspiracies July 14, 2020 Press Release Baltimore Felon Sentenced to Eight Years in Federal Prison for His Role in a Southwest Baltimore Drug Shop that Distributed Heroin, Fentanyl, and Cocaine May 12, 2020 March 6, 2020 Press Release Eight Maryland Men Indicted on Federal Charges Related to a Heroin and Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy Operating in Washington County March 4, 2020 Press Release Baltimore Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges for Distributing Fentanyl, Heroin, and Fentanyl Analogues and for Illegal Possession of a Stolen Firearm February 3, 2020 Press Release Member of Violent Baltimore “Trained To Go” Gang Pleads Guilty to Federal Racketeering and Drug Conspiracies January 15, 2020 Press Release November 5, 2019 Press Release Leader of the Violent “Murdaland Mafia Piru” Bloods Gang Sentenced to Life in Federal Prison for Murder in Aid of Racketeering and Related Charges October 30, 2019 Press Release Methamphetamine Dealer Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Two Drive-By Shootings and Distributing Drugs October 11, 2019 Press Release Member of Baltimore’s Violent “Murdaland Mafia Piru” Bloods Gang Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison for Racketeering and Drug Conspiracies August 28, 2019 Press Release Member of Old York Money Gang Sentenced to 25 Years in Federal Prison for Racketeering Charges Related to Drug Trafficking and Violence, Including the Killing of Three-Year-Old Mckenzie Elliott
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You are here News News December 31, 2016 December 30, 2016 Press Release Rochester Man Convcted Of Armed Cocaine Trafficking Sentenced To 20 Years And 8 Months In Federal Prison Press Release Press Release Press Release Press Release Former Vice President of Maryland Bank Charged with Bank Embezzlement and Wire Fraud for Alleged Six-Year Scheme to Steal over $1.8 Million Press Release Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Arrest Of Georgia Man For Kidnapping, Heroin Trafficking, And Firearms Offenses Press Release Rochester Man Convcted Of Armed Cocaine Trafficking Sentenced To 20 Years And 8 Months In Federal Prison
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You are here News News December 31, 2018 December 21, 2018 December 19, 2018 December 14, 2018 December 10, 2018 December 4, 2018 December 3, 2018 November 28, 2018 Press Release Aliquippa Man Charged with Violating Federal Drug and Gun Laws following Investigation by PSP and ATF November 27, 2018 November 20, 2018 November 15, 2018 Press Release November 14, 2018 November 7, 2018 Press Release Felon Convicted at Trial for Federal Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy and Illegal Possession of a Firearm Press Release U.S. Attorney’s Office Announces Progress in Making Communities Safer Through Multiple Targeted Strategies to Combat Violent Crime November 6, 2018 Press Release Wyoming County Man Charged With Distribution Of Fentanyl Resulting In Death And Serious Bodily Injury November 5, 2018 Press Release Project Charleston: Investigation Into Drug Trafficking on Charleston's West Side Nets Several Arrests and Seizure of Large Quantities of Fentanyl, Heroin and Methamphetamine October 31, 2018 Press Release Eight Baltimore TTG Members and Associates Convicted on Federal Racketeering and Drug Conspiracy Charges, Including Nine Murders and Witness Intimidation October 24, 2018 Press Release Member of the Violent “Murdaland Mafia Piru” Bloods Gang Sentenced To 12 Years in Federal Prison for Racketeering and Drug Conspiracies Press Release Federal Grand Jury Indicts Eleven Baltimore Men for a Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy Allegedly Operating in the Gilmor Homes Area of Baltimore
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You are here News News December 4, 2015 Press Release Federal Indictments Charge 25 Alleged Members of Syndicato De Nuevo Mexico (SNM) Prison Gang with Participation in Violent Racketeering Enterprise February 8, 2016 Press Release Armed Career Criminal from Albuquerque Sentenced to 22 Years for Firearms Offenses Arising Out of Armed Robbery in Santa Fe February 16, 2016 Press Release Albuquerque Man Sentenced to Ten Years for Armed Robbery Spree of Albuquerque-Area Businesses in Summer of 2014 February 19, 2016 February 24, 2016 Press Release Albuquerque Man Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison for Robbing Businesses Engaged in Interstate Commerce February 25, 2016 Press Release March 8, 2016 Press Release Albuquerque Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Serving as “Lookout” During Armed Robbery of Albuquerque Walmart Store Press Release March 10, 2016 Press Release Albuquerque Man Sentenced to Seven Years for Stealing Prescription Painkillers and Brandishing Firearm During Robbery of Retail Pharmacy March 24, 2016 March 30, 2016 April 14, 2016 Press Release Albuquerque Woman Sentenced for Conviction Arising Out of Armed Robbery of Retail Pharmacy in January 2015 April 26, 2016 May 4, 2016 May 9, 2016 May 12, 2016 May 13, 2016 May 23, 2016 Press Release May 25, 2016 Press Release May 26, 2016 Press Release Federal Grand Jury Returns Indictment Charging Tom Begaye, Jr., with Murder, Kidnapping and Aggravated Sexual Assault Charges
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You are here News News December 8, 2016 December 9, 2016 December 14, 2016 Press Release Northern District of Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office Collects $27,693,232 in Civil and Criminal Actions for U.S. Taxpayers in Fiscal Year 2016 Press Release Federal Grand Jury Indicts Colleyville Businessman on Mail Fraud Stemming from Ponzi Oil and Gas Fraud Scheme December 15, 2016 December 16, 2016 Press Release Defendants Convicted for Roles in Methamphetamine Distribution Conspiracy Sentenced to Lengthy Federal Prison Sentences Press Release Dallas Woman Sentenced to 20 Years in Federal Prison for Role in Methamphetamine Distribution Conspiracy That Operated out of Pleasant Grove, Seagoville and Balch Springs Areas of DFW Metroplex Press Release Former Employee at a National Medical Supply/Equipment Wholesaler Faces up to Three Years in Federal Prison for Scheme to Steal Medical Products and Sell Them to Internet December 20, 2016 Press Release December 21, 2016 Press Release Federal Grand Jury Indicts Four for Running “Foreclosure Rescue Scheme” That Exploited Vulnerabale Homeowners Facing Foreclosures Press Release Convicted Felon Sentenced to More Than 15 Years in Federal Prison on Firearm and Methamphetamine Trafficking Convictions
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You are here News News February 11, 2021 Press Release Fresno Man Previously Convicted of Assault with a Firearm on a Person Indicted for Unlawfully Possessing a Firearm February 10, 2021 Press Release United States Attorney McGregor Scott to Resign after Serving as Chief Federal Law Enforcement Officer for the Eastern District of California February 9, 2021 February 5, 2021 Press Release Kern County Man Sentenced to over 5 Years in Prison for Check and Credit Card Fraud, Identity Theft, and Firearms Offenses February 2, 2021 January 29, 2021 Press Release Press Release January 28, 2021 Press Release Press Release Vallejo Woman Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for International Money Laundering Conspiracy and Tax Fraud January 27, 2021 Press Release United States Attorney’s Office Files Suit Against San Joaquin County Pharmacy for Unlawfully Dispensing Opioids January 25, 2021 Press Release Press Release January 20, 2021 Press Release
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You are here News News February 24, 2017 February 23, 2017 Press Release Former Church Treasurer Sentenced For Theft Of Nearly $1.5 Million From Church, Wire Fraud And Tax Fraud February 22, 2017 February 17, 2017 February 16, 2017 February 14, 2017 February 13, 2017 Press Release Long-time Manager of Hoquiam Wood Shavings Business Sentenced to Prison for Mail Fraud, Tax Evasion, Money Laundering and Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property Press Release February 8, 2017 Press Release Press Release Richmond Resident Sentenced To 12 Years’ Imprisonment For Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns And Appropriating Fraudulent And Stolen Treasury Checks
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You are here News News February 27, 2020 Press Release Cedar Rapids Felon Pleads Guilty to Federal Crime After Throwing Handguns From Car During Police Chase February 28, 2020 February 25, 2020 Press Release Jackson Man Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison Under Project EJECT for Illegally Possessing a Firearm Press Release February 26, 2020 Press Release Jackson Man Arrested Locally for Murder and Released on Bond Pleads Guilty under Project EJECT to Illegally Possessing a Gun February 21, 2020 February 20, 2020 February 19, 2020 February 12, 2020 Press Release February 18, 2020 Press Release Lexington Man Sentenced to 30 Months for Possession of a Firearm by Convicted Felon and Cocaine Possession Press Release New Jersey Man Charged With Robbery And Illegal Possession Of Firearm To Appear In New Jersey Federal Court February 14, 2020 Press Release Las Vegas Man Sentenced To Over Two Years In Prison Based On False Statement During The Purchase of 35 Firearms Over The Course Of One Year
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You are here News News February 27, 2020 Press Release West Saint Paul Man Pleads Guilty To Armed Robberies Of Several Twin Cities Restaurants And Gas Stations Press Release Baltimore Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty to Discharging a Firearm in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking, Resulting in Death Press Release Pair Charged With Dealing In Firearms Without A License, At Least 48 Firearms Purchased, Some Seized At US/Mexico Border February 26, 2020 Press Release February 25, 2020 February 24, 2020 Press Release Federal Jury Convicts CBL/BFL Gang Member Of Two Murders In Aid Of Racketeering, And Multiple Other Charges Press Release Press Release February 19, 2020 February 18, 2020 Press Release Former Cleveland Man Sentenced to More than 7 Years in Prison for 2017 Robbery and Burglary Spree in Western PA and Ohio February 15, 2020 February 14, 2020 Press Release Baltimore Man Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison for His Participation in an Armed Robbery of a Restaurant Press Release Press Release Montgomery Woman Sentenced to 11 Years in Federal Prison for Her Participation in Multiple Armed Robberies February 13, 2020 Press Release February 11, 2020 Press Release Anchorage Felon Receives Max Penalty for Illegally Possessing Firearm Resulting in July 2018 Shooting Death
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You are here News News January 10, 2017 Press Release Former Suburban Middle School Teacher Sentenced to 13 Years for Possessing Child Pornography and Encouraging Underage Boys to Produce Sexually Explicit Images of Themselves January 11, 2017 February 6, 2017 February 7, 2017 February 9, 2017 April 21, 2017 Press Release Bolingbrook Man Arrested on Child Pornography Charge for Allegedly Enticing Underage Boy to Engage in Sexually Explicit Conduct May 15, 2017 Press Release June 13, 2017 Press Release Suburban Musician Arrested on Child Pornography Charges for Allegedly Enticing Underage Girls to Produce Sexually Explicit Videos June 20, 2017 July 20, 2017 Press Release Businessman Indicted for Allegedly Stealing Employer’s Trade Secrets While Planning for New Job with Rival Firm in China July 28, 2017 Press Release August 2, 2017 Press Release Judge Sentences Former U.S. Air Force Member to 4 Years in Prison for Stealing Personal Information of Service Members and Distributing It to Others August 15, 2017 October 16, 2017 Press Release Suburban Man Arrested on Child Pornography Charges for Allegedly Enticing Underage Girls to Produce Sexually Explicit Images October 25, 2017 Press Release Wisconsin Man Indicted on Sex Trafficking Charges for Allegedly Transporting a Minor to Chicago to Engage in Prostitution December 11, 2017 Press Release North Suburban Man Arrested on Child Pornography Charges While on Bond for Prior Child Pornography Case December 14, 2017 Press Release I.T. Specialist Arrested for Allegedly Hacking into Servers of North Suburban Company Where He Formerly Worked as Contractor
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You are here News News January 16, 2020 Press Release January 31, 2020 Press Release Bella Vista, Arkansas Man Sentenced To 120 Months For Transportation Of A Minor With Intent To Engage In Criminal Sexual Activity February 11, 2020 February 18, 2020 February 21, 2020 February 25, 2020 Press Release Defendant Sentenced To Life Imprisonment For 1997 Kidnapping, Traveling With Intent To Engage In Sexual Act With A Juvenile March 5, 2020 March 17, 2020 March 24, 2020 March 30, 2020 Press Release EASTERN DISTRICT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE REMAINS OPERATIONAL AND PREPARES RESPONSE TO EMERGING TREND OF COVID-19 FRAUD April 20, 2020 April 29, 2020 May 14, 2020 Press Release May 15, 2020 Press Release June 2, 2020 Press Release Department Of Justice Awards Nearly $400 Million For Law Enforcement Hiring To Advance Community Policing June 8, 2020 June 10, 2020 July 6, 2020 Press Release July 20, 2020 August 7, 2020 Press Release Plano, Texas Man Sentenced To 6 Months Imprisonment, 6 Months At Halfway House For Transmitting Threatening Communication August 21, 2020 August 24, 2020 Press Release Eufaula Man Sentenced To 78 Months, $3,000 Restitution For Possession Of Material Involving Sexual Exploitation Of A Minor
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You are here News News January 3, 2013 Press Release Press Release Press Release Munoz Sentenced To 41 Months In Federal Prison After Pleading Guilty To Wire Fraud, Money Laundering In Connection With Property Fraud Scheme Near Park City Press Release Owner of Tacoma Western Clothing Store Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison for Heroin Distribution Conspiracy Press Release Leader of Nevada – Alaska Oxycodone Ring Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison and Ordered to Forfeit over $1.2 Million Press Release Press Release Press Release Press Release
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You are here News News January 3, 2017 Press Release Agreement Ensures Effective Communication with Hearing Impaired Individuals at John Dempsey Hospital January 11, 2017 January 25, 2017 Press Release February 22, 2017 March 3, 2017 March 30, 2017 Press Release Groton Woman Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Sex Trafficking of a Minor, Distributing Heroin that Led to Her Overdose May 9, 2017 May 12, 2017 May 30, 2017 August 14, 2017 Press Release August 17, 2017 August 22, 2017 Press Release September 6, 2017 September 20, 2017 Press Release October 17, 2017 Press Release Groton Woman Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking and Heroin Distribution Offenses Related to Overdose October 25, 2017 October 27, 2017 November 30, 2017 Press Release
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You are here News News January 3, 2020 Press Release Caldwell University Agrees To Pay More Than $4.8 Million To Resolve Allegations Of Violating False Claims Act Press Release Press Release Maysville Man Sentenced to 199 Months for Carjacking and Brandishing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence Press Release Press Release Inmate at USP Sentenced for Conspiring to Distribute Suboxone, Possess Suboxone, and Making False Statements Press Release Press Release Burgaw Man Sentenced to More than 5 Years’ Imprisonment for Possessing Gun While on Federal Supervised Release Press Release Former Tomah and Kettle Moraine High School Principal Charged with Child Enticement and Possession of Child Pornography January 2, 2020 Press Release Press Release Special Circumstances Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder, and Attempted Murder Charges Filed Against Gang Members in Fresno County Superior Court and in the United States District Court for Killings at a Football Watch Party in November Press Release Sioux Falls Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Distribution of Fentanyl Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance
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You are here News News January 31, 2020 Press Release September 25, 2018 Press Release Chinese National Arrested for Allegedly Acting Within the United States as an Unregistered Agent of the People’s Republic of China July 26, 2019 September 15, 2020 Press Release Former employee at Los Alamos National Laboratory sentenced to probation for making false statements about being employed by China December 3, 2019 Press Release June 18, 2020 Press Release Italian national sentenced to federal prison for attempting to evade U.S. national security trade sanctions March 26, 2020 Press Release Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Narco-Terrorism Charges Against Nicolas Maduro, Current And Former Venezuelan Officials, And Farc Leadership June 21, 2018 Press Release Newly Unsealed Federal Indictment Charges Iranian Businessman with Illegally Exporting Nuclear Nonproliferation-Controlled Materials from Illinois
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You are here News News January 8, 2020 Press Release Former Chief Lending Officer Of New Jersey Bank Admits Making False Statements To United States In An Effort To Secure Federal Guarantees On Loans January 7, 2020 Press Release Member of ATM Skimming Conspiracy Targeting Multiple New Jersey Bank Locations Sentenced to Five Years in Prison Press Release Paterson Police Sergeant Arrested for Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights and Filing a False Police Report January 6, 2020 Press Release Owner of Used Car Dealership Admits Conspiracy to Steal Payments from U.S. Department of Defense, Bank Fraud and Money Laundering Press Release Former Member Of U.S. Navy Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Interstate Gun Trafficking Conspiracy January 3, 2020 Press Release Former Acting Executive Director of Jersey City Employment and Training Program Charged in Embezzlement Scheme Press Release Caldwell University Agrees To Pay More Than $4.8 Million To Resolve Allegations Of Violating False Claims Act
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You are here News News January 8, 2020 Press Release Houston Man Sentenced to 84 Months in Federal Prison for Leading Interstate Marijuana Trafficking Conspiracy January 13, 2020 Press Release Canadian National Pleads Guilty to Drug Charge After Maritime Arrest in International Waters off Oregon Coast January 22, 2020 Press Release February 4, 2020 Press Release Coos Bay Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Distributing Methamphetamine and Possessing Sawed-off Shotguns February 13, 2020 Press Release March 11, 2020 Press Release May 8, 2020 May 13, 2020 Press Release Omnicare Agrees to Pay Over $15 Million to Resolve Allegations it Improperly Dispensed Opioids at Long-Term Care Facilities May 21, 2020 Press Release August 4, 2020 August 19, 2020 Press Release Hood River Man Sentenced for Role in Interstate Marijuana Trafficking and Money Laundering Conspiracy September 22, 2020 Press Release International Law Enforcement Operation Targeting Opioid Traffickers on the Darknet Results in over 170 Arrests Worldwide and the Seizure of Weapons, Drugs and over $6.5 Million September 30, 2020 Press Release October 13, 2020 Press Release California Woman Pleads Guilty to Large Scale Multistate Credit Card "Bust-Out" Conspiracy that Funded Marijuana Business October 27, 2020 Press Release Bend Resident, Sentenced for Conspiracy to Manufacture and Distribute Marijuana Under the Name "BHOys" October 30, 2020 November 23, 2020 Press Release December 3, 2020 December 15, 2020 Press Release
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You are here News News January 9, 2017 Press Release Prince George’s County Pimp Sentenced to Over 14 Years in Federal Prison for Prostituting 15-Year-Old Child First Contacted Through the Internet July 5, 2016 Press Release Gwynn Oak Man Sentenced to Almost 6 Years in Federal Prison for Conspiring to Commit Sex Trafficking of a 13 Year Old Child May 19, 2016 April 12, 2016 July 19, 2019 Press Release Baltimore Pimp Convicted on Federal Charges of Sex Trafficking of a Child and Using the Internet to Promote a Prostitution Business May 21, 2019 Press Release Former Washington, D.C. Police Officer Sentenced to 14 Years in Federal Prison for Sex Trafficking of Two Minor Girls
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You are here News News July 15, 2020 March 15, 2021 April 23, 2019 December 22, 2016 Press Release Grand Jury Indicts Man for Sex Trafficking of Children, Production of Child Pornography and Drug Charges October 27, 2020 Press Release Group Home Operator for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Agrees to Settle ADA Allegations October 11, 2019 February 6, 2015 April 12, 2019 April 15, 2021 Press Release August 17, 2015 Press Release November 15, 2018 September 13, 2017 December 19, 2018 Press Release Justice Department Alleges Conditions at Hampton Roads Regional Jail Violate the Constitution and Federal Law Press Release Justice Department Alleges Conditions at Hampton Roads Regional Jail Violate the Constitution and Federal Law November 14, 2019 Press Release Justice Department Awards Over $2.5 Million in Grants to Combat Human Trafficking and Assist Victims in EDVA June 19, 2020 Press Release Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Stafford County, Virginia, Over Blocking of Islamic Cemetery March 15, 2019 Press Release Justice Department Obtains Its Largest Ever Settlement Against Property Management Company for Alleged Violations of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act Press Release Justice Department Obtains Largest Ever Settlement Against Property Management Company for Alleged Violations of Servicemembers Civil Relief Act December 12, 2016 Press Release March 20, 2017 Press Release Justice Department Reaches Agreement With Suffolk City Virginia School District to Desegregate Its Schools August 5, 2020 Press Release Justice Department Reaches Proposed Consent Decree to Resolve Hampton Roads Regional Jail Investigation March 2, 2016 Press Release Justice Department Sues Richmond City Sheriff’s Office in Richmond, Virginia, for Disability Discrimination