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Located in the former home of Suburban Lanes, which was a community staple for nearly 60 years, the Comet Pub & Lanes has been providing entertainment to children and adults alike since 2016. Its menu, which offers made-from-scratch pizzas and draft beer, is the epitome of Atomic Age design, and the Comet theme fits like a glove. It’s $4 to rent shoes and $2.50-$5 per person for a game, so it’s a cost-efficient way to enjoy the ’50s vision of the future. 5 p.m.-1 a.m. Mondays, 10 a.m.-1 a.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 11 a.m.-1 a.m. Sundays. 1458 Church St., Suite E, Decatur. 470-225-1931, cometpubandlanes.com. Caption The Comet Pub & Lanes in Decatur. (BECKY STEIN PHOTOGRAPHY) Credit: Bob Townsend Caption The Comet Pub & Lanes in Decatur. (BECKY STEIN PHOTOGRAPHY) Credit: Bob Townsend Credit: Bob Townsend Paris on Ponce Just like looking through your parents’ attic, antique stores provide plenty of interesting blasts from the past. 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"throughout",
"Albemarle",
"and",
"Greene",
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"Charlottesville,",
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"–",
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"the",
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"for",
"a",
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"spree",
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"Albemarle",
"and",
"Greene",
"counties",
"last",
"summer",
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"of",
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"robberies,",
"kidnappings,",
"an",
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"home",
"invasion,",
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"today",
"in",
"federal",
"court",
"in",
"Charlottesville,",
"Acting",
"United",
"States",
"Attorney",
"Rick",
"A.",
"Mountcastle",
"announced.",
"In",
"separate",
"hearings",
"today",
"in",
"the",
"United",
"States",
"District",
"Court",
"for",
"the",
"Western",
"District",
"of",
"Virginia",
"in",
"Charlottesville,",
"Terence",
"Tyree,",
"Kentavia",
"Jones,",
"Jaquarius",
"Johnson",
"and",
"Isaiah",
"Wilson",
"were",
"sentenced",
"to",
"federal",
"prison",
"time",
"for",
"their",
"various",
"roles",
"in",
"the",
"conspiracy.",
"Tyree,",
"19,",
"of",
"Ruckersville,",
"was",
"sentenced",
"to",
"360",
"months",
"in",
"federal",
"prison.",
"Jones,",
"19,",
"of",
"Earlysville,",
"was",
"sentenced",
"to",
"225",
"months",
"in",
"federal",
"prison.",
"Johnson,",
"19,",
"of",
"Charlottesville,",
"was",
"sentenced",
"to",
"126",
"months",
"in",
"federal",
"prison.",
"Tyree,",
"Jones",
"and",
"Johnson",
"were",
"also",
"ordered",
"to",
"pay",
"$4,079",
"restitution",
"joint",
"and",
"severally",
"to",
"the",
"victims",
"of",
"these",
"crimes.",
"Wilson,",
"24,",
"of",
"Charlottesville,",
"was",
"sentenced",
"today",
"to",
"68",
"months",
"in",
"federal",
"prison.",
"Demetrius",
"Steppe",
"will",
"be",
"sentenced",
"on",
"Friday,",
"July",
"28,",
"2017.",
"“This",
"prosecution",
"is",
"an",
"example",
"of",
"the",
"application",
"of",
"Attorney",
"General",
"Sessions’",
"March",
"8,",
"2017",
"Memorandum",
"announcing",
"the",
"Department",
"of",
"Justice’s",
"Commitment",
"to",
"Targeting",
"Violent",
"Crime,”",
"Acting",
"United",
"States",
"Attorney",
"Rick",
"A.",
"Mountcastle",
"said",
"today.",
"“The",
"Albemarle",
"County",
"Police",
"Department,",
"the",
"Greene",
"County",
"Sheriff’s",
"Office,",
"and",
"the",
"Federal",
"Bureau",
"of",
"Investigation",
"worked",
"together",
"to",
"identify",
"and",
"quickly",
"apprehend",
"these",
"violent",
"criminals",
"before",
"they",
"could",
"do",
"more",
"violence",
"to",
"our",
"citizens.",
"The",
"Albemarle",
"and",
"Greene",
"County",
"offices",
"of",
"the",
"Commonwealth’s",
"Attorney",
"worked",
"together",
"with",
"our",
"office",
"to",
"decide",
"to",
"bring",
"this",
"case",
"in",
"Federal",
"court",
"and",
"our",
"Assistant",
"United",
"States",
"Attorneys",
"ensured",
"that",
"these",
"defendants",
"received",
"appropriate",
"sentences",
"under",
"federal",
"law",
"so",
"that",
"they",
"no",
"longer",
"present",
"a",
"danger",
"to",
"our",
"citizens.",
"The",
"Department’s",
"violent",
"crime",
"strategy",
"targets",
"violent",
"criminals",
"such",
"as",
"these",
"in",
"a",
"common-sense",
"way",
"to",
"make",
"our",
"communities",
"safer",
"for",
"law-abiding",
"citizens.”",
"“The",
"facts",
"of",
"this",
"case",
"are",
"egregious.",
"These",
"violent",
"criminals",
"–",
"who",
"terrorized",
"our",
"central",
"Virginia",
"communities",
"with",
"handguns,",
"sawed-off",
"shotguns,",
"and",
"even",
"an",
"assault",
"rifle–",
"thankfully,",
"no",
"longer",
"pose",
"a",
"threat.",
"The",
"FBI",
"is",
"committed",
"to",
"the",
"Department",
"of",
"Justice’s",
"renewed",
"emphasis",
"on",
"removing",
"violent",
"criminals",
"like",
"these",
"from",
"our",
"streets,”",
"said",
"Adam",
"S.",
"Lee,",
"Special",
"Agent",
"in",
"Charge",
"of",
"the",
"FBI’s",
"Richmond",
"Division.",
"“I",
"want",
"to",
"thank",
"our",
"colleagues",
"at",
"the",
"United",
"States",
"Attorney’s",
"Office",
"for",
"the",
"Western",
"District",
"of",
"Virginia",
"for",
"their",
"expert",
"prosecution",
"of",
"this",
"case",
"and",
"I",
"want",
"to",
"thank",
"our",
"outstanding",
"partners",
"at",
"the",
"Albemarle",
"County",
"Police",
"Department",
"and",
"the",
"Greene",
"County",
"Sheriff’s",
"Office",
"for",
"their",
"collaboration.",
"I’ve",
"said",
"this",
"in",
"similar",
"FBI",
"cases",
"over",
"the",
"past",
"year;",
"Virginia",
"is",
"not",
"a",
"safe",
"place",
"for",
"criminals",
"to",
"operate",
"and",
"victimize",
"our",
"citizens.",
"We",
"are",
"mobilized",
"against",
"you",
"and",
"we",
"will",
"put",
"you",
"in",
"prison",
"for",
"a",
"long,",
"long",
"time.”",
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"four",
"men",
"were",
"responsible",
"for",
"the",
"armed",
"robbery",
"of",
"five",
"commercial",
"establishments",
"throughout",
"June",
"and",
"July",
"2016.",
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"targets",
"were",
"comprised",
"of",
"convenience",
"stores",
"and",
"pizza",
"restaurants",
"in",
"Albemarle",
"and",
"Greene",
"Counties.",
"In",
"each",
"armed",
"robbery,",
"the",
"defendants",
"–",
"wearing",
"masks,",
"gloves,",
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"dark",
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"entered",
"local",
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"gunpoint.",
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"stole",
"cash",
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"cell",
"phones",
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"invasion,",
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"kidnapping,",
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"all",
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"which",
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"on",
"the",
"evening",
"of",
"July",
"18,",
"2016.",
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"night,",
"defendants",
"Tyree,",
"Jones,",
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"residence",
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"throwing",
"a",
"propane",
"tank",
"through",
"a",
"sliding",
"glass",
"door.",
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"homeowner",
"was",
"inside,",
"alone,",
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"the",
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"he",
"went",
"downstairs,",
"he",
"saw",
"three",
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"–",
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"Tyree,",
"Jones,",
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"Johnson",
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"in",
"his",
"living",
"room,",
"armed",
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"firearm.",
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"forced",
"the",
"victim",
"against",
"the",
"wall",
"and",
"struck",
"him,",
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"house.",
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"to",
"enter",
"his",
"own",
"vehicle",
"in",
"his",
"garage,",
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"--",
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"gunpoint",
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"at",
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"Fargo",
"bank",
"at",
"the",
"intersection",
"of",
"Route",
"29",
"and",
"Airport",
"Road.",
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"that",
"location,",
"the",
"defendants",
"spotted",
"another",
"victim,",
"who",
"was",
"a",
"passerby",
"walking",
"through",
"the",
"parking",
"lot,",
"having",
"just",
"come",
"from",
"the",
"nearby",
"airport",
"with",
"his",
"luggage",
"still",
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"defendants",
"abducted",
"the",
"man,",
"forcing",
"him",
"into",
"the",
"car",
"at",
"gunpoint.",
"When",
"the",
"first",
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"was",
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"money",
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"the",
"ATM",
"machine,",
"the",
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"him",
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"car.",
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"two",
"kidnapping",
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"in",
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"a",
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"7-11",
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"gunpoint.",
"Soon",
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"told",
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"to",
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"later",
"abandoned",
"the",
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"Bureau",
"of",
"Investigation,",
"the",
"Albemarle",
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"Police",
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"the",
"Greene",
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"Sheriff’s",
"Office,",
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"from",
"the",
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"County",
"and",
"Greene",
"County",
"Commonwealth",
"Attorneys",
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"Assistant",
"United",
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"Attorneys",
"Ronald",
"M.",
"Huber",
"and",
"Christopher",
"Kavanaugh",
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The Albemarle and Greene County offices of the Commonwealth’s Attorney worked together with our office to decide to bring this case in Federal court and our Assistant United States Attorneys ensured that these defendants received appropriate sentences under federal law so that they no longer present a danger to our citizens. The Department’s violent crime strategy targets violent criminals such as these in a common-sense way to make our communities safer for law-abiding citizens.” “The facts of this case are egregious. These violent criminals – who terrorized our central Virginia communities with handguns, sawed-off shotguns, and even an assault rifle– thankfully, no longer pose a threat. The FBI is committed to the Department of Justice’s renewed emphasis on removing violent criminals like these from our streets,” said Adam S. Lee, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division. “I want to thank our colleagues at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia for their expert prosecution of this case and I want to thank our outstanding partners at the Albemarle County Police Department and the Greene County Sheriff’s Office for their collaboration. I’ve said this in similar FBI cases over the past year; Virginia is not a safe place for criminals to operate and victimize our citizens. We are mobilized against you and we will put you in prison for a long, long time.” These four men were responsible for the armed robbery of five commercial establishments throughout June and July 2016. The targets were comprised of convenience stores and pizza restaurants in Albemarle and Greene Counties. In each armed robbery, the defendants – wearing masks, gloves, and dark clothing – entered local businesses and threatened the employees at gunpoint. They stole cash and cell phones from the employees, and fled the store. This violent crime spree culminated with a home invasion, carjacking, kidnapping, and armed robbery, all of which took place on the evening of July 18, 2016. That night, defendants Tyree, Jones, and Johnson broke into an Albemarle County residence by throwing a propane tank through a sliding glass door. The homeowner was inside, alone, and heard the loud explosion. When he went downstairs, he saw three men – later identified as Tyree, Jones, and Johnson – in his living room, armed with a firearm. They forced the victim against the wall and struck him, and then ransacked the house. Afterwards, the defendants commanded the victim to enter his own vehicle in his garage, and they then drove him away from home -- at gunpoint -- to a nearby ATM located at the Wells Fargo bank at the intersection of Route 29 and Airport Road. At that location, the defendants spotted another victim, who was a passerby walking through the parking lot, having just come from the nearby airport with his luggage still in hand. The defendants abducted the man, forcing him into the car at gunpoint. When the first victim was unsuccessful at getting money from the ATM machine, the defendants again forced him back into the car. With the two kidnapping victims in the car, the defendants drove to a nearby 7-11 convenience store and robbed the employees at gunpoint. Soon thereafter, in a nearby neighborhood, the defendants stopped the car and told both victims to get out and both complied. The defendants later abandoned the vehicle, which was later recovered by law enforcement. The investigation of the case was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Albemarle County Police Department and the Greene County Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from the Albemarle County and Greene County Commonwealth Attorneys Offices. Assistant United States Attorneys Ronald M. Huber and Christopher Kavanaugh prosecuted the case for the United States. |
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] | https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/fultondale-doctor-sentenced-unlawful-drug-distribution-and-heath-care-fraud-and.txt.gz | Fultondale Doctor Sentenced for Unlawful Drug Distribution and Heath Care Fraud and Demopolis Pharmacist Sentenced for Health Care Fraud BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A federal judge today sentenced a Fultondale doctor to six years in prison for prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose and engaging in health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr. U.S. District Judge Annemarie C. Axon sentenced PAUL ROBERTS, M.D., 48, of Fultondale, Ala., a physician and former co-owner of Southeast Urgent Care (“SEUC”) in Fultondale, following a guilty plea he entered to 16 counts stemming from a June 2019 Second Superseding Indictment. Roberts pled guilty to 12 counts of prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose, including allowing unqualified staff such as an X-ray technician, to prescribe controlled substances to patients using prescriptions that Roberts pre-signed. He also prescribed controlled substances to two women, in exchange for, or in an attempt to obtain sexual favors from them. Roberts also pled guilty to a conspiracy and scheme to fraudulently bill Blue Cross Blue Shield for office visits. In addition, he pled guilty to a conspiracy and scheme to fraudulently bill health insurance companies for up to $2.2 million worth of medically unnecessary compounded drugs in exchange for kickbacks. Roberts was also ordered to pay restitution of $2.2 million, a fine of $100,000, and 12 years of supervision following his release from prison. The U.S. Marshals took Roberts into custody at sentencing. As part of the plea agreement, Roberts agreed to relinquish all his medical licenses, including his Alabama medical license. In a related case, STANLEY REEVES, 62, of Demopolis, Ala., a pharmacist and owner of F&F Drugs in Demopolis, was sentenced to 38 months for one count of conspiring to fraudulent bill health insurance companies for $10.5 million worth of medically unnecessary compounded drugs. Of the $10.5 million, $2.2 million was for compounded drugs prescribed by Roberts. Reeves was also ordered to pay restitution of $10.5 million, pay forfeiture of $900,000, and a fine of $100,000. Reeves paid $400,000 of those amounts at sentencing. As part of the plea agreement, Reeves agreed to surrender his pharmacist license to the Alabama Board of Pharmacy. “In blatant disregard for the law, these defendants chose greed over patients’ welfare,” said U.S. Attorney Prim Escalona. “This kind of criminal conduct endangers lives in our communities and impacts healthcare costs, and we will continue to prioritize these cases.” “DEA is committed to bringing to justice those who engage in the dispensing of prescription drugs outside the course of a legitimate medical purpose,” Morris said. “The sentences handed down are a direct result of the hard work put forth by all law enforcement agencies involved. Today justice has been served.” “Today’s sentence sends a message to all those in the medical field that neither their medical license nor their white lab coats will protect them from the consequences of illegal drug distribution and medical fraud,” Sharp said. “Roberts and Reeves violated both our laws and their solemn oaths as medical professionals and they will now pay for those violations. It is sad to know that while many individuals continue to struggle with serious opiate addiction, this case reveals that such powerful narcotics can sometimes become available for abuse because of the illegal actions of those in the medical community.” BRETT TAFT, 46, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., is listed as a co-defendant in the compounding drug health care fraud conspiracy and scheme described in the June 2019 Second Superseding Indictment. A trial date has not yet been set. FBI and DEA investigated the cases. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Chinelo Dike-Minor, Austin Shutt, Kristen Osborne, and Lloyd C. Peeples are prosecuting the case. |
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] | https://www.ktnv.com/news/national/inmate-escapes-from-colorado-state-prison-facility-by-climbing-fence?_amp=true.txt.gz | GOLDEN, Colo. — A man who escaped from a Colorado Department of Corrections prison in Golden Tuesday morning has been captured. According to police, Sean Garcia, 27, was located and arrested in Denver. The escapee was taken into custody after authorities set a perimeter in the area. Garcia had escaped from the state prison facility by climbing a perimeter fence. Garcia is serving time for weapons and theft charges out of Rio Blanco County. His Parole eligibility date was in January, and his mandatory release date was Sep. 2 of this year, according to the DOC. Details as to how Garcia managed to escape the secure facility by climbing a fence have not been released. An investigation is ongoing. |
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"ISLAND",
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"even",
"after",
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"offered",
"assistance,",
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"called",
"me",
"to",
"inquire",
"what",
"those",
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"—",
"I",
"had",
"to",
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"it",
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"the",
"public",
"report.",
"\"I",
"am",
"furious",
"that",
"I",
"would",
"be",
"lumped",
"together",
"in",
"the",
"same",
"headline",
"with",
"a",
"man",
"who",
"is",
"being",
"investigated",
"for",
"such",
"acts,",
"without",
"verification",
"of",
"such",
"accusations.”",
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"are",
"also",
"reading…",
"State",
"Fair",
"Board",
"Chairwoman",
"Beth",
"Smith",
"said",
"in",
"response",
"to",
"the",
"audit",
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"“it",
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"and",
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"checks”",
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"had",
"concerns",
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"an",
"interview,",
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"said",
"she",
"had",
"concerns",
"about",
"some",
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"the",
"State",
"Fair’s",
"financial",
"practices",
"from",
"the",
"beginning.",
"She",
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"the",
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"executive",
"director",
"in",
"January",
"2018.",
"“I",
"love",
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"State",
"Fair,",
"and",
"I",
"love",
"the",
"fair",
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"she",
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"from",
"Great",
"Falls,",
"Montana.",
"Not",
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"did",
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"grow",
"up",
"in",
"it,",
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"my",
"kids",
"in",
"the",
"fair",
"business.",
"They",
"all",
"showed",
"cattle,",
"sheep,",
"horses”",
"and",
"were",
"longtime",
"4-Hers,",
"she",
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"concern",
"will",
"always",
"be",
"for",
"the",
"greater",
"good",
"—",
"that",
"is,",
"the",
"people",
"of",
"Nebraska",
"and",
"their",
"State",
"Fair,”",
"Cox",
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"“But",
"I",
"am",
"not",
"willing",
"to",
"be",
"a",
"victim",
"any",
"longer.",
"And",
"there",
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"things",
"that",
"need",
"to",
"be",
"talked",
"about,",
"that",
"the",
"public",
"needs",
"to",
"know.”",
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"that",
"activity",
"in",
"the",
"fair’s",
"checking",
"account",
"did",
"not",
"match",
"the",
"general",
"ledger,",
"something",
"the",
"chief",
"financial",
"officer",
"should",
"be",
"responsible",
"for.",
"But",
"a",
"forensics",
"accounting",
"team",
"from",
"Lincoln,",
"which",
"was",
"hired",
"by",
"the",
"State",
"Fair",
"Board,",
"“found",
"out",
"that",
"those",
"reconciliations",
"never",
"happened",
"’til",
"I",
"took",
"over",
"the",
"books",
"in",
"December,”",
"Cox",
"said.",
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"speculates",
"that",
"the",
"reason",
"Kopke",
"“might",
"not",
"have",
"wanted",
"to",
"do",
"reconciliation",
"is",
"that",
"when",
"you’re",
"removing",
"things",
"from",
"the",
"general",
"ledger",
"and",
"yet",
"that",
"cash",
"is",
"still",
"coming",
"out",
"of",
"the",
"checking",
"account,",
"then",
"of",
"course",
"it",
"won’t",
"reconcile.”",
"Cox,",
"now",
"a",
"senior",
"consultant",
"to",
"the",
"State",
"Fair,",
"was",
"asked",
"whether,",
"as",
"executive",
"director,",
"she",
"should",
"have",
"been",
"responsible",
"for",
"any",
"irregularities.",
"“I",
"inquired",
"about",
"those",
"very",
"things",
"every",
"single",
"day",
"and",
"was",
"never",
"told",
"about",
"what",
"was",
"really",
"happening,”",
"Cox",
"said.",
"“So,",
"yeah,",
"at",
"the",
"end",
"of",
"the",
"day,",
"you",
"bet,",
"the",
"buck",
"stops",
"with",
"the",
"executive",
"director.",
"But",
"I’m",
"not",
"sure",
"when",
"you",
"have",
"somebody",
"that",
"allegedly",
"is",
"conducting",
"fraud",
"right",
"beneath",
"your",
"nose",
"that",
"anyone",
"in",
"this",
"case",
"would",
"have",
"picked",
"up",
"on",
"it.”",
"‘Rain,",
"mud",
"…",
"and",
"secret",
"meetings’",
"Former",
"Grand",
"Island",
"Mayor",
"Jeremy",
"Jensen,",
"a",
"member",
"of",
"the",
"State",
"Fair",
"board,",
"said",
"that",
"Smith,",
"the",
"board's",
"chairwoman",
"from",
"Lincoln,",
"asked",
"the",
"13",
"board",
"members",
"to",
"direct",
"media",
"questions",
"to",
"her.",
"But",
"in",
"a",
"Facebook",
"post",
"following",
"the",
"audit,",
"Jensen",
"wrote",
"about",
"efforts",
"to",
"oust",
"Cox",
"last",
"year.",
"Jensen",
"joined",
"the",
"fair",
"board",
"on",
"March",
"12,",
"2019.",
"“So",
"my",
"first",
"experience",
"was",
"the",
"drama",
"of",
"the",
"2019",
"fair",
"—",
"complete",
"with",
"rain,",
"mud,",
"no",
"parking,",
"and",
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"meetings",
"and",
"conversations",
"to",
"fire",
"Lori",
"Cox",
"during",
"the",
"fair,”",
"he",
"wrote.",
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"spent",
"10-plus",
"days",
"trying",
"to",
"figure",
"out",
"what",
"the",
"hell",
"I",
"had",
"gotten",
"myself",
"into.”",
"As",
"the",
"2019",
"fair",
"unfolded,",
"Jensen",
"wrote,",
"“It",
"was",
"just",
"bizarre”",
"to",
"“see",
"internally",
"the",
"way",
"people",
"are",
"capable",
"of",
"behaving.",
"Lori",
"starts",
"asking",
"questions,",
"and",
"influential",
"people",
"wanted",
"her",
"out",
"—",
"DURING",
"THE",
"2019",
"FAIR!",
"I",
"was",
"about",
"to",
"lose",
"my",
"mind.",
"We",
"are",
"trying",
"to",
"get",
"buses",
"in",
"to",
"shuttle",
"folks",
"to",
"the",
"fair,",
"and",
"we",
"have",
"to",
"go",
"into",
"executive",
"board",
"meetings",
"to",
"talk",
"about",
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"—",
"come",
"on!”",
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"wrote",
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"he",
"gets",
"a",
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"agitated",
"when",
"I",
"hear",
"someone",
"say,",
"‘Why",
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"board",
"looked",
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"this?’",
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"spent",
"more",
"hours",
"digging",
"into",
"this",
"garbage",
"during",
"the",
"pandemic",
"and",
"being",
"at",
"home",
"than",
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"did",
"building",
"a",
"city",
"budget.",
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"truth",
"is,",
"my",
"findings",
"make",
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"uncomfortable",
"—",
"including",
"vendors,",
"staff",
"and",
"board",
"members.”",
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"the",
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"29",
"board",
"meeting,",
"the",
"chief",
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"officer",
"gave",
"an",
"“off-the-cuff",
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"that",
"the",
"fair",
"is",
"on",
"the",
"verge",
"of",
"bankruptcy",
"and",
"then",
"he",
"promptly",
"resigns.",
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"do",
"understand",
"that",
"bankruptcy",
"means",
"insolvency,",
"right?",
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"do",
"you",
"go",
"bankrupt",
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"$4",
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"a",
"year",
"in",
"lottery",
"funds,",
"and",
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"had",
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"clean,",
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"to",
"get",
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"23,",
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"to",
"talk",
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"24",
"board",
"meeting",
"in",
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"been",
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"team,",
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"of",
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"were",
"over,",
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"it",
"was",
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"both",
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"a",
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"invoices,",
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"no",
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"prevent",
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"happening.",
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"this",
"meeting,",
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"collecting",
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She said Kopke kept expenditures off the general ledger. “It is an utter disgust that someone from my staff would allegedly carry out such larceny, and then look me straight in the eye and lie about it,” Cox wrote in a statement. “The state auditor’s letter states that I had ‘questionable charges,’ but even after I offered assistance, no auditor called me to inquire what those charges were — I had to read it in the public report. "I am furious that I would be lumped together in the same headline with a man who is being investigated for such acts, without verification of such accusations.” People are also reading… State Fair Board Chairwoman Beth Smith said in response to the audit that “it was Cox and her staff who uncovered the suspicious checks” late last year. Cox had concerns In an interview, Cox said she had concerns about some of the State Fair’s financial practices from the beginning. She became the fair’s executive director in January 2018. “I love the Nebraska State Fair, and I love the fair business,” she said from Great Falls, Montana. Not only did she grow up in it, “I raised my kids in the fair business. They all showed cattle, sheep, horses” and were longtime 4-Hers, she said. “My concern will always be for the greater good — that is, the people of Nebraska and their State Fair,” Cox said. “But I am not willing to be a victim any longer. And there are things that need to be talked about, that the public needs to know.” She said that activity in the fair’s checking account did not match the general ledger, something the chief financial officer should be responsible for. But a forensics accounting team from Lincoln, which was hired by the State Fair Board, “found out that those reconciliations never happened ’til I took over the books in December,” Cox said. She speculates that the reason Kopke “might not have wanted to do reconciliation is that when you’re removing things from the general ledger and yet that cash is still coming out of the checking account, then of course it won’t reconcile.” Cox, now a senior consultant to the State Fair, was asked whether, as executive director, she should have been responsible for any irregularities. “I inquired about those very things every single day and was never told about what was really happening,” Cox said. “So, yeah, at the end of the day, you bet, the buck stops with the executive director. But I’m not sure when you have somebody that allegedly is conducting fraud right beneath your nose that anyone in this case would have picked up on it.” ‘Rain, mud … and secret meetings’ Former Grand Island Mayor Jeremy Jensen, a member of the State Fair board, said that Smith, the board's chairwoman from Lincoln, asked the 13 board members to direct media questions to her. But in a Facebook post following the audit, Jensen wrote about efforts to oust Cox last year. Jensen joined the fair board on March 12, 2019. “So my first experience was the drama of the 2019 fair — complete with rain, mud, no parking, and secret meetings and conversations to fire Lori Cox during the fair,” he wrote. “I spent 10-plus days trying to figure out what the hell I had gotten myself into.” As the 2019 fair unfolded, Jensen wrote, “It was just bizarre” to “see internally the way people are capable of behaving. Lori starts asking questions, and influential people wanted her out — DURING THE 2019 FAIR! I was about to lose my mind. We are trying to get buses in to shuttle folks to the fair, and we have to go into executive board meetings to talk about ‘Personnel’ — come on!” Jensen wrote that he gets a “bit agitated when I hear someone say, ‘Why hasn’t the board looked into this?’ I spent more hours digging into this garbage during the pandemic and being at home than I did building a city budget. The truth is, my findings make people uncomfortable — including vendors, staff and board members.” At the Nov. 29 board meeting, the chief financial officer gave an “off-the-cuff presentation that the fair is on the verge of bankruptcy and then he promptly resigns. You do understand that bankruptcy means insolvency, right? How do you go bankrupt with $4 million a year in lottery funds, and very little debt?” Jensen wrote. “Shortly thereafter, it was discovered that some computers had their data wiped clean, and our bankers asked me to get more involved to get this mess figured out.” On Jan. 23, Jensen met with representatives of six banks to go over details and to talk about plans involving cash flow management. At the Feb. 24 board meeting in Lincoln, “I instructed Lori Cox to disclose that data had been wiped from the computers of the finance team, and she did,” Jensen wrote. “I was upset that there had been no public disclosure of this information prior to that day. I also publicly stated that the days of taking advantage of the fair were over, and the NSF had become a cash cow for nefarious persons to scam the fair. I knew that it was being done both legally, and illegally, and I went as far as to say that it would be really easy to set up a fake company and send the NSF fake invoices, because there were no procedures in place to prevent it from happening. After this meeting, I gave Lori Cox specific instructions of what I wanted her team to look into — which included examining every check that was posted to our bank account that had an amount in excess of $5,000 to verify its validity.” Cox and her team began reviewing the data Jensen requested, he wrote. “Within an hour, I received a phone call regarding checks to a vendor they didn’t know — RKBB Enterprises,” Jensen wrote, referring to a company created by Kopke. “I told her to immediately contact our attorney, the AG (attorney general) and the Governor’s office.” Jensen regrets that Cox was not given a chance to speak publicly at a special meeting on March 27, when she resigned and Jaime Parr was named acting executive director. Cox’s concerns started early In her statement, Cox wrote that she “discovered concerning matters” immediately after starting work at the fair. “The budget was previously approved only six months prior to each fair and appeared to reward unreasonable spending,” she wrote. “Some cost ratios paid to certain vendors were four times higher than fairs of similar nature. Capital reserves were spent down annually out of fear of a state raid. Certain department heads were making end runs to the board when they didn’t get what they wanted, and those appeals were forced upon the executive director. And there was poor communication with Fonner Park, contributing to multiple breaches in the Fonner-NSF lease agreement. “Additionally, problematic business practices were littered throughout most departments,” Cox wrote. “Here are a couple examples: in equine we had five competitions operating ‘off the books,’ paying expenses out of personal accounts and collecting their own revenues (enormous liability issues). Overtime was not tracked nor budgeted for. The 1868 Foundation (the State Fair’s fundraising arm) was purchasing $20,000 in concert tickets annually using donor money, while carrying huge overheads versus funds raised. “I repeatedly approached these and other issues with the board … but was met with the common phrase, ‘That’s how it’s always been done,’” Cox wrote. “Rather than working together toward virtuous solutions, by the 2018 State Fair retaliation had begun. I began hearing from Nebraska community members that my own board members were spreading rumors about me. I began to be harassed about wearing ball caps, shorts and ‘tight shirts.’” By the time the 2019 State Fair arrived, the board treasurer and chief financial officer “were bringing false accusations against me and other staff members daily,” Cox wrote. “They hollered intoxication, departure of duties, credit card abuse and even canceling the carnival. All of these allegations were false, but the damage was done.” ‘Embezzlement and shredded files’ Cox wrote the “toxicity of this atmosphere” affected her health. “I could’ve hung up my cleats at that point. Instead, I led my staff through an exhaustive exploration of our finances and budget process, which I had originally entrusted to Patrick Kopke, as were his job duties as CFO. “We found evidence of wiped hard drives, embezzlement and shredded files; in many cases it appeared some of these practices began years ago,” Cox wrote. “Taxes were overpaid. Checks were written to ‘unidentified persons.’ Monies and files were missing. A history of hundreds of thousands of dollars paid to ‘one-time vendors’ showed no accountability. And in December we discovered large checks were issued and not cashed … perhaps to falsify the expense sheet to decry ‘the Fair is going bankrupt!’” In 2018 and 2019, the fair dealt with “back-to-back catastrophic weather events,” Cox wrote. “In response to those challenges, I overhauled our budget for 2020, restructured, and put Nebraska State Fair on solid financial footing. Jeremy Jensen was critical in this U-turn, something we were praised for by our banking partners, sponsors and operational colleagues. Yet when Jensen and I made continuous asks of Chair Beth Smith to share with the public the findings we made on vendors, budget, procurement and payroll issues, the only response was, ‘We would like you to resign.’” Cox and Jensen both speak highly of Bill Ogg, the new executive director. Ogg “has my trust,” Jensen wrote. “He has enough information now to sanitize this organization. He said that he is referred to as a ‘fix-it’ guy — personally I hope he is more of a ‘cleaner.’" Cox wrote, “I am the fifth executive director in a row to be forced into resignation. … As this board struggles to find its virtue, I hope they will give Ogg the trust and latitude he’ll need. Nebraskans deserve a fair board that will shed its political agendas, stop the harassment of its leaders and lead with selfless ambition.” |
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] | https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/gabonese-national-pleads-guilty-foreign-bribery-scheme.txt.gz | Gabonese National Pleads Guilty to Foreign Bribery Scheme Defendant Bribed High-Ranking Government Officials in Multiple African Countries to Obtain Uranium Concessions and Other Mining Rights for Himself and Others The son of a former Prime Minister of Gabon pleaded guilty earlier today in federal court to conspiring to make corrupt payments to government officials in Africa in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Deputy Assistant Attorney General Sung-Hee Suh of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Robert L. Capers of the Eastern District of New York, Assistant Director in Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. of the FBI’s New York Field Office and Acting Special Agent in Charge Ronald L. Whitsett of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), New York made the announcement. Samuel Mebiame, 43, a Gabonese national, worked as a consultant to a mining company that was owned by a joint venture between Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC (Och-Ziff), a New York-based hedge fund management company, and an entity incorporated in Turks and Caicos. According to court documents, between at least 2007 and 2012, Mebiame worked as a “fixer” for the joint venture and conspired with others to pay bribes to high-level government officials in Chad and Niger in order to obtain business opportunities and mining rights for the joint venture in both of those countries. In addition, Mebiame paid bribes to high-level government officials in Guinea as an agent of the Turks and Caicos entity to obtain business opportunities and mining rights in that country. In addition, according to court documents, the bribes paid by Mebiame to the high-ranking government officials were often masked through additional intermediaries or lawyers. In Niger, Mebiame paid more than $3 million in bribes to a high-ranking government official both directly and through intermediary agents, who were selected by the government official. Mebiame also made payments for luxury cars for that foreign official. In return, Mebiame obtained licenses for uranium concessions for the joint venture from the government of Niger. Similarly, in Chad, Mebiame bribed a high-ranking government official with cash payments and luxury foreign travel for the official and the official’s wife. In return, Mebiame obtained uranium concessions for the joint venture, including an asset which had been stripped from a French-owned company by the Chadian government at Mebiame’s urging. In Guinea, during a time when the conspirators were seeking to establish a state-owned mining company there, Mebiame made corrupt payments to gain special access to senior Guinean government officials. Mebiame provided the officials with cash and other benefits, including an S-Class Mercedes Benz vehicle and the use of private planes, in exchange for special access and confidential information. On Sept. 29, 2016, in connection with the government’s investigation, Och-Ziff was charged pursuant to a criminal information with violations of the FCPA’s anti-bribery, books and records, and accounting controls violations for conduct in Libya and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and conduct in Chad and Niger connected to Mebiame’s conduct. Och-Ziff entered into a deferred prosecution agreement in connection with those charges. An Och-Ziff subsidiary company, OZ Africa Management GP LLC (OZ Africa), pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information related to large-scale bribe payments in the Democratic Republic of Congo. OZ Africa is scheduled to be sentenced on March 29, 2017. The FBI’s New York Field Office and IRS-CI New York are investigating the case. Assistant Chief Leo R. Tsao and Trial Attorney James P. McDonald of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys James P. Loonam, Jonathan P. Lax and David Pitluck of the Eastern District of New York are prosecuting the case. The Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs provided significant assistance in this matter. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Boston Regional Office provided significant cooperation. The Criminal Division’s Fraud Section is responsible for investigating and prosecuting all FCPA matters. Additional information about the Justice Department’s FCPA enforcement efforts can be found at www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa. Mebiame Samuel Information Mebiame Samuel Plea Agreement |
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"County",
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"the",
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"Virginia",
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"Fairfax",
"County",
"Police",
"Department,",
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"from",
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"Northern",
"Virginia",
"Human",
"Trafficking",
"Task",
"Force.",
"Assistant",
"United",
"States",
"Attorney",
"Michael",
"J.",
"Frank",
"and",
"Virginia",
"Assistant",
"Attorney",
"General",
"and",
"Special",
"Assistant",
"United",
"States",
"Attorney",
"Marc",
"J.",
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"press",
"release",
"may",
"be",
"found",
"on",
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"website",
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"the",
"United",
"States",
"Attorney's",
"Office",
"for",
"the",
"Eastern",
"District",
"of",
"Virginia",
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"documents",
"and",
"information",
"may",
"be",
"found",
"on",
"the",
"website",
"of",
"the",
"District",
"Court",
"for",
"the",
"Eastern",
"District",
"of",
"Virginia",
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"could",
"efficiently",
"ferret",
"out",
"waste",
"and",
"enforce",
"ethics",
"laws.",
"“I",
"do",
"think",
"there",
"probably",
"should",
"be",
"a",
"role",
"...",
"to",
"make",
"sure",
"that",
"counties",
"are",
"addressing",
"any",
"ethical",
"issues",
"that",
"come",
"up,”",
"said",
"Baltimore",
"Democrat",
"Del.",
"Maggie",
"McIntosh,",
"chair",
"of",
"the",
"House",
"Appropriations",
"Committee.",
"Sen.",
"Bill",
"Ferguson,",
"also",
"a",
"Baltimore",
"Democrat,",
"said",
"nobody",
"wants",
"to",
"see",
"public",
"money",
"wasted",
"but",
"that",
"he’d",
"consider",
"such",
"an",
"investigator",
"role",
"with",
"skepticism.",
"“I",
"believe",
"education",
"dollars",
"are",
"best",
"spent",
"educating",
"kids",
"and",
"least",
"effectively",
"used",
"building",
"out",
"further",
"education",
"bureaucracy,”",
"he",
"said.",
"The",
"investigator,",
"as",
"proposed",
"by",
"Hogan,",
"would",
"be",
"an",
"independent",
"watchdog,",
"appointed",
"by",
"a",
"bipartisan",
"political",
"committee,",
"and",
"housed",
"in",
"the",
"state’s",
"Department",
"of",
"Education.",
"The",
"person",
"would",
"have",
"broad",
"power",
"to",
"investigate",
"procurement,",
"ethics,",
"graduation",
"requirements,",
"illegal",
"conduct",
"and",
"school",
"budgets,",
"among",
"other",
"things.",
"Maryland",
"spends",
"about",
"$6",
"billion",
"of",
"its",
"$43",
"billion",
"state",
"budget",
"on",
"K-12",
"education.",
"“It",
"is",
"one",
"of",
"the",
"largest",
"expenses",
"in",
"our",
"state",
"budget.",
"There",
"needs",
"to",
"be",
"accountability,”",
"said",
"Senate",
"Minority",
"Leader",
"J.B.",
"Jennings,",
"a",
"Baltimore",
"County",
"Republican.",
"“It",
"needs",
"to",
"be",
"reviewed",
"so",
"the",
"governor",
"and",
"the",
"legislature",
"know",
"the",
"money",
"is",
"being",
"spent",
"wisely.”",
"John",
"R.",
"Woolums,",
"lobbyist",
"for",
"the",
"Maryland",
"Association",
"of",
"Boards",
"of",
"Education,",
"said",
"the",
"state",
"education",
"department",
"and",
"its",
"superintendent",
"already",
"have",
"ample",
"authority",
"over",
"local",
"school",
"systems.",
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"General",
"Assembly",
"passed",
"a",
"whistleblower",
"protection",
"measure",
"just",
"last",
"year",
"protecting",
"school",
"employees,",
"Woolums",
"said.",
"“Let",
"that",
"process",
"move",
"forward",
"rather",
"than",
"creating",
"a",
"new",
"office,”",
"he",
"said.",
"In",
"pitching",
"his",
"investigator,",
"Hogan",
"pointed",
"to",
"allegations",
"revealed",
"this",
"fall",
"that",
"Baltimore",
"County’s",
"top",
"leaders",
"failed",
"to",
"disclose",
"they",
"were",
"paid",
"contractors",
"of",
"a",
"company",
"awarded",
"hundreds",
"of",
"millions",
"in",
"school",
"technology",
"contracts,",
"to",
"a",
"mold",
"problem",
"in",
"Howard",
"County",
"schools",
"two",
"years",
"ago,",
"and",
"to",
"an",
"ongoing",
"controversy",
"about",
"alleged",
"grade-tampering",
"in",
"Prince",
"George’s",
"County.",
"Amid",
"Baltimore",
"City",
"schools’",
"ongoing",
"heating",
"crisis,",
"the",
"governor",
"also",
"sharply",
"rebuked",
"the",
"city",
"school",
"system",
"for",
"its",
"way",
"of",
"spending",
"money,",
"accusing",
"the",
"district",
"of",
"having",
"some",
"of",
"the",
"highest",
"administrative",
"costs",
"in",
"the",
"country",
"and",
"mismanaging",
"state",
"taxpayer",
"dollars",
"that",
"help",
"pay",
"for",
"schools.",
"Baltimore",
"Mayor",
"Catherine",
"E.",
"Pugh",
"declined",
"to",
"comment",
"on",
"Hogan’s",
"statements",
"about",
"mismanagement",
"and",
"corruption",
"in",
"local",
"school",
"districts",
"across",
"the",
"state,",
"except",
"to",
"say",
"she",
"believed",
"that",
"criticism",
"was",
"intended",
"for",
"other",
"school",
"systems.",
"Separately,",
"the",
"Republican",
"governor",
"announced",
"the",
"state",
"would",
"spend",
"$2.5",
"million",
"out",
"of",
"an",
"emergency,",
"discretionary",
"account",
"to",
"help",
"pay",
"to",
"fix",
"the",
"heat",
"in",
"Baltimore",
"City",
"schools.",
"Schools",
"were",
"shut",
"down",
"districtwide",
"Friday",
"because",
"of",
"inadequate",
"heating",
"systems",
"during",
"the",
"recent",
"cold",
"snap",
"that",
"had",
"left",
"some",
"students",
"huddled",
"in",
"parkas",
"inside",
"classrooms",
"and",
"sparked",
"widespread",
"concern.",
"Hogan",
"called",
"the",
"situation",
"a",
"“horrendous",
"crisis”",
"and",
"noted",
"recent",
"Baltimore",
"Sun",
"reporting",
"that",
"found",
"the",
"city",
"returned",
"$66",
"million",
"designated",
"for",
"heating",
"and",
"air",
"conditioning",
"systems",
"in",
"recent",
"years",
"because",
"the",
"projects",
"took",
"too",
"long",
"or",
"grew",
"too",
"expensive.",
"The",
"state’s",
"Department",
"of",
"General",
"Services,",
"not",
"the",
"city,",
"will",
"oversee",
"how",
"the",
"emergency",
"aid",
"is",
"spent.",
"Maryland",
"Policy",
"&",
"Politics",
"The",
"governor",
"also",
"promised",
"to",
"introduce",
"legislation",
"in",
"the",
"forthcoming",
"General",
"Assembly",
"session",
"to",
"undo",
"a",
"law",
"prescribing",
"how",
"Maryland",
"uses",
"test",
"scores",
"to",
"determine",
"which",
"schools",
"are",
"“failing.”",
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"governor",
"said",
"that",
"he",
"wants",
"test",
"scores",
"to",
"make",
"up",
"80",
"percent",
"of",
"the",
"determination,",
"up",
"from",
"the",
"65",
"percent",
"in",
"current",
"law.",
"Hogan’s",
"legislation",
"opens",
"another",
"front",
"of",
"partisan",
"debate",
"in",
"the",
"legislature,",
"which",
"last",
"year",
"overrode",
"his",
"veto",
"of",
"the",
"current",
"law.",
"The",
"state’s",
"largest",
"teacher’s",
"union,",
"the",
"Maryland",
"State",
"Education",
"Association,",
"pushed",
"hard",
"for",
"the",
"current",
"law",
"and",
"on",
"Monday",
"rebuffed",
"the",
"idea",
"that",
"it",
"should",
"be",
"changed.",
"Sean",
"Johnson,",
"assistant",
"executive",
"director",
"for",
"the",
"organization,",
"said",
"the",
"state",
"needs",
"a",
"process",
"for",
"evaluating",
"schools",
"that",
"looks",
"at",
"more",
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"test",
"scores.",
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"at",
"test",
"scores,",
"you’re",
"missing",
"all",
"the",
"other",
"pieces",
"that",
"go",
"into",
"making",
"a",
"school",
"great,”",
"Johnson",
"said.",
"The",
"General",
"Assembly",
"reconvenes",
"in",
"Annapolis",
"on",
"Wednesday.",
"Baltimore",
"Sun",
"reporters",
"Scott",
"Dance",
"and",
"Luke",
"Broadwater",
"contributed",
"to",
"this",
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] | https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-hogan-education-20180108-story.html.txt.gz | Gov. Larry Hogan said Monday there is a crisis of confidence in Maryland’s public schools and proposed a new “investigator general” to root out what he described as corruption, mismanagement and ineptitude in some Maryland school districts. In Hogan’s vision, the investigator would have subpoena power, the authority to summon people to public hearings and a bully pulpit. “Our children desperately need someone to fight for their civil rights,” Hogan, a Republican, said during a wide-ranging news conference in Annapolis. “There’s not enough accountability.” Establishing such a position would require the endorsement of the General Assembly. The presiding officers of the legislature, Democrats House Speaker Michael E. Busch and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, declined to comment on Hogan’s characterization of schools or the idea of an investigator general. But several other prominent Democrats offered lukewarm support for an inquisitor who could efficiently ferret out waste and enforce ethics laws. “I do think there probably should be a role ... to make sure that counties are addressing any ethical issues that come up,” said Baltimore Democrat Del. Maggie McIntosh, chair of the House Appropriations Committee. Sen. Bill Ferguson, also a Baltimore Democrat, said nobody wants to see public money wasted but that he’d consider such an investigator role with skepticism. “I believe education dollars are best spent educating kids and least effectively used building out further education bureaucracy,” he said. The investigator, as proposed by Hogan, would be an independent watchdog, appointed by a bipartisan political committee, and housed in the state’s Department of Education. The person would have broad power to investigate procurement, ethics, graduation requirements, illegal conduct and school budgets, among other things. Maryland spends about $6 billion of its $43 billion state budget on K-12 education. “It is one of the largest expenses in our state budget. There needs to be accountability,” said Senate Minority Leader J.B. Jennings, a Baltimore County Republican. “It needs to be reviewed so the governor and the legislature know the money is being spent wisely.” John R. Woolums, lobbyist for the Maryland Association of Boards of Education, said the state education department and its superintendent already have ample authority over local school systems. The General Assembly passed a whistleblower protection measure just last year protecting school employees, Woolums said. “Let that process move forward rather than creating a new office,” he said. In pitching his investigator, Hogan pointed to allegations revealed this fall that Baltimore County’s top leaders failed to disclose they were paid contractors of a company awarded hundreds of millions in school technology contracts, to a mold problem in Howard County schools two years ago, and to an ongoing controversy about alleged grade-tampering in Prince George’s County. Amid Baltimore City schools’ ongoing heating crisis, the governor also sharply rebuked the city school system for its way of spending money, accusing the district of having some of the highest administrative costs in the country and mismanaging state taxpayer dollars that help pay for schools. Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh declined to comment on Hogan’s statements about mismanagement and corruption in local school districts across the state, except to say she believed that criticism was intended for other school systems. Separately, the Republican governor announced the state would spend $2.5 million out of an emergency, discretionary account to help pay to fix the heat in Baltimore City schools. Schools were shut down districtwide Friday because of inadequate heating systems during the recent cold snap that had left some students huddled in parkas inside classrooms and sparked widespread concern. Hogan called the situation a “horrendous crisis” and noted recent Baltimore Sun reporting that found the city returned $66 million designated for heating and air conditioning systems in recent years because the projects took too long or grew too expensive. The state’s Department of General Services, not the city, will oversee how the emergency aid is spent. Maryland Policy & Politics The governor also promised to introduce legislation in the forthcoming General Assembly session to undo a law prescribing how Maryland uses test scores to determine which schools are “failing.” The governor said that he wants test scores to make up 80 percent of the determination, up from the 65 percent in current law. Hogan’s legislation opens another front of partisan debate in the legislature, which last year overrode his veto of the current law. The state’s largest teacher’s union, the Maryland State Education Association, pushed hard for the current law and on Monday rebuffed the idea that it should be changed. Sean Johnson, assistant executive director for the organization, said the state needs a process for evaluating schools that looks at more than test scores. “When you only look at test scores, you’re missing all the other pieces that go into making a school great,” Johnson said. The General Assembly reconvenes in Annapolis on Wednesday. Baltimore Sun reporters Scott Dance and Luke Broadwater contributed to this article. |
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] | https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2020/feb/05/griz-coach-checks-in-with-2020-recruiting-6/.txt.gz | Griz coach checks in with 2020 recruiting list Montana Grizzlies head coach Bobby Hauck speaks to attendees at the 2020 Griz Football Signing Day Social at the Hilton Garden Inn in Kalispell on Wednesday. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Montana Grizzlies head coach Bobby Hauck speaks with Nikki Sliter at the 2020 Griz Football Signing Day Social at the Hilton Garden Inn in Kalispell on Wednesday. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Attendees enjoy food and drinks at the 2020 Griz Football Signing Day Social at the Hilton Garden Inn in Kalispell on Wednesday. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) | February 5, 2020 12:08 AM The annual February signing day for college football used to be a really big deal, fraught with superlatives and last minute faxes. Minus the drama Montana football coach Bobby Hauck still made the trip up Highway 93 to first, Polson, and then Kalispell to talk about this year’s recruits. “Obviously we’ve had a lot of players come from the Flathead Valley and from the Kalispell high schools in particular,” Hauck said Wednesday, before speaking to a couple hundred fans at the Hilton Garden Inn. “This is a recruiting base for us, whether it’s Whitefish, Columbia Falls, Eureka, the two Kalispell schools, Bigfork, Polson or Ronan. “We’re going to have kids that are from these parts. Certainly to add these two is going to be big deal for us.” The two he referred are Glacier High products Drew Deck and Henry Nuce. “We’ve got Jerry Louie-McGee going out the door and Drew Deck has shown some of those same abilities,” Hauck said of the 5-foot-9, 150-pound Wolfpack receiver. All Louie-McGee did was become Montana’s leader in career receptions and be a terror on punt returns with three touchdowns. “We’re hoping (Deck) is a guy that fills all or part of that role for us,” Hauck said. Hauck noted both the 235-pound Nuce and Deck have been working with his former strength coach Mike Gerber, from Hauck’s first tenure at Montana from 2003-09. “As (Nuce) has matured physically he’s made huge jumps in terms of strength and speed,” Hauck said. “He went from being a guy that probably was not a guy you would recruit at our level to being a guy that’s a definite dude and a great prospect.” Montana had three new names to its signing day roster: Tight end Matt Simkins of Butte, tight end/receiver Peyton Brammer of Brush Prairie, Wash., and long snapper of Grayson Pibal out of Clackamas, Ore. Things being they are, Pibal is the highest-rated recruit – and he can zip the ball. Brammer is an intriguing story in that he missed a good chunk of his senior year with a torn knee ligament – otherwise he might have gone to a higher level. “We’ll see how his knee comes along,” Hauck said. “He may not start until next January but he’s a really good get for us. He had a pretty significant injury and we hung in there and some didn’t.” The list is also notable for transfer cornerbacks TraJon Cotton and Omar Hicks Onu, who came over from Oregon State in January. Their arrival comes as Billings’ Jesse Owens and 2019 starter Dareon Nash leave the program – Owens to play basketball at Montana State and Nash as a graduate transfer. Hauck wouldn’t necessarily make the connection. “We’ve had a shortage of corners from the day we’ve walked in the door and we’ve been in a scramble mode to catch up,” he said. “Everyone that’s played in a game for us, except for true freshman (in 2019) Corbin Walker, has been a converted wide receiver. “We’re looking forward to continuing to recruit some young corners, and whether it’s via transfer or developing our young guys we need to get guys that can cover on the field.” The Grizzlies begin spring drills on March 2, with 15th and final session taking place April 10 in Hamilton: the annual spring game will be under lights. Their 2020 regular season starts with a Sept. 5 home game against Division II Central Washington. 2020 Signing Class Feburary signees Peyton Brammer, TE, 6-5, 205, Brush Prairie, Wash. Gryson Pibal, LS, 6-3, 20-5, Clackamas, Ore. Matt Simkins, TE, 6-4, 190, Butte Transfers TraJon Cotton, CB, 6-1, 187, Sacramento Robbie Patterson, QB, 5-11, 200, Medford, Ore. Omar Hicks Onu, CB, 6-1, 192, Carrollton, Texas December signees Eric Barker, TE, 6-4, 225, Keizer, Ore. Brandon Casey, OL, 6-5, 265, Sandpoint, Idaho Asher Croy, LB, 6-0, 206, Bozeman Rishi Daniels, S, 5-11, 175, Seattle Drew Deck, WR, 5-9, 150, Kalispell Aaron Fontes, WR, 6-1, 170, Oxnard, Calif. Kevin Good, OL, 6-4, 270, Rocklin, Calif. Journey Grimsrud, DL, 6-3, 240, Huntley Xavier Harris, RB, 5-10, 185, Oxnard, Calif. Chase Johansen, LB, 6-1, 215, Park City, Utah Jaxon Lee, RB, 6-1, 183, Missoula Kila Lincoln, OL, 6-5, 250, Kamuela, Hawaii Henry Nuce, DL, 6-4, 235, Kalispell Guido Ossello, WR, 6-3, 195, Butte Carson Rostad, QB, 6-3, 215, Hamilton Autjoe Soe, CB, 6-1, 161, Murray, Utah |
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"Southern",
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"women,",
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"man,",
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"bring",
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"gun",
"violence",
"in",
"a",
"state",
"shaken",
"by",
"a",
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"last",
"month",
"that",
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"take",
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"\"Hell",
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"2020,",
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"groping",
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"from",
"prosecutors",
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"York",
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"Los",
"Angeles.",
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"Barbara",
"Boxer",
"of",
"California",
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"Sen.",
"Patrick",
"Leahy",
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"Vermont.",
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"Feinstein,",
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"Central",
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"1998",
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"Services",
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"Hillary",
"Clinton",
"and",
"other",
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"Chuck",
"Schumer.",
"Weinstein",
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"Gore",
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"of",
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"National",
"Committee",
"and",
"the",
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"Senatorial",
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"Committee",
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"during",
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"2006",
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"coffers",
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"candidates,",
"political",
"action",
"committees",
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"various",
"liberal",
"charitable",
"causes.",
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"Clinton's",
"2004",
"Senate",
"re-election",
"campaign.",
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"also",
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"Al",
"Franken's",
"run",
"for",
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"in",
"Minnesota",
"in",
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"grow",
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"early",
"Obama",
"years.",
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"late",
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"support",
"the",
"Clintons,",
"throwing",
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"behind",
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"and",
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"Obama",
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"Clinton",
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"in",
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"went",
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"supporting",
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"Senators",
"Cory",
"Booker",
"and",
"Elizabeth",
"Warren.",
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"Al",
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"Hutchins",
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"John",
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The disturbing allegations surfaced in the Times' and other reports stood in stark contrast to the high-powered producer's long career and vast influence among Democratic lawmakers. In January 2020, Weinstein was facing charges based on allegations ranging from forcible groping to rape from prosecutors in New York and Los Angeles. Here's a chronology of how he acquired and was abandoned by his political-influence empire: Weinstein's political involvement began in the early 1990s. Weinstein began to make contributions to the Democratic Party in 1991, when he gave money to Sen. Barbara Boxer of California and Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont. Over the next few years, he gave relatively small amounts — all $2,000 or less — to Sens. Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, along with several other Democratic senators. He also began giving to Democratic Party organizations for the first time, initially to the Democratic State Central Committee in California. Weinstein began supporting the Clintons in the mid-1990s. In the later half of the 1990s, Weinstein began donating to a broader set of politicians and doing so much more frequently ahead of the 1996 and 1998 elections. He also made his first contribution to the Clinton family at the start of Bill Clinton's re-election campaign in 1995 and made his largest donation up to that point in 1996 when he gave $10,000 to the Democratic National Committee Services Corporation. As a result of his rapidly growing financial ties to the Democratic Party, he began appearing at events with Bill and Hillary Clinton and other party heavyweights like Sen. Chuck Schumer. Weinstein invested both time and money to support the Democratic Party and Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election. Although the Democrats lost that election, Weinstein continued to build close ties to the Clintons in the early- and mid-2000s. In the early 2000s, Weinstein continued to contribute frequently to Democratic politicians across the country and contributed tens of thousands of dollars to the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 2002. Weinstein became actively involved in promoting and supporting the Democratic legislative agenda. He expanded his contributions to include PACs and advocacy groups in the mid-2000s. In the mid-2000s, during the 2004 and 2006 elections, Weinstein poured money into the coffers of Congressional candidates, political action committees (PACs), and various liberal charitable causes. He also supported Hillary Clinton's 2004 Senate re-election campaign. He also notably supported Al Franken's run for senate in Minnesota in 2007. Weinstein's influence in Washington continued to grow in the early Obama years. Throughout the late 2000s, Weinstein continued to support the Clintons, throwing his weight behind Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2008. He contributed thousands of dollars to her PAC and her campaign. But after Barack Obama beat Clinton in the Democratic primary in 2008 and went on to win the White House, Weinstein threw his weight behind him and appeared at public events with members of the first family. Weinstein's individual political contributions grew larger and larger after the 2008 presidential election. Weinstein supported Obama in his re-election campaign. Weinstein contributed vast sums of money to Obama's reelection campaign in 2012. During this period he also began supporting progressive Democratic firebrands like now Senators Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren. Weinstein thrived as a financial donor under Obama. During Obama's term in office, Weinstein continued to support influential Democratic candidates like Sens. Al Franken and Chuck Schumer. He also gave his largest single contribution ever of $32,400 to the DNC in 2014. Politicians continued to join Weinstein on red carpets and at galas. Weinstein was even honored with a cultural activism award from Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research in 2014 when he received the W.E.B. Du Bois medal the same year as notable figures including Maya Angelou, Democratic Rep. John Lewis, and Oprah Winfrey. Weinstein supported causes, backed by Democrats, that he felt would help the arts and advance the progressive agenda. When the Times published a damning report in October 2017 on Weinstein's decade of misconduct, top Democrats who had ties to the producer were quick to condemn him. "I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein. The behavior described by women coming forward cannot be tolerated," Hillary Clinton said in a statement days after the report was published before pledging to donate the $1.4 million he contributed to her 2016 presidential campaign to charity, according to Politico. Politico reports that Obama, whose eldest daughter Malia interned with the Weinstein Company one year earlier, was under pressure for nearly five days to openly condemn Weinstein before he issued a statement saying he was "disgusted." The initial allegations turned into a full-blown sexual harassment scandal, which raised concerns for active politicians who were supported by Weinstein. After years of building and consolidating his power among Democratic presidents, politicians, and organizations, Weinstein's influence began to dissipate after multiple sexual harassment and misconduct claims surfaced. The Democratic National Committee was heavily criticized for not committing to returning all of his contributions from over the years, as multiple reports noted the committee had been struggling for support since the 2016 US election. The allegations against Weinstein rocked Hollywood and Washington alike. In addition to revealing the network of wealthy, elite figures in media and entertainment who became intertwined with politicians of their choice, Weinstein's case also set off a cultural movement that toppled lawmakers and dominated the conversation around President Donald Trump's administration. In the year following initial allegations against Weinstein being brought to light, nine members of Congress announced they would be resigning or not running for re-election amid misconduct allegations. |
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] | https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nj/Press/files/Deguzman,%20Daisy%20Plea%20News%20Release.html.txt.gz | Health care practitioner pleads guilty to accepting cash kickbacks for patient referrals FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 4, 2012 NEWARK, N.J. – Daisy Deguzman, a New Jersey doctor practicing in Newark, today admitted her role in a cash-for-patients scheme with a diagnostic facility in Orange, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Deguzman, 69, of Livingston, N.J., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Claire C. Cecchi in Newark federal court to an Information charging her with one count of violating the federal healthcare program anti-kickback statute. According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court: On December 13, 2011, Deguzman was arrested and charged with accepting cash kickback payments from Orange Community MRI (“Orange MRI”), a diagnostic facility, in exchange for her referral of Medicare and Medicaid patients. Twelve other New Jersey doctors and one nurse practitioner were arrested that day and charged in separate Complaints with accepting similar cash kickback payments from Orange MRI. Each defendant was recorded taking envelopes of cash in exchange for their patient referrals. On Dec. 8, 2011, an Orange MRI executive was arrested and charged in a separate Complaint in connection with his participation in the scheme. Deguzman is the third defendant to plead guilty. Jose Castaneda, a nurse practitioner, pleaded guilty before Judge Cecchi on April 3, 2012. On May 4, 2012, Yash Khanna, another doctor, was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of accepting kickbacks. Dov Rand, a doctor practicing in West Orange, pleaded guilty before Judge Cecchi on May 18, 2012. All other defendants remain charged in criminal Complaints at this time. Starting in at least 2010, Orange MRI began making monthly cash kickback payments to Deguzman in exchange for her referral of patients for diagnostic tests. At the end of each calendar month, individuals at Orange MRI printed Orange MRI patient reports that detailed how many magnetic resonance imagings (“MRIs”) and computed axial tomographies (“CAT Scans”) were referred by Deguzman. These patient reports were used to calculate the kickback payment owed to Deguzman. Pursuant to Deguzman’s agreement with Orange MRI, she was paid kickbacks for each Medicare or Medicaid beneficiary MRI or CAT Scan referred. Deguzman received three separate payments from a cooperating government witness during the course of the investigation. On Oct. 11, 2011, Deguzman accepted $1,700 in cash for her September 2011 referrals to Orange MRI; she accepted another $1,130 on Nov. 17, 2011 for her October 2011 referrals to Orange MRI, and another $1,000 on Dec. 6, 2011 for her November 2011 referrals to Orange MRI. The count to which Deguzman pleaded guilty is punishable by a maximum potential penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $25,000. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 13, 2012. U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents with the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Tom O’Donnell, with the investigation leading to today’s guilty plea. The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph Mack and Scott B. McBride of the Office’s Healthcare and Government Fraud Unit. 12-212 Defense counsel: Daniel A. Giaquinto Esq., Bridgewater, N.J. Deguzman, Daisy Information |
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"addresses",
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"League’s",
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"On",
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"his",
"Twitter",
"handle",
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"an",
"old",
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"gaming",
"sites,",
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"of",
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"holding",
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"anime",
"body",
"pillow.",
"“Carl,”",
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"followers",
"wrote.",
"“The",
"fuck,",
"bro?”",
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"played",
"out",
"mostly",
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"and",
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"friends",
"appear",
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"affidavit",
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"pictures",
"of",
"weapons,",
"some",
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"deemed",
"to",
"be",
"fake",
"or",
"replicas,",
"others",
"authentic.",
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"swatting",
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"channel,",
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"to",
"have",
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"out",
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"to",
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"inadvertently",
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"slip-ups",
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"feds",
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"of",
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"attack,",
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"Old",
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"2019,",
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Kelley and his circle, who convened on a series of online chat rooms, “all appeared to share racist views, with particular disdain for African Americans and Jewish people,” according to a probable-cause statement from an FBI agent involved in his arrest last week. Although Kelley was majoring in cybersecurity and allegedly acted as the group’s tech support, he left a wide internet trail that could send him and alleged associates to prison. The case suggested that even as far-right groups have shown a disturbing ability to organize online, hangers-on may be just as likely to invite the feds to their doorstep. Kelley’s lawyers declined to comment for this story. A violent extremist group, Atomwaffen members have been suspects in at least five killings since 2017. Although the group has a real-world paramilitary presence, it also has a larger and more nebulous online footprint. Multiple men affiliated with the group’s online outposts and spinoff groups have recently been arrested, including one who allegedly planned a violent attack on Jewish sites in Las Vegas. Kelley, who was arrested on Jan. 10, was allegedly fueled by the same prejudices. Feds say his phone contained pictures of him with Atomwaffen recruiting materials. Meanwhile, he and his online circle allegedly livestreamed swatting campaigns, and even ran a publicly viewable list of future targets’ addresses, earning them notoriety online. But the group’s apparent quest for infamy left them exposed—especially when Kelley allegedly tried calling in a bomb threat to his own school, Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia. In November 2018, Kelley allegedly posted in a chat room asking the group to swat his college. “norfolk next,” he wrote, according to chat logs included in the probable-cause statement. “I dont want to goto class on wed.” Later that month, ODU received a phone call from a blocked number. The person on the other end of the line claimed to have an AR-15 rifle, and said he’d placed bombs in campus buildings, according to the FBI. But three hours later, the person called back and apologized for making what he described as an accidental call. This time, the person forgot to block the number. The caller in question was Kelley, the feds have alleged. And not only did Kelley call from his own phone number, but he’d previously listed it as his contact with ODU, they said. When campus police looked up the number, they found it in Kelley’s school records. With Kelley’s name associated with the crank calls, police started looking into a spate of other bomb threats across the U.S. and Canada, from California to Quebec. They soon found him associated with email addresses and Google Voice numbers that they said had been used in other swatting attempts. Despite studying cybersecurity and allegedly acting as tech support for the neo-Nazi-affiliated group when it struggled to livestream, Kelley wasn’t exactly difficult to find online. Although he went by “carl” in the alleged swatting group, he reused the moniker across other social media, where he shared links to the chat rooms he is said to have administered. A Twitter account, identified as Kelley’s by the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, contained a link to group on the Nazi-beloved chat platform Discord, where a user named “carl” listed himself as “BotGod.” (The FBI also listed “BotGod” as one of Kelley’s aliases.) Kelley was well-known enough, and posted under enough overlapping usernames, that his internet monikers trailed into his personal social media. On an Instagram account that referenced his Twitter handle and an old screen-name Kelley used on gaming sites, he apparently posted a picture of himself holding an anime body pillow. “Carl,” one of his followers wrote. “The fuck, bro?” While the group’s antics may have played out mostly online, Kelley and his friends appear to have posed with guns in social media posts. The FBI affidavit also referenced pictures of weapons, some of which were deemed to be fake or replicas, others authentic. In videos he allegedly uploaded to the swatting chat channel, Kelley not only referred to himself as “carl,” but also explained how he came up with the name. He also appears to have handed out his ODU email address online. At one point, a co-conspirator asked Kelley for his ODU email address, so he could use it to make a Facebook account, according to the documents filed in his case. It was an infosec error he’d inadvertently predicted when he got into ODU in early 2018. “holy ASS I got into college,” the account identified as Kelley's by the ADL tweeted. “time to go onto irc and watch as everyone sucks my dick for a .edu shell.” (Kelley appears to have been offering to farm out his college email address so his friends could use it to register fake accounts.) Other privacy slip-ups led the feds to the alleged swatting whiz. During a livestream of a swatting attack, Kelley accidentally left open a computer tab that was logged into his Old Dominion accounts, where he was completing a survey for a class, according to the probable-cause statement. He was expelled from ODU in January 2019 after being charged with possession of controlled substances like LSD and shrooms. Two sets of linguists reviewed audio of the swatting calls, according to the feds: An ODU appraisal concluded that they matched Kelley’s voice, while a Secret Service analysis suggested they did not. Feds interviewed him in late November 2019, and he agreed to turn over his electronic devices, which he’d allegedly used to oversee the swatting chat group. (He admitted to calling the school, but said it was an accident.) After Kelley’s interview, the group appeared to turn on each other, but not beef up its privacy. “you guys ratted him out on the swat,” a member called Slimebox said in chat logs appraised by the feds. “he got busted. shit got seized.” “HJOLY FUCK ITS GONNA GET REAL,” replied another person, who blamed Kelley for his own woes. “he burnt himself,” the person wrote. Another insisted that “Carl fucked himself over,” likely referring to the second ODU call he appears to have placed without hiding his number. The group speculated that Kelley’s apartment had been bugged after his arrest. Nevertheless, he was allowed to rejoin days later, according to chat logs included in the probable-cause document. Within hours of Kelley logging on, members were allegedly looking for new swatting targets. The group discussed finding a new, more secure place to host the chat server, but ultimately appear not to have made the switch. Instead, despite knowing of Kelley’s arrest, denizens continued to discuss the ODU swat. “First step, DON’T BOMB THREAT YOUR OWN SCHOOL,” one wrote. “you hear that carl”? “carl u dummy,” another said. “Rule #1 If you call in a bomb threat to your own school, make sure you tell the school it was you,” a third person said, apparently referencing the call to ODU under what the feds determined was Kelley’s phone number. Two chat members are listed as “co-conspirators,” with the FBI noting their identities were tied to an “ongoing investigation,” suggesting the potential for further arrests. Many of the social-media accounts that include pictures of Kelley's face alongside the monikers now named in the feds' affidavit remain online. His Instagram bio includes what appears to be a jokey reference to his alleged internet activities. “FBI,” the bio reads, “this is a parody;Don't click/arrest me.” The FBI did not hear him. |
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Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday that its Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in international prices for a basket of commodities, averaged 159.3 points last month, up 12.6% from February. As it is, the February index was the highest level since its 1990 inception. FAO says the war in Ukraine was largely responsible for the 17.1% rise in prices for grains, including wheat. Russia and Ukraine together account for around 30% and 20% of global wheat and corn exports, respectively. Tearfully embracing a history-making moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court shows the progress of America. On the sunny White House South Lawn, she declared, "We’ve made it — all of us.” With President Joe Biden at her side, she delivered emotional remarks a day after the Senate approved her nomination, saying it was a moment the entire country could be proud of. She will take her place on the court this summer, when Justice Stephen Breyer retires. Ukrainian authorities say a missile hit a train station where thousands of Ukrainians had gathered. At least 52 people died in an attack on a crowd of mostly women and children trying to flee a looming Russian offensive in the country’s east. Photos from the station in Kramatorsk showed the dead covered with tarps and the remnants of a rocket with the words “For the children” painted in Russian. The office of Ukraine’s prosecutor-general said about 4,000 civilians were in and around the station. Meanwhile, workers unearthed bodies from a mass grave in a town where dozens of killings have been documented after a Russian pullout. A federal appeals court has upheld President Joe Biden’s requirement that all federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19. In a 2-1 ruling Thursday, a panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed a lower court and ordered dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the mandate. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown of Texas had issued a nationwide injunction against the requirement in January. A different 5th Circuit panel had refused to block it on appeal. But Thursday's ruling said the federal judge didn't have jurisdiction in the case and that those challenging the requirement could have pursued administrative remedies under Civil Service law. The Biden White House is betting the U.S. economy is strong enough to withstand the threats to growth posed by inflation and the war in Ukraine. But there are growing fears of a coming economic slump among voters and some Wall Street analysts. White House officials say the next few months will test whether President Joe Biden built a durable recovery full of jobs with last year’s $1.9 trillion relief package. But economists such as Larry Summers and Joe LaVorgna warn that the policies needed to reduce inflation could risk a recession. The Manhattan district attorney says a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his business practices is continuing, despite a recent shakeup in the probe’s leadership. Alvin Bragg's statement was part of a double dose of bad legal news for Trump Thursday. New York Attorney General Letitia James also asked a court to hold Trump in contempt and fine him $10,000 per day for failing to comply with a subpoena for documents in her ongoing civil investigation. Trump slammed James as an “operative for the Democrat Party” and called her effort to sanction him “a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time.” It's opening day in Major League Baseball and a new season has brought a new look. The Cleveland team took the field for the first time as the rechristened Guardians. Some players wore patches with No. 21 to honor late Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente. The National League moved full-time into the realm of the designated hitter. And an umpire announced a replay review decision to the crowd for the first time. The season began with a game at Wrigley Field when the Chicago Cubs hosted the Milwaukee Brewers. Andrew McCutchen got the first hit of the year and also scored the first run. Of all the 6,576 shots that were officially struck at Augusta National on Day 1 of the Masters, only one truly mattered. It didn’t go in the hole. It wasn’t down the center of the fairway. Nothing special about it at all, really. Except for the fact that it was off a club swung by Tiger Woods. With his opening tee shot at 11:04 a.m. Thursday, the Masters was truly back to normal. The full allotment of patrons watched a man who could have lost a leg, or his life, in a car crash 15 months ago return to the spot of his past glory. *** IMAGE OF THE DAY *** People are also reading… TODAY IN HISTORY *** |
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"United",
"States",
"Attorney",
"David",
"J.",
"Hickton",
"announced",
"today.",
"Senior",
"United",
"States",
"District",
"Judge",
"Maurice",
"B.",
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"Kane,",
"III,",
"a/k/a",
"CK,",
"25.",
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"court,",
"on",
"Jan.",
"16,",
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"25,",
"2011,",
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"police",
"both",
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"written",
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"statement",
"following",
"this",
"incident.",
"Federal",
"law",
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"his",
"girlfriend",
"obtained",
"as",
"a",
"result",
"of",
"the",
"Jan.",
"16",
"incident.",
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"imposing",
"sentence,",
"Judge",
"Cohill",
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"the",
"amount",
"of",
"violence",
"and",
"potential",
"violence",
"that",
"surrounds",
"the",
"defendant.",
"This",
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"the",
"defendant's",
"own",
"significant",
"abdominal",
"gun",
"shot",
"wound",
"and",
"his",
"tattoo",
"of",
"an",
"ape",
"with",
"a",
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"which",
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"At",
"an",
"earlier",
"hearing,",
"the",
"government",
"played",
"a",
"video",
"of",
"18-year-old",
"Stephon",
"Green",
"being",
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"Pittsburgh",
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"County",
"District",
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"with",
"this",
"murder.",
"Assistant",
"United",
"States",
"Attorney",
"Ross",
"Lenhardt",
"prosecuted",
"this",
"case",
"on",
"behalf",
"of",
"the",
"government.",
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"Attorney",
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"the",
"Bureau",
"of",
"Alcohol,",
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"and",
"Explosives",
"and",
"Pittsburgh",
"Bureau",
"of",
"Police",
"for",
"the",
"investigation",
"leading",
"to",
"the",
"successful",
"prosecution",
"of",
"Kane."
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] | https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/paw/news/2012/2012_august/2012_08_28_03.html.txt.gz | Hill District Man Sentenced to Prison for Illegally Possessing Pistol while Subject to PFA Order PITTSBURGH, Pa, - A resident of the Hill District section of the City of Pittsburgh, was sentenced on in federal court to 37 months in federal prison followed by 36 months of supervised release on his conviction of various federal firearms offenses, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. Senior United States District Judge Maurice B. Cohill imposed the sentence on Calvin Kane, III, a/k/a CK, 25. According to information presented to the court, on Jan. 16, 2011, police were called to the defendant's residence due to a violent domestic. The defendant's girlfriend led police to a stolen pistol she identified as Kane's. On Feb. 25, 2011, police stopped the defendant's vehicle for traffic violations and observed him shove a different loaded pistol into the rear of the vehicle next to his two-year-old nephew's car seat. Kane gave the police both a written and audio-taped statement following this incident. Federal law prohibits an individual from lawfully possessing a firearm or ammunition if he is subject to a domestic abuse (PFA-Protection From Abuse) court order such as the one his girlfriend obtained as a result of the Jan. 16 incident. Prior to imposing sentence, Judge Cohill considered the amount of violence and potential violence that surrounds the defendant. This included the defendant's own significant abdominal gun shot wound and his tattoo of an ape with a rifle which states "ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME." At an earlier hearing, the government played a video of 18-year-old Stephon Green being brutally murdered by a gunman who stands over the victim and shoots him multiple times. Pittsburgh Police Homicide Detectives and the Allegheny County District Attorney's Office recently charged Kane with this murder. Assistant United States Attorney Ross Lenhardt prosecuted this case on behalf of the government. U.S. Attorney Hickton commended the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Pittsburgh Bureau of Police for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Kane. |
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"November",
"2018,",
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"in",
"Tampa",
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"running",
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"street,",
"crying",
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"facts",
"of",
"this",
"case",
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"Mr.",
"Hill",
"forced",
"his",
"young",
"victim",
"to",
"commit",
"horrific",
"and",
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"acts,”",
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"Michael",
"F.",
"McPherson,",
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"in",
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"FBI",
"Tampa",
"Division.",
"“These",
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"are",
"tough",
"to",
"work",
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"I",
"am",
"proud",
"of",
"the",
"dedicated",
"special",
"agents",
"who",
"do",
"the",
"job",
"to",
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"our",
"children",
"from",
"sexual",
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"Bureau",
"of",
"Investigation.",
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"was",
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"by",
"Assistant",
"United",
"States",
"Attorney",
"Candace",
"Garcia",
"Rich.",
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"was",
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"Safe",
"Childhood,",
"a",
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"launched",
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"May",
"2006",
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"the",
"Department",
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"marshals",
"federal,",
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"resources",
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"rescue",
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"information",
"about",
"Project",
"Safe",
"Childhood,",
"please",
"visit",
"www.justice.gov/psc."
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] | https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/itt-cannon-pay-11-million-settle-false-claims-allegations-untested-electrical-connectors.txt.gz | ITT Cannon to Pay $11 Million to Settle False Claims Allegations for Untested Electrical Connectors ITT Cannon has agreed to pay the United States $11 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that it supplied electrical connectors to the military that had not been properly tested, the Justice Department announced today. ITT sold the untested connectors both directly to the Government and through distributors and other government contractors which incorporated them into technology and equipment sold to the Government. “Failure to comply with testing requirements undermines the integrity of essential government equipment and technology, and thereby reduces its durability and reliability,” said Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt for the Department of Justice’s Civil Division. “This settlement demonstrates that we will hold contractors accountable when they fail to deliver what they were paid to deliver.” “Defense contractors agree to follow strict manufacturing and testing protocols to ensure that our government receives only the best equipment,” said Nicola T. Hanna, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. “This multimillion dollar settlement is designed to ensure that ITT does not engage in this type of misconduct in the future, and this case should serve as a warning to any government contractor who is not completely upfront about its testing results.” The settlement resolves allegations that from September 2008 to March 21, 2017, ITT did not conduct the required periodic testing on six models of electrical connectors. In December 2010, the Government learned that ITT had not done this testing and ITT promised the Government that it would conduct remedial testing and report the result to the Government. Shortly thereafter, in February 2011, ITT experienced several failures in its remedial testing. ITT did not immediately disclose these failures but represented to the Government that it was merely behind in the remedial testing. In March 2017, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) issued an order stopping the shipment of the six connectors. In June 2017, ITT issued six Government Industry Data Exchange Program notices (GIDEP) disclosing to industry its failure to conduct required testing, its test failures, and changes in the processes, materials, construction, sourcing and design of the connectors. DLA then removed the six ITT connectors from the Qualified Products List (QPL). The QPL lists products that have met the qualification requirements set forth in the applicable Military Specifications (Mil Specs), which are uniform engineering and technical requirements for certain products used by the Department of Defense. DLA’s removal of ITT from the QPL precluded ITT from selling parts to the military covered by the Mil Specs. Recently, ITT has requalified one of the connectors for sale to the Government. The settlement resolves allegations filed in a lawsuit by Ralph Tatgenhorst, the former regional quality manager at ITT’s Santa Ana facility, in federal court in Los Angeles, California, under the whistleblower (or “qui tam”) provisions of the False Claims Act. These provisions permit private individuals to sue on behalf of the Government for false claims and to share in any recovery. Mr. Tatgenhorst will receive $2,090,000 as his share of the settlement amount. The settlement with ITT was the result of a coordinated effort by the Civil Division’s Commercial Litigation Branch; the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California; the Defense Logistics Agency; the Defense Criminal Investigative Service; the Naval Criminal Investigative Service; the National Reconnaissance Office; the Office of the Inspector General for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the Air Force Office of Special Investigations; the Defense Contracts Audit Agency; and the United States Coast Guard Office of Inspector General. The claims resolved by the civil settlement are allegations only and there has been no determination of liability. The lawsuit is captioned U.S. ex rel. Tatgenhorst v. ITT Corporation, PEI/Genesis, Inc., No. 14-7424 JAK (C.D.Cal.). |
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"neighbors",
"attacked",
"them",
"and",
"their",
"property.",
"My",
"flashback",
"(well,",
"slow",
"dawning)",
"was",
"of",
"correspondence",
"I",
"initiated,",
"as",
"Agudath",
"Israel",
"of",
"America's",
"director",
"of",
"public",
"affairs,",
"with",
"editors",
"and",
"a",
"reporter",
"at",
"the",
"Old",
"Gray",
"Lady",
"in",
"2002.",
"That",
"year,",
"in",
"the",
"context",
"of",
"a",
"court",
"reversal",
"of",
"the",
"federal",
"civil",
"rights",
"conviction",
"of",
"Lemrick",
"Nelson",
"Jr.",
"for",
"the",
"killing",
"of",
"Yankel",
"Rosenbaum",
"during",
"the",
"Crown",
"Heights",
"riots,",
"the",
"Times",
"similarly",
"characterized",
"the",
"disturbances",
"in",
"two",
"different",
"articles,",
"as",
"\"violence",
"between",
"blacks",
"and",
"Orthodox",
"Jews.\"",
"I",
"telephoned",
"the",
"reporter",
"whose",
"byline",
"appeared",
"on",
"the",
"reports",
"and",
"asked",
"him",
"whether",
"he",
"felt",
"his",
"characterization",
"really",
"reflected",
"what",
"had",
"happened",
"on",
"those",
"terrible",
"days",
"in",
"1991.",
"He",
"admitted",
"that",
"his",
"choice",
"of",
"phrase",
"had",
"\"not",
"been",
"the",
"wisest.\"",
"I",
"responded",
"that",
"I",
"appreciated",
"his",
"honesty",
"and",
"was",
"satisfied",
"that",
"a",
"better",
"description",
"of",
"the",
"events",
"would",
"be",
"used",
"in",
"future",
"reports.",
"Well,",
"he",
"said,",
"he",
"didn't",
"know",
"about",
"that.",
"The",
"phrase,",
"in",
"the",
"end,",
"he",
"insisted,",
"was",
"\"not",
"really",
"inaccurate.\"",
"\"How",
"so?\"",
"I",
"asked.",
"He",
"suggested",
"that",
"some",
"might",
"consider",
"the",
"car",
"accident",
"in",
"which",
"a",
"Jewish",
"driver",
"had",
"hit",
"and",
"killed",
"a",
"black",
"child",
"—",
"the",
"tragic",
"mishap",
"that",
"set",
"off",
"the",
"rioting",
"—",
"to",
"constitute",
"violence.",
"And",
"then,",
"he",
"continued,",
"there",
"was",
"the",
"matter",
"of",
"the",
"interaction",
"\"between\"",
"Mr.",
"Rosenbaum",
"and",
"Mr.",
"Nelson.",
"The",
"reporter",
"thought",
"he",
"remembered",
"reports",
"of",
"the",
"former",
"in",
"some",
"way",
"attempting",
"to",
"hurt",
"the",
"latter.",
"Letting",
"honesty",
"get",
"the",
"better",
"of",
"diplomacy,",
"I",
"called",
"such",
"justifications",
"\"outrageous\"",
"and,",
"insulted,",
"he",
"abruptly",
"ended",
"the",
"call.",
"I",
"immediately",
"typed",
"up",
"the",
"details",
"of",
"our",
"conversation",
"while",
"they",
"were",
"still",
"fresh",
"in",
"my",
"short-term",
"memory",
"(which",
"still",
"functions",
"fairly",
"well),",
"and",
"then",
"consulted",
"the",
"United",
"States",
"Court",
"of",
"Appeals'",
"\"findings",
"of",
"fact\"",
"regarding",
"the",
"events",
"that",
"led",
"to",
"Mr.",
"Rosenbaum's",
"murder.",
"At",
"the",
"scene",
"of",
"the",
"accident,",
"the",
"court",
"found,",
"while",
"some",
"members",
"of",
"an",
"African",
"American",
"crowd",
"attempted",
"to",
"aid",
"the",
"injured,",
"others",
"\"began",
"to",
"attack",
"the",
"driver",
"of",
"the",
"car.\"",
"\"In",
"the",
"meantime,",
"a",
"crowd",
"of",
"several",
"hundred",
"people\"",
"gathered,",
"some",
"of",
"whom",
"\"complained",
"about",
"Jews…",
"At",
"about",
"eleven",
"o'clock,",
"a",
"bald,",
"African-American",
"man\"",
"addressed",
"the",
"crowd;",
"his",
"\"angry",
"and",
"aggressive\"",
"speech",
"reportedly",
"included",
"the",
"exhortation",
"\"Let's",
"get",
"the",
"Jews,\"",
"a",
"chant",
"taken",
"up",
"by",
"the",
"crowd",
"as",
"it",
"proceeded",
"to",
"riot.",
"In",
"the",
"ensuing",
"violence,",
"\"a",
"group",
"of",
"ten",
"and",
"fifteen",
"people,",
"including",
"Mr.",
"Nelson,",
"then",
"began",
"beating",
"[Mr.",
"Rosenbaum],",
"knocking",
"him",
"to",
"the",
"ground",
"and",
"striking",
"him",
"repeatedly.",
"\"Rosenbaum",
"grabbed",
"hold",
"of",
"Nelson's",
"T-shirt",
"and",
"prevented",
"him",
"from",
"making",
"good",
"his",
"escape…",
"[Nelson]",
"stabbed",
"Rosenbaum",
"and",
"fled.\"",
"I",
"faxed",
"the",
"reporter",
"those",
"findings",
"and,",
"when",
"he",
"didn't",
"respond,",
"I",
"sent",
"a",
"copy",
"of",
"the",
"correspondence",
"to",
"the",
"Times",
"'",
"then-Executive",
"Editor,",
"Howell",
"Raines.",
"A",
"few",
"days",
"later,",
"I",
"received",
"a",
"written",
"reply",
"from",
"then-Senior",
"Editor",
"Bill",
"Borders,",
"who",
"offered",
"a",
"new",
"justification",
"of",
"his",
"own,",
"citing",
"an",
"August",
"21,",
"1991",
"report",
"in",
"his",
"paper",
"describing",
"\"blacks",
"and",
"Hasidim",
"throwing",
"bottles",
"and",
"rocks",
"at",
"each",
"other\"",
"on",
"August",
"20.",
"So",
"it",
"\"seems",
"clear,\"",
"he",
"wrote,",
"that",
"the",
"violence",
"\"involved",
"both",
"sides.\"",
"Yankel",
"Rosenbaum,",
"however,",
"was",
"murdered",
"on",
"the",
"19th,",
"before",
"any",
"bottle",
"or",
"rock",
"throwing",
"by",
"any",
"of",
"the",
"area's",
"Jews.",
"And",
"so,",
"I",
"wrote",
"Mr.",
"Borders,",
"the",
"phrase",
"\"…he",
"killed",
"a",
"Hasidic",
"scholar…",
"during",
"violence",
"between",
"blacks",
"and",
"Orthodox",
"Jews\"",
"was",
"clearly",
"misleading.",
"More",
"to",
"the",
"point,",
"though,",
"I",
"suggested",
"he",
"consider",
"the",
"case",
"of",
"a",
"man",
"who",
"assaulted",
"a",
"woman",
"and",
"was",
"scratched",
"by",
"his",
"victim",
"during",
"the",
"attack.",
"Would",
"the",
"Times",
"really",
"think",
"to",
"describe",
"such",
"a",
"crime",
"as",
"\"violence",
"between",
"Mr.",
"Smith",
"and",
"Ms.",
"Jones\"?",
"I",
"received",
"no",
"response",
"—",
"until,",
"that",
"is,",
"the",
"indirect",
"one",
"on",
"Feb.",
"1.",
"Copyright",
"2012",
"AMI",
"MAGAZINE."
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] | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/fl-xpm-2012-03-06-fl-jjps-shafran-0307-20120306-story.html.txt.gz | I can't pride myself on having a good long-term memory (as my wife can attest, that's an understatement), but a Feb. 1 New York Times article did spur my sluggish hippocampus. The Times article was about Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood and it noted that "an undercurrent of unease, suspicion and resentment from some longtime residents" remains from the 1991 "riots that exploded between blacks and Hasidic Jews" — as if marauding gangs of Jews and blacks had spent four days attacking one another, when, in fact, the besieged Jewish residents of Crown Heights cowered and prayed as their non-Jewish neighbors attacked them and their property. My flashback (well, slow dawning) was of correspondence I initiated, as Agudath Israel of America's director of public affairs, with editors and a reporter at the Old Gray Lady in 2002. That year, in the context of a court reversal of the federal civil rights conviction of Lemrick Nelson Jr. for the killing of Yankel Rosenbaum during the Crown Heights riots, the Times similarly characterized the disturbances in two different articles, as "violence between blacks and Orthodox Jews." I telephoned the reporter whose byline appeared on the reports and asked him whether he felt his characterization really reflected what had happened on those terrible days in 1991. He admitted that his choice of phrase had "not been the wisest." I responded that I appreciated his honesty and was satisfied that a better description of the events would be used in future reports. Well, he said, he didn't know about that. The phrase, in the end, he insisted, was "not really inaccurate." "How so?" I asked. He suggested that some might consider the car accident in which a Jewish driver had hit and killed a black child — the tragic mishap that set off the rioting — to constitute violence. And then, he continued, there was the matter of the interaction "between" Mr. Rosenbaum and Mr. Nelson. The reporter thought he remembered reports of the former in some way attempting to hurt the latter. Letting honesty get the better of diplomacy, I called such justifications "outrageous" and, insulted, he abruptly ended the call. I immediately typed up the details of our conversation while they were still fresh in my short-term memory (which still functions fairly well), and then consulted the United States Court of Appeals' "findings of fact" regarding the events that led to Mr. Rosenbaum's murder. At the scene of the accident, the court found, while some members of an African American crowd attempted to aid the injured, others "began to attack the driver of the car." "In the meantime, a crowd of several hundred people" gathered, some of whom "complained about Jews… At about eleven o'clock, a bald, African-American man" addressed the crowd; his "angry and aggressive" speech reportedly included the exhortation "Let's get the Jews," a chant taken up by the crowd as it proceeded to riot. In the ensuing violence, "a group of ten and fifteen people, including Mr. Nelson, then began beating [Mr. Rosenbaum], knocking him to the ground and striking him repeatedly. "Rosenbaum grabbed hold of Nelson's T-shirt and prevented him from making good his escape… [Nelson] stabbed Rosenbaum and fled." I faxed the reporter those findings and, when he didn't respond, I sent a copy of the correspondence to the Times ' then-Executive Editor, Howell Raines. A few days later, I received a written reply from then-Senior Editor Bill Borders, who offered a new justification of his own, citing an August 21, 1991 report in his paper describing "blacks and Hasidim throwing bottles and rocks at each other" on August 20. So it "seems clear," he wrote, that the violence "involved both sides." Yankel Rosenbaum, however, was murdered on the 19th, before any bottle or rock throwing by any of the area's Jews. And so, I wrote Mr. Borders, the phrase "…he killed a Hasidic scholar… during violence between blacks and Orthodox Jews" was clearly misleading. More to the point, though, I suggested he consider the case of a man who assaulted a woman and was scratched by his victim during the attack. Would the Times really think to describe such a crime as "violence between Mr. Smith and Ms. Jones"? I received no response — until, that is, the indirect one on Feb. 1. Copyright 2012 AMI MAGAZINE. |
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"week,",
"historians",
"may",
"have",
"to",
"hold",
"their",
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"and",
"thank",
"\"JFK\"",
"-",
"a",
"1991",
"blockbuster",
"that",
"conflated",
"the",
"historical",
"record",
"with",
"conspiratorial",
"fantasies.",
"Oliver",
"Stone's",
"barely",
"factual",
"retelling",
"of",
"a",
"prosecutor's",
"effort",
"to",
"prove",
"the",
"CIA",
"killed",
"Kennedy",
"grossed",
"hundreds",
"of",
"millions",
"of",
"dollars,",
"and",
"pushed",
"Congress",
"to",
"order",
"the",
"release",
"of",
"nearly",
"all",
"assassination",
"documents",
"within",
"25",
"years,",
"or",
"by",
"Thursday.",
"As",
"the",
"government",
"agency",
"called",
"the",
"Assassination",
"Records",
"Review",
"Board",
"once",
"wrote,",
"the",
"film",
"\"disturbed\"",
"the",
"public",
"and",
"elected",
"officials",
"with",
"its",
"suggestions",
"of",
"a",
"secretive",
"government",
"coverup.",
"But",
"as",
"many",
"reviewers",
"and",
"journalists",
"have",
"noted,",
"\"JFK's\"",
"most",
"compelling",
"scenes",
"are",
"totally",
"made",
"up.",
"In",
"his",
"defense,",
"Stone",
"never",
"claimed",
"the",
"film",
"he",
"directed",
"and",
"co-wrote",
"was",
"truth.",
"\"It",
"is",
"not",
"a",
"true",
"story",
"per",
"se,\"",
"he",
"told",
"the",
"New",
"York",
"Times",
"a",
"few",
"months",
"before",
"it",
"was",
"released",
"in",
"1991.",
"\"It",
"explores",
"all",
"the",
"possible",
"scenarios",
"of",
"why",
"Kennedy",
"was",
"killed,",
"who",
"killed",
"him",
"and",
"why.\"",
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"a",
"certain",
"level",
"of",
"accuracy.",
"He",
"pointed",
"the",
"reporter",
"to",
"his",
"studio's",
"research",
"department,",
"stuffed",
"with",
"documents",
"from",
"the",
"Warren",
"Commission",
"hearings",
"and",
"other",
"investigations",
"that",
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"Lee",
"Harvey",
"Oswald,",
"alone,",
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"Kennedy",
"in",
"1963.",
"What",
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"in",
"time",
"for",
"Christmas",
"opened",
"like",
"a",
"documentary,",
"with",
"a",
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"of",
"news",
"footage",
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"and",
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"But",
"for",
"the",
"next",
"three",
"hours,",
"Edward",
"Jay",
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"in",
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"and",
"confusingly",
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"reality",
"and",
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"It",
"\"demonstrated",
"yet",
"again",
"how",
"easily",
"pierced",
"is",
"the",
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"mainstream",
"media",
"from",
"the",
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"on",
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"\"JFK\"",
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"of",
"a",
"New",
"Orleans",
"businessman,",
"accused",
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"with",
"Oswald",
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"the",
"CIA",
"to",
"kill",
"Kennedy.",
"A",
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"the",
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"less",
"than",
"an",
"hour",
"of",
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"the",
"New",
"York",
"Times",
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"The",
"district",
"attorney",
"was",
"accused",
"of",
"concocting",
"bizarre",
"theories",
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"called",
"\"a",
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"the",
"city's",
"justice",
"system.\"",
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"\"JFK,\"",
"the",
"trial",
"was",
"portrayed",
"as",
"a",
"heroic",
"effort",
"to",
"unshackle",
"the",
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"from",
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"Two",
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"In",
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"a",
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"witness",
"recalled",
"participating",
"in",
"the",
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"only",
"after",
"being",
"given",
"so-called",
"\"truth",
"serum\"",
"and",
"hypnotized.",
"In",
"the",
"movie,",
"as",
"Epstein",
"noted,",
"Stone",
"simply",
"swapped",
"the",
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"witness",
"out",
"for",
"a",
"fictional",
"neo-Nazi",
"with",
"a",
"good",
"memory,",
"played",
"by",
"Kevin",
"Bacon.",
"Another",
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"suspect",
"in",
"the",
"alleged",
"New",
"Orleans",
"conspiracy,",
"David",
"Ferrie,",
"maintained",
"his",
"innocence",
"until",
"he",
"died",
"of",
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"Epstein",
"noted,",
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"for",
"the",
"CIA,",
"mentoring",
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"are",
"-",
"and",
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"promptly",
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"forces",
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"down",
"his",
"throat.\"",
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"fabrications,",
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"New",
"York",
"Times",
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"in",
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"review",
"that",
"Stone's",
"central",
"conspiracy",
"\"remains",
"far",
"more",
"vague",
"than",
"the",
"movie",
"pretends.\"",
"\"The",
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"just",
"about",
"everybody",
"up",
"to",
"what",
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"the",
"Times",
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"\"But",
"nobody",
"in",
"particular",
"can",
"be",
"identified",
"except",
"some",
"members",
"of",
"the",
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"Orleans-Dallas-Galveston",
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"The",
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"as",
"it",
"went",
"on",
"to",
"win",
"Oscars,",
"and",
"Stone",
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"the",
"research",
"behind",
"it.",
"\"I",
"had",
"never",
"made",
"a",
"movie",
"where",
"I",
"had",
"to",
"defend",
"it",
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"later",
"in",
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"to",
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"Records",
"Review",
"Board",
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"several",
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"from",
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"Bureau",
"of",
"Investigation,",
"the",
"Central",
"Intelligence",
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"a",
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"the",
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"screen,",
"facing",
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"President",
"George",
"H.W.",
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"John",
"F.",
"Kennedy",
"Assassination",
"Records",
"Collection",
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"-",
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"when",
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"workers",
"wheeled",
"out",
"boxes",
"stuffed",
"with",
"more",
"than",
"800,000",
"pages",
"of",
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"Post",
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"time,",
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"disappointment",
"to",
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"theorists",
"who",
"lined",
"up",
"to",
"sift",
"through",
"them,",
"containing",
"nothing",
"to",
"refute",
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"that",
"Oswald",
"acted",
"alone.",
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"Stone,",
"like",
"fans",
"of",
"his",
"movie,",
"was",
"not",
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"\"I'm",
"amazed",
"there",
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"any",
"single",
"adult",
"left",
"in",
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"would",
"not",
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"that",
"Lee",
"Harvey",
"Oswald",
"was",
"the",
"one",
"and",
"only",
"assassin,\"",
"he",
"wrote",
"in",
"USA",
"Today",
"in",
"2013,",
"for",
"the",
"50th",
"anniversary",
"of",
"Kennedy's",
"death.",
"The",
"\"counter-evidence\"",
"was",
"still",
"being",
"stifled,",
"Stone",
"wrote,",
"and",
"accused",
"the",
"powers",
"that",
"be",
"of",
"replicating",
"\"a",
"Soviet-era",
"manufacturing",
"of",
"history",
"in",
"which",
"the",
"mainstream",
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"discredit",
"our",
"country",
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"continue",
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"demean",
"our",
"common",
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"him.",
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"others",
"were",
"involved",
"in",
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"1990s,",
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"the",
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"-",
"as",
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"has",
"been",
"in",
"Gallup",
"polls",
"ever",
"since",
"the",
"assassination.",
"President",
"Donald",
"Trump",
"said",
"he",
"plans",
"to",
"release",
"the",
"final",
"assassination",
"documents",
"next",
"week",
"-",
"a",
"quarter",
"century",
"after",
"\"JFK\"",
"was",
"released,",
"and",
"twice",
"that",
"long",
"since",
"the",
"assassination.",
"As",
"the",
"Chicago",
"Tribune",
"wrote,",
"whatever",
"is",
"in",
"the",
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"is",
"certain",
"to",
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"conspiracy",
"stories",
"for",
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In his defense, Stone never claimed the film he directed and co-wrote was truth. "It is not a true story per se," he told the New York Times a few months before it was released in 1991. "It explores all the possible scenarios of why Kennedy was killed, who killed him and why." But Stone promised a certain level of accuracy. He pointed the reporter to his studio's research department, stuffed with documents from the Warren Commission hearings and other investigations that concluded Lee Harvey Oswald, alone, killed Kennedy in 1963. What ended up in theaters in time for Christmas opened like a documentary, with a montage of news footage from Kennedy's presidency and final motorcade. But for the next three hours, Edward Jay Epstein wrote in the Atlantic, the film leapt seamlessly and confusingly between reality and fabrication. It "demonstrated yet again how easily pierced is the thin membrane that separates the mainstream media from the festering pools of fantasies on its peripheries." "JFK" is loosely based on the late-1960s trial of a New Orleans businessman, accused of conspiring with Oswald and the CIA to kill Kennedy. A jury acquitted the man after less than an hour of deliberation, the New York Times wrote. The district attorney was accused of concocting bizarre theories to gain attention, and the trial left what the New Orleans Times-Picayune called "a lasting stain on the city's justice system." But in "JFK," the trial was portrayed as a heroic effort to unshackle the truth from government clutches. Two examples: In the actual trial, a key witness recalled participating in the conspiracy only after being given so-called "truth serum" and hypnotized. In the movie, as Epstein noted, Stone simply swapped the problematic witness out for a fictional neo-Nazi with a good memory, played by Kevin Bacon. Another key suspect in the alleged New Orleans conspiracy, David Ferrie, maintained his innocence until he died of natural causes, Epstein wrote. But in "JFK," Epstein noted, Ferrie admits to working for the CIA, mentoring Oswald and knowing who Kennedy's real killers are - and is then promptly "murdered by a baldheaded man who forces pills down his throat." For all the film's detailed fabrications, the New York Times complained in its review that Stone's central conspiracy "remains far more vague than the movie pretends." "The conspiracy includes just about everybody up to what are called the government's highest levels," the Times wrote. "But nobody in particular can be identified except some members of the scroungy New Orleans-Dallas-Galveston demimonde." The furor around the film only grew as it went on to win Oscars, and Stone defended the research behind it. "I had never made a movie where I had to defend it six months later in the press," Stone recalled to Variety. "The media was very nasty and they'd set me up on shows. At some point I had quite a bit of research on my side, but I'd have to recall it all [on the spot] and I couldn't do that." And yet, as the Assassination Records Review Board wrote several years later, the film successfully "popularized a version of President Kennedy's assassination that featured U.S. government agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the military as conspirators." Though "JFK" was largely a work of fiction, the board wrote, the government wasn't helping dispel mistrust by keeping investigative reports on the assassination under seal until 2029. So less than a year after the film hit the big screen, facing reelection, President George H.W. Bush signed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act - promising to release all relevant documents by this month, unless doing so would threaten national security. The government began to make good on the promise almost immediately, in 1993, when National Archives workers wheeled out boxes stuffed with more than 800,000 pages of once-secret documents. As The Washington Post noted at the time, the papers largely proved a disappointment to conspiracy theorists who lined up to sift through them, containing nothing to refute conclusions that Oswald acted alone. But Stone, like fans of his movie, was not dissuaded. "I'm amazed there is any single adult left in the U.S.A. who would not think that Lee Harvey Oswald was the one and only assassin," he wrote in USA Today in 2013, for the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death. The "counter-evidence" was still being stifled, Stone wrote, and accused the powers that be of replicating "a Soviet-era manufacturing of history in which the mainstream media deeply discredit our country and continue to demean our common sense." And the public appears to still be with him. 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"C.",
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"&",
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"out",
"over",
"months",
"or",
"even",
"longer,",
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"was,",
"however,",
"clear",
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"week",
"in",
"Benton",
"County",
"Circuit",
"Court,",
"as",
"Judge",
"Robin",
"Green",
"gave",
"voice",
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"she",
"serves",
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"Wayne",
"White,",
"41,",
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"for",
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"in",
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"for",
"him.",
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"attacker",
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"put",
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"behind",
"bars.",
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"local",
"judge",
"appropriately",
"gave",
"them",
"credit",
"for",
"saving",
"others.",
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"much",
"from",
"a",
"judge",
"meant",
"to",
"be",
"an",
"impartial",
"arbiter?",
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"at",
"all.",
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"admitted",
"to",
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"sexual",
"assault",
"and",
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"for",
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"visual",
"or",
"print",
"medium.",
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"year,",
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"occasions,",
"recording",
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"also",
"15,",
"came",
"forward",
"with",
"a",
"similar",
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"the",
"chance",
"to",
"speak,",
"he",
"offered",
"no",
"apologies,",
"but",
"said",
"he",
"held",
"no",
"malice",
"toward",
"his",
"accusers.",
"Place",
"in",
"hell?",
"You",
"betcha.",
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"we",
"appreciated",
"hearing",
"from",
"Green",
"even",
"more,",
"though,",
"was",
"her",
"advice",
"to",
"the",
"girls:",
"\"You",
"girls",
"hold",
"your",
"heads",
"up.\"",
"Green",
"called",
"them",
"heroes",
"for",
"taking",
"steps",
"that",
"led",
"to",
"White's",
"arrest",
"and",
"protection",
"for",
"other",
"girls.",
"He",
"was",
"sentenced",
"to",
"a",
"total",
"of",
"100",
"years",
"in",
"prison.",
"Parole",
"won't",
"be",
"possible",
"for",
"40",
"years.",
"The",
"girls",
"ought",
"to",
"be",
"proud,",
"understanding",
"that",
"what",
"predators",
"like",
"White",
"do",
"to",
"their",
"victims",
"sometimes",
"robs",
"them",
"of",
"an",
"ability",
"to",
"feel",
"good",
"about",
"themselves.",
"That's",
"why",
"Green's",
"words",
"to",
"them",
"were",
"so",
"important",
"and",
"needed.",
"\"Damon",
"White",
"is",
"an",
"evil",
"man,\"",
"said",
"Nathan",
"Smith,",
"Benton",
"County's",
"prosecuting",
"attorney.",
"\"Yet,",
"despite",
"the",
"vile",
"acts",
"he",
"inflicted",
"on",
"his",
"victims,",
"these",
"young",
"women",
"have",
"overcome",
"him.",
"Their",
"courage",
"to",
"confront",
"him",
"in",
"court",
"forced",
"him",
"to",
"admit",
"his",
"guilt.\"",
"These",
"young",
"women,",
"now",
"that",
"their",
"brave",
"choices",
"in",
"a",
"court",
"of",
"law",
"are",
"complete,",
"deserve",
"to",
"indeed",
"overcome",
"what's",
"been",
"done",
"to",
"them",
"in",
"every",
"way",
"so",
"that",
"he",
"no",
"longer",
"has",
"any",
"hold",
"on",
"any",
"aspect",
"of",
"their",
"lives.",
"He's",
"where",
"he",
"belongs,",
"for",
"a",
"long",
"time.",
"Every",
"day,",
"the",
"two",
"young",
"women",
"should",
"remind",
"themselves",
"of",
"the",
"many",
"young",
"girls",
"they've",
"saved",
"from",
"peril.",
"If",
"that's",
"not",
"the",
"act",
"of",
"two",
"wonder",
"women,",
"we",
"don't",
"know",
"what",
"is.",
"Commentary",
"on",
"10/01/2018"
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] | https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2018/oct/01/nwa-editorial-heroes-revealed-20181001/?opinion.txt.gz | In courtrooms, extended periods of vital, excruciatingly boring procedure are peppered with moments of intense drama. The cases involve real lives, real victims and real issues of public safety that top anything you'll find on Law & Order. Sometimes that's hard to see because it plays out over months or even longer, rather than television's one-hour solutions (with commercials). The drama was, however, clear last week in Benton County Circuit Court, as Judge Robin Green gave voice to what many in the public she serves no doubt feel. She told Damon Wayne White, 41, of Bentonville she believed there was a reservation for a place in hell for him. What’s the point? Two young women faced their attacker and put him behind bars. A local judge appropriately gave them credit for saving others. Cruel? Too much from a judge meant to be an impartial arbiter? Not at all. White admitted to rape, sexual assault and two counts of engaging children in sexually explicit conduct for use in visual or print medium. Last year, a 15-year-old girl reported White forced her into sex on multiple occasions, recording some of them and threatening to distribute the video. A second girl, also 15, came forward with a similar story. Given the chance to speak, he offered no apologies, but said he held no malice toward his accusers. Place in hell? You betcha. What we appreciated hearing from Green even more, though, was her advice to the girls: "You girls hold your heads up." Green called them heroes for taking steps that led to White's arrest and protection for other girls. He was sentenced to a total of 100 years in prison. Parole won't be possible for 40 years. The girls ought to be proud, understanding that what predators like White do to their victims sometimes robs them of an ability to feel good about themselves. That's why Green's words to them were so important and needed. "Damon White is an evil man," said Nathan Smith, Benton County's prosecuting attorney. "Yet, despite the vile acts he inflicted on his victims, these young women have overcome him. Their courage to confront him in court forced him to admit his guilt." These young women, now that their brave choices in a court of law are complete, deserve to indeed overcome what's been done to them in every way so that he no longer has any hold on any aspect of their lives. He's where he belongs, for a long time. Every day, the two young women should remind themselves of the many young girls they've saved from peril. If that's not the act of two wonder women, we don't know what is. Commentary on 10/01/2018 |
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"Internet",
"entrepreneur",
"John",
"McAfee",
"–",
"wanted",
"for",
"questioning",
"by",
"Belizean",
"officials",
"in",
"the",
"slaying",
"of",
"an",
"American",
"expatriate",
"–",
"told",
"reporters",
"in",
"South",
"Beach",
"Wednesday",
"night",
"that",
"he",
"will",
"speak",
"with",
"police",
"in",
"Belize",
"if",
"they",
"come",
"to",
"the",
"U.S.",
"“If",
"they",
"want",
"to",
"come",
"here",
"and",
"talk",
"to",
"me,",
"I’d",
"be",
"more",
"than",
"happy",
"to",
"talk",
"to",
"them,",
"yes,”",
"he",
"said",
"at",
"the",
"Beacon",
"Hotel,",
"where",
"he",
"is",
"staying.",
"Miami",
"International",
"Airport",
"spokesman",
"Greg",
"Chin",
"said",
"the",
"American",
"Airlines",
"commercial",
"jet",
"carrying",
"McAfee",
"landed",
"shortly",
"before",
"7",
"p.m.",
"Wednesday.",
"McAfee",
"confirmed",
"that",
"he",
"was",
"taken",
"off",
"the",
"plane",
"before",
"everyone",
"else.",
"Read",
"the",
"original",
"story",
"at",
"NBCMiami.com",
"“They",
"stopped",
"the",
"airplane",
"before",
"it",
"reached",
"the",
"gate.",
"They",
"had",
"everybody",
"sit",
"down",
"and",
"then",
"they",
"said",
"‘Is",
"John",
"McAfee",
"on",
"the",
"plane,",
"please",
"come",
"forward,’\"",
"said",
"the",
"67-year-old",
"creator",
"of",
"the",
"McAfee",
"antivirus",
"program.",
"\"And",
"there",
"were",
"a",
"whole",
"bunch",
"of",
"officers.",
"I",
"thought,",
"gee,",
"this",
"is",
"continuing.",
"And",
"they",
"said,",
"‘We’re",
"here",
"to",
"help",
"you",
"sir,",
"please",
"come",
"with",
"us.'",
"And",
"they",
"whisked",
"me",
"away",
"from",
"you",
"people.”",
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"released",
"from",
"detention",
"in",
"Guatemala",
"earlier",
"in",
"the",
"day,",
"the",
"Department",
"of",
"Immigration",
"in",
"Guatemala",
"told",
"NBC",
"News.",
"He",
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"he",
"had",
"no",
"choice",
"about",
"coming",
"to",
"Miami.",
"“They",
"put",
"me",
"on",
"an",
"airplane.",
"I",
"am",
"here,”",
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"said.",
"As",
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"escorted",
"by",
"Guatemalan",
"immigration",
"officials",
"to",
"the",
"Guatemala",
"City",
"airport,",
"he",
"said,",
"\"I'm",
"free.",
"I'm",
"going",
"to",
"America.\"",
"Chin",
"said",
"that",
"McAfee",
"would",
"not",
"exit",
"from",
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"and",
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"to",
"the",
"public",
"area",
"of",
"the",
"airport.",
"\"His",
"exit",
"will",
"be",
"handled",
"post-security",
"by",
"federal",
"authorities,\"",
"Chin",
"said.",
"Nestor",
"Yglesias,",
"a",
"spokesman",
"for",
"Immigration",
"and",
"Customs",
"Enforcement",
"and",
"Homeland",
"Security",
"Investigations",
"in",
"Miami,",
"said",
"he",
"did",
"not",
"know",
"about",
"any",
"special",
"procedures",
"in",
"place",
"for",
"McAfee’s",
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"McAfee",
"went",
"on",
"the",
"run",
"last",
"month",
"after",
"Belizean",
"officials",
"tried",
"to",
"question",
"him",
"about",
"his",
"neighbor,",
"Gregory",
"Viant",
"Faull,",
"who",
"was",
"shot",
"to",
"death",
"in",
"early",
"November.",
"McAfee",
"acknowledges",
"that",
"his",
"dogs",
"were",
"bothersome",
"and",
"that",
"Faull",
"had",
"complained",
"about",
"them,",
"but",
"he",
"denies",
"killing",
"Faull.",
"Faull's",
"home",
"was",
"a",
"couple",
"of",
"houses",
"down",
"from",
"McAfee's",
"compound",
"in",
"Ambergris",
"Caye,",
"off",
"Belize's",
"Caribbean",
"coast.",
"McAfee",
"said",
"in",
"South",
"Beacon",
"that",
"he's",
"\"not",
"worried",
"at",
"all\"",
"about",
"being",
"extradited",
"to",
"Belize.",
"\"If",
"I’m",
"in",
"front",
"of",
"a",
"court,",
"there’s",
"nothing",
"in",
"the",
"world",
"they",
"will",
"do",
"to",
"send",
"me",
"back.",
"They",
"have",
"no",
"evidence,",
"I",
"have",
"tons",
"of",
"evidence",
"about",
"the",
"corruption,",
"the",
"harassment,",
"beginning",
"with",
"the",
"attack",
"on",
"my",
"property",
"in",
"April,\"",
"he",
"said.",
"\"I",
"mean,",
"of",
"course",
"I’m",
"not",
"worried.",
"I’d",
"be",
"happy",
"to",
"go",
"in",
"front",
"of",
"a",
"judge",
"–",
"just",
"not",
"one",
"in",
"Belize.”",
"McAfee",
"had",
"been",
"detained",
"last",
"week",
"for",
"immigration",
"violations",
"after",
"he",
"sneaked",
"into",
"Guatemala",
"from",
"neighboring",
"Belize.",
"But",
"Guatemalan",
"immigration",
"service",
"spokesman",
"Fernando",
"Lucero",
"said",
"Wednesday",
"that",
"McAfee",
"was",
"being",
"expelled",
"from",
"the",
"country.",
"\"McAfee",
"entered",
"the",
"country",
"illegally,\"",
"Lucero",
"said.",
"\"Guatemala",
"is",
"expelling",
"him.",
"Since",
"his",
"country",
"of",
"origin",
"is",
"the",
"United",
"States,",
"Guatemala",
"is",
"expelling",
"him",
"to",
"the",
"United",
"States.\"",
"As",
"McAfee",
"was",
"expelled",
"from",
"the",
"country,",
"he",
"told",
"Bloomberg",
"Television",
"in",
"a",
"phone",
"exchange",
"that",
"he",
"was",
"“perfectly",
"happy",
"with",
"the",
"decision.”",
"Belizean",
"authorities",
"had",
"been",
"urging",
"McAfee",
"to",
"show",
"up",
"for",
"questioning",
"in",
"the",
"killing,",
"but",
"have",
"not",
"lodged",
"any",
"formal",
"charges",
"against",
"him.",
"McAfee",
"said",
"he",
"feared",
"he",
"would",
"be",
"killed",
"if",
"he",
"turned",
"himself",
"in",
"to",
"Belizean",
"authorities.",
"In",
"the",
"interview",
"with",
"Bloomberg",
"on",
"Wednesday,",
"McAfee",
"said",
"he",
"has",
"offered",
"to",
"talk",
"to",
"the",
"police",
"\"numerous",
"times",
"on",
"the",
"phone.\"",
"But",
"\"it's",
"not",
"an",
"issue",
"of",
"talking",
"about",
"a",
"murder,\"",
"he",
"said.",
"\"It's",
"an",
"issue",
"of",
"putting",
"their",
"hands",
"on",
"my",
"person.\"",
"McAfee's",
"escort",
"to",
"the",
"Guatemala",
"City",
"airport",
"marked",
"the",
"latest",
"chapter",
"for",
"McAfee's",
"strange,",
"month-long",
"odyssey",
"to",
"avoid",
"police",
"questioning",
"about",
"the",
"killing.",
"Throughout,",
"he",
"blogged",
"and",
"spoke",
"with",
"reporters",
"about",
"his",
"life",
"on",
"the",
"lam.",
"Bystanders",
"in",
"Guatemala",
"City",
"stopped",
"to",
"stare",
"at",
"the",
"passing",
"police",
"convoy,",
"and",
"people",
"at",
"the",
"airport",
"massed",
"around",
"the",
"immigration",
"truck",
"carrying",
"McAfee,",
"straining",
"to",
"take",
"pictures",
"of",
"him",
"with",
"their",
"cell",
"phones.",
"McAfee",
"suggested",
"his",
"weeklong",
"detention",
"in",
"Guatemala",
"for",
"entering",
"the",
"country",
"clandestinely",
"had",
"taken",
"its",
"toll",
"on",
"him.",
"\"All",
"I",
"can",
"tell",
"you",
"is",
"I'm",
"10",
"years",
"older,",
"and",
"I",
"don't",
"know",
"what",
"I'm",
"doing.",
"I'm",
"just",
"going",
"to",
"Miami,\"",
"he",
"said.",
"His",
"20-year-old",
"Belizean",
"girlfriend",
"who",
"has",
"accompanied",
"him",
"since",
"he",
"went",
"on",
"the",
"run",
"was",
"not",
"with",
"him",
"on",
"the",
"ride",
"to",
"the",
"airport.",
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"was",
"last",
"seen",
"early",
"Wednesday",
"leaving",
"the",
"detention",
"facility",
"crying",
"after",
"bringing",
"McAfee",
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"sold",
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"named",
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"1990s",
"and",
"moved",
"to",
"Belize",
"about",
"three",
"years",
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"to",
"lower",
"his",
"taxes.",
"He",
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"New",
"York",
"Times",
"in",
"2009",
"that",
"he",
"had",
"lost",
"all",
"but",
"$4",
"million",
"of",
"his",
"$100",
"million",
"fortune",
"in",
"the",
"U.S.",
"financial",
"crisis.",
"However,",
"a",
"story",
"on",
"the",
"Gizmodo",
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"quoted",
"him",
"as",
"describing",
"that",
"claim",
"as",
"\"not",
"very",
"accurate",
"at",
"all.\"",
"McAfee",
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"an",
"acknowledged",
"practical",
"joker",
"who",
"has",
"dabbled",
"in",
"yoga,",
"ultra-light",
"aircraft",
"and",
"the",
"production",
"of",
"herbal",
"medications.",
"On",
"Sunday",
"he",
"said",
"he",
"yearned",
"to",
"be",
"in",
"the",
"United",
"States",
"and",
"\"settle",
"down",
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"whatever",
"normal",
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"he",
"can.",
"\"I",
"simply",
"would",
"like",
"to",
"live",
"comfortably",
"day",
"by",
"day,",
"fish,",
"swim,",
"enjoy",
"my",
"declining",
"years,\"",
"he",
"said.",
"But",
"on",
"Wednesday",
"night,",
"he",
"said",
"he",
"doesn't",
"have",
"a",
"plan",
"for",
"what's",
"next.",
"\"I’m",
"here,",
"I’m",
"hungry.",
"I",
"plan",
"to",
"eat.",
"That’s",
"basically",
"it,\"",
"McAfee",
"said,",
"adding",
"a",
"moment",
"later,",
"\"If",
"you’ve",
"ever",
"tasted",
"Guatemalan",
"jail",
"food,",
"it’s",
"not",
"very",
"nice,",
"and",
"I’d",
"like",
"some",
"sushi.”"
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"And there were a whole bunch of officers. I thought, gee, this is continuing. And they said, ‘We’re here to help you sir, please come with us.' And they whisked me away from you people.” McAfee was released from detention in Guatemala earlier in the day, the Department of Immigration in Guatemala told NBC News. He said he had no choice about coming to Miami. “They put me on an airplane. I am here,” he said. As McAfee was escorted by Guatemalan immigration officials to the Guatemala City airport, he said, "I'm free. I'm going to America." Chin said that McAfee would not exit from Immigration and Customs to the public area of the airport. "His exit will be handled post-security by federal authorities," Chin said. Nestor Yglesias, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations in Miami, said he did not know about any special procedures in place for McAfee’s arrival. McAfee went on the run last month after Belizean officials tried to question him about his neighbor, Gregory Viant Faull, who was shot to death in early November. McAfee acknowledges that his dogs were bothersome and that Faull had complained about them, but he denies killing Faull. Faull's home was a couple of houses down from McAfee's compound in Ambergris Caye, off Belize's Caribbean coast. McAfee said in South Beacon that he's "not worried at all" about being extradited to Belize. "If I’m in front of a court, there’s nothing in the world they will do to send me back. They have no evidence, I have tons of evidence about the corruption, the harassment, beginning with the attack on my property in April," he said. "I mean, of course I’m not worried. I’d be happy to go in front of a judge – just not one in Belize.” McAfee had been detained last week for immigration violations after he sneaked into Guatemala from neighboring Belize. But Guatemalan immigration service spokesman Fernando Lucero said Wednesday that McAfee was being expelled from the country. "McAfee entered the country illegally," Lucero said. "Guatemala is expelling him. Since his country of origin is the United States, Guatemala is expelling him to the United States." As McAfee was expelled from the country, he told Bloomberg Television in a phone exchange that he was “perfectly happy with the decision.” Belizean authorities had been urging McAfee to show up for questioning in the killing, but have not lodged any formal charges against him. McAfee said he feared he would be killed if he turned himself in to Belizean authorities. In the interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, McAfee said he has offered to talk to the police "numerous times on the phone." But "it's not an issue of talking about a murder," he said. "It's an issue of putting their hands on my person." McAfee's escort to the Guatemala City airport marked the latest chapter for McAfee's strange, month-long odyssey to avoid police questioning about the killing. Throughout, he blogged and spoke with reporters about his life on the lam. Bystanders in Guatemala City stopped to stare at the passing police convoy, and people at the airport massed around the immigration truck carrying McAfee, straining to take pictures of him with their cell phones. McAfee suggested his weeklong detention in Guatemala for entering the country clandestinely had taken its toll on him. "All I can tell you is I'm 10 years older, and I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just going to Miami," he said. His 20-year-old Belizean girlfriend who has accompanied him since he went on the run was not with him on the ride to the airport. She was last seen early Wednesday leaving the detention facility crying after bringing McAfee breakfast. The British-born McAfee has led an eccentric life since he sold his stake in the software company named after him in the early 1990s and moved to Belize about three years ago to lower his taxes. He told The New York Times in 2009 that he had lost all but $4 million of his $100 million fortune in the U.S. financial crisis. However, a story on the Gizmodo website quoted him as describing that claim as "not very accurate at all." McAfee is an acknowledged practical joker who has dabbled in yoga, ultra-light aircraft and the production of herbal medications. On Sunday he said he yearned to be in the United States and "settle down to whatever normal life" he can. "I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years," he said. But on Wednesday night, he said he doesn't have a plan for what's next. "I’m here, I’m hungry. I plan to eat. That’s basically it," McAfee said, adding a moment later, "If you’ve ever tasted Guatemalan jail food, it’s not very nice, and I’d like some sushi.” |
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"Dave",
"Reddix",
"tells",
"SFGATE.",
"\"So",
"we",
"just",
"started",
"calling",
"each",
"other",
"Waldos.\"",
"The",
"phrase",
"420,",
"meanwhile,",
"was",
"just",
"another",
"\"little",
"joke,\"",
"as",
"Reddix",
"says.",
"But",
"if",
"it",
"was",
"a",
"joke,",
"it",
"was",
"one",
"that",
"everyone",
"else",
"soon",
"learned,",
"including",
"some",
"members",
"of",
"the",
"Grateful",
"Dead,",
"as",
"well",
"as",
"band",
"mates",
"in",
"Phil",
"Lesh's",
"side",
"projects,",
"Too",
"Loose",
"Ta",
"Truck",
"and",
"Sea",
"Stones.",
"While",
"Reddix",
"isn't",
"sure",
"that",
"Lesh",
"or",
"other",
"musicians",
"like",
"David",
"Crosby",
"first",
"heard",
"420",
"from",
"his",
"own",
"mouth",
"or",
"from",
"his",
"brother's",
"(who",
"managed",
"a",
"couple",
"of",
"Lesh's",
"other",
"bands),",
"it",
"does",
"seem",
"probable.",
"After",
"all,",
"the",
"Waldos",
"tended",
"to",
"hang",
"out",
"backstage",
"at",
"many",
"of",
"the",
"Dead's",
"shows.",
"The",
"father",
"of",
"Waldo",
"Mark,",
"who",
"today",
"often",
"works",
"as",
"a",
"photographer",
"and",
"renovator",
"in",
"the",
"real",
"estate",
"sector,",
"helped",
"the",
"Dead",
"find",
"the",
"band",
"space",
"for",
"rehearsals",
"and",
"shows,",
"making",
"sure",
"to",
"add",
"the",
"Waldos",
"to",
"pertinent",
"guest",
"lists.",
"\"For",
"a",
"young",
"man",
"around",
"18",
"or",
"19",
"around",
"these",
"guys,",
"it",
"was",
"pretty",
"overwhelmingly",
"fun,\"",
"Reddix",
"remembers.",
"\"We'd",
"shoot",
"some",
"hoops",
"and",
"get",
"high",
"and",
"listen",
"to",
"the",
"Dead",
"playing",
"and",
"practicing",
"inside",
"this",
"warehouse.\"",
"And",
"though",
"the",
"Waldos",
"never",
"knew",
"for",
"sure",
"where",
"the",
"Dead",
"picked",
"up",
"the",
"phrase,",
"the",
"bigger",
"mystery",
"was",
"always",
"the",
"answer",
"to",
"the",
"map.",
"Until",
"2016.",
"After",
"a",
"six",
"year",
"hunt",
"beginning",
"in",
"2010,",
"\"hundreds\"",
"of",
"unanswered",
"cold",
"calls,",
"and",
"the",
"hiring",
"of",
"a",
"private",
"investigator,",
"they",
"finally",
"found",
"Newman.",
"Though",
"homeless",
"in",
"the",
"San",
"Jose",
"area,",
"he",
"agreed",
"to",
"meet",
"them,",
"45",
"years",
"after",
"he",
"penned",
"the",
"legendary",
"treasure",
"map.",
"When",
"they",
"finally",
"met,",
"it",
"was",
"Super",
"Bowl",
"weekend.",
"The",
"Waldos",
"were",
"able",
"to",
"put",
"him",
"up",
"in",
"lodging",
"for",
"a",
"couple",
"days",
"while",
"they",
"interviewed",
"him",
"about",
"the",
"map.",
"But",
"of",
"the",
"revelations",
"and",
"stories",
"exchanged",
"(which",
"you",
"can",
"read",
"about",
"more",
"in-depth",
"here),",
"one",
"of",
"the",
"most",
"memorable",
"moments",
"came",
"when",
"Capper",
"went",
"to",
"pay",
"the",
"bill.",
"\"I",
"go",
"to",
"the",
"motel",
"owner,",
"and",
"ask",
"how",
"much",
"is",
"[the",
"room],\"",
"he",
"recalls.",
"\"He",
"says",
"including",
"tax,",
"it's",
"exactly",
"$420",
"dollars.\"",
"And",
"now,",
"almost",
"50",
"years",
"after",
"the",
"Waldos",
"were",
"first",
"handed",
"the",
"map,",
"420",
"has",
"a",
"life",
"of",
"its",
"own,",
"far",
"away",
"from",
"San",
"Rafael.",
"It",
"permeates",
"many",
"areas",
"of",
"pop",
"culture,",
"including",
"music,",
"TV",
"shows,",
"government",
"bills,",
"Craigslist",
"ads,",
"and",
"even",
"beer",
"labels.",
"Lagunitas",
"Brewing",
"in",
"Petaluma,",
"for",
"example,",
"has",
"for",
"years",
"crafted",
"a",
"\"Waldos\"",
"triple",
"IPA",
"in",
"its",
"namesake's",
"honor.",
"Brewers",
"have",
"even",
"asked",
"some",
"Waldos",
"to",
"select",
"hops",
"for",
"the",
"beer",
"based",
"on",
"which",
"they",
"believe",
"smells",
"the",
"most",
"like",
"marijuana.",
"The",
"Untappd",
"app",
"has",
"even",
"developed",
"a",
"special",
"game",
"attached",
"to",
"the",
"Lagunitas",
"beer's",
"check-in.",
"\"[The",
"Waldos']",
"legacy",
"lives",
"on",
"and",
"we",
"just",
"get",
"to",
"participate",
"in",
"it",
"on",
"a",
"slightly",
"different",
"level",
"than",
"before,\"",
"Lagunitas",
"spokesperson",
"Karen",
"Hamilton",
"tells",
"SFGATE.",
"\"Who",
"would",
"have",
"guessed",
"that",
"a",
"few",
"short",
"years",
"after",
"making",
"Waldos'",
"Special",
"Ale",
"for",
"the",
"first",
"time,",
"there",
"would",
"be",
"states",
"that",
"have",
"legalized",
"marijuana",
"and",
"an",
"entirely",
"new",
"shift",
"in",
"attitudes",
"and",
"thinking",
"about",
"it",
"all",
"across",
"the",
"country?\"",
"But",
"though",
"the",
"brewery",
"uses",
"\"420\"",
"for",
"a",
"light-hearted",
"specialty",
"beer,",
"there",
"are",
"some",
"people",
"that",
"take",
"the",
"term",
"very",
"seriously.",
"Mentioning",
"that",
"they've",
"heard",
"of",
"at",
"least",
"one",
"Ph.D.",
"candidate",
"who",
"has",
"based",
"studies",
"on",
"the",
"etymology",
"and",
"spread",
"of",
"the",
"word,",
"they",
"note",
"that",
"some",
"people",
"have",
"built",
"careers",
"using",
"the",
"word.",
"For",
"most",
"people",
"though,",
"the",
"word's",
"usage",
"is",
"just",
"recreational.",
"\"It's",
"humorous,",
"it's",
"amusing,\"",
"Capper",
"says.",
"\"For",
"a",
"large",
"part",
"of",
"people,",
"it's",
"just",
"fun.\"",
"In",
"2017,",
"in",
"the",
"days",
"leading",
"up",
"to",
"April",
"20,",
"two",
"of",
"the",
"Waldos,",
"Reddix",
"and",
"Capper,",
"appeared",
"on",
"Kevin",
"Klein",
"Live,",
"a",
"morning",
"show",
"on",
"Live",
"105,",
"to",
"retell",
"the",
"origin",
"story",
"of",
"420.",
"\"(The",
"term",
"420)",
"was",
"never",
"purposeful",
"or",
"contrived,\"",
"they",
"told",
"Klein.",
"\"It",
"happened",
"organically",
"on",
"its",
"own.\"",
"And",
"now",
"that",
"marijuana",
"inches",
"closer",
"to",
"legalization",
"in",
"the",
"state",
"of",
"California",
"and",
"the",
"term",
"420",
"\"gets",
"bigger",
"every",
"year,\"",
"as",
"the",
"host",
"mentions,",
"the",
"Waldos",
"are",
"beginning",
"to",
"warm",
"up",
"to",
"the",
"idea",
"of",
"public",
"visibility.",
"Saying",
"the",
"term",
"\"spread",
"all",
"over",
"the",
"globe,\"",
"the",
"former",
"San",
"Rafael",
"students",
"note",
"that",
"420",
"was",
"just",
"one",
"of",
"their",
"many",
"\"codes\"",
"at",
"school.",
"\"420",
"was",
"the",
"tip",
"of",
"the",
"iceberg,\"",
"they",
"add.",
"\"We",
"have",
"about",
"130",
"other",
"codes",
"that",
"were",
"private",
"jokes",
"for",
"all",
"kinds",
"of",
"things",
"and",
"maybe",
"as",
"we",
"move",
"down",
"the",
"road,",
"maybe",
"get",
"more",
"commercial",
"opportunities,",
"we'll",
"release",
"some",
"of",
"that",
"so",
"the",
"world",
"sees",
"this",
"huge",
"backstory.\"",
"Alyssa",
"Pereira",
"is",
"a",
"SFGATE",
"staff",
"writer.",
"Email",
"her",
"at",
"[email protected]",
"or",
"find",
"her",
"on",
"Twitter",
"at",
"@alyspereira."
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However, as the guys remember it, almost 50 years ago when the term was born, it was just a friendly pastime with friends; a reference to post-class trips during which they'd seek a treasure trove of marijuana mysteriously up for the taking somewhere in Point Reyes. This is where most people stop believing the story. As it goes, forty-five years ago, the Waldos were given a treasure map. Fantastic and preposterous as it may seem, the Waldos have always contended that the brothers that passed it over to them promised with it a stoner's paradise where the "X" marked the spot: a free crop of marijuana, ready for the taking. For the next few weeks, the Waldos would catch each other's eyes in the hallways, uttering simply "420 Louis." It was a secret code, an invitation to meet at 4:20 p.m. after their sports practices, at the statue of Louis Pasteur in front of the school. Then, the "safari" would begin and they'd take off towards the Point Reyes Coast Guard Station in a '66 Chevy Impala in search of the stash. The grower of the weed, it turned out, was a coast guardsman named Gary Newman, stationed on the peninsula. He was the brother-in-law to the Waldos' buds who first delivered them the sacred map. Newman and some other friends had planted the weed for personal use, but they soon began to grow suspicious that their overseeing officers might bust them. So, to get rid of the evidence, Newman made a map for those interested to come harvest. The Waldos never found the marijuana, and eventually they reluctantly pushed the mystery aside, but the phrase 420 stuck, just like the name Waldos — a reference to the wall where they met between classes. "We'd hang out there, make fun of people going by, doing imitations and joking around, and that was kind of our hang out," fellow Waldo and current independent filmmaker Dave Reddix tells SFGATE. "So we just started calling each other Waldos." The phrase 420, meanwhile, was just another "little joke," as Reddix says. But if it was a joke, it was one that everyone else soon learned, including some members of the Grateful Dead, as well as band mates in Phil Lesh's side projects, Too Loose Ta Truck and Sea Stones. While Reddix isn't sure that Lesh or other musicians like David Crosby first heard 420 from his own mouth or from his brother's (who managed a couple of Lesh's other bands), it does seem probable. After all, the Waldos tended to hang out backstage at many of the Dead's shows. The father of Waldo Mark, who today often works as a photographer and renovator in the real estate sector, helped the Dead find the band space for rehearsals and shows, making sure to add the Waldos to pertinent guest lists. "For a young man around 18 or 19 around these guys, it was pretty overwhelmingly fun," Reddix remembers. "We'd shoot some hoops and get high and listen to the Dead playing and practicing inside this warehouse." And though the Waldos never knew for sure where the Dead picked up the phrase, the bigger mystery was always the answer to the map. Until 2016. After a six year hunt beginning in 2010, "hundreds" of unanswered cold calls, and the hiring of a private investigator, they finally found Newman. Though homeless in the San Jose area, he agreed to meet them, 45 years after he penned the legendary treasure map. When they finally met, it was Super Bowl weekend. The Waldos were able to put him up in lodging for a couple days while they interviewed him about the map. But of the revelations and stories exchanged (which you can read about more in-depth here), one of the most memorable moments came when Capper went to pay the bill. "I go to the motel owner, and ask how much is [the room]," he recalls. "He says including tax, it's exactly $420 dollars." And now, almost 50 years after the Waldos were first handed the map, 420 has a life of its own, far away from San Rafael. It permeates many areas of pop culture, including music, TV shows, government bills, Craigslist ads, and even beer labels. Lagunitas Brewing in Petaluma, for example, has for years crafted a "Waldos" triple IPA in its namesake's honor. Brewers have even asked some Waldos to select hops for the beer based on which they believe smells the most like marijuana. The Untappd app has even developed a special game attached to the Lagunitas beer's check-in. "[The Waldos'] legacy lives on and we just get to participate in it on a slightly different level than before," Lagunitas spokesperson Karen Hamilton tells SFGATE. "Who would have guessed that a few short years after making Waldos' Special Ale for the first time, there would be states that have legalized marijuana and an entirely new shift in attitudes and thinking about it all across the country?" But though the brewery uses "420" for a light-hearted specialty beer, there are some people that take the term very seriously. Mentioning that they've heard of at least one Ph.D. candidate who has based studies on the etymology and spread of the word, they note that some people have built careers using the word. For most people though, the word's usage is just recreational. "It's humorous, it's amusing," Capper says. "For a large part of people, it's just fun." In 2017, in the days leading up to April 20, two of the Waldos, Reddix and Capper, appeared on Kevin Klein Live, a morning show on Live 105, to retell the origin story of 420. "(The term 420) was never purposeful or contrived," they told Klein. "It happened organically on its own." And now that marijuana inches closer to legalization in the state of California and the term 420 "gets bigger every year," as the host mentions, the Waldos are beginning to warm up to the idea of public visibility. Saying the term "spread all over the globe," the former San Rafael students note that 420 was just one of their many "codes" at school. "420 was the tip of the iceberg," they add. "We have about 130 other codes that were private jokes for all kinds of things and maybe as we move down the road, maybe get more commercial opportunities, we'll release some of that so the world sees this huge backstory." Alyssa Pereira is a SFGATE staff writer. Email her at [email protected] or find her on Twitter at @alyspereira. |
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"O",
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"O",
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"O",
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"O",
"O",
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"O",
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"B-ORG",
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"O",
"O",
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"O",
"O",
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"O",
"O",
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"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"B-ORG",
"I-ORG",
"I-ORG",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
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"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O",
"O"
] | https://www.ctpost.com/search/?action=search&searchindex=solr&query=%22Office+for+the+Western+District+of+New+York%22&sort=date&channel=news.txt.gz | Islamophobic Trump supporter who threatened to kill Rep. Omar pleads guilty Patrick Carlineo, 55, of Addison, New York, entered the guilty plea before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. ... Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York, because he hates the idea that people he ... EPA expands investigation of Troy demolitions Former City Engineer Russ Reeves, who was interviewed at the FBI's Albany Division office in March 2014, raised concerns about the way demolition proceeded at both locations. ... Attorney's Office of the Western ... Norwalk Hospital pays $920k to US Hochul Jr. of the Western District of New York. ... The lawsuit was filed in federal district court in Buffalo, New York, by Craig Patrick and Charles Bates. ... Attorney's Office for the Western District of New ... Norwalk Hospital to pay $920,000 settlement to U.S. Department of Justice Craig Patrick and Charles Bates filed the lawsuit in federal district court in Buffalo, New York. ... Hochul Jr. of the Western District of New York. ... Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York, ... Federal prosecutors investigating Troy Environmental Protection Agency agents served the subpoenas that were issued by the U.S. attorney's office for the Western District of New York in Rochester. That federal district does not include Troy. ... |
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"Palestinian",
"driver",
"shot",
"dead",
"after",
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"JERUSALEM",
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"into",
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"injuring",
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"a",
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"spokesman",
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"the",
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"him",
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"its",
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"status",
"not",
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"peace",
"talks",
"stalled",
"for",
"more",
"than",
"a",
"year,",
"Jerusalem",
"has",
"seen",
"a",
"surge",
"in",
"violence.",
"(Writing",
"by",
"Dan",
"Williams",
"and",
"Ali",
"Sawafta;",
"editing",
"by",
"Ralph",
"Boulton)"
] | [
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] | https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/israeli-police-arab-driver-shot-dead-ramming-attack-074732596.html.txt.gz | Israeli police say Palestinian driver shot dead after ramming attack JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli policeman shot dead a Palestinian driver in East Jerusalem on Wednesday after he rammed into two policewomen, injuring them, a police spokesman said. Israel Radio aired remarks by the driver's relatives, suggesting the incident was an accident and he was wrongfully killed. Describing the driver as an "Arab terrorist", the police spokesman said the policewomen had been lightly hurt in the incident. A witness said he saw the driver, identified as a 40-year-old East Jerusalem resident, run down one of the policewomen. The policeman then shot him several times. Palestinians seek statehood in East Jerusalem, which was among territories Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war. Israel deems all of the holy city its capital, a status not accepted internationally. With U.S.-backed peace talks stalled for more than a year, Jerusalem has seen a surge in violence. (Writing by Dan Williams and Ali Sawafta; editing by Ralph Boulton) |
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"It's",
"been",
"nearly",
"half",
"a",
"decade",
"since",
"Matt",
"Nicka,",
"allegedly",
"the",
"shadow",
"owner",
"of",
"the",
"now-defunct",
"downtown",
"Baltimore",
"nightclub",
"Sonar,",
"was",
"first",
"charged",
"for",
"sitting",
"atop",
"an",
"international,",
"high-volume,",
"decade-long,",
"pot-and-money-laundering",
"conspiracy",
"based",
"in",
"Baltimore.",
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"still",
"the",
"case",
"goes",
"on.",
"Nicka",
"and",
"his",
"co-defendant",
"wife",
"Gretchen",
"Peterson",
"were",
"brought",
"to",
"Maryland",
"last",
"fall",
"to",
"answer",
"the",
"charges",
"after",
"being",
"picked",
"up",
"in",
"Canada",
"in",
"2013,",
"a",
"few",
"months",
"after",
"another",
"top",
"co-defendant,",
"David",
"D'Amico,",
"was",
"extradited",
"from",
"Colombia.",
"Now,",
"with",
"California",
"attorney",
"James",
"Bustamante",
"at",
"Nicka's",
"side,",
"he's",
"fighting",
"for",
"his",
"freedom,",
"in",
"part",
"by",
"challenging",
"the",
"legality",
"of",
"a",
"2010",
"Drug",
"Enforcement",
"Administration",
"(DEA)",
"raid",
"of",
"a",
"house",
"he",
"used",
"to",
"own",
"at",
"4210",
"Clarkdale",
"Road,",
"in",
"the",
"woods",
"just",
"northwest",
"of",
"Television",
"Hill",
"in",
"Baltimore.",
"By",
"doing",
"so,",
"Nicka",
"put",
"in",
"the",
"court",
"record",
"evidence",
"against",
"him",
"that",
"had",
"not",
"previously",
"been",
"in",
"the",
"public",
"sphere.",
"At",
"issue,",
"according",
"to",
"the",
"Bustamante-penned",
"motion",
"to",
"suppress",
"evidence",
"against",
"Nicka",
"that",
"was",
"collected",
"at",
"the",
"Clarkdale",
"Road",
"home,",
"filed",
"in",
"court",
"on",
"March",
"20,",
"is",
"the",
"constitutionality",
"of",
"the",
"raid.",
"Bustamante",
"asserts",
"that",
"\"probable",
"cause",
"to",
"support",
"the",
"search\"",
"was",
"\"based",
"on",
"insufficient",
"and",
"stale",
"information.\"",
"Regardless",
"of",
"how",
"fresh",
"and",
"pertinent",
"the",
"information",
"was",
"for",
"probable-cause",
"purposes,",
"it",
"still",
"sheds",
"new",
"light",
"on",
"how",
"the",
"investigation",
"was",
"developed",
"by",
"case",
"agent",
"Cindy",
"Buskey",
"of",
"the",
"DEA,",
"who",
"testified",
"at",
"the",
"lengthy",
"2012",
"trial",
"in",
"which",
"a",
"jury",
"found",
"two",
"of",
"the",
"conspiracy's",
"16",
"defendants—former",
"Sonar",
"co-owner",
"Daniel",
"McIntosh",
"and",
"pilot",
"Keagan",
"Leahy—guilty",
"of",
"some,",
"but",
"not",
"all,",
"of",
"the",
"charges",
"against",
"them.",
"Buskey",
"wrote",
"the",
"affidavit",
"supporting",
"the",
"raid",
"on",
"the",
"then-vacant",
"house,",
"which",
"turned",
"up",
"no",
"dope",
"or",
"money,",
"but",
"did",
"produce",
"a",
"money",
"counter,",
"a",
"heat",
"sealer,",
"photographs,",
"maps,",
"and",
"various",
"other",
"documents,",
"among",
"other",
"seemingly",
"innocuous",
"items.",
"Her",
"sworn",
"statement",
"described",
"how",
"investigators",
"unearthed",
"connections",
"between",
"the",
"players,",
"prompting",
"them",
"to",
"interview",
"D'Amico's",
"ex-wife,",
"Liliana",
"D'Amico,",
"and",
"Peterson's",
"mother",
"and",
"sister,",
"Mary",
"and",
"Jessica",
"Peterson.",
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"affidavit",
"also",
"gave",
"details",
"provided",
"by",
"co-conspirator",
"Andrew",
"Sharpeta,",
"who",
"cooperated",
"with",
"authorities,",
"about",
"the",
"scope",
"of",
"the",
"pot-dealing",
"operation,",
"with",
"the",
"Clarkdale",
"Road",
"house",
"serving",
"as",
"its",
"nerve",
"center.",
"The",
"affidavit",
"also",
"relates",
"conversations",
"with",
"an",
"unnamed",
"neighbor,",
"with",
"whom",
"Nicka",
"had",
"entrusted",
"a",
"key",
"to",
"the",
"house.",
"Sharpeta,",
"who",
"testified",
"before",
"the",
"grand",
"jury",
"that",
"indicted",
"the",
"case",
"as",
"well",
"as",
"before",
"the",
"jury",
"that",
"convicted",
"McIntosh",
"and",
"Leahy,",
"told",
"invesigators",
"that",
"he",
"lived",
"at",
"the",
"Clarkdale",
"Road",
"house",
"in",
"2008",
"and",
"2009,",
"and",
"that",
"Nicka",
"had",
"moved",
"there",
"about",
"a",
"year",
"earlier.",
"While",
"there,",
"\"he,",
"Nicka,",
"D'Amico,",
"and",
"others",
"had",
"counted",
"large",
"amounts",
"of",
"money\"",
"using",
"money",
"counters,",
"the",
"affidavit",
"states,",
"and",
"bundled",
"them",
"in",
"$50,000",
"increments",
"made",
"up",
"of",
"10",
"bundles",
"of",
"$5,000.",
"Six",
"$50,000",
"increments",
"were",
"then",
"put",
"in",
"envelopes",
"that",
"were",
"then",
"\"loaded",
"into",
"a",
"suitcase",
"or",
"duffle",
"bags\"",
"in",
"increments",
"up",
"to",
"$1",
"million.",
"The",
"suitcases",
"were",
"\"locked",
"and",
"super",
"glued",
"shut\"",
"and",
"then",
"\"taken",
"to",
"California",
"on",
"D'Amico's",
"airplane",
"and/or",
"a",
"tractor",
"trailer.\"",
"Aside",
"from",
"detailing",
"the",
"cash-management",
"tactics",
"undertaken",
"at",
"the",
"house,",
"Sharpeta",
"also",
"\"described",
"the",
"delivery",
"and",
"distribution",
"of",
"hundreds",
"of",
"pounds",
"of",
"marijuana",
"from",
"this",
"residence.\"",
"When",
"Mary",
"and",
"Jessica",
"Peterson",
"were",
"interviewed",
"in",
"Pennsylvania",
"in",
"late",
"2009,",
"Jessica",
"Peterson",
"said",
"\"Gretchen",
"had",
"told",
"her",
"that",
"she",
"acted",
"as",
"a",
"money",
"courier\"",
"for",
"Nicka,",
"and",
"that",
"Gretchen",
"Peterson",
"\"was",
"living",
"beyond",
"her",
"means,\"",
"based",
"on",
"\"her",
"clothing",
"and",
"her",
"social",
"lifestyle\"",
"even",
"though",
"she",
"was",
"\"unemployed.\"",
"At",
"the",
"restaurant",
"where",
"Jessica",
"Peterson",
"worked,",
"employees",
"were",
"\"happy",
"to",
"see",
"Gretchen",
"because",
"she",
"would",
"leave",
"extremely",
"large",
"tips.\"",
"Mary",
"Peterson,",
"meanwhile,",
"\"stated",
"that",
"she",
"suspected",
"that",
"her",
"daughter",
"was",
"involved",
"in",
"drug",
"trafficking\"",
"because",
"she'd",
"found",
"a",
"\"duffle",
"bag",
"in",
"2005-2006\"",
"that",
"\"contained",
"marijuana\"",
"and",
"\"observed",
"a",
"stack",
"of",
"money",
"that",
"she",
"decribed",
"as",
"being",
"one",
"and",
"a",
"half",
"feet",
"by",
"one",
"and",
"a",
"half",
"feet",
"on",
"Gretchen's",
"bed.\"",
"Both",
"women",
"\"also",
"stated",
"that",
"Gretchen",
"informed",
"them",
"that",
"she",
"left\"",
"Pennsylvania",
"\"in",
"October",
"of",
"2009",
"to",
"avoid",
"speaking",
"with",
"law",
"enforcement\"",
"after",
"\"investigators",
"attempted",
"to",
"serve",
"a",
"grand",
"jury",
"subpoena\"",
"on",
"her",
"there.",
"Investigators",
"caught",
"up",
"with",
"Liliana",
"D'Amico",
"after",
"a",
"2009",
"raid",
"at",
"a",
"house",
"in",
"Hampden",
"turned",
"up",
"evidence",
"that",
"the",
"conspiracy",
"made",
"use",
"of",
"an",
"aircraft",
"co-owned",
"by",
"David",
"D'Amico,",
"and",
"her",
"name",
"turned",
"up",
"on",
"database",
"searches",
"as",
"associated",
"with",
"him.",
"They",
"found",
"that",
"in",
"2004",
"in",
"South",
"Carolina,",
"she",
"had",
"been",
"stopped",
"in",
"a",
"vehicle",
"registered",
"to",
"Gretchen",
"Peterson",
"that",
"had",
"an",
"empty,",
"hidden",
"compartment,",
"and",
"the",
"car",
"was",
"seized",
"by",
"the",
"DEA",
"after",
"drug-sniffing",
"dogs",
"gave",
"a",
"positive",
"alert.",
"Found",
"in",
"the",
"car",
"were",
"photographs,",
"including",
"one",
"of",
"Leahy,",
"the",
"pilot",
"who",
"flew",
"D'Amico's",
"plane",
"and",
"had",
"been",
"involved",
"in",
"its",
"purchase.",
"When",
"she",
"was",
"interviewed",
"in",
"2009,",
"she",
"told",
"them",
"she",
"was",
"no",
"longer",
"married",
"to",
"D'Amico,",
"and",
"she",
"denied",
"any",
"knowledge",
"of",
"drug",
"trafficking,",
"but",
"admitted",
"she'd",
"seen",
"D'Amico",
"with",
"large",
"amounts",
"of",
"cash.",
"When",
"investigators",
"interviewed",
"the",
"Clarkdale",
"Road",
"neighbor",
"in",
"February",
"2010,",
"they",
"learned",
"he",
"\"had",
"not",
"seen",
"Nicka",
"or",
"any",
"other",
"individual",
"at",
"the",
"residence",
"in",
"approximately",
"one",
"year.\"",
"Previously,",
"though,",
"\"Nicka",
"would",
"leave",
"the",
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By doing so, Nicka put in the court record evidence against him that had not previously been in the public sphere. At issue, according to the Bustamante-penned motion to suppress evidence against Nicka that was collected at the Clarkdale Road home, filed in court on March 20, is the constitutionality of the raid. Bustamante asserts that "probable cause to support the search" was "based on insufficient and stale information." Regardless of how fresh and pertinent the information was for probable-cause purposes, it still sheds new light on how the investigation was developed by case agent Cindy Buskey of the DEA, who testified at the lengthy 2012 trial in which a jury found two of the conspiracy's 16 defendants—former Sonar co-owner Daniel McIntosh and pilot Keagan Leahy—guilty of some, but not all, of the charges against them. Buskey wrote the affidavit supporting the raid on the then-vacant house, which turned up no dope or money, but did produce a money counter, a heat sealer, photographs, maps, and various other documents, among other seemingly innocuous items. Her sworn statement described how investigators unearthed connections between the players, prompting them to interview D'Amico's ex-wife, Liliana D'Amico, and Peterson's mother and sister, Mary and Jessica Peterson. The affidavit also gave details provided by co-conspirator Andrew Sharpeta, who cooperated with authorities, about the scope of the pot-dealing operation, with the Clarkdale Road house serving as its nerve center. The affidavit also relates conversations with an unnamed neighbor, with whom Nicka had entrusted a key to the house. Sharpeta, who testified before the grand jury that indicted the case as well as before the jury that convicted McIntosh and Leahy, told invesigators that he lived at the Clarkdale Road house in 2008 and 2009, and that Nicka had moved there about a year earlier. While there, "he, Nicka, D'Amico, and others had counted large amounts of money" using money counters, the affidavit states, and bundled them in $50,000 increments made up of 10 bundles of $5,000. Six $50,000 increments were then put in envelopes that were then "loaded into a suitcase or duffle bags" in increments up to $1 million. The suitcases were "locked and super glued shut" and then "taken to California on D'Amico's airplane and/or a tractor trailer." Aside from detailing the cash-management tactics undertaken at the house, Sharpeta also "described the delivery and distribution of hundreds of pounds of marijuana from this residence." When Mary and Jessica Peterson were interviewed in Pennsylvania in late 2009, Jessica Peterson said "Gretchen had told her that she acted as a money courier" for Nicka, and that Gretchen Peterson "was living beyond her means," based on "her clothing and her social lifestyle" even though she was "unemployed." At the restaurant where Jessica Peterson worked, employees were "happy to see Gretchen because she would leave extremely large tips." Mary Peterson, meanwhile, "stated that she suspected that her daughter was involved in drug trafficking" because she'd found a "duffle bag in 2005-2006" that "contained marijuana" and "observed a stack of money that she decribed as being one and a half feet by one and a half feet on Gretchen's bed." Both women "also stated that Gretchen informed them that she left" Pennsylvania "in October of 2009 to avoid speaking with law enforcement" after "investigators attempted to serve a grand jury subpoena" on her there. Investigators caught up with Liliana D'Amico after a 2009 raid at a house in Hampden turned up evidence that the conspiracy made use of an aircraft co-owned by David D'Amico, and her name turned up on database searches as associated with him. They found that in 2004 in South Carolina, she had been stopped in a vehicle registered to Gretchen Peterson that had an empty, hidden compartment, and the car was seized by the DEA after drug-sniffing dogs gave a positive alert. Found in the car were photographs, including one of Leahy, the pilot who flew D'Amico's plane and had been involved in its purchase. When she was interviewed in 2009, she told them she was no longer married to D'Amico, and she denied any knowledge of drug trafficking, but admitted she'd seen D'Amico with large amounts of cash. When investigators interviewed the Clarkdale Road neighbor in February 2010, they learned he "had not seen Nicka or any other individual at the residence in approximately one year." Previously, though, "Nicka would leave the residence for weeks at a time," and "had given the neighbor the key to 4210 Clarkdale Road" and "asked the neighbor to look after the residence during his extended absences." During "the latter part of 2009, the water pipes burst in the residence on two occasions" and the neighbor "had attempted to contact Nicka on his cellular phone," but it "was disconnected." The neighbor also had seen Gretchen Peterson, Sharpeta, and D'Amico at the house. The jury trial of Nicka, Peterson, and D'Amico is scheduled to start next March, and run for five weeks. In the meantime, all three have consented to detention pending trial. Back when they were on the lam, all three, as well the only remaining fugitive in the case, Jeffery Putney, were the subject of "Most Wanted" media coverage. The jury that convicted McIntosh and Leahy, meanwhile, did not buy the government's theory that Sonar was a money-laundering front, and arguments in the case alleged prosecutorial improprieties that were deemed inapposite by the judge. An interesting figure in the case was Baltimore developer Jeremiah Landsman, who received a relatively lenient sentence, though all the players bear some intrigue. When McIntosh was sentenced, he got the lowest penalty he could—10 years in prison—though some of the others received serious time too. In light of what happened to the others, it'll be interesting to see how the case against Nicka, Peterson, and D'Amico—the top three defendants in the conspiracy—plays out. |
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"accountant",
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"William",
"R.",
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"an",
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"that",
"IRS",
"Agent",
"Woodland",
"R.",
"Morris",
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"Doug",
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"J.",
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"J.",
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"7",
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] | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-03-03-1993062040-story.html.txt.gz | It was like an old movie. The mild-mannered accountant who cooked the books to protect a cash-skimming operation at a Timonium restaurant invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify before the Baltimore County Liquor Board. The attorney for the licensee, Richard M. Karceski, tried to pounce. He argued that Francis Fidati, a CPA serving a house-arrest sentence for aiding and abetting tax evasion, was the primary source of information that led to the jailing of the co-owners of the Parlay Cafe. Without Fidati's testimony, an IRS agent could only repeat hearsay, the lawyer said. Good try, the board said, but not quite good enough. Chairman William R. Snyder said the board is an administrative body and that IRS Agent Woodland R. Morris and county Detective Doug Dunlap could testify at Monday's hearing about the gambling probe that began in 1989 and continued into 1992. Detective Dunlap said a bookmaking and gambling investigation begun by county police in mid-1989 led to guilty pleas by Stanley J. Zaban, of Lutherville, a Parlay Cafe co-owner, and Herman Neumyer, who now lives in Las Vegas. Records seized in that case involved the Parlay Cafe, the detective said. Federal agents brought in on the case began to focus on Zaban and Gary J. Genovese, of Cockeysville, one of the restaurant's liquor licensees, Detective Dunlap said. A second set of account books Fidati gave the IRS showed Zaban used the cafe to launder cash disguised as "consultant fees" for which he did no work. They also showed Zaban and Genovese skimmed receipts and split the money without reporting it for taxes, Agent Morris said. Fidati pleaded guilty to helping Zaban prepare phony tax returns. Faced with those books and other records, Zaban and Genovese pleaded guilty in Federal Court. Zaban is serving 27 months for money laundering, gambling, bank fraud and tax evasion. Genovese is serving eight months for tax evasion. Agent Morris said the pair skimmed more than $315,000 in four years. Monday's 2 1/2 -hour hearing ended with the three-member board ordering Shirley Zaban, Stanley Zaban's wife and the only licensee present, to pay a $2,000 fine. The board also suspended liquor sales at the Parlay Cafe from March 7 through March 15. Speaking with studied understatement, Mr. Snyder said the charges arose from "the whole practice of failing to use standard accounting procedures." Because potential buyers are already working at the Padonia Road cafe, Mr. Karceski tried a final gambit. Noting that the board could have imposed an even longer suspension, he asked the board to substitute a larger fine for the eight-day suspension. By doing this, he said, the sale -- scheduled for settlement yesterday -- could proceed and the new owners, employees and creditors would not be punished for the Zaban-Genovese misdeeds. Mr. Snyder said the board sympathized with the employees who will lose wages during the suspension, but also said the decision would stand. A hearing to transfer the license has been postponed until Mrs. Zaban decides whether to appeal the suspension. Mr. Karceski said sale negotiations are continuing. |
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Casey would lead to outright bans or severe restrictions on abortion in 26 states, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights. The case being argued Wednesday comes from Mississippi, where a 2018 law would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, well before viability. The Supreme Court has never allowed states to ban abortion before the point at roughly 24 weeks when a fetus can survive outside the womb. The justices are separately weighing disputes over Texas' much earlier abortion ban, at roughly six weeks, though those cases turn on the unique structure of the law and how it can be challenged in court, not the abortion right. Still, abortion rights advocates were troubled by the court's 5-4 vote in September to allow the Texas law, which relies on citizen lawsuits to enforce it, to take effect in the first place. “This is the most worried I’ve ever been,” said Shannon Brewer, who runs the only abortion clinic in Mississippi, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The clinic offers abortions up to 16 weeks of pregnancy and about 10% of abortions it performs take place after the 15th week, Brewer said. She also noted that since the Texas law took effect, the clinic has seen a substantial increase in patients, operating five days or six days a week instead of two or three. Lower courts blocked the Mississippi law, as they have other abortion bans that employ traditional enforcement methods by state and local officials. The Supreme Court had never before even agreed to hear a case over a pre-viability abortion ban. But after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death last year and her replacement by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the third of Trump's appointees, the court said it would take up the case. Trump had pledged to appoint “pro-life justices” and predicted they would lead the way in overturning the abortion rulings. Only one justice, Clarence Thomas, has publicly called for Roe to be overruled. The court could uphold the Mississippi law without explicitly overruling Roe and Casey, an outcome that would satisfy neither side. Abortion-rights advocates say that result would amount to the same thing as an outright ruling overturning the earlier cases because it would erase the rationale undergirding nearly a half-century of Supreme Court law. “A decision upholding this ban is tantamount to overruling Roe. The ban prohibits abortion around two months before viability,” said Julie Rikelman, who will argue the case for the clinic. On the other side, abortion opponents argue that the court essentially invented abortion law in Roe and Casey, and shouldn't repeat that mistake in this case. If the justices uphold Mississippi's law, they'll have to explain why, said Thomas Jipping, a Heritage Foundation legal fellow. They can either overrule the two big cases, Jipping said, “or they're going to have to come up with another made-up rule.” Conservative commentator Ed Whelan said such an outcome would be a “massive defeat” on par with the Casey decision in 1992, in which a court with eight justices appointed by Republican presidents unexpectedly reaffirmed Roe. This court appears far more conservative than the one that decided Casey, and legal historian Mary Ziegler at Florida State University’s law school, said the court probably would “overrule Roe or set us on a path to doing so.” Chief Justice John Roberts might find the more incremental approach appealing if he can persuade a majority of the court to go along. Since Roberts became chief justice in 2005, the court has moved in smaller steps on some issues, even when it appeared there was only a binary choice. It took two cases for the court to rip out the heart of the federal Voting Rights Act that curbed potentially discriminatory voting laws in states with a history of discrimination. In the area of organized labor, the court moved through a series of cases that chipped away at public sector unions’ power. The high court also heard two rounds of arguments over restrictions on independent spending in the political arena before removing limits on how much money corporations and unions can pour into election advocacy. If the court looks to public sentiment, it would find poll after poll that shows support for preserving Roe, though some surveys also find backing for greater restrictions on abortion. Mississippi is one of 12 states ready to act almost immediately if Roe is overturned. Those states have enacted so-called abortion trigger laws that would take effect and ban all or nearly all abortions. Women in those states wanting abortions could face drives of hundreds of miles to reach the nearest clinic or they might obtain abortion pills by mail. Medication abortions now account for 40% of abortions. Some legal briefs in the case make clear that the end of Roe is not the ultimate goal of abortion opponents. The court should recognize that “unborn children are persons” under the Constitution's 14th Amendment, a conclusion that would compel an end to almost all legal abortions, Princeton professor Robert George and scholar John Finnis wrote. Finnis was Justice Neil Gorsuch's adviser on his Oxford dissertation, an argument against assisted suicide. |
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] | https://www.chicagotribune.com/author-all/chi-jason-meisner/550/.txt.gz | Jason Meisner 1,633 stories by Jason Meisner Lawsuit alleges state Sen. Martin Sandoval used position as transportation chairman to get his son a job at PaceLongtime Democratic state Sen. Martin Sandoval, whose offices and home were raided last week by federal agents, was accused in a lawsuit last month of using his clout as chairman of the powerful Senate Transportation Committee to get his son a job at Pace in 2016. Convicted sex offender who worked at a popular Chicago observatory pleads guilty to child pornography chargesA convicted sex offender who was fired from his job at the former John Hancock Center’s observatory after the Chicago Tribune revealed he was under federal investigation pleaded guilty Monday to federal child pornography charges. 'None of us could sleep’: Reputed mob soldier given 14 years in prison for terrorizing family over ‘juice’ loan debtA reputed Outfit soldier was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison Friday for threatening and beating a suburban businessman he claimed owed him $100,000 and then hiring a goon to torch the debtor’s car and house when he wouldn’t pay up. FBI raids village offices of west suburban Lyons, nearby McCook, where a Cook County commissioner is mayor. Feds also ‘conducted investigative activity’ in Summit.FBI agents again raided multiple locations as part of an ongoing public corruption probe, including the municipal building in tiny west suburb McCook, sources confirmed. - A former suburban high school teacher charged with the sexual abuse of an underage boy faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in federal prison if convicted. - Illinois Sen. Marty Sandoval's offices were raided by federal officials, according to sources. - No se pudo localizar al senador estatal para comentarios y el FBI no reveló por qué investiga al legislador Veteran Chicago cop pleads guilty to bribery for leaking details on crash victims to attorney referral serviceA veteran Chicago police officer pleaded guilty Friday to taking thousands of dollars in bribes from the owner of a west suburban attorney referral service in exchange for leaking exclusive information about crash victims and their insurance carriers. - A Chicago police sergeant who allegedly beat two men outside a popular Andersonville nightclub last year was emboldened by a code of silence within the Police Department that allowed him to remain on the force despite a troubled history, a lawsuit alleged. Judge gives ex-sailor 15 years in prison for having sex with underage girls, calls his conduct ‘ghastly’Ex-sailor Casey Ireland was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday for enticing two underage girls from Wisconsin to engage in sex acts with him at his home in far north suburban Antioch. Feds indict woman on charges she ran prostitution business called Kink Extraordinaire on Chicago’s Near West SideA Chicago woman who runs a Near West Side fetish business has been indicted on federal charges alleging she and several employees had sex with clients for money at risque parties labeled “Halloween Mischief” and “Black Tie Bizarre.” Dozens of men have alleged Reynaldo Guevara was a dirty cop. Now a lawyer says he has documents to prove it.Lawyers for a man convicted as a teenager in a 1991 murder say they have unearthed new evidence that notorious Chicago police detective Reynaldo Guevara buried a lineup report identifying someone else as the shooter and then lied about it at trial. - A Cook County judge on Tuesday declined to increase the $1 million bond for singer R. Kelly on his pending sex abuse cases and also shot down a bizarre bid by a woman who posted Kelly’s bond in February who now wants her $100,000 back. Ethics board levels $25K fine on political consultant recorded allegedly arranging Viagra, sexual services for disgraced former Chicago aldermanA Chicago political consultant who federal authorities allegedly recorded offering Viagra and prostitution services to a former alderman has been fined $25,000 for unregistered lobbying. - A man awaiting trial on charges he pushed a woman onto CTA tracks was sentenced by a federal judge Thursday to two years in prison for the lunchtime assault of another woman outside the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago. - A federal jury acquitted a northwest suburban man Monday of making telephone threats to kill federal agents before trying to force his way into an FBI satellite office in Rolling Meadows last year. - Lawyers for Edward Vrdolyak asked for yet another delay in his sentencing for a tax-related conviction, saying in a court filing that the 81-year-old former Chicago alderman suffered head trauma in a fall at his home earlier this week. - Six months after striking a rare deal with prosecutors, former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schockcq was officially cleared Wednesday of criminal charges alleging he used his campaign funds as a private piggy bank. - Lawyers for Jussie Smollett say the former “Empire actor could never have foreseen that Chicago police would investigate his claims of a brutal hate crime attack so thoroughly — and therefore he shouldn’t be stuck with the bill. - R. Kelly now has a trial date -- at least a tentative one. Parting words from departing FBI boss in Chicago: ‘Our corruption program is extremely busy. Expect more to come’When Jeffrey Sallet took over as boss of the Chicago FBI in late 2017, one of the biggest political corruption investigations in the city’s history was already quietly simmering. R. Kelly moved to general population of federal jail in Chicago, feds say. ‘I’m so popular here, it’s like yeah man’After weeks of complaints about the circumstances of his incarceration, disgraced R & B singer R. Kelly has been moved to the general population of the federal jail in Chicago. - Lawyers for R Kelly filed an motion Thursday asking that he be immediately released from solitary confinement at the federal jail in Chicago, where they say he’s been deprived of any contact with other inmates, TV access and outdoor activity. - A federal appeals court in Chicago on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit that challenged a ban on assault rifles in Cook County, saying the arguments were nearly identical to a previous failed suit brought against Highland Park. - A Chicago man was sentenced to four years in federal prison Tuesday for illegally trafficking the gun that was used to kill 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in a gang-related ambush in 2015. Financial adviser accused of swindling one of the ‘Dixmoor 5’ out of settlement money from infamous wrongful conviction caseA former financial adviser with Merrill Lynch has been charged with bilking more than $2 million from four clients. Former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb given far-reaching mandate to investigate Jussie Smollett case: ‘The facts will take me where they take me’Dan Webb’s appointment as special prosecutor in the Jussie Smollett case adds more star power to a case that already has made national headlines for months and touches on issues of race, politics and celebrity, even though it stems from a low-level felony charge of disorderly conduct. - The Jussie Smollett case is Dan Webb’s fifth stint as a special prosecutor in his 40-plus year legal career — and surely the first involving disorderly conduct. - Chicago police Officer Milot Cadichon pleaded guilty Thursday to taking thousands of dollars in kickbacks from the owner of an attorney referral service in exchange for detailed information about crash victims and their insurance carriers that he culled from police reports. - Illinois state Sen. Thomas E. Cullerton pleaded not guilty in federal court to embezzlement charges alleging he pocketed almost $275,000 in salary and benefits from the Teamsters union despite doing little or no work. - Three reputed West Side gang members could potentially face the death penalty after they were charged in federal court Thursday in a murder-for-hire plot that led to the execution-style slayings of a suspected police informant and his girlfriend in 2018 State seeks to disbar ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich from practicing law more than 8 years after convictionThe Illinois panel that licenses and disciplines attorneys has quietly moved to finally take former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s law license away permanently more than eight years after his corruption conviction. The feds once seized her cellphone, a line of people want to replace her and now Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown says she won’t seek reelectionDorothy Brown, Cook County’s controversial clerk of the circuit court, will not pursue reelection to an office she’s held for nearly two decades. Licensed gun owner shoots and kills 14-year-old boy during attempted car theft in Lake County; 5 teens charged with murderA 75-year-old licensed concealed carry gun owner shot and killed a 14-year-old Chicago boy when a group of teens appeared at his Lake County home early Tuesday morning, authorities said. Acusan a 5 adolescentes de homicidio en primer grado por la muerte de un joven de 14 años durante un supuesto intento de roboUn hombre de 75 años, con licencia para portar arma oculta, le disparó a un jovencito de 14 años cuando un grupo de jóvenes se aparecieron en su casa, en el Condado de Lake la madrugada del martes. Judge gives go-ahead to class-action suits alleging indecent conduct by Cook County Jail inmates against female employees, public defendersA federal judge on Monday gave the green light to a pair of class-action lawsuits alleging a pattern of indecent conduct by Cook County Jail inmates against female jail workers and public defenders. Trump considering ending Rod Blagojevich’s prison term, citing ‘Comey gang and all these sleazebags’President Donald Trump has once again dangled the idea of commuting the 14-year prison sentence for disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, telling reporters aboard Air Force One Wednesday night he was “very strongly” considering springing Blagojevich from prison almost five years early. - Un miembro de alto rango del cartel de Sinaloa fue sentenciado a 28 años de la prisión el martes, en la corte federal de Chicago, por haber ayudado a los hijos del convicto Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, a traficar miles de libras de narcóticos a Estados Unidos. - A high-ranking lieutenant in the Sinaloa cartel was sentenced in Chicago to 28 years in prison for helping the sons of convicted boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman traffic thousands of pounds of narcotics into the U.S. - Jesus Beltran Leon, who prosecutors say worked directly with the sons of Sinaloa boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, is scheduled to be sentenced Monday in federal court in Chicago to importing thousands of pounds of narcotics into the U.S. on behalf of the cartel. - Mientras estaba encerrado en el centro de Chicago en abril, el ahijado de El Chapo testificó en la corte que se enteró de que pandilleros se les habían ofrecido $25,000 para golpearlo severamente. El supuesto "golpe" había sido ordenado por el ex asociado de narcotráfico, Jesús Beltrán-León, quien quería que alguien le "rompiera la cabeza" como castigo por cooperar, según los fiscales federales. As summer violence rages on, a Chicago gang member’s jail recordings offer a rare look at the city’s entrenched gun cultureIn recorded calls from the Cook County Jail, a reputed gang member was quite philosophical about landing back behind bars. Corrupt ex-Teamsters boss put state Sen. Thomas Cullerton on payroll in do-nothing job, federal charges allegeState Sen. Thomas E. Cullerton has been indicted by federal authorities on embezzlement charges alleging he pocketed almost $275,000 in salary and benefits from the Teamsters union despite doing little or no work. The party appears over for the Flying Lady — a ‘Playpen’ yacht with a stripper pole — after its owner is charged in a multimillion-dollar fraud schemeFederal authorities say they seized a 58-foot powerboat dubbed Flying Lady, a regular in the raucous party scene just off the downtown shore, in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme allegedly run by its owner, David Izsak. - Over defense objections, a federal judge Wednesday approved a protective order in the child pornography and obstruction case against singer R. Kelly, saying he had concerns about the case being “tried in the public domain.” Politically connected ex-Teamsters boss pleads guilty to extorting Chicago film studio, agrees to cooperatePowerful former Teamsters boss John Coli Sr. pleaded guilty Tuesday to corruption charges and agreed to cooperate with federal authorities in the ongoing investigation. FBI alleges mail and wire fraud by Outcome Health and its co-founders in briefly unsealed court documentThe FBI was conducting a criminal investigation of Outcome Health and its executives as recently as November, nearly a year after the company settled a civil lawsuit by big-name investors alleging Outcome Health and its co-founders committed fraud to secure almost $500 million in funding. Prosecutors seek protective order on evidence, hint at additional charges, defendants in R. Kelly caseFederal prosecutors in Chicago have asked for a protective order on all evidence turned over in the sexual abuse case against singer R. Kelly, telling a judge that putting sensitive material in the public domain would have a “chilling effect” on cooperating witnesses. - Federal investigators are looking into $10,000 in checks from ComEd lobbyists to a political operative ousted by House Speaker Michael Madigan. Kevin Quinn was dismissed amid a sexual harassment scandal. - Reputed mob figure John Matassa Jr. was sentenced Monday to 6 months in federal prison for a scheme to embezzle from a union. |
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Jerry Brown says murder-accessory reform law he signed will stand up Jerry Brown helped push through a bill limiting who can be charged with murder, a parting shot in his campaign to roll back decades of tough-on-crime history in California. ... The bill narrowly passed last year ... Jerry Brown sets record for pardons, commutations in California Governorsets recordfor clemencyin California By Bob Egelko When Jerry Brown was governor from 1975 to 1983, he pardoned 404 convicted criminals, removing the convictions from their records, and granted one ... Jerry Brown gets OK to pardon convicted politician Roderick Wright Jerry Brown to pardon former state Sen. ... Brown sought the court’s opinion, with his attorney Peter Krause writing: “Sen. ... Jerry Brown responds to a question at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Trump visits California, meets with Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom Jerry Brown and Gov.... Jerry Brown, stands at center. ... Jerry Brown as Gov. 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