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<mask> (October 17, 1955 – February 24, 1984) was an American spree killer who fatally shot two students and wounded twelve others who were leaving 49th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles on February 24, 1984. <mask> then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a double-barreled shotgun. Biography
<mask> was born to Lee Charles (1931–1978) and <mask> (1930–1978) in Montgomery County, Alabama. He grew up in a South Central Los Angeles residence that was later razed to build the 49th Street Elementary School. <mask> and his family were members of the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones. In 1977, <mask>'s parents and siblings followed Jones to the Temple's Jonestown settlement in Guyana, leaving <mask> behind in Los Angeles; both parents, four sisters and a brother perished in the mass murder-suicide that took place at Jonestown on November 18, 1978. According to <mask>'s fiancée, a 29-year-old Temple member named Marylou Hill, he suffered a nervous breakdown as a result of the deaths of his family.<mask> returned to his old neighborhood in Los Angeles, and moved with Hill into a white, two-story Victorian house at 730 East 50th Street, just 50 feet away from the school that now stood on the property where his childhood home had been. The house bore a crudely lettered sign reading "God's Love" and commanded a sweeping view of the school playground. <mask> developed a reputation in the neighborhood for his irrational behavior and his abuse of drugs such as PCP, the latter of which Hill vehemently disputed. On December 5, 1979, about a year after his return, <mask> was arrested at his home following a dispute with his uncle and landlord, Willie Lee <mask>, about who would relight the pilot light on a water heater. Reportedly, <mask>'s uncle had threatened to arm himself during the dispute, and <mask>, in turn, fired three shots from a .30-caliber rifle into the air before police arrived. Two months later he was convicted of a misdemeanor charge of discharging a firearm within city limits, fined $200 and placed on two years' probation. Hill said that <mask> kept a "high-powered rifle" in the house and, by 1984, occasionally fired it at the sky.According to neighbors, in February 1984 he regularly fired at airliners passing overhead, which were landing at Los Angeles International Airport. These incidents were not reported to police out of fear. In an incident on February 11, one of <mask>'s uncles reported to police that <mask> had pointed a machine gun at him. No weapon was confiscated, no arrest made, and the matter was turned over to the city attorney. <mask> was a student at California State University, Long Beach, for several years, where he attended a variety of classes. He did not hold a job. Hill, his fiancée, worked as a preschool teacher.<mask> wanted to marry Hill right away, but she wanted to wait until their financial situation improved. Shooting and siege
At 2:23 pm on Friday, February 24, 1984, about 100 students from the 49th Street Elementary School had just emerged from their classrooms and onto the school's playground when <mask> opened fire from the second-story bay window of his house located across the street. Police in a squad car heard shots ring out and reported the incident immediately. <mask> shot 39 rounds from an AR-15 rifle and 18 rounds from two shotguns down into the crowd of students. Several children fell from their wounds in the schoolyard, while most escaped running back into the school. There they were taken to the library on the building's opposite side and waited while their parents were telephoned to pick them up. Children who remained outside hid behind trees, garbage cans, and any other available cover.Some of the children were screaming and crying. Seven ambulances were dispatched to the scene. A team of paramedics rescued several children while <mask> continued to fire from his window. Los Angeles Fire Department paramedic Jack Frye and his partner drove directly onto the schoolyard and pulled children into their ambulance. "We pulled the kids, injured or not, into the ambulance. We just wanted to get them safe. We didn't know what could happen," Frye stated later.Some of the injured students were flown out by police helicopter. When the barrage had ceased minutes later, the school was evacuated and <mask>'s house was surrounded by police. During the ensuing siege, Hill arrived and asked police to allow her to enter the house to try to talk with <mask>. Authorities refused her pleas, fearing she would be taken hostage. The Los Angeles Police Department's SWAT team arrived and evacuated houses adjacent to <mask>'s. The siege ended when a four-man SWAT team stormed the house shortly after 6 p.m. Police fired at least 16 canisters of tear gas into the house before the SWAT team entered. <mask> was found laying face up on the floor of his second-story bedroom, dressed in camouflage pants, a khaki shirt, and jungle-style combat boots, with an empty knife scabbard attached to his belt.He had killed himself with a single wound to the head from a 12 gauge double-barreled shotgun. No one else was found in the house. Casualties
At the time of the incident, <mask> had injured 14 people, mostly children. Most were treated at local hospitals. One of the first children to fall under the attack was 10-year-old Shala Eubanks. A schoolyard supervisor, Albert Jones, 50, made several attempts to reach her, but every time he approached, he was fired upon and forced to take cover. Eubanks was carried into a classroom by two LAPD officers.Two paramedics tried to save her, but their efforts were in vain. She died on the classroom floor. By late Friday night, three other casualties were in guarded but stable condition, another was in good condition, and the rest had been released from hospitals after treatment of minor injuries. Carlos Lopez, 24, who had been jogging past the school when the shooting began, suffered gunshot wounds to the abdomen and underwent surgery at Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital, where most of his pancreas and spleen were removed. Lopez was listed in "guarded" condition for eight weeks until it worsened and he died on April 13. Victims

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 Shala Eubanks, 10, shot, died within hours
 Carlos Lopez, 24, born and raised in Nayarit, Mexico, moved to Los Angeles when he was 16 performing work at a factory. Over a thousand people attended the ceremony, including Los Angeles school superintendent Harry Handler and members of the school board; school principal Charles Jackson, and almost 100 teachers and students.The funeral of Carlos Lopez was held on Saturday, April 21. Nearly 100 friends and relatives throughout the Los Angeles area, most of them factory workers like Lopez, gathered at Park Lawn Cemetery in the City of Commerce. After the shooting, the LAPD convened a board of inquiry, with representatives from the city and county's Fire, Mental Health, and Health Services departments and advocacy groups for the mentally ill to study whether <mask>'s violent outburst might have been predicted or prevented. In 1991, California passed a law that mandated a 15-day (later 10-day) waiting period for the sale of rifles and shotguns and a background check on the buyer of the weapon. Motive
<mask>'s motive remains unclear. According to his uncle, <mask> had been in the house all day on the day of the shooting. Many believe that his actions were linked to the deaths of his immediate family at Jonestown.A toxicological study of <mask>'s body fluids postmortem by the Los Angeles County coroner found no PCP or other illegal drugs, and only a small amount of alcohol, .03%, less than a third of the legal limit. See also
 List of rampage killers (school massacres)

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<mask> (June 17, 1919 – March 23, 1998) was an American sportscaster, best known for his broadcasts for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. His brother <mask> was also a sportscaster. Early life and career
A native of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, <mask> began his broadcasting career on local radio in the late 1930s. (Fellow announcer Bill McColgan, in his introduction of <mask> for the radio broadcast of the 1957 NFL Championship Game, stated that <mask> started broadcasting when he was only 17 years old.) Following a stint in the U.S. Army during World War II, he moved to Pittsburgh, where he did play-by-play for Carnegie Tech and University of Pittsburgh football and Duquesne University basketball. Green Bay Packers and CBS Sports
<mask>'s first NFL broadcasts came in 1953 over the DuMont network; three years later he began doing play-by-play on Packers broadcasts for CBS,

<mask> was paired primarily with Tony Canadeo on Packers telecasts. As the team's play-by-play announcer, <mask> broadcast Super Bowl I and II for CBS, along with the brutally cold "Ice Bowl" NFL championship game of 1967.It was during this period that his terse, minimalist style (e.g. : "Starr . . . Dowler . . . Touchdown, Green Bay!") developed its greatest following. It also earned him a reputation as the "King of Understatement". <mask> was also known for only occasionally using team names while broadcasting, more often identifying them by their city.In 1968, CBS ended its practice of assigning dedicated announcing crews to particular teams. <mask> became the play-by-play announcer on CBS' lead NFL broadcast team. He was partnered with Paul Christman in 1968 and 1969 and Pat Summerall from 1970 to 1973. During his tenure with CBS he called four Super Bowls, seven NFL (later NFC) championship games, and the 1961 Orange Bowl; he also called major college bowl games for ABC and NBC during this period. Baseball broadcasting
<mask> was the lead television and radio announcer for Major League Baseball's Minnesota Twins from  to , calling the 1965 World Series on NBC television alongside Vin Scully, the voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers. <mask>'s famous minimalist style was evident in his call of Lou Johnson's home run that broke a scoreless tie and proved to be the game winner ("Kaat's pitch, uh-oh, it's a long fly down the left field line. Home run").After Sandy Koufax struck out his tenth hitter for the final out of the series, <mask> stated "every pitcher likes to end a game with a strikeout. But this was not just any game. It was the 7th game of the World Series." After leaving Minnesota he called games for the Washington Senators in 1970–71 before returning to the Twins as a part-time announcer in 1973–75. <mask> also called Milwaukee Brewers telecasts in 1976–77. Later life and career
CBS dismissed <mask> in 1974, replacing him with his color commentator, Summerall. He was subsequently employed as a local radio announcer by the Kansas City Chiefs (1974–75), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1976–77), and Minnesota Vikings (1978–82).<mask> also served as a narrator for the NFL Films Game of the Week in the 1970s and called play-by-play of Phoenix Suns basketball in 1974–75, syndicated broadcasts of Penn State football from 1975–81, the USFL's Arizona Wranglers in 1983 and 1984, and the Portland Breakers in the 1985 season. In 1988, <mask> was one of several veteran announcers to call some September NFL telecasts for NBC, while many of the network's regular broadcasters were working at that year's Summer Olympics in Seoul. <mask> also called UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Minnesota, and Nebraska football in the '80s; broadcast college basketball and golf at various points in his career; and teamed with Patrick Ryan while doing high school and college football in and around Billings, Montana. From 1986 to 1988, he called the annual Peach Bowl game for the Mizlou Television Network; at the same time, he was a sportscaster at KTVK in Phoenix, having wintered in Arizona since 1968. In the later years of his life he hosted a syndicated talk show on the short-lived SportsAmerica Radio Network. In addition to sportscasting, <mask> also read newscasts at WCCO-FM in Minneapolis in the late 1970s and early '80s. He also broadcast Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota in the late 1980s and thru the 1990s.<mask> died in 1998 at age 78 in Minneapolis following a long illness. He was survived by his second wife, Bonnie, and his first wife, Eda and their five children. Awards and honors
<mask> was twice named National Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, was given regional awards by that organization 12 times in four different states, and was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 1982. Posthumous honors include induction into the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame in 1998, receipt of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000, and induction into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame as a contributor in July 2001. <mask> was ranked 28th in the American Sportscasters Association's list of the Top 50 Sportscasters of All Time in 2009. His bare-bones style has inspired many sportscasters. References

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<mask> (born 3 May 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for League One club Sunderland. He has represented England at U20 and U21 level. Career

Tottenham Hotspur
<mask> began his career in the academy at West Ham United, before transferring to the youth setup at Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur in June 2009. <mask> quickly established himself in the U18 team. He received his maiden call into the first team squad for a UEFA Europa League group stage game versus PAOK on 15 September 2011. Awarded the number 54 shirt, he remained on the bench for the 0–0 draw. He was called up for another Europa League group match versus Rubin Kazan on 3 November, again remaining on the bench.<mask> made an impact in the 2011–12 NextGen Series, where he ended up top-scorer for Spurs with four goals, three of which came against the eventual winners Inter Milan. <mask> courted transfer interest from Premier League side Queens Park Rangers in April 2012. <mask> added another four goals in the 2012–13 edition of the NextGen Series, one of which came in a particularly notable 4–1 away victory against Barcelona, bringing his tally to eight goals in 11 NextGen Series appearances. Following <mask>'s NextGen Series performances and with only half a year remaining on his contract, there was speculation that Spanish sides Real Madrid and Barcelona would attempt to sign him. Liverpool (with <mask>'s former Tottenham U18 manager <mask> on their staff) were also reported to be interested, but <mask> ended the speculation when he signed a new two-and-a-half-year deal with Spurs on 31 January 2013. <mask> also appeared for Tottenham's U21 team during the 2012–13 season, scoring five goals in 11 appearances to help the U21s to the U21 Premier League knockout stage final against Manchester United. <mask> scored Tottenham's second goal and was substituted after 64 minutes for Kenny McEvoy in the 3–2 defeat.After spending the majority of the 2013–14 season out on loan, <mask> received his first call into the first team squad in two-and-a-half years when he was named as a substitute for a Premier League match versus his former side West Ham United on 3 May 2014. Allotted the number 39 shirt, he remained on the bench for the 2–0 defeat. <mask> was called up again for the final game of the season against Aston Villa and made his debut for the club when he replaced Gylfi Sigurðsson after 83 minutes of the 3–0 win. After the match, he said "it was good to get my Spurs debut under my belt and to play alongside top quality players. It was a great way to finish the season and hopefully next year I can push on again and get even more game time". On 21 August 2015, <mask> agreed to a new four-year contract with Tottenham. Peterborough United (loan)
On 31 January 2013, <mask> signed on loan with Championship side Peterborough United until the end of the 2012–13 season.He had scored four goals for the Tottenham Development Squad in an 8–1 victory over Peterborough on 15 January. Awarded the number 33 shirt, <mask> was named on the bench for a league match versus Burnley two days later. He made his professional debut when he replaced Nathaniel Knight-Percival after 55 minutes of the 1–0 defeat. He came on again as a substitute in the following game against Leicester City, but lasted just 16 minutes before suffering torn ligaments in his ankle. <mask> returned to Tottenham Hotspur for treatment and didn't appear again for the Posh until a late cameo in a 3–2 victory over Watford on 13 April. He made just six appearances for the club before returning to White Hart Lane at the end of the season. Swindon Town (loan)
On 9 July 2013, <mask> joined League One side Swindon Town on a season long loan deal, linking up with fellow Tottenham loanees Massimo Luongo, Grant Hall, Ryan Mason and former teammates Nathan Byrne and Jack Barthram at the County Ground.Wearing the number 11 shirt, <mask> scored his first goal for the club on 27 August, in a 2–0 win against Queens Park Rangers in the League Cup second round. <mask>'s form led to interest from Championship sides Huddersfield Town, Blackburn Rovers and League One leaders Wolverhampton Wanderers in January 2013. <mask> was sent off for the first time in his career in a league match versus Bristol City on 15 March, receiving a straight red card for a shove on Wade Elliott. Earlier in the season, manager Mark Cooper stated that <mask> would need to "curb his temper", after he picked up five bookings in seven league matches. <mask> won rave reviews for his performances during the season, receiving nominations for the League One Player of the Year and Football League Young Player of the Year awards. Of the nominations, he said "I'm absolutely chuffed to be nominated, I've worked hard all season and with the amount of players of my age doing so well, it's great to get that recognition". <mask> was a key player for Swindon over the course of the 2013–14 season, making 44 appearances and scoring eight goals.Looking back on his time with the Robins, <mask> said "it was great for me to be playing first team football at Swindon this season, I needed to get out and play competitively and I loved every minute of it". Brentford (loan)
After transfer interest from Wolverhampton Wanderers and Wigan Athletic, <mask> signed for Championship side Brentford on a season-long loan on 17 July 2014. Manager Mark Warburton (who helped create the now-defunct NextGen Series) said <mask> "is very good tactically and technically with excellent dead ball delivery. He showed his quality while he was on loan at Swindon last year. <mask> will add to the quality in our squad". <mask> scored two goals in a 3–2 pre-season friendly victory over Nice at Griffin Park on 26 July. He made his competitive debut for the club on the opening day of the 2014–15 season, lasting 79 minutes of a 1–1 draw with Charlton Athletic before being replaced by Tommy Smith.<mask> scored his first competitive goal for the Bees with the equaliser in a 2–1 victory over Blackpool on 19 August. He scored his second goal a 3–1 win over Reading on 4 October, slotting the ball through Adam Federici's legs after Andre Gray had slipped. On 24 January 2015, <mask>'s performance and winning penalty in a 2–1 win over Norwich City earned him a place in the Football League Team of the Week. Another good performance and a goal in a 3–1 victory over Bournemouth in late February saw him named in the Football League Team of the Week for the second time of the season. <mask> went on a run of four goals in seven games in March and April, but his season ended in disappointment with defeat to Middlesbrough in the playoff semi-finals. He made 47 appearances and scored 12 goals. <mask> won much recognition for his performances during the 2014–15 season, winning a place in the Championship PFA Team of the Year, the Brentford Players' and Social Media Player of the Year awards, a nomination for the London Football Awards Young Player of the Year award and separate awards for Player of the Year from the Irish and Italian Brentford supporters' clubs.He was named eighth best Championship player at the 2015 Football League Awards and one of the top 20 players in the Football League and 'FL Wonderkid' by FourFourTwo and Match respectively. West Bromwich Albion
On 1 February 2016, <mask> signed for West Brom on loan. He made his debut in the 1–0 loss to Newcastle United. Norwich City
On 4 August 2016, <mask> joined Championship club Norwich City on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee. However some news agencies such as The Mirror have reported the fee as being £8,000,000. <mask> scored his first goal for Norwich in an EFL Cup tie against Leeds United on 25 October 2016. <mask> scored the final goal in a 5–0 victory over one of his old loan clubs, Brentford, on 3 December 2016.In the 2017–18 season, <mask> made nine appearances for Norwich in all competitions, scoring once, after returning from a knee injury that had sidelined him at the start of the season. Huddersfield Town
On 12 January 2018, <mask> joined Premier League club Huddersfield Town for an undisclosed fee, signing a three-and-a-half-year contract with the Yorkshire club. later estimated to amount to 11M. His debut versus West Ham United ended in a 4–1 home defeat. On 11 February, he scored his first Premier League goal in a 4–1 home win over Bournemouth, while also winning a penalty. Sunderland
In July 2021 he joined Sunderland. He scored his first goal for the club in a 1-1 draw with Shrewsbury Town on 23 November 2021.

International career
On 27 May 2013, <mask> was named in manager Peter Taylor's 21-man squad for the 2013 U20 World Cup.He made his debut on 16 June, in a 3–0 pre-tournament friendly win over Uruguay. He made two appearances in the group stage of the U20 World Cup, against Chile and Egypt. <mask> received his first call into the U21 squad on 28 August 2014 and made his debut in a 1–0 2015 European U21 Championship qualifying victory over Lithuania on 5 September, coming on for Nathan Redmond after 79 minutes. <mask> made his first U21 start on his fourth cap, starting in a friendly versus France on 17 November. He was replaced by Danny Ings at half time during the 3–2 defeat. In mid-December, <mask> received a 2014 England U21 Player of the Year award nomination. Personal life
<mask> was born in the village of Orsett, and grew up in Thurrock, Essex.He attended Belhus Chase Specialist Humanities College in Aveley prior to signing for West Ham United. Career statistics

Honours
Individual
PFA Team of the Year: 2014–15 Championship
Brentford Players' Player of the Year: 2014–15

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<mask> (born 27 February 1980) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a  in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative, he played club football for the Wests Tigers (whom he led to the 2005 premiership, winning the Clive Churchill Medal), the Gold Coast Titans, Brisbane Broncos and the North Queensland Cowboys. <mask> was born in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, and played junior rugby league for Town Lions in the Mount Isa competition. He attended high school at Ignatius Park College in Townsville where he went through the rugby league programme. North Queensland
He then began his NRL career by working his way up through the North Queensland Cowboys juniors before debuting in the top grade in the newly reunited competition's first season. Brisbane
Having won the 2000 NRL Premiership, the Broncos traveled to England to play against 2000's Super League V Champions, St Helens R.F.C. for the 2001 World Club Challenge, with <mask> playing at halfback in Brisbane's loss.The Broncos were defeated by St Helens R.F.C. 18-20 after leading 12-6 at half-time. At the end of the 2002 season, <mask> was named the Brisbane Broncos Clubman of the Year. <mask>'s playing days at the Brisbane Broncos were marred by injury that severely limited his game time. <mask> broke his leg on two separate occasions, leading to him being released by the club. Wests Tigers
<mask> starred at the Wests Tigers, becoming captain of the club and making his debut for Queensland and Australia during his time at the club. He was selected as the Maroons halfback for all 3 games of the 2004 State of Origin series.<mask> also captained Wests Tigers to their inaugural grand final win in 2005, at the same time winning the Clive Churchill Medal for Man of the Match. That year he also became the first player from the joint venture Tigers club to earn an Australian representative debut. The following year, he played in the 2006 World Club Challenge, captaining the Tigers to 10-30 loss to the Bradford Bulls. Gold Coast
<mask> returned to Queensland for NRL season 2007 to play for the newly established Gold Coast Titans, becoming only the second player ever to play for all three Queensland teams in the top-level: Brisbane, North Queensland and Gold Coast (the first being Dale Shearer). He was named co-captain of the inaugural team with Luke Bailey. <mask> was a star for the Gold Coast before his injury which kept him out for several weeks. <mask> made a return for the Titans and they finished 12th on the ladder; one win away from the Top 8.<mask> began 2008 as co-captain with Luke Bailey. It was announced that <mask> would replace the injured Darren Lockyer in the second game of the 2008 Origin series. It was initially revealed by the selectors that they were reluctant to select <mask> alongside fellow halfback Johnathan Thurston in the Queensland halves as they feared that both he and Thurston would get into each other's ways during the game, however on the night both complemented each other's game and led Queensland to a record win against the Blues (Thurston, for his part was forced to shift to five-eighth to cover for Lockyer's loss). Having replaced Darren Lockyer, <mask> himself was injured early in game three of the series, breaking his left forearm, in a game Queensland won 16–10 to win a third consecutive series. In all <mask> played five Origins, for three wins and two losses. In August 2008, <mask> was named in the preliminary 46-man Kangaroos squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup, and in October 2008 he was selected in the final 24-man Australia squad. He also played one match in the World Cup against England.In April 2009, he was named in the preliminary 25 man squad to represent Queensland in the opening State of Origin match for 2009. <mask> finished the 2009 NRL season as the fifth highest point scorer in the league, with 172 points (7 tries, 72 goals). In 2009 <mask> signed a new contract which would have kept him at the Gold Coast until 2014. However he was released from his contract at the end of the 2012 season. <mask> currently has many of the Gold Coast Titans' individual records, such as the person with the most points scored (603), most points in a match (20) and most points in a season (182). <mask> rejoined the Brisbane Broncos for the 2013 NRL season. He announced his retirement from the NRL on 26 August 2013, effective at season's end.On 5 September, <mask> played his 300th and last NRL game; as well as his 50th game for the Brisbane Broncos at Suncorp Stadium. His final game was a 16-11 win over Canterbury-Bankstown, where he made a try-saving tackle in the 15th minute and had kicked 2 goals successfully (but missed one). At the end of his final game, his teammates rushed to hug him when the full-time siren sounded; sending him out as a winner. Post-NRL
In 2019 <mask> coached the Queensland Under 20s team alongside Paul Dyer, losing 36-10 to the New South Wales Under 20s at ANZ Stadium. In 2020, <mask> came out of retirement to play for the semi-professional Brisbane rugby league football club Fortitude Valley Diehards in the 2020 season of the Brisbane Rugby League premiership competition. He is contracted to play 10 games, plus the finals series, should the team make it that far. Statistics

Career highlights
Junior Club: Mount Isa Townies
High school: Ignatius Park College
Junior Kangaroos Selection: 1998
First Grade Debut: 1998 – Round 4, North Queensland Cowboys v Canberra Raiders at Dairy Farmers Stadium, Townsville, Queensland, 4 April.Premierships:  2005 – Wests Tigers defeated North Queensland Cowboys 30 - 16 in the Grand Final, Stadium Australia, Sydney, 2 October. Wests Tigers Club Captain: 2005
Gold Coast Titans Captain: 2007-2012
Prime Minister's XIII Debut: 2007 – Prime Minister's XIII v Papua New Guinea, Lloyd Robson Oval, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 23 September. Prime Minister's XIII Selection: 2007-2008
Queensland Debut: 2004 – State of Origin Game 1, Queensland v New South Wales, Stadium Australia, Sydney, 26 May. Queensland Selection: 2004, 2008
Australia Test Debut: 2005 – Rugby League Tri-Nations, Australia v England, DW Stadium, Wigan, England, 5 November. Australia Test Squad Selection: 2005, 2008
Indigenous All Stars Debut: 2010 – Indigenous All Stars v NRL All Stars, Skilled Park, Robina, Queensland, 13 February. Indigenous All Stars Selection: 2010-2012

Honours

1998 North Queensland Cowboys Rookie of the Year
2002 Brisbane Broncos Clubman of the Year
2005 Dally M Awards Captain of the Year
2005 Clive Churchill Medal winner
2005 Provan-Summons Medal nominee
2007 Dally M Player of the Year nominee (equal 5th)
2008 RLIF Team of the Year (at Halfback)
2010 Dally M Awards Halfback of the Year
2010 RLIF Halfback of the Year

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<mask> at the Gold Coast Titans official website. Personal website

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<mask> (30 August 1904 – 5 May 1989) was an adopted son of Sir <mask> and a noted alumni of the Tata Group. He is the father of <mask>, <mask> and <mask>. The Naval Tata Hockey Academy in Jamshedpur is a Joint Initiative of Tata Trusts and Tata Steel and is named in honour of Naval Tata's contribution to the development of hockey in India. Early life

Naval was born in Surat on 30 August 1904 to a middle-class  family. His father, a Spinning Master in the Advanced Mills at Ahmedabad, died in 1908. after which the family relocated to Navsari, where they lived modestly. His mother’s income was derived from embroidery work. Young Naval was later boarded at the J. N. Petit Parsi Orphanage by family friends, in an effort to help support them.In a fortunate turn of event, which changed Naval's fortune and life, Navajbai, wife of Ratanji <mask>, adopted him from the orphanage. <mask> was 13 when he was adopted by Lady <mask>. <mask> later graduated from Bombay University in Economics and proceeded to London for a short course in Accounting. He never forgot his past and once remarked:

Family
Naval's first wife was Soonoo; they had two sons, Ratan and Jimmy. The couple separated in the mid-1940s. <mask> later married Simone, a lady from Switzerland, whom he fell in love with and they got married in 1955. <mask> is their son.Career

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In 1930, he joined the Tata Sons as a despatch clerk-cum-assistant secretary and soon rose to be the Assistant Secretary of Tata Sons Ltd. In 1933, he became the Secretary to the Aviation Department and five years later, he joined as an executive in the Textiles Department. In 1939 he became the Joint Managing Director of the Tata Mills — the controlling company of the textile mills run by Tatas and became its Managing Director in 1947. On 1 February 1941, he became a Director of Tata Sons. He took over as the Managing Director of Tata Oil Mills Co Ltd in 1948. He was also the chairman of the Ahmedabad Advance Mills, a Tata Group company based at Ahmedabad. Over the years he became Chairman of the other textile mills and the three electric companies.From an active director he later became the Deputy Chairman of Tata Sons. He was directly responsible for the management of the three Tata electric companies, the four textile mills and the Sir Ratan Tata Trust. He was the longest serving colleague and close associate of JRD Tata on board of Tata Sons. Other companies
He also served as a director of Bank of Baroda with Tulsidas Kilachand, Rameshwar Das Birla, Arvind Mafatlal and others. Other activities
Naval Tata went on to become an internationally recognised authority in labour relations, becoming a member of the International Labour Organization's governing body in 1949. His involvement with the International Labour Organisation for over three decades was very fruitful for India. <mask> holds the record of being elected to the governing body of the International Labour Organization thirteen times.He is founder of ILO's family planning programme. He is author of reports like — In Pursuit of Industrial Harmony: An Employer's Perspective by Naval H. Tata (1976), A Policy for Harmonious Industrial Relations (1980), On Wage Problem and Industrial Unrest by Naval H. Tata, C. V. Pavaskar, B. N. Srikrishna (1982)

In 1966, he had been appointed a member of the Labour Panel of the Planning Commission set up by the Union Government. He contributed to sports, was associated with a host of other activities, and held senior offices in social, educational and welfare work. He was President of Indian Hockey Federation for fifteen years and was at helm when Indian hockey team won Olympic Gold in 1948, 1952 and 1956. He served many other institutes like the Indian Institute of Science, the Bombay State Social Welfare Council, Swadeshi League, and the National Safety Council. As a philanthropist, the Indian Cancer Society was established in 1951 by <mask>ta and Dr. D. J. Jussawalla, which is India's first voluntary, non-profit, national organisation for awareness, detection, cure and survivorship of those affected with this disease. He served as Chairman of the Indian Cancer Society for over 30 years.He was also the President of the Auxiliary Forces Welfare Association and trustee of several philanthropic trusts. He was President of the Employers Federation of India for several years. Having been associated with the organisation for four decades, on his retirement as its President, he was made its "President Emeritus". Politics
He differed in opinion with his cousin and long standing colleague, JRD <mask>. While JRD wanted to steer clear of politics, Naval stood as an independent candidate from South Bombay in 1971 but lost elections. Awards
<mask>ir Ghandy Medal.He was conferred the life membership of the National Institute of Personnel Management. Death
He died on 5 May 1989 due to cancer in Bombay. Memorials
Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management has named the Sports Management Department as The Naval Tata Centre of Excellence in Sports Management in his memory. Naval Tata Memorial Lecture is organised by National Institute of Personnel Management every year in his memory since 1992. In 2004, the Tata group organised 'The Century of Trust' exhibition in various cities jointly in memory of Jamsetji <mask>, JRD Tata and Naval Tata. Employers' Federation of India  launched the 'Naval Tata Institute for Training in Industrial Relations' in 2014 as a memorial to him. In 1999 a book in his memory Naval Tata remembered was published containing compilation of letters, writings, speeches of Naval.References

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Alejandro Muñoz Moreno (April 24, 1922 – December 16, 2000), better known by the ring name <mask> (<mask>l in Spanish), was a Mexican film actor and luchador enmascarado (Spanish for masked professional wrestler). <mask> is considered a legend of lucha libre, partially from starring in a series of Lucha films between 1961 and 1979, often alongside in-ring rival El Santo. His in-ring career began in 1948 and stretched for 41 years until his retirement in 1989. Throughout his career Muñoz never lost a Lucha de Apuestas match and retired without exposing his face to the public, he would later be buried in the signature blue and silver mask as well. In his 41-year career he won the NWA World Welterweight Championship twice, the Mexican National Welterweight Championship three times and the Mexican National Tag Team Championship with long time tag team partner Black Shadow. He also won the hair of Cavernario Galindo and the masks of Espectro II,
Matemático, and most notably the mask of Rayo de Jalisco. Near the end of his career Muñoz introduced <mask>. to the wrestling world, promoted as the son of <mask>, he did not share a blood connection to Muñoz and was later claimed to be the "adopted son".Muñoz's actual son owns the trademarks to the name "Blue Demon", while <mask> Jr. owns the trademark to the "<mask> Demon Jr." name. Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) honors the legacy of <mask> Demon by holding the Leyenda de Azul ("The Blue Legend") tournament at irregular intervals. He was voted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 1996 as part of the inaugural HOF selection. Early life
Alejandro Muñoz Moreno was born April 24, 1922, in García, Nuevo León, Mexico. He was the child of farmers and was the fifth of twelve children. At a young age, Alejandro dropped out of school and moved to Monterrey, where his uncle gave him a job working on the National Railroad. His co-workers gave him the nickname 'Manotas', referring to his large, powerful hands.Professional wrestling career
A chance meeting with the famous Mexican wrestler Rolando Vera piqued his interest in Lucha Libre, Vera even offering to tutor him and help him start a career. He began wrestling without a mask in Laredo, Texas. His first match was against Chema Lopez on March 12, 1948. Adopting the mask and persona of <mask> <mask>, he headed back to Mexico to start a full-time in-ring career. His first appearance as <mask> <mask> was in Mexico City in September 1948, where he fought Benny Arcilla. <mask> began his career in the ring as a rudo (a bad guy). From there, he formed a tag team with another masked luchador named The Black Shadow, and the two became known as Los Hermanos Shadow (The Shadow Brothers).In 1952, the famous wrestler El Santo beat and unmasked Black Shadow in the ring, which triggered <mask>'s decision to become a técnico (a good guy) in the ring, and a legendary feud between <mask> and El Santo was started. The storyline feud between the two culminated with <mask> defeating El Santo in a well-publicized series of matches in 1952 and 1953. In 1953, <mask> won the NWA World Welterweight Championship from Santo, and held it until 1958. Their rivalry never entirely abated in later years (although they co-starred in a number of Mexican horror films) since Santo always remembered his defeat at the <mask>'s hands. During the 1960s, one of <mask>'s rivals was el Rayo de Jalisco. In 1988, the year he retired, <mask> defeated Jalisco in a mask vs. mask match, taking the mask of another of Mexico's wrestling legends. <mask> retired from the ring in 1989, aged 67, at the Monterrey Arena, where he appeared in a final match, teaming up with his adoptive son, <mask> Jr.

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<mask> first appeared in cameos in a couple of luchador films released in 1961–1962, "The Killers of Lucha Libre" and "Fury in the Ring", in which he was one of several wrestlers more or less in the background.But in 1964, Enrique Vergara, the producer of the then-successful Santo movies, decided to diversify by allowing the 42-year-old <mask> to star in a series of luchador films of his own. The plots of the Blue Demon films are thought to be extremely similar to those of Santo's films. Santo was asking for a salary increase at the time and Vergara wanted to cultivate a second movie star. From 1964 to 1979, <mask> starred in a total of 25 action/horror/science fiction films. Of those 25 films, Santo co-starred with him in nine of them. In three of his films, <mask> starred as the leader of a squadron of masked superheroes known as Los Campeones Justicieros (The Champions of Justice). Membership in the Champions included such legendary Mexican wrestling figures as Blue Demon, Mil Máscaras, Tinieblas, Rayo de Jalisco, El Medico Asesino, El Fantasma Blanco, El Avispon Escarlata and Superzan.In 1989, <mask> was the subject of a feature-length Mexican documentary entitled <mask>, the Champion (1989). Death
Muñoz died just before noon on Saturday, December 16, 2000. He suffered a fatal heart attack on a park bench near a subway kiosk while on his way home from his regular morning training session at The Blue Demon Instituto Atletico, where he was teaching others his fighting skills. Although an attempt was made to get him to a hospital, he was unable to be revived. He was 78 years old. <mask> was buried wearing his trademark blue mask, the mask he never removed in public as he always kept his true identity a secret, But before becoming a Wrestler, they had shown the face of Alejandro when he was 20 years old

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<mask> Demon is considered one of the biggest legends of lucha libre second only to El Santo in terms of popularity and influence both in and outside of Mexico. The distinctive blue and silver mask of <mask> and <mask> Jr. is known worldwide and is an instantly recognizable symbol of Lucha Libre.On Wikipedia, The mask icon is used as part of some professional wrestling related tags and notices. On October 27, 2000, CMLL held their first ever Leyenda de Azul ("The Blue Legend") tournament in honor of <mask> Demon. The winner of the tournament receives a championship belt that features <mask> Demon as well as a plaque with a Blue Demon mask on it. The tournament has been held on a semi-regular basis ever since, The tournament was first endorsed by <mask> Jr., and later endorsed by Muñoz' son. Alfredo Muñoz, after <mask> Jr. stopped working for CMLL. Starting in November 2015 Televisa and Sony Pictures Television began airing the first season of the Blue Demon television series featuring a fictionalized version of the early days of his career in the ring and personal life. The third season of the series debuted on April 14, 2017, bringing the episode count to 65.The show debuted in the US in 2017 on UniMás. In 2018, <mask> Jr. announced that his son was training for a wrestling career and would be known as "<mask> III", hoping to have his son continue the legacy started by <mask>. Championships and accomplishments
Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre
Mexican National Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Black Shadow
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NWA World Welterweight Championship (2 times)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)

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<mask><mask> is an American journalist, and contributor to Fox News until late 2020. He was formerly an executive and editor-in-chief at The Washington Times. While he won a number of awards (including the 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award) for his investigative journalism, he has in recent years been accused of magnifying small scandals, creating fake controversy and advancing conspiracy theories. During the Donald Trump presidency, he has advanced Trump-friendly stories and played an important role in advancing conspiracy theories about alleged wrongdoing involving Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and Ukraine; <mask>'s stories about the Bidens influenced Trump to request that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky launch an investigation into the elder Biden, which led to an impeachment inquiry. Career
<mask>  graduated from Marquette University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and sociology. From May 1987 to December 2006, <mask> worked at the Associated Press, where he became the assistant bureau chief in Washington, helping to develop some of the organization's first digital products, such as its online elections offering. In 2007, he served as The Washington Post's national investigative correspondent.The Washington Times

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In February 2008, <mask> became editor-in-chief of The Washington Times. Under <mask>, the Times changed some of its style guide to conform to more mainstream media usage. The Times announced that it would no longer use words like "illegal aliens" and "homosexual," and instead opt for "more neutral terminology" such as "illegal immigrants" and "gay," respectively. The paper also decided to stop using "Hillary" when referring to Senator Hillary Clinton, and to stop putting the word "marriage" in the expression "gay marriage" in quotes. He also oversaw the redesign of the paper's website and the launch of the paper's national weekly edition. A new television studio was built in the paper's Washington DC headquarters, and the paper also launched a syndicated three-hour morning drive radio news program. <mask> left the paper in November 2009 after internal shakeups and financial uncertainty among the paper's ownership.Return
After a three-and-a-half-year hiatus, most of which was spent at Circa News, <mask> returned to the paper in July 2013 to oversee the newspaper's content, digital and business strategies. He helped to craft digital strategies to expand online traffic, created new products and partnerships, and led a reorganization of the company's advertising and sales team. He also helped launch a new subscription-only national edition targeted for tablets, cellphones and other mobile devices, and helped push a redesign of the paper's website. <mask> left the paper in December 2015 to serve as chief creative officer of the mobile news application Circa, which was relaunching at that time. Packard Media Group
<mask> was president of Packard Media Group from November 2009 to December 2015. <mask> also served as journalist in residence at the Center for Public Integrity, a non-profit organization that specializes in investigative journalism, from March 2010 to June 2011. He was also named executive editor of the Center for Public Integrity in November 2010 and helped oversee the launch of iWatch News, but resigned a few months later to join Newsweek/The Daily Beast in May 2011.Washington Guardian
In 2012, <mask> and former Associated Press executives Jim Williams and Brad Kalbfeld created the Washington Guardian, an online investigative news portal. It was acquired by The Washington Times when <mask> returned to the paper in July 2013. Circa
After leaving The Washington Times, <mask> became chief creative officer for Circa News. Circa is a mobile news application founded in 2011 that streams updates on big news events to users. In June 2015, it shut down, but its relaunch was announced after its acquisition by Sinclair Broadcast Group. As chief of Circa, he wrote and published a number of political articles, often defending the Trump administration. He left in July 2017.The Hill
Upon leaving Circa, <mask> became executive vice president of digital video for The Hill. Until May 2018, he worked on news and investigative pieces for The Hill. According to the New York Times, <mask> tended to push narratives about alleged misdeeds by Trump's political enemies. In October 2017, <mask> published an article in The Hill about the Uranium One controversy where he insinuated that Russia made payments to the Clinton Foundation at the time when the Obama administration approved the sale of Uranium One to Rosatom. <mask>'s story also focused on the alleged failures of the Department of Justice to investigate and report on the controversy, suggesting a cover-up. Clinton was only one of the  nine members constituting the Committee on Foreign Investments which approved the deal. Other members of the committee include the secretaries of the treasury, defense, homeland security, commerce and energy; the attorney general; and representatives from two White House offices (the United States Trade Representative and the Office of Science and Technology Policy).This did not stop <mask> from pinning responsibility for the decision solely on Secretary Clinton. Subsequent to <mask>'s reporting, the story "took off like wildfire in the right-wing media ecosystem," according to a 2018 study by scholars at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University. No evidence of any quid pro quo or other wrongdoing has surfaced. In January 2018, it was reported that newsroom staffers at The Hill had complained about <mask>'s reporting for the publication. The staffers reportedly criticized <mask>'s reporting as having a conservative bias and missing important context, and that this undermined The Hill's reputation. They also expressed concerns over <mask>'s close relationship with conservative Fox News personality Sean Hannity, on whose TV show Hannity he appeared on more than a dozen times over a span of three months. In May 2018, the editor-in-chief of The Hill announced that <mask> would become an "opinion contributor" at The Hill while remaining executive vice president of digital video.He frequently appeared on Fox News, which continued to describe him as an investigative reporter, even after he became an opinion contributor. Pro-Donald Trump opinion pieces

<mask> published a story alleging that women who had accused Trump of sexual assault had sought payments from partisan donors and tabloids. On June 19, 2019, The Hill published an opinion piece written by <mask> alleging that the FBI and Robert Mueller disregarded warnings that evidence used against Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort may have been faked. His source was Nazar Kholodnytsky, a disgraced Ukrainian prosecutor, and Konstantin Kilimnik, who has been linked to Russian intelligence and who happens to be Manafort's former business partner. <mask>'s part in the Trump–Ukraine scandal

In April 2019, The Hill published two opinion pieces by <mask> regarding allegations by Ukrainian officials that "American Democrats", and particularly former Vice-President Joe Biden, were collaborating with "their allies in Kiev" in "wrongdoing...ranging from 2016 election interference to obstructing criminal probes." <mask>'s stories attracted attention in conservative media. Fox News frequently covered <mask>'s claims; <mask> also promoted these allegations on Sean Hannity's Fox News show.According to The Washington Post <mask>'s pieces "played an important role in advancing a flawed, Trump-friendly tale of corruption in Ukraine, particularly involving Biden and his son Hunter", and inspired "the alleged effort by Trump and his allies to pressure Ukraine's government into digging up dirt on Trump's Democratic rivals." On the same day that The Washington Post published its article, The Hill published another opinion piece by <mask> in which <mask> states that there are "(h)undreds of pages of never-released memos and documents...(that) conflict with Biden's narrative." <mask>'s stories had significant flaws. Not only had the State Department dismissed the allegations presented by <mask> as "an outright fabrication", but the Ukrainian prosecutor who <mask> claimed made the allegations to him is not supporting <mask>'s claim. Foreign Policy noted that anti-corruption activists in Ukraine had characterized the source behind <mask>'s claims as an unreliable narrator who had hindered anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine. <mask> pushed allegations that Biden wanted to remove a Ukrainian prosecutor in order to prevent an investigation of Burisma, a Ukrainian company that his son, Hunter Biden, served on; however, Western governments and anti-corruption activist wanted the prosecutor removed because he was reluctant to pursue corruption investigations. By September 2019, <mask> said he still stood 100% by his stories.There is no evidence of wrong-doing by Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, and no evidence that Hunter Biden was ever under investigation by Ukrainian authorities. WNYC characterized <mask>'s Ukraine stories as laundering of foreign propaganda. Prior to the publication of a story where <mask> alleged that the Obama administration had pressured the Ukrainian government to stop investigating a group funded by George Soros, <mask> sent the full text of his report to Ukrainian-American businessman Lev Parnas and the two pro-Trump lawyers and conspiracy theorists Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing. <mask> said he did so for fact-checking, but Parnas, DiGenova and Toensing were not mentioned in the text, nor did <mask> send individual items of the draft for vetting (but rather the whole draft). During October 2019 hearings for the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, two government officials experienced in Ukraine matters — Alexander Vindman and George Kent — testified that Ukraine-related articles <mask> had written and that were featured in conservative media circles contained a "false narrative" and in some cases were "entirely made up in full cloth." <mask> worked closely with Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani - Trump's personal attorney – who was indicted for funneling foreign money into American political campaigns, to promote stories that Democrats colluded with a foreign power in the 2016 election (the U.S. intelligence community's assessment is that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to aid Trump, then a Republican presidential candidate). Parnas worked with <mask> on interviews and translation.<mask> defended his work with Parnas: "No one knew there was anything wrong with Lev Parnas at the time. Everybody who approaches me has an angle." Parnas helped to set <mask> up with the Ukrainian prosecutor who accused the Bidens of wrong-doing (before later retracting the claim). <mask> and the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump

<mask> has been mentioned in a draft report by the House Intelligence Committee published Dec. 3, 2019, documenting  President Trump's alleged abuse of office for his personal and political gain by using congressionally approved military aid to induce Ukraine initiate investigations against Trump's domestic political rival. The report documented phone records showing <mask> was in frequent contact with Lev Parnas, a now indicted associate of Giuliani, exchanging "at least 10 calls" during the first week in April. Advertising controversy
<mask> was accused of breaking the traditional ethical "wall" that separated news stories from advertising at The Hill. In October 2017, <mask> negotiated a $160,000 deal with a conservative group called Job Creators Network to target ads in The Hill to business owners in Maine.He then had a quote from the group's director inserted into a news story about a Maine senator's key role in an upcoming vote on the Trump administration's tax bill. <mask> “pops by the advertising bullpen almost daily to discuss big deals he's about to close," Johanna Derlega, then The Hill’s publisher, wrote in an internal memo at the time, according to Pro Publica. "If a media reporter gets ahold of this story, it could destroy us." Departure
In September 2019, the Washington Examiner reported that <mask> would leave The Hill at the end of the month to start his own media firm. A February 2020 internal review by The Hill concluded that there were multiple flaws in <mask>'s 14 columns about Ukraine and the Bidens, including omitting important details and failing to disclose that the sources used by <mask> were his own attorneys Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova — both close associates of Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. Fox News
In October 2019, it was reported that <mask> was joining Fox News as an opinion contributor. An internal Fox News research briefing book warned that "<mask> played an indispensable role in the collection and domestic publication" of parts of the Trump-Ukraine "disinformation campaign," The Daily Beast reported in February 2020.<mask> was no longer associated with the network by late 2020. Just The News
In January 2020, <mask> launched Just The News, a news media outlet and website. He hosts a podcast, John Solomon Reports, on the website. Reception
Paul McCleary, writing for the Columbia Journalism Review in 2007, wrote that <mask> had earned a reputation for hyping stories without solid foundation. In 2012, Mariah Blake, writing for the Columbia Journalism Review, wrote that <mask> "has a history of bending the truth to his storyline," and that he "was notorious for massaging facts to conjure phantom scandals." During the 2004 presidential election between George W. Bush and <mask>, Thomas Lang wrote for the Columbia Journalism Review that a <mask> story for the Associated Press covered criticism of <mask>'s record on national security appeared to mirror a research report released by the Republican National Committee. Lang wrote that <mask>'s story was "a clear demonstration of the influence opposition research is already having on coverage of the [presidential] campaign."The Washington Post wrote in September 2019 that <mask>'s "recent work has been trailed by claims that it is biased and lacks rigor." The Post noted that <mask> had done award-winning investigative work during his early career, but that his work had taken a pronounced conservative bent from the late 2000s and onwards. According to Foreign Policy magazine, <mask> had "grown into a prominent conservative political commentator with a somewhat controversial track record." In 2007, Deborah Howell, then-ombudsman at The Washington Post, criticized a story that <mask> wrote for The Post which had suggested impropriety by Democratic presidential candidate <mask> in a real estate purchase; <mask>'s reporting omitted context which would have made clear that there was no impropriety. Progressive news outlets ThinkProgress, Media Matters for America and Crooked Media have argued that <mask>'s reporting has a conservative bias and that there are multiple instances of inaccuracies. According to The Intercept, Just Security and The Daily Beast, <mask> helps to advance right-wing and pro-Trump conspiracy theories. The New Republic described <mask>'s columns for The  Hill as "right-wing fever dreams."Independent journalist Marcy Wheeler accused <mask> of manufacturing fake scandals which suggested wrongdoing by those conducting probes into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Reporters who worked under <mask> as an editor have said that he encouraged them to bend the truth to fit a pre-existing narrative. In January 2018, <mask> published a report for The Hill suggesting that Peter Strzok and Lisa Page had foreknowledge of a Wall Street Journal article and that they themselves had leaked to the newspaper. According to the Huffington Post, <mask>'s reporting omitted that the Wall Street Journal article Strzok and Page were discussing was critical of Hillary Clinton and the FBI, Strzok and Page expressed dismay at the fallout from the article, and Strzok and Page criticized unauthorized leaks from the FBI. According to the Huffington Post, "<mask> told HuffPost he was not authorized to speak and does not comment on his reporting. He may simply have been unaware of these three facts when he published his story. But they provide crucial context to an incomplete narrative that has been bouncing around the right-wing echo chamber all week."Awards
<mask> has received a number of awards for investigative journalism, among them the 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Society of Professional Journalists' National Investigative Award, which he won together with CBS News' 60 Minutes for Evidence of Injustice; in 2002, the Associated Press's Managing Editors Enterprise Reporting Award for What The FBI Knew Before September 11, 2001, and the Gramling Journalism Achievement Award for his coverage of the war on terrorism; in 1992, the White House Correspondents' Association's Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for an investigative series on Ross Perot. References

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<mask> (born November 27, 1960) is an American artist and composer. Early life
Kostabi was born in Los Angeles on November 27, 1960, to Estonian immigrants Kaljo and <mask>. He was raised in Whittier, California and studied drawing and painting at California State University, Fullerton. In 1982 he moved to New York and by 1984 he became a prominent figure of the East Village art scene, winning the "Proliferation Prize" from the East Village Eye for being in more art exhibitions than any other New York artist. Artwork
Kostabi is most known for his paintings of faceless figures which often comment on contemporary political, social and psychological issues, and which have visual stylistic roots in the work of Giorgio de Chirico and Fernand Léger. Beyond traditional art world exposure, Kostabi has designed album covers for Guns N' Roses (Use Your Illusion) and The Ramones (¡Adios Amigos! ), Seether (Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray), Jimmy Scott (Holding Back The Years), Glint (Sound in Silence), RK: Roman Klun (Kingsway), Psychotica (Espina) and numerous products including a Swatch watch, Alessi vases, Rosenthal espresso cups, Ritzenhoff milk glasses, and a Giro d'Italia pink jersey.<mask> is also known for his many collaborations with other artists including Enzo Cucchi, Arman, Howard Finster, Tadanori Yokoo, Enrico Baj and <mask>. Retrospective exhibitions of <mask>'s paintings have been held at the Mitsukoshi Museum in Tokyo (1992) and the Art Museum of Estonia in Tallinn (1998). <mask>'s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Gallery in Washington D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands. His work was published on the cover of the book East Village '85 published by Pelham Press and his paintings were included prominently in numerous East Village shows in museums and galleries internationally. Matteo Editore published a book on Kostabi titled <mask>bi and the East Village scene 1983–1987 written by Baird Jones. During the mid-1980s he developed a media persona by publishing self-interviews which commented on the commodification of contemporary art, which led to theories on Kostabi's cultural relevance in various sociology books including "Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality" by Neal Gabler and "Culture or Trash? : A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, and Other Costly Commodities" by James Gardner.In 1986, <mask> designed the Bloomingdales shopping bag. By 1987 his works were widely exhibited in New York galleries and throughout the United States, in Japan, Germany and Australia. In 1988, inspiring extensive international press coverage, he founded Kostabi World, his large New York studio known for openly employing numerous painting assistants and idea people. In 1996 he began dividing his time between New York and Rome and consequently his work's already strong presence in the Italian art scene became much more prominent. The influential Italian critic and curator Achille Bonito Oliva, included <mask> in several major exhibitions including at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte di Roma. The critic, curator and TV personality, Vittorio Sgarbi, curated a 150 painting Kostabi show at the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome in 2006. His permanent public works include a mural in Palazzo dei Priori in Arezzo, Italy, a large bronze sculpture in the central square of San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, a bronze portrait of Pope John Paul II in Velletri, Italy and a large bronze sculpture, "Eternal Embrace," in Largo Villa Glori in Terni, Italy.In Kostabi's works there is an extensive range of citation and self-citation, which are typically postmodern techniques. Music

Kostabi has performed his musical compositions as a soloist and with other musicians including Ornette Coleman, Jerry Marotta, Tony Levin, Stefano di Battista, Gene Pritsker, <mask>, Lukas Ligeti, Dave Taylor (trombonist), Chris Parker, Tommy Campbell, Lara St. John, John Clark, Adam Holzman, Aaron Comess, John Lee and <mask>. His compositions have also been performed independently by Kathleen Supové, Rein Rannap, Kristjan Järvi, <mask> Martin, Peter Jarvis, Kai Schumacher and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. His debut album, I Did It Steinway was released on Artists Only Records in October 1998. Produced by Dale Ashley and Charles Coleman, the album features original compositions by Kostabi, and was recorded at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City. Kostabi's other releases include: Songs For Sumera, New Alliance, The Spectre Of Modernism, Kostabeat, Grace Notes "Closer To First" and "In Between and Beyond." Media/cable/TV/film
Kostabi has been profiled on 60 Minutes, Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, A Current Affair, Nightwatch (with Charlie Rose), The Oprah Winfrey Show, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Nonsolomoda, West 57th, CNN, MTV and numerous television programs throughout Europe and Japan.In print he has been featured in various publications such as The New York Times, People, Vogue, Architectural Digest, The Face, The Sunday Telegraph and Tema Celeste. In 1989, Kostabi was mentioned in the TV series Miami Vice, in Season 5, episode 14: "The Lost Madonna". In 1991, Kostabi was also mentioned in the controversial novel, American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis. From the year 2000 to 2010 Kostabi wrote an advice column for artists, "Ask <mask>stabi" for Artnet Magazine. Kostabi is the subject of numerous documentary films, most notably Bottom Line: The Kostabi Phenomenon directed by Peter Bach, Con Artist directed by Michael Sladek, and Jedermann directed by Paul Tschinkel. Kostabi has a prominent role in the Emmy award-winning documentary The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not for Sale directed by Jeff Stimmel. "Full Circle: The Kostabi Story", directed by Sabrina Digregorio.<mask>bi Show was previously known as both Name That Painting and Title This'
'.<mask> received significant backlash for his remarks about gay men during the AIDS crisis. In a 1989 issue of Vanity Fair, <mask> said, "These museum curators, that are for the most part homosexual, have controlled the art world in the '80s. Now they're all dying of AIDS, and although I think it's sad, I know it's for the better. Because homosexual men are not actively participating in the perpetuation of human life." While <mask> apologized in Newsday, saying, "I feel terrible for saying something that was an unfair generalization based on a few specific experiences with gay curators and critics that left me very angry," he retracted the apology ten days later, stating that he was pressured to apologize by Abbeville Press, the publisher of the then upcoming Kostabi: The Early Years. <mask> told the Post's Page Six, "They made me write all these phony apologies."He reaffirmed his previously stated opinions on gay men, arguing again that gay men dominate the art world and "that's why there's so much bad art in the world." Literature
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Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, Publisher Penguin Random House

Culture or Trash? : A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, and Other Costly Commodities, Publisher: Birch Lane Pr (December 1993)

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Innsbruck Records, <mask>bi page
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<mask> (4 April 1896 – 30 May 1917) was a Lithuanian poet and writer. Born to a family of poor peasants, he began writing and translating poems at the age of 14. Learning from Maironis, he wrote about nature and suffering of the poor. His first poems were published in 1912. While still a student, he began contributing articles to Lithuanian press and joined activities of leftist aušrininkai. He was a social-democrat but leaned more and more towards communism and his poetry became more and more political agitation. His views become even more radical when during World War I he evacuated to Voronezh and later Petrograd.He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks) and was imprisoned twice for revolutionary activities. He contracted tuberculosis and, unwilling to become a burden, committed suicide at age 21. In the Lithuanian SSR, Janonis was hailed as the "first poet of the proletariat". Biography

Early life and education in Biržai
Janonis was born in  near Biržai in then Russian Empire. His parents were poor peasants and belonged to the Lithuanian Evangelical Reformed Church. In 1911, the family moved to the nearby  village where his parents rented  of land. His mother was literate and taught her children basic reading skills.Janonis was gifted and so his parents sent him to a Russian-language primary school in Biržai in autumn 1906. His older siblings, brother Mykolas and sister Marija, did not attend school due to financial difficulties. The distance from home to school was about  and so he lived with a bell-ringer of the Evangelical Reformed Church. In autumn 1909, Janonis began classes at a four-year progymnasium in Biržai. According to his classmates, he was serious, quiet, kept mostly to himself, and was nicknamed Solomon for his intelligence. He always struggled financially; he received some help from his brother Mykolas and priest Povilas Jakubėnas in addition to earning a few rubles by tutoring others. He also earned a little money by copying texts for  when he prepared a new hymnal for publication.Once, when Janonis could not afford proper shoes, his classmates collected enough money to buy him a pair. Janonis began writing in 1910. He translated Latvian folk songs on poor orphans hired by local peasants as well as poems by Alexander Pushkin and Aleksey Koltsov. His first poems were published in 1912 in Jaunimas and Lietuvos žinios. He collected Lithuanian folk songs and sent them to the Lithuanian Scientific Society. At the time, there were two major camps of Lithuanian activist – more conservative Catholic ateitininkai and more progressive leftist aušrininkai. Janonis joined activities of aušrininkai with a group of students at his school that held informal gatherings were they shared and discussed books and periodicals.In 1913, he attended a conference of aušrininkai organized in Šiauliai. Janonis also participated in cultural society Lyra that organized occasional folk theater performances. Education in Šiauliai, Voronezh, Petrograd

With assistance from doctor  and attorney Kazimieras Venclauskis and a small stipend from Žiburėlis, Janonis continued his education and aušrininkai activities at Šiauliai Gymnasium in 1913. He was a social-democrat but leaned more and more towards communism. He not only contributed articles to Vilnis but also helped with its distribution in Šiauliai. According to memoirs of Karolis Požela, who later became a communist leader in Lithuania, during one of his visits to Mitau, Janonis delivered a lecture on the need of a socialist revolution to Lithuanian students at the Mitau Gymnasium inspiring Požela. In 1914, he edited almanac Nauju taku (On New Path) which included works by Janonis, Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas, Balys Sruoga.World War I started in summer 1914, and cultural activities were curtailed. Janonis interacted with Russian soldiers and wrote anti-war works. On 15 April 1915, Germans captured Šiauliai and the gymnasium dispersed. Janonis evacuated to Vilnius and then Voronezh where a special Lithuanian gymnasium was opened by Martynas Yčas. There he was roommate with Butkų Juzė. Janonis was elected to the three-member presidium of aušrininkai organization and to editors of its hectographed newspaper Sūkurys (Whirlpool). However, the organization did not support revolutionary socialism and Janonis left in protest.In early 1916, he departed to Petrograd. In Petrograd, Janonis enrolled at the XII Gymnasium and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks). For the revolutionary work, he was arrested in December 1916 and imprisoned in the Kresty Prison. Released, he traveled to Tartu where he met with Karolis Požela and . He took a train further south but once again was arrested and imprisoned in Vitebsk. He was freed after the February Revolution but his health was failing. He returned to Petrograd where he lived with Zigmas Angarietis and worked on publishing Tiesa (Truth).He was a press correspondent at the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). In spring 1917, he passed gymnasium graduation exams but his tuberculosis was getting worse. Not wanting to be a burden, he committed suicide by jumping in front of a train halfway between Petrograd and Pushkin. As a suicide victim, he was buried outside a cemetery in Pushkin. In the early 1960s, it was decided to rebury him at the center of the cemetery. Works
Janonis is known primarily as a poet. He learned poetry from older Lithuanian poets, primarily  (Janonis knew him personally) and Maironis.His early poems were about nature, personal feelings (e.g. his unrequited love, struggles to reconcile reality with ideals and unreachable life goals), and suffering of the poor. Later, he became a political agitator calling for the removal of the current regime. According to literary critic Vytautas Kubilius, "he combined precise detail and concrete imagery with intense lyricism and the energy of strongly felt experience." Several Janonis' poems were turned into songs by composers Mikas Petrauskas, Stasys Šimkus, Juozas Gruodis, Nikodemas Martinonis, Jonas Dambrauskas, and others. Janonis translated several poems from Russian, including Requiem ("Don't mourn dead fighters…") by Liodor Palmin which became popular and was sung by the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union. In addition to lyric poems, Janonis also wrote short stories and feuilletons.A small collection of his poems was first published in 1917 in Petrograd under the pseudonym Vaidilos Ainis. A year later, a larger collection was published by Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas in Voronezh. His collected works were published in 1921, 1941, 1945 in Kaunas. A two-volume comprehensive collection of not only of his poems but also of his articles published in press was published in 1957 in Vilnius. In total, <mask> counted 28 publications of Janonis' poetry between 1945 and 1986. Legacy

In the Lithuanian SSR, Janonis was hailed as the "first poet of the proletariat" and made into a Soviet hero. To suit Soviet needs, his biography was edited to remove undesirable elements (such as his religious beliefs) and emphasize revolutionary activities (such as his participation in various worker strikes and protests).In 1946, Šiauliai Gymnasium was renamed to <mask>onis High School. Since 1970, the school hosts a museum which, among other things, collects items related to Janonis. It also has a monument by sculptor Romas Kazlauskas. The monument depicts a highly stylized anvil with a brass bell – both elements taken from Janonis' poems written while he lived in Šiauliai. In 1957, a play Pamilau dangaus žydrumą (I Fell in Love with the Blue of the Sky – the first line of the last poem written by Janonis) by <mask> and Aleksandras Kernagis was staged at the Academic Drama Theater. Two years later, the Lithuanian Film Studios made a 94-minute film  directed by Balys Bratkauskas and Vytautas Dabašinskas. In both the play and the film Janonis was played by Henrikas Kurauskas.In 1974, the Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre staged opera Avė, vita by Vytautas Klova. In 1973, a monument by sculptor Konstantinas Bogdanas was erected in the main square of Biržai and resembles a burning torch. An  high marble column is topped by a  high bronze sculpture of Janonis. The design was inspired by Bogdanas' mother who said that Janonis "burned down like a candle". Unlike monuments of many other communists, Janonis' was not removed after Lithuania declared independence in 1990. On occasion, the press publishes opinions for removing the monument, but it has been reinterpreted to represent youthful idealism and inexperience. References

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<mask> (born July 12, 1967) is an American politician and convicted felon from the State of New York. A Democrat, Monserrate represented New York's 13th State Senate District in Queens from January 1, 2009 until February 9, 2010, when he was expelled from office following a misdemeanor conviction for assaulting his then-girlfriend. He later served time in prison following a plea of guilty to federal corruption charges. <mask> is also a former Marine, a former New York City police officer, and a former member of the New York City Council. Political career (2002–present)

New York City Council
Monserrate served on the New York City Council from 2002 to 2008, representing District 21 in Queens. In June 2003, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced an executive order allowing city employees to report illegal immigrants to federal authorities. <mask>, then chairing the Council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus, argued that this order would worsen relations between immigrant communities and the police.He responded by sponsoring a bill entitled "Access Without Fear", which would have forbidden city officials from revealing such information except as required by law. He joined director Stephen Frears in publicizing the immigration film Dirty Pretty Things to raise awareness of the issue. In late 2008, <mask> opposed Mayor Bloomberg's planned use of eminent domain in the $4 billion Willets Point Redevelopment project in Queens. The long-term project aimed to clear the  industrial area, clear up pollution, and develop a hotel and convention center. However, it was initially opposed by a majority of the existing business owners. Monserrate changed his mind and supported the development after being assured that one-third of the housing would be "affordable" and that the city would offer businesses an opportunity to relocate. He told reporters the compromise showed that government "can be fair and still do good economic development".Scientology controversy
Monserrate supported the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a project co-founded by Tom Cruise to deliver the so-called Purification Rundown (an unproven "detoxification" procedure created by L. Ron Hubbard as part of Scientology) to rescue workers affected by the September 11 attacks. Monserrate went through the program himself, and drafted official proclamations honoring both Cruise and Hubbard. He also attended a fund-raising dinner in New York for the project, as well as an event at the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles. Monserrate dismissed medical authorities' criticism of the Purification Rundown, saying, "This is the same type of thing they said about chiropractors twenty years ago." New York State Senate
In 2006, <mask> ran for New York State Senate against fellow Democrat John Sabini, a 16-year incumbent. Monserrate came within 200 votes of pulling off an upset in one of the closest races in Queens. In 2008, he again ran for the State Senate with the support of organized labor.Sabini withdrew from the race following his appointment to chair the New York State Racing and Wagering Board. <mask> then ran unopposed and on November 4, 2008, was elected the New York State Senator for the 13th district. On June 8, 2009, <mask> and Pedro Espada (D-Bronx) joined Senate Republicans in an attempted parliamentary coup for the purpose of shifting control of the Senate to the Republicans; <mask>, Espada, and all 30 Senate Republicans voted, 32-30, to replace Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith with then-Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos and install Espada as Temporary President of the Senate. This action resulted in the 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis. A week later, Senate Democrats appointed Senator John Sampson as their leader. On the same day, <mask> rejoined the Democratic caucus, leaving the Senate in a 31-31 deadlock. With the office of Lieutenant Governor vacant due to Eliot Spitzer's resignation, the tie could not be resolved, and the resulting legislative deadlock continued until July 9, when Espada rejoined the Democrats.On December 2, 2009, Monserrate voted against legislation allowing same-sex marriage, which failed to pass the Senate. Expulsion from the New York State Senate
A bipartisan nine-member committee recommended disciplinary action against Monserrate following his 2009 misdemeanor assault conviction. If Monserrate had been convicted of the felony charges against him, he would have been automatically expelled from the Senate. Politicians of both parties at the national, state, and local level called for him to resign or be expelled from the State Senate. The committee's report was released on January 14, 2010 and recommended that the full Senate expel or censure Monserrate. On February 9, 2010, the Senate Senate voted to expel Monserrate. The vote was 53 to 8, with one senator not present.In response, Monserrate sued the State Senate in federal court. Monserrate lost his case on the District Court level and in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Post-Senate political career

2010 State Senate special election
The Queens Democratic Party withdrew its support for <mask>'s 2010 re-election bid on October 29, 2009. The party leadership supported Assemblyman Jose Peralta for the State Senate. Following <mask>'s expulsion from the Senate, Governor David Paterson called for a special election in the 13th Senate District to be held on March 16, 2010. Peralta won the special election, outpolling Monserrate 65 percent to 27 percent. 2010 State Assembly election
Monserrate filed petitions with the Board of Elections to be entered in the Democratic primary to fill the 39th Assembly District seat (Jackson Heights-Corona) vacated by Jose Peralta following his election to the State Senate.The Queens County Democratic Party endorsed community activist Francisco Moya for the seat. On September 14, 2010, Moya defeated <mask> in the Democratic primary, 2,711 votes to 1,358 votes. 2016 Democratic District Leader election
In June 2016, following his release from federal prison, <mask> attempted his third political comeback by seeking the unpaid elected position of Democratic District Leader for the 35th District in Corona and East Elmhurst. <mask> ran against Democratic incumbent and community volunteer George R. Dixon. Despite having struggled to meet court-ordered financial obligations, <mask> opened a campaign office and hired paid staffers. On September 13, 2016, <mask> lost his bid for district leader by 57 votes. 2017 New York City Council election
In 2017, <mask> ran for New York City Council in District 21.He was defeated by Francisco Moya in the Democratic primary, 55%-44%. 2018 Democratic District Leader election
In 2018, <mask> again sought a district leader post in Queens. On September 13, 2018, he prevailed. 2020 New York State Assembly candidacy
In November 2019, <mask> filed to run for New York State Assembly in District 35 in 2020 against incumbent Assemblymember Jeffrion L. Aubry. <mask> lost to Aubry in the Democratic primary, 65-35%. 2021 New York City Council election
In February 2021, the New York City Council passed a local law by a 44-1 vote, barring former lawmakers from running for municipal office if they have been convicted of corruption. The law was reportedly targeted at <mask>, who had announced his intent to again run against Moya and other candidates in the Democratic primary for his former seat on the New York City Council and was collecting campaign donations.Monserrate filed his nominating petition signatures the following month, but was blocked from receiving matching campaign funds by the city's Campaign Finance Board and from appearing on the ballot by the New York City Board of Elections. <mask> filed a federal lawsuit, claiming that the law did not bar him from receiving matching donations and contending that keeping him off the ballot was unconstitutional. Legal problems

2008 assault charges

Arrest and investigation
Monserrate was arrested on December 19, 2008 and accused of slashing Karla Giraldo, his girlfriend, in the face with a broken drinking glass during an argument in his Jackson Heights apartment. He was arraigned the same day and pleaded not guilty to the charges of second-degree assault, a felony that carried a maximum sentence of seven years in prison, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Giraldo initially made statements to hospital staff and the police that led to Monserrate's arrest. However, Giraldo later changed her account to match that of Monserrate, stated that the cuts on her face near her left eye from a broken glass were an accident, and added that she was no longer cooperating with the investigation. Sources discussed evidence with the media, including video surveillance that supported the charges of assault and the attempt to cover it up.Prosecution
On March 23, 2009, a Queens grand jury indicted Monserrate on three counts of felony assault on Giraldo and three counts of misdemeanor assault. Monserrate denied the charges, saying "Listen, the reality is that from the very beginning I have said this was an accident. My girlfriend said it's an accident. This is an accident and we look forward to the dismissal of all these charges based on the truth." The case proceeded to trial, and Monserrate waived his right to a jury on September 18, 2009. As his trial started, security camera footage from <mask>'s apartment building was entered into evidence and made public. The footage showed Giraldo girlfriend screaming and clutching at doorways as Monserrate forced her out of the building.Giraldo testified in Monserrate's defense. Conviction and sentencing
On October 15, 2009, Monserrate was acquitted of the second-degree assault felony counts, but convicted on a third-degree assault misdemeanor count which carried a maximum sentence of one year in prison. On December 4, 2009, <mask> was sentenced to three years' probation, 250 hours of community service, a $1,000 fine, and one year of domestic abuse counseling. He sought to vacate an order of protection preventing him from contact with Giraldo, but it was not vacated. In an appearance before the sentencing judge, William Erlbaum, on July 7, 2010, <mask> again petitioned to have a court order prohibiting him from contact with Giraldo vacated. The petition was granted, and according to the New York Post, <mask> and Giraldo kissed and held hands. The pair later ended their relationship.2010 federal corruption charges
In October 2010, <mask> was indicted on federal corruption charges which alleged that, as a sitting member of the City Council, he had used staff members of a nonprofit organization—the Latino Initiative for Better Resources and Empowerment—to perform tasks related to his unsuccessful 2006 State Senate campaign. In 2006 and 2007, then-Councilmember <mask> allocated $300,000 in discretionary city funding to LIBRE, and the indictment charged that approximately one-third of that funding went toward paying LIBRE staff for their campaign-related work. After the court proceeding, he was freed after posting a $500,000 bond, secured by a home belonging to his parents. Millions of dollars in so-called discretionary member items had been allocated by members of the City Council to non-profit groups with ties to the members. The investigation of <mask> was part of a broad federal investigation to determine if these funds had been used for the members' personal or political expenses. <mask> was assigned a court-appointed attorney. In May 2012, <mask> pleaded guilty to charges of mail fraud and mail fraud conspiracy.In December 2012, he was sentenced to serve two years in prison. In 2015, the U.S. Department of Probation informed Monserrate's judge that he had failed to make timely restitution payments. Monserrate served 21 months in federal prison. See also

List of New York Legislature members expelled or censured
Politics of New York (state)

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  (shortly after the previous link was added to this Wikipedia article, the New York Times and others noted this dormant site was still accepting comments, most of which were highly critical of Monserrate)
 Lou Dobbs Tonight Panel on illegal immigration, including Monserrate and his City Council colleague, Dennis Gallagher. Council Members Question Bloomberg 'Sweetheart Deal' With Developer. The New York Sun. April 26, 2005.Public Lives; A Political Bulldog Who Does a Mean Merengue. New York Times. September 25, 2003. NYCLU Legal Brief Challenging Monserrate Expulsion from  NY Senate

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