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Foggy Memories: Ferguson and Bush 41's WWII Crash


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An Enduring Mystery About Bush 41’s WWII Escape from Death

By Russ Baker on Sep 2, 2014

George H.W. Bush celebrating his 90th birthday with a skydive

George H.W. Bush, known to family and friends as “Poppy,” celebrated his 90th birthday this year parachuting from a helicopter, one of several jumps he’s made to mark his birthdays with a nod to his career as a WWII naval aviator. He made his first jump on Sept. 2, 1944, when the plane he was flying got hit by Japanese fire over the Pacific. His escape by parachute became an essential part of his image as a war hero, a status that fuelled his political ambitions.

Here to mark the 70th anniversary of Bush’s first jump is an excerpt from WhoWhatWhy Editor-in-Chief Russ Baker’s bestseller, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years. This section of Chapter 2 examines the enduring discrepancies surrounding Bush’s story of survival over the Pacific.

(Note: Although this excerpt does not contain footnotes, the book itself is exhaustively footnoted and sourced.)

A Changing Story

The enveloping fog extends even to Poppy Bush’s most sterling political symbol: his record as a war hero. On September 2, 1944, the plane he was piloting was hit by Japanese fire during a bombing run over Chichi Jima, a small island in the Pacific. Bush successfully parachuted to the ocean surface, where he was rescued. His two crew members perished.

A documentary film about the rescue was aired as part of a 1984 Republican Convention tribute to Vice President Bush. And on September 2, 1984, forty years to the day of his doomed bombing mission, a ceremony was held at the Norfolk Naval Station, complete with a Navy band and an encomium from Navy Secretary John Lehman. Bush’s war service, Lehman declared, was the beginning of a career “which went on to mark some of the most remarkable achievements in the annals of American politics.”

The real story turns out to be far more complicated. In particular, there are two unresolved issues: What did Bush know of his crew members’ fate? And how badly was his plane hit at the moment when he decided to bail out? These are not merely hypothetical: as the pilot, Bush’s decision to ditch the craft would have doomed anyone still on board. Navy regulations dictate that officers who are thought to have abandoned crew members could be court-martialed.

On board with Bush that day were Radioman Second Class John Delaney, situated below in the plane’s belly, and, directly behind Bush, the turret gunner Lieutenant Junior Grade William Gardiner “Ted” White. Bush would claim in an early 1980s interview with author Doug Wead that he had seen at least one parachute leaving the plane.

In 2002 he told the author James Bradley that he had not known the fate of either of his crew members. After Bradley had finished conducting an interview with Bush for his book Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, the former president turned to the author and asked if he had any information on the fate of his two crewmen.

“It still plagues me if I gave those guys enough time to get out,” Bush said.

Bradley would later write in his book: “No one knew exactly what had happened to Ted and John that day, only that both of them died.”

Yet Poppy has offered multiple conflicting versions of the episode. In a letter to his parents following his rescue, Poppy asserted that after the plane was hit, he had ordered his crew members to parachute out. He was uncertain what happened next, he claimed, due to the smoke that filled the cockpit:

They didn’t answer at all, but I looked around and couldn’t see Ted in the turret so I assumed he had gone below to get his chute fastened on.

Another version surfaced in the 1980s, when his staff decided that Bush had previously been too modest and now needed to acknowledge his heroism.

They hooked him up with a writer, Doug Wead, who prepared the book George Bush: Man of Integrity. In that book, which got little attention, Poppy says:

I looked back and saw that my rear gunner [White] was out. He had been machine-gunned to death right where he was.

There also exists a tape of Bush being interviewed by Wead, as part of a set of interviews the author conducted with famous figures, including Jimmy Carter and former Israeli leader Menachem Begin. On that tape, Bush can be heard to refer clearly to White, and to mention that he saw that White was very much in the plane before bailing out:

One of them jumped out and his parachute streamed. They had fighter planes over us and they could see the chute open, and the other one… he was killed in the plane. You can see, [in] a torpedo bomber, the pilot is separate from the crew, but you can look over and see the turret, and he was just slumped over. [Emphasis mine.]

Another claim of Poppy’s would later be challenged: that his plane was effectively crippled. In Looking Forward, a 1988 campaign book co-authored by Bush and campaign staffer Victor Gold, Poppy writes:

The flak was the heaviest I’d ever flown into . . . Suddenly there was a jolt, as if a massive fist had crunched into the belly of the plane. Smoke poured into the cockpit, and I could see flames rippling across the crease of the wing, edging toward the fuel tanks.

Not so, said Chester Mierzejewski, the tail gunner in the plane directly ahead of Bush’s. Mierzejewski came forward to challenge Bush after noticing inconsistencies in public accounts of Bush’s mission that day. He was struck by how all the versions differed from what he saw.

Mierzejewski had the best and most unobstructed view, and could see directly into Bush’s cockpit. A nonpolitical man who had been Bush’s partner in shipboard bridge games, Mierzejewski wrote a personal letter to the vice president in March 1988, stating that his memory of that day was “entirely different” from what Bush had been saying in television interviews.

Bush, an assiduous letter writer, never responded, so Mierzejewski took his story to the New York Post in August 1988. The Post quoted the tail gunner as saying that only Bush himself had bailed out and that Bush’s plane was never on fire.

No smoke came out of his cockpit when he opened his canopy to bail out . . . I think he could have saved those lives if they were alive. I don’t know that they were, but at least they had a chance if he had attempted a water landing.

In interviews with other papers over the next few days, Mierzejewski, also a recipient of a Distinguished Flying Cross, would say that he was inclined to give Bush the benefit of the doubt until he realized the extent of the inconsistencies.

Perhaps this problem with story discrepancies, a problem that would resurface time and again in Poppy’s life, so often it became a virtual theme, explains why Poppy Bush never penned a comprehensive autobiography.

There were too many secrets, too many different stories to keep straight. More than half a century later, when he was seventy-two years old, Poppy again began parachuting out of planes, ostensibly as a birthday celebration. He would continue this show of bravado and virility into his eighties. Jim McGrath, Bush’s assistant, said when the 1997 jump was announced,

The reasons behind this are strictly personal,” “It has to do with World War Two. When it happens, we’ll explain it.

But when the time came, no satisfying explanation emerged. Poppy treated his skydive as a novelty and a thrill—and never clarified what happened on September 2, 1944.

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Another Philadelphia Drug Conviction Overturned Because of Cop’s Testimony
September 5, 2014 3:27

Another drug related conviction in Philadelphia is being dismissed, because it is linked to testimony from one of six allegedly corrupt narcotics officers.

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F.B.I. AGENT ADMITS HARASSING BLACK



A Chicago-based agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has acknowledged that he and other white colleagues planned a campaign of ''retribution'' against a black agent, Donald Rochon, whose case has prompted a national debate over racism in the bureau.

Newly released F.B.I. documents also show that the white agent, Gary W. Miller, has conceded that in 1985 he forged Mr. Rochon's signature on an application for death and dismemberment insurance for the Rochon family.

Mr. Rochon has described the unsolicited insurance policy as a death threat. Mr. Miller, who was suspended without pay for two weeks as a result of that incident and others aimed at Mr. Rochon, has denied that he was trying to harass the black agent. Agents Admit Harassment

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British ‘killer’ Krishna Maharaj may have been framed, says judge
Krishna Maharaj was convicted of double murder in 1987, and spent 15 years on death row

Krishna Maharaj was convicted of double murder in 1987, and spent 15 years on death row


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September 8 2014

A US judge has ordered federal authorities to release secret records that could help to prove that a British businessman sentenced to death for double murder 27 years ago is innocent.

The order compels agencies including the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency to share with lawyers for Krishna Maharaj everything they know about four narcotics conspirators who witnesses claim carried out the killings and framed him.

The four were killers, traffickers and money-launderers for Pablo Escobar, the leader of the Colombian Medellin drugs cartel, whose lieutenants s

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Prison Phone Class




FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Global Tel*Link charges inmates 100 times the market rate for phone calls, in violation of the FCC Act, and gets its exclusive contracts by paying kickbacks, a class action claims in Federal Court.



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CRACK THE CIA

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Leland Yee case: Feds lash back at misconduct claims


Posted: 09/11/2014 06:23:46 AM

Calling a legal assault on the lead FBI agent in the political corruption case against state Sen. Leland Yee a "fishing expedition," federal prosecutors on Wednesday lashed back against allegations of government misconduct raised by indicted San Francisco political consultant Keith Jackson.

The U.S. attorney's office rejected arguments that the lead undercover FBI agent in the case committed any wrongdoing and unleashed new evidence depicting Jackson as central to connecting the government's investigators to Yee and attempts to secure campaign contributions in exchange for political favors.

"Jackson was far from an innocent lured into criminal conduct by a rogue FBI undercover agent," federal prosecutors wrote in court papers filed with U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer.

Jackson's lawyers last month urged the judge to order the government to reveal further internal information about the agent, alleging that he was removed from the four-year FBI undercover probe for his own financial improprieties. In legal arguments later joined by other defendants in the case, Jackson's legal team maintains that it could be critical to undermining the prosecution's case if the agent's misconduct tainted the investigation.

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Why I Can’t Watch Homeland Anymore … and the Glorification of the CIA

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10 Oct 2014
OBSERVING MEDIA-The fourth season of Claire Danes’ hit show Homeland premiered Sunday night, but I wasn’t watching. Its glorification of the CIA has crossed a line, and I can no longer view the show as pure entertainment.

Homeland uses a hip, anti-establishment tone to promote even the worst abuses of the Central Intelligence Agency. It is today’s equivalent of the 1960’s show Mod Squad. Mod Squad featured “the hippest and first young undercover cops on television.” It used figures from youth culture to promote the reactionary and racist Los Angeles Police Department. Mod Squad villains were drawn from the same counterculture elements that the LAPD was beating up on city streets.

Homeland uses a similar strategy. Its star, Claire Danes, has the blonde look of Mod Squad star Peggy Lipton. Danes’ Carrie Mathison’s character, like Lipton’s, is a woman in a man’s game. Carrie acts like she’s battling the establishment while promoting the CIA’s core agenda at every turn.

Who Turned Iran? Carrie’s role in glorifying the CIA became crystal clear in the show’s reinvention of Iranian politics in Season 3.

Homeland’s message in Season 3 was that the CIA had the ability to change Iranian politics by getting someone it controlled in power in Iran. The end result—Iran’s agreement to nuclear talks—was portrayed on the show as 100% a product of the CIA’s wiles.

But in the real world, internal forces within Iran, not the CIA, led Iran to become more accommodating on nuclear policy. The difference is quite significant.

Since its founding, the CIA has routinely assassinated world leaders and key political figures under the guise that such acts were necessary to bring “democracy.” The CIA did this in Iran in 1954, replacing a democratically elected leader with a dictator. A dictator who murdered and tortured hundreds of thousands of Iranians until he was overthrown in 1979.

Homeland doesn’t offer this history lesson. Nor does it ever reveal the many other nations where the CIA used assassination and violence to replace democratic leaders with dictators.

Because to tell viewers the truth would cause many to wonder why they are rooting for Carrie and her CIA colleagues in carrying out their missions. In its essence, Homeland is reclaiming and reviving the same dangerous myth of the “CIA knows best” that has caused misery to millions across the globe.

Danes’ Carrie Mathison is the chief vehicle for getting anti-establishment types to buy into this message.

The other vehicle is Mandy Patinkin’s character, Saul. Saul plays the tormented Jewish CIA chief straight out of a Malamud novel. Nobody could possibly believe that a gentle, thoughtful soul like Saul would wrongly kill people—so when that’s what he does, it has to be that the CIA is following the moral course.

Homeland places Carrie and Saul—and by implication the CIA—are on the right side of history. The CIA’s actual history notwithstanding.

In the last episode of Season 3 there was an exchange between Carrie and Brody in which the latter questions what all of the CIA killing really accomplishes. But Carrie does not even give pause to consider whether the man she loves and admires most in the world may be on to something.

It’s Only Entertainment!-Yes, Homeland is not the real world. Yet as Alex Gansa, the show’s creator admitted “viewers will again find in “Homeland” parallels to real events in the Mideast.”

That’s the problem. Homeland creates close parallels to real life events via a fictional CIA whose real world operations are very different. The real world CIA failed to foresee the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Iran. It also failed to anticipate Mubarak’s problems in Egypt. It missed the rise of ISIS entirely.

The real CIA is not controlled by principled and thoughtful analysts like Saul and Claire. The real CIA is driven by people like Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld, for whom ideology and politics always come first.

Does Homeland’s deviation from reality matter? The LAPD certainly thought television shows about its work shaped public perceptions. That’s why it closely cooperated with Dragnet, Adam 12 and other LA cop shows to create an image of a caring, non-racist LAPD entirely at odd with the fa

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ACLU accuses Boston police of racial profiling
Stop and frisk: Racial profiling in Boston


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Blacks are more likely to be stopped and frisked by Hub cops in a “problematic pattern” that stops short of “widespread” racial profiling, according to the researcher whose findings the ACLU cited in an explosive report on Boston police tactics.

“I can’t explain why these racial patterns exist ... but it’s clear there are problematic patterns,” said Anthony Braga, the Rutgers criminologist and Harvard fellow whose analysis of more than 204,000 so-called “civilian-police encounters” in Boston between 2007 and 2010 was the basis of yesterday’s American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts report that accused the Boston Police Department of “racially biased policing.”

Braga noted that blacks were 8 percent more likely to be involved in a police encounter multiple times and 12 percent more likely to be stopped and frisked. But he said the stat heavily cited by the ACLU — that blacks make up 63 percent of the encounters, but only 24 percent of the population — is a “misrepresentation” of whether there really is a racial bias.

“The context of policing is not what’s going on with New York with stop and frisk,” Braga, a former BPD policy adviser, said, noting that of the 204,739 reports analyzed, only 40 percent include instances of stop-and-frisk. “There is a problem, and the problem needs to be understood. It’s a mixed bag. But the ACLU portrayal of the report ... doesn’t represent the spirit of what we’ve done.”

The ACLU report sparked an immediate firestorm yesterday, with police brass saying it was outdated and ignored recent reforms in training. The police department said the findings show that cops are targeting gang members in “high-crime areas.”

Cops are also repeatedly stopping those with criminal records or “gang membership,” according to police, who say just 5 percent of the individuals stopped accounted for 40 percent of the total reports.

Police Commissioner William B. Evans said that the use of the type of police report the ACLU studied has dropped 42 percent between 2008 and last year, though officials said they did not have a racial breakdown of who was stopped during that period.

“We aren’t out there stopping every African-American child for no reason at all,” Evans said. “We put most of our officers, like we did this summer ... into the areas where we see the gun violence. And unfortunately that is where most of that is populated by African-American young males. It’s only reasonable to believe that we’re going to stop and talk to more black males than any other part of the city.”

In making recommended changes, including adding body cameras to police, the ACLU said that in 75 percent of reports, Boston police described the reason for the encounter as simply “investigate person” — a description it assailed as “because I said so.”

“The findings confirm what many people from communities of color have long suspected: Boston police officers targeted people of color at far greater rates than white people,” the ACLU report states.

While Mayor Martin J. Walsh noted the findings precede his administration, he also said he wasn’t challenging them.

“I’m trying to build a city here. My theme in the campaign was ‘One city.’ And having certain neighborhoods targeted or certain individuals targeted inappropriately isn’t the way I want to do it,” he told the Herald.

“If I’m a young black male and I see this report, certainly I see this as targeting me. I see the sensitivity and the concern in the black community and the communities of color. The numbers speak for themselves.

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L. Poitras
She profiled William Binney, who was first to oppose NSA spying on Americans

Citizenfour director Laura Poitras was the first person to receive National Security Agency contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden's trove of classified documents, but she wasn’t his first choice.
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In December 2012, a month before reaching out to Poitras, Snowden had tried a number of times to make contact with journalist Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald was intrigued by the messages he received from “Cincinnatus”, the alias Snowden used with Greenwald (he used the alias “citizen four” with Poitras), but there was a problem:. Greenwald is not tech-savvy and Snowden’s directions on how to encrypt messages was too burdensome for the busy journalist.
Frustrated, Snowden looked for another journalist to trust. According to a 2013 New York Times profile on Poitras, Snowden had read Greenwald’s article about Poitras being detained approximately 40 times at airports while traveling to film her documentaries about the U.S. government's post-9-11 policies.
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He also knew her next film was about government surveillance programs and watched with interest her New York Times Op-Doc short The Program about William Binney, the NSA mathematical genius behind the Stellar Winds surveillance program.
Binney, after 32 years with the NSA, quit in protest when Stellar Winds was used to spy on American citizens after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Snowden’s assumption after seeing The Program, according to the Times article, was that Poitras would “understand the programs he wanted to leak about and would know how to communicate in a secure way.”
Snowden was not wrong. Poitras had grown paranoid after having seen what had happened to her sources like Binney, whose home was raided at gunpoint and computer seized by the FBI.
The more Poitras learned about government surveillance, the more extreme measures she took to protect her communications, eventually moving to Berlin to make sure her footage was not seized by U.S. officials.
Binney plays a prominent role on screen in Citizenfour and was in attendance for its New York Film Festival premiere on Friday night, where he told The Hollywood Reporter, “I’m proud of any small role I may have played in bringing truth to light.”
Citizenfour opens on Oct 24th. Below you can watch Poitras’ short about Binney, The Program.

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FBI agent: Phillipos offered to help prosecute bombing suspect

Published On: Oct 15 2014 11:54:39 AM EDT
Updated On: Oct 15 2014 05:51:15 PM EDT
FBI special agent Timothy Quinn testified that after the Boston Marathon bombing, Robel Phillipos said he wanted to help with the prosecution of his friend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, saying he "wanted to nail the (expletive)."

When prosecutors asked if Quinn thought Phillipos was sincere, the FBI agent replied no.

Watch report

The defense probed Quinn on why FBI interviews with Phillipos were not recorded and raised doubts about his confession. The defense told the jury the then 19-year-old mouthed the words "he's putting words in my mouth" to a camera that was not on.

On day five, the prosecution rested and the defense put two of Phillipos friends on the stand.

Lino Rosas, a friend from UMass Dartmouth, testified Phillipos was "high, extremely out of it and gone" on the night a backpack and fireworks were removed from Tsarnaev's dorm room.

On a scale of 1 to 10, he was a 10, Rosas told the jury.

Phillipos is accused of lying about what he saw that night. The defense argues Phillipos was so high on marijuana he does not remember.

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Connecticut FBI agent alleges abuses
Updated October 20, 2014 6:15 PM



FBI bosses retaliated against an agent for complaining about personnel decisions, managed by fear and were so dysfunctional that the bureau's director apologized to the Connecticut staff for problems with local leadership, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.
The agent, Kurt Siuzdak, is a lawyer and 17-year veteran of the bureau who worked in New York City and as a legal attache in Iraq before joining the New Haven field office in 2009.
In his lawsuit, Siuzdak said he was subjected to a baseless investigation when he complained he was passed over for supervisory positions. His wife, Heather Clinton, said in an interview with The Associated Press that her husband was reluctant to publicize internal FBI disputes but saw no other way to address what they see as abuses by managers who allow social affiliations to influence promotion decisions.
"This is an organization that he believes in. It's an organization that is very powerful. And he wants it to be better," she said.
Messages seeking comment on the lawsuit were left with the Connecticut FBI and the U.S. Justice Department.
In the lawsuit, Siuzdak says that FBI employment surveys in 2012 and 2013 gave the Connecticut office low ratings for leadership, employee treatment and morale. A January 2013 inspection of the office's violent crime task forces by FBI headquarters found that, in New Haven, "senior management was described as leading by fear and intimidation, negatively impacting both internal personnel and the liaison relationships with the FBI's external partners."
The lawsuit said FBI Director James Comey visited the New Haven field office near the end of last year and apologized to employees for "the failure of the FBI's executive management to correct the leadership failures" in Connecticut.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for Connecticut, names Attorney General Eric Holder as the defendant and seeks unspecified damages for the alleged discrimination and retaliation by managers. Among other allegations of preferential treatment for favored employees, it says a manager in New Haven routinely failed to work a full eight-hour day despite receiving the FBI's version of overtime.
"It's about integrity for him," Clinton said.
Siuzdak, 49, is an Army veteran who was among the FBI agents to respond to the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11 and later learned Arabic for two postings in Iraq.
The lawsuit says his difficulties began with the former agent in charge in New Haven, Kimberly Mertz.
Siuzdak accused Mertz of blocking his pursuit of several management positions in Connecticut, where his family has its home. After he filed an equal opportunity complaint, he said, she filed a complaint alleging he was using a bureau vehicle for personal transportation, a serious violation of FBI regulations. After an investigation, he said, he was told the claim was unsubstantiated.
When Siuzdak applied for another position this year, an FBI manager he had been working with in Washington issued a non-recommendation, saying Siuzdak had not demonstrated leadership s

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Terrorism expert gives talk in T.O.
Author is guest of Kiwanis Club

Erroll Southers Erroll Southers Erroll G. Southers, an associate director at the Department of Homeland Security’s National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, will speak at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Thousand Oaks at 7:30 a.m. Wed., Oct. 29 at the Palm Garden Hotel, 495 N. Ventu Park Road, Newbury Park.

The topic of his talk will be “Global Security and the Homegrown Threat.”

Prospective Kiwanians are invited to attend and should arrive no later than 7:15 a.m.

An expert in the field of antiterrorism, Southers was President Barack Obama’s first nominee for Transportation Security Administration assistant secretary and was former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s deputy director for critical infrastructure of the California Offi ce of Homeland Security. He is a former FBI special agent, SWAT team member and Santa Monica Police Department officer.

Southers will sign copies of his book, “Homegrown Violent Extremism,” after the meeting.

Cost is $15, which includes breakfast.


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The Omagh Bomb Conspiracy and cover-up!

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Spy agencies failed to share intelligence on Omagh bombing: report ...
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Aug 12, 2013 - A new report on the 1998 bombing of downtown Omagh by an Irish republican ... These agencies, claims the report, had at least two informants inside the ... Rupert was run by the FBI, which eventually shared him with MI5.
IRISHMAN FRAMED FOR BRITISH FALSE FLAG OMAGH BOMBING
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Apr 12, 2014 - News, Omagh, Omagh bombing, IRISHMAN, Seamus Daly, ... Mr Justice Morgan conceded that “the MI5/FBI informant David Rupert had lied to ...
Missed clues claim sparks call for new Omagh bomb inquiry ...
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; › Local and National › Northern Ireland
Aug 6, 2013 - Missed clues claim sparks call for new Omagh bomb inquiry ... and intelligence agencies after unpublished e-mails from an FBI spy ... tip-off and two informants, could have prevented the bombing if they had been brought together in time. * The Rupert e-mails provided MI5 with material that was not passed ...



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FBI agent gave Whitey Bulger explosives to send to IRA ...


http://www.irishcentral.com/news/fbi-ag ... 65331.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Jul 21, 2013 - An FBI agent gave Whitey Bulger 40 pounds of plastic explosives most of which was sent to the IRA a key witness in the Whitey Bulger trial has ...
like pigs from a gun - Occurrences
http://www.occurrencesforeigndomestic.c ... -pigs-gun/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Oct 1, 2014 - Mar 1, 2013 – James 'Whitey' Bulger's associates saying that C4 plastic explosive supplied to the IRA came from a corrupt FBI agent who was ...
rigorousintuition.ca • View topic - How do we shut down the FBI?
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Oct 2, 2014 - 2 posts - ‎1 author
Mar 1, 2013 - James 'Whitey' Bulger's associates saying that C4 plastic explosive supplied to the IRA came from a corrupt FBI agent who was ...
How the IRA set up an arms deal with Boston gangster James ...


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Feb 24, 2013 - "But now that he had the FBI in his pocket, his involvement quickly intensified. ... a friendly FBI agent to acquire C4 explosives for the IRA, according to Steve ... Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt ...

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see link for full story


http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

California prisons to end race-based policy for inmate violence
San Quentin

California corrections officials to end raced-based punishment to control violence at crowded prisons

A federal judge is expected to sign off on a decision by California corrections officials to give up its unique use of race-based punishment as a tool to control violence in its crowded prisons.

The decision comes out of a settlement between state corrections chief Jeffrey Beard and lawyers for inmates who filed a civil rights lawsuit in 2008 over a lockdown at California's High Desert State Prison in 2006.


It was there that a group of prisoners attacked two guards, prompting the warden to declare a full lockdown that confined African Americans in one wing of the prison to their cells, and kept them there for 14 months.

Prison officials had said that using race to implement lockdowns and other restrictions on inmate movement was an important safety tool.

They cited the need to immobilize large segments of the prison population while conducting investigations after riots and other violent events, and to help hide the identities of inmates who might be helping them.
lRelated San Bernardino inmates allege gay discrimination in jail

CALIFORNIA
San Bernardino inmates allege gay discrimination in jail

Inmates' lawyers said the state was using race as a stand-in for gang involvement, unfairly punishing prisoners who had done nothing wrong. They said no other state in the nation used such a broad policy.

Prison lawyers cited as many as 160 race-based lockdowns lasting six weeks or longer in a given year in California.

"We see this as a tremendous result," said Rebekah Evenson, a staff lawyer at the Prison Law Office, which pressed the class-action litigation.

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Google employee conducting ‘breast perception study’ faces felonies after FBI arrests him for threatening to upload pics to revenge porn site
The female victim received an email from a supposedly random person -- after she participated in the 'study' -- who claimed to have 'stumbled across' the photos and asked for more because 'I would hate for anybody else to see.'


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.1985812" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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http://nlpc.org/stories/2014/10/26/rep- ... own-scheme" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Michael Grimm's Campaign Shakedown Scheme
Sun, 10/26/2014 -



Gregory Meeks and Michael GrimmToday's New York Post reports that Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY), already under indictment, sought out and allegedly accepted campaign contributions in his initial 2010 race for Congress that exceeded contribution limits.

He asked for $10,000 donations from six people, when the legal limit for individual contributions is $2,400. The contributions were not disclosed on Grimm's campaign disclosure forms, evidence that Grimm may have been aware that they were illegal.

From the article by Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein:

"A candidate who tries to get others to solicit contributions far in excess of the legal limit raises big red flags," said Ken Boehm, a former prosecutor and chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, a Virginia watchdog. Not reporting donations, or funneling them through straw donors, is illegal.

Despite being a Republican, Grimm is close to Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) of Queens, in photo with Grimm. According to a March 8, 2014 New York Daily News article:

"They have a weird bromance," said a Republican aide who has worked with both Grimm, 44, and Meeks, 60. "They love each other."

Many of Meeks Democratic friends have either been successfully prosecuted for corruption or are under indictment. State Senator Malcolm Smith, State Senator John Sampson, former State Senator Shirley Huntley, Democratic leader Albert Baldeo, New York City Councilman Ruben Wills, Democratic consultant Melvin Lowe have all been caught up in investigations reportedly triggered by NLPC's scrutiny of Meeks and his associates, beginning in 2010.

Grimm's problems prompt the question of whether Meeks associates with anyone - including the one Republican - who is not a crook. It also prompts the question of why Grimm is under indictment while Meeks is not. The answer is simple. Meeks is a Democrat and Grimm is a Republican.

The indictment of a sitting member of Congress requires the approval of the Attorney General. While the prosecutions of state and local Democratic politicians has been allowed to go forward, Meeks enjoys the protection of Eric Holder, which whom he shares a political and personal ties.

The specifics of the new allegations lean toward the strange. Grimm apparently shook down an Orthodox Jewish rabbi named Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto in a bid to quickly raise funds. According to the Post today:

Pinto, an Orthodox mystic who lives in Manhattan and Israel, prompted the federal investigation against Grimm. The rabbi reported to federal authorities in 2010 that he was the victim of an alleged extortion scheme by two members of his inner circle, Israeli businessman Ofer Biton and p.r. executive Ronn Torossian.

Grimm, at the time, had become a follower of the rabbi, even though he is not Jewish and speaks no Hebrew. Pinto does not speak English.

But then again, Grimm's entire career has been a little strange. He was elected as a Tea Party Republican after a serving as an FBI agent. This background served him well against the backdrop of anti-Washington sentiment in 2010. Reports have subsequently surfaced, however, that FBI agent Grimm got too close to informants, including members of organized crime.

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Why wasn't this perp charged with rape?

Maybe you can find out,eh?


http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S360 ... FGZc2nD9Ds" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Ohio trooper pleads guilty to civil rights charges
Created: 10/29/2014 7:21 PM



A former state trooper accused of forcing female motorists into sexual acts in exchange for dropping traffic charges pleaded guilty on Wednesday to violating their civil rights.
Bryan Lee, who was a member of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, also pleaded guilty to cyberstalking involving threatening messages sent to a woman pulled over twice within a month's time, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Lee's guilty plea in federal court in Columbus followed an investigation into traffic stops performed by him from 2006 through October of last year.
The government said Lee acknowledged forcing women into sex acts while they were under arrest or handcuffed and photographing some of the acts. A message was left with Lee's attorney. No sentencing date was set.
Lee, 30, worked out of the patrol's Lancaster post, with the incidents happening in Fairfield and Licking counties, the patrol said.
A routine inspection of dash cam video uncovered the wrongdoing, said patrol spokesman Lt. Craig Cvetan. Lee was seen asking two women questions inconsistent with a traffic stop involving possible impaired driving, such as where the women had come from and where they were going, Cvetan said. Lee later turned off the microphone so no audio was recorded, Cvetan said.
Lee also took a photo of a female passenger without her shirt on in exchange for dropping charges against the driver, Cvetan said.
The patrol asked the FBI for assistance, and Lee was placed on desk duty when the investigation began, then he resigned in November 2013 ahead of being fired, Cvetan said.
"Public trust is one of our No. 1 priorities, and individuals like this tend to compromise that trust," Cvetan said. "That's exactly why we moved swiftly to have him removed from our organization and pursued the criminal charges against him."

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Former Des Moines officer's fate now in hands of jury


link for full story

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/ ... /18189201/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Colin Boone "took the easy way out" when he kicked a suspect in the head instead of pinning him to the ground, a prosecutor told a federal jury Thursday during her closing argument.
The jury will begin deliberations Friday morning in the federal trial against a former Des Moines police officer. U.S. Attorney Kelly Mahoney said Boone, 38, is guilty of kicking Orville Hill, 29, in the face on Feb. 19, 2013 and leaving the incident out of an official report.
"It was easier to run and kick him than get down on his knees and into the fray," Mahoney told jurors. "It was easy because that's how Colin Boone does things."
One of the questions the jury will decide is whether Boone's use of force against Hill was necessary.
"We have an arrest that for whatever reason went bad," defense attorney Michael Smart said in his closing arguments. "It's not what the government is trying to portray as a rogue cop or a Rodney King incident, kicking and beating a guy over and over."
Rodney King was an American construction worker whose beating by a Los Angeles policeman in 1991 was caught on videotape. Mahoney said it doesn't require a Rodney King incident to prove excessive force.
"One kick is enough," Mahoney said.
Boone testified Thursday that he thought he swept his foot at Hill's shoulder instead of his face.
"I took the outside of my foot and hit the shoulder and took hold of the left arm after," Boone told the jury.
But other officers at the scene testified that they saw a "direct" or "straight" kick to the head, face or teeth. The four officers that struggled with Hill said they had him under control; some said the kick was not necessary or even disrupted the arrest.
Hill, who has said he had a seizure, crashed his vehicle into a concrete barrier on Des Moines' south side.
Police reports show that after Hill was removed from the vehicle, he became violent and had to be restrained by four officers. While he was being held down, then over-400-pound Boone arrived on the scene and kicked Hill in the face, according to testimony and video shown at the trial.
Smart argued that the injuries on Hill's face depicted in photos taken at the hospital are not consistent with a kick from a 400-pound man.

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Gulfport police officer faces on-duty sex charge
Grand jury to hear charge against Mario Hill





October 31, 2014





GULFPORT -- A former Gulfport police officer turned himself in Friday on a charge alleging he tried to sexually assault a woman he was helping while on duty the night of June 8.

Mario Hill, 32, of Gulfport, faces a charge of attempted sexual battery from an incident that reportedly involved a woman who was in the back of his patrol car but was not under arrest, Harrison County Sheriff's Sgt. Joe Strum said.

A grand jury will review the case.

Strum said Hill had responded to a passer-by's complaint of a domestic dispute near the Legacy condominiums. Hill went to Beach Drive and Mockingbird Lane and put two women in the back of his patrol car, Strum said, and was driving them to a Motel 6 when he took a detour and stopped the car at Johnson Drive just east of 8th Avenue.

A Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics agent drove by the patrol car. The agent recognized Hill and believed he was urinating outside his car while a passenger was in the back seat, Sturm said. The agent at first didn't realize a second woman was there.

One of the women, a 21-year-old from Hattiesburg, alleges Hill forced her out of the patrol car, pushed her against the cruiser and touched her private parts through her clothes. The woman claims Hill then pulled out his penis and said, "Hey, look at this."

When the MBN officer drove by, Hill zipped up his pants and drove the women to their hotel, Sturm said, and the agent called police officials.

Papania said he reassigned Hill to non-enforcement duties pending an internal investigation.

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Are you a smart criminal justice consumer yet?

you would be if you could name some of the former FBI agents now running or working in high level casino positions after they retire from the FBI

couple of stories

1 st

see link for full story

MALAYSIA
Malaysian kingpin Paul Phua and son may get off scot-free after FBI misstep
NOVEMBER 2, 2014
According to media reports, Paul Phua was originally arrested in Macau for running a gambling operation with millions in illegal takings, but posted bail and flew on his private jet to Las Vegas to continue gambling. ― Reuters pic
According to media reports, Paul Phua was originally arrested in Macau for running a gambling operation with millions in illegal takings, but posted bail and flew on his private jet to Las Vegas to continue gambling. ― Reuters pic
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2 — Alleged gambling kingpin Paul Phua Wei Sing’s lawyer claimed that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) did not read him or his son their rights after a raid in July during the World Cup period, jeopardising chances of prosecuting the duo, a Hong Kong daily reported today.

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the 50-year-old’s lawyers argued that the police failed to give the so-called Miranda warning to both father and son, thereby violating their constitutional rights.
The warning informs suspects that they have the right to remain silent when interrogated by law enforcement officers and to seek legal advice before answering questions, it added.
Based on the affidavit written by Phua, SCMP reported that he did not feel he had the choice to stop the questioning during the raid.
“The first agent I saw pointed a machine gun at me and shouted, ‘Put your f***ing hands up’.
“Everyone in the villa was handcuffed, herded into the dining room, and told to get on our knees and face the wall.”

“At no point did I feel that I was free to stop answering the agents’ questions and terminate the interview, nor did I ever feel that I was free to leave,” he wrote, according to the daily.
His “lawyers are now trying to suppress statements Phua and his son, 23-year-old Darren Phua Wai Kit, gave in which both said Paul Phua held a stake in IBC Bet, an online betting provider in the Philippines that industry insiders consider to be one of the largest in the world”, the daily wrote.
His lawyers told SCMP via email that Phua “absolutely maintains he is innocent of the gambling charges in the United States”, and also called the triad allegations unfounded.
FBI officers, however, stated in their records that Paul Phua “was advised that agents were executing a search warrant, he was not under arrest, the interview was voluntary, he could refuse to answer questions, and he could stop the interview at any time.”
Gregory Gordon, an associate law professor at Chinese University and former US federal prosecutor, told SCMP that the “the agents were aggressive” in handling the case.
“Based on what is alleged by the defendants in the motion, there is a good chance the non-Mirandised statements are going to be suppressed. That said, it may come down to a witness-credibility determination at the hearing,” he said.
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malay ... SyrKv.dpuf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



2nd read


Retired FBI agent what's his name....


see link for full story

http://www.forbes.com/sites/muhammadcoh ... a-no-joke/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


NagaCorp Makes Casino 'Holiday In Cambodia' No Joke


The US and Vietnam made Cambodia a war zone. The Khmer Rouge turned it into killing fields. The Dead Kennedys’ song “Holiday in Cambodia” mocked it as a vacation destination. NagaCorp has turned it into a goldmine.

NagaCorp operates the largest casino hotel in Cambodia, NagaWorld, and its shares have been among the top performers on the Hong Kong stock market since listing in 2006. Last year, NagaCorp reported net profit of $140 million on revenue of $345 million, both up 24% from 2012. Since 2009, NagaCorp’s net profit has shown a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 53% with revenue CAGR of 31%.

Several factors have helped NagaCorp evolve from a floating casino in a branch of the Mekong River into a regional gaming player that, like Vietnam and the Philippines, provides an alternative to Macau for high rollers and turns lower tier players into VIPs. The company holds a 70 year license running through 2065 that includes a 41 year monopoly within a 200 kilometer (120 mile) radius of capital city Phnom Penh. It pays no taxes on income or gaming revenue, just a fixed fee that last year amounted to 1.5% of total revenue. Labor and construction costs are low compared with other Asian gaming destinations. “We built a facility for $200 million that would have cost $1.5 billion in Macau,” NagaWorld chairman Timothy McNally says.

NagaWorld, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
NagaWorld, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


The company has also helped promote Cambodia as a tourist destination. Visitor arrivals have shown 18% CAGR since 2002, reaching 4.2 million last year. Neighboring Vietnam provides 20% of the arrivals, with China, South Korea and Laos in the low double-digits. NagaWorld works with travel agents in China to arrange charter flights for tourists. “We want to keep growing with Cambodia,” McNally told listeners at Global Gaming Expo Asia in Macau last month. The company highlights its commitment to nation building following Cambodia’s wars and genocide in the 1970s and 1980s. NagaCorp CEO and controlling shareholder Chen Lip Keong, a Malaysian who trained as a medical doctor before turning to property development, has long served as an economic advisor to Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen.

As you’d expect, gaming dominates NagaCorp’s revenue, accounting for $325 million or 94% of last year year’s total Mass market revenue grew 16% to $192 million, just over half of it from very popular electronic gaming tables and slot machines. Machine betting is nearly two and a half times greater table bets yet produces just 12% more income, suggesting electronic players are getting a much better deal. Overall, the property has 172 tables and 1,543 machines.

VIP revenue rose 40% to $133 million last year and represents about 45% of total gaming revenue. Vietnam and China provide the biggest chunks of the roll, along with Cambodians holding foreign passports (other Cambodians are barred from gaming). Last year, the company stepped up cooperation with Macau junkets to bring more of their players to NagaWorld.


What you may not expect is that NagaWorld is a thoroughly first-class property. Its 700 rooms include 500 five-star accommodations at less than half of Macau prices. Gaming area themes includes a Chinese garden and NagaRock with the feel of a dance club, complete with lights, music and dancers. Every treatment room in the spa has a whirlpool bath (and karaoke). The breakfast buffet may be the best in Southeast Asia, featuring Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian and regional flavors, starting with four different soup stations, along with Western standards, the perfect place to try hargow with bacon, uni, kimchee and mango pickle, wrapped in a crepe.

NagaWorld’s gaming revenue for the entire year represents the take from busy weekend in Macau, but that doesn’t bother chairman McNally. “You don’t have to be a big operator if you have vision and smart operations,” the former FBI agent and Hong Kong Jockey Club executive says. Nonetheless, NagaCorp aims for plenty of growth, including ambitious expansion plans in Phnom Penh and beyond.

The company is building an extension to NagaWorld, dubbed Naga2, that will make the property a true integrated resort. Scheduled to open in 2017, Naga2 will include more than 1,000 new hotel rooms and luxury suites, hundreds more gaming tables aa

also see
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''These guys have worked very hard to protect their Las Vegas franchises from undesirable elements, but it hasn't been easy,'' said Dan Grove, a former F.B.I. agent who advises American casino operators at Hill & Associates, a private investigation firm in Hong Kong.

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3rd read
did I mention the retired FBI agent Robert Maheu who helped assassinate President Kennedy?
Robert Maheu - Spartacus Educational
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CRIME
Addtional charges filed against SFPD officers in corruption case


November 3, 2014


San Francisco police Sgt. Ian Furminger in the Tenderloin in 2012.
After securing a guilty plea and an agreement to cooperate from one San Francisco police officer, federal prosecutors have added theft and corruption charges against two veteran officers accused of taking money and drugs from suspects.

The timing of the new federal grand jury indictment against Sgt. Ian Furminger and Officer Edmond Robles suggests the additional charges resulted from statements by former Officer Reynaldo Vargas. Vargas was charged in the original indictment in February, along with Furminger and Robles, but pleaded guilty to four felonies on Oct. 21 and agreed to testify against his former colleagues.



The new charges, issued Thursday, include two counts of depriving the public of the officers’ “honest and faithful services through bribery, kickbacks, and the concealment of material information.” The indictment also accuses them of stealing money during four police searches in 2009 in Newark and San Francisco.

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Was the fix in for State Police Director Demers?

How can a smart criminal justice consumer
detect when the fix is in?

What can the Alert consumer do to prevent
this from occurring?

can you smell the sulphur....

http://www.centralmaine.com/2014/11/04/ ... assault-2/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Yes the child was 4 years old
Yes Demers will be released in 1 year
No he will not go to Prison, he will go to the County Jail
and serve his sentence in protective custody

To view over 1,000 arrest records of police arrested for pedophilia
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Former Maine State Police chief to serve 4 years in prison for sexually assaulting child

http://bangordailynews.com/2014/11/04/n ... ing-child/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Nov. 04, 2014, at 6:27 p.m.
PORTLAND, Maine — A former chief of the Maine State Police will serve four years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to charges that he repeatedly sexually assaulted a young girl earlier this year.

Under the terms of a plea agreement, Andrew Demers, 74, of New Gloucester, pleaded guilty to Class B unlawful sexual contact and Cumberland County District Attorney Stephanie Anderson agreed to drop a Class A charge of gross sexual assault.

Justice Thomas Warren sentenced Demers to five years in prison with all but four years suspended, and three years of probation. Demers must turn himself in at the Cumberland County Jail at 9 a.m. on Nov. 11.

Demers, who served 26 years with the Maine State Police and held the position of chief from 1987 to 1993, was arrested on March 17 and initially charged with Class B unlawful sexual contact with a person younger than 12. But in April, a Cumberland County grand jury indicted Demers on the more severe count of Class A gross sexual assault and Class B unlawful sexual contact.

He pleaded not guilty to the charges in April.

But on Tuesday, Demers told Warren that he was guilty of the lesser charge. His attorney, Walt McKee, acknowledged in a sentencing memo that after his arrest, Demers attempted suicide by overdosing on medication prescribed for a heart condition. While in the hospital, he confessed “to touching the victim and having her touch him” between 5 and 10 times in February and March 2014.

McKee asked the judge to consider factors, including Demers’ “exemplary” career, in determining a sentence, but Anderson asked for nine years in prison.

Anderson pointed to a key piece of evidence, a two-minute videotape of the victim, taken by the victim’s father on a cell phone.

Anderson said the two were in the car one day when the girl began describing the sexual acts. The father stopped the car and asked the child to repeat what she’d said while he videotaped it.

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http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/20 ... ana_d.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Lawyer who represented Diana Durand in illegal campaign donation case has joined former FBI agent Grimm's defense team

Attorney Stuart Kaplan, left, Diana Durand of Texas, and attorney Joseph Sconzo are pictured entering Federal Court in Brooklyn on Sept. 3, 2014 to plead guilty on illegal campaign contributions involving Rep. Michael Grimm's 2010 campaign for Congress.
on November 05, 2014 at 7:26 PM, updated November 05, 2014 at 9:20 PM




STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - The lawyer who represented former FBI agent Rep. Michael Grimm's ex-girlfriend in her illegal campaign donation case and worked with Grimm in the New York FBI office years ago has joined the congressman's defense team.

In a filing Wednesday, Palm Beach lawyer Stuart N. Kaplan officially put in notice that he'd be representing Grimm in his tax evasion, fraud and perjury case, which is slated to go to trial in Brooklyn federal court in February. (The filing is attached below.)

Kaplan's law partner, Joseph Sconzo, also worked in the New York FBI office and has roots on Staten Island. Kaplan donated $1,500 to Grimm's 2010 campaign, and prosecutors said he had "repeatedly advocated on behalf of Grimm" to the press.

Kaplan represented Texan Diana Durand, who in September pleaded guilty to illegally contribute more than $10,000 to the 2010 campaign of Grimm (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) and another House candidate running that year.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.2002491" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Justice Department officials helped get relatives paid internships: report
Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that Executive Office for Immigration Review Director Juan Osuna, Board of Immigration Appeals Chairman David Neal and Chief Immigration Judge Brian O’Leary each helped relatives get hired in the agency’s student job program between 2007 and 2010.
Friday, November 7, 2014, 12:00 AM A A A

The top three officials at the Justice Department agency that oversees the federal immigration court system helped relatives get paid internships, according to a report released Thursday by the Justice Department’s inspector general.
WASHINGTON — The top three officials at the Justice Department agency that oversees the federal immigration court system helped relatives get paid internships, according to a report released Thursday by the Justice Department’s inspector general.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that Executive Office for Immigration Review Director Juan Osuna, Board of Immigration Appeals Chairman David Neal and Chief Immigration Judge Brian O’Leary

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couple of reads
1st read

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-a ... tml#page=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Maurice Greenberg puts U.S. handling of AIG bailout on trial
Maurice Greenberg

Trials and ArbitrationFinanceAmerican International GroupMaurice R. GreenbergFederal ReserveFinancial MarketsInternational Monetary Fund
A verdict granting Maurice Greenberg's claim for $40 billion more in taxpayer money is a serious possibility



Ex-AIG chief Maurice Greenberg, a fallen Wall Street legend, has been on a warpath to reclaim his reputation
Judge Thomas Wheeler has allowed the AIG case to proceed over the government's fierce opposition
Maurice R. Greenberg, the ousted chief executive of American International Group Inc., was practically laughed out of New York for claiming that he and other shareholders were shortchanged by the U.S. government's $182-billion bailout of AIG.

No one's laughing now.

In an obscure courthouse here, normally the domain of aggrieved government contractors and Native American tribes, the billionaire financier is leading a crusade against the government's handling of the financial crisis that seems as unlikely as it does brazen.

Over government objections and dismissal motions, the trial is steamrolling forward, wringing testimony from such A-list officials as former Treasury secretaries Henry M. Paulson and Timothy F. Geithner and former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke.

A verdict granting Greenberg's claim for $40 billion more in taxpayer money is a serious possibility.

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