Will someone please post my bail?

[msfreeh]

if you don't like the news
go out and make some of your own, eh?


shoudddaa posted this in
What does a smart criminal justice consumer do?
Nah you already know what to do.

Utah Man Accused of Threatening to Blow Up FBI Office After Making 112 Calls

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A Utah man really wanted the FBI’s attention.

Robert Zickella, 49, is accused of calling the FBI in St. George at least 112 times over several days, threatening agents and threatening to blow up the bureau’s office, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.

Zickella is being held in the Purgatory Correctional Facility on a $10,000

[gkearney]

Purgatory Correctional Facility

This has got to be the greatest name for a jail ever!

[msfreeh]

Purgatory Correctional Facility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purgatory_Correctional_Facility
Purgatory Correctional Facility is the county jail of Washington County, Utah. Also known as the Washington County Jail, it is located near St. George, Utah at ...



Here in Maine....

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[kathyn]

Too bad I don't happen to have $10,000 lying around. I could post his bail! :ymdevil:

[msfreeh]

The question a smart criminal justice consumer asks
" is this man working for the FBI SAC in SL Mary Rook? "
"does he have a FBI. handler?"

How does the FBI Crime Family get an office in St George
funded by your tax dime?


"How does his behavior effect postings about FBI criminal misconduct
on this forum?"

can anyone add to this....?

Has anyone been interested in visiting him in jail to get his side of the story?

Nah

[msfreeh]

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Probationer says he was pressured to be FBI informant




Pressured to become an FBI informant
Kent Smith, in jail since May on charges of attempted murder, talks about his time being an informant for the Cook County Adult Probation Department, and how the department pressured him to stay tethered to a life of crime.

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The shooting of an elderly man in May was not unlike many other gang-related shootings across Chicago — except in this case, the suspected triggerman was on probation and working as a paid FBI informant.

A Tribune investigation has found that while Kent Smith was feeding authorities information about illegal guns, he repeatedly broke his court-ordered curfew, allegedly participated in gang activities and was suspected in at least one other shooting.

Smith's account comes amid an ongoing investigation that Chief Judge Timothy Evans ordered into the troubled Cook County Adult Probation Department and illustrates how the department's cultivation of probationers as confidential informants may have compromised public safety.
Gang member Kent Smith looks out from a maximum security cell last month at Cook County Jail in Chicago.
Kent Smith, 22, grew up on Chicago's Far South Side and readily admits to being a member of the Gangster Disciples' New Park faction

In jailhouse interviews with the Tribune, Smith talked openly about his role as an informant and provided a rare glimpse into how the probation department has at times overstepped its bounds and acted more like a police agency — pressuring probationers like him to stay connected to a life of crime, despite its mission to help them return to their neighborhoods as "productive, law-abiding citizens."

Although probation officials have steadfastly denied they actively recruit informants for police and the FBI, Smith's account calls that into question.

Smith alleged that probation Deputy Chief Philippe Loizon pressured him to become an informant with threats of locking him up after Smith violated a court-ordered curfew. During the next year and a half, Smith said, he helped law enforcement recover at least 10 guns, including an AK-47, known on the streets as a "chopper."


Though law enforcement authorities actively recruit informants, Cook County probation officers work for the courts and serve a dual role of monitoring and rehabilitating some 24,000 offenders. They are not trained in developing and handling informants — skilled police work that experts said probation departments should not be doing.

"It can border on coercion to use someone who is already under the thumb of the court," said Carl Wicklund, executive director of the American Probation and Parole Association, which represents 40,000 professionals. "And it's a public safety issue — you don't want to put people into positions where they are tempted to do what you are trying to stop them from doing."

A Tribune investigation published in May found that probation officers assigned to the department's weapons units have for years brought the FBI and police into probationers' homes without warrants, leading to some questionable and even illegal searches and allegations that probationers' civil rights were violated.



Probationers said some officers pressured them to become informants by promising special treatment and threatened to upend their lives if they refused to cooperate.

After the Tribune's investigation, Chief Judge Evans, who oversees the court's probation department, in May asked an outside law firm to investigate the department's activities, with a focus on its weapons units supervised by Loizon. Evans at the time placed Loizon on desk duty, forbidding him from going into probationers' homes.

Evans declined to comment for this story. But his office issued a statement noting that "the interaction of probation officers with probationers as potential confidential informants" is part of the investigation.
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I'm still trying to decipher why this story is newsworthy. A gangbanging, serial shooter's feelings were hurt and a department's violent crime fighting tactics are too effective. Sounds to me like the Chief Judge's independent investigation isn't bearing any fruit and...


Lavone Haywood, the court's chief probation officer, said he was unfamiliar with Smith's case and that he would refer the allegations to the law firm to investigate. He said his officers should not pressure probationers to become informants.

"We're probation officers. We don't cultivate informants," he said. "We're not police officers."

Loizon declined to comment for this story. Probation officers have told the Tribune that Loizon's personal ties to informants have been questioned within the department.

Loizon has previously said he and his units have done nothing wrong and have made the city's streets safer. His supporters said his work has led to seizures of guns and drugs, and to valuable gang intelligence that solved crimes.

Smith, however, said that was not a role he wanted to play.
Pressured to become an FBI informant
Kent Smith, in jail since May on charges of attempted murder, talks about his time being an informant for the Cook County Adult Probation Department, and how the department pressured him to stay tethered to a life of crime.

Smith, 22, grew up on Chicago's Far South Side in an area dominated by gangs and readily admits to being a member of the Gangster Disciples' New Park faction. Smith, known on the streets as "Meech," said that by his count, he's been shot at about nine times. He maintains, however, that he has never fired at anyone.

In March 2011, police caught Smith with a loaded handgun in the Morgan Park neighborhood.

Records show police were watching Smith and two other known gang members because of shootings around a city park. Smith noticed the police and took off running but was caught. Records show officers recovered a .380-caliber semi-automatic handgun.

While his case moved through the courts, Smith was questioned in two shootings.

In March 2012, detectives arrested Smith in connection with the 2010 killing of a 17-year-old in Morgan Park. A woman told police at the time she heard someone say, "No, no, no," followed by the sound of a gunshot. She saw the teenager, who had been hit once in the back, fall to the ground, according to police reports.

Witnesses initially identified Smith as being involved in the killing. But police records show he was later let go without being charged "due to lack of cooperation by witness."

The next month, police questioned Smith about the drive-by shooting of an 18-year-old whom officers found lying in a Morgan Park alley with bullet wounds in both legs. Smith was initially identified as the triggerman but was released after prosecutors declined to approve charges, according to police reports.

Sally Daly, a spokeswoman with the Cook County state's attorney's office, said there was insufficient evidence to file charges against Smith in both shootings.

That fall, on Sept. 7, 2012, Smith pleaded guilty to possessing the .380-caliber handgun. Circuit Judge Kenneth Wadas sentenced him to two years of gang probation instead of sending him to prison.

Smith was to be monitored by the probation department's Gang Intervention Unit, which meant he had a home curfew, was randomly drug-tested, could not have a firearm and was not to hang out with other gang members. Officers in the gang unit carry weapons and are supervised by Loizon.

Just two weeks into his probation, Smith violated curfew. He was not home when his probation officer showed up about 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20, 2012.

Smith said his probation officer told him he was going to jail but wanted him to first meet Loizon in the department's offices on the Near West Side.

"You know where any guns at?" Smith recalled Loizon asking. "We gonna violate you. You know you're going to be gone for four, six years if you get violated."

Smith said he told Loizon where he could find a .357-caliber handgun and an AK-47 assault rifle. "I told him where a gun was, and they let me go," Smith said.

That led to more demands for guns, Smith said. He said Loizon and his probation officer soon introduced him to Chicago police and to an FBI agent.
Man charged with wounding 74-year-old driver
Man charged with wounding 74-year-old driver
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Smith said Loizon showed up at his house one evening. He recalled Loizon telling him that "one of his partners" wanted to meet him. They stepped outside and into a waiting car with the agent inside.

"He got to explaining to me (that) I can get a lot of money for guns," Smith said. "He (said he) see that the 22nd District don't like me and Phil (Loizon) don't like me. And then Phil was like, 'If you know what's better for you, you better work with him.'"

Smith said he ultimately told authorities the location of "10 (or) 11 guns," which led to arrests. He said Loizon bought him a couple of meals and allowed him to stay out past curfew — spending nights at neighborhood parties and with his girlfriend.

Smith said the FBI agent gave him a cellphone and paid him hundreds of dollars in cash for gun cases. Smith and the agent typically met in a car down the street from Smith's house, Smith said.
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To get paid, Smith said, the agent had him sign a form with his informant code name, "Funny Man." "I just remember it said how much money it was, and (there) was an 'X' and he said, 'Sign right here,'" Smith said. "And then the person that was driving, they'd sign, too — I guess (as) the witness that he gave me the money."

Smith said he does not know why the FBI code-named him "Funny Man," but he said Chicago police used to refer to him as "Joker" because of a tattoo of a joker on his back.

Smith said he used the FBI money to gamble and to buy new clothes, alcohol and marijuana.

"It's gone," he said.

FBI spokeswoman Joan Hyde declined to answer specific questions about Smith's relationship with the FBI.

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Tennessee Cop Busted Looking At Child Porn In Patrol Car
Aug 16, 2013



Herbert Eugene Mille

Greenville, Tennessee police officer Herbert Eugene Miller, 44 (pictured above), faces child pornography charges after investigators discovered that he used the computer in his patrol car to look at pictures of young girls, reports the Smoking Gun.

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California Retrospective
In 1938, L.A. woman went to jail for wearing slacks in courtroom


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:O ((((faint)))))

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Home Dispatches Austin: Cop-Watcher Acquitted
Antonie Buehler

Austin: Cop-Watcher Acquitted

October 31, 2014,

Austin, Texas cop-watching activist Antonio Buehler was acquitted Oct. 29 in what the Austin American-Statesman called “likely the most hotly contested misdemeanor trial in Austin’s recent history.”

Buehler, who cofounded the Peaceful Streets Project, had been charged with failure to obey an official order in the wee hours of New Year’s Day, 2012, after he and a friend got into a confrontation with police who were arresting two women on suspicion of drunk driving at a gas station in downtown Austin.

According to the Austin Chronicle alternative weekly:

Like the trial, the incident that brought Buehler to court last Thursday, Oct. 23, played out more madly than a tent-cage tiger act. On Jan. 1, 2012, shortly after 1:30 a.m., Buehler and a friend, Ben Muñoz, stopped into a 7-11 on North Lamar Boulevard to get gas when he noticed two women – pulled over for failing to employ headlights, leading to an investigation for DUI – being arrested by two police officers (Patrick Oborski and Robert Snider) in a manner Buehler and his friend considered excessively aggressive. Buehler and Muñoz used smartphones to snap photos; Buehler, 34 at the time and blessed with a booming voice, questioned the officers about their efforts. He continued asking about each officer’s actions as they carried one of the women to a squad car. After detaining the arrestee, Oborski turned his attention to Buehler; a scuffle ensued. Buehler refused Oborski’s directions to put his hands behind his back, was brought down to the ground, and eventually submitted to Oborski after Snider unholstered his Taser.

Buehler was initially charged with harassment of a public official (for allegedly spitting on Oborski, a felony) and resisting arrest (a misdemeanor), but in April 2013 was no-billed on those charges and indicted instead for failure to obey a lawful order, a Class C misdemeanor punishable with no jail time and a maximum $500 fine.

“This is not about the fine,” his attorney Millie Thompson told the jurors during final arguments Thursday. “And you know it.”

Both sides debated over the fine print that defines reasonable suspicion, probable cause, “Terry stops” (brief, on-street police detentions), and constitutional rights. The state argued throughout the four-day trial that police have an inherent right to engage in temporary detainments; that Oborski acted legally by ordering Buehler to put his hands behind his back, because he deemed the order appropriate for the given situation. The chaos that surrounded that isolated incident didn’t matter, [Prosecutor Matthew] McCabe argued; it wasn’t Buehler’s judgment to make.

Thompson suggested instead, via a string of testimonies, that Oborski infringed on Buehler’s First and Fourth Amendment rights and that Buehler had done nothing to provoke Oborski illegally. She had Buehler testify to his ignorance of the officer’s order, and repeatedly twisted state witnesses around their own sworn testimonies.
The defense attorney, according to the Peaceful Streets Project, argued that “Buehler did not have to obey Oborski’s orders to put his hands behind his back because Oborski’s orders were illegal. They were illegal because the detention, assault and arrest of Norma Pizana [the passenger in the car stopped] were illegal, and because the detention and assault on Buehler in advance of his arrest were also illegal.”

The Peaceful Streets Project depicts what happened in less legalistic language:

As Buehler and his passenger were about to leave, they heard a violent scream. They turned and saw one of the cops (Robert Snider) ripping the female passenger out of the car and throwing her to the ground. The other cop (Patrick Oborski) then ran over and joined in. As they twisted the victim’s arms behind her in what is a torture move, she cried out more. Buehler pulled out his BlackBerry and attempted to take pictures. When the victim saw Buehler, she begged him to please record the incident. Buehler then began yelling at the cops, telling them that she had done nothing wrong and demanded that they stop assaulting her.

After they picked her up, cuffed her and walked her toward the rear squad car, Oborski turned and approached Buehler. Oborski got in Buehler’s face and demanded to know who Buehler thought he was. Buehler said it didn’t matter who he was and that he had a right to take pictures. Oborski kept moving in on Buehler, Buehler took a couple steps back, and as Oborski raised his voice, Buehler raised his. Then Oborski shoved Buehler by hitting him in the chest area. Buehler shouted at him, telling Oborski to stop touching him. Oborski pushed Buehler back until he was trapped between Oborski and the bed of the truck. Oborski continued to push on Buehler, as Buehler leaned back over the bed of the truck, and then Oborski told Buehler that he was under arrest, put him in a chokehold, took him to the ground and cuffed him. Later, Oborski would tell Buehler that “you don’t @#$%! with the police, you @#$%&%! with the wrong cop, and now you’re going to learn your @#$!%&! lesson!”
Buehler still faces misdemeanor charges from two other arrests, and the trial in a federal civil-rights lawsuit he filed against Oborski is scheduled for March.

Peaceful Streets, which Buehler cofounded after the arrest, describes itself as “an all-volunteer, grassroots effort uniting people to end the institutional violence taking place on our streets,” which “through community organizing, engaging in nonpolitical and nonviolent direct action tactics, and utilizing new technologies… seeks to bring about a cultural shift where individuals understand their rights and hold law enforcement officials accountable, and communities protect and serve each other.”

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Two-phone standoff after cop stops man for 'walking with hands in pockets'
In Michigan, a police officer stops a man who apparently was doing nothing wrong. They both pull out their mobile phones and film each other.
December 1, 2014 7:28 AM PST

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Criminal charges filed against FBI agent in domestic violence case
By Pat Reavy, Deseret News

Published: Tue, Dec. 16 2014


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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigat ... on-n270176

Friday, December 19, 2014Last Update: 11:54 AM PT
S.C. Teen Exonerated 70 Years After Execution


A black teenager convicted of murdering two white girls in Jim Crow-era South Carolina was exonerated Tuesday, 70 years after his speedy trial and execution.
George Stinney Jr. was charged with murder for the death of 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and 7-year-old Mary Emma Thames in March 1944. Alcolu, S.C., where Stinney and the victims lived, was a deeply segregated lumber mill town, with blacks and whites living on opposite sides of railroad tracks.
After the girls' bodies were found in a ditch with their skulls crushed, Stinney was accused of killing them with an iron rod or railroad spike. A neighbor testified she had seen Stinney and his sister talk to the girls shortly before they were killed.
Stinney's trial lasted one day, with the 12 white jurors taking 10 minutes to deliberate before finding the teen guilty of Binnicker's murder. Stinney was represented at trial by a tax attorney, who did not appeal his conviction.
The teen was executed in June 1944, less than three months after his arrest. He became the youngest person to be executed in the 1900s.
The boy's parents and four siblings, who left town under threats of lynching after Stinney was charged with the murders, maintained that Stinney was innocent. His siblings testified that Stinney was not alone that day long enough to commit the murders, and was too small to handle the alleged murder weapon.
A witness who was in jail with Stinney prior to his execution testified that Stinney claimed he was innocent and had been coerced into confessing.
With support from a local historian and pro bono counsel, three of Stinney's siblings asked Circuit Judge Carmen Tevis Mullen to reopen the case, claiming their late brother had been denied a fair trial. Stinney, 14 at the time, was taken from his home and interrogated in his parents' absence. Although his siblings claimed they could have offered alibi information, they were never interviewed, nor were any other defense witnesses.
The family claimed they did not seek pardon for a crime their brother did not commit. Instead, they asked the court to overturn Stinney's conviction and clear his name.
After taking almost a year to deliberate following a January hearing, Mullen ruled Tuesday that Stinney had not received a fair trial.
Citing the lack of case files and trial transcripts, Mullen said she could not address the merits of the case. However, given the "fundamental, constitutional violations of due process" in Stinney's prosecution, his conviction mus

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Informant in terror case paid $41000 by FBI
Minneapolis Star Tribune-19 hours ago
In April, Andrew Luger, U.S. attorney for Minnesota, left, and FBI Special Agent in charge Richard T. Thornton speak at a news conference on the criminal ...

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Former Chicago cop threatens investigators to rule Fox Lake officer’s death a suicide: police
Monday, September 15 2015


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LAKE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
Police said retired Chicago cop Joseph A. Battaglia, 54, phoned in a threat to all officials investigating the death of Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz on Friday afternoon.
A retired Chicago cop phoned in threats to all investigators probing the death of Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, authorities said Sunday.

Joseph A. Battaglia, 54, called the Lake County Coroner’s Office on Friday afternoon and threatened officials with harm if they don’t rule Gliniewicz’s Sept. 1 death a suicide, according to the county sheriff’s office.

Deputies said Battaglia has called other law enforcement agencies and may have provided reporters covering the case with false tips as well.

Battaglia has “zero involvement” with the investigation, but he has phoned severa

[msfreeh]

US prisons
The program that's keeping women out of prison – and saving money
New York’s Justice Home initiative aims to tackle record female incarceration: ‘The reasons women get in trouble are things that can be cured with services’


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Thursday 17 September 2015 08.00 EDT

[msfreeh]

Couple of stories



1.

http://www.ktuu.com/news/news/fbi-arres ... e/35621026" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

FBI arrests Anchor Point radio 'pirate' charged with threatening police
KTUU.com- Oct 2 2015
Volz was set to appear in federal court Friday afternoon in Anchorage, an FBI spokesman said. Until then, the charges and any further information on the case ...



2.

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FBI Agent Arthur Gonzales Free After Killing Wife Julie Gonzales
2paragraphs.com- Oct 2 2015
Julie Gonzales, wife of an FBI Agent Arthur Gonzales for 18 years, was found lying dead on the kitchen floor of her family's Virginia home in 2013. She was shot ..

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US government deporting Central American migrants to their deaths


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Guardian investigation into consequences of Obama’s migration crackdown reveals US deportees have been murdered shortly after return to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, with study saying as many as 83 killed since 2014
A man who was severely injured with a knife by unidentified assailants waits for medical treatment at the emergency room of a public hospital in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
A man who was severely injured with a knife by unidentified assailants waits for medical treatment at the emergency room of a public hospital in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

Monday 12 October 2015 08.57 EDT
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The US government is deporting undocumented immigrants back to Central America to face the imminent threat of violence, with several individuals being murdered just days or months after their return, a Guardian investigation has found.
The migrants who fled violence for the US only to be sent back to their deaths
Read more

The Guardian has confirmed three separate cases of Honduran men who have been gunned down shortly after being deported by the US government. Each was murdered in their hometowns, soon after their return – one just a few days after he was expelled from the US.

Immigration experts believe that the Guardian’s findings represent just the tip of the iceberg. A forthcoming academic study based on local newspaper reports has identified as many as 83 US deportees who have been murdered on their return to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras since January 2014.

Human rights groups warn that deterrent measures taken by the Obama administration after last year’s “surge” in arrivals at the border of unaccompanied children from Central America have triggered a series of powerful unintended consequences across the region.

The number of migrants crossing the US border with Mexico unlawfully has declined sharply this year. But the increasingly

[msfreeh]

British student fights extradition to
US for allegedly hacking the FBI and Nasa

US says Anonymous hacker Lauri Love ‘secretly infiltrated’ computer systems and faces 12 years in prison, more than others charged in the UK


see link for full story

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Lauri Love, who may face extradition to the US, at the University of Glasgow

Tuesday 13 October 2015 09.14 EDT
Last modified on Tuesday 13 October 2015 11.03 EDT


On any given sunny day during this past summer, Lauri Love could be found playing music in Abbey Gardens in Bury St Edmunds, inside the ruins of an 11th century abbey. He’d strap a sound system to a bike, and sometimes add lasers and instruments. “Like busking, but without the money,” he said of his pastime.

As he played, he knew these might be his last days outside enjoying the warm sunshine for some time. Love, a 30-year-old engineering student from Suffolk with a history of mental health issues, is wanted for extradition by the United States under the notorious US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).

The FBI has stated that he could face 12 years in prison if convicted, though there are relatively few precedents for hacking convictions; the most recent conviction under the act was of former Reuters journalist Matthew Keys, who could face 25 years in prison on lesser charges than Love faces.

The US alleges Love is a “sophisticated computer hacker” loosely affiliated with the Anonymous hacker collective, and that he “secretly infiltrated” computer systems used by a long list of government agencies including the Federal Reserve, Nasa, the Department of Energy and the FBI between October 2012 and August 2013, “publicly disseminating confidential information found on those servers”.

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Former Aide To Rand Paul Acquitted In Corruption Probe

October 22, 2015

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Jesse Benton, a long-time adviser to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has been acquitted in a federal corruption probe of former Rep. Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign.

A jury in Des Moines, Iowa, found Benton not guilty of lying to FBI agents when interviewed about pay-offs made by the campaign of Ron Paul, who is the father of Sen. Paul, after the 2012 Iowa caucuses. The jury found another campaign staffer, Dimitri Kesari, guilty of causing the campaign to file false reports with the Federal Election Commission. But Kesari was acquitted

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Border Patrol Accused in Decapitation Death in South Texas


BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Nov 6, 2015, 6:21 PM ET



A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been charged in the death of a man whose decapitated body was found floating near Texas' South Padre Island, a sheriff said Friday.

Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio said Joel Luna might be tied to a Mexican drug cartel through his two brothers but that the investigation is still ongoing.

Luna is charged with capital murder, engaging in organized criminal activity and tampering with evidence. He's accused in the death of Honduran native Jose Francisco "Franklin" Rodrig

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November 18 2015
Portland man pleads guilty to embezzling $400,000 from police credit union

John C. Barry, 69, who managed the credit union, could be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison.


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The former bank manager of the Portland Police Federal Credit Union, who was also a former police officer, faces up to 30 years in prison for embezzling more than $400,000.

John C. Barry, 69, of Portland, pleaded guilty Wednesday before Judge Nancy Torresen in U.S. District Court in Portland to charges of embezzlement and making false entries in credit union records.

Barry was the manager of the small credit union, which had more than 900 members, including employees of the police department and the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office among its membership.

Between 2009 and 2013, Barry transferred more than $400,000 into his and family members’ accounts for their personal use, according to court records. At the same time, Barry filed reports with regulators that showed the credit union was in better financial health than it actually was. The case was investigated by the FBI.

Barry is the second former credit union manager to plead guilty in connection with the theft.

William J. Murphy, 75, of Gray, the credit union’s chief financial officer, pleaded guilty in October to making false entries in the credit union records.

Court records in both men’s case state that Murphy was interviewed by a federal agent in May as the FBI built its case against them.

Murphy told the agents that he falsified banking records because he knew that if the credit union’s calculations of assets to debits put its net worth ratio under 4 percent, the National Credit Union Administration would shut it down, Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Clark wrote in nearly identical prosecution documents in both Murphy’s and Barry’s case files.

“At some point, the (Murphy) told the (Barry) that the PPDFCU’s net worth was at 4 percent. In an effort to increase the net worth, the manager moved money out of certain members’ accounts at the end of the month and moved the money back at the beginning of the next month,” Clark wrote. “(Murphy) knew that he was submitting false information to the NCUA in the call reports, but was doing it to keep the PPDFCU afloat. He also knew that the call reports were submitted under oath, and said: ‘we all make mistakes.'”

The National Credit Union Administration discovered suspicious activity in November 2013 during an annual audit, court records say.

The audit revealed that from July 1, 2009, to Nov. 26, 2013, the credit union’s manager embezzled more than $400,000, Clark wrote.

Barry was allowed to remain free on his own recognizance, Clark said in a phone conversation on Wednesday. Conditions of Barry’s release included that he surrender his passport and not obtain any new international travel documents.

Barry’s attorneys, Neale Duffett and Mark Dion, did not immediately respond to messages left on each of their phones.

Clark declined to say whether anyone else faces charges as a result of the investigation.

Like Barry, Murphy was also allowed to remain free while the case against him remains pending.

Both men face up to 30 years in prison, five years of supervised release and fines for as much as $1 million each.

As a result of Barry’s and Murphy’s actions, the National Credit Union Administration on Dec. 1, 2014, helped the much larger TruChoice Federal Credit Union acquire the Portland Police Department Federal Credit Union, said the U.S. Attorney’s Office in a written statement.

John Murphy, president of the Maine Credit Union League, said in October that although he is not familiar with the specifics of the alleged acts at the police credit union, members did not lose their funds bec

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January 4, 2016
The Bundy Militia Raid on Burns: What the Media Left Out

by John Borowski

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Public lands are some of our most treasured lands in the nation. Opal Creek, Crater Lake, the Siuslaw National Forest here in Oregon to name just a few. The truth behind the Bundy influenced takeover of the Malheur refuge HQ should be exposed for what it is.

I spend numerous days camping, hiking and photographing wildlife in Malheur Refuge. The place is heaven. The community people are friendly and the refuge staff is dedicated to the protection of wildlife as they accommodate the needs of the local community. I say: what are the facts?

1 Ammond Bundy’s false narrative should be exposed. He is the son of a rancher that grazes on your public lands: at a reduced cost. He has avoided paying his fees. I am older: I call those types….dead beats or true welfare queens. They are not patriots: they are acting like thugs and bringing in outside influences who don’t give a damn about Oregon.

2 They are breaking onto our land and our tax payer funded building in Malheur. Their excuse? The Cliven Bundy crew is defending the conviction of the Hammond family (a father ands son). They destroyed OUR PUBLIC PROPERTY to cover up their illegal hunting/killing deer. FACTS MATTER. Witnesses at trial, including a relative of the Hammonds, testified the arson occurred shortly after Steven Hammond and his hunting party illegally slaughtered several deer on BLM property. Jurors were told that Steven Hammond handed out “Strike Anywhere” matches with instructions that they be lit and dropped on the ground because they were going to “light up the whole country on fire.” One witness testified that he barely escaped the eight to ten foot high flames caused by the arson. The fire consumed 139 acres of public land and destroyed all evidence of the game violations.

3 The Bundy crew is being manipulated by powerful interests who want to privatize public lands. This is not new. In the 1970s: it was called the Sagebrush Rebellion. In the 1990s: the Wise Use Movement. These are efforts by mining, timber, grazing, oil and gas interests to privatize your public lands.

4 Our public lands are crucial for wildlife, purifying water and air, providing recreation and tourist dollars for local economies. Know this: more and more extraction is occurring ON OUR PUBLIC lands. Time to stop this.

5 The false narrative here is that big, bad government types are trying to stir up trouble. In reality: from Ted Cruz to powerful extractive industries: they are desperately seeking ways to give these lands, our lands: back to the states. Then: let the extraction begin with sales of our prized lands to the highest bidder.

6 Contact your Congressperson. Contact the White House. Write letters to the editor.

7 Don’t be duped by the Bundy narrative. We are a nation of laws. Those public lands belong to your children and grandchildren. If they want change: use the democratic process. I wonder: if I went to Malheur and cut fences of private land owners to help mustangs: I would be a criminal. I would be labeled an “environmental terrorist,” Let’s call this action by Bundy and ilk for what it is: an act of terrorism. Peaceful protests don’t include bringing assault weapons and threatening to harm federal police for doing their jobs?

Enough is enough. Get off our public land and follow the laws like most of us do.

John Borowski is an environmental educator in Oregon.

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Retired colonel in Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud
By: Scott Burke, Managing Editor, [email protected]
Published On: Mar 25 2016 02:04:16 PM CDT Updated On: Mar 25 2016 02:04:37 PM CDT