[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]Fang Fang? Intelligence damage assessments? Oh no, this was nothing more than a private working girl enterprise.
Well-heeled clients including tech execs, politicians and military officers are said to have paid up to $600 per hour for ‘photo shoots’ – code for sex
Prosecutors have charged Han Lee, 41, Junmyung Lee, 30, and James Lee, 68, with orchestrating brothel network in parts of Massachusetts and Virginia
Acting U.S. Attorney Josh Levy warned that the probe was ‘just getting started’ with law enforcement executing search warrants in multiple states
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But before they can book a slot, first-time visitors were greeted with a verification page asking for personal data including their name, phone number and employer.
But, but, but why would a sex worker need any of that information? Oh WAIT !
BTW, "If you know the identities or whereabouts of these two persons of interest, please contact the FBI Boston Field Office, Special Agent In Charge at the number provided on the bottom of your screen."
It's been just over 10 years since the Boston Marathon bombing and nothing much appears to have changed.
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/\ 'Out of court' settlements involving very large sums of money. No one did anything untoward or illegal, it was just a misunderstanding complicated by multiple accounting errors.
Yes, those cash awards are tax free. Please sign here and say no more.
I could live with life in prison or a reasonable facsimile thereof...
[FoxNews] Brothers Alexi Saenz and Jairo Saenz are set to stand trial for their alleged roles in New York slayings.
The Justice Department will no longer seek the death penalty for two alleged MS-13 gang members accused of brutally killing several teenagers in Long Island, New York.
In a letter to a federal judge, Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said Attorney General Merrick Garland directed prosecutors to withdraw notices of intention to seek the death penalty against brothers, Alexi Saenz and Jairo Saenz.
"We write on behalf of the Government in the above-captioned matter, to provide an update to the Court with respect to the status of the death penalty deauthorization requests of defendants Alexi Saenz and Jairo Saenz, and the Department of Justice’s decision whether to seek the death penalty against Alexi Saenz for an eighth murder," Peace wrote in a letter to U.S. District Judge Gary R. Brown.
Brown is expected to oversee the brothers' trial when it begins March 4. The government initially intended to seek the death penalty for both men in 2020 for their alleged roles in the 2016 killings of 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas, and 15-year-old Nisa Mickens.
But then Joe Biden was elected, and took the death penalty off the table for everyone.
The killings drew national attention and brought MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha 13) into the national spotlight in July 2017. Then-President Trump visited the Long Island suburb of Brentwood and vowed to eliminate MS-13, a transnational criminal gang with its origins in Los Angeles.
The brothers are also charged in the deaths of Michael Johnson, Oscar Acosta, Javier Castillo, Dewann Stacks and Esteban Alvarado-Bonilla.
Alexi Saenz, 28, was also charged with capital offenses relating to an eighth murder victim, Marcus Bohannon. Peace said he has asked the Justice Department to make a decision regarding the death penalty in the Bohannon case by Nov. 29.
Alexi Saenz was the leader of MS-13’s Brentwood and Central Islip-based MS-13 clique. Jairo Saenz, 27, was his second-in-command, federal prosecutors have said.
Cuevas and Mickens were slaughtered in a residential neighborhood near an elementary school on Sept. 13, 2016 — the day before Mickens’ 16th birthday. Her body was found on a tree-lined street in Brentwood, while Cuevas’ beaten body turned up in the wooded backyard of a nearby home a day later.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] See, Snow Plows.
San Francisco officials descended on homeless hotspots across the city on Wednesday to clear the area of people as a sanitation crew tossed mattresses, tents, chairs, and other street items into a garbage truck
The city is attempting to conceal its rampant homelessness crisis as it prepares to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) trade summit from Saturday November 11 to November 17
DailyMail.com witnessed cops pushing homeless residents out, and sanitation workers conducting cleaning efforts in SoMa and Tenderloin ahead of the conference, which is expected to bring in over $50M in revenue
[FoxBiz] The federal judge's ruling blocks the DOJ's administrative lawsuit alleging hiring discrimination by SpaceX.
A federal judge has granted a reprieve to SpaceX, blocking the Department of Justice's (DOJ) lawsuit accusing the company of discriminating against asylum recipients and refugees in its hiring decisions.
The DOJ filed an administrative lawsuit against SpaceX in August based on allegations that SpaceX actively discouraged asylees and refugees from applying for jobs at the company in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which it said occurred from at least 2018 to 2022. The DOJ cited comments by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as well as the company’s job postings in its suit. SpaceX denied wrongdoing and filed a countersuit in September that argued the administrative case was unconstitutional.
Judge Rolando Olvera, of the Southern District of Texas, blocked the DOJ’s suit from moving forward pending the conclusion of SpaceX’s lawsuit in a late Wednesday ruling. Olvera ruled that the administrative law judges, who are appointed by the attorney general, overstepped their legal authority because they exercised powers that should be reserved for officials appointed by the president.
SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The DOJ declined to comment on the suit, leaving it unclear what the agency’s next step may be in attempting to pursue legal recourse against SpaceX for the alleged hiring discrimination.
In its lawsuit, the DOJ alleged that SpaceX illegally discouraged asylum recipients and refugees from applying for jobs at the rocket and satellite company due to what the DOJ said was a flawed interpretation of export control laws that restrict access to sensitive technologies.
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Soviet leaders insisted for decades that the Polish officers found at Katyn had been killed by the invading Germans in 1941. Our WWII Russian allies could not have been responsible. It must have been the Germans.
How can our Turkish NATO allies and moderate muslim friends be responsible for US election rigging? I don't care what General Mike Flynn was trying to uncover.
[Gateway] According to the filing, AZ Voters Rights is an Arizona corporation whose mission "is to promote social welfare by advocating for free, fair, and legal elections in Arizona—including funding litigation to enhance and safeguard election law, compliance, and security for the benefit of all Arizona voters."
Abe Hamadeh recently announced his bid for US Congress in 2024 but maintains that he will continue fighting for honest elections and his rightful seat as AG.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Arizona Court of Appeals recently denied requests for an expedited briefing schedule in Abe Hamadeh’s ongoing election contest lawsuit from 2022. This comes after numerous legal hurdles, withholding of evidence by the government, and a possibly corrupt or just wildly incompetent Judge.
Hamadeh told The Gateway Pundit he will "continue the fight" for fair elections and his rightful seat as Attorney General while running for Congress. "If the judges followed the law, we would get a new trial and prove that we received the most votes. Unfortunately, our legal system lacks courage," Hamadeh added.
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Election materials need to be treated by evidence in a criminal investigation. If the chain of receipts or handling is compromised, the evidence is thrown out and inadmissible with a new trial.
Hmmmmm
[NY Post] The FBI seized Mayor Eric Adams’ electronic devices early this week as part of a federal probe into his campaign fundraising, The Post has learned.
The feds seized the electronics — which included at least two cellphones and an iPad — in connection to an investigation into whether Hizzoner’s 2021 campaign colluded with the Turkish government and others to direct money into his mayoral effort, sources told The Post after the news was first reported by the New York Times.
Adams’ campaign attorney Boyd Johnson said the mayor was cooperating with federal authorities and had already reported that a review found "an individual had recently acted improperly."
"After learning of the federal investigation, it was discovered that an individual had recently acted improperly. In the spirit of transparency and cooperation, this behavior was immediately and proactively reported to investigators," Johnson said in a statement obtained by The Post.
"On Monday night, the FBI approached the mayor after an event. The Mayor immediately complied with the FBI’s request and provided them with electronic devices. The mayor has not been accused of any wrongdoing and continues to cooperate with the investigation."
The statement did not identify the individual or detail the improper behavior.
Adams himself added that "as a former member of law enforcement, I expect all members of my staff to follow the law and fully cooperate with any sort of investigation — and I will continue to do exactly that. I have nothing to hide."
The agents approached Adams, 63, on the street after an event at New York University on Monday and asked his security team to step aside, a source told The Times.
The agents then got into Adams’ SUV with him and executed a court-authorized warrant to seize his devices.
The electronics were returned to the mayor within a few days, the sources said.
Sources told The Post that the FBI had notified Adams before, who was cooperative and willing to hand over the devices. However, the mayor did not know they were going to approach him in the street Monday evening.
"The manner in which he had his phones taken away in public seems targeted against the mayor in response to his stance on the immigration crisis," another person with knowledge of the investigation told The Post.
Sources also told The Post that the mayor contacted investigators when he returned to Gracie Mansion and found more devices. He then coordinated with the FBI to turn over the additional electronics. It is unclear what these devices were.
It came a week after Adams had to abruptly and dramatically bail on a slate of White House immigration meetings to fly back to the Big Apple when FBI agents raided the home of his lead fundraiser Brianna Suggs — almost as soon as he had landed in Washington DC.
In the raid, agents seized two laptops, three cell phones and a folder labeled "Eric Adams."
He later said the quick change of plans was out of a desire to support his team, including Suggs — a 25-year-old former intern the mayor lamented had gone through a "traumatic experience," according to the New York Times.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
Our case load has dropped off Della. I'm only going to need you on Mondays now. 
