[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An aide to embattled Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has been arrested for drug trafficking after he allegedly sent eight kilograms of cocaine to his state office.
LaMar Cook, 45,
…who according to his photo is decidedly dapper…
was taken into custody during a traffic stop Tuesday night, just one day after investigators searched his office in Springfield as part of an ongoing investigation, MassLive reports.
It began on October 10, when authorities seized two suspicious packages containing 13 kilograms - or nearly 29 pounds - of cocaine at Hotel UMass in Amherst, where Cook served as director for nearly seven years. "Personal use, man"
On Saturday, Massachusetts State Police intercepted the eight kilograms - or nearly 18 pounds at the state building in Springfield.
A trooper then posed as a deliver worker to hand over the parcel to Cook, whom police say was at the building waiting for the drugs.
He is now facing charges of cocaine trafficking, as well as charges for carrying a gun and ammunition without a license and driving without a license.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges in Springfield District Court on Wednesday, when Judge William Rota ordered he be held at Hampden County Jai pending a dangerousness hearing scheduled for Friday.
The judge also set a $25,000 bond in connection with the gun charge.
'You'll be our guest for a few days, but you'll have a full and complete hearing on Friday,' Rota told Cook.
But outside of the courthouse, Cook's lawyer, Kedar Ismail, told reporters he is 'looking forward to clearing [Cook's] name.' "Clearly, bitch set my boy up"
"What bitch? Who?"
"I don't know yet, but we'll find her"
In the meantime, Cook has lost his position in the Massachusetts state government, with a spokeswoman for Healey's office saying his conduct was 'unacceptable and represents a major breach of the public trust.'
She added that Cook, who was serving as deputy director of the governor's Western Massachusetts office, was 'fired immediately' upon his arrest.
'The criminal investigation is ongoing and our administration will work with law enforcement to assist them in their work,' spokeswoman Karissa Hand said.
Cook was appointed to serve under Healey in 2023, when the governor praised him and Kristen Elechko, the director of the Springfield office, as 'two proven leaders with deep ties to Western Mass.
'They know the communities, they know the businesses, they know the needs and opportunities of the region,' Healey said at the time, according to the Boston Globe.
Cook had made a name for himself in the Springfield community by serving on the Springfield Community Preservation Committee and as the cofounder of the Back to School Brighter Initiative, which provides children in the city with free haircuts, backpacks and school supplies.
He also ran for Springfield City council and the local school board.
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As a specialist in Lean Manufacturing, I am very pleased that drugs were delivered directly to the point of use and not wastefully stored elsewhere.
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Explains a lot about Massachusetts Dem politicians. Coked up to their eyeballs. A completely corrupt gang of criminals.
"...with a spokeswoman for Healey's office saying his conduct was 'unacceptable ..." Bitch didn't deliver as he promised!
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[FoxNews] Even King Charles is said to be unsure about some of the sources of his brother’s income, particularly how he finds the significant sums of money needed to afford the upkeep of his home, the 30-room Royal Lodge.
The disgraced prince has been able to keep his financial affairs from the public for years through a mixture of the traditional secrecy which envelops the Windsors and the confidentiality of his dealings with wealthy, mainly foreign, people.
[FoxNews] Remember: This never happens, except when it does.
Secretary of State Frank LaRose says 167 individuals appear to have cast ballots in federal elections since 2018
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#2
Traditionally the courts have declined to hear vote fraud cases before elections because no one has standing, and then declared cases moot after elections because the fraud cannot be undone...
#3
In Michigan, there have been a couple attempts to tidy up the voter registration lists. Both were shut down on the grounds that there was no evidence of fraud so there was no need to go looking for it. QED, bitches!
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Democrat controlled states will do nothing to check their voter rolls until Congress passes a law, the Supreme Court confirms it, and the Justice Department sues and wins.
[JustTheNews] The size and scope of the Biden-era Arctic Frost investigation continues to be revealed to be larger than known as more internal DOJ & FBI records are released.
The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee disclosed Tuesday that more than 160 Republicans – including many closely connected to President Donald Trump – were targeted for possible investigation during the Biden Justice Department’s Arctic Frost investigation.
Were they all indeed corrupt, the size of the investigation would be justifiable. But as they weren’t, one sees why the Justice Department is now able to pursue rounding up ordinary criminals with such vigour.
The committee tweeted that recently reviewed documents show the Arctic Frost investigation appears more wide-ranging than initially believed in Biden's DOJ's effort to "take down President Trump and his supporters.”
The nearly 200 pages of documents provide new insights into the sweeping investigation aimed at Trump World, which was launched by the FBI under then-Director Chris Wray and later picked up by former DOJ special counsel Jack Smith under then-Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The committee, led by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said that “45 individuals” including former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, former Trump attorney John Eastman, and former Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., “were potentially under investigation.”
The GOP-led committee argued that “another 111 individuals” including Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, Trump senior adviser Dan Scavino, former Trump DOJ official Jeff Rosen, and current DOJ weaponization czar Ed Martin “were also potentially under investigation.”
The new records revealed the internal threat tags used by the FBI for this investigation, including “FRAUD CORRUPT”, “CORRUPT”, “PCORRUPT”, and “PCORRUPT_CAMP.” The newly-released documents also include the FBI’s “predication” for making various people “targets” of the investigation.
The new records include a declassified October 2020 “Tactical Intelligence Report” from the FBI’s Washington Field Office which claimed that “Trump Campaign Funds Layered through Clearinghouse Firm Likely Misused by Campaign Digital Director.”
The newly-released FBI emails from May 2022 show a redacted official from Washington Field Office saying, “Thank you again (and again and again) for your help in interviews in Arctic Frost.” The message was sent to many different regional FBI field offices.
One unidentified FBI official sent an email remarking that “everything” related to the Arctic Frost investigation “is restricted” inside the FBI systems.
Another FBI Washington Field Office email that month said: “The Arctic Frost team is requesting approximately $16,600 from PCU [Public Corruption Unit] for travel in June to conduct more than 40 interviews, serve subpoenas, and execute several cellular device search warrants.” The attached document listed out dozens of GOP-linked officials from Arizona, Virginia, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico.
A record from September 2022 was titled “Subpoena_Counsel_Matrix” and listed dozens of GOP-linked activists, public officials, purported electors, and government employees allegedly tied to events surrounding the 2020 election.
The Jordan-led committee also publicly released on Tuesday letters from December 2022 from the leaders of the January 6 select congressional committee — headed up by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Ga., and former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. — telling Smith that they “want to make evidence we have gathered available to the Department of Justice.” Cheney went on to endorse now-former Vice President Kamala Harris in her unsuccessful race against Trump last year.
Recently-declassified revelations related to Arctic Frost chronicle the 2022 lawfare assault against then-former President Trump and MAGA world, as criminal inquiries – which would soon lead to criminal charges – spun into high gear as Trump leaned toward running for president again.
New evidence shows that Wray, Garland, and then-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco signed off on the launch of the Arctic Frost inquiry into Trump related to the Capitol riot.
Unearthed emails also show that the Biden White House Counsel’s Office coordinated with an anti-Trump FBI agent to hand over phones which had belonged to Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.
Arctic Frost also targeted dozens of GOP officials and organizations, according to documents released earlier this year.
The recent revelation that the FBI snooped on the phone records of Republican members of Congress during its January 6 investigation is bringing greater scrutiny to Wray and Smith.
These revelations are also putting the spotlight on former FBI agent Timothy Thibault, whom Republicans argue showed extreme anti-Trump bias, demonstrated a willingness to target Trump early in his first term, attempted to slow walk or block the FBI’s investigation into Hunter Biden, and in early 2022 helped spark Arctic Frost investigation — later carried on by Smith — which led to criminal charges against Trump related to the Capitol riot.
[Western Journal] Few things from President Donald Trump’s second term have been as polarizing as his use of tariffs in trade negotiations.
And despite the best efforts of Vice President J.D. Vance to keep that tariff train rolling, just five Republican defections in the Senate appear to have been enough to derail at least one major tariff target.
According to Fox News, those five lawmakers have thrown a wrench into the president’s trade strategy by joining Senate Democrats.
Democrats were looking to end Trump’s use of emergency powers to implement 50 percent tariffs on Brazil — and the following five Republican members of the Senate helped make that happen:
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It's a shame Rand Paul is associated with those other scumbags, but I suspect Paul did it out of principle, not just because it's anti-Trump like the others.
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Tillis and McConnell are out next year and hopefully The Alaskan Snowblower is next
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Idiots don't understand that lots of voters like me want to undo the President Wilson legacy and go back to No FED Reserve, No Income tax with the government again running off of Tariffs and booze & tobacco taxes (maybe add in pot tax). They are totally out of step with those of us who want the smaller government that would need to create. Maybe outlaw lawyers and being a professional politician? (Yeah!) - It's not enough to just have term limits. No parasites! People who have held real jobs or created businesses (so no trust fund babies either.)
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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