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Capitalists when there are profits but they are damn keen on everyone sharing their catastrophic loan losses on subprime mortgages
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
How likely is this to come to fruition ?
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To be fair to Massie, it can’t be easy being in an exchange where you’re that utterly outmatched when it comes to... well... pretty much everything
More proof that religion should stay out of politics and common sense, logic and scientific facts should only apply.
Personal opinions and religious agendas should be rejected if they go against actual studies and facts.
Mad how the right seemingly have a war on science (when it suits) and women's health because of their religious beliefs.
Am expecting all those that said the Manafort case was a “witchhunt” to suddenly change tune that this particular bit of it is perfectly fair..
Attorneys for former White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig said Wednesday that he expects to face federal charges in the coming days in relationship to legal work he did for the Ukrainian government in 2012. The expected indictment — which his attorneys called “a misguided abuse of prosecutorial discretion” — stems from work Craig did with GOP lobbyist Paul Manafort on behalf of the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice in 2012.
At the time, Craig was a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, the law firm he joined after ending his tenure as counsel to President Barack Obama. Manafort, the former campaign chairman to President Trump, pleaded guilty last year to charges related to his Ukraine lobbying. In a statement, attorneys William W. Taylor III and William Murphy said they expect Craig, 74, will be indicted by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington at the request of the Justice Department’s national security division. That could not be independently corroborated. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Attorneys for former White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig said Wednesday that he expects to face federal charges in the coming days in relationship to legal work he did for the Ukrainian government in 2012. The expected indictment — which his attorneys called “a misguided abuse of prosecutorial discretion” — stems from work Craig did with GOP lobbyist Paul Manafort on behalf of the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice in 2012.
At the time, Craig was a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, the law firm he joined after ending his tenure as counsel to President Barack Obama. Manafort, the former campaign chairman to President Trump, pleaded guilty last year to charges related to his Ukraine lobbying. In a statement, attorneys William W. Taylor III and William Murphy said they expect Craig, 74, will be indicted by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington at the request of the Justice Department’s national security division. That could not be independently corroborated. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Must Reads: Avenatti indicted on 36 charges of tax dodging, perjury, theft from clients
In a sweeping expansion of the criminal charges against Michael Avenatti, a federal grand jury has indicted the Los Angeles lawyer on 36 counts of fraud, perjury, failure to pay taxes, embezzlement and other financial crimes.
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Avenatti stole millions of dollars from five clients and used a tangled web of shell companies and bank accounts to cover up the theft, the Santa Ana grand jury alleged in an indictment that prosecutors will make public Thursday.
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Under State Bar of California rules of professional conduct, a lawyer must promptly notify a client of the receipt of any funds they are entrusted to hold for the client and turn over the money at the client’s request. In the Johnson theft, the indictment alleges, Avenatti received $4 million from Los Angeles County in 2015 to settle the paraplegic’s suit over his treatment at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility. Johnson, who was suicidal, jumped twice from an upper floor of the jail, injuring himself so badly the second time that he can never walk again, according to the suit.
After getting the $4 million, the indictment says, Avenatti did not tell Johnson the money had arrived. He soon funneled most of the money through multiple bank accounts. It landed in the accounts of GB Autosport, LLC, which managed Avenatti’s race-car team, and Global Baristas U.S., his troubled Seattle coffee company, according to the indictment.
In just over five months, Avenatti had spent the entire $4 million, but never told Johnson, the grand jury alleged. Instead, over the next four years, he paid Johnson a total of $124,000 in installments ranging from $1,000 to $1,900 and made some rent payments at Johnson’s assisted living facility.
He falsely told Johnson the payments were “advances” on a county settlement payment that had not yet arrived, according to the grand jury. In November 2018, Johnson asked Avenatti to send information on the settlement to the Social Security Administration so it could gauge his eligibility for disability payments. “Knowing full well that the requested information could lead to inquiries that could reveal” the embezzlement, Avenatti ignored Johnson’s request, causing the government to cut off his disability payments two months ago, according to prosecutors.
Like clockwork
After a $14-Billion Upgrade, New Orleans' Levees Are Sinking
Sea-level rise and ground subsidence will render the flood barriers inadequate in just four years
The growing vulnerability of the New Orleans area is forcing the Army Corps to begin assessing repair work, including raising hundreds of miles of levees and floodwalls that form a meandering earth and concrete fortress around the city and its adjacent suburbs. “These systems that maybe were protecting us before are no longer going to be able to protect us without adjustments,” said Emily Vuxton, policy director of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, an environmental group. She said repair costs could be “hundreds of millions” of dollars, with 75% paid by federal taxpayers.
Seems pretty consistent across ideologies of terrorist that they also have domestic violence issues
Things came to a head on October 11, 2016, when Allen’s girlfriend contacted local police about a domestic battery incident involving Allen; she also showed police a room in their residence containing a large amount of ammunition as well as components and tools used to make firearms. Allen was taken into custody, and his girlfriend voluntarily provided additional information to the FBI about a white powdery substance she witnessed being produced at Wright’s business and then being cooled in an ice bath. Law enforcement believed that was consistent with the manufacturing of a homemade explosive known as hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, or HMTD, a dangerous explosive usually used to create blasting caps for a larger explosive.
Things came to a head on October 11, 2016, when Allen’s girlfriend contacted local police about a domestic battery incident involving Allen; she also showed police a room in their residence containing a large amount of ammunition as well as components and tools used to make firearms. Allen was taken into custody, and his girlfriend voluntarily provided additional information to the FBI about a white powdery substance she witnessed being produced at Wright’s business and then being cooled in an ice bath. Law enforcement believed that was consistent with the manufacturing of a homemade explosive known as hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, or HMTD, a dangerous explosive usually used to create blasting caps for a larger explosive.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
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