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Feds Indict Another Eric Adams Pal, This One for Insurance Fraud | THE CITY

Feds Indict Another Eric Adams Pal, This One for Insurance Fraud | THE CITY

"Prosecutors say Zhan “Johnny” Petrosyants submitted tens of millions of dollars in fake auto insurance claims. He ran a Manhattan hotspot favored by the former mayor."

thecity.nyc
u/barweis — 5 hours ago
Judge deals Trump setback in civil suits over Capitol riot
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Judge deals Trump setback in civil suits over Capitol riot

"A federal judge delivered a serious setback to President Donald Trump Tuesday in long-running civil lawsuits seeking to hold him liable for the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that evidence produced so far in the litigation brought by police officers and Democratic lawmakers indicated that Trump’s speech at the Ellipse that day was political in nature and not subject to the immunity the Supreme Court has found for a president’s official acts."

(Only temporary till the subservient illegitimate SCOTUS distorts the law and Constitution to give the senile demented megalomaniac favor for his impulsive whims.)

politico.com
u/barweis — 2 days ago
4 charged in corruption investigation linked to NYC homeless shelter operator
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4 charged in corruption investigation linked to NYC homeless shelter operator

Surprised that it took so long to close in on the remaining tainted member of the corrupt troika that bedeviled us with eminent loser eric adams.  Bichotte has plenty of baggage that needs rummaging through in the finances of the Kings County Democratic Committee under her titular watch. I wonder where all those party contributions by the unqualified candidates for judicial nominations on the party ballot ended up? Is the party still in the red or did it shift into the black? And I wonder whether the running of the party will become transparent or stay guarded from even rank and file Block Representatives?

apnews.com
u/barweis — 3 days ago
O’Reilly: Stephen Miller ‘most powerful guy in the White House’
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O’Reilly: Stephen Miller ‘most powerful guy in the White House’

The bigger the ego, the quicker the shallow mind with the oversize mouth, will get kicked to the gutter.

thehill.com
u/barweis — 4 days ago
Does Trump Have a KGB Card?

Does Trump Have a KGB Card?

"Eight of our American service members are dead and over 140 wounded because Iran’s military has suddenly gotten really good at targeting our soldiers, Airmen, and Marines. News reports say they’ve been able to hit us with such precision because Russia is using their extraordinary spy satellite, spy plane, and advanced radar capabilities to help Iran’s military.

The Washington Post, which first reported on this, quoted a Russian military expert as saying that Iran is now “making very precise hits on early-warning radars or over-the-horizon radars,” seeming to validate the concern. The article added:

“Iran possesses only a handful of military-grade satellites, and no satellite constellation of its own, which would make imagery provided by Russia’s much more advanced space capabilities highly valuable — particularly as the Kremlin has honed its own targeting after years of war in Ukraine…”

When asked about the reports, Trump — who’d just returned from the soldiers’ bodies’ dignified transfer — basically downplayed Russian efforts to hurt Americans, just like he did when he learned in 2020 that Putin was paying Afghan insurgents a bounty to kill our soldiers. He pointed out that the US had been sharing intelligence with Ukraine during the Biden administration, so apparently, according to him, Russia is justified in helping Iran kill American service members:

“They’d say we do it against them. Wouldn’t they say that we do it against them?”"

hartmannreport.com
u/barweis — 5 days ago
How Meta’s victim-blaming failed to sway jurors in landmark social media addiction trial | Technology
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How Meta’s victim-blaming failed to sway jurors in landmark social media addiction trial | Technology

Repeat something enough times to overcome any acceptance barriers and it becomes believable

theguardian.com
u/barweis — 6 days ago