Multiple reports suggest that Johnson's financial situation has led to him attempting, and in some cases succeeding, to use donations from the Conservparty and other donors to pay for:
The refurbishment of his Downing Street residence
A Caribbean holiday with his fiancee Carrie Symonds
His child's nanny
His own personal trainer
£27,000 worth of takeaway meals
Some commentators close to Johnson have suggested that these alleged money problems are due to the
reduction in his income since entering Downing Street, combined with payments for his indeterminate number of children, and his divorce from his second wife Marina Wheeler.
Can I make a point here? In the UK, £160K pounds puts you in the top 1%. In the US it's $538,926. @POTUS we have a problem
"To begin with, it is worth pointing out that Johnson's £160,000 salary as prime minister, puts him in the top 1% of all earners in the UK."
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons, its staff depleted by Trump-era hiring freezes, is advertising for thousands of jobs. The CFPB is bringing on dozens of lawyers after being gutted by four years of budget cuts. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
The Ag Dept is moving to replace hundreds of scientists who fled or were forced out by the last admin
DOJ officials are looking to hire civil rights attys and Energy Dept is recruiting for sr energy efficiency and renewable energy roles that went unfilled when Trump was POTUS
A number of decisions by the Trump administration, including the relocation of key economic research and land management offices, are proving hard to reverse.
Trump succeeded in his goal of cleaving and disrupting the federal government.
“This is one of the few places in America where you can wake up Monday flat broke and on Tuesday you can have $10,000 in your pocket.”
-Flac, who manages heroin-dealing operations on a Kensington corner inquirer.com/zzz-systest/a/…
@JoshShapiroPA
It’s called the Kensington Initiative, and it’s animated by the principle that simply arresting every dealer or buyer on a street corner for long the preferred tactic for narcotics busts won’t make a dent in the larger drug organizations upending residents’ lives.
The intel-driven effort, federal, state and local investigators meet for weekly huddles to share info has dismantled 5 Kensington heroin networks. Those arrested include a man they describe as a leader of the Clementine ring, Brandon Perez, 29.
on Wednesday, the EPA released a detailed and disturbing account of the startling changes that Earth’s warming had on parts of the United States during Trump’s presidency.
For years Trump and his deputies played down the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels and delayed the release of an EPA report detailing climate-related damage
The destruction of year-round permafrost in Alaska, loss of winter ice on the Great Lakes and
spike in summer heat waves in U.S. cities all signal that climate change is intensifying
The assessment, which languished under the Trump admin for three years, marks the first time the agency has said such changes are being driven at least in part by human-caused global warming
The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia’s role in the 2016 election
The last such high-profile seizure of reporters’ comma records came several years ago as part of an inv into the source of stories by a reporter who worked at BuzzFeed, Politico and the NYT. The stories at issue there also centered around 2017 reporting on the investigation into
Russian election interference.
It is rare for the DOJ to use subpoenas to get records of reporters in leak investigations, and such moves must be approved by the AG. The letters do not say precisely when the reporters’ records were taken and reviewed, but a dept spokesman said
John Cameron Denton, 27, was the Texas leader of the Atomwaffen Division was sentenced Tuesday to 41 months in prison for harassing journalists who reported on his activities and others.
“the most widespread swatting conspiracy in the country” known to federal law enforcement.
Atomwaffen, which calls for acts of random violence in hopes of starting a race war, was founded in 2015 on the neo-Nazi website Iron March and has been linked to several killings. One founder is now facing trial in Florida where he is accused of murdering his two roommates;
the other is in prison for possession of explosives. While much of its activity occurred online, members also met for “hate camps” and traveled abroad to meet like-minded extremists in Europe.
1. ‘I think the thing that distinguishes me on terrorism is, I have more experience dealing with it.’
And look who's here! Victoria Toensing, the DAAG at DOJ who filed a criminal complaint in the Lauro investigation, says that no one in
Giuliani’s office “was involved at all.”
2. ‘I don’t think there was anyplace in the country, including the federal government, that was as well prepared for that attack as New York City was in 2001.’