The incident began when about 8 men fled into the woods from a traffic stop on Rte 128 in MA after 1a.m. They were "heavily armed" with handguns and rifles and "claiming to be from a group that does not recognize our laws,"
The men identified themselves as being part of a group known as Rise of the Moors. The group's website describes them as "Moorish Americans dedicated to educating new Moors and influencing our Elders."
Moorish sovereign cit mvmt is a collection of ind orgs and inds that emerged in the early '90s as an offshoot of the antigov sovereign cit mvmt which believes that ind cits hold sovereignty over, and are independent of, the authority of governments
The IRS says Roger Stone owes $2 million in unpaid taxes. And while the DOJ is taking Stone to court in a civil suit with no criminal charges, at the center of its case is a curious transaction: a $400,000 mortgage loan for a condo thedailybeast.com/inside-broke-r…
The gov’s complaint lays out a complicated scheme. It describes the condo purchase as an overt act of fraud, and claims a right to seize the property.
The lender was some guy who said he had been misled and likely wouldn’t have granted the loan if he had known the full picture
First, the private mortgage lender said he didn’t know at the time that he was lending money to Roger Stone. He also said he isn’t a Stone associate, disagrees with his politics, and claimed he likely would have rejected the deal had he been aware Stone was involved.
From March 2005 - June 2021 defrauded U.S. IRS, NYS Dept. of Taxation and Finance, NYC Dept. of Finance
Another company, Trump Payroll Corp also implicated
Paychecks for Trump, Eric, Junior and Ivanka will all be scrutinized as well as their cash bonuses and perks.
Weisselberg was the biggest beneficiary, as he received $1.76M in indirect employee compensation. He concealed the comp from tax preparers and intentionally omitted it from his tax returns, Federal, State and City.
Rumsfeld was the worst secretary of defense in American history. Being newly dead shouldn’t spare him this distinction. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Rumsfeld started being wrong within hours of the attacks and never stopped. He argued that the attacks proved the need for the missile-defense shield that he’d long advocated. He thought that the American war in Afghanistan meant the end of the Taliban. He thought that the new
Afghan government didn’t need the U.S. to stick around for security and support. He thought that the United States should stiff the United Nations, brush off allies, and go it alone. He insisted that al-Qaeda couldn’t operate without a strongman like Saddam.
A report from IG Bolton id'd sev gaps in training and comms that hampered CP response. Only 22 of 29 members of 1 unit had compl the cert for the weapons they carry — and those who had not suffered “no repercussions.” IG desc the findings as “devastating” washingtonpost.com/politics/gener…
Concerns were also raised about Bolton’s recent discovery that the Capitol Police had contracted a training organization that displayed slogans and iconography on its website favored by white supremacist groups: Northern Red northernredtraining.com
Gretta Goodwin, the GAO dir in charge of justice and law enforcement programs, who in 2017 conducted an audit of the Capitol Police Board. She said that GAO has “been attempting to contact the Board since 2017, and we have not gotten any substantive response”
The widening schism between Israeli factions — left and right, religious and secular, Arabs and Jews — is one of the most obvious marks that Netanyahu leaves on the country.
In 2009, he became the first leader from his right-wing Likud party to say he supported a two-state solution, which entails a Palestinian state next to Israel. Six years later, however, he pledged that no Palestinian state would happen “on my watch.”
That's a huge switch
Netanyahu traveled to Brasilia for the inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro, hosted Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and sold weapons to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
“All of a sudden he was buddies with all of these thuggish guys. It seemed to be about showing he was Trump’s wingman.”