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Nov 4, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
“Someone may have a price to pay for that,” DC federal judge Emmet G. Sullivan says re: USPS failing to comply with his order to sweep mail facilities by 3 pm yesterday.
TL;DR — the judge is pissed.
DOJ lawyer apologizes to judge, says he didn’t know USPS inspectors couldn’t be on-site at mail processing facilities in time. “I wish I knew about that earlier so I could have conveyed that.”
Nov 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
NEW: Investigators discovered a backlog of about 180,000 pieces of undelivered mail at the Princeton Post Office in Miami-Dade. A total of 62 ballots have been found, and postal workers were still sorting today. w/@rjwilemiamiherald.com/news/politics-…
USPS officials indicated yesterday that they expected to finish sorting through mail at the Princeton facility by close of business today.
But a new court filing is vague on whether that process is complete yet. Says investigations are "ongoing."
Mar 12, 2019 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
BREAKING: The US Attorney in Boston has unsealed indictments against at least 47 people in a nationwide college admissions cheating and recruitment scheme, including current and former D-1 coaches at Yale, Georgetown, USC, Wake Forest and Texas.
Now counting 49 people across 7 indictments. Stanford, UCLA, San Diego also involved. The scheme, according to one indictment, involved parents paying William Singer, founder of a college prep business, $15,000 to $75,000 to have someone take the SAT or ACT for their children.
Feb 26, 2019 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: After @ACLU filed a FOIA lawsuit seeking evidence of the "115 mile long" border wall contract that President Trump referenced in a tweet, @CBP issued a final response: "Unfortunately, we were unable to locate or identify any responsive records."
The ACLU wants the suit to go forward for several reasons, including that CBP for some reason looked for contracts related to the "Rio Grande Valley," even though Trump's tweet said "Texas." A court hearing is scheduled for Wednesday in Boston.
Feb 13, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Here's the internal Insys video to the tune of A$AP Rocky's "F--kin' Problems" in which employees dance around former sales VP Alec Burlakoff, who is dressed as a life-size bottle of fentanyl spray. It was shown to a jury in Boston federal court today.
Here's Part 2. They're singing about "titration," a reference to the process of doctors increasing the dosage for patients as they build tolerance.