If sealed indictments are unsealed and the news doesn't report it, do they still "count"? :/ I went through 3 pages of Bing search results and no MSM links were found. This content, originally released by the DOJ, was linked by reddit, VOAT, and qmap.pub, but no MSM. I didn't see this when info was released Dec. 13. If it was on our thread, I must have missed it. I'll put it here in case anyone else missed it.

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Department of Justice

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Southern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, December 13, 2018

U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against 19 Defendants For The Sex Trafficking Of Minor Girls And Young Women In New York State’s Child Welfare System

10 of the defendants in custody; 8 previously arrested; 1 remains at large

Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), announced the unsealing of five indictments and three superseding indictments charging a total of 19 with participating in the sex trafficking of minor girls and young women. As alleged, the defendants trafficked or recruited to engage in prostitution at least 15 minor girls in the child welfare system, including at least nine minors who resided at a particular non-incarceratory residential treatment facility located in Westchester County (“Facility-1”). Facility-1 provided housing for at-risk and troubled children and adolescents on behalf of departments of social welfare for certain counties in New York State.

Eight of the 19 charged defendants were arrested yesterday, two are in state custody on unrelated charges, and eight other defendants were previously charged. One remains at large. These defendants were identified as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the sex trafficking of minor victims, some of whom were as young as 13 years old, in the social welfare system. As detailed below, the charges are set forth in a total of eight separate indictments.

In each of these eight indicted cases, victims of the charged conduct included one or more minors who resided at Facility-1 and were in the New York State’s social welfare system. The conduct charged in the eight cases occurred, as detailed below, between the years of 2010 and 2018.

U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman stated: “Children in the child welfare system are among the most vulnerable in our society. As alleged in today’s charges, the defendants and their conspirators callously recruited girls as young as 13 from a residential treatment facility for at-risk youth, then sexually trafficked and prostituted them for financial profit. Together with our partners in the FBI, we will work tirelessly to ensure that anyone who sexually traffics a minor is subject to the full force of the law.”

FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. said: “Sex traffickers routinely prey on young people and those in our communities who are the most defenseless. As alleged, the defendants targeted vulnerable women and girls, including residents of a facility for at-risk children and adolescents, knowing that the victims would be more susceptible to their claims. The FBI Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Task Force and our law enforcement partners will aggressively pursue and hold accountable anyone who exploits others for their own profit.”

The 11 newly charged defendants are CARLTON VANIER, RUBEN MORCIGLIO, SAEED NORRIS, LLOYD KIDD, LUIDI BENJAMIN, LAWRENCE WALSH, CIMMIE WRIGHT, ADRIENNE ROBERTS, CHRISTOPHER BULLOCK, DARIEL BRAHAM, and STEVEN LESANE. These defendants and the defendants already in federal custody were presented yesterday in the Southern District of New York.

In addition to the charges against the new defendants, Superseding Indictments were unsealed against HUBERT DUPIGNY, HENSLEY DUPIGNY, NAZEER VICKERS, SEAN MERCHANT, REUBEN SANDS, MARTIQUE MCGRIFF, JERMAINE MYRIE, and JABARI KENNEDY, who were first charged in the summer of 2018 for their participation in the trafficking of minor victims and young women.

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Romney shares one thing with this recent Pope: no one is quite sure who he really is... but he disturbs the soul.

Disturbs the soul is correct. Man, this jerkweed has me wound up tighter than a three-day watch.

Ben Ferguson was subbing for Mark Levin last night and did a quite admirable job of curb-stomping Romney. I was already in an agitated state about this back-stabbing, and Ferguson's lengthy monologue stoked my loathing to a point where I was detesting Romney more than HRC...and THAT'S saying something!

Ferguson also played some clips of Romney with Jake Tapper. There's Tapper casting the fuzzy and shiny fishing lures, Catfish Romney biting and then puking out his "concern" regarding Trump's demeanor...his "concern" about Trump's decorum...his "concern" about how we are now viewed by the global community...ad nauseum. Literally...nauseated.

("Catfish" seems an appropriate nickname for Romney as he is 80% mouth.)

Can this guy REALLy be this stupid with this level of treachery against Trump being intimately aware of Trump's punch-back skills? Really. Who does that to the guy that has the key to the men's room now?

I was particularly incensed many years ago when it was discovered Hillary had 900 some-odd FBI files in the WH so she could make her list and check it twice (and your little dog, too!) I really wouldn't want to hear about Trump pulling something so illegal as that, but in the case of Romney...

(I can see a Candygram sent to Mitty, and upon its opening he's greeted with an 8x11 glossy of a smiling DJT taped to a fat manila folder.)

Romney-Kasich 2020 anyone?

OTOH, Romney's attack is so over-the-top it makes me also wonder if it again is some P.T Barnum Trump side show to make it look like Trump is weak and impotent...another Sun-Tzu rule going on.