Prosecutors charge 19 in North Carolina with voter fraud
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Federal prosecutors in North Carolina announced voter fraud charges Wednesday against 19 non-citizens accused of illegally casting a ballot in 2016.
Each defendant voted in a federal election in 2016, and one defendant also voted in 2018, according to a news release from United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin’s office. In some instances, the defendants were also charged with related offenses such as making a false statement.
The news release did not list the defendants’ nationalities or say how their alleged crimes had been uncovered, although it said the matters had been investigated by Homeland Security Investigations, an investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security.
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St. Louis mayor temporarily relocates following protests at her home
By Mark Schlinkmann St. Louis Post-Dispatch 4 hrs ago
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Mayor Lyda Krewson has temporarily relocated after a string of protests at her Central West End home.
The mayor on Wednesday confirmed that she and her husband, former television reporter Mike Owens, have been living at an apartment, also in the Central West End.
“We have not lived at home for 2 months,” Krewson said in a text message to a reporter. “We did it to deescalate the situation, to save police resources, and importantly because our neighbors were being disturbed and threatened.”
The mayor said “for me it comes with the territory.”
“I ran for this job — my neighbors did not,” Krewson said.
Krewson said she and her husband paid for their alternate lodging out of their own funds. She said no city money or campaign funds were being used.
Krewson is among mayors around the country who have contended with demonstrators showing up outside their homes during the wave of protests following the death in May of George Floyd, who is Black, while in police custody in Minneapolis.