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BOSTON – A former supervisor of security operations for eBay’s European and Asian offices pleaded guilty today to his role in a cyberstalking campaign targeting a Natick, Mass. couple who published a newsletter that eBay executives viewed as critical of the company.Philip Cooke, 55, of San Jose, Calif., a former police captain in Santa Clara, Calif., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit cyberstalking and conspiracy to tamper with witnesses. U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs scheduled sentencing for Feb. 24, 2021.Cooke conspired with six other former eBay employees. David Harville, 48, of New York City and James Baugh,...

A Russian scientist and part-time model has been found dead in her apartment — without her thumb, which was reportedly found at the home of a man suspected of using it to access her phone, according to a report. The naked body of Ekaterina Antontseva, 34, a biochemist at the St. Petersburg Technological Institute, was found by her boyfriend, a construction entrepreneur, when he returned from a business trip, the Sun reported. Authorities said she was apparently strangled last week.

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I mean, seriously, it is owned by "Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International (The Walt Disney Company)"... the same company that pretends George Stephanopolous is a valid news source... how do more people not know this?

HAMMOND-Jeremiah Farmer, 39, of Hammond, Indiana, and a member of various Indiana factions of the Chicago-based Latin Kings, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon to life in prison following his conviction at trial in July 2019 of conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine, marijuana, and alprazolam, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.    At trial, the jury found that, as part of the racketeering conspiracy, on June 25, 1999, Farmer murdered Marion Lowry, 74, and Harvey Siegers, 67, by beating each to death with a hammer...

NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – October 28, 2020SAN DIEGO ­– Fan Wang pleaded guilty in federal court today to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. His guilty plea is the fourth in this ongoing investigation targeting operators of unlawful underground financial institutions that transfer money between the United States and China, thereby circumventing domestic and foreign laws regarding monetary transfers and reporting, including United States anti-money laundering scrutiny and Chinese capital flight controls.As part of his agreement to plead guilty, Wang agreed to forfeit $225,000 to the United States as property involved in the operation of his unlicensed money transmitting...

Rudy Giuliani continues his investigation of the Joseph Biden Crime Family's illegal activities. In this episode, Rudy presents the evidence that, as rudy says, should put Joe in jail.

SAN FRANCISCO – The Department of Justice today announced that United Microelectronics Corporation, Inc. (UMC), a Taiwan semiconductor foundry, pleaded guilty to criminal trade secret theft and was sentenced to pay a $60 million fine, in exchange for its agreement to cooperate with the government in the investigation and prosecution of its co-defendant, a Chinese state-owned-enterprise.  The plea was accepted by the Hon. Maxine M. Chesney, U.S. District Judge.A federal grand jury had indicted UMC in September 2018, along with Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd. (Fujian Jinhua), a state-owned enterprise of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and...

I have been (for reasons not completely understood to me) regularly reading an absolute jackass Never Trumper columnist - Allahpundit over at Hot Air. He claims to be a conservative- but always appears to be rooting for the opposition. He despises Trump & routinely posts polls, surveys, articles & anecdotes about how Trump is losing disastrously this election. I've let this idiot crawl into my head. I had this same sort of feeling 4 years ago & posted a similar thread. What do you truly feel is likely to be the outcome of this election? Not your hopes or fantasies-...

Guild Mortgage Company has agreed to pay the United States $24.9 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly breaching material program requirements when it originated and underwrote mortgages insured by the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Federal Housing Administration (FHA), the Department of Justice announced today.  Guild Mortgage Company is headquartered in San Diego, California, with branches across the United States.“Ensuring the integrity of federal lending programs is important to keeping those programs financially sound,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark of the Department of Justice’s Civil Division.  “Together...

... the Democratic house of cards collapses? This has the potential to get real messy.

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A security guard at the 2017 Ariana Grande show where 22 fans were slaughtered has admitted having a “bad feeling” when he saw the suicide bomber minutes before the attack — but didn’t do anything because he feared being branded racist,... Kyle Lawler, then 18 and paid just $5.50 an hour, had been alerted to a suspicious-looking Salman Abedi sitting near an exit to the Manchester Arena with a big bag and dressed in heavy clothing on a hot May night, he told a public inquiry into the attack. As Lawler and a colleague watched the 22-year-old terrorist from 10...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ CHAIN PAINTING U.S. sailors assigned to the USS Blue Ridge deck department touch up the paint on the anchor chain on a floating barge during preservation operations at Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, in Yokosuka, Japan, Dec. 23, 2015. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Liz Dunagan Canteen Mission Statement Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. FREE FALLING Marines free fall at 10,000 feet above Basilone drop zone on Marine...

Do we need a national mask mandate? How closely has Dr. Fauci been working with President Trump? What can we do to flatten the curve? Dr. Fauci weighs in on the coronavirus surge: “We are going in the wrong direction.” #FollowTheFauci https://t.co/tUVtrSAoRt pic.twitter.com/EA1uXxcITi— The News with Shepard Smith (@thenewsoncnbc) October 28, 2020

This week will be dominated by a “Blue Moon,” the second full Moon of the month, which rises at dusk on Saturday’s Halloween. It will be the first full Moon to do that since 1944. However, before we get treated to a “Halloween Hunter’s Blue Moon,” our satellite will glide close to the bright red planet Mars. It’s still so bright because it was recently at opposition, the closest to Earth that it gets. The weekend also sees the opposition of Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, which will just about be a naked eye sight for those lucky...

Hillary Clinton admits the very idea of a victory for President Trump on Election Day makes her literally “sick to my stomach.” Clinton, the former Secretary of State who lost to Trump in embarrassing fashion in 2016, said the notion that he could win again is nauseating. “I can’t entertain the idea of him winning, so let’s just preface it by that,” Clinton said in a podcast on the New York Times network with journalist Kara Swisher. “Well, because it makes me literally sick to my stomach to think that we’d have four more years of this abuse and destruction...

The Supreme Court has voted 5-3 to deny a request by Republicans to overturn a decision by Democratic authorities in North Carolina to allow mail-in ballots to be counted nine days after Election Day and without a witness signature. Justices Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas dissented, though only Gorsuch and Alito signed the dissent. Newly-sworn-in Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not participate in the decision. As Breitbart News previously reported: Democrats engineered the changes to mail-in voting through a “consent decree” between Democratic Party-aligned groups on the one hand, and state election authorities on the other. The state...

Kimberly Budd is poised to take the reins as chief justice of the state’s Supreme Judicial Court where she promises to foster a “team of equals” and draw on her lifetime of experience. Budd has served the Massachusetts judiciary for 11 years. She was first nominated by Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick in 2009 to the state Superior Court when the late Chief Justice Ralph Gants vacated the bench to join the SJC. In her 2016 confirmation hearing, Budd laid out her opposition to the death penalty and to imposing mandatory minimum sentences. She also said she doesn’t “see any reason...

Explanation: Why is the Lobster Nebula forming some of the most massive stars known? No one is yet sure. Cataloged as NGC 6357, the Lobster Nebula houses the open star cluster Pismis 24 near its center -- a home to unusually bright and massive stars. The overall blue glow near the inner star forming region results from the emission of ionized hydrogen gas. The surrounding nebula, featured here, holds a complex tapestry of gas, dark dust, stars still forming, and newly born stars. The intricate patterns are caused by complex interactions between interstellar winds, radiation pressures, magnetic fields, and gravity....