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Chris Kaba, who was elevated to George Floyd-esque martyrdom status in Britain after being killed during an altercation with police in 2022, has now been revealed to have been a serial violent criminal offender and a member of one of London’s most feared gangs, which put out a hit on a police officer following Kaba’s death. In September 2022, Kaba was stopped by police over suspicion that his car was tied to a firearms offence the previous day. Rather than complying with the officers, Kaba refused to leave his vehicle and ultimately used his car as a “battering ram” against...

Left-wing Hollywood star Robert De Niro is back to publicly trash-talking former President Donald Trump. After a relatively brief absence from the spotlight following his disastrous New York press conference in May, Robert De Niro is hitting the campaign trail in service of Kamala Harris, appearing in a recent Italian-American themed “Paisans for Kamala” fundraiser on Sunday and in an interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace on Friday.

What’s another 25 years when you’re already serving a life sentence? Fotios “Freddy” Geas — the ex-Mafia enforcer already serving a life sentence — was given an additional 25 years by a judge Friday for bludgeoning notorious New England crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger to death inside a federal prison in 2018. He pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and assault resulting in serious bodily injury for the brutal attack on Bulger. Geas had been behind bars since 2011 for multiple crimes, including the 2003 killing of Genovese crime boss Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno. Prosecutors said Geas repeatedly battered the 89-year-old...

The Biden family and its business associates received millions of dollars from oligarchs in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine while Joe Biden was vice president, according to bank records obtained by the House Oversight Committee. With the new payments included, the committee says it has now identified more than $20 million in payments from foreign sources to the Biden family and their business associates. Those foreign sources include not only the three aforementioned countries, but also China and Romania as well. Hunter Biden’s former business associate Devon Archer previously testified that then-Vice President Biden joined roughly 20 phone calls on speakerphone...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - An inmate was sentenced to more than four years Thursday for his role in the 2018 fatal bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger in a troubled West Virginia federal prison. Massachusetts gangster Paul J. DeCologero was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to an assault charge. He could have faced up to 10 years in prison. DeCologero was already serving a 25-year sentence handed down in 2006 after he was convicted of buying heroin used to try to kill a teenage girl. Prosecutors initially had said DeCologero and inmate Fotios "Freddy" Geas used...

Mayor Tiffany Henyard attends meetings dressed as a movie gangster and her residents say she plays the part – retaliating against them unless they do her bidding, The Post can reveal. Henyard channeled drug kingpin Nino Brown from the 1991 gangster movie “New Jack City” at a 2023 gathering, an ensemble meant to intimidate, her critics claimed this week. “People look at politics like a joke, it’s like a mockery right now because of all this stuff,” Village of Dolton Trustee Kiana Belcher told The Post. “She comes to board meetings dressed like Nino Brown.” -snip Lawrence Gardner, 57, told...

Sergey Antonov, the head of the Russian Committee-2024 association, has submitted a request to the Russian Investigative Committee demanding the prosecution of President Vladimir Putin for the rehabilitation of Nazism. The request was prompted by an interview Putin gave to American journalist Tucker Carlson, in which the Russian leader commented on the events of World War II. Antonov believes that Putin's statements represent "a denial of facts established by the judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the trial and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis countries, and an approval of crimes stated in said judgment."...

Yes, legend has it that the Catskills town of Phoenicia conceals a trove of money, bonds and jewels that once belonged to a New York City bootlegger named Dutch Schultz. The criminal’s riches have been hunted for nearly 90 years, but after a recent breakthrough, two intrepid men believe they’re about to hit the jackpot. Colorfully known as the Beer Baron of the Bronx, Schultz made a fortune in the 1920s selling suds during Prohibition, when alcoholic beverages were illegal across the US. Born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer in 1902, and raised in a slummy Bronx neighborhood, Schultz, along with his...

With palaces, planes, yachts He is universally regarded as one of the richest men on earth. Putin's surge to power - and incomprehensible wealth - began in the early 1990s in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse. He started his career in politics as an advisor to the mayor of St. Petersburg, before moving to Moscow and taking a job in the Kremlin where he rose through the ranks under the wing of President Boris Yeltsin, whom he replaced as President in 2000. Russia was mired in economic turmoil after the Soviet Union fell and the government was in...

The special counsel created by Biden’s corrupt Attorney General Merrick Garland is the right thing to do by the wrong gang of criminals. Kash Patel joined Steve Bannon on the War Room and he laid it all on the table. He shared: A special counsel on paper is the right move and it would have been back in November but the problem is we’ve seen the corrupt government gangsters go out and cover up the corrupt activities. Namely the likes of Rod Rosenstein, Chris Wray and Merrick Garland. ... Remember Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller, Comey’s best friend to be Special...

This past week Letitia James threatened a Christian Church for hosting a Trump-friendly event. The woman is a lawless marxist. The Legal Insurrection Foundation obtained a copy of the letter that James sent to Cornerstone Church (addressed to General Michael Flynn and event organizer Clay Clark), dated August 3, 2022. The letter begins by reminding the church that James is “New York’s top law enforcement officer” and has “significant concerns that the ReAwaken American Tour…could spur extremist or racially motivated violence.” (Part of the Letter) The letter also singled out the content of the future speech as being objectionable to...

(Reuters) - Russian lawmakers on Tuesday gave the first stamp of approval to a bill that would allow Russian entities to take over foreign companies that have left the market in opposition to Moscow's actions in Ukraine, the government's online portal showed. Scores of foreign companies have announced temporary shutdowns of stores and factories in Russia or said they were leaving for good since Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24. The bill, passed in the first reading by the lower house of parliament, or Duma, would allow the state development bank VEB or other...

HBO Max is currently producing a new comedy series based on the life of former gang member-turned-Hasidic-rapper Nissim Black.Black, who lives in Israel, announced the upcoming show on Twitter on Monday, writing that he hopes “this series brings Joy, and dispells [sic] a lot of the misinformation going on out there.” He will co-produce the show with comedian and veteran TV writer Moshe Kasher, who frequently references his Jewish identity in his work. It’s unclear if Black will star as himself in the show, according to a Deadline report. “Motherland Bounce,” the name of the series and the name...

Foreign aircraft lessors seeking to recover some $10 billion worth of planes from Russia were dealt a new blow Monday when President Vladimir Putin signed a law clearing the country’s airlines to fly the planes domestically.Sanctions and reciprocal airspace closures in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month have cut off the country’s air travel market. Boeing and Airbus have said they will no longer supply parts to its airlines. That could force carriers to cannibalize other jets for parts.There are some 728 Western-built aircraft in the country’s airlines’ fleets, 515 of them leased by foreign lessors, according to...

Joe O'Biden to Make Guest Appearance in Sequel to 2019's Irishman Gangster Movie (satire and pic)The 2019 gangster movie Irishman directed by Martin Scorsese was a fan favorite, but not a commercial success. The story is based on a Irishman (played by Robert De Niro) who worked for the Mafia and had Jimmy Hoffa assasinated With a huge budget of $159 million, Irishman's U.S. box office was only $8 million, so the the chance of a sequel to Irishman looks rather slim. Yet a reported 17 million Americans saw the movie within the first week of its release, suggesting there's...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's incursion into Ukraine is the latest instance of destabilizing or oppressive behavior at home and abroad by the authoritarian strongman...the aggressive behavior is in line with the Russian leader’s previous misdeeds...in 2008, Russia invaded Georgia on a similar pretext to this week’s incursion...Then in 2014, Putin seized the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine after the country’s pro-Russian government was toppled by mass protests and replaced by a more pro-E.U. administration....Outside of Europe, Putin’s Russia would later go on to put boots on the ground in Syria to preserve its access and interests there as well... Putin’s regime...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a dramatic escalation of East-West tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian nuclear deterrent forces put on high alert Sunday in response to what he called “aggressive statements” by leading NATO powers. The order means Putin has ordered Russia’s nuclear weapons prepared for increased readiness to launch, raising the threat that the tensions could boil over into a nuclear war. In giving it, the Russian leader also cited hard-hitting financial sanctions imposed by the West against Russia, including Putin himself.

Jailhouse letters from the late Boston gangster highlight his will to live despite deteriorating health including eight heart attacks. The letters provided to The Boston Globe by a California woman he corresponded with appear to contradict federal officials who have said Bulger’s health had dramatically improved, making him eligible for a transfer to a West Virginia prison where he was killed. Bulger was 89 when he was fatally beaten last October ... This is a story about Whitey Bulger and the FBI that you’ve never heard, and it would be even more humorous if it didn’t illustrate yet again how...

“Nick Bianco is caught during a botched jewellery heist. The prosecution offer him a more lenient sentence if he squeals on his accomplices but he doesn’t roll over on them. Three years into the sentence an event changes his mind.”https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039536/ Nick Bianco (Victor Mature), Nettie Cavallo (Coleen Gray) Attorney Earl Howser (Taylor Holmes) Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark) Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo (Brian Donlevy)Sgt. William Cullen (Karl Malden)_____________________________________KISS OF DEATH (1947), starring Victor Mature, Richard Widmark and Coleen Grayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv_OltmAEqg

New York Democrats are lining up alongside Republican lawmakers to accuse Governor Andrew Cuomo of controlling the state through fear, intimidation and very personal threatening phone calls. Lawmakers from both political parties are piling on long-held criticisms of Cuomo Saturday as his office responds to accusations they covered up nursing home deaths from COVID-19. **SNIP** State Senator Alessandra Biaggi joined the steady stream of Democratic dissent against Cuomo being shared this week across Twitter threads and cable news outlets. Biaggi told The New Yorker Cuomo has threatened her career "so many times" through thinly veiled remarks. Additionally, two-time Democratic House...