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Everything about the death of Barack Obama’s chef, Tafari Campbell, has been a lie. Why not the depth of the water, too? I found little about Obama to be true in my years of research, but many lies which I include in my book The Rubbish Hauler’s Wife versus Barack Obama. The story about the chef’s death changed more often than the days of the week. The Obamas weren’t there, then they were. The daughters may or may not have been there. In previous versions, Tafari was paddleboarding alone, while someone else was also in the area. That person tried...

Michelle Obama says she feels an “emptiness” following the death of the family’s chef, opening up after Tafari Campbell’s body was found outside her and former President Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard home. “I will miss my friend, Tafari,” the former first lady said in a Thursday Facebook post. “The emptiness is hard,” Obama said. “But I promise to stay strong, keep living, and honor your legacy in every way possible,” she added.

A female staff member of Barack Obama had been with chef Tafari Campbell when he tragically drowned while paddle-boarding in a pond beside the former president's estate in Martha's Vineyard, DailyMail.com has learned. The woman, who was on a separate paddle board, had tried in vain to reach Campbell after he had fallen off but was ultimately forced to return to shore to summon help. It was a Secret Service agent who then phoned emergency services from the Obama compound in Edgartown to report the incident, sources told DailyMail.com. On shore, the witness spoke with investigators and was lucid and...

On Dec. 11, 2013 a small plane in Hawaii on a routine flight in the middle of the day, taking off amidst a clear blue sky, suddenly experienced “catastrophic engine failure,” ... {N]none of the nine passengers suffered any life-threatening injuries during the emergency landing. And most stunning of all, the pilot was able to get each of the passengers into life vests as water flooded into the plane. Everyone made it out. But despite all the skill, luck and striking twists of fate that preserved the lives of most members of this group, one person still died...Hawaii Department of...

In a surprising development to come after Tafari Campbell, 45, drowned while paddle boarding on Great Edgartown Pond on Sunday night, an investigation into the incident found that Martha’s Vineyard police left the reason for the 911 call reporting Campbell’s drowning blank. According to Daily Mail, the officers also refused to reveal who Campbell was with at the time of his tragic passing despite the fact that the 45-year-old chef was not alone. Daily Mail found that while the 7:46 PM 911 call was noted in Edgartown Police Department's logbook, the reason behind the call was not. The origin of...

An 8-year-old boy who climbed into a parked school bus, released the emergency brake and sent 26,000 pounds of steel rolling through Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Monday was charged yesterday with criminally negligent homicide in the death of Amber Sadiq, 8... The boy, Tafari James, had been suspended from second grade on Friday for climbing onto another unattended bus, ... Investigators said it was unclear whether he released the brake on Monday intentionally. Witnesses saw him board the bus alone... He rode the bus as it gathered speed down a slight incline and jump off as it thudded to a...