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matthews's JournalHuma Abedin, Anthony Weiner's Wife, Under Scrutiny For 2012 Role With State Department
(Like this poor woman doesn't have enough problems!)
By Jonathan Wolfe, Fri, July 26, 2013
Huma Abedin, the wife of notorious sexter Anthony Weiner, is probably receiving a lot of unwanted attention lately over her husband’s cell phone picture habits.
But as Fox News and CBS are reporting, she may have bigger worries on her hands (no pun intended).
Abedin is a longtime aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. For almost a year in 2012, she was recognized as a “special government employee” by the State Department. As a special government employee, Abedin received $135,000 a year as a part-time consultant for the State Department while also earning $355,000 as a consultant at Teneo, where former president Bill Clinton is a board member.
Last month, Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote an extensive letter questioning whether Abedin’s role as a government employee and a private-sector employee represented any conflict of interest.
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/huma-abedin-anthony-weiners-wife-under-scrutiny-2012-role-state-department#
Turkey: bird suspected of spying for Israel is cleared
A bird tagged with a metallic ring that was recently captured in a Turkish village in the eastern province of Elazığ is not spying for Israel, Turkish officials have determined.
District officials sent the bird, a small kestrel, to Fırat University in Elazığ, where veterinary hospital personnel x-rayed it to make sure it was not carrying microchips or any other spy devices. The technicians – jokingly, we assume – labeled the x-rays, “Israeli spy.”
Turkish officials said in a statement that they released the falsely accused bird back into the wild.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/turkey-bird-suspected-spying-israel-cleared
Here is why I think police using 'informants' is a bad idea
Surveillance Video Catches Police Informant Planting Crack On Business Owner
The latest example of why paid police informants are not always a good idea.
Head-shop owner Donald Andrews was charged with felonies -- criminal sale and criminal possession of a controlled substance -- that could have put him behind bars for 25 years. Forced to close his store, Andrews had spent three weeks in county jail before his lawyer insisted the grand jury view the surveillance footage. On April 25, after authorities saw the tape, charges were dropped.
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/surveillance-video-shows-police-informant-planting-drugs?akid=10737.221277.sWIwhr&rd=1&src=newsletter874664&t=7
And yet once again the little fish will get eaten
and the big fish will swim away with the worm.
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SEC Tries Last Ditch Move to Put SAC’s Cohen Out of Work
Jul 22, 2013 12:22 PM CT
In an administrative action that constitutes its first formal salvo against Cohen, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged he failed to supervise two wayward portfolio managers and ignored “red flags.” The agency stops short of accusing the owner of SAC Capital Advisors LP of insider trading. While the proceeding may result in his being barred from managing other people’s money, it won’t carry the potential penalties available if the SEC had sued him. It also pales in comparison to a grand jury indictment for securities fraud, and the 20 year prison term a conviction could bring.
Instead, the SEC claim that Cohen should have known two of his subordinates were using material, non-public information to rack up hundreds of millions of dollars in trading profits will be easier to prove. The regulator will have a lesser burden of proof and won’t have to deal with all of the protections afforded a defendant in a lawsuit, let alone a prosecution.
“They are using an Al Capone-style tactic,” said John Coffee of Columbia Law School, referring to the prosecution of the Chicago gangster in 1931 on charges of tax evasion. “The SEC is aiming at his kneecaps, not his jugular,” he said. “This is a little like catching John Dillinger entering a bank with a submachine gun and charging him with double parking.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-21/sec-tries-al-capone-tactic-to-put-sac-s-cohen-out-of-business.html?alcmpid=markets
Okay, I'm a tad confused but I'm also new so that might be the problemI
I just got a post hidden. Which is fine. But I would like to know what this means:
CONSEQUENCES OF THIS DECISION
You will no longer be able to participate in this discussion thread,
OKAY, NOT A PROBLEM
and you will not be able to start a new discussion thread in this forum until 12:09 AM.
THAT'S FINE. NO BIG DEAL
This hidden post has been added to your <a href="/?com=profile&uid=305962&sub=trans">Transparency page</a>.
SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
WHAT'S TABOO AND WHAT ISN'T? I didn't think I said anything too crazy considering someone told me to quit sucking tit tonight. So what is the criteria for avoiding this? And what are the ramifications?
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