July 20, 2021

AP Issues Major Correction To Wilbur Ross/DOJ Story

Initially reported that Biden's DOJ made the decision not to prosecute Wilbur Ross for perjury. The decision to not prosecute Ross was actually made by Trump's DOJ, AG Bill Barr.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-census-2020-dfececa4bb96d752594c9d38770752cc

This story has been corrected to reflect that the decision not to prosecute Ross was made by the Department of Justice during the Trump administration, not the Biden administration.

July 4, 2021

Huge Explosion Near Oil Rig in Caspian Sea

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1411762188721790979?s=20

June 30, 2021

Cosby Conviction overturned because of Trump Lawyer

https://twitter.com/JanNWolfe/status/1410283653675028480?s=20

Remember Bruce Castor, the lawyer mocked for his performance during Trump's second impeachment?

His promise not to prosecute Bill Cosby, made back in 2005 when he was a DA, is why a court just overturned Cosby's sexual assault conviction.
https://pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Supreme/out/J-100-2020mo%20-%20104821740139246918.pdf?cb=1

June 29, 2021

'Right-Wing Death Squad': Active-Duty Marine Plotted to Bomb DNC, Murder Black People, Feds Say

An active-duty U.S. Marine came under federal investigation for allegedly plotting with at least two others to assassinate minorities, drug users, and employees of the Democratic National Committee with explosives, rocket launchers, and automatic rifles.

That’s according to a newly unsealed FBI search warrant affidavit obtained by The Daily Beast, which indicates USMC Private First Class Travis Owens and his partners in the unrealized murder plot were influenced by Timothy McVeigh, the former U.S. Army soldier behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that left 168 people dead and injured nearly 700. The document also states that one of the suspects had links to the Atomwaffen Division, a violent neo-Nazi group linked to at least five murders. A handful of active service members and veterans have been identified as being members of Atomwaffen, which calls for the armed overthrow of the U.S. government.

The investigation began in late August 2019, when a tipster contacted the FBI about disturbingly violent conversations they had observed in a private Facebook Messenger chat group named “Right Wing Death Squad.” According to the FBI, three men were behind the troubling chats: James Wisdom of Arkansas; mechanic Jason D’Juan Garfield—also of Arkansas—who went by the noms de guerre “Moon Man” and “Jugger Bugger;” and Owens, a Marine Corps E-1 from Arkansas stationed at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.

“Rhetoric in the private chat messages was consistent with racially motivated extremism ideology, to include aspirational violence against religious and racial minorities,” states the affidavit, which was signed by Special Agent Ryan Crump of the FBI Little Rock Joint Terrorism Task Force.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/active-duty-marine-travis-owens-plotted-to-bomb-dnc-murder-black-people-feds-say?ref=home

June 29, 2021

Fox News agrees to pay $1 million fine for human rights law violation in New York City

Fox News has agreed to pay a $1 million fine to New York City for what the city's Commission on Human Rights dubbed "a pattern of violating the NYC Human Rights Law."

The Daily Beast first reported the news Tuesday.

The settlement, reached last week, concerns allegations of a toxic work environment and sexual harassment at the FOX Corp cable channel, the Daily Beast reported.

"We are pleased to reach an amicable resolution of this legacy matter," a Fox News spokesperson said in a statement to Insider. "FOX News Media has already been in full compliance across the board, but cooperated with the New York City Commission on Human Rights to continue enacting extensive preventive measures against all forms of discrimination and harassment."

https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-1-million-fine-human-rights-law-violation-2021-6

June 18, 2021

Federal Judge prepares to sanction "Kraken" lawyers.

A federal judge wants every attorney whose name was on court filings seeking to overturn Michigan's presidential election results in the "Kraken" suit there to show up for a sanctions hearing on July 6.

https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1405640781319319555?s=20

https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1405642943659134980?s=20

https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1405645244486635520?s=20

June 2, 2021

Former President Donald Trump's blog has been permanently shut down.

Former President Donald Trump’s blog — a webpage where he shared statements after larger social media companies banned him from their platforms — has been permanently shut down, his spokesman said Wednesday.

The page, “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” has been scrubbed from Trump’s website and “will not be returning,” his senior aide Jason Miller told CNBC.

“It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on,” Miller said in email correspondence.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/02/trump-blog-page-shuts-down-for-good.html?__source=sharebar|twitter&par=sharebar

May 30, 2021

Christian diet guru Gwen Shamblin Lara's plane crashed today

Plane crashes into Percy Priest Lake; Christian diet guru Gwen Shamblin Lara, six other leaders from Brentwood's Remnant Fellowship on board, church says

SMYRNA, Tenn. (WTVF) — A small airplane crashed in the water on Percy Priest Lake in Smyrna Saturday morning.

Several law enforcement and emergency agencies responded to the crash around 11 a.m.

Authorities located a debris field near the last sighting of a Cessna C501 registered to JL&GL Productions LP, which is a partnership formed by Brentwood-based Christian diet guru Gwen Shamblin Lara and her husband Joe Lara.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/plane-crash-reported-on-percy-priest-lake-in-smyrna

(Citation Jet)

May 12, 2021

The Feds Are Now Probing Rudy's Dodgy Ukraine-Biden Dossier

A years-old relic of the Trump-Ukraine scandal—a dossier that was aggressively promoted by Rudy Giuliani—is coming back to haunt him, just as federal law enforcement has ramped up its investigation into the former New York City mayor.

The dossier, a collection of documents centered with wild corruption accusations against Joe Biden, Marie Yovanovitch, and other officials, was widely and almost instantly dismissed as irrelevant ramblings, conspiracy theories, and political smears when it emerged in 2019. But Giuliani pushed it anyway to the highest echelons of the Trump White House and to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Now, his efforts have been scrutinized by federal investigators, according to two people familiar with the matter. In a probe that began during former President Donald Trump’s time in power, the feds have been investigating whether some of Giuliani’s activities during the Trump-Ukraine saga amounted to unregistered and illegal lobbying on behalf of foreign figures.

Giuliani's legal team did not respond to requests for comment on this story. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York declined to comment. But Giuliani’s pushing of the dossier is one of a number of activities under investigation by federal law enforcement. Another, The Daily Beast has learned, is his attempts to introduce a conspiracy-peddling Ukrainian prosecutor general to then-Attorney General William Barr.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudys-dodgy-ukraine-dossier-now-part-of-fed-probe-against-him?ref=home

May 10, 2021

Barr threatened to quit last year over Trump's attempts to fire FBI Director

Last spring, when President Donald Trump was considering firing FBI Director Chris Wray, Attorney General Bill Barr threatened to resign in protest, a person briefed on the deliberations told Insider.

The person said Barr went to the White House for a meeting and was introduced to Bill Evanina, a top counterintelligence official in the Trump administration who had previously worked at the FBI. When Barr realized Evanina was being suggested as a replacement for Wray, he left the room.

It was the closest Wray, who has held onto his position under the Biden administration, ever came to getting fired during Trump's tenure, the person briefed on the matter said.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-barr-threatened-to-quit-trump-attempts-fire-chris-wray-2021-5