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BlueWaveNeverEnd's JournalSuburban dad scam artist sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for stealing $600K from jobseekers
Man admits to scamming hundreds of job seekers out of $638KCharles Fields of Blaine pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in federal court for a pre-pandemic scheme featured on KARE 11 Investigates.
MINNEAPOLIS — While none of the fraud victims who talked to KARE 11 Investigates had ever met Charles Fields, they all knew his voice.
They took countless phone calls and recorded voice messages from a man who called himself Michael Brunn, convincing them the company Watertek Marketing was offering a great money-making opportunity selling water filtration systems.
While pleading guilty to wire fraud in federal court in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Fields admitted "Michael Brunn" was one of several aliases he used to falsely give his companies an air of credibility.
In one recorded voice message while posing as Michael Brunn, Fields said: "We're not like some company in a garage that said, 'Send us money.' That's not what it is."
At his change of plea hearing, however, Fields admitted that is essentially what his companies amounted to. He would frequently change company names — from Watertek Marketing to Water Innovations Group to Mile High H20 to The New H20.
In the end, Fields scammed 250 people out of $638,739 between 2015 and 2020, he admitted to Judge David Doty.
The victims responded to job postings on Craigslist that promised guaranteed salaries for selling Kangen water ionizers as sales representative
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/suburban-scam-artist-admits-to-bilking-638k/89-f25e57c0-3762-4a35-8cde-1d75fde40558
NC gov GOP candidate, Mark Robinson's whole family lived off a federal funded non profit
after his bankruptcies, non payment of taxes, and before his GOP grifting, Mark Robinson and his family sucked up federal dollars. the same guy who preaches how bad the civil rights movement was for Black people.-------------------------------------------------
While Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s wife told her nonprofit’s clients that she was shutting down because of her husband’s campaign for North Carolina governor, she told a state agency a different story.
For years, Yolanda Hill has led a nonprofit called Balanced Nutrition that helps childcare facilities apply for and receive federal funding for kids’ meals. Mark Robinson and the couple’s son and daughter have worked as employees of the Greensboro nonprofit.
Emails and documents obtained by WUNC through a public records request show the abrupt closure relates to an ongoing investigation by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the childcare center nutrition program.
One issue highlighted in the DHHS records was that Balanced Nutrition at one point didn’t have a balanced budget. On a budget spreadsheet for the nonprofit dated 2023, an entry in the document noted that the group’s expenses were higher than its income.
https://www.wunc.org/politics/2024-04-17/mark-robinson-nonprofit-election-dhhs-financial-issues-nc
Mark Robinson himself worked for the nonprofit in 2018 before he launched his campaign for lieutenant governor. He wrote in his autobiography that Hill’s success with the nonprofit allowed him to quit his job at a furniture company in 2018 and move toward becoming a candidate.
New poll shows AG Josh Stein widening gap over INSANE LOUDMOUTH Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson in NC's governor's race
GOP's Mark Robinson summary: LGBT are filth, men are to lead, not women, abortion for me but not you (wife had an abortion, now he's anti choice). lots of stupid anti Black statements although he is Black.(2022) "We are called to be led by men"
(2020) “For me, there is no compromise on abortion. It makes no difference to me why or how that child ended up in that womb"
With six and a half months before Election Day, the latest Meredith College poll shows Democrat Josh Stein gaining a bit more ground over Republican Mark Robinson in North Carolina’s gubernatorial contest. Stein now leads Robinson 45%-36% — up from a five percentage point advantage in February.
Poll director and political scientist David McLennan says while Robinson gets a lot of support from conservatives in the state, Stein is growing his base among unaffiliated voters and those who say they are politically moderate.
“Robinson continues to get negative media coverage of his statements and actions from the past. This enhanced exposure of Robinson’s extreme statements, as well as concerns that some of Robinson’s policy positions, seems to be shifting the unaffiliated voters into Stein’s camp,” noted McLennan.
Most recently Robinson has drawn attention for failing to file federal income taxes for five years between 1998-2002. Robinson’s communications director Mike Lonergan told ABC News that Robinson’s made no secret of his past financial challenges and that it’s “old news recycled by Democrats.”
https://ncnewsline.com/briefs/new-poll-shows-ag-josh-stein-widening-the-gap-over-lt-gov-mark-robinson-in-ncs-governors-race/
rightwingers trying to get garbage PragerU into Arizona classrooms
A member of the Chandler Unified School District Governing Board is pushing for materials from the conservative PragerU Kids to be available for use in CUSD classrooms.-------------
“I would probably prefer, in schools, we try to stay away from political issues as much as we can,” Kurt Rohrs said. “But it does come up, and if it does come up and there’s a discussion in class, my view is that there has to be equal weight given to both sides, because we’re trying to teach our kids to think critically.”
PragerU Kids was started by conservative radio host Dennis Prager as part of Prager University. It has been adopted for use in at least five states.
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Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne placed videos from PragerU Kids on the state Department of Education’s website. He said because Arizona is a local control state, he can’t force school districts to use them. However, he is urging them to do so.
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Rohrs has asked district officials to place a debate on using PragerU Kids materials in classrooms on a future agenda. He said it would balance out some left-leaning teaching he claims is already in schools.
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“PragerU is not an approved supplementary resource in the Chandler Unified School District.”
Rohrs, who identifies with the parental rights movement in school boards, is often in the minority of CUSD Governing Board’s votes and it may not be possible for him to get his colleagues to approve allowing PragerU Kids materials in CUSD schools this year.
However, it is an election year and there are three seats available in November’s election. Parental rights candidates would only need to win two of those three to take the majority. At least three parental rights candidates have filed a statement of interest in running.
https://www.chandlernews.com/arizonan/citynews/chandler-unified-board-member-pushes-prager-u-videos/article_62a70866-ee08-11ee-8248-ab0311d704f5.html
Current Encampment list: Yale, Univ of Michigan, NYU, The New School, Tufts, MIT, Emerson, Rutgers, Columbia
'Campuses in revolt:' Columbia-like encampments emerge at US universitiesEncampments were started at Yale, the University of Michigan, New York University, The New School, Tufts University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emerson College, and Rutgers University.
Anti-Israel protest encampments have emerged on at least eight American universities in emulation of the Columbia University campus occupation, following National Students for Justice in Palestine and several other pro-Palestinian groups calling to do so on Saturday night.
In addition to the Columbia encampment that had started on Wednesday, encampments were started at Yale University, University of Michigan, New York University, The New School, Tufts University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emerson College, and Rutgers University. An encampment was also established on Friday at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but the local SJP chapter said on Instagram on Monday that they had moved from the location.
In a social media post by NSJP entitled "campuses in revolt," the organization promised that more encampments would be established.
"Over the last 72 hours, the Students for Justice in Palestine chapters across the country have erupted in a fierce display of power and pressure targeted at their universities for their endless complicity and profiteering off the genocide on Gaza and the colonization of Palestine," said NSJP on Sunday. "The encampments transform mass mobilization into long-term sustained occupation, leveraging our tangible power as students to give our institutions no other option but to divest."
NSJP said in a Monday statement that there would be no classes or compliance with the administration until their demands to adopt Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions policies and support Palestinians were met.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-798301
Rangers continue searching for 2 people found destroying boulders at Lake Mead
despite super clear video, they haven't found these guys yet.
https://www.fox5vegas.com/video/2024/04/23/rangers-continue-searching-2-people-found-destroying-boulders-lake-mead/
Column: Republicans aren't protecting elections. They don't want democracy
The next time Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stands in front of a microphone to talk about election integrity, I want you to remember this: Nearly a third of voters in Louisiana are Black, and yet Black voters had control over less than 20% of the state’s congressional districts. White voters make up less than 60% of the electorate yet had control over more than 80% of the power.
When the Democratic governor vetoed attempts to suppress the Black vote, the Republican state Legislature overrode the veto. When a federal judge said another map should be drawn, the Supreme Court delayed action until it had decided a similar question about Alabama.
In that state, Black people are more than a quarter of the population but had control over just one of the state’s seven districts. For two years, Alabama fought to dilute the Black vote, until the highest court of the land rejected the state’s final plea for a gerrymandered map.
Johnson’s party has been working to suppress Black votes for decades, so what is he talking about when he trumpets “election integrity”?
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Those Southern states have been consistent in their agenda. In Rarick’s day some of the bad actors, including him, were Democrats, but now the cause has been taken up by Republicans. And why is today’s GOP so concerned about “protecting” elections? Why are they fighting so hard to stop democracy? Because they don’t want a democratic outcome. They want white control.
Johnson wants you to believe it’s the desperate migrants and asylum seekers at the southern border who are the greatest threat to democracy.
No, Mr. Speaker: It is and always has been racism. It’s baked into our nation.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-04-23/republican-election-integrity-bill-vote-fraud-democracy
Search continues as Washburn officer charged with lying about taking missing person to hospital
Washburn Police Sgt. Chandler Cole said he had no comment when reached by The Associated Press
Maine police officer arrested after accusation of lying about missing person: Reports
Sgt. Chandler Cole with the Washburn, Maine police resigned after he was arrested on March 29, according to reports.
A Maine police officer has been charged with multiple crimes after he was accused of falsifying and forging evidence related to a missing-persons case, according to reports.
Washburn Police Sgt. Chandler Cole resigned after his arrest March 29. He was charged with aggravated forgery, tampering with public records or information, falsifying physical evidence and unsworn falsification, according to The Associated Press.
His arrest came after an investigation by the Aroostook County Sheriff's Office into the disappearance of 39-year-old Erik Foote. Foote, from Washburn, was reported missing Feb. 6 and was last seen walking along a road in Jan. 30. According to reporting from WAGM, the last person known to have interacted with Foote was Cole.
After the Washburn police chief retired in January, the town with a population of just over 1,600 is deciding whether to keep a police department.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/15/chandler-cole-police-sergeant-arrested-washburn-maine/73324518007/
Search continues as Washburn officer charged with lying about taking missing person to hospital
Police Sgt. Chandler Cole reported he had picked up Erik Foote and dropped him off at a convenience store, but he told Foote's parents he took him to the hospital.
WASHBURN — A police officer accused of lying about a missing-person case was charged with several crimes, including falsifying a report in which he claimed he had taken the missing man to a hospital, police said.
Washburn Police Sgt. Chandler Cole resigned after being charged with aggravated forgery, tampering with public records or information, falsifying physical evidence, and unsworn falsification, according to court records. He was arrested on March 29.
Cole said he had no comment when reached by the Associated Press.
The charges, first reported by WAGM-TV, stem from the case of a missing person who appeared to be distressed when seen walking along a road on Jan. 30.
Cole reported that he had picked up Erik Foote and dropped him off at a convenience store, but he told Foote’s parents he took him to the hospital.
An investigation concluded Cole altered his report to reflect a hospital drop-off. However, there is no hospital record to support the claim.
https://www.pressherald.com/2024/04/13/search-continues-as-washburn-officer-is-charged-with-lying-about-taking-missing-person-to-hospital/
'What's The Difference Between That And Camping Out?': Thomas Questions Lawyer In Homelessness Case
Disgraced 'crypto bro' SBF to turn on celebrities Tom Brady and Larry David
Disgraced “crypto king” Sam Bankman-Fried is set to turn on celebrities including Tom Brady and Larry David in a new class-action lawsuit after they endorsed his failed FTX cryptocurrency exchange.
Bankman-Fried is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence on fraud charges after he was found guilty of lying to investors and customers of his company FTX.
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Since then, a group of investors and customers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Bankman-Fried and the celebrities he recruited to endorse FTX, in an effort to recover some of their losses following the collapse of the crypto firm.
The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court’s Southern District of Florida, alleges that Bankman-Fried and celebrities including NFL star Tom Brady and comedian Larry David are responsible for around $11bn of losses to American consumers.
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Bankman-Fried was also named in the lawsuit but, on Friday, agreed to cooperate with the plaintiffs in the case in exchange for them dropping their civil liability claims against him.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/tom-brady-sam-bankman-fried-ftx-lawsuit-b2532771.html
Sports stars Stephen Curry, Shaquille O’Neal and Naomi Osaka are also among those named in the lawsuit after starring in commercials promoting FTX.
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