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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Patrick Shanahan: Pentagon chief's ties to Boeing investigated
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2019 08:21 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More EU crap trying to slime Boeing.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/21/2019 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I read it as yet another attempt to drag Trump into the mud.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/21/2019 11:45 Comments || Top||

#3  another attempt to drag Trump into the mud.

I thought "Happened on his watch" died right after Benzhazi...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/21/2019 13:45 Comments || Top||


Prosecutors behind Jeffrey Epstein plea deal selected 16-year-old victim over dozens of younger girls so accused child rapist would not have to register as sex offender in 31 states
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Jeffrey Epstein entered a guilty plea to soliciting prostitution from a teenager who was 16, which is the age of consent in 31 states

  • As a result, Epstein did not have to register as a sex offender in New Mexico, where he owns a ranch, and is a low-level offender in the US Virgin Islands

  • This was discovered by The Washington Post after it pressed the court, with many believing the 14-year-old who reported Epstein was the victim in the deal

  • Just last month, a judge ruled prosecutors violated the rights of Epstein's alleged victims when they neglected to tell them no federal charges would be pursued

  • Forty women had alleged that they were abused by millionaire money manager

  • Epstein, who is friends with President Trump and has donated millions to the Clintons, served 13 months at a low-security facility on work release

  • He was prosecuted by Alex Acosta, who is currently the Secretary of Labor and had been mentioned a possible pick to replace Jeff Sessions as Attorney General
The question has been raised whether this is actually a Deep State play to ambush Mr, Acosta, with Mr. Epstein as the designated sacrificial lamb...
Might be time for a C-Check for the old Lolita Express, regardless of when the last C-Check was done.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Epstein might have an accident soon. His cards to play is to name names which is why they are always going soft on this predator.
Posted by: Airandee || 03/21/2019 6:23 Comments || Top||

#2  #1 What you said Airandee. There's a seamy can of worms about to open again unless it gets squelched.

Court papers state that Rodriguez (Epstein's butler) argued that he needed to keep the journal as insurance - as he feared Epstein would make him 'disappear'.

What's next, that the CF was procuring young girls in Haiti through charitable foundations? That the MSM has been covering for them. The Clintons are extradited to Haiti? That would be shocking over morning coffee.

Epstein and his Butler are in danger of being Arkancided. There are too many DS people connected to Epstein who would go down if he talked or got corralled into another young girl sex trial.

What's the statute of limitations on child sex crimes? Like murder, there should be none.

The MSM is pre-occupied with mass shootings in NZ, the children's bus burning in Milano, Italy (oh, that one might have escaped the news cycle), Mueller's witch hunt report and what Trump said about McCain and what inane BS the Khardashians are doing.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/21/2019 8:08 Comments || Top||

#3  title clarified with "not have to" which changes the entire meaning
Posted by: Frank G || 03/21/2019 9:36 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Baltimore mayor resigns from board of U.-Md. Medical System
[OUTLINE] Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh has resigned from the board of the University of Maryland Medical System following a controversy involving a deal with the hospital system to buy her children’s books.

Last week, Pugh (D) and others on the health system’s board were criticized by Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and top state politicians for the financial deals with the hospital system and possible conflicts of interest.

On a financial disclosure form, Pugh listed a $100,000 profit for one year from selling 20,000 copies of her self-published children’s book series "Healthy Holly" to the University of Maryland health system, which runs 13 hospitals including the state’s trauma unit in Baltimore and has connections with the state’s dental and medical schools.

Hogan described the financial contracts, which are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, as "appalling" and "unseemly." Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) called them "self-dealing" and "a huge disaster."

Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Did she even write the books?
Posted by: Airandee || 03/21/2019 6:20 Comments || Top||

#2  controversy involving a deal with the hospital system to buy her children’s books.

Oh my gosh, A Dem pay-to-play scheme that doesn't work?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/21/2019 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  "Sissy Likes Sheep." "Jevarius Has Clean Needles." On and on...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/21/2019 8:27 Comments || Top||

#4  An excerpt:

"I'm ever so healthy!" sighed Holly.
"Mayor Pugh should be wealthy, by golly!
Please purchase her books!
She's as pure as she looks,
And as nice as my nurse, the Somali...
Though I wish he would bring back my dolly."
Posted by: Muggsy Turkeyneck9888 || 03/21/2019 18:03 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Michelle Obama's former Chief of Staff, Tina Tchen, called in a favor, according to WLS-TV.
[ZeroHedge] Foxx recused herself from the case on Feb. 20 "out of an abundance of caution" because of "familiarity with potential witnesses in the case."

Translation: Michelle Obama's former CoS contacted Foxx saying that Smollett's family had "concerns" about the investigation, so Foxx tried to get the case transferred from CPD to the FBI. She was told to pound sand based on "a lack of evidence" that Smollett was the victim of a hate crime.

Smollett claimed that he was the victim of a predawn hate crime on January 29 in which two white men assaulted him while he was on his way home after buying a sandwich; hurling racial and antigay slurs at him, dousing him in a chemical, placing a noose around his neck (which he was still wearing when police arrived later that morning), and punching him in the face.

Police allege that Smollett, who is black and gay, staged the attack because he was unhappy with his salary and wanted to boost his profile. Others have suggested that Smollett wanted to frame Trump supporters as bigots, with some even going so far as to connect the 'hate crime hoax' to an anti-lynching bill introduced by Democratic Senators Kamala Harris (CA) and Cory Booker (NJ).
It sounds like Foxx was sure she could rely on the FBI to take over the case, as a "favor" to a former Obama employee! She evidently felt strongly that the FBI was still very corrupt, as during Obama's two terms in Office.
Or- DOJ investigating ex-Obama official: Cue the Beavis & Butthead laugh track on that one.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/21/2019 09:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2019 16:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Be interesting to know if Michael called his "former chief of staff" with guidance.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/21/2019 16:19 Comments || Top||

#3  FBI was still very corrupt, as during Obama's two terms in Office

Something changed that I'm unaware of?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/21/2019 16:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Sen. Kamala Harris' Unethical Handling of Herbalife Comes Back to Haunt Her
[Conservative Zone] Sen. Kamala Harris’ statement that she practiced law to "protect people" rings hollow as evidence emerges that Sen. Kamala Harris had personal reasons for failing to investigate Herbalife when she was Attorney General of the state of California.

While the FTC was investigating the company and prosecutors in San Diego were urging her to do the same, then-AG Kamala Harris opted to simply ignore Herbalife as doing so would benefit both her and her husband.

At the time prosecutors in San Diego asked Harris to investigate Herbalife, she was not only the Attorney General of California but was also running for Senate. She received a campaign donation from Heather Podesta, the ex-wife of Tony Podesta and head of the Podesta Group. The Podesta Group had been working for Herbalife since 2016. Herbalife later hired a top Podesta deputy to serve as its own government relations official. Heather Podesta’s own lobbying firm began working for Herbalife shortly after sending Harris a donation, earning $250,000 for lobbying work on Herbalife’s behalf. Harris’ husband, Douglas Emhoff, was working at the law firm Venable, which was representing Herbalife at the time.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/21/2019 09:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  head of the Podesta Group.

God*nmit! Dirty Clinton Moth*ers again!
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2019 16:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Easy boy, take a breath...look out the window.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2019 16:14 Comments || Top||

#3  She also let Peevey slide as well,....head of the Calif Public utilities Commission. He committed a fraud on the public....appointed by Gov Brown by the way.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 03/21/2019 22:37 Comments || Top||


Democratic Presidential Candidate John Hickenlooper Recalls Taking His Mom to See ‘Deep Throat'
[Yahoo]
Posted by: Frank G || 03/21/2019 09:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Certainly is thoughtful of him to share treasured family memories like this.
Posted by: Cesare || 03/21/2019 10:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Hickenlooper thought he was going to see a movie about a high point in Dem history (Watergate, Woodward and Bernstein) with his mum? Should endear him to mothers everywhere and doofuses.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/21/2019 10:13 Comments || Top||

#3  They were close.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2019 10:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Like Mother, like son. Dumb and dumber.
Posted by: warthogswife || 03/21/2019 10:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Ew
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/21/2019 11:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Looks like his decision-making skills haven't improved much since then.
Posted by: gorb || 03/21/2019 11:41 Comments || Top||

#7  But many Cool-o-radans voted for him. Same bunch that thinks Cool-bear is news. Can we lock them out of national elections?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/21/2019 18:39 Comments || Top||


Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam vetoes ban on sanctuary cities
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Virginia Gov. Ralph Coonman Northam
Governor of Virginia, another Dem Great White Hope. He won election by calling his Publican opponent Ed Gillespie a racist, but then, don't they all?...
has again vetoed a bill aimed at preventing so-called "sanctuary cities" in the state.

Northam, a Democrat, said he was vetoing the legislation Tuesday because it imposes an unneeded burden on local law enforcement officials and "sends a chilling message."

It was the same statement he issued last year when he vetoed the same legislation.
Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes, Heaven forbid any criminal feels "chilled..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/21/2019 7:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Another globalist self identifies.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/21/2019 7:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Dems are getting desperate for new voter pools to rig elections?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/21/2019 7:37 Comments || Top||

#4  ...already did in CA.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/21/2019 8:09 Comments || Top||

#5  'A chilling message'? So what in the wide world of sports is the white hood, Coonman?
Posted by: Cesare || 03/21/2019 10:03 Comments || Top||

#6  I recall a pic of HildaB and Slick dressed similarly for some shindig. Must be a Dem thing.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/21/2019 10:18 Comments || Top||

#7  The governor is feeling chilled; quick burn a cross.
Posted by: Airandee || 03/21/2019 12:18 Comments || Top||

#8  But what happens if they start ignoring the Virginia State Laws and the authority of *His* Office, hmmmm?
Posted by: magpie || 03/21/2019 14:50 Comments || Top||

#9  Don't blame me. I voted for Ed Gillespie.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/21/2019 18:47 Comments || Top||



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