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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Baltimore mayor flees?
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Posted by: 3dc || 04/25/2019 14:36 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Forget it, Jake. It's Ballymore
Posted by: Frank G || 04/25/2019 14:45 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't think we have to wait too much longer for evidence, rjschwarz - this sets the tone rather nicely.

Run Kathy run!
Posted by: Raj || 04/25/2019 17:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Start searching in Chicago or Detroit
Posted by: Airandee || 04/25/2019 19:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Ugh, stay out. We here in Detroit have far too many man-eating rats already...
Posted by: Vernal Hatrack2366 || 04/25/2019 20:10 Comments || Top||


Maryland governor calls on Baltimore mayor to resign following FBI raid
[THEGUARDIAN] Maryland’s governor has called on the mayor of Baltimore to resign.

The state’s governor, Larry Hogan, a Republican, called on Thursday morning for Catherine Pugh to leave office "for the good of the city".

Agents with the FBI and Internal Revenue Service carried out a raid on Baltimore city hall and two homes belonging to the mayor on Thursday morning, amid widening investigations to determine whether she used sales of her children’s books to disguise government kickbacks.

"Mayor Pugh has lost the public trust" and was "clearly not fit to lead", Hogan added.

Dave Fitz, an FBI front man, confirmed to the local paper that search warrants were being executed at those locations early on Thursday morning, according to a Baltimore Sun report.

Pugh had previously stepped aside temporarily following a growing scandal involving her sales of self-published children’s books, and amid declining public confidence.

The troubled city is still embroiled in the fallout of shattered trust between many neighborhoods in the city and the police department following the death of a young African American man, Freddie Gray, after being transported in a police van in 2015.
Posted by: Fred || 04/25/2019 11:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Reparations claw back for the taxpayers of MD if it turns out the mayor was committing fraud?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/25/2019 12:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Jayne Miller
@jemillerwbal

FBI spokesman says FBI Baltimore office and IRS Criminal Division out of DC are executing search warrants at the home of Mayor Catherine Pugh, a business address, and Baltimore City Hall.
About 20 agents are in City Hall
Posted by: Frank G || 04/25/2019 12:37 Comments || Top||

#3  After watching what happened to Trump for two years perhaps we should wait and see some evidence before demanding the Mayor stand down.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/25/2019 12:43 Comments || Top||


FBI raids Baltimore City Hall and Mayor's home
[Hot Air] Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has been on "sick leave" for more than a month as a growing corruption scandal has engulfed her office. But as we've discussed here before, there is no provision under the current city charter, state or municipal law allowing her to be removed from office unless she's convicted of a crime. That would allow her to just ignore all the calls for her resignation and stick it out until the next election. But now things may have changed.

This morning, with little or no public notice in advance, FBI agents, along with the IRS, raided both City Hall and the Mayor's home, carting out boxes of evidence.
She's dirty as hell, and probably didn't declare all her bribe extortion graft income
Posted by: Frank G || 04/25/2019 10:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The IRS, eh? I bet some of those agents had raging hard-ons barging into her office with badges & guns on their belts. It's the last group of wannabe brownshirt thugs I'd want to be packing.
Posted by: Raj || 04/25/2019 10:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Baltimore city hall has been anti police. Do I see a pattern here? If one is anti cop, is that a sign that one is corrupt?
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 04/25/2019 10:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Agreed. Bureaurocrats should not be allowed to pull a gun on the rest of us.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 04/25/2019 11:05 Comments || Top||

#4  They Mueller'd her?
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 04/25/2019 11:10 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Biden officially launches campaign with woke speech
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/25/2019 11:53 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  YJCMTSU.
Robert Dole had more presence than this doddering nonentity.
Posted by: magpie || 04/25/2019 15:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Matching funds, consider matching funds.
He gets a match from his secret donors PAC (china, kid's hedge fund) then he can surrender his supporting fan body to a leading Dem candidate without surrendering the money.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/25/2019 15:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Touching speech
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/25/2019 19:05 Comments || Top||


Europe
Deutsche Bank hands over Donald Trump loan documents: reports
[DW] The German lender has started providing files to New York authorities related to funding of Trump projects. Investigators are interested in Deutsche Bank as it is one of the few banks to lend to the Trump Organization.

Deutsche Bank has begun to provide financial documents to New York state authorities related to loans for President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
and his business.

In March, New York Attorney General Letitia James subpoenaed the German lender for records on loans it provided to the Trump Organization.

The bank is now handing over emails and loan documents related to the financing of Trump hotels in Washington, DC, Miami, reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
and a failed attempt
Curses! Foiled again!
to buy the Buffalo Bills football team in 2014, CNN and AFP reported on Wednesday.

James requested the documents from Deutsche Bank after Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen testified to Congress that Trump inflated his assets to secure loans.

TRUMP'S BIG LENDER
Deutsche Bank has been one of the few major banks to lend to Trump and his family-owned organization, following several defaults and bankruptcies by the real-estate mogul in the 1990s. The German bank stopped lending to Trump after he entered office as US president in 2017.

A 2018 financial disclosure form showed that Trump had at least $130 million (€115 million) in outstanding liabilities to Deutsche Bank's American unit. The bank has loaned Trump and his organization some $2 billion over the years.

MULTIPLE PROBES
The US House's Intelligence and Financial Services committees earlier this month issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and other banks seeking information about Trump's business dealings and possible Russian money laundering.

The subpoenas marked a renewed push by Democratic leaders to collect information on the president's finances and that of the Trump Organization since they gained control of the House last fall.

The House Intelligence and Financial Services committees' investigations are a part of a larger Democratic effort to dig into Trump's finances.

The powerful Boodle Central is also attempting to get access to Trump's personal and business tax returns. Trump did not release his tax documents during the 2016 campaign, as is standard for presidential candidates.

On Tuesday, the US Treasury let a deadline set by the Boodle Central to pass, signaling that the administration intends to reject the request. Trump on Wednesday said he would fight all congressional subpoenas, setting the stage for a drawn-out legal battle.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The third world style coup attempts continue of the first president who passes 100% of his paycheck to charity.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 04/25/2019 2:30 Comments || Top||

#2  The greatest danger to national security is an organized crime group a.k.a. the Democratic (Socialist) Party (of America). Their mission is to prosecute, neuter and depose anyone outside their party by any means necessary. From Trump to the Bernie bros. This one party is a danger to this country and to western civilization overall.

If the remnant of our great nation does not confront them vigorously they will shove their sh!t down your throats again like they did when Barack Hussein ruled.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 04/25/2019 3:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Didn't Obama recently visit with Merkel in early April? Do you suppose he set up this?
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/25/2019 9:19 Comments || Top||

#4  The bank is part of the globalist strategy. This is no real surprise...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/25/2019 10:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Didn't Obama recently visit with Merkel in early April? Do you suppose he set up this?

From what I recall, NY state (read - Andrew Cuomo) has been threatening to (or may have already) 'investigate' Trump's NY charity for quite some time. 'New York authorities' makes it a little tough to definitively determine which part of the NY state hackerama's doing it, so my money's on the AG's office at a minimum.

I wouldn't be surprised if the NY state Dept. of Taxation & finance is (still) auditing Trump's tax returns, both business and personal.
Posted by: Raj || 04/25/2019 10:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Continuation of the EU / Globalist lawfare operations?
Posted by: magpie || 04/25/2019 15:27 Comments || Top||

#7  I wouldn't be surprised if the NY state Dept. of Taxation & finance is (still) auditing Trump's tax returns, both business and personal.

free colonoscopy.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/25/2019 15:43 Comments || Top||

#8  These documents are relevant to governing the US how?
Posted by: Tom || 04/25/2019 17:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
McCains will snub Trump, back Joe Biden in 2020: report
[NY Post] Bitter Widow and Orphaned bitter heifer carry on familial grudge
Posted by: Frank G || 04/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What a surprise. Globalist scum supporting one another. More war, more war, we must not stop starting wars. They're all on the same page, whether the present themselves as (D) or (R).
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 04/25/2019 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Well on their way to the "irrelevant" section of the "They don't matter anymore" Department of the Department of "Who Cares what you think".
Posted by: Beau || 04/25/2019 2:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Not surprising. I only hope their political and social star is falling. Fast.

Worthless fucks
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/25/2019 9:19 Comments || Top||

#4  They're all on the same page, whether the present themselves as (D) or (R).

This was one of the big takeaways from the last election. There are no opposite sides anymore, it's all just The Show. It's like big-time wrestling. you've got the faces (Dems) and the heels (Pubs), the good guys and the bad guys, cast as opponents, but both playing their part to advance the story line.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/25/2019 9:45 Comments || Top||

#5  I doubt Trump was fond of McStain as he was a part of the cabal set-up to take down Trump.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/25/2019 10:19 Comments || Top||

#6  The McCains were always Dems at heart. Not really interesting, other than they finally came out of the closet.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/25/2019 10:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Can we stop pretending the McCains are conservatives.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/25/2019 12:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Can we stop pretending he was a Republican???
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 04/25/2019 13:38 Comments || Top||

#9  With the campaign slogan of "Back the Bidet!!!!"
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/25/2019 15:06 Comments || Top||

#10  Can we stop pretending McCain was human?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/25/2019 16:20 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2019-04-25
  Trump says sending ‘armed soldiers’ to US-Mexico border
Wed 2019-04-24
  Saudi Arabia beheads 37 for terrorism crimes, most of them minority Shiites
Tue 2019-04-23
  IS claims Sri Lanka blasts
Mon 2019-04-22
  Sri Lanka explosions, 24 arrested, 290+ dead, 8 kabooms
Sun 2019-04-21
  3 churches bombed at Easter services in Sri Lanka 262 Dead
Sat 2019-04-20
  Woman killed after shots fired during violent riots in Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Fri 2019-04-19
  Islamic State Declared A New Wilaya In Africa
Thu 2019-04-18
  German Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Recruiting ISIS Members To Syria
Wed 2019-04-17
  Houthis in Yemen introduced a new airburst ballistic missile that spreads 14,000 pieces of shrapnel over a large area
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  Violence and dozens of arson attacks in Copenhagen after anti-Islam politician throws Koran in migrant neighbourhood
Mon 2019-04-15
  Notre Dame Cathedral is burning
Sun 2019-04-14
  Taliban’s shadow governor for Helmand succumbs to injuries sustained in an airstrike
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  Algerian police fire water cannon at protesters
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  Sudan President al-Bashir officially arrested
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  Ecuador withdraws asylum from Julian Assange, arrested by UK police

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