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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Epstein’s ponzi scheme partner says Ghislaine Maxwell will ‘crack in two seconds’ and cooperate with feds
[BIZPACREVIEW] Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein
...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whores sex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made att least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened...
’s cohort Ghislaine Maxwell will fully cooperate with authorities, according to Epstein’s Ponzi scheme partner Steven Hoffenberg.

A grand jury indicted the British socialite and heiress on charges of conspiracy to entice minors to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors for illegal sex acts, transportation of a minor to engage in illegal sex acts, and perjury. She was arrested at 8:30 am Thursday morning in Bradford, New Hampshire.

Seventy-five-year-old Hoffenberg, who served 18 years in prison for criminal masterminding one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history with Epstein, told The Sun that Maxwell will "totally cooperate" with authorities. Epstein avoided jail time for his role in the Ponzi scheme, according to Hoffenberg, but later died of apparent suicide in a New York City jail in August 2019 after being convicted of sex crimes.

"They knew where she was all the time [in New Hampshire]," Hoffenberg told the publication. "It was a question if America was going to take the case or not, now America has made up its mind to take the case."

Hoffenberg reportedly maintains contact with Maxwell’s spokesperson, and told the Sun that Maxwell did not think she would be arrested.

"If they keep her in prison, she’ll crack in two seconds," he said. "She’s not able to take that sort of cruel punishment, prison is too tough and hard, she’ll have to be in solitary confinement, and she’ll snap."

"She’s going to cooperate and be very important," he added, before noting that her words might implicate high profile people including the UK’s Prince Andrew. "Andrew may be very concerned, and there’s a lot of people very worried, a lot of powerful people been named [in the scandal], and she knows everything."
Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "If they keep her in prison, she’ll crack in two seconds," he said. "She’s not able to take that sort of cruel punishment, prison is too tough and hard, she’ll have to be in solitary confinement, and she’ll snap."

Epstein couldn't take it either. He "cracked" as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/04/2020 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  What a f'ed up family. Her daddy died of mysterious circumstances and was said to be an associate of Bill Browser (loved by McCain) of Magnitsky game.
Posted by: Clem || 07/04/2020 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, but: Exclusive: Ghislaine Maxwell 'won't sell Prince Andrew out'

"Socialite will never offer information on the Duke of York as part of a plea deal, insists one of her closest friends"

Nice chair pic at the link...
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/04/2020 20:04 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Newsom Bans Singing In Houses Of Worship After Downplaying Spread Of Coronavirus At Protests
[DAILYWIRE] Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has issued new restrictions limiting the reopening of the economy in nearly 20 counties across the Golden State. One of the more controversial measures introduced Thursday will ban singing and chanting at houses of worships, which are already restricted to allowing 25% of guests or just 100 worshippers (whichever is lower). The Sacramento Bee reported that in late May, Newsom simply encouraged houses of worship to “strongly consider discontinuing singing, group recitation, and other practices and performances.”

The outlet also reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that singing and shouting “can spread the coronavirus just as easily as coughing or sneezing.”
Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lotta Diocletians in the Dems.
Posted by: charger || 07/04/2020 1:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe he should try banning the Muslim call to prayer.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/04/2020 1:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Clearly he hates the protesters and wants them to die horribly, while cherishing the lives of church-goers. Someone should ask him about that at a press conference.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/04/2020 3:41 Comments || Top||


#5  GREAT idea, #2 Rambler! :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 07/04/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Signed his recall petition yesterday...
Posted by: crazyhorse || 07/04/2020 12:46 Comments || Top||

#7  They have all of our choir members too scared to sing anyway.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/04/2020 12:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Very good idea to avoid singing in closed spaces. You should remember the choir practice in Washington state (after which many died) and the funeral in Georgia (ditto). I'd be out of there in a heartbeat.
Posted by: KBK || 07/04/2020 16:50 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China claims Vladivostok
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 07/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  The Chinese have Port Arthur. What more do they want?
Posted by: Clem || 07/04/2020 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  They apparently want as many distractions and/or opportunities for expansion as possible.
Posted by: charger || 07/04/2020 1:15 Comments || Top||

#3  The Koreans owned it first! See the ancient maps where Korea own a really large chunk of what is now northern China. The Chinese claim that the Koreans were vassals (China claims everybody on their borders was a vassal!) so the land is Chinese. Convenient, that...
Posted by: magpie || 07/04/2020 2:29 Comments || Top||

#4  The Chinese will be claiming San Francisco any time now. They have already claimed the Senator from SF.
Posted by: Shating Turkeyneck1016 || 07/04/2020 3:15 Comments || Top||

#5  All Under Heaven.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 07/04/2020 4:17 Comments || Top||

#6  hina is picking a fight with everybody! Seems the food shortage and the over abundance of males is really hurting China. So it appears that China is seeking a war to reduce the male populace and alleviate the food shortage as a result.

Waiting to see how this will backfire on the China communist party.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/04/2020 4:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Long past time to understand that China is not a Soviet Union with an epicanthic fold. China is a rogue nation like Iran or Nazi Germany - only more dangerous.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 07/04/2020 4:59 Comments || Top||

#8  ...made so by the 'best and brightest' of Washington. See, you don't have to be an unwashed punk out to destroy the record of 4,000 years of history and human behavior. You can be a well placed denizen of the ruling caste to just ignore it, for the right price.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/04/2020 7:13 Comments || Top||

#9  #8 IMO, while US elites contributed, they can't take ALL the credit. The potential has to have been there in the first place. Otherwise it'd work like nation building in ME/Afghanistan did.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/04/2020 9:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Given all this BS about who owns what I just want to know when the Mongols get Persia back.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/04/2020 10:07 Comments || Top||

#11  "China claims Vladivostok"

Vlad won't like that. :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 07/04/2020 10:39 Comments || Top||

#12  And when Crimea goes back to Russia. Oh, wait....
Posted by: Clem || 07/04/2020 14:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
This is CNN
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But when Obumble stood before Mt. Rushmore in 2008, they gushed with praise. No mention of slave owners or native Americans.
Posted by: Dave D. || 07/04/2020 9:04 Comments || Top||

#2  The land her house stands on wasn't wrestled from "native Americans"?

p.s. No such thing as "Native Americans" --- we all evolved in Africa, and are invaders everyplace else.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 07/04/2020 9:12 Comments || Top||

#3  99% of Americans are not 'grappling with racial reconing'.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/04/2020 9:42 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Live within 100 miles of Atlanta and the only thing you'll be 'grappling' with is your shot group.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/04/2020 9:44 Comments || Top||

#5  and on land wrestled away from Native Americans.

That's a big improvement over 'land stolen from noble indigenous peoples' - I'll take it!
Posted by: Raj || 07/04/2020 10:15 Comments || Top||

#6  So are they gonna give up their cushy offices in Manhattan (reportedly bought for $24) or Atlanta?
Posted by: Warthog || 07/04/2020 11:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Cnn center is Atlanta is already up for sale.
Posted by: Chris || 07/04/2020 11:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Hate makes me strong. Keep it up CNN, just keep it up....
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/04/2020 13:14 Comments || Top||


Hunter Biden took 411 flights to 29 countries on govt aircraft
[TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Initiate a legal and OMB review. Invoice the SOB for the ones found to be inappropriate.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/04/2020 7:26 Comments || Top||

#2  How many trips included his SS handlers?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/04/2020 8:01 Comments || Top||


Duckworth to Block Promotions for 1,123 Military Officers Unless Esper Promotes Vindman
[BREITBART] Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) announced Thursday that she would block the promotions of 1,123 senior military officers until Defense Secretary Mark Esper promises that he will promote Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who is believed to have communicated with the "whistleblower" that sparked Trump’s impeachment.
Lt. Col Sausage disparaged our country to furriners, admittedly went outside his chain of command and conspired to thwart CiC's policy to advance his own. He can get f*cked. So can she.
Her office called the move "unprecedented" but said it came in response to reports of "political interference in military matters" by Trump — the commander in chief.

The statement said Trump "may be seeking" to retaliate against Vindman for testifying against him. During the impeachment hearings, Vindman testified that he was listening to the call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and later talked about it to others — including an intelligence official believed to be the whistleblower.

Vindman notably showed up for his testimony in a military uniform that he was not required to wear. An Army front man confirmed that Vindman was only required to abide by the dress code of the NSC, where he wore civilian attire. The left praised Vindman as a hero.
Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So she's going to interfere with promotions for political reasons?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/04/2020 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm sure Vindman's OER's are exemplary, so a promotion for Vindman should not be a concern.
Posted by: Clem || 07/04/2020 1:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump: "Go ahead babe, make my day!".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 07/04/2020 3:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Her office called the move "unprecedented"

Not "unprecendented" at all! If Vindman is under official investigation, his personnel file is "FLAGGED." Favorable personnel actions are suspended for flagged files. A very routine action.

What's the lizzardly SOB's status? Is he under investigation? His file filed "flagged" for fat-boy program? No PT Test? Other reason(s) ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/04/2020 7:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Tailwind. You get what you tolerate. A Article 32 investigation should have been conducted on the man's conduct IAW the law and regulations. The chairborne warriors of the Military District Washington were more concerned about appearance rather than doing what the system called for. Now you get this.

We have too many generals per soldier than we had in WWII. The vast majority of the generals at that time were fighters not politicians. The ratio is now inverse to that. Too many uniform bureaucrats filling too many administrative 'commands.'
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/04/2020 7:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Ditto P2k. I suspect no investigation was or will be conducted on this sheep dipped POS. He hasn't worked for the Army in many years. Too many US embassy assignments on his Officer Record Brief (ORB).
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/04/2020 7:15 Comments || Top||

#7  oops, should have been Tailhook. coffee stat!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/04/2020 8:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Granted this is Washington..but how on earth does one Senator have the ability to block military promotions?
Posted by: Tom || 07/04/2020 11:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Maybe the same way one Republican senator, a certain John McCain (RINO-AZ), voted against Obamacare repeal.
Posted by: Clem || 07/04/2020 11:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Granted this is Washington..but how on earth does one Senator have the ability to block military promotions?

Yeah, how is that?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/04/2020 13:17 Comments || Top||

#11  My promotion was held up by our !st SGT. Grin.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 07/04/2020 13:45 Comments || Top||

#12  Ignore her silly election stunt. Submit the request and then frock all the folks who passed their PT test. After the election no one will care and the list will pass.
Posted by: rammer || 07/04/2020 14:02 Comments || Top||

#13  So is a fat promotion Vindman's payback for testifying? Just wondering...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/04/2020 14:40 Comments || Top||

#14  No, just an indictment of the officer promotion system.
Posted by: Clem || 07/04/2020 15:48 Comments || Top||

#15  Vindman seems overdue for an overseas assignment. When was his last combat rotation?
Posted by: Shating Turkeyneck1016 || 07/04/2020 17:19 Comments || Top||

#16  I seriously doubt one cock splash can block all those promotions.

How about they drag Tammy behind the ally and dumpster and have a little wall-to-wall counseling session with her?
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/04/2020 18:04 Comments || Top||


With murders up nearly 80% in Chicago last month, Lori Lightfoot blames guns
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Shootings and homicides in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
increased sharply in June compared to the same time last year.

Police data show that shootings in Chicago increased by 75% in June of 2020 compared to June 2019, and murders in the city rose by 78%, according to NBC 5 Chicago.

In June of this year, 424 people were shot, and 89 were murdered — compared to 242 shootings and 50 murders during the same month last year.

Last weekend alone, gun violence killed more than a dozen people, including three children. Twelve people were killed on Father’s Day weekend, including a 3-year-old.

The city plans to deploy 1,200 extra officers over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, according to WGN TV.

When asked about the rise in violence, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat, said it was a "complicated" question and suggested that gun control is the answer.

"That’s a complicated question," Lightfoot said. "We have way too many guns on the streets."

Lightfoot also suggested that the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
shutdowns that kept people inside for months played a role in creating a "perfect storm" while also pointing out the death of George Floyd as an event that sparked anger in the community.
Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ooh! I know! Make guns illegal and very hard for a law abiding citizen to get! That should solve the problem. /sarcasm
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/04/2020 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  The guns have mutated into sentient beings?

First Mayor Groot, now this.

What is in the water in Chicago?
Posted by: charger || 07/04/2020 1:12 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Not sure there are 2 H's with that O there in the Windy City.
Posted by: Clem || 07/04/2020 1:12 Comments || Top||

#4  She looks like the bug guy in Men in Black.
Posted by: gorb || 07/04/2020 4:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Should be some way her foto could be set to music.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/04/2020 7:10 Comments || Top||

#6  What is in the water in Chicago?

Water supply terrorism
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/04/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#7  The problem with making guns scarce is that then the smart move a gang leader will make is to be sure his scarce guns go to his best shooters. Then instead of having 6 killed and 59 wounded on any given day, you get more like 47 killed and 18 wounded. Winning!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/04/2020 8:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Zombie lamprey.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/04/2020 8:14 Comments || Top||

#9  We have way too many guns on the streets."



Well, get the DPW in to sweep them up. Why do you leave guns on the street?
Posted by: AlanC || 07/04/2020 8:47 Comments || Top||

#10  One shot, one kill.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/04/2020 8:48 Comments || Top||

#11  When asked about the rise in violence, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat, said it was a "complicated" question and suggested that gun control is the answer.

"That’s a complicated question," Lightfoot said. "We have way too many guns on the streets."


No, you have way too many violent people on the streets. Do something about the sick "progressive" culture that creates them.
Posted by: Dave D. || 07/04/2020 9:09 Comments || Top||

#12  after Mayor, there's always starring as a Sleestak in the Land Of The Lost remake for her.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 07/04/2020 9:41 Comments || Top||

#13  heyjackass.com - illustrating Chicago values
Posted by: KBK || 07/04/2020 10:47 Comments || Top||

#14  So, when did you last blame the auto manufacturers for all those DUI deaths?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/04/2020 10:47 Comments || Top||

#15  Hidden toll of Chicago's gun violence: $447 million in hospital bills over seven years

In his first 35 minutes at the hospital, Leyva had racked up $21,521 in charges, and by the time he was released three weeks later the bill totaled more than $157,000.

ER costs are out of control, too.
Posted by: KBK || 07/04/2020 11:01 Comments || Top||

#16  It's not just that Dems are running cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, New York. These are bona fide freak shows going on in broad daylight.
Posted by: Clem || 07/04/2020 11:02 Comments || Top||

#17  Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. They don't enforce them. Prosecution, conviction, and incarceration for a meaningful time are rare.

It's my understanding that the Chicago politicians have an understanding with the gangs - they leave the gangs alone and the gangs turn out the vote and make donations.
Posted by: KBK || 07/04/2020 11:06 Comments || Top||

#18  She also blames President Trump
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/04/2020 11:23 Comments || Top||

#19  /\ That's a given!!
Posted by: Clem || 07/04/2020 11:27 Comments || Top||

#20  Gangs and Politicians in Chicago: An Unholy Alliance


While they typically deny it, many public officials—mostly, but not limited to, aldermen, state legislators, and elected judges—routinely seek political support from influential street gangs. Meetings like the ones Baskin organized, for instance, are hardly an anomaly. Gangs can provide a decisive advantage at election time by performing the kinds of chores patronage armies once did.

In some cases, the partnerships extend beyond the elections in troubling—and possibly criminal—ways, greased by the steady and largely secret flow of money from gang leaders to certain politicians and vice versa. The gangs funnel their largess through opaque businesses, or front companies, and through under-the-table payments. In turn, grateful politicians use their payrolls or campaign funds to hire gang members, pull strings for them to get jobs or contracts, or offer other favors (see “Gangs and Politicians: Prisoner Shuffle”).

Most alarming, both law enforcement and gang sources say, is that some politicians ignore the gangs’ criminal activities. Some go so far as to protect gangs from the police, tipping them off to impending raids or to surveillance activities—in effect, creating safe havens in their political districts. And often they chafe at backing tough measures to stem gang activities, advocating instead for superficial solutions that may garner good press but have little impact.
Posted by: KBK || 07/04/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#21  Well, get the DPW in to sweep them up. Why do you leave guns on the street?

A good question and a worthy Snark of the Day.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/04/2020 11:41 Comments || Top||

#22  I should think they did/do the same with the "traditional" mafia as well.
Posted by: Clem || 07/04/2020 11:48 Comments || Top||

#23  In other news, Beetlejuice blames drunk driving fatalities on cars.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 07/04/2020 12:39 Comments || Top||

#24  The city and county prosecutors are simply not prosecuting anyone who is a "minority". They're busier hunting for reasons to prosecute cops and whites.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/04/2020 14:04 Comments || Top||

#25  That's so weird. I would have assumed she would take ownership. The buck stops here and all that.

/sarc
Posted by: Iblis || 07/04/2020 18:01 Comments || Top||



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