Welcome home back, Marion!
WASHINGTON -- Federal prosecutors said Councilman Marion Barry failed to file his tax returns on time for a seventh year in a row, and they asked a judge to send the former mayor to jail. Oh, damn! Did I forget to do that again? Damn!
In a court document filed Wednesday, prosecutors said Barry, who last year got probation instead of incarceration in a criminal tax case, "has not acted like a person who has been given the opportunity of probation and should not be treated like one." Obviously, these crackers don't know who I am...
Barry pleaded guilty in 2005 to misdemeanors for failing to file tax returns covering 1999 to 2004. As part of his plea bargain, Barry agreed to file future federal and local tax returns annually. Prosecutors now charge that Barry missed deadlines for filing federal and D.C. tax returns for 2005. They should take this here matter up with my accountant, Filin B. Hard...
Assistant U.S. Attorneys James W. Cooper and Thomas E. Zeno argued that Barry should be incarcerated as a way of "making clear to this defendant that he is not above the law." Incarcerated. Incarcerated in the penitentiary...
Barry, 71, said Thursday that he has "met every condition of my probation. They're trying to harass me and embarrass me, and they ought to stop it," Barry told WUSA-TV. I blame THE MAN!!!
In the legal memo to U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson, prosecutors said they "take no joy" in seeking the jail sentence, and they noted Barry's public service as a civil rights activist and his four terms as D.C. mayor. ...and, of course, world renowned crack addict.
No new charges were filed against Barry, but prosecutors said he committed two new crimes by missing the deadline for his 2005 taxes while on probation. No hearing date was set. The memo, filed a month after prosecutors first sought to revoke Barry's probation, marks the first time the U.S. attorney's office has called for jail time for Barry in the case. Can't we all just, like,..get along?
Barry has gone behind bars before. After he was famously videotaped smoking crack in a 1990 FBI sting operation, Barry served six months in prison. Bitch probably set me up for this too...
Barry earned nearly $93,000 as a council member in 2005 but filed neither return on time, prosecutors said. The IRS gave him an extension until Oct. 15, after he asked for more time, but he also missed that deadline, authorities said. Barry filed the 2005 returns last month after prosecutors asked for his probation to be revoked. Only two years late? Looks like Marion's making progress.
It was not the most romantic of honeymoons. Police said a groom is in jail, accused of trying to run over his new wife after a weekend wedding in Las Vegas. "We have a wedding certificate for [March] 4th. They were still honeymooning when he ran her over," said Lieutenant Paul Jaroscak, a spokesperson for the Salt Lake County sheriff's office.
Both have jail records and are "well known to the sheriff's office", he said.
Police received an emergency call on Monday from someone reporting a couple fighting in a car as they drove about 16km south-east of Salt Lake City. Katie Martindale (29) apparently got out of the car and started to walk away when James Olwine (33) drove off the road and hit her with the car, pushing her into a snow bank, Jaroscak said. Martindale was not seriously injured but might have a broken leg, Jaroscak said.
Olwine was booked into the county jail for investigation of charges of aggravated assault with a vehicle, the lieutenant said. He has not had a court appearance. Authorities said they did not know whether he had an attorney. Both have jail records and are "well known to the sheriff's office", he said.
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The black boxes from the Garuda plane that crashed in Yogyakarta two days ago have arrived at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau's (ATSB) head offices in Canberra. The boxes, a cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, will help investigators piece together the events leading up to the crash that killed more than 20 people. Once the recorders are inspected, investigators will be able to determine if any flight data can be retrieved.
The pilots of the Garuda flight have blamed a sudden strong wind gust for the crash at Yogyakarta airport. But Indonesia's national police spokesman has cited human error as the best initial assessment.
Five Australians survived the crash and five others are missing, presumed dead.
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty says many witnesses have already given accounts of the lead-up to the crash but the black box recorder will give an objective indication of what occurred. "It takes some time to work through all the pieces of detail and all the pieces of evidence until we can be firm on what actually has occurred," he said. "That is a source of frustration.
"Speculation doesn't help because we would have had a version of events that started basically from last Wednesday to a version of events that will finally appear, in terms of Australia, before one of our coroners."
ATSB spokesman Joe Hattley says it could take months for a full analysis of the flight recorders. "The guys will be working over the weekend to download these particular recorders," he said. "Then we hope to get some preliminary information back to the investigation team probably early on next week.
"The analysis of that information will then take a lot longer and you're talking months."
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If Australia has the black boxes, why bother painting over the logo and number on the tail thingy? It's like a cat trying to scratch over a mistake on a tile floor.
Garuda is an Indonesian Airlines, not an Indian one. The boxes were sent to Australia because that is the nearest place with the necessary technical expertise to do the analysis. WTF?
They're youths, so we don't know their names aren't Ahmad and Muhammad, but one assumes not. This time. But if a couple of kids can steal a train on a lark how hard could it be for an Al Quaeda team to steal one with a plan? Maybe a freight full of chemical tanks?
NELSONVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Two Ohio teenagers may have thought they were commandeering a train to freedom, but their stunt only landed them back in detention.
The boys, ages 16 and 13, pleaded guilty in Athens County Juvenile Court yesterday to aggravated theft, escape and breaking and entering. Authorities claimed the two boys stole away from a nearby youth correction center then fired up the engine of the 1952 Hocking Valley Scenic Railway.
The two traveled eleven miles down the track before stopping for fallen branches laying across the line. Authorities said the older teen grew up around trains, so he knew how to start the locomotive and knew to blow the horn at crossings.
The boys were taken back to their home counties - Scioto and Lawrence - where a juvenile judge will decide their punishments.
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Wasn't a 'train', but an engine. A GP-7, to be exact, belonging to a tourist/musueum railroad run by volunteers. Not exactly the Union Pacific.
Without going into a lot of detail, modern locomotives are a bit harder to take for a joyride. But methinks the railroads (including the HV) will be doing security reviews.
Hundreds of people have rushed to a village in eastern India to see a male calf defy its herbivore nature by eating live chicks. Poultry farmer Ajit Ghosh said he discovered the calf's strange behaviour after dozens of his newborn chickens went missing from his combined cow shed and chicken coop.
"I guess the calf was a tiger in his previous birth," he said. "We were shocked to see that our one-month-old calf sneaked up to the coop, caught a little chick like a jungle cat and gobbled it up alive in seconds."
A police superintendent in India's West Bengal state said hundreds of people have been flocking to the farm in Chandpur, with a veterinarian also called in to investigate.
"If I had not seen the calf chewing up a chicken, I could not believe it," Rajesh Kumar Singh said.
Umapati Chatterjee, a doctor at a veterinary hospital in Kolkata, said there may be a scientific reason for the behaviour. "I think the calf is suffering from pika, a rare disease caused by deficency of salt and other minerals," Chatterjee said.
In majority Hindu India, the cow is revered as a sacred animal. Ghosh said his calf has now been named Lal ('Red'), after the colour which symbolises strength. -- AFP
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I wonder, will this cow be the new spoke's cow for Chick-Fil-A? And will PETA, in their usual moronic stupidity, try to have the cow put into 'therapy'?
Three Muslim mothers who persuaded their daughters to have sex with their father wept in a Singapore court when the rape victims pleaded for leniency for the women, news reports said on Thursday.
The three wives are charged with abetting the 46-year-old businessman and religious teacher in committing incest between December 2003 and June 2005.
Letters written by the daughters were read out in district court on Wednesday, The Straits Times reported. The three mothers pleaded guilty and will be sentenced on March 21.
The father is serving a 32-year jail sentence with 24 strokes of the cane for raping his young daughters.
The victims told of their mothers love in spite of what had happened to them, the newspaper reported, and expressed worries that they and their younger siblings would suffer even more if their mothers were jailed.
My mother is not to be blamed for what happened to me, according to one letter cited by the paper. She herself is a victim. She was really being manipulated heavily by my father.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Eugene Lee said the husband told his multiple wives and scores of children that according to the Quran, a father owned his children and this extended to having sex with his daughters, the report said.
The three women, aged 39, 38 and 41, had abused their daughters trust, Lee said.
The offences came to light in June 2005 when the daughter of the first wife, then 15, made a police report. Investigations showed that five of her half-sisters also had sex with their father.
Lee said the three women married the man in 1988 and 1989. Two of the daughters became pregnant and underwent abortions.
The very sad story is that this fire killed eight children and one adult. The relationships are hard to untangle, but Mr. Magassa brought one wife to the States years ago, produced seven kids, and acquired another wife and four more kids while living in NYC. Five of the dead children were with his number one wife, and the other three kids were the children of Mr. Magassa's cousin who also lived in the house. Altogether there were 22 people (including 17 children) living there.
The parts of the story ringing my alarm bells are, in part:
1. Why is he allowed to have two wives?
2. He is doing well enough to be overseas "on business". Why does his family have to live in an overcrowded fire trap?
3. The ususal unease about the shariah lifestyle being supported and encouraged in the USA.
Moussa Magassa's tan brick townhouse in the Highbridge section of the Bronx didn't look like much from the outside.
But to fellow immigrants from the West African nation of Mali, it stood out as a mini-Ellis Island. Over steaming plates of spicy lamb and rice, Magassa helped streams of new immigrants from his impoverished homeland find papers, a place to stay or simply a way to survive another week in a cold and unforgiving land. "This guy, we call him the chief because he was the first one to come here," said Moussa Dukuray, a family friend. "He is responsible for everyone who came after him. People would come to him, and he would always help them."
When a countryman needed immigration papers, Magassa, who imports and exports cars, helped find a lawyer. If they lost a job, he helped them pay the rent. If anything went wrong back in their region, he called a community meeting - and no one needed to ask twice where it would be held.
Yet when it was his hour of desperate need, Magassa was thousands of miles away - helpless to save his own family when a deadly fire swept through his home, near Yankee Stadium. Magassa, whose two wives and nearly a dozen children lived in the building, was racing back from Mali, where he was traveling on business. Five of Magassa's children died in the blaze. His wife, Manthia, had the wrenching task of identifying the children's bodies.
"Like any father, he's very sad," said Bourema Niambele of the High Council of Mali, a community group of which Magassa was treasurer. "But we are Muslims and when something bad happens we have to have faith in God."
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How many of those he helped were here legally? Mr. Magassa and his first wife may find themselves on a plane back to Mali earlier than he planned... hopefully along with many of those he "helped".
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What's in the cars he "imports and exports"? from Mali? Lucrative business if he can disappear for business trips. And a second wife. Magassa's problems may only be starting.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
It was not the most romantic of honeymoons. Police said a groom is in jail, accused of trying to run over his new wife after a weekend wedding in Las Vegas. "We have a wedding certificate for [March] 4th. They were still honeymooning when he ran her over," said Lieutenant Paul Jaroscak, a spokesperson for the Salt Lake County sheriff's office.
The black boxes from the Garuda plane that crashed in Yogyakarta two days ago have arrived at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau's (ATSB) head offices in Canberra. The boxes, a cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, will help investigators piece together the events leading up to the crash that killed more than 20 people. Once the recorders are inspected, investigators will be able to determine if any flight data can be retrieved. 
