Prosecutors said James improperly steered properties to Riley, 38, and that she, with James' help, quickly resold them at much higher prices.
Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James is scheduled to appear in federal court today for the first of two federal corruption trials. Jury selection will begin as the first 150 prospective jurors They are expected to be asked about issues ranging from newspaper reading habits and occupations to their views on race and extramarital affairs. ... Prosecutors said James improperly steered properties to Riley, 38, and that she, with James' help, quickly resold them at much higher prices.
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Not another black male Mayor, answering allegations or charges from the Feds? What the hell is going on ? Is J. Edgar back?
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black mayor james in trouble of wrong doing? mayor of detroit lies under oath? black brothers on a roll of corruption or what? tax dollars hard at work! yeah mayor of detroit you know the city that graduates 24.6 negro's from school has cost city over nine million dollars in court cost and settlements SUED!PEOPLE STARTING PETITION TO REMOVE THIS SCUM FROM OFFICE.reminds me of obama and his pal in chicago? how much is it going to cost newark in taxes this sharp james? obama brothers making history? black power!160 cases of latent TB among the facilitys 500 somali workers tyson's foods! just thought i throw that one in too! black power! ropes offend them! filth corruption 24.6 graduate reality = obama for president.michigan little big horn AMEN.
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It's amazing how city government seems to attract the corruptible. I remember some years ago when the city of Lackawanna (of Lackawanna Six fame) had three mayors: the outgoing one who'd lost the election refused to step down, the incoming winner of the election insisted on his rights, and a third man whose reason for claiming the job I never could figure out clamoured for recognition. Somehow, even though the Bethlehem Steel plant had closed, the job was still exceedingly lucrative beyond the pitiful salary the city could afford. And between the unions, the Poles, and the Italians, the African-Americans and the Yemenis don't have a chance to get their hands on the loot.
Riley, a 38-year old entrepreneur from Jersey City, also was charged in the indictment with violating tax laws and fraud relating to federal housing assistance. She was arrested by IRS-CID agents in Jersey City this afternoon. Her attorney, Gerald Krovatin, called Riley "a strong and independent woman who has accomplished much" and who will ultimately be cleared of the "scurrilous charges."
I think "scurrilous" is lawyerese for "make us a deal"...
A 40-year-old Port Townsend man was arrested Monday, less than a half-hour after a brazen midmorning robbery at a downtown bank a block from the man's apartment. Just before the robbery, witnesses said Nance was seen crouching down in front of the bank, according to Green. Hmmm...signs and portents?
After the heist, he allegedly fled east on Taylor toward the Admiralty Apartments. "People thought it was a little odd when they watched him pull a stocking over his head," said Green, who with Officer Nate Yep, signs and portents all right.
Holmes arrested Nance near his room at the Admiralty Apartments, 129 Taylor St. "The guy came downstairs, and we determined it was him," said Green, adding that Nance was wearing the same clothes that witnesses described.
"I'd recognize that stocking mask anywhere, officer!"
Green said witnesses near the scene told police where the suspect ran. "People were pointing at the [apartment] building, saying, 'He went there,'" said Green, who praised witnesses for their cooperation. "We probably had about a half-dozen people point that he went that way."
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Just across the water from my house; P.T. is a typical hippe haven, but you should hear them whine now that the ferry system is on its arse and the Kapitalistick dollars are not flowing.
You knew this had to happen - it is obviously the response to reaching the critical mass of Muslims.
The largest earthquake to have struck England and Wales in 25 years has caused millions of pounds of damage. The quake caused damage in Barnsley.
The Association of British Insurers said the cost to businesses and householders is "likely to run into the low tens of millions of pounds". The clear-up is continuing as buildings are checked for structural damage.
The quake struck at 12.56am, triggering hundreds of calls to emergency services across the country. Measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale, its epicentre was recorded five miles east of Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, and 14 miles south-west of Grimsby.
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And now you know, Virginia, why OWG MADONNA'S MOM, aka OWG "THE WOMAN", wants to buy beachfront property in Britain despite knowing the effects of GLOBAL WARMING vv quakes + rising sea levels, etc. SHE WANTS TO SWIM IN THE ATLANTIC AND ENGLISH CHANNEL, BUT I DON'T THINK HER INTENT WAS FOR THE SEA TO BE SO CLOSE, OR SO HIGH.
MEH, WHY NOT - INDONESIAN-STYLE SEA HOUSES ON STILTS/PILLARS ON A FUTURE GUAM, SO WHY NOT FLOATING ELEVATOR HOUSES IN A FUTURE BRITAIN???
OWG-NWO FEMALE LOGIC > STILL DESIRES TO USE MALE/MAN MONEY TO BUY PROPERTY ON LAND SHE KNOWS IS GONNA SINK???
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Sadly, JosephM, with global cooling already started, her beachfront property will instead be a few miles inland. Much safer, though, should there be a tsunami in the Atlantic. ;-)
The planet still ringing from the quake that caused the Indonesian tsunami?
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According to the Wikipedia article on the earthquake, it may have been caused by post glacial rebound - in other words, due to Global Warming!!!!!!!!
I blame George Bush for not ratifying Kyoto.
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Youssif happily pulls off his plastic face mask and pats his cheeks, which were once covered by horrific burns.
"No hurt," the 5-year-old Iraqi boy says in English. "No hurt."
He then shows off his right hand. It too had been marred by hardened scar tissue after he was attacked by masked men outside his central Baghdad home January 15, 2007. Now, his hand is smooth.
Youssif flashes a proud grin.
A few moments later, he darts off and comes back toting his kindergarten portfolio. In less than a month of schooling, he's now writing the alphabet in upper- and lowercase.
He reads a book, repeating each word after the narrator. When he gets to the word "you," he gets tickled. He points at the name "Youssif" and then covers the final four letters.
"You," he says.
Youssif began attending an American school just last month, one year to the day after he was so savagely attacked in Baghdad. In a recent letter to those who have helped his son, Youssif's father described the anniversary as a "very hard day" to endure but one that also brought joy.
"But this year, it was the day for another miracle, Youssif's first day of kindergarten. It was a very happy day," Youssif's father said.
Youssif begins each day with his father strapping him into a bike trailer. Dad then pedals him to school.
On one recent outing, his dad's mobile phone blared Arabic music as Youssif quietly sat in the back, a helmet securely strapped to his head, the wind whirling past.
As soon as they reached the school, Youssif's slow walk away from his father, his head held down, quickly changed into a sprint toward his classroom, and all you could see was the big red "S" on his Superman backpack flying away.
"Harry," Youssif says in a small, muffled tone, reading the writing on the dry-erase board after receiving a little help from some classmates seated on the rug.
He then receives a congratulatory high-five from one of his kindergarten teachers.
Youssif is adjusting well to school, able to write out the alphabet and count to 12 without hesitation. He always finishes with an accomplished sigh, wide eyes and a smile so big, it's as if he is making up for the 10 months he was not able to smile.
He is quick to show the pencil box on his desk, pointing to his name written on it and then pointing to himself with the same tiny finger and nodding his head, letting you know that it is his.
"The kids love Youssif. They get more excited than he does when he learns a new word in English, and they brag about it for hours," the mother of a classmate says.
Youssif is attending the school thanks to help from the Children's Burn Foundation, the Grossman Burn Center and hundreds of thousands of dollars donated by you, the CNN.com user, to help bring him and his family to the United States for treatment.
Youssif has undergone more than half a dozen surgeries. One removed the most massive scarring, which stretched about half a foot, from one of his ears to below his chin.
He could undergo as many as 12 more procedures, his doctors say, mostly to tweak scars. His right ear has swelled, and doctors are monitoring it to figure out the best way to keep it in check. He wears a clear plastic face mask for much of the day to keep his skin tight and to allow it to heal correctly.
But the young boy's transformation -- both in looks and in spirit -- is nothing short of remarkable.
Back at his apartment, Youssif peels a clementine. He uses exaggerated motions as he plops each section in his mouth. At one point, he places his hand on his hip and taps his foot, waiting for an acknowledgment of this feat.
When he came to America in September, he couldn't eat -- or at least not like this. He smiles again.
"Now, Youssif eats anything he wants, because he can open and close his mouth," his father said in the letter. "I have begun to see my son's lively spirit return. The surgeries have removed more than just external scars, they are also beginning to remove his internal scars.
"A few weeks ago we went to the park and Youssif rode on the merry-go-round. Every time he passed by, he shrieked and laughed and waved wildly to me. I thought my heart would burst with happiness."
A 107- year-old spiritual healer was gunned down by an unidentified assailant Tuesday at his house within the jurisdiction of Orangi Town Police Station (PS). The body of Shabbir Alam, alias Ittar waley baba, son of Nazeer Alam, was found at his house located in sector 7-A Mustafabad. His son informed the police and the body was moved to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for an autopsy.
The incident took place when Shabbir was working inside his room, said DSP Qaiser Ali Shah. He was shot twice and died on the spot. He was the father of two married daughters and one son, none of who were present at the time of his death.
According to initial investigation, the DSP said, an unidentified person came inside the house and opened fire on Shabbir and managed to flee from the scene without being seen. Answering a question, the DSP replied, We are not sure of the motive behind the murder.
Shah said that Shabbir was a spiritual healer and made potions for everyday problems including family, financial and love problems. The majority of people, especially women, came here to get special potions made, said Shah. The DSP also interceded that Shabbir could not have misbehaved with any woman at this age because of which somebody killed him. However, the failure of a potion or personal grudge and jealousy could have motivated someone.
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The DSP also interceded that Shabbir could not have misbehaved with any woman at this age because of which somebody killed him
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In one of those late-night dormitory bull sessions back when I was in undergrad and not as mature as I am today, the question arose, "How do you want to die?"
My answer: "Shot by a jealous husband on my 104th birthday, while pulling on my trousers."
Life imitates . . . I dunno.
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He's 107, something he was drinking obviously wasn't bad.
I bet it was someone who shot him because he's wasn't Islamic enough.
Warpaint, rock group The Black Crowes first new release in seven years, has been given two-and-a-half stars out of five by Maxim magazine. The only problem is the magazine hadnt actually heard the album.
The review, written for the magazines March issue, says the new album hasnt left Chris Robinson and the gang much room for growth, but Black Crowes manager Pete Angelus says the writer never heard the album because advance copies werent made available. In a statement on the bands web site, Angelus writes, When confronted with the fact that they never heard the album they are claiming to review in their music section--with a star rating, no less--they attempt to explain that it was an educated guess.
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If you can't trust the music critics at Maxim magazine, who can you trust...
"In a response to the LA Times editorial on copyright which we discussed a week ago, the paper published a response arguing: 'If Intellectual Property is actually property, why isn't it covered by a property tax?' If copyright maintenance involved paying a fee and registration, this would keep Mickey Mouse safely protected by copyright, while ensuring that works that are no longer economically relevant to the copyright holder pass into the public domain, where the residual social value can serve the real purpose of copyright: to enhance the progress of science and useful arts. Disclaimer: the author is my father."
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(I should point out that this is the Slashdot discussion and not me or my Point of View.)
It will be interesting to see the positions of the two socialists/communists running on the Democratic party on this issue. I am sure Hillary will enjoy any new tax that can be invented.
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The founding fathers wanted to promote the arts and sciences, but were also loath to the centuries of royal charters and patents that granted generational privilege that was unending. Thirty years was the time when the property went public. If you can't make your money in that that time, you're in the wrong business. The Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act was a classical example of your Congress literally being bought by the gold dumped into their reelection funds. Another reason to quit living in the make believe world of citizen representatives, who plant in the spring, legislate in June or July, and return in the fall to harvest. We can pay the bums a million a year, and maybe, just maybe they'll work for us and not their benefactors. At a million a year, we'll at least get a greater selection in the process and there'll be someone who's hungry enough on their tail to keep them really in line come the next election.
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Instead of a tax, I have long advocated making copyright like the 19th Century US Mining Law (still in use, in modified form).
Anyone can copyright, but they have to retail what they copyright every year, to a certain amount of money, or lose their market protection from others retailing it.
This is like Mining Law, in which you can stake a claim, but you have to either improve that claim or show a profit from it, each and every year, or you lose it.
What this law would do would be to protect the interest of copyrighted materials of high value to a company or individual, but if they just wanted to store it away and not sell it, they would lose government protection of that product.
A good example of this in practice is Mickey Mouse, that Disney makes a lot of money from every year, vs. the Disney movie "Song of the South", that Disney refuses to sell, even though there is considerable market demand for it.
Disney would definitely keep its Mickey Mouse copyright, but they would have a "use it or lose it" decision with Song of the South.
A law like this would mean that the huge libraries of movies, music, and books would *have* to be sold each year by their copyright owner, or else anyone who wanted to could sell them. No more government protection to keep products off the market.
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Might be able to pull this off with patents. Trademarks already expire if unused.
Won't work with copyright due to the Bern Convention, which basically makes your copyright good in every signatory country (nearly all countries that matter). The Convention requires that your local copyright law provide a basic minimum level of protection or you don't get to play, and what constitutes a minimum level is defined more or less by the French. Hence we have longer and longer copyright terms, no formalities, moral rights and other nonsense.
To sum up, if we lose protection under the Bern Convention our copyrights aren't worth much - international markets are bigger than just the US market. And the Convention won't allow us to add requirements to copyright law like the proposed tax.
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Iblis, you've just described the Chinese. It doesn't work in the international community. And everyone is whistling past the graveyard because no one is really willing to call them on it. It is wonderful however in thumping those within your own border [within reach].
To be fair, the US didn't have much of a copyright law during the 19th century. Most books then came from the UK, and we didn't want to pay perfectly good money to the Brits for something so easily copied for free. Charles Dickens complained bitterly about it when he toured the US.
Now the shoe is on the other foot. Most of the copyrightable media (in dollar terms) comes from the US, and China doesn't want to pay for it. That said, plenty of foreign nations do pay, and our software and media companies would be pretty upset about losing their European profits, for example.
Besides, taxing copyright in the US would do nothing to decrease Chinese piracy, espionage and theft.
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That said, plenty of foreign nations do pay, and our software and media companies would be pretty upset about losing their European profits, for example.
So what you're saying is we should give up being Americans and enjoy being Europeans [which is what our ancestors came here to get away from] so that 'businesses' can collect levies beyond 30 years?
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.
A 40-year-old Port Townsend man was arrested Monday, less than a half-hour after a brazen midmorning robbery at a downtown bank a block from the man's apartment. Just before the robbery, witnesses said Nance was seen crouching down in front of the bank, according to Green.
A 107- year-old spiritual healer was gunned down by an unidentified assailant Tuesday at his house within the jurisdiction of Orangi Town Police Station (PS). The body of Shabbir Alam, alias Ittar waley baba, son of Nazeer Alam, was found at his house located in sector 7-A Mustafabad. His son informed the police and the body was moved to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for an autopsy. 
