BREAKING: Michelle Carter Found GUILTY of Involuntary Manslaughter in Texting Suicide Trial
Posted: June 16, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Think Tank | Tags: Conrad Roy, Criminal charge, District Attorney, Manslaughter, Michelle Carter, Nick Lyon, Suicide, Texting Suicide Leave a comment
Emily Shapiro reports: Michelle Carter, a 20-year-old who was accused of urging her then-boyfriend to commit suicide three years ago, has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by a Massachusetts judge.
Carter broke down crying in court, putting her head in her hands, before Judge Lawrence Moniz announced the verdict.
Conrad Roy was 18 when he died in July 2014 of carbon monoxide poisoning after locking himself in his truck.
The prosecution claimed Carter, then 17, was reckless and caused his death by telling Roy to get back in the car even though they say he didn’t want to die. Read the rest of this entry »
Man Convicted of Killing Former FSU Mascot in Fight Over Gumbo Spices
Posted: April 23, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption | Tags: Denver, District Attorney, Friday (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray], Gumbo, Life imprisonment, murder, Plea, Sheriff, Spices, Weld County 1 Comment
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) – A man charged with fatally stabbing a restaurant worker and former Florida State mascot in a fight over gumbo spices has been found guilty of second-degree murder.
Orlando Ricardo Thompson was found guilty Thursday in the 2015 death of his co-worker Caleb Joshua Halley. Thompson faces up to life in prison.
Panama City police say 33-year-old Halley was working at Buddy’s Seafood Market when he and the 27-year-old Thompson began arguing about how much spice to add to the restaurant’s gumbo. Authorities say Thompson slashed Halley across the torso. He died two days later. The two had also been roommates at one point. Read the rest of this entry »
Santa Fe High School teacher Kelsey Gutierrez Busted for Screwing Two Male Students
Posted: November 29, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Education, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: District Attorney, Kelsey Gutierrez, Prosecutor, Rape, Santa Fe High School, Sexual assault, Sexual Misconduct, Sexual Relationship, Teacher sex Leave a comment
A former Santa Fe High School teacher has been arrested and charged with three counts of having an improper relationship with a student raping a student.
“Gutierrez went to the student’s residence and had sex in his bedroom, court records show.”
Kelsey Gutierrez was arrested Monday, Nov. 28 and is being held in the Galveston County Jail with no bond.
“Investigators said Gutierrez admitted to having a sexual relationship with the student, and that they found evidence on both of their phones about meeting times and the student’s sexual performance.”
Gutierrez was an English teacher at Santa Fe High School, but was terminated after an investigation that began with a tip to authorities, prosecutors said.
“Gutierrez met with the 18-year-old Santa Fe High student around midnight Nov. 12 in the parking lot of the student’s residence. The two began kissing in the front seat of her car, then climbed into the back seat to have sex.”
Four days later, Gutierrez went to the student’s residence and had sex in his bedroom, court records show.
Investigators said Gutierrez admitted to having a sexual relationship with the
student, and that they found evidence on both of their phones about meeting times and the 
student’s sexual performance.
“Court documents state that in 2015 Gutierrez had a sexual relationship with another teen, who was still enrolled as a student at Santa Fe High School at the time.”
In May 2015, Gutierrez picked up the second student in her car, and they drove to a gas station parking lot, where they kissed in her car, according to prosecutors.
A few weeks later, court documents said Gutierrez picked up the second student and parked on the side of the road, where they made out in her car.
“Gutierrez and the second student met up a few months later and hooked up for a fourth time, according to court documents.”
The two ‘hooked up’ again at the second student’s residence, investigators said…(read more)
“As soon as the district learned of the allegations, an internal investigation began including campus administrators and the district police department, and the teacher’s employment with the district ended,” Santa Fe ISD officials said. Read the rest of this entry »
Jason Alexander Arrested: ‘Law & Order’ Director Charged with Child Porn Possession
Posted: July 30, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, U.S. News | Tags: Charles Paul Alexander, Child pornography, District Attorney, Dobbs Ferry, IP address, Jace Alexander, Jane Alexander, Jason Alexander, Law & Order, New York, New York Post, Westchester County Leave a comment
Natalie Stone reports: Law & Order director Jason “Jace” Alexander was arrested Wednesday in New York on child pornography charges, according to the Westchester County District Attorney.
Alexander, who lives in Dobbs Ferry, was charged with felony counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child and possessing an obscene sexual performance by a child after allegedly file-sharing “illegal and obscene performances of sexual conduct by children less than 17 years of age.”
According to the press release from the DA’s office, the office began its investigation July 24 after determining that the IP address associated with the illegal activity was assigned to Alexander’s home.
July 29, 2015 — Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced that Jason Alexander (DOB 04/07/64) of 42 Bellair Dr., Dobbs 
Ferry, New York, was charged today by Felony Complaint with:
- one count of Promoting a Sexual Performance by a Child, a class “D” Felony,
- one count of Possessing an Obscene Sexual Performance by a Child, a class “E” Felony,
for possessing and file-sharing illegal and obscene performances of sexual conduct by children less than seventeen years of age.
On July 24, 2015, an investigator from the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office downloaded child pornography from an IP (internet protocol) address in Westchester County.
The District Attorney’s Office began its investigation and pursuant to a subpoena, it was determined that the IP address was assigned to the defendant’s home.
A search warrant was subsequently executed at the defendant’s home address.
A forensic examination of computers and external hard drives removed from the location revealed digital files of children who are less than sixteen years of age engaged in child pornography.
The defendant was arraigned in Dobbs Ferry Village Court.
Bail was set at $10,000 cash. Read the rest of this entry »
BREAKING: Jury Finds Colorado Theater Shooter Guilty of Murder
Posted: July 16, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption | Tags: 2012 Aurora shooting, Aurora, Capital punishment, Colorado, Cumulus Media Networks, District Attorney, Insanity defense, Jury, Midnight Massacre, murder, The Dark Knight Rises Leave a comment
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Jurors convicted Colorado theater shooter James Holmes on Thursday in the chilling 2012 attack on defenseless moviegoers at a midnight Batman premiere, rejecting defense arguments that the former graduate student was insane and driven to murder by delusions.
The 27-year-old Holmes, who had been working toward his Ph.D. in neuroscience, could get the death penalty for the massacre that left 12 people dead and dozens of others wounded.
Jurors took about 13 hours over a day and a half to review all 165 charges. The same panel must now decide whether Holmes should pay with his life.
The verdict came almost three years after Holmes, dressed head-to-toe in body armor, slipped through the emergency exit of the darkened theater in suburban Denver and replaced the Hollywood violence of the movie “The Dark Knight Rises” with real human carnage.
His victims included two active-duty servicemen, a single mom, a man celebrating his 27th birthday and an aspiring broadcaster who had survived a mall shooting in Toronto. Several died shielding friends or loved ones. Read the rest of this entry »
BREAKING: Verdict Reached in James Holmes Colorado ‘Midnight Massacre’ Shooter Trial
Posted: July 16, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, U.S. News | Tags: 2012 Aurora shooting, Associated Press, Capital punishment, Closing argument, Colorado, Denver, District Attorney, Insanity defense, Jury, Midnight Massacre, Premiere, The Dark Knight Rises 1 Comment
DEVELOPING: The jury in the Colorado theater shooting trial of James Holmes has reached a verdict, which will be announced at 6:15pm ET….
[Fox News]
REWIND: Charles Manson’s Murder Trial Started 45 Years Ago Today, June 15, 1970
Posted: June 15, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, History, U.S. News | Tags: ABC7, Abigail Folger, Associated Press, California, Charles Manson, District Attorney, Helter Skelter, Helter Skelter (book), Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, Leslie Van Houten, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Robert Holguin, Sharon Tate, Vincent Bugliosi 1 Comment
Charles Manson’s murder trial started 45 years ago today. We talk to a veteran court reporter about it at 5:30. pic.twitter.com/EXrqA3z8xF
— Robert Holguin (@ABC7Robert) June 15, 2015
25 Jan 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA — Seven deputies escort Charles Manson from the courtroom after he and three followers were found guilty of seven murders in the Tate-LaBianca slayings. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
29 Mar 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA — Susan Denise Atkins, (left), Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten,(right), laugh after receiving the death sentence for their part in the Tate-LaBianca killing at the order of Charles Manson. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
19 Jun 1970, Santa Monica, California, USA — “I Don’t Have Any Guilt” said long-haired hippie chieftain Charles Manson, 35, in brief press conference in courtroom here, June 18, where a hearing to continue proceedings in the murder case of musician Dary Hinman was held. Manson’s trial for the slaying of actress Sharon Tate and four others last August 9th, and the killing of a wealthy supermarket chain owner and his wife the day after the Tate murder, began this week and forced postponement of the Hinman case. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
Officer with the Housing Authority of New Orleans Found Shot to Death in Police Cruiser
Posted: May 24, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption | Tags: Atlanta Police Department, Attempted murder, Baltimore, Chief of police, District Attorney, Emergency vehicle lighting, Housing Authority of New Orleans, Jerome Brown, New Orleans Police Department, Police car 2 Comments
“What we know right now is that he was fatally wounded, and it is just a sad day. We are all very touched by it and our thoughts and prayers are with the chief, his family and the officers of the housing authority.”
NEW ORLEANS — It’s a scene no law enforcement officer ever wants to investigate.
The New Orleans Police Department says a Housing Authority of New Orleans officer was found shot to death inside his police cruiser early Sunday morning in Central City.
“Such a tragic loss. We have never had an on-duty death in the department’s history. We know the men and women of the NOPD will work to bring this to a conclusion.”
The driver’s side window was broken out and the cruiser lights were still on when responding officers found the body. NOPD Superintendent Michael Harrison said the officer’s car was found in drive.
“What we know right now is that he was fatally wounded, and it is just a sad day,” Harrison said. “We are all very touched by it and our thoughts and prayers are with the chief, his family and the officers of the housing authority.”
“It is a tough day. It is a hard thing to watch one of your colleagues lose their life in the line of duty.”
HANO police chief Robert Anderson said the young officer had only been on the force two years and he is the first officer killed in the line of duty.
Anderson said the officer was on patrol in an area where new mixed-income homes are under construction. Read the rest of this entry »
Because, Science: Oregon Teacher Arrested After Burning Students with Tesla Coil
Posted: May 7, 2015 Filed under: Education, Law & Justice, U.S. News | Tags: District Attorney, Indictment, Oregon, Salem, Salem-Keizer School District, South Salem High School, Student, Teacher, Tesla coil 2 Comments
UPDATE, 7:01 p.m. – A prosecutor says he is not filing criminal charges against the teacher at this time.
SALEM, Ore. — An Oregon science teacher who police say used a Tesla coil to burn the phrase “I love mom” into the arms of students has been charged with criminal mistreatment.
Salem Police Lt. Steve Birr says the 37-year-old was arrested Tuesday at South Salem High School.
Birr says students used the coil in an exercise last Thursday. The teacher noted it could also be used to mark the skin and asked for volunteers.
He burned “I love mom” — with a heart to symbolize the word love — into their arms. Read the rest of this entry »
West Coast Desk: Los Angeles Jury Awards $6.5 Million to Hundreds of Exotic Dancers who Worked at Paradise Showgirls
Posted: April 23, 2015 Filed under: Humor, Law & Justice, Mediasphere | Tags: District Attorney, Exotic dancer, Los Angeles, Paradise Showgirls, Showgirls, Strippers 1 CommentA Los Angeles jury awards $6.5 million to hundreds of exotic dancers who worked at Paradise Showgirls. Story at 4:30 pic.twitter.com/7LgFhjj5FU
— Robert Holguin (@ABC7Robert) April 23, 2015
Leaked photo of the Jury during deliberations
‘More Objective Than They Get Credit For’: State Judges Are Far Less Biased Than Law School Students, New Study Says
Posted: April 10, 2015 Filed under: Law & Justice, Politics | Tags: Abortion, Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, Barack Obama, Bias, Courts, District Attorney, Harvard University, Ivy League, Jacob Gershman, Judges, Law Students, The Wall Street Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Yale University Leave a comment
The judges, lawyers and law students were instructed to assess legal problems designed to gauge their political bias
Jacob Gershman reports: You often hear from liberals and conservatives that judges are too political, that, instead of calling balls and strikes, they allow their own ideological, political or religious views to steer legal opinions.
A new study says judges, at least ones sitting on state benches, are more objective than they get credit for. The report, forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, says judges by and large are able to exercise professional judgement and reach consensus on disputes that polarize the general public.
“The experimental results furnished evidence strongly at odds with the conclusion that judges are influenced by political predispositions when they engage in legal reasoning.”
The study, which took more than two years to conduct, included about 1,500 subjects: 253 judges, 225 lawyers, 250 law students (from five schools including Harvard and Yale), and 800 adults members of the general public.
“Judges of diverse cultural outlooks—ones polarized on their views of the risks of marijuana legalization, climate change, and other contested issues—converged on results in cases that strongly divided comparably diverse members of the public.”
The judges, lawyers and law students were instructed to assess legal problems designed to gauge their political bias.
One sample scenario involved a police officer accused of violating a disclosure law that makes it a crime for a government official to intentionally leak confidential investigatory information about a private citizen.
There were two versions of that scenario — “prochoice” and “prolife” — and subjects were randomly presented one of them.
In the first, the officer supplied information to a ‘family planning’ abortion facility about a job applicant who secretly belonged to an anti-abortion group. In the “prolife” version, the officer leaked information to an anti-abortion family planning center about a job applicant who secretly belonged to a prochoice group. Read the rest of this entry »
Former Atlanta Educators Busted for Racketeering, Jailed in Test Cheating Scandal
Posted: April 2, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Education | Tags: American Association of School Administrators, Atlanta, Atlanta Public Schools, Dana Evans, District Attorney, Prison, Ron Carlson, Superintendent (education), The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 3 Comments
Thirty-five Atlanta educators in all were indicted in 2013 on charges including racketeering, making false statements and theft. Many pleaded guilty, and some testified at the trial
Kate Brumback reports: A group of former Atlanta educators convicted in a test cheating scandal were locked up in jail Thursday as they await sentences that could send them to prison for years.
“Evidence of cheating was found in 44 schools with nearly 180 educators involved, and teachers who tried to report it were threatened with retaliation.”
In one of the nation’s largest cheating scandals of its kind, the 11 defendants were convicted Wednesday of racketeering for their roles in a scheme to inflate students’ scores on standardized exams.
“They are convicted felons as far as I’m concerned. They have made their bed and they’re going to have to lie in it.”
— Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter
They include teachers, a principal and other administrators, who were accused of falsifying test results to collect bonuses or keep their jobs in the 50,000-student Atlanta public school system. A 12th defendant, a teacher, was acquitted of all charges by the jury.
“It has to send a message to educators here and broadly across the nation. Playing with student test scores is very, very dangerous business.”
— University of Georgia law professor Ron Carlson
The racketeering charges carry up to 20 years in prison. The convicted former educators are set to be sentenced later this month.
“ITSFORTHECHILDRENBUTWHOWILLPAVETHEROADSSSSSS???!?!?!?!?!!”
— Kevin D. Williamson
“This is a huge story and absolutely the biggest development in American education law since forever,” University of Georgia law professor Ron Carlson said. “It has to send a message to educators 
here and broadly across the nation. Playing with student test scores is very, very dangerous business.”
“Bob Rubin, the attorney for former elementary school principal Dana Evans, said he was shocked by the judge’s decision and called it ‘unnecessary and vindictive’.”
A state investigation found that as far back as 2005, educators fed answers to students or erased and changed answers on tests after they were turned in. Evidence of cheating was found in 44 schools with nearly 180 educators involved, and teachers who tried to report it were threatened with retaliation.
“Over objections from the defendants’ attorneys, Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter ordered all but one of those convicted immediately jailed while they await sentencing. They were led out of court in handcuffs.”
Similar cheating scandals have erupted in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Nevada and other public school systems around the country in recent years, as officials link scores to school funding and staff bonuses and vow to close schools that perform poorly. Read the rest of this entry »
LA Supermarket Sells Raccoons As Food, Health Officials Not Amused
Posted: February 11, 2015 Filed under: Food & Drink, Health and Social Issues | Tags: California, China, District Attorney, Food, Frozen Food, Health Department, Mobile phone, Raccoon, Racoon, Supermarket, Temple City, The Market 1 Comment
TEMPLE CITY (CBSLA.com) — The Health Department has taken action after a local supermarket’s frozen foods section featured an unusual item.
Inspectors from the LA County Health Department visited the Metro Supermarket in Temple City on Tuesday, after being informed that the market was selling raccoons as food.
“I’ve tried grilled raccoon, and I have to say, it’s really not bad.”
Employees at the market declined to appear on camera, but did show entire raccoons, frozen, bagged, and selling for $9.99 per pound. The employees say raccoon is considered a delicacy in China.
Customer Christina Dow was at the market, and upon seeing the frozen raccoons, filmed the scene on her cell phone. She shared the video on social media.
“I’ve tried lobster, it’s actually quite good”
“The way it’s packaged in the store, it’s so real, and it’s so fresh, and you don’t see chickens with their feathers and blood all over them, and their expression, with their tongue hanging out,” Dow said.
Dow also went on to contact the LA County Health Department, who says that selling raccoons as food may indeed be perfectly legal, depending on the origins of the meat. Read the rest of this entry »
Charles C. W. Cooke: Happy New Year, Happy New Gun-Control Nonsense
Posted: January 1, 2015 Filed under: Self Defense, Think Tank | Tags: 2012 Aurora shooting, AK-47, Assault weapon, California, Dianne Feinstein, District Attorney, Federal Assault Weapons Ban, National Review, Presidency of Bill Clinton, United States 2 Comments
Charles C. W. Cooke
writes:
…In the space of just 144 words, Gopnik has managed to: 1) conflate the supposed problem of “assault weapons” with the actions of the man who murdered Richard Martinez’s son (when, in fact, that killer did not use a rifle, but instead used a trio of bog-standard handguns that were legal even in California); 2) propose that those handguns “should never have been in the hands of a lunatic” (when, in fact, that “lunatic” passed the federal and state background checks that Gopnik’s ilk routinely sell as a panacea for our problems); and 3) pretend that there is any evidence whatsoever that to “reinstate assault-weapons bans” would likely “stop the next massacre” — which, as even the Obama administration’s DOJ concedes, there is not….(read more)
Serial Killer Samuel Little Sentenced to 3 Consecutive Life Terms Without Parole
Posted: September 25, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, U.S. News | Tags: Associated Press, District Attorney, DNA, Life imprisonment, Los Angeles, murder, Samuel Little, Serial killer Leave a commentSerial killer Samuel Little sentenced to 3 consecutive life terms w/o parole. Relatives of victims react @ABC7 @ 4. pic.twitter.com/WEzXrXOZqU
— Robert Holguin (@ABC7Robert) September 25, 2014
Queens Teacher Accused of Sex with Students Being Treated for Psychiatric Disorder
Posted: September 20, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Education, U.S. News | Tags: District Attorney, Grover Cleveland High School, Joy Morsi, Morsi, New York, Physical education, Queens, Ridgewood, Ridgewood New Jersey, Teacher 1 Comment
Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News
Joy Morsi, 39, who allegedly had sex with two teenage boys who attended Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood, missed a court appearance because she was being tested for psychiatric disorder, her attorney said. She is due back in court Oct. 6.
The Queens gym teacher accused of bedding two 16-year-old students is having her head tested, it was revealed Monday.
“My client has been hospitalized”
Joy Morsi, 39, was a no-show at a routine court appearance because she’s being treated for an unspecified “psychiatric disorder,” her lawyer Paul Molina told the judge.
Students across the street from Grover Cleveland High School allegedly watch a video of Morsi, performing oral sex on a 16 year-old student. JB Nicholas/New York Daily News
She allegedly hooked up with a student in June, days after a relationship with another teen collapsed when she became jealous of him inviting a girl to the prom, authorities have said.
[Also see – Wanna Wrassle? Queens Gym Teacher Joy Morsi Raped 16-Year-Old Wrestler in School, Second Student Comes Forward]
The former teacher at Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood is facing multiple counts of statutory rape and criminal sexual act for extracurricular activities with boys under the age of 17. Read the rest of this entry »
Wanna Wrassle? Queens Gym Teacher Joy Morsi Raped 16-Year-Old Wrestler in School, Second Student Comes Forward
Posted: June 4, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Education, U.S. News | Tags: District Attorney, Grover Cleveland, Grover Cleveland High School, High school, Joy Morsi, Morsi, New York, Queens 5 Comments
PERP WALK: Gym teacher Joy Morsi (left), seen with her attorney Virginia Lopreto, allegedly became jealous when she learned the 16-year-old wrestler was taking a date to prom. Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News
For NY Daily News, Jill Castellano , Taylor Hintz , Stephen Rex Brown report: A Queens gym teacher accused of a year-long tryst with a teen student wrestler also bedded a second student, sources said Tuesday.
“We had a feeling that something was going on. They would always be together around the school.”
— Ninth-grader Josie Gonzalez.
Hours after Joy Morsi, 39, of Massapequa, L.I., pleaded not guilty to charges of raping the Grover Cleveland High School student when he was 16, two sources confirmed to the Daily News that additional charges were expected after a second student lover came forward.
Morsi (center) is accused of raping a 16-year-old wrestler after helping him to lose weight. Additional charges are expected because a second student came forward, sources said. Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News
Wanna wrassle?
“This case is particularly disturbing because the defendant is a teacher and schools should be safe havens for children,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
“I see them together all the time. It’s not like they were sexual and touched each other, but they used to hug and stuff in the halls all the time.”
— Bianca Racz, 18, a senior
[Also see: Gym Teacher Who Banged High School Wrestler Busted After Jealousy Over His PROM DATE – Daily Caller]
The relationship with the wrestler at the Ridgewood school began in June 2013, when Morsi began trying to help him lose weight, prosecutors said. Read the rest of this entry »
BUSTED! New York City’s Crackdown on Disability Profiteering Catches Big Fish
Posted: January 7, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Economics, Mediasphere | Tags: Cyrus Vance, District Attorney, Joseph Esposito, New York, New York City, New York City Police Department, Social Security Administration, Social Security Disability Insurance 1 Comment
Richard Cosentino is accused of receiving more than $200,000 in fraudulent disability payments
Federal and local officials crack open one of the biggest disability-benefits frauds ever
Jillian Kay Melchior writes: More than a hundred people were indicted today for fraudulently obtaining Social Security disability benefits, constituting one of the biggest such fraud busts of all time.
At a news conference in Manhattan Tuesday afternoon, federal and local officials described a 26-year-old scheme through which 102 people — including 72 New York City Police retirees and eight retired New York firefighters — allegedly collected Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) fraudulently. A number of the 102 indicted have already been arrested.
Manhattan district attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said at the news conference that about half of the participants fraudulently claimed they had suffered a mental disability as a result of September 11.
James T. Hayes Jr., the special-agent-in-charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New York, said in a news release, “Many of the individuals arrested today are alleged to have crafted an insidious scheme to profit off the tragedy of the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s history, one that affected all New Yorkers so very personally.”
Intimidation: Homes Raided, Subpoenas Issued Targeting Conservative Groups and Allies of Scott Walker
Posted: November 19, 2013 Filed under: Censorship, Law & Justice, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: American Crossroads, District Attorney, John Doe, Republican Party of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, Wall Street Journal, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce 3 Comments
Joe Schoffstall writes: In Wisconsin, dozens of conservative groups and allies of Gov. Scott Walker are undergoing political intimidation from the left at the hands of a special prosecutor.
Subpoenas have been issued demanding correspondence and donor information of right-leaning organizations and individuals and raids have been conducted resulting in law enforcement officers taking computers and files in a secret investigation, according to reports.
“In recent weeks, special prosecutor Francis Schmitz has hit dozens of conservative groups with subpoenas demanding documents related to the 2011 and 2012 campaigns to recall Governor Walker and state legislative leaders,” the Wall Street Journal writes.
It continues, “Copies of two subpoenas we’ve seen demand ‘all memoranda, email . . . correspondence, and communications’ both internally and between the subpoena target and some 29 conservative groups, including Wisconsin and national nonprofits, political vendors and party committees. The groups include the League of American Voters, Wisconsin Family Action, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, Americans for Prosperity—Wisconsin, American Crossroads, the Republican Governors Association, Friends of Scott Walker and the Republican Party of Wisconsin.”
The WSJ says the latest actions are taking place under Wisconsin’s John Doe law, which makes it difficult for the groups involved to defend themselves publicly. Read the rest of this entry »
BREAKING: Barbie Charged with First-Degree Murder in Brutal Slaying of Ken
Posted: November 9, 2013 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Humor, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, The Butcher's Notebook | Tags: Barbie, District Attorney, homicide, Ken, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, Malibu, Mattel, murder, toys 5 Comments
(AP) America was shocked when news accounts first emerged outlining gruesome details of an unimaginable crime involving two iconic celebrity sweethearts, Barbie and Ken. When Ken’s headless body was discovered by Los Angeles Police, in Barbie’s Malibu apartment, a homicide investigation was launched, and only one suspect emerged.
Photographic evidence collected during the investigation, implicating Barbie in the crime, appeared on the internet, allegedly leaked by the District Attorney‘s office. In a shocking display of macabre cheerfulness, Barbie is depicted cleaning up after the murder, attempting to destroy DNA evidence. Barbie, America’s beloved icon, was arrested, and held without bail.
Grand Jury testimony revealed enough evidence to charge Barbie on four counts, aggravated assault, conspiracy, first degree murder, and obstruction of justice.
Los Angeles Law Enforcement Officials described the crime as “heinous”, and urged parents not to discuss the crime with children, at least until after the Christmas holiday. “It’s tragic”, said one investigator “We’ve been called to Barbie’s Malibu residence on a few minor domestic disputes, but there was nothing to suggest anything like this. She must have just snapped”.
