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AF2 USAF VIP C-32A began it's descent for Palm Beach Int'l for Turning Point USA Student Action Summit
https://twitter.com/mike_pence
THE C-17 that was in front of AF2-was out of Langley-froze just sw of Myrtle Beach
VENUS93 USAF C-32A south from JBA and on approach for Wilmington
RCH883T and RCH882 USAF Globemaster C-17's to Ft. Lauderdale Int'l from a JBA depart
One on ground and one on final
09-0016 USAF C-32A departed Majors Airport-Greenville, TX on a test/cert flight
This AC arrived at Majors on 1211
GTMO845 US Navy Beech Huron appeared off Bahamas and heading for NAS Jax
RCH883T USAF C-17 Globey departed Ft. Lauderdale after a ground stop-look for RCH882 to depart shortly
VENUS7 USAF C-32A continues it's ne track back to JBA from Majors
SAM205 USAF C-40B departed Dubai Int'l and re-appears nw of Istanbul (SAM370 also departed Dubai after this one-but off scope now)
This AC departed MacDill AFB on Sat.
FORTE10 USAF Global Hawk over eastern Ukraine-departed Malta last night (CONUS time)
just got finished reading that…….
Department of Justice Files Nationwide Lawsuit Against Walmart Inc. for Controlled Substances Act Violations
In a civil complaint filed today, the Department of Justice has alleged that Walmart Inc. unlawfully dispensed controlled substances from pharmacies it operated across the country and unlawfully distributed controlled substances to those pharmacies throughout the height of the prescription opioid crisis.
The complaint alleges that this unlawful conduct resulted in hundreds of thousands of violations of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The Justice Department seeks civil penalties, which could total in the billions of dollars, and injunctive relief.
“It has been a priority of this administration to hold accountable those responsible for the prescription opioid crisis. As one of the largest pharmacy chains and wholesale drug distributors in the country, Walmart had the responsibility and the means to help prevent the diversion of prescription opioids,” said Jeffrey Bossert Clark, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division. “Instead, for years, it did the opposite — filling thousands of invalid prescriptions at its pharmacies and failing to report suspicious orders of opioids and other drugs placed by those pharmacies. This unlawful conduct contributed to the epidemic of opioid abuse throughout the United States. Today’s filing represents an important step in the effort to hold Walmart accountable for such conduct.”
“We entrust distributors and dispensers with the responsibility to ensure controlled substances do not fall into the wrong hands,” said Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Administrator Timothy Shea. “When processes to safeguard against drug diversion are violated or ignored, or when pharmacies routinely fill illegitimate prescriptions, we will hold accountable anyone responsible, including Walmart. Too many lives have been lost because of oversight failures and those entrusted with responsibility turning a blind eye.”
The result of a multi-year investigation by the department’s Prescription Interdiction & Litigation (PIL) Task Force, the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware alleges that Walmart violated the CSA in multiple ways as the operator of its pharmacies and wholesale drug distribution centers. The complaint alleges that, as the operator of its pharmacies, Walmart knowingly filled thousands of controlled substance prescriptions that were not issued for legitimate medical purposes or in the usual course of medical practice, and that it filled prescriptions outside the ordinary course of pharmacy practice. The complaint also alleges that, as the operator of its distribution centers, which ceased distributing controlled substances in 2018, Walmart received hundreds of thousands of suspicious orders that it failed to report as required to by the DEA. Together, the complaint alleges, these actions helped to fuel the prescription opioid crisis.
If Walmart is found liable for violating the CSA, it could face civil penalties of up to $67,627 for each unlawful prescription filled and $15,691 for each suspicious order not reported. The court also may award injunctive relief to prevent Walmart from committing further CSA violations.
moar
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-nationwide-lawsuit-against-walmart-inc-controlled-substances-act
>>27818 It's clear both parties have turned their back on @realDonaldTrump
The Language Toomey Inserted into the Stimulus Bill Enshrines a $681 Billion Trading Slush Fund for Mnuchin with the NY Fed
The language that Republican Senator Pat Toomey inserted into the final stimulus bill
Link here and at article linky below
(Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021)
https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-116HR133SA-RCP-116-68.pdf
It not only restricts the Federal Reserve’s ability to extend some of its current emergency lending programs that help small and medium size businesses and state and local governments beyond December 31 of this year (while leaving Wall Street bailout programs alive for at least another 90 days) but it also enshrines the autonomy of the U.S. Treasury Secretary to operate a massive slush fund – the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF). Most Americans have never heard of the Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund. It was created in 1934 to provide support to the U.S. dollar during the Great Depression. The ESF has grown from $94.3 billion in assets prior to Trump taking office to a balance of $681 billion as of October 31, 2020. *As recently as March 31, 2007, the ESF had assets of just $45.9 billion.
*it's based on what they have to report which is not all of it and likely contains worthless derivative(s) crap.
According to footnote 1 of the October 31, 2020 ESF financial statement, the ESF received the “full amount” of the CARES Act appropriation to the Treasury of $500 billion in March, from which Treasury Secretary Mnuchin was supposed to give $454 billion to the Fed to backstop the Fed’s emergency lending programs. Those programs were to be used during the financial crisis to loosen credit markets, help Main Street businesses and shore up local and state governments through support of municipal bond markets. But instead of turning over the full $454 billion to the Fed, Mnuchin turned over just $114 billion for the Fed’s emergency lending programs, as confirmed by the Congressional Research Service on December 17. Since what the Treasury Secretary does with the ESF “may not be reviewed by another officer or employee of the Government” according to its dodgy statute, the public has no idea as to what Mnuchin actually did with the balance of $340 billion in his slush fund from the CARES Act.
While there has been widespread media attention to Toomey’s effort to kneecap the Fed’s emergency lending programs by inserting language into the stimulus bill, there has been no mainstream media attention to Toomey’s effort to memorialize both Mnuchin’s and (potentially) future Treasury Secretaries’ ability to have a slush fund to intervene in markets. The Treasury Secretary has, effectively, become a Plunge Protection Team of one.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/12/the-language-toomey-inserted-into-the-stimulus-bill-enshrines-a-681-billion-trading-slush-fund-for-mnuchin-with-the-ny-fed/
America's Darkest Secret: The Exchange Stabilization Fund
https://steemit.com/informationwar/@richq11/america-s-darkest-secret-the-exchange-stabilization-fund
Israeli AF DEXTER G5 Nachshon Eitam SIGINT nw from southern Israel-hard to ever get a good accurate point of depart here and the maps are of no use.
SAM205 USAF C-40B continues nw to an eventual ground stop at Shannon, Ireland from it's Dubai depart earlier
FORTE10 USAF Global Hawk drone retracing it's route earlier back to Malta from some work over Ukraine
Blackrock Muni-Vest preferred shares sold by JP Morgan Chase: $243.80m-Dec 14
BlackRock MuniVest Fund, Inc.’s (MVF) (the 'Trust') investment objective is to provide shareholders with as high a level of current income exempt from federal income taxes as is consistent with its investment policies and prudent investment management. The Trust seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing at least 80% of its assets in municipal obligations exempt from federal income taxes (except that the interest may be subject to the federal alternative minimum tax). Under normal market conditions, the Trust primarily invests in long term municipal obligations rated investment grade at the time of investment and in long term municipal obligations with maturities of more than ten years at the time of investment. The Trust may invest up to 20% of its total assets in securities rated below investment grade or deemed equivalent at the time of purchase. The Trust may invest directly in such securities or synthetically through the use of derivatives.
https://www.blackrock.com/us/individual/products/240201/blackrock-munivest-fund-inc-usd-fund
from yesterday
BlackRock has named new leaders inside its Financial Markets Advisory (FMA) enterprise
BlackRock has named a number of new leaders in its Financial Markets Advisory enterprise, a small but elite group inside the firm that provides an array of advisory and consultative providers to powerful establishments just like the Federal Reserve, Business Insider has discovered. The enterprise has named Brandon Hall and Ben Leax, two veteran BlackRock leaders, to the newly created roles of co-heads. Leax was formerly FMA’s international head of capital markets and insurance solutions, and his previous obligations can be folded into his new position. Julien Wallen, one other longtime BlackRock chief, has changed Roberto Speranza as head of FMA’s Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) operations. Speranza is shifting into a unique client-facing, enterprise development-focused position inside the firm, a spokesperson stated. Kunal Khara, who ran FMA’s Americas business, has gone to BlackRock’s Aladdin business after the “success of his work” in his earlier position, a spokesperson stated, and Khara’s position might be folded into Hall and Leax’s remits.
These modifications have been effective in October, a spokesperson stated. Charles Hatami, international head of FMA and the monetary establishments group, will remain in his submit. The modifications come at an essential moment for FMA, which was shaped in April 2008, over the past financial crisis. Back then, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had asked BlackRock’s FMA business to handle belongings of Bear Stearns and AIG, each on the verge of collapsing. The central financial institution again this year called on FMA to deal with an emergency asset-purchasing program in the hundreds of billions of dollars amid the coronavirus pandemic.
https://wokeamerican.net/blackrock-names-new-financial-markets-advisory-leadership/
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1544212&tc=7&b=2
Wut a shit-show next door
won't do that again-same as last night