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Police investigating disappearance of Madeleine McCann dig garden plot in German city of Hannover
The West Australian
Tue, 28 July 2020 7:00AM
German police investigating the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann in Portugal in 2007 have searched a garden plot in the northern city of Hannover in connection with their probe, prosecutors said.
Julia Meyer, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig confirmed local media reports that police investigators had been at the site since Monday with an excavator in connection with the case.
Meyer said she could not give any further details on the procedure, adding only that police would “still need some more time to finish.”
McCann was 3 at the time of her 2007 disappearance from an apartment while her family vacationed in the seaside town of Praia da Luz in Portugal’s Algarve region.
German authorities said last month they had identified a 43-year-old German citizen as a suspect in the McCann case and are investigating him on suspicion of murder.
The suspect, who is currently in prison in Germany, spent many years in Portugal, including in Praia da Luz around the time of McCann’s disappearance, and has two previous convictions for “sexual contact with girls,” authorities have said.
Authorities have not released the suspect’s name, but he has been widely identified by German media as Christian B.
He was last registered living in Germany in the city of Braunschweig, which is about 70 kilometres from Hannover.
https://thewest.com.au/news/world/police-investigating-disappearance-of-madeleine-mccann-dig-garden-plot-in-german-city-of-hannover-ng-b881623288z
Alarm over discovery of hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels near Galápagos Islands
The fleet, found just outside a protected zone, raises the prospect of damage to the marine ecosystem
Ecuador has sounded the alarm after its navy discovered a huge fishing fleet of mostly Chinese-flagged vessels some 200 miles from the Galápagos Islands, the archipelago which inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
About 260 ships are currently in international waters just outside a 188-mile wide exclusive economic zone around the island, but their presence has already raised the prospect of serious damage to the delicate marine ecosystem, said former environment minister Yolanda Kakabadse.
“This fleet’s size and aggressiveness against marine species is a big threat to the balance of species in the Galápagos,” she told the Guardian.
Kakabadse and an ex-mayor of Quito, Roque Sevilla, were on Monday put in charge of designing a “protection strategy” for the islands, which lie 563 miles west of the South American mainland.
Chinese fishing vessels come every year to the seas around the Galápagos, which were declared a Unesco world heritage site in 1978, but this year’s fleet is one of the largest seen in recent years.
Sevilla said that diplomatic efforts would be made to request the withdrawal of the Chinese fishing fleet. “Unchecked Chinese fishing just on the edge of the protected zone is ruining Ecuador’s efforts to protect marine life in the Galápagos,” he said.
He added that the team would also seek to enforce international agreements that protect migratory species. The Galápagos Marine Reserve has one of the world’s greatest concentrations of shark species, including endangered whale and hammerhead varieties.
Kakabadse said efforts also would be made to extend the exclusive economic zone to a 350-mile circumference around the islands which would join up with the Ecuadorean mainland’s economic zone, closing off a corridor of international waters in between the two where the Chinese fleet is currently located.
Ecuador is also trying to establish a corridor of marine reserves between Pacific-facing neighbours Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia which would seal off important areas of marine diversity, Kakabadse said.
Ecuador’s president LenĂn Moreno described the archipelago as “one of the richest fishing areas and a seedbed of life for the entire planet”, in a message on Twitter over the weekend.
The Galápagos Islands are renowned for their unique plants and wildlife. Unesco describes the archipelago – visited by a quarter of a million tourists every year – as a “living museum and a showcase for evolution”.
The Ecuadorean navy has been monitoring the fishing fleet since it was spotted last week, according to the country’s defence minister Oswaldo JarrĂn. “We are on alert, (conducting) surveillance, patrolling to avoid an incident such as what happened in 2017,” he said.
The 2017 incident he referred to was the capture by the Ecuadorean navy within the Galápagos Marine Reserve of a Chinese vessel. The Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999, part of an even larger fleet than the current one, was found to be carrying 300 tonnes of marine wildlife, mostly sharks.
“We were appalled to discover that a massive Chinese industrial fishing fleet is currently off the Galápagos Islands,” said John Hourston, a spokesman for the Blue Planet Society, a NGO which campaigns against overfishing.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/chinese-fishing-vessels-galapagos-islands
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AG Barr hearing delayed today because Jerry Nadler was in a car crash! Reportedly unijured.
KEK!
Florida man buys Lamborghini with $3.9 million from federal coronavirus loans, prosecutors say
David T. Hines, 29, of Miami, arrested on bank fraud, other charges
MIAMI – A South Florida man fraudulently obtained $3.9 million in federal coronavirus relief loans, using some of the money to buy a $318,000 Lamborghini Huracan, prosecutors said.
David T. Hines, 29, of Miami, was arrested and charged last week with bank fraud, making false statements to a financial institution and engaging in transactions in unlawful proceeds.
Defense attorney Chad Piotrowski said Hines is a legitimate business owner who is anxious to tell his side of the story.
Hines applied to a bank for approximately $13.5 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans on behalf of different companies, according to a criminal complaint. Fraudulent loan applications were submitted about the companies’ respective payroll expenses, investigators said. Hines was approved for $3.9 million, officials said.
Hines bought the Lamborghini within days of the receiving the money, prosecutors said. Instead of using the money for payroll payments, Hines made purchases at luxury retailers and resorts in Miami Beach, officials said. Authorities seized the car and about $3.4 million when Hines was arrested.
The Paycheck Protection Program represents billions of dollars in forgivable small business loans for Americans struggling because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, which became federal law in March.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida/2020/07/28/florida-man-buys-lamborghini-with-39-million-from-federal-coronavirus-loans-prosecutors-say/
I had my first serious run in with a Karen over ten years ago. Around ten in the morning, with an outside temperature in the mid 70s, I left my dog alone in the car to run into Home Depot for about ten minutes. A large dog and I left all four windows of the car rolled down about 4 inches. Plenty of air moving through for ventilation. I returned to find this concerned lady who gave me a piece of her mind. I told her to mind her own business. She was driving a Prius. And I suspect she may have been suffering stress due to the sudden acceleration controversy. And this might have played a role in her desire to project onto me that I was a problem in her world. Yet another milestone that I took note of as I have watched our society descend into a whirlpool of misdirected personal projection and antagonism. I just wish people would grow up and respect the judgement, rights, and liberties of others. And stop trying to be a pocket Hollywood Superhero. Stupid bitch had no clue that I spent zero dollars on medical treatment for myself and shelled out plenty for vet care that dog that I loved so much.
That's Schumer you doofus. kek
His own airbag, top kek. Still waiting.
Seriosly? An Uber? With dents in the door?