No immunity: State judge who helped illegal alien escape to face rare trial

A Massachusetts judge is one step closer to facing a federal trial on charges that she assisted an illegal immigrant in avoiding federal apprehension. A federal judge last week declined to dismiss charges against Massachusetts District Court Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph and now-retired Massachusetts trial court officer Wesley MacGregor. Joseph, MacGregor, and a defense attorney are accused of helping a Dominican man evade being taken into custody at the Newton District Court by ICE agents after a 2018 hearing on criminal charges including drug possession. Prosecutors say the man had previously been removed from the U.S. twice and was barred from reentering the country until 2027.

Approximately one month after his escape, the fugitive was apprehended by immigration authorities, according to the Associated Press. "Joseph’s lawyers have blasted prosecutors for what the defense has called an 'extraordinary sweetheart deal granting complete immunity' to the immigrant’s defense attorney, who they say was the 'architect and ringleader' of the man’s escape plan," the AP reported. "Her lawyers say Joseph had no idea about the plan, but they argue that even if the allegations were true, judicial immunity shields judges from liability for acts 'taken in their judicial role.'" The federal judge has refused to grant the request to dismiss conspiracy and obstruction charges. Joseph and MacGregor have both pled not guilty.

"After careful consideration, the motions to dismiss are DENIED because the Indictment alleges the elements of the offenses and sufficient supporting factual detail," U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin wrote in his July 27 ruling. One of the arguments made regarding Joseph was that she is protected by judicial immunity, though the judge noted when declining to dismiss the charges that there is debate over the issue. "The parties hotly contest whether judicial immunity insulates against criminal liability or is restricted to civil lawsuit," Sorokin wrote. "Where the Indictment charges that Joseph acted 'corruptly,' … it is not within this Court’s province on a motion to dismiss to determine whether judicial immunity, even if its reach encompasses criminal liability, provides a viable shelter for Joseph in the circumstances alleged here."

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/judge-accused-helping-man-elude-ice-apprehension-courthouse-heading-toward#article

Court won’t toss case of Newton District Court Judge Shelley Joseph, charged in immigrant’s escape

https://www.masslive.com/news/2020/07/court-wont-toss-case-of-newton-district-court-judge-shelley- joseph-charged-in-immigrants-escape.html

>>10176712

That was very cool!

When racial justice becomes lucrative: Al Sharpton's $1 million compensation

Al Sharpton drew $1,046,948 in compensation in 2018, a fourfold rise since the Black Lives Matter movement started and well above executives at similar organizations. For Al Sharpton, the business of racial justice has been very lucrative — his compensation has grown fourfold since the Black Lives Matter movement was founded, tax records show. Sharpton and his tax-exempt National Action Network 501(c)(4) organization have been fierce opponents of "threats to racial justice" since the tragic death of Trayvon Martin in 2012. The death of Martin was only the beginning in a long line of tragedies to which Sharpton and his network have brought national media attention, becoming in the process among the most outspoken critics of police brutality. It has become somewhat of a business model for Sharpton — and very lucrative at that. "Freddie Gray was robbed of the life he had ahead of him, his family was robbed of a loved one, and the Baltimore community has been robbed of a young man and, in recent days, a sense of peace," Sharpton said in a 2015 statement. Sharpton and his National Action Network (NAN) hosted press conferences and staged rallies for the deaths of multiple young men and women killed by police, and Sharpton often attends and speaks at their funeral services — including multiple appearances to honor George Floyd.

Sharpton was paid a total of $1,238,704 between January 2003 and December 2012, according to a review of National Action Network’s publicly available financial records. In 2013, NAN paid Sharpton $241,545 (roughly the same amount as in each of the previous four years). That was the year that the Black Lives Matter movement was founded after the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the controversial 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Since 2013, Sharpton's compensation at NAN has risen dramatically along with NAN's revenues. In 2014, Sharpton was paid $412,644 — a more than 70% increase over the previous year — and NAN’s total revenues approached $7 million. (NAN's average annual revenue in the preceding three years was $4.4 million). NAN's most recently available financial report is for the year 2018, and it lists Sharpton's salary as $1,046,948 — a four-fold increase from 2013. NAN's revenues in 2018 were $7.3 million — its highest ever.

When asked about his large salary, Sharpton said, "It's a six-day-a-week job and several hours a day, and when [the compensation firm] compared it to other companies, other non-profits, that's the salary that they would get." But a review of executive salaries at similar nonprofits found that Sharpton’s is well above average. Reverend Jesse Jackson, for example, serves as the Executive Director of the Chicago-based Citizenship Education Fund (the lesser known 501(c)(3) affiliate of Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition), which received $6,766,123 in 2017 and $4,774,196 in 2016 (compared with NAN's $6,323,214 and $5,821,440, respectively). Jackson collected $215,000 in 2017 and $118,750 in 2016 from Citizenship Education Fund — a combined $333,750 compared with Sharpton’s $932,216 over the same period ($244,661 and $687,555 respectively). While their organizations' revenues are roughly the same, Sharpton's salary is nearly triple Jackson’s salary. The progressive activist group MoveOn.org pulled in $10,017,366 in total revenue in 2018. That year, MoveOn.org paid its executive director $123,476 (for 26 hours of work per week).

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/al-sharpton-drew-1046948-salary-2018-fourfold-rise-black-lives#digital-diary

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/113269182

https://nationalactionnetwork.net/about/

>>10176821

Indeed, these people aren't needed in anyone's lives, their only function is to make a story sound so convincing and compelling that only they can save anyone from anything, so much so that people pay them to live their lazy asses in luxury while those around them beg for basics. Sick and Disgusting

'That's awful.' Lisa Page's FBI text on Black Live Matters conflicts with MSNBC's embrace

When an FBI lawyer, Page texted disdain for black activist group's protest at White House. Now she works for a network that embraces the group.

Cable news network MSNBC's hosts have relentlessly embraced Black Lives Matter, routinely ribbing Republicans critical of the group's Marxist roots while showcasing celebrities who support the racial justice group. "Black Lives Matter is a human rights statement," WNBA star Sidney Colson declared on the network in a recent interview with host Ali Velshi that encapsulated the network's embrace of the group. So it may come as somewhat a surprise that one of MSNBC's newest and most celebrated hires, the ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page who now serves as a legal analyst, offered a not-so-fond message about the group's protests. At least when she texting with her then-lover, the now-fired FBI agent Peter Strzok, during the Russia collusion probe four years ago.

"And meanwhile, we have Black Lives Matter protesters, right now, chanting 'no justice no peace' around DoJ and the White House," Strzok texted Page during a late-night exchange on July 8, 2016. Page responded within a half hour. "That's awful." Lisa Page, her attorney, and MSNBC have not responded to requests for comment on this article.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/hold-thats-awful-lisa-page-fbi-text-black-live-matters-conflicts-new-employers

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-08/PageBLMTexts.pdf

MSNBC producer quits, says job 'forces skilled journalists to make bad decisions'

Producer becomes third major news industry figure to depart in a month over toxic media culture, following Bari Weiss and Andrew Sullivan.

For the third time in a month, a major news figure has abruptly departed an organization, citing the media's flailing culture. This time it was MSNBC producer Ariana Pekary, who decried the news industry for becoming a "cancer" that "stokes national division." Pekary on Monday tweeted out news of her departure from MSNBC, where she has produced host Lawrence O'Donnell's show, and directed followers to a personal Web site where she described her reasoning.

"July 24th was my last day at MSNBC. I don’t know what I’m going to do next exactly but I simply couldn’t stay there anymore," Pekary wrote. "My colleagues are very smart people with good intentions. The problem is the job itself. It forces skilled journalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis. You may not watch MSNBC but just know that this problem still affects you, too. All the commercial networks function the same – and no doubt that content seeps into your social media feed, one way or the other," she added. Pekary decried a culture in network news obsessed with ratings at the expense of quality, balanced news. "The longer I was at MSNBC, the more I saw such choices — it’s practically baked in to the editorial process – and those decisions affect news content every day," she wrote. "Likewise, it’s taboo to discuss how the ratings scheme distorts content, or it’s simply taken for granted, because everyone in the commercial broadcast news industry is doing the exact same thing."

Pekary said that "behind closed doors, industry leaders will admit the damage that’s being done" and quoted a colleague who declared "We are a cancer and there is no cure.” "As it is, this cancer stokes national division, even in the middle of a civil rights crisis. The model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events, at the expense of others… all because it pumps up the ratings," she added.

Pekary's sentiments mirror those of two other media figures who quit recently in protest. Bari Weiss resigned last month as a New York Times opinion editor, saying the paper's liberal bias and obsession with social media clicks led to imbalance and newsroom bullying. "Intellectual curiosity” is “now a liability at The Times,” Weiss wrote. “Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor.” Andrew Sullivan, the iconoclastic British-born magazine writer, expressed similar frustration as he departed New York magazine in mid-July. "If the mainstream media will not host a diversity of opinion, or puts the 'moral clarity' of some self-appointed saints before the goal of objectivity in reporting, if it treats writers as mere avatars for their race and gender or gender identity, rather than as unique individuals whose identity is largely irrelevant, then the non-mainstream needs to pick up the slack," Sullivan wrote.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/msnbc-producer-quits-says-job-forces-skilled-journalists-make-bad-decisions

https://twitter.com/arianapekary/status/1290328831304388608

https://www.arianapekary.net/post/personal-news-why-i-m-now-leaving-msnbc

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Federal Judge Esther Salas speaks out for first time since assassination attempt, murder of son

In emotional video, Judge Salas asks to protect federal judges' personal information. "Now more than ever, we need to identify a solution that keeps the lives of federal judges private," said U.S. District Judge Esther Salas. NORTH BRUNSWICK – Federal Judge Esther Salas has spoken for the first time publicly about a shooting at her township home last month in which authorities say a disgruntled lawyer killed her son and seriously wounded her husband. In a video statement issued Monday,

Salas called for more privacy for federal judges in the wake of the July 19 attack at her home. She noted that serving as judge involves “making tough calls” that sometimes leave people angry and upset. But she said judges should not have to “live in fear for our lives” because personal information, such as home addresses, can be easily obtained by anyone seeking to do them or their families harm. She said the shooter knew where she lived, which church her family attended and had a complete dossier on their family. "At the moment there is nothing we can do to stop it, and that is unacceptable," the judge said. "My son’s death cannot be in vain, which is why I am begging those in power to do something to help my brothers and sisters on the bench." "My family has experienced a pain that no one should ever have to endure. And I am here asking everyone to help me ensure that no one ever has to experience this kind of pain," she continued. "We may not be able to stop something like this from happening again, but we can make it hard for those who target us to track us down."

https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/2020/08/03/judge-salas-releases-statement-north-brunswick-shooting/5570934002/

>>10177007

I agree, there is something of an under handed play here, whether the idea is to keep corrupt Judge's out of the spotlight knowing there is much moar to come about their deeds. Imagine the frustration of someone innocent going to jail when the shouldn't have, or losing everything when they shouldn't have, or someone convicted to a much harsher sentence than they should have had. Thinking a swamp drain is coming.

Trump 2020 Campaign Warns of 'Dishonest' Fundraising Groups Using Trump's Name to Scam Supporters

Anons the last couple of breads, posts were dropped about President Trump sending emails regarding wearing the masks. I don't have a copy of it, but I think I might have hit on something. Just digging around various places, one of the sites had a pop up of a Trump 2020 face mask. Have been suspicious of this whole email right out of the gate, now I am begining to wonder if someone dropped a whole lot of money on these masks, since there are many who don't wear the masks, (most seem to be Trump supporters) I wonder if this email was/is indeed phony in order to unload inventory and retain some cash even if in the long run it doesn't prove profitable. Not sure if there are other sites doing this but this is one that was found.

Trump Masks for sale

https://store.ilovemyfreedom.org/?utm_source=trendingpolitics&utm_medium=nav

Did a search on POTUS official website and there is NOT one mask for sale anywhere in the store.

https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/collections/gifts

Trump 2020 Campaign Warns of 'Dishonest' Fundraising Groups Using Trump's Name to Scam Supporters

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-2020-campaign-warns-dishonest-fundraising-groups-using-trumps-name-scam-1418584

>>10177258

Pentagon