https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-requesting-data-governors-states-issued-covid-19-orders-may-have-resulted
Department of Justice Requesting Data From Governors of States that Issued COVID-19 Orders that May Have Resulted in Deaths of Elderly Nursing Home Residents
Data will help inform whether the Department of Justice will initiate investigations under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) regarding New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan’s response to COVID-19 in public nursing homes
source of that pic?
https://newspunch.com/second-drag-queen-story-hour-reader-exposed-as-a-pedophile/
https://twitter.com/MichaelCoudrey/status/1298873436102565888
WOW: ALL 3 violent attackers of Kyle Rittenhouse (self-defense shooter) were convicted felons.
-1 pedophile sex offender
-1 convicted felon (burglary)
-1 domestic abuse/strangulation/dangerous weapon
All 3 chased Kyle, violently assaulted him and were shot in self-defense.
https://twitter.com/Kaitain_US/status/1298713689927774215
https://twitter.com/FromKalen/status/1298811484743651328
This is what lead to the Minneapolis unrest? My soul is exhausted.
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1296788151030210572
Hillary Clinton on concerns ahead of the 2020 election: "There's a deliberate effort to sabotage vote by mail. That's an incredible attack on our election system."
"I'm worried about direct interference, undermining vote by mail…I'm worried about the impact of the propaganda."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/airman-charged-killing-federal-officer-during-george-floyd-protests-california-n1231187
Alleged 'Boogaloo' extremist charged in killing of federal officer during George Floyd protest
>we should all bow before the mob and let them burn and destroy families lifelong work and beat, kick, and smash them over the head with bricks and skate boards and crap
PEACEFUL PROTEST
I think that's a deep fake.
>K2 Intelligence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2_Intelligence
K2 Intelligence is an investigative, compliance, and cyber defense services firm, founded in 2009 by Jeremy M. Kroll and Jules B. Kroll. The company is headquartered in New York with offices in London, Madrid, Geneva, Los Angeles and Chicago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Kroll
He is married to Lynn Korda, who served as the vice chairwoman of the UJA-Federation of New York. They have two sons, Jeremy and actor/comedian Nick, and two daughters, Dana Kroll and Vanessa Kroll Bennett. Vanessa is married to British-American soccer journalist Roger Bennett.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bennett_(journalist)
Bennett married Vanessa Kroll, daughter of Kroll Inc. founder Jules Kroll, in 2000. His brother-in-law is comedian Nick Kroll. Bennett is Jewish. In 2014, he announced he would be becoming a naturalized US citizen based upon the United States men's national soccer team's progress in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Bennett became a US citizen on 1 June 2018. Bennett is a longtime supporter of Everton F.C., which plays in the English Premier League. Bennett is also a fan of the Chicago Bears and the Chicago White Sox. He is fond of Tracy Chapman and tweed.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2_Intelligence
K2 Intelligence has offices in New York, London, Madrid, and Bahrain. In 2010, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany engaged K2 Global Consulting to investigate the theft of $42.5 million.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101203040655/https://money.cnn.com/2010/11/30/news/companies/jules_jeremy_kroll_k2.fortune/index.htm
A father-and-son detective duo
December 1, 2010: 5:31 AM ET
FORTUNE – Jeremy Kroll's first assignment as a corporate investigator 15 years ago was to read John Grisham's bestseller The Firm and try to determine whether real-life whistleblower Mark Whitacre had acted out a delusional version of Grisham's plot while stealing from his employer, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM, Fortune 500). Apparently, he really had. Kroll says he was hooked from the get-go. Can you blame him?
Today, Kroll is still chasing colorful characters and dirty money. His year-old firm, K2 Global Consulting, does investigative work on three continents. Much of K2's work is under the radar, and that's how clients tend to like it. But in mid-November, the U.S. Attorney's office in New York's Southern District announced 17 arrests related to the theft of $42.5 million from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, an organization set up to compensate Jewish victims of the Holocaust. That same day, the Conference announced that it had retained K2 Global to study the thefts, chase down stolen assets, and help right the ship. "We are pleased to lend our expertise in this sensitive and important matter," says Kroll, 39.
Jeremy's father, Jules Kroll, practically invented the modern corporate investigations industry, building his eponymous firm, Kroll Inc., over a span of three decades. Jeremy made his investigative bones at Kroll and now heads K2 Global. Now they're putting the word out about the second coming of Kroll. But it's a Kroll for the 21st century: less gumshoe, more information technology, an investigative firm for the modern, outsourced era.
>https://web.archive.org/web/20101203040655/https://money.cnn.com/2010/11/30/news/companies/jules_jeremy_kroll_k2.fortune/index.htm
New name, same reputation
At a cocktail party celebrating K2's first anniversary in early November, Jules Kroll cracked wise with the assembled crowd. "You know, we couldn't put our name on K2," he said, "because we sold that name." Most of the laughing guests probably knew that Jules had walked away with $117 million when he sold Kroll Inc. to insurance giant Marsh & McLennan for $1.9 billion in 2004. If he harbors any regrets about selling, they are probably not financial.
In the corporate investigation business, the name of your firm is less important than your reputation, your skills, and your network, three things father and son took along with them when they co-founded K2 in late 2009 along with partners Charles Carr and Bruce Goslin. Jules is chairman of the new entity, and Jeremy is chief executive. (They also launched Kroll Bond Ratings, a new agency that aims to inject investigative techniques into the bond-rating business.)
Rick Simonson, the former chief financial officer of Nokia (NOK), hired Kroll Inc. to help track down billions of dollars that members of the Uzan family stole from Nokia and Motorola (MOT, Fortune 500) in Turkey in the 1990s. While still at Nokia, Simonson engaged K2 to investigate a potential Russian business partner. "I went with K2 based on the individuals, the integrity, and the relationship we had," Simonson says.
K2 is truly a global operation: It has close to 30 employees at offices in New York, London, Madrid, and Bahrain. The Krolls sold 40% of K2 Global Consulting and Kroll Bond Ratings in exchange for $24 million from outside investors, including former American Express (AXP, Fortune 500) CEO Jim Robinson III and value investor Michael Price, who once owned a significant stake in Kroll Inc. VC players Bessemer Venture Partners and RRE Ventures also joined K2's initial funding rounds. (The Krolls kicked in $5 million of their own.) And even though they're competing with much larger companies from the Big Four accounting firms to Kroll Inc. they seem excited at the chance to start from scratch.
Both Krolls refer to K2 as a "restart" as opposed to a startup and emphasize that they're not trying to build another Kroll Inc. Instead they're focusing on technologies that could help them create an entirely new kind of investigations firm. And that's where Jeremy comes in.
"He wouldn't think of it in these terms, but Jules built the first expert network for intelligence, investigative, and research professionals 35 years ago," says his son. Jeremy is currently building a social network in the modern, technological sense of the term.
Instead of putting German forensic accountants and Indian lawyers on the payroll, Jeremy wants to hook them into this private network, called K2N, and tap into their expertise on an as-needed basis. "We will be able to identify these experts and have them vetted and ranked in ways that just weren't available to Jules back in the day," says Jeremy.
Jeremy's other incubating project, K2O, deals with online identity verification. "The Facebook idea that you are who your network says you are is only partly true," he says, "because when you go outside your first- or second-order relationships, it still gets pretty hairy. In the physical world, this is where the notary public used to kick in – to allow you to do business in the county next door. What we're trying to do with K2O is to create the authentication standard for reputation online."
Jeremy has also been researching fraud in the emerging realm of carbon credits – tradable certificates for the right to emit carbon dioxide. And he's blogging. Yes, you read that right: a private investigator who blogs about his methods under the rubric The Discreet Science on the K2 website.
Jules seems happy to stand back and watch his son go. "When you're 69 years old, you may have a groove swing, but another definition of a groove swing is being stuck in a rut," he says. "I don't think my level of creativity is anywhere near where it was when I was Jeremy's age, and he's living in a world of ideas that is frankly more modern than the one that I'm living in." That world is populated by people a lot younger than Jules Kroll, including the likes of Josh Spear, the 26-year-old founder of digital strategy firm Undercurrent, who has been working with Jeremy on K2O. "They're making a strong commitment to the way that digital technology is changing their game," says Spear.
>https://web.archive.org/web/20101203040655/https://money.cnn.com/2010/11/30/news/companies/jules_jeremy_kroll_k2.fortune/index.htm
From father to son
Jeremy Kroll never planned to follow in his father's footsteps. After studying Romance languages and fine arts at Georgetown, he worked briefly as a Hollywood production assistant, cleaning toilets for mogul David Geffen. He quit in 1995 and took a part-time gig with his father's firm, doing grunt jobs like hunting down court documents. He liked the work enough to join Kroll full-time, which meant opening the Pandora's box of being the boss's son. (And a famous guy's son, at that: At this point, Jules Kroll was already legendary for hunting down the hidden assets of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, Haiti's "Baby Doc" Duvalier, and Saddam Hussein.)
Jeremy rose through the ranks, working successively as a field investigator, in-house analyst, and sales rep. (By design, he never reported directly to Jules.) High-profile trial lawyer Marshall Grossman, now a partner at Bingham McCutchen, recalls having the younger Kroll work for him during some high-stakes litigation on behalf of Tommy Hilfiger in the late '90s. "He performed like someone with 20 years of experience," says Grossman. Jeremy later became general manager of the information security group of Kroll Inc., where he pushed the firm to embrace information technology, just as he's now doing at K2. He wound up overseeing worldwide business development and strategy for Kroll's consulting investigations division.
Jeremy is the oldest of four siblings. His two sisters also worked at Kroll for a time, but brother Nick took a different route: He's a comic actor whose credits include the voice of Stu on HBO's cult hit The Life and Times of Tim and a scene-stealing cameo in the film Get Him to the Greek. "What continues to impress me about Jeremy is that my ego would not have allowed me to go work in an industry that my father ostensibly created," says Nick. "He has had to walk around being known as Jules Kroll's son. You need incredible confidence and sense of self to be able to do that."
Because of the nature of their business which tends to involve big money, big disputes, and occasionally shady characters the Krolls have at times been accused of crossing the same legal or ethical lines as the subjects of their investigations. Sometimes, too, they find that they've engaged the wrong kind of client.
Take Allen R. Stanford, the formerly highflying financier who now stands accused of running an $8 billion Ponzi scheme. In April 2007, an electricians union with investments in the Stanford Financial Group engaged Kroll Inc. to investigate Stanford's operation. Kroll's investigators gave Stanford a clean bill of health. There was just one small problem. In a Florida lawsuit filed after Stanford's empire collapsed, the union claimed that the investigators had failed to mention that Stanford was also a Kroll client.
"We did reveal the relationship to the union," says Jules, "even if they denied that fact. And while I can't defend the fact that we didn't know we were working for someone who was behaving allegedly improperly, take any major professional services firm – we've all represented people where we got it wrong." Jeremy Kroll makes a similar point: "There is always a certain portion of the population that doesn't use their head. Even in our organization."
The two men share certain traits, including a tendency to use the word "trust" a lot. But those who know the two say Jeremy is more sensitive and quieter than his father. And while he's come to terms with being Jules Kroll's son, he also sees his own path. "He's a pioneer," Jeremy says of his father. "I will never be considered the founding father of an industry, and I'm okay with that. But I'm not him. I look at K2 as an opportunity to incorporate 21st-century dimensions into managing and mitigating risk. That's fertile ground to create something I can be proud of." To top of page
>Lynn Korda, who served as the vice chairwoman of the UJA-Federation of New York
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UJA-Federation_of_New_York
United Jewish Appeal - Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, Inc. is the largest local philanthropy in the world. Headquartered in New York City, the organization raises and allocates funds annually to fulfill a mission to “care for people in need, inspire a passion for Jewish life and learning, and strengthen Jewish communities in New York, in Israel, and around the world.”
>https://www.ujafedny.org/
https://www.ujafedny.org/racial-justice
In Pursuit of Racial Justice
Amid this long overdue reckoning with racial injustice across the country, we recognize that we must all stand up and speak out alongside our Black brothers and sisters, heeding their calls, and the calls of other voices of color, so that together we can dismantle systemic racism and ultimately realize true justice and equity for all.
While UJA isn’t new to the work of social justice, there’s much more for us to learn and much more work to be done. We’re committed and invested in our own ongoing education and in bringing about much-needed societal change. And we invite you to join us by exploring some of the resources that we, our nonprofit partners, and others are providing to address the entrenched injustices in our community.
Thank you for taking up this work with us.
>https://www.ujafedny.org/racial-justice
https://www.k2intelligence.com/
Leading the Way in Complex Corporate Investigations
>https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1298778908884697088
https://news.usni.org/2020/08/26/ncis-atf-investigating-sailor-in-uss-bonhomme-richard-fire-criminal-investigation
NCIS, ATF Investigating Sailor in USS Bonhomme Richard Fire Criminal Probe
Federal agents are questioning a sailor in connection to the July fire aboard USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) as part of the ongoing criminal investigation into the blaze, three defense officials told USNI News on Wednesday night.
Agents from Naval Criminal Investigation Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are questioning a sailor who was aboard the amphibious warship on the morning of July 12, when a fire in the lower vehicle storage area sparked a blaze that burned for four days, the officials said.
So far, the questioning has resulted in no charges, a Navy official told USNI News.
“We want to preserve the integrity of the investigation and we haven’t charged anyone,” the official told USNI News on Wednesday.
“We don’t want anyone to jump to conclusions. We are going to be thorough and methodical.”
A Navy spokesman told USNI News on Wednesday the service had nothing to announce and the criminal investigation was still ongoing.
The fire did not result in the any deaths and only minor injuries. However, for the ship itself, it’s unclear if the Navy will repair and restore the 22-year-old Bonhomme Richard.
The Sunday morning blaze swept from the lower decks of the ship through the hull touching almost every part of the ship. Bonhomme Richard, in the midst of a $248 million maintenance period, was packed with scaffolding and construction material that fueled the fire. The ship’s onboard fire suppression system has been deactivated and an explosion early in the fight against the fire slowed down the response and let the fire grow and burn for days.
Now the ship is in the midst of a salvage and cleanup effort as part of a $10 million contract awarded on July 22 to General Dynamics NASSCO.
In addition to the criminal investigation, there’s also a 3rd Fleet led command investigation and a safety probe into the fire ongoing.
Navy last month assigned Rear Adm. Kevin Byrne, who commands Naval Surface Warfare Center and Naval Undersea Warfare Center, to lead the Safety Investigation Board. U.S. Pacific Fleet commander Adm. John Aquilino has appointed Vice Adm. Scott Conn to lead the command investigation.
“In order to drive vigorous self-assessment as a learning organization, [Aquilino] has directed the investigation to examine all casual and contributing factors from unit-level execution to programmatic, policy and resourcing that may have been a factor in this incident,” Cmdr. J. Myers Vasquez, a PACFLEET spokesman told USNI News earlier this month.
those are decoration, he really huffs the paint can
>incredible coincidence
>F-16 fighters with their Harpoon anti-ship missiles
What did you call me?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8669413/Covid-crisis-Britains-food-plants-75-staff-test-positive-chicken-factory-Norfolk.html
Covid crisis at Britain's food plants: 75 staff test positive at chicken factory in Norfolk is latest of at least FORTY outbreaks at processing sites across UK
Banham Poultry in Attleborough has shut its cutting room from this morning after an outbreak of coronavirus
First case of Covid among staff was reported last Friday, when one felt unwell and 75 staff have tested positive
The outbreak has sparked fears Norfolk will be plunged back into lockdown ahead of a government review
It comes as Food Standards Agency chief laid bare virus crisis at UK food plants with 40 suffering outbreaks
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8668207/Kyle-Rittenhouse-bragged-vigilante-inteview-shooting-Kenosha.html
Police-obsessed gunman, 17, who is charged with murder of two BLM protesters during Kenosha riots sat front row at a Trump MAGA rally as video interview emerges of him bragging about being a vigilante before the mayhem unfolded
>simmer
bye!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8667627/Rare-group-HIV-patients-dont-need-drugs-suppress-virus-way-integrates-DNA.html
Woman diagnosed with HIV almost 30 years ago may have been CURED of the AIDS-causing virus — without taking drugs or having a risky bone marrow transplant
>get me back on track
Jo-Jo Don Rosenbau
>https://pagesix.com/2020/08/26/lady-gaga-gets-takes-an-ice-bath-ahead-of-the-vmas-and-more-star-snaps
5:5 that's enough from me in this bread
coffee time