Trump Campaign Sues Philedelphia Over City Officials Blocking Trump Election Observers from Entering Polling Stations

As reported earlier by Cristina Laila — Philadelphia on Tuesday opened 15 new satellite offices as early voting sites.

According to a Philly Inquirer reporter, there was a delay in opening the satellite offices Tuesday morning due to “computer issues.”

There was reportedly a problem with the state’s voter database.

Trump observers are being blocked entry to satellite voting locations in Philly, according to President Trump’s 2020 election security staffer and GOP advisor Mike Roman.

On Thursday the Trump campaign sued Philadelphia over city officials blocking Trump campaign observers from entering polling stations.

LOCAL 10 reported:

President Donald Trump’s campaign followed through on a threat to sue Philadelphia, filing papers in court Thursday night over city officials preventing campaign representatives from watching people registering to vote or filling out mail-in ballots in election offices there.

The lawsuit comes amid Trump claiming that he can only lose the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania if Democrats cheat and, as he did in 2016’s campaign, suggesting that the Democratic bastion of Philadelphia needs to be watched closely for election fraud.

The 14-page lawsuit, filed in a state court in Philadelphia, revolves around the question of what rights there are for campaign representatives to watch people in election offices where they can register to vote, apply for mail-in ballots, fill them out or turn them in.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/breaking-trump-campaign-sues-philedelphia-city-officials-blocking-trump-election-observers-entering-polling-stations/

US court demands Edward Snowden cough up $5.2mn in royalties from memoir, claiming violations of NSA non-disclosure deal

A federal judge has ruled that the US government may seize $5.2 million in book royalties from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, alleging he breached non-disclosure agreements with the agency and made “unlawful financial gains.”

The Department of Justice announced the ruling on Thursday, the culmination of a year-long legal case launched after the publication of Snowden’s memoir, ‘Permanent Record,’ last September.

“Edward Snowden violated his legal obligations to the United States, and therefore, his unlawful financial gains must be relinquished to the government,” Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said in a statement.

As this case demonstrates, the Department of Justice will not overlook the wrongful actions of those who seek to betray the trust reposed in them and to personally profit from their access to classified national security information.

A judge first ruled that Snowden would have to hand over proceeds from the book late last year, but until this week the court had not landed on a specific amount. While a recent CNN report asserted that he “agreed” to pay up last month, Snowden has insisted that is not the case, and his lawyers have maintained that the seizure is unlikely to happen while he remains in exile in Russia.

“This is not like he's going to fork over the money. This gives them a judgment they were going to get anyways,” one of Snowden’s lawyers, Lawrence Lustberg, told CNN last week, adding that the government will have trouble accessing funds kept out of the US.

The government’s case against the whistleblower is centered on the claim that he flouted a mandatory pre-publication review for his book, violating non-disclosure agreements he signed with both the NSA and CIA. He is also said to have breached those deals with 56 “public speeches on intelligence-related matters.”

The civil lawsuit over the memoir is separate from criminal proceedings against Snowden for his prolific leaks of classified material in 2013, for which he has been charged under the World War I-era Espionage Act and faces up to 30 years behind bars. Washington has called for his extradition to face trial in the US, but Moscow has not complied with that demand.

https://www.rt.com/usa/502300-snowden-ordered-memoir-royalties/

Teacher Ben Nathan Kelly had sex with 14-year-old schoolgirl before shifts at KFC

A Victorian schoolteacher who had sex with a 14-year-old female student tried to stop her friend from revealing the “sickening” relationship.

A physical education teacher has been jailed for five years after pleading guilty to having sex with his 14-year-old student before she started shifts at a regional Victorian KFC.

Ben Nathan Kelly, 41, admitted to one count of maintaining a sexual relationship with a child under 16 in the early 2000s in Victoria’s north.

“You took steps to avoid detection, which is indicative of your awareness of the wrongness of your conduct,” Victorian County Court Judge Christopher Ryan said during sentencing.

Kelly, who was ten years older than his victim, started having sex with the victim after first sending her increasingly flirty text messages. He got her number through a friend of the schoolgirl.

“There was an aspect of your conduct towards your victim that could be characterised as grooming,” Judge Ryan said.

The girl would sneak to the teacher’s house for sex before her shifts at a local KFC.

Kelly even passed her a note during school which read: “I want to f*** you”, the court was told on Friday.

Years later when the victim revealed what happened to a friend, Kelly became concerned and messaged the other woman.

He told her if the victim committed suicide, he would blame the woman.

“This was crude attempt by you to prevent the victim’s friend from revealing to others the nature of the relationship with your victim and so avoiding the consequences,” Judge Ryan said.

The 31-year-old victim told the court she felt “damaged” because of what happened to her as a schoolgirl and struggled with her mental health.

“It is sickening … my trust was betrayed without me even realising it,” she said in a statement to the court.

The teacher was genuinely remorseful, suffered from depression and pleaded guilty at an early stage in the proceedings, the court was told.

He also worked in a remote indigenous community and donated to charities in Indonesia aimed at improving education in the country.

“If I could take it back I would. It kills me every day inside,” Kelly told the victim’s brother in a message.

Kelly was jailed for a maximum of five years but will be eligible for parole in three years.

He was also registered as a sex offender for life.

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/teacher-ben-nathan-kelly-had-sex-with-14yearold-schoolgirl-before-shifts-at-kfc/news-story/76097fe4a7aa416ae184d1799318eaa8

Melania Trump’s Former Aide Leaks Private Conversations To CNN

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, former assistant to First Lady Melania Trump and author of “Melania and Me”, leaks tapes to CNN.

https://breaking911.com/breaking-melania-trumps-former-aide-leaks-private-conversations/

ASSANGE EXTRADITION DAY EIGHTEEN—Ellsberg Parallel Raised on Last Day of Testimony; Judgement Day Set for Jan. 4, 2021

Judge Vanessa Baraitser set judgement day for Jan. 4, 2021 as the last day of testimony in the extradition case of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange saw parallels drawn between government misconduct in the cases of Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and Assange.

In testimony read to the court on Thursday of Prof. Michael Tigar of Duke Law School, the defense sought to show that the kind of abuse of power that resulted in Ellsberg being freed in a 1971 mistrial is closely mirrored by government misdeeds against Assange.

Tigar laid out what happened that forced the Nixon administration, which desperately wanted to punish Ellsberg, to drop his case. Nixon’s “Plumbers” broke into Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office trying to steal his medical files; Nixon had Ellsberg illegally wiretapped; the government said it lost the wiretaps when asked to produce them at trial; and the government tried to bribe Ellsberg’s judge with the directorship of the FBI.

Compare that with U.S. intelligence contracting with the Spanish firm UC Global to spy 24/7 on Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy and especially on his privileged conversations with his attorneys; with his doctors and journalists visiting as well as discussing plans to kidnap or poison him.

“That’s essentially the same information that ended my case and confronted Nixon with impeachment, leading to his resignation!,” Ellsberg said in an email. “In other words, Julian may, miraculously, walk free on the basis of this (eventually), just as I did!”

If Baraitser decides not to extradite Assange it would be most likely because of this abuse of power against him, or because of his physical and mental health in the face of a brutal U.S. prison system. In either way she could avoid the highly political issue of espionage in conflict with press freedom.

Testimony read out to the court from Assange lawyer Gareth Pierce explained how his attorneys are still feeling “anxiety” and “fear” about being monitored now. Her testimony also raised the matter of Assange’s belongings at the embassy being put in a diplomatic pouch and sent to Ecuador and from there, onto the United States. WikiLeaks has not been able to retrieve any of it.

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/10/01/live-updates-assange-extradition-day-eighteen-ellsberg-parallel-raised-on-last-day-of-testimony-judgement-day-set-for-jan-4-2021/

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1311861720609173509

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