How Criminal Charges Against a Wall Street Icon Went from Front Page News to a Yawn at the New York Times

On May 2, 1985 the highest law enforcement officer in the United States, the head of the U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney General Edwin Meese, held a news conference to announce that the sixth largest brokerage firm on Wall Street, E.F. Hutton, was pleading guilty to 2,000 felony counts of wire and mail fraud. It had also agreed to pay criminal fines of $2 million and up to $8 million in restitution to the 400 banks it had defrauded. The fraud had lasted less than two years, from July 1, 1980 and February 28, 1982, and consisted of the following according to the Justice Department:

“The essence of the charges was that Hutton obtained the interest-free use of millions of dollars by intentionally writing checks in excess of the funds it had on deposit in various banks.”

On the following day, Friday, May 3, the New York Times put that story on the front page of its newspaper.

Now, carefully consider what happened three weeks ago.

On September 29, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice sent out a press release announcing that it was bringing two criminal charges against the largest Wall Street bank in the United States. No press conference was held. The press release indicated that JPMorgan Chase had committed “tens of thousands of episodes of unlawful trading in the markets for precious metals” and “thousands of episodes of unlawful trading in the markets for U.S. Treasury futures and in the secondary (cash) market for U.S. Treasury notes and bonds.” The bank agreed to pay $920 million in fines and restitution.

This was the fourth and fifth criminal count to which JPMorgan Chase had pleaded guilty since 2014 — an unthinkable and unprecedented history of criminal conduct by the largest bank in the United States. But the New York Times did not run one word about these latest criminal charges on its front page. In fact, no story at all, that we could find, appeared in the print edition of the newspaper.

JPMorgan has been headquartered in Manhattan where the New York Times is located for more than a century. It has 5,239 federally-insured bank branches spread across the country. It holds $1.7 trillion in domestic deposits for moms and pops, small and large businesses, public pension funds, states and municipalities across America. And yet getting slapped with five criminal felony counts in a span of six years is not front-page news at the New York Times. It doesn’t even warrant coverage anywhere in the newspaper.

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/10/how-criminal-charges-against-a-wall-street-icon-went-from-front-page-news-to-a-yawn-at-the-new-york-times/

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Secret Service charges Maryland man for threatening to kidnap and kill Biden, Harris: Baltimore Sun

Secret Service agents have charged a Maryland man for threatening in a letter to kidnap and kill Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and rape his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), The Baltimore Sun has reported. Additionally, he supposedly targeted Democratic supporters, the Secret Service said.

The federal criminal complaint states that: “The defendant, James Dale Reed, knowingly and willfully threatened to kill and to kidnap and to inflict bodily harm upon Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris, who are major candidates for the office of the President and Vice President of the United States.”

The 42-year-old Reed, who describes himself as a semi-pro bodybuilder, wrote a violent, graphic letter in which he allegedly said: “We have a list of homes and addresses by your election signs. We are the ones with those scary guns, We are the ones your children have nightmares about. The Boogeymen coming in the night.”

When confronted by the Secret Service, Reed confessed to penning the letter, claiming he wrote it because he was upset with the current political situation.

Home security cameras caught Reed dropping off the letter on the front steps of someone’s house in the town of Frederick and was arrested last week, according to the Secret Service. Reed, who claims he didn’t know whose house it was, apparently delivered it to that particular house because it was the first one he encountered with Biden-Harris yard signs.

Currently, Reed is being held in jail without bail.

Court records indicate that Reed once threatened someone with Secret Service protection back in 2014 and was on the service’s radar.

According to The Sun, on an apparent Facebook page of his, he posted: “I just got my house raided today and my stuff stolen from me because they felt that I was a threat to societee and I have made no threat to societee but they came into my house sees my property and stole everything.”

Additionally, he supposedly referred to the Frederick Police as “bunch of thugs and gang members” on the same Facebook page.

In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, politically motivated violence from both extremes has risen dramatically. In fact, one-in-three Americans “believe that violence could be justified to advance their parties’ political goals,” according to an October study by Politico, “a substantial increase over the last three years.”

In anticipation of violence on Election Day and Night, police department across multiple American cities are even taking precautionary measures to bring potential civil unrest under control. The NYPD, for example, will dispatch officers to monitor 1,201 polling sites across the city on November 3.

https://saraacarter.com/secret-service-charges-maryland-man-for-threatening-to-kidnap-and-kill-biden-harris-baltimore-sun/

Dr. Jill Biden avoids tough questions on 'The View' as hosts skip past Hunter Biden allegations

She was not asked about her stepson Hunter Biden, who has come under fire after a series of New York Post bombshells

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has taken heat for a lack of media appearances, but his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, took a break from the campaign trail to join “The View” on Wednesday to answer multiple questions about President Trump.

“I am meeting so many people as I travel across this country and I’m hearing so many different stories and, honestly, I feel inspired by the people that I’m meeting and I know that we’re going to make such a great change, a positive change in people’s lives,” Dr. Biden said when asked if she’s exhausted from the campaign.

“I’m not tired,” she added before “The View” co-hosts took turns asking Biden questions that set her up to bash Trump.

Joy Behar then asked what Joe Biden would do to help migrant children who were separated from their parents along the southern border. Behar called it a “human rights violation” and asked if the Trump administration should be held accountable.

“We wouldn’t even be here if Joe were president, there would be no separation of families at the border,” she said. “We have to find a way to reunite these families. As a mother, this breaks my heart. I can’t even imagine it.”

Ana Navarro went next, asking Biden how her husband would have handled coronavirus differently than the way it was managed under Trump.

“We can’t do anything until we get this virus under control and you’ve heard the scientists and the doctors, that’s who we’re following and they are saying, ‘Wear your mask, socially distance,’ and we’ve got to come together. … This can’t be a political issue, this is a public health issue and if you’re not going to wear your mask for yourself, wear it for your neighbor,” she said. “Do it for someone else.”

Sunny Hostin noted that Trump supporters “are still packing into rallies” amid the coronavirus pandemic and questioned why the pandemic has become so political.

“Why do you think Trump supporters still believe him over our scientists?” Hostin asked.

Biden blamed Trump, saying his administration has made the pandemic a political issue.

“We need to listen to the doctors and the scientists, that’s what we have to do. I think it’s totally irresponsible that people are going to these rallies and they’re not wearing masks, they’re not socially distancing it’s irresponsible and people will die because of this,” Biden said.

Behar then scolded Trump for using Barron Trump’s quick recovery from coronavirus as an excuse to open schools

https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-view-dr-jill-biden-hunter-biden