Gov. Newsom And Family Go Into Isolation Following COVID-19 Exposure

"… exposed to an officer from the California Highway Patrol"

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that he and his family are going to self-quarantine after exposure to someone with COVID-19. “Late Friday evening, @JenSiebelNewsom and I learned that 3 of our children had been exposed to an officer from the California Highway Patrol who had tested positive for COVID-19,” the Democrat wrote on Twitter early Monday morning. “Jen and I had no direct interaction with the officer and wish them a speedy recovery.” The California Highway Patrol (CHP) provides security for the governor, his wife and their four children, who range in age from four to 11. “Thankfully, the entire family tested negative today,” he continued. “However, consistent with local guidance, we will be quarantining for 14 days.”

“We are grateful for all the officers that keep our family safe and for every frontline worker who continues to go to work during this pandemic,” Newsom added. “After they learned of the exposure to the infected CHP officer, the family was advised by health professionals to wait until Sunday to get tested again, according to Newsom’s office,” the Los Angeles Times reported. “The children who were potentially exposed to the virus were not identified for security reasons.” Last Monday, Newsom declared that, with rising COVID-19 infections in the state, he was pulling the “emergency brake” on reopening the economy. “We are sounding the alarm,” Newsom said. “California is experiencing the fastest increase in cases we have seen yet — faster than what we experienced at the outset of the pandemic or even this summer. The spread of COVID-19, if left unchecked, could quickly overwhelm our health care system and lead to catastrophic outcomes.”

The new regulations Newsom ordered put 41 of the state’s 58 counties in the most restrictive of the four-tier system, which affects 37 million residents. The move stopped reopening plans, banned indoor worship, shut down many businesses, and closed schools. Newsom and his wife came under fire for attending a birthday party with a dozen friends on Nov. 6 at the expensive French Laundry restaurant in Napa, north of San Francisco. The governor said the dinner was outdoors, but pictures tell a different story. “We’ve obtained photos of Governor Gavin Newsom at the Napa dinner party he’s in hot water over,” FOX-11 in Los Angeles reported. “The photos call into question just how outdoors the dinner was. A witness who took photos tells us his group was so loud, the sliding doors had to be closed.” In the pictures, no one at the table is wearing a mask or practicing social distancing, even though Newson has been urging both for months. Newsom eventually apologized. “I made a bad mistake,” he said. “I should have stood up and … drove back to my house. The spirit of what I’m preaching all the time was contradicted. I need to preach and practice, not just preach.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/gov-newsom-and-family-go-into-isolation-following-covid-19-exposure

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The are laying this on pretty thick.. the fear porn is over the top!

‘Tony Meatballs’ among 15 mobsters busted in Philadelphia

A reputed wiseguy nicknamed “Tony Meatballs” is among more than a dirty dozen alleged South Philly mobsters charged in a sweeping federal indictment unsealed Monday. The suspects are accused of everything from illegal sports betting to heroin-peddling to offering loans at 400 percent interest — not to mention plotting to kidnap and possibly murder a drug dealer to save their reputations after the guy sold them fake narcotics. Anthony “Tony Meatballs’’ Gifoli, 72, was named in the superseding grand-jury indictment along with others including accused La Cosa Nostra underboss Steven “Stevie’’ Mazzone and alleged capo Domenic “Mr. Hopkins’’ Grande, the feds said. Underlings targeted by the indictment include Louis “Louie Sheep’’ Barretta, Joseph “Joey Electric” Servidio and Daniel “Harry” Castelli, the FBI said.

The crime syndicate has been working from Philadelphia to Atlantic City, NJ, the feds said — as they laid out the Mafia hierarchy in court documents, as well as offered definitions for related key terms. Federal officials said that unlike New York City, where several crime families have ruled over the years, Philadelphia and its surrounding area has been continuously under siege from the same single Mafia family since 1931. The court documents only identified the family’s current “street boss’’ by the initials “M.L’’ The street boss can serve in place of the boss when the higher-up is “incapacitated due to imprisonment,’’ the papers said. The Philly crime family’s consigliere — “typically an older, experienced mobster who counsels [the boss] on important issues’’ — was ID’d by the initials “J.L.’’ The feds described in the papers how “made men,’’ or “soldiers,’’ in a Mafia crime family must be of 100 percent Italian ancestry and vow at a secret initiation ceremony to “burn in Hell if I betray my friends.” If they turn “rat’’ and break “Omerta,’’ or the mob “Code of Silence,” they can be killed. Meanwhile, mob “associates’’ are not “made men’’ because they either haven’t been initiated yet or they lack full Italian heritage, the papers explained.

In terms of Mazzone’s alleged group, they schemed in places including the now-defunct Broadway Theatrical Club in South Philadelphia, an Italian restaurant in Collingswood, NJ, and a cafe and lounge in Margate, NJ, according to court documents. The seven-count indictment against the men includes charges of racketeering conspiracy, extortion, illegal gambling and narcotics distribution. About half of the defendants are already behind bars. An original indictment in the case was filed in January 2019 against four of the suspects, with the latest one adding more defendants and charges. “The charges unsealed today against these 15 alleged members and associates of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra show that the mafia remains a criminal presence in our city and beyond,” said Michael Driscoll, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division, in a statement. “From loansharking and illegal gambling to drug trafficking and extortion, the mob continues to keep its fingers in many different pots, in its ceaseless quest for illegal profits. “This group should’ve learned by now that the FBI is as committed to eradicating organized crime as wiseguys are to embracing it.” US Attorney William McSwain added, “The Philadelphia mob isn’t what it used to be, and thank God for that. “But it is still a problem and is still allegedly committing serious federal crimes, which is why we at the Department of Justice are focused on stamping it out. We will not rest until the mob is nothing but a bad memory.”

https://nypost.com/2020/11/23/tony-meatballs-among-15-mobsters-busted-in-philadelphia/

Fifteen Members and Associates of the Philadelphia Mafia Indicted on Federal Racketeering and Related Charges

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/fifteen-members-and-associates-philadelphia-mafia-indicted-federal-racketeering-and

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>>11755541 Fifteen Members and Associates of the Philadelphia Mafia Indicted on Federal Racketeering and Related Charges

Anthony Fauci calls on New York to accept FDA approval of vaccine

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday called on New York and other states to accept a COVID-19 vaccine once it’s approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said he “doesn’t agree” that it’s necessary for Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other state leaders to conduct their own in-house reviews before distributing a vaccine. “Hopefully I can appeal to them to say that yes, you can look at the data, everybody should be looking at the data — there’s nothing wrong with that — but trust the process because it’s a sound process,” Fauci told the Washington Post. Fauci said although he “doesn’t fault them for wondering what’s going on,” he fears the states’ own reviews could slow the process of rolling out the vaccine to their residents. “I hope if they do it, then they do it in an expeditious manner that doesn’t delay anything,” Fauci said. Cuomo has come under fire for saying he plans to assemble a team of experts to review the vaccine before distributing it in the Empire State — because he believes New Yorkers are going to “need someone other than this FDA and this CDC saying it’s safe.” “We’re going to put together our own group of doctors and medical experts to review the vaccine and the efficacy and the protocol and if they say it’s safe, then I’ll go to the people of New York and I’ll say it’s safe with that credibility,” he said.

https://nypost.com/2020/11/23/fauci-calls-on-new-york-to-accept-fda-approval-of-vaccine/