2 extradited to face U.S. charges for $50 MILLION text messaging fraud

Federal officials in New York today announced that Michael Pearse, an Australian national, and Yongchao Liu, a/k/a “Kevin Liu,” a Chinese national, were extradited from Australia and arrived in the United States yesterday. Pearse and Liu were extradited on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and, as to Pearse, conspiracy to commit money laundering, stemming from the defendants’ participation in a scheme to charge mobile phone customers millions of dollars in monthly fees for unsolicited, recurring text messages about topics such as horoscopes, celebrity gossip, and trivia facts, without the customers’ knowledge or consent – a practice that the defendants and their co-conspirators referred to as “auto-subscribing.” The portion of the fraudulent scheme that Pearse, Liu, and their co-conspirators orchestrated generated more than $50 million in proceeds for themselves.

According to allegations in the indictment:

From in or about 2011 through in or about 2013, Pearse, Liu, and their co-conspirators engaged in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud consumers by placing unauthorized charges for premium text messaging services on consumers’ cellular phone bills, through a practice known as auto-subscribing.

During the relevant time period, Lin Miao, a co-conspirator of Pearse and Liu, operated a company called Tatto, which offered premium text messaging services – such as monthly horoscopes, celebrity gossip, and trivia facts – to mobile phone customers. Pearse and Liu worked for a company called Bullroarer, which was affiliated with Tatto. Pearse was the CEO of Bullroarer and Liu was a Java development engineer for Bullroarer. Co-conspirator Darcy Wedd operated Mobile Messenger, a U.S. aggregation company in the mobile phone industry that served as a middleman between content providers such as Tatto and mobile phone carriers, and was responsible for assembling monthly charges incurred by a particular mobile phone customer for premium text messaging services and placing those charges on that customer’s cellular phone bill.

To carry out the scheme, co-conspirators at Tatto purchased large numbers of mobile phone numbers from co-conspirators at Mobile Messenger, who had access to those numbers by virtue of their employment. Pearse and Liu and their co-conspirators then worked to have unsolicited text messages sent to these and other mobile phone numbers and to enroll those customers in premium text messaging services without their knowledge or consent. Pearse and Liu and their co-conspirators also took steps to conceal the fraud scheme by making it appear as if the customers had, in fact, elected to purchase the text messaging services, when in truth they had not.

https://breaking911.com/2-extradited-to-face-u-s-charges-for-50-million-text-messaging-fraud/

Thanks To COVID-19, China Is Now The World Leader For Foreign Direct Investment

China is now the world's "top destination" for foreign direct investment ("FDI"). FDI captures things like foreign companies building infrastructure and making acquisitions of local companies.

The shift came as a result of - wait for it - the Covid-19 pandemic amplifying "an eastward shift in the center of gravity of the global economy", according to the Wall Street Journal.

New investments by overseas businesses into the U.S. fell 49% in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. China saw its direct investments rise 4% over the same period of time. The success is being attributed to how the country (supposedly) handled the pandemic better than the U.S.

The numbers, heavily influenced by the global pandemic, "underline China’s move toward the center of a global economy long dominated by the U.S.," the WSJ wrote.

Foreign investments into the U.S. peaked at $472 billion in 2016, while at the same time foreign investments in China totaled $134 billion. Since then, investments in China have continued to rise and investments in the U.S. have continued to fall. Over the last 4 years, the Trump administration discouraged investment in China and put Chinese investors on notice that investing in the U.S. would carry new national security scrutiny.

Daniel Rosen, founding partner of Rhodium Group, an independent research firm in New York, said there's little room for concern: “I don’t think one can say anything confidently about the impact of the FDI downturn in the U.S., compared to all the other hits on the U.S. economy.”

He continued: "It is natural that foreign investment would decline sharply in the U.S. under the circumstances because it has an open, market economy, while China doesn’t. There is no reason to be concerned about the outlook for the FDI in the United States providing that the U.S. is sticking with its basic open-market competitive system.”

Major names like Honeywell International and Adidas were among companies who invested more in China during the pandemic.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/thanks-covid-19-china-now-world-leader-foreign-direct-investment

Melissa Carone, Famous For Dominion Fraud Testimony, Announces Campaign For Michigan Senate

"My ultimate goal is to get our ballots hand-counted and clean out Lansing just like draining the swamp in D.C. because that’s what we need."

Star voter fraud witness Melissa Carone, who provided crucial testimony about her experiences as a contractor with Dominion Voting Systems in 2020, told a local Detroit outlet last week that she plans to run for a Michigan state senate seat in the 46th district and push push for hand-counted ballots.

Carone stated that her “ultimate goal is to get our ballots hand-counted and clean out Lansing just like draining the swamp in D.C. because that’s what we need,” according to Detroit Deadline.

The seat sought by Carone is located in Michigan’s 46th District, which overlaps with Oakland County.

READ MORE: NEW FOOTAGE: Michigan Lawmaker Who Threatened ‘Trumpers’ Was Heckled, Mocked For Incompetence During Fraud Hearing Meltdown

Carone has faced the threat of high-dollar lawsuits from Dominion Voting Systems for the testimony she provided during December’s state senate hearings on election fraud.

As National File reported earlier, Carone did not shrink back from the cease and desist letters and blasted Dominion for its legal threats.

During Carone’s testimony, she said “my life has been destroyed” for coming forward, adding that “Democrats like to ruin your life”:

Carone began interrupting loudly after Michigan Rep. Matt Marshal asked, “Why is it that more people, and I know we have a couple here today, but why is it that we’re not having more people come forward?”

“I’ll tell you why,” said Carone. “My life has been destroyed. My life has been completely destroyed because of this. I’ve lost family, I’ve lost friends, I’ve been threatened, my kids have been threatened. I’ve had to move, I’ve had to change my phone number, I’ve had to get rid of social media.”

“Nobody wants to come forward. They’re getting threatened, their lives are getting ruined. I can’t even get an actual job anymore, I can’t.” She added, “Because Democrats like to ruin your life. That’s why. Just like they do to Trump.”

Attempts to satirize and mock Carone by left-wing corporate media mostly fell flat, as she achieved something of a folk hero status among supporters of President Donald Trump.

https://nationalfile.com/melissa-carone-famous-for-dominion-fraud-testimony-announces-campaign-for-michigan-senate/

YouTube Reportedly Prolongs Trump Channel Suspension, Restricts Monetisation for Giuliani

The Youtube channel of the former US president, Donald Trump, was suspended following the deadly 6 January Capitol riot, after Trump was accused of "incitement of insurrection" as his supporters stormed one of the most important buildings in the United States. The former president is also banned from Twitter and some other social media.

YouTube announced that the channel of former US President Donald Trump will remain suspended, without specifying how long, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing a company spokesperson.

“In light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, the Donald J. Trump channel will remain suspended,” YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi said in a statement, cited by the outlet. “Our teams are staying vigilant and closely monitoring for any new developments.”

The reported continuation of the suspension, without providing a timetable appears to many to make Trump's YouTube ban indefinite.

Politico also said that YouTube will temporarily restrict Rudi Giuliani, a Trump personal attorney, from participating in the platform's monetisation program, that allows creators to make money from their content.

According to the YouTube spokesperson, Giuliani's ban from the program comes due to "repeated violations of its policies against making false claims about widespread voter fraud in the 2020 elections".

The attorney will be able to reapply for the program after 30 days, if issues related to his account are resolved, the spokesperson reportedly added.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202101271081890440-youtube-reportedly-prolongs-trump-channel-suspension-restricts-monetisation-for-giuliani/

Day 5 for the Biden Regime: Holding China Accountable … Some Other Time.

Day 5 of the Biden-Harris regime: a rebrand for Trump accomplishments, and “strategic patience” for the CCP.

Reimposing Trump Travel Ban.

Biden reimposed restrictions on most non-U.S. citizens who have recently been to Brazil, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and 26 European countries that allow travel across open borders, and added South Africa to the list due to new COVID-19 variants.

President Trump imposed similar restrictions, but ordered them lifted during his final days in office. Unlike Trump, Biden will not be accused of xenophobia and fear-mongering for moving to reinstate them.

Gender Change Surgery, Hormone Therapy for America’s Fighting Forces.

Following through on a clearly very important campaign pledge, Biden signed an order revoking 2017 and 2018 memoranda restricting eligibility and certain services for transgender military members.

Despite the “transgender military ban” misnomer, under Trump, the policy allowed service members who had already received a diagnosis of gender dysphoria to continue serving in their preferred gender, receive hormone treatments, and undergo gender transition surgery. The order banned further enlistments of individuals taking hormones or who had already undergone a gender transition, and barred hormones or transition procedures for future diagnoses.

The White House Instagram account celebrated the move with a graphic featuring the colors of the transgender flag and a video highlighting transgender service members.

“Buy American” is Back!

In remarks on his plan to strengthen American manufacturing, Biden announced a full slate of throwback Trump initiatives under the “Build Back Better” rebrand.

Prioritizing American-made products and materials in federal procurement

Historic investment in AI research and development

“The largest mobilization of public investment in procurement, infrastructure, and R&D since World War Two.”

Raising thresholds for domestic content requirements

Investing in American workers “to win not just the jobs of today, but the jobs and industries of tomorrow”

Notable: A White House aide, not Biden himself, called on reporters as the President took questions.

Quotable: “Unity requires you to take away—eliminate the vitriol, make anything that you disagree with about the other person’s personality or their lack of integrity or they’re not decent legislators and the like—so we have to get rid of that.” (Biden compared Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley to Nazi minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels earlier this month.)

Biden Administration Announces New Stance Toward China: “Patience.”

After over four decades as an elected official, Biden is preparing to deal with China with… patience (aka appeasement).

“We’re starting from an approach of patience as it relates to our relationship with China,” Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a briefing Monday.

Later: “Beijing is now challenging our security, prosperity, and values in significant ways that require a new U.S. approach… We want to approach this with some strategic patience.”

To a final question on China: “I don’t have any preview for you on when we will have more specifics on our strategy… We’re going to approach it with patience.”

https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/day-5-for-the-biden-regime/

Biden ends contracts with private prisons in series of executive orders on race & ‘systemic problems’ in criminal justice system

In the latest decree supposedly aimed at combating racial inequality, President Joe Biden has ordered the Justice Department not to renew contracts with private prisons – for-profit institutions that have a grim history in the US.

“This is the first step to stop corporations from profiting off incarceration that is less humane and less safe as the studies show,” Biden said before signing the executive order on Tuesday. “This is just the beginning of my administration’s plan to address systemic problems in our criminal justice system.”

Former President Barack Obama planned a gradual phase-out of federal contracts with private prisons in 2016, a move that was overturned one year later by Donald Trump’s first attorney general, Jeff Sessions. Biden’s order returns federal policy to that of Obama.

Out of the US’ estimated two million prisoners, 130,000 inmates are in privately operated institutions, with around 35,000 of these inmates incarcerated on federal charges, according to Bureau of Justice Statistics figures.

Outsourced detention can be found as far back in the history books as the Revolutionary War, but prisons for profit emerged in their current form in the 1980s when Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), now known as CoreCivic, took over operation of a facility in Tennessee. Today, CoreCivic and its nearest competitor, the GEO Group, have a capacity of nearly 150,000 beds combined, and until recently were backed by some of Wall Street’s biggest investors, including Wells Fargo and Bank of America – both of whom divested from the sector in 2019.

https://www.rt.com/usa/513709-biden-private-prison-contracts-order/

Priest Issues Warning from Rome!

https://www.brighteon.com/51c9c2d0-a1f8-4ed2-b0bf-5f7a0cfe2c95

Canadian Front Line Doctors and Nurses speak out!

Doctors are being told vaccine ingredients won't be available to them until 2023

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