>>13498142

>https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1385713986365235201

https://nypost.com/2021/04/23/cuomo-blocks-release-of-covid-nursing-home-data-sent-to-feds/

Cuomo blocks release of COVID nursing home data sent to feds

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office won’t reveal what it told the Justice Department about COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes, rejecting Freedom of Information requests from The Post and other media outlets — claiming in part that doing so would be an “invasion of personal privacy.”

“Please be advised that portions of the records that respond to your request are exempt

from disclosure pursuant to Public Officers Law § 87(2)(b) because, if disclosed, would

constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy,'” Jaclyn Clemmer, the governor’s record access officer, wrote in a denial response to The Post.

The Associated Press received a similar denial letter.

Clemmer didn’t explain whose privacy might be invaded, or how. The Post did not request any personal ID information of nursing home residents. She also said the records sought were exempt from public disclosure because the release would “interfere with law enforcement investigations.”

The Justice Department last year requested that New York and other states turn over data regarding COVID-19 infections and deaths inside nursing homes.

The US Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn and the state Assembly Judiciary Committee are also investigating claims that the Cuomo administration intentionally undercounted or lied about the number of nursing home residents killed by COVID.

Federal prosecutors initiated a probe after The Post exclusively revealed in February that Cuomo’s top aide, Melissa DeRosa, privately admitted to state Democratic lawmakers that his administration withheld the total nursing home death toll from COVID-19 from them due to a pending federal probe.

Just weeks before, state Attorney General Letitia James issued a stinging report that found Cuomo officials undercounted the COVID-linked deaths of New York’s nursing home residents by 50 percent. Within hours, a defensive state Health Department Commissioner Howard Zucker added thousands to the death toll.

It was later revealed that Cuomo’s office removed the higher nursing home death count from a July Health Department report about the state’s handling of nursing homes during the early months of the pandemic.

The Associated Press reported Friday that Cuomo’s office rebuffed a nearly identical request for COVID-related nursing home data that state officials provided to the Justice Department.

>>13498179

>https://nypost.com/2021/04/23/cuomo-blocks-release-of-covid-nursing-home-data-sent-to-feds/

The Post in February requested “any correspondence, memorandum, documents, minutes of meetings between the executive chamber and the U.S. Department of Justice regarding New York nursing homes and the coronavirus pandemic.”

The request specifically asked for “any information concerning deaths of nursing home residents from COVID-19 that includes any questions about reporting, methods, and any data on COVID-19 deaths linked to nursing homes that were turned over to the U.S. Department of Justice.”

Cuomo in February claimed he supported releasing the records.

“Look, I would have no problem with it,” said Cuomo, a former state attorney general now facing multiple COVID and sexual harassment investigations.

“I would have to have the lawyers talk to DOJ, but I would have no problem with it.”

Under state law, law enforcement agencies are allowed to withhold records related to ongoing criminal investigations. But in this case, the governor’s office has applied the exemption to data initially compiled for public health purposes which was sent to the Justice Department’s civil division.

New York is not the only state that has declined to make its response to Justice Department inquiries public, AP reports.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s office also said it could not provide information because the Justice Department hadn’t “closed the investigation.”

A state judge also ordered Cuomo and the health department to release COVID nursing home statistics after concluding they broke the Freedom of Information Law by refusing to release information sought by Empire Center for Public Policy.

After months of stonewalling, Cuomo admitted it was a mistake to take so long to release the data, but claimed the delay was not an attempt to hide the death toll.

The administration claimed it didn’t release a full tally sooner because it needed time to verify how many nursing home patients died after being transferred to hospitals.

In its document requests, the Justice Department asked for the number of residents, staff and visitors who contracted COVID-19 or died from the virus and the number of people admitted to each nursing home after being treated for COVID-19 at a hospital.

The governors of Democratic states claimed they were being unfairly targeted by the Trump-led Justice Department.

“The U.S. Department of Justice has a long tradition of exercising its considerable power in an impartial and non-partisan manner and we are concerned your letter departs from that tradition,” Michigan’s Chief Legal Counsel Mark Totten said.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/feds-charge-extremist-jewish-sect-lev-tahor-with-exploiting-kidnapping-children/

Feds charge extremist Jewish sect Lev Tahor with exploiting, kidnapping children

Five leaders of the fanatical ultra-Orthodox group, now located in Guatemala, charged over the arranged marriage of a 12-year-old, other crimes

US Federal authorities filed child exploitation and child abduction charges against leaders of an extremist Haredi Orthodox sect that has been accused of forcing girls as young as 12 years old into marriages with much older men within the sect.

Five leaders of the Lev Tahor group were charged by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and FBI Monday with crimes related to an alleged forced marriage in 2017 and a 2018 kidnapping.

The charges include conspiring to transport a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and conspiring to travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. The first charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison and maximum of lifetime in prison; the second carries a maximum of 30 years in prison.

Nachman Helbrans, one of the men charged Monday, arranged a marriage in 2017 between his 12-year-old niece and an 18-year-old man, according to the filing. They were married in 2018 and began a sexual relationship.

According to the Justice Department press release, young brides in the community were expected “to have sex with their husbands, to tell people outside Lev Tahor that they were not married, to pretend to be older, and to deliver babies inside their homes instead of at a hospital, partially to conceal from the public the mothers’ young ages.”

Later that year, the girl’s mother escaped from the group and fled to the United States with the girl and the girl’s younger brother, arriving in New York in November 2018. According to the Justice Department, in December 2018, the five men charged Monday kidnapped the girl, then 14 years old, and her brother in the middle of the night and brought them back to her husband, then 20 years old, in Mexico. The children were returned to New York several weeks later by law enforcement but the group tried to kidnap them again two more times.

Nachman Helbrans is the son of Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, who founded Lev Tahor in the 1980s, and became the group’s leader in 2017 after the death of his father. The other men charged are Mayer Rosner, Yakov Weingarten, Shmiel Weingarten and Yoel Weingarten.

Yakov Weingarten was arrested last month in Guatemala on the first day of Passover. The group had fled Canada to Guatemala in 2014 after coming under intense scrutiny by Canadian authorities for alleged child abuse and marrying off children. The group was founded in Jerusalem before fleeing abroad.

William F. Sweeney Jr., the FBI’s assistant director, thanked Guatemalan law enforcement for their assistance in the Lev Tahor case.

“International borders will not stop the FBI from pursuing justice and enforcing violations of our laws, especially when you target children. The behavior alleged today is outrageous, and there is no justification for it whatsoever,” Sweeney said.

The group has been described as a cult and as the “Jewish Taliban,” as women and girls older than 3 are required to dress in long black robes covering their entire body, leaving only their faces exposed. The men spend most of their days in prayer and studying only specific Torah portions.

Lev Tahor subscribes to a strict, idiosyncratic version of kosher laws. Members believe that genetic engineering has rendered modern-day chickens nonkosher.

Marriages between teenagers and older members are common.

According to the Justice Department’s announcement of the charges, Nachman Helbrans and his team “embraced several extreme practices, including strict, invasive monitoring of members, frequent beatings, and forced marriages of minors to adult members. Children in Lev Tahor are often subject to physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.”

Leaders of the group have been charged with kidnapping before, including in the case authorities charged Helbrans and the others for Monday. In 2019, four group leaders were indicted for the 2018 kidnapping.

Guatemalan authorities have been monitoring leaders of Lev Tahor, which is now based in the country, in recent years. Members of the group, which is anti-Zionist, have applied for political asylum in Iran.

>>13498282

go on..

>>13498355

>If you hear family members talk about pedophiles, learn how to challenge them by asking questions. That’s the best way to reach people. They’re in a rabbit hole and it’s hard to pull them out. Ask them for evidence.

Good advice!

>>13498366

>https://twitter.com/DailyMail/status/1385751860104007682

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9505283/DOJ-investigating-Derek-Chauvin-charged-2017-arrest.html

DOJ investigating if Derek Chauvin should be charged over a 2017 arrest where he struck a black 14-year-old boy with his flashlight and knelt on him for nearly 17 minutes

The Department of Justice is investigating whether they will charge Derek Chauvin over a 2017 arrest in which he knelt on a 14-year-old boy for 17 minutes

Chauvin, a fired Minneapolis police officer, was convicted this week of killing George Floyd after kneeling on the black man's neck for nine minutes

Federal prosecutors had witnesses testify before a grand jury two months ago regarding the 2017 incident

The DOJ probe is still ongoing and the Minneapolis Police Department was recently briefed on it

The details regarding the 2017 arrest emerged when state prosecutors tried to convince a judge to let them use Chauvin's prior use-of-force incidents at trial

The judge banned prosecutors from telling jurors about the 2017 incident

Chauvin has never faced any charges over the 2017 arrest

>>13498559

>>13498565

>they have no moral basis to say that a religious sect can't arrange marriages with 12 year olds

oooook.

guys? opinions?

>>13498591

Tell us some more about Lev Tahor then; I'd like to hear your double spaced thoughts.

>>13498148

The Vaginal Dehydrator

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/lev-tahor-leaders-charged-child-exploitation-offenses

Lev Tahor Leaders Charged With Child Exploitation Offenses

Leaders of Extremist Jewish Sect Charged with Participating in a Scheme to Kidnap 14-Year-Old Girl and Return Her to Sexual Relationship with Adult “Husband”

Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced new charges against NACHMAN HELBRANS, MAYER ROSNER, YAKOV WEINGARTEN, SHMIEL WEINGARTEN, and YOIL WEINGARTEN for conspiring to (1) transport a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and (2) travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, in connection with the kidnapping of a 14-year-old girl (“Minor-1”) from New York to reunite her with her adult “husband” outside the United States for purposes of continuing their sexual relationship. The defendants, among other members of Lev Tahor, were previously charged with several other crimes related to the kidnapping of Minor-1 and her younger brother.

U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss stated: “As alleged, the defendants engaged in a brazen kidnapping of a minor girl in the middle of the night, taking her across the border to Mexico in order to reunite her with her adult ‘husband’ to continue their sexual relationship. These charges send a clear message that the sexual exploitation of children will not be tolerated.”

FBI Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr. stated: “International borders will not stop the FBI from pursuing justice and enforcing violations of our laws, especially when you target children. The behavior alleged today is outrageous, and there is no justification for it whatsoever. We are grateful for the excellent cooperation from our partners in Mexico and Guatemala who helped us hold these leaders of Lev Tahor accountable for their behavior. Protecting innocent children should be a priority for all of society – it’s certainly one of ours. If you know of children who are being trafficked, please contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or fbi.tips.gov.”

>>13498663

>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/lev-tahor-leaders-charged-child-exploitation-offenses

NACHMAN HELBRANS, MAYER ROSNER, YAKOV WEINGARTEN, SHMIEL WEINGARTEN, and YOIL WEINGARTEN are U.S. citizens and senior leaders of Lev Tahor, an extremist Jewish sect previously based in New York and Canada, and currently based in Guatemala. HELBRANS became the leader of Lev Tahor in or about 2017. After HELBRANS and his leadership team took over, they seized tight control over the group and embraced several extreme practices, including strict, invasive monitoring of members, frequent beatings, and forced marriages of minors to adult members. Children in Lev Tahor are often subject to physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.

In or about 2017, HELBRANS arranged for his then-12-year-old niece, Minor-1, to be “married” to a then-18-year-old man, defendant JACOB ROSNER. They were religiously “married” the following year, when Minor-1 was 13 and JACOB ROSNER was 19, and immediately began a sexual relationship with the goal of procreation. They were never legally married. Lev Tahor leadership, including the defendants, required young brides to have sex with their husbands, to tell people outside Lev Tahor that they were not married, to pretend to be older, and to deliver babies inside their homes instead of at a hospital, partially to conceal from the public the mothers’ young ages.

In or about October 2018, the mother of Minor-1 (who is also HELBRANS’s sister) determined that it was no longer safe for her children to remain in the Lev Tahor community in Guatemala. The mother escaped from the group’s compound and arrived in the United States in early November 2018. Also in November 2018, a Brooklyn family court granted her temporary custody of the children and prohibited the children’s father, a leader within Lev Tahor, from communicating with the children.

After the mother fled and settled in New York with her children, the defendants devised a plan to return Minor-1, then 14 years old, to Guatemala and to her then-20-year-old “husband” so that they could resume their sexual relationship and procreate. In December 2018, they executed their plan, kidnapping Minor-1 and her brother in the middle of the night from a home in New York and transporting them through various states and, eventually, to Mexico. During this time, Lev Tahor leadership was seeking asylum for the entire Lev Tahor community in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Following a three-week search involving scores of local, federal, and international law enforcement entities, Minor-1 and her brother were recovered in Mexico and returned to New York. On two additional occasions, in or about March 2019 and March 2021, members of Lev Tahor again tried to kidnap Minor-1 and her brother.

>>13498665

>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/lev-tahor-leaders-charged-child-exploitation-offenses

NACHMAN HELBRANS, 39, of Guatemala, MAYER ROSNER, 44, of Guatemala, YAKOV WEINGARTEN, 30, of Guatemala, SHMIEL WEINGARTEN, 25, of Guatemala, and YOIL WEINGARTEN, 32, of Guatemala, are charged with (1) conspiring to transport a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life in prison; and (2) conspiring to travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, which carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. The maximum potential sentences in this case are prescribed by Congress and are provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendants will be determined by the judge.

The Superseding Indictment also includes charges that were previously brought against the defendants and other members of Lev Tahor. Specifically, it charges NACHMAN HELBRANS, MAYER ROSNER, YAKOV WEINGARTEN, SHMIEL WEINGARTEN, YOIL WEINGARTEN, MORDECHAY MALKA, 26, of Guatemala, ARON ROSNER, 47, of Brooklyn, New York, JACOB ROSNER, 21, of Guatemala, and MATITYAU MOSHE MALKA, 29, of Guatemala, with conspiring to kidnap, unlawfully use a means of identification, and enter by false pretenses the secure area of an airport, and charges three additional counts of international parental kidnapping.

Ms. Strauss praised the outstanding work of the FBI, the New York State Police, the Sullivan County District Attorney’s Office, United States Customs and Border Protection, the Village of Spring Valley Police Department, and our law enforcement partners in Mexico and Guatemala.

This case is being handled by the Office’s White Plains Division. Assistant United States Attorneys Sam Adelsberg, Jamie Bagliebter, and Jim Ligtenberg are in charge of the prosecution.

The charges contained in the Superseding Indictment are merely accusations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

it's a flak kind of night my dudes

>>13498760

>https://www.voanews.com/silicon-valley-technology/how-china-dominates-global-battery-supply-chain

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>>13498887

>announced her campaign to challenge California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom