PEDO BUN 30 June 21

Somerset County Man Sentenced to 108 Months in Prison for Traveling to Foreign Country to Engage in Criminal Sexual Conduct

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/somerset-county-man-sentenced-108-months-prison-traveling-foreign-country-engage-criminal

Las Vegas Man Pleads Guilty To Distributing Hundreds Of Child Pornography Images And Videos Via Instant Messaging App

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/las-vegas-man-pleads-guilty-distributing-hundreds-child-pornography-images-and-videos

Philadelphia Man Admits Years-Long Sexual Abuse of Eight-Year-Old Victim, Including Manufacturing Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/philadelphia-man-admits-years-long-sexual-abuse-eight-year-old-victim-including

Lebanon, Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Distributing Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdva/pr/lebanon-virginia-man-pleads-guilty-distributing-child-pornography

Tallahassee Man Convicted of Enticing Minor to Engage in Prostitution

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndfl/pr/tallahassee-man-convicted-enticing-minor-engage-prostitution-0

New Haven Man Charged with Production of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/new-haven-man-charged-production-child-pornography

Hunterdon County Man Admits Receipt and Possession of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/hunterdon-county-man-admits-receipt-and-possession-child-pornography

Taney County Woman Pleads Guilty to Sexually Assaulting Children, Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/taney-county-woman-pleads-guilty-sexually-assaulting-children-child-pornography

Chicago Man Sentenced to More Than 15 Years in Prison for Sharing Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/chicago-man-sentenced-more-15-years-sharing-child-pornography

President Trump Releases Statement on Current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Milley, Calling for Milley to Resign

President Trump released a statement today addressing the recent comments by General Mark Milley, the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and called for his resignation.

The President’s response in part addresses General Milley’s comments last week in response to Rep. Matt Gaetz supporting the Critical Race Theory.

Gen. Mark Milley’s greatest fear is upsetting the woke mob.

When Black Lives Matter rioters were threatening to destroy Washington, D.C., he practically begged me not to send in the military to stop the riots.

Milley later issued an embarrassing and groveling apology for walking at my side to St. John’s Church, which far-left rioters almost burned to the ground the day before. Instead of denouncing the rioters, he denounced himself—a humiliation for our Military. A year later even the Fake News had to admit that their Lafayette Square narrative was a giant lie. Milley, once again, looked like a fool.

Now, in yet another desperate ploy to impress the Radical Left and keep his job, Milley made-up a false story that he yelled at me in the Situation Room. This is totally Fake News. If he had displayed such disrespect for his Commander-in-Chief I would have fired him immediately.

To further ingratiate himself with Biden, progressive Media, and the Radical Left, Milley went to Congress and actually defended Critical Race Theory being shoved down the throats of our soldiers. This Marxist, racist anti-American propaganda has no place in our Military—I banned these training programs, now Biden and the Pentagon have resumed them. As soon as possible, Congress must defund this racist indoctrination.

Gen. Milley ought to resign, and be replaced with someone who is actually willing to defend our Military from the Leftist Radicals who hate our Country and our Flag.

Below is Milley supporting Critical Race Theory last week – what a disgrace:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/president-trump-releases-statement-current-chairman-joint-chiefs-staff-general-milley-calling-milley-resign/

Grand Jury Returns Indictments

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwi/pr/grand-jury-returns-indictments-112

Human Trafficking Arrests Explode in Central Texas

AUSTIN, TX – The Human Trafficking Unit of Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Criminal Investigations Division made several noteworthy arrests in Coryell County near Killeen this week.

Angelena Yvonne Cedillo (Mata), 45, of Gatesville was arrested by investigators with the Coryell County Sheriff’s Office for an outstanding warrant for Continuous Trafficking of Persons during execution of an unrelated search warrant at her residence. Cedillo (Mata) was transported to the Coryell County Jail without incident.

Elijah Jerry Keller, 58, of Gatesville was arrested by investigators with the Coryell County Sheriff’s Office for an outstanding warrant for Continuous Trafficking of Persons after an unrelated search warrant was executed at his residence. Keller was not at home when the search took place but was taken into custody shortly afterwards when he was found walking along the roadside. Keller was transported to the Coryell County Jail without incident.

Castlee Noble, 54, of Gatesville was arrested by investigators with the Coryell County Sheriff’s Office for an outstanding warrant for Trafficking of Persons during execution of an unrelated search warrant at his residence. Noble was transported to the Coryell County Jail without incident.

William Henderson, 66, of Troy was arrested pursuant to an outstanding warrant for Continuous Trafficking of Persons and Trafficking of Persons Under 18 years of Age, and was transported to the Coryell County Jail without incident.

Lorenzo Ford, 58, of Gatesville was arrested by investigators with the Coryell County Sheriff’s Office pursuant to an outstanding warrant for Continuous Trafficking of Persons warrant, while he was attending a District Court hearing in Coryell County on an unrelated criminal charge. Ford was already in custody of the Coryell County Jail.

Stephen Earl Williams, 65, of Gatesville was arrested by investigators with the Coryell County Sheriff’s Office pursuant to an outstanding warrant for Continuous Trafficking of Persons during execution of an unrelated search warrant at his residence. Williams was transported to the Coryell County Jail without incident.

These arrest warrants resulted from a request for investigative assistance from the Coryell County Sheriff’s Office, regarding a large-scale narcotics investigation that had a connection with sex trafficking offenses involving minor children.

https://sanangelolive.com/news/crime/2021-06-30/human-trafficking-arrests-explode-central-texas

6 arrested for alleged attempts at sex with minors following undercover FBI operation

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. (KMOV.com) – Six men from Missouri and Illinois are facing federal charges for attempting to engage in sexual activity with minors following an undercover FBI operation.

The cases are a result of an FBI-led operation that involved multiple federal and state law enforcement agencies. The crimes allegedly took place in the Southern District of Illinois. Authorities said the men used the internet to entice someone under the age of 17 to engage in unlawful sexual activity and travel to a specific location to engage in sexual acts with a minor. Some of the accused allegedly traveled across state lines or offered to pay for sex, which led to additional charges. During the two-day undercover operation, no actual minors were harmed, authorities said.

“Children are vulnerable to sexual exploitation across the internet,” said U.S. Attorney Weinhoeft. “That’s why we are continually updating our investigative techniques and casting a wide net over a variety of online applications and other internet platforms where children are at risk. To anyone who would prey on our kids, know this: law enforcement is watching, and you will be caught.”

Godfrey C. Hubbard, 52, of Sorento, Illinois, Justin Schneider, 33, of Edwardsville, Michael James Smith, 39, of Barnhart, and James Tiroch, 37, of Florissant are each charged with attempted enticement of a minor. In addition to a charge of attempted enticement of a minor, Eric E. Hamilton, II, 22, of Maryland Heights, was charged with traveling across state lines with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. Christopher M. Simmons, 30, of St. Louis, is charged with attempted commercial sex trafficking of a child, attempted enticement of a minor, and traveling across state lines with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.

If convicted, each of the defendants can face at least 10 years in prison and could receive as much as life behind bars. Traveling across state lines to have sex with a minor is punishable by up to 30 years in prison. The charges also carry a possible lifetime term of supervised release and fines of up to $250,000.

https://www.kmov.com/news/6-arrested-for-alleged-attempts-at-sex-with-minors-following-undercover-fbi-operation/article_087f19cc-d9c1-11eb-8cb1-23d2b2dc3fa0.html

Belgian Security Services Company and Three Former Executives Indicted for Bid Rigging on U.S. Department of Defense Contracts

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/belgian-security-services-company-and-three-former-executives-indicted-bid-rigging-us

AZ Audit Randy Pullen: Audit Team Evacuates TOMORROW After County Delay- Routers And Passwords Still Withheld By Maricopa County

Today was expected to be the final day in the Veterans Memorial Coliseum but the audit team is still processing data. Tomorrow auditors will evacuate the Coliseum.

The audit team is finally wrapping up, however, they have been held back by Maricopa County again.

On Wednesday, The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson spoke to Arizona Audit spokesperson Randy Pullen for another update on the historic full forensic audit.

Conradson: So can you tell us about what’s going on, on the floor today.

Pullen: Absolutely as you know, we are moving out of the coliseum tomorrow. As you can see, all the equipment is being taken down and boxed up and moved out of the coliseum. 46 pallets of boxes will all be put over into another building here on the grounds, it’s the same building we used before. They will be stored there for a couple of weeks, a few minor things still need to be done, with respect to some software additions they made. We got some additional information for the county. Apparently there was a difference on how many duplicate ballots there were, per batch. So they gave us a new list. And so we had to create software that took that data and compared it to our data to deal with the duplicate ballots and so they’re finishing that up and down here they’re wrapping that up, and then down here they’re finishing up in the boxes, getting then ready for movement.

Conradson: And have you heard anything regarding routers or passwords from the county?

Pullen: … none of that information has been provided to us, and it’s something that the Senate will have to go back to the county and request those items. So again, it’s very difficult to complete the audit without getting that information

Conradson: We need that information for the full forensic side correct?

Pullen: Yes

Because Maricopa County did not provide data for ballots that were set aside for duplication, until about a week ago, The audit team must recheck their data and reconcile it with the County’s data.

This is just another roadblock that the county has put up for the audit team. For all we know, they were manipulating the data while refusing to provide it.

In addition, the County still refuses to provide audit officials with Dominion routers and administrative passwords which are necessary for the full forensic audit.

If it is found that the total number of ballots does not match the certified number of ballots, that alone is enough proof of a fraudulent election.

Once those results are released, Maricopa County will need to comply with this investigation.

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann maintains her stance that this audit is about accuracy and the Arizona Senate is in no rush to release the results.

This election was compromised and the world will soon know the truth.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/az-audit-randy-pullen-audit-team-evacuates-tomorrow-county-delay-routers-passwords-still-withheld-maricopa-county/

17 arrested in Mt. Lavinia Child sex trafficking ring

COLOMBO (News 1st): Sri Lanka Police have so far arrested 17 suspects in connection with the case of procuration and human trafficking of a 15-year-old girl in Mount Lavina.

A 15-year-old girl was sexually exploited by an individual in Mount Lavinia via social media outlets and the main suspect in connection with the incident was arrested on the 07th of June, by a special team led by Headquarter-Inspector of Mount Lavinia.

“Upon conducting further investigations, it was revealed that the girl was sexually trafficked online through special websites and social media pages. Thereafter, the investigation was taken over by the Children and Women’s Bureau of Colombo, and 17 suspects were arrested in addition to the main suspect,” Police Spokesperson Senior DIG Ajith Rohana told News 1st on Wednesday (Jun. 30).

Among those arrested are, the mother of the victim, another woman, a three-wheeler driver, a car driver, and the individual who designed the advertisement, said the Senior DIG Ajith Rohana.

The 15-year-old female victim had been exploited for three months and she had been handed over to various people to be exploited.

“According to the provisions of the Penal Code amendment Act No. 22 of 1995, procuration is an offense under the Sri Lankan Law. Therefore, those arrested in connection with the incident will be charged under the relevant sections of Procuration and the Penal Code,” Senior DIG Ajith Rohana stressed.

The Children and Women’s Bureau Colombo is conducting further investigations.

https://www.newsfirst.lk/2021/06/30/17-arrested-in-mt-lavinia-child-sex-trafficking-ring/

20 missing children recovered from Atlanta, most suspected as victims of sex trafficking

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - U.S. Marshals recovered 20 missing children from Atlanta in a two-week operation.

The U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Task Force and the Danbury Police Department arrested 35-year-old Wayne Marcell and charged him with first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor after recovering one trafficked and endangered child,

That investigation stemmed from “Operation Not Forgotten 2021,” during which the U.S. Marshals Service Missing Child Unit led a two-week operation in the metro Atlanta area that recovered 20 endangered missing children.

Other participating agencies included the USMS’s Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force (SERFTF), the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and Georgia state and local agencies.

“The U.S. Marshals Service in the District of Connecticut would like to commend the hard work and dedication of all the law enforcement professionals involved in this case,” said Lawrence Bobnick, U.S. Marshal for the District of Connecticut. “With its nationwide reach and investigative focus, the USMS appreciates opportunities such as this case to rescue innocent victims from their abductors.”

Of the 20 recovered, 16 of the children were suspected victims of sex trafficking. These missing children were considered to be some of the most at-risk and challenging recovery cases in the area, based on indications of high-risk factors such as victimization of child sex trafficking, child exploitation, sexual abuse, physical abuse, and medical or mental health conditions.

The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 enhanced the U.S. Marshals’ authority to assist federal, state, and local law enforcement with the recovery of missing, endangered, or abducted children, regardless of whether a fugitive or sex offender was involved.

The Marshals established a Missing Child Unit to oversee and manage the implementation of its enhanced authority under the act.

https://www.wect.com/2021/06/30/20-missing-children-recovered-atlanta-most-suspected-victims-sex-trafficking/

Coordinated action cuts off access to VPN service used by ransomware groups

Takedown of DoubleVPN makes it harder for criminal hackers to cover their tracks

This week, law enforcement and judicial authorities in Europe, the US and Canada have seized the web domains and server infrastructure of DoubleVPN. This is a virtual private network (VPN) service which provided a safe haven for cybercriminals to attack their victims.

This coordinated takedown, led by the Dutch National Police (Politie), under jurisdiction of the National Public Prosecutor’s Office (Landelijk Parket), with international activity coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, has now ended the availability of this service.

Servers were seized across the world where DoubleVPN had hosted content, and the web domains were replaced with a law enforcement splash page. This coordinated takedown was carried out in the framework of the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats (EMPACT).

DoubleVPN was heavily advertised on both Russian and English-speaking underground cybercrime forums as a means to mask the location and identities of ransomware operators and phishing fraudsters. The service claimed to provide a high level of anonymity by offering single, double, triple and even quadruple VPN-connections to its clients.

DoubleVPN was being used to compromise networks all around the world. Its cheapest VPN-connection cost as little as €22 ($25).

International coordination

International cooperation was central to the success of this investigation as the critical infrastructure was scattered across the world.

Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) supported the investigation from the onset, bringing together all the involved countries to establish a joint strategy. Its cybercrime specialists organised over 30 coordination meetings and four workshops to prepare for the final phase of the takedown, alongside providing analytical and crypto-tracing support. A virtual command post was set up by Europol on the action day to ensure seamless coordination between all the authorities involved in the takedown.

Eurojust facilitated the judicial cross-border cooperation and coordination, to ensure an adequate response in order to take down the network. For this purpose, and since October last year, six dedicated coordination meetings took place, organised by Eurojust, and set up a coordination centre during the action day, during which the operation was rolled on the ground by the various national authorities involved.

https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/coordinated-action-cuts-access-to-vpn-service-used-ransomware-groups

The ’Ndrangheta’s ‘Little Kiss’: Inside an Organized Crime Clan That Moved Cocaine Across Europe

With logistical support from a scion nicknamed “Little Kiss,” the Giorgi-Boviciani clan of the ’Ndrangheta crime group used northwestern Europe as a cocaine and tax-evasion haven.

Key Findings

According to investigators, the Giorgi-Boviciani clan helped oversee a multi-million-dollar cocaine pipeline from Latin America to Europe.

Aided by a Brazilian prison gang, the ’Ndrangheta shipped drugs to Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Hamburg, often via West Africa.

The Giorgis played a key bridging role, buying this cocaine from faraway cartels and selling it to European buyers, who then filtered it to street dealers.

As well as spreading cocaine around Europe, officials say the Giorgis moved the proceeds into the legal economy via the food and restaurant industries.

On an October evening in 2018, as Sebastiano Giorgi and a Romanian associate skipped and swayed at a fancy Stuttgart nightspot, they were blissfully unaware that their every move was being eyed by police. The cops had watched the pair polish off a meal before following them and their “dates” onto the dance floor, believing the gangsters were meeting up to talk about drugs. In fact, they were busy with the sex workers they had taken out on the town.

German authorities and Italian anti-mafia police had been watching Giorgi — known as “Bacetto,” or “Little Kiss” — for years. A rising figure in Italy’s ’Ndrangheta criminal organization, he was based a two-hour drive away in the picturesque lakeside town of Überlingen, where he ran an Italian eatery frequented by tourists. While Bacetto’s restaurant hasn’t always earned the best reviews from diners, he does get high marks from investigators for his other business — managing a multi-million-euro cocaine pipeline from Latin America to Europe.

More

https://www.occrp.org/en/ndrangheta/the-ndranghetas-little-kiss-inside-an-organized-crime-clan-that-moved-cocaine-across-europe

Delta Variant Scare Campaign Success: Nations Are Locking-Down Again

Pioneered by the UK government’s creative new bio surveillance regime and its marketing masterstroke of rebranding the “Indian Variant” to a more high-tech and ubiquitous sounding “Delta Variant,” a new concerted international campaign of fear has managed to reboot the ‘global pandemic’ narrative. It seems that the Delta brand has exceeded all expectations, with a number of major cities and countries deciding to lockdown their populations once again – in pursuit of a new absolutist standard for pandemic prevention, a policy known as “Zero COVID.”

Governments and their pharmaceutical cartel partners are now in a race to pump-up the level of public uncertainty and fear; as summertime peaks in the northern hemisphere, globalist stakeholders are gravely concerned that allowing populations to experience too much freedom of travel and relaxation may undermine their plans to re-impose full lockdowns in the coming fall and winter season.

In partnership with numerous ‘public health’ departments led by the G7 and Five Eyes countries, the corporate media are working diligently around-the-clock to elevate fears that a more contagious variant is somehow hampering global efforts to ‘contain’ the pandemic – despite the fact there is no up-tick in COVID hospitalisations and deaths.

Through a combination of high cycle count PCR testing and epidemiological computer modelling, public health officials have been able to claim that there’s a new “third wave” (or fourth wave – officials cannot seem to agree on which wave they are riding) of the COVID-19 disease sweeping the planet.

This latest rockstar of alleged viral mutations, Delta and “Delta Plus,” is said to be ‘more contagious’ and ‘possibly more deadly’ version of the coronavirus spreading rapidly – which the media is now claiming has somehow “forced a growing number of countries” to reimpose lockdowns, and other public health restrictions.

Media operative Erin Cunningham from the Washington Post reports…

The new curbs on travel and daily life stretched from Australia and Bangladesh to South Africa and Germany, where authorities over the weekend set new limits on travelers from “virus-variant zones” such as Portugal and Russia.

South Africa on Sunday extended a nightly curfew and introduced a ban on gatherings, alcohol sales, indoor dining and some domestic travel for 14 days to halt a worrying surge in cases driven by the delta variant, President Cyril Ramaphosa said.

In Bangladesh, the government pointed to a “dangerous and alarming” rise in delta-related infections and halted all public transportation starting Monday, prompting thousands of migrant workers to flee the capital, Dhaka, before the restrictions took hold.

However, this latest PCR-driven wave of alleged variant “infections” and “cases” is not corresponding with any noticeable rise in hospitalisations or deaths ‘with COVID’ or ‘from COVID’.

But interestingly, the latest wave of “cases” does correlate with the mass roll-out of the unlicensed experimental COVID vaccine.

https://21stcenturywire.com/2021/06/30/delta-variant-scare-campaign-success-nations-locking-down-again/

Hospital network’s new policy forces women to share rooms with gender-confused men

‘Transgender patients will be assigned to rooms based on their self-identified gender, regardless of whether this is consistent with their physical appearance, surgical history, genitalia, legal sex, sex assigned at birth …’

A Connecticut hospital network will force women to share rooms with biological men who claim to be women. According to Hartford HealthCare, the new policy stems from a spirit of “cultural humility.”

Hartford HealthCare is a network of hospitals serving 185 towns, with 33,000 employees, including 4,000 medical staff, and an operating revenue of $4.3 billion. The network released a statement Monday describing a “major step” on its “journey to cultural humility” involving “establishing a policy for assigning hospital beds to transgender patients.”

The policy, which was two years in the making and has been in place since last fall, states that the healthcare network is committed “to identifying gender-affirming room assignments.”

According to the policy, “transgender patients will be assigned to rooms based on their self-identified gender, regardless of whether this is consistent with their physical appearance, surgical history, genitalia, legal sex, sex assigned at birth or name and sex as it appears in hospital records.”

“It’s about the level of acceptance humans have toward others’ differences,” said Gerard Lupacchino, senior vice president of “human experience” at Hartford HealthCare, adding that patient needs should not be exclusively based “assumptions about preferences based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or other factors.”

Lupacchino said that if a private hospital room is available and needed, any patient may request one, referring to “transgender” patients who want a private room due to “safety concerns.”

It is unclear whether similar accommodation would be granted to a female patient who might not feel safe if forced to share a room with a man.

The press release says Hartford HealthCare is “evolving from cultural competence to cultural humility.”

“Part of the commitment is acknowledging that an individual’s conscious and unconscious biases can inform reactions and, therefore, the care patients receive,” the statement reads.

In the past, Hartford HealthCare’s hospital beds were assigned to patients according to the biological sex reflected on their birth certificates. The hospital did not have specific policy to deal with patients who “have a gender identity that is not fully congruent with their assigned sex at birth.”

The release explains that while some patients “have had surgical intervention to align their minds and bodies … not all have taken such steps.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/hospital-networks-new-policy-forces-women-to-share-rooms-with-gender-confused-men?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard

Allison Mack Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison – The Sentencing of Allison Mack

13:01 – Jessica Joan, the victim who appeared in person today, reacts to the sentence

Jessica Joan, the victim who appeared in person today, reacts to the sentence pic.twitter.com/ObWaYWmZuU

— Giuliana Bruno (@GiulianaBrunoTV) June 30, 2021

12:55 – For ten or twelve minutes, the Victim Impact Statements were read, filled with Allison Mack’s crimes, including phrases such as “She groomed me to become a sex slave for her beloved Keith Raniere”. And allegations that Mack “was always trying to probe into her psyche”. One victim spoke about being raped and being abused, and said that Mack and Raniere were the most evil monsters she ever met. Called her ‘a demon of a woman’, ‘a predator stalking her prey’, and ‘a monster cut from the same cloth as Raniere’. She also called Mack ‘an evil sociopath’, and asked the judge to give her a stiff prison sentence.

12:50 – One witness appeared in person, and that was Jessica Joan, who was known, during the trial, as Jaye. She was very strident, very angry and she said that Allison Mack was a monster. She said that Mack was a predator, an evil human being and a danger to society. She was horrified by Allison’s request for probation, so she came in person – she claimed to have spent the rest of her unemployment money – to get here in person and speak on behalf of herself and her fellow victims.

12:45 – Only two victims of Allison Mack chose to speak in the sentencing. One was in person, one by video. The first, appearing by video, was a woman who helped Mack with her website and subsequently joined NXIVM. She felt that NXIVM and Mack would help her with her life-long problem of loneliness. She described a love-hate relationship with Mack which included evidences of compassion and also of cruelty and sadism. The woman claimed (she did not identify herself) to have left NXIVM in 2014, prior to DOS’s beginning. She described Mack as being punishing and very controlling, but also very passionate.

12:33 BREAKING: Allison Mack is sentenced to 3 years in prison. Judge Garaufis made a considerable downward departure from the sentencing Guidelines and said that he recognized her efforts to rehabilitate.

12:30 – The judge, the probation department and the attorneys for the prosecution and the defense believe that the Sentencing Guidelines were accurately calculated at a level of 35, with would mean a sentencing range of 14 to 17,5 years. The Judge is not bound by those guidelines.

12:25 – Letters of support for Mack were reviewed, and there were also Victim Impact Statements, from – apparently – a total of 9 victims. Allison Mack wrote letters of apology to all 9 victims. They were unable to find one of the victims, so they delivered 8 of those.

12:21 – The proceeding started at 11:22. In attendance Judge Garaufis, Tania Hajjar for the prosecution, with special agents Michael Luthaker and Michael Lever for the FBI, and the defense with Allison Mack and her attorneys William F. McGovern and Sean S. Buckley. Curiously, for a time before the proceedings, the microphone was on, and I don’t think the lawyers knew it, so they engaged in a fairly lengthy conversation that was audible in the overflow room. They gossiped about some lawyers and prosecutors in their area.

https://frankreport.com/2021/06/30/updated-423-the-sentencing-of-allison-mack-june-30-2021/

Australian State Media fawns over the CCP

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-01/ccp-100-years-chinese-communist-party/100222794

Aus MSM in meltdown

'The only winners out of today are the anti-vaxxers': Chris Uhlmann takes aim at Queensland government over AstraZeneca

Nine News Political Editor Chris Uhlmann has taken aim at Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young's stance on the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Today the pair told a press conference that people under 40 should not get that vaccine, despite it being made available to younger Australians this week.

It sparked chaos and confusion between state leaders, health professionals and the public.

"What the Queensland Premier and her Chief Health Officer did today was simply astonishing," Uhlmann said tonight.

"If they wanted to shift blame for their lockdown onto the Prime Minister there was plenty of fertile ground on which to work.

"They could say the vaccine rollout is too slow, which is true.

"They could flog Scott Morrison for bad communication with doctors, or for his slow conversion to the idea of purpose-built quarantine.

"But they didn't do that.

"Instead, they attacked the quality of a vaccine that we desperately need to dig our way out of this prison.

"They played up the vanishingly small chance of dying from AstraZeneca and became the latest loud voices adding to fear and confusion in the community.

"It was breathtaking and the only winners out of today are the anti-vaxxers."

The AstraZeneca debate

Prime Minister Scott Morrison's call to extend eligibility for the AstraZeneca vaccine for anybody aged over 18 prompted alarm in some quarters.

Advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), as the government has acknowledged, has not changed, and the AstraZeneca vaccine continues to be recommended for use by over-60s only.

Ms Palaszczuk said National Cabinet did not make the decision to widen the availability of AstraZeneca to under-40s.

"National Cabinet did not make that decision," she said at her COVID-19 media briefing today.

"I'd like to ask the prime minister, did his cabinet make that decision?"

She called into question whether it was wise for the prime minister to allow younger Australians to get AstraZeneca.

"We want Queenslanders to get vaccinated," she said.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-astrazeneca-vaccine-chris-uhlmann-takes-aim-queensland-premier-annastacia-palaszczuk/4b220307-3cd0-44c4-9a0d-eca03c3046be

Freight company cashed in on $10 million PPP loan — then shut down and moved to Mexico

An American freight company reportedly cashed in on an emergency federal loan last year, only to shut down its stateside manufacturing operations and move to Mexico a few months later.

FreightCar America, a major producer of freight cars for the railway industry, shuttered its last remaining U.S. production site in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, late last summer and shifted production to its facility in Castaños, Mexico. The move reportedly cost 550 American workers their jobs.

Yet only a few months earlier, the company had received a $10 million Paycheck Protection Program loan — the maximum amount available to businesses as part of a program to help American workers retain their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, ProPublica reported.

The news outlet acknowledged that to some employees, the news didn't come as a shock, since they had for years heard rumors that management would relocate. But for others, the timing seemed odd.

At least one employee, Robert Bulman, believed the maneuver was a "setup" from the beginning.

"When the Mexican plant opened, we were told at the beginning they would just be helping Shoals and making parts for the trains," said Bulman, who reportedly worked at the Alabama plant for seven years before getting laid off. "But the whole time, it was a setup, we were gone."

Another employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told ProPublica, "I went to FreightCar to retire. I wasn't planning on leaving when I got there."

FreightCar America CEO Jim Meyer reportedly insisted in an email to ProPublica that at the time he received the PPP money, the company had no intention of shutting down the Alabama plant. He added that the money was put to good use in that it helped the company retain employees for most of the year even as production dropped off.

In its report, ProPublica did not accuse FreightCar America of any obvious wrongdoing but insinuated that the company may have "exploited loopholes and rule changes" in the pandemic relief program established last year under the CARES Act.

Initially, in order for the PPP loans to be forgiven, the Small Business Administration required borrowing businesses to spend 75% of the loan money on payroll for eight weeks. Later, as businesses complained that they couldn't spend PPP money quickly enough due to the stalled economy, the legislation was amended to require businesses to spend only 60% of the loan money on payroll.

In FreightCar America's case, the eight-week threshold was passed before layoffs kicked in, and according to ProPublica, the company likely abided by the payroll expenditure rules. Rules aside, whether the company did right by its employees may be up for debate.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/freight-company-ppp-loan-moved-to-mexico

Nebraska mom sentenced for sexually assaulting children during sleepovers

A Nebraska mother was sentenced to 64 to 102 years in prison Monday for sexually assaulting two of her young daughter’s friends during sleepovers at her home, a report said.

The sentencing of Christina Greer, 38, comes after she was found guilty in March of three counts of sexual assault for abusing two boys, ages 12 and 13, in 2018 and 2018, the Omaha World-Herald reported.

Greer gave the minors alcohol and marijuana-infused gummy bears during weekend sleepovers in 2017 and 2018, prosecutors have said.

She also told them to delete evidence from their phones and to not tell anyone about their sexual encounters, according to prosecutors.

Investigators found sexually explicit photos of Greer from one boy’s phone, court documents show.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/30/nebraska-mom-sentenced-for-sexually-assaulting-children-during-sleepovers/

Even More Researchers Link mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines to Rare Heart Inflammation Cases: Studies

Two new studies released this week have further suggested there is a link between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and heart inflammation cases—coming after federal health officials added warnings to Moderna’s and Pfizer’s shots.

A study from Duke University, released in JAMACardiology, looked at four cases of myocarditis, which refers to heart inflammation in the central layer of the heart wall, that occurred within five days of COVID-19 vaccination between Feb. 1 and April 30 of this year.

“All 4 patients had received the second dose of a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, presented with severe chest pain, had biomarker evidence of myocardial injury, were hospitalized, and had cardiac magnetic resonance imaging findings typical of myocarditis,” said researchers, concluding that there is a possibility of an association between the health condition and the shot.

Federal health officials have said that the risks of developing heart inflammation are outweighed by the benefits of the COVID-19 vaccine. COVID-19 is the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

The researchers, who noted that as of now, “causality cannot be established, reported that three of the patients were men aged 23 and 36, and the fourth one was a 70-year-old woman. Two cases involved individuals who received the Pfizer shot and the other two received the Moderna shot,” they said.

The four patients, researchers said, reported severe acute chest pain, had abnormal electrocardiogram results, and displayed evidence of heart tissue injury.

https://www.ntd.com/even-more-researchers-link-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-to-rare-heart-inflammation-cases-studies_635628.html

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