Former Football Coach Facing Federal Charges for Production of Child Pornography Involving Two Minor Victims
Defendant Coached A High School Football Team in Charles County and a Youth Football Team in Prince George’s County; Law Enforcement Believes There May be More Victims
https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/former-football-coach-facing-federal-charges-production-child-pornography-involving-two
Long Island Man Sentenced to 200 Months’ Imprisonment for Attempting to Provide Material Support to Terrorists
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/long-island-man-sentenced-200-months-imprisonment-attempting-provide-material-support
United Arab Emirates a go-to offshore haven for Africa’s political and business elite, leaked records show
The UAE’s record on illicit finance raises concerns for its relationship with the world’s poorest continent, experts say.
In 2018, the son of the president of the island nation of Comoros was back home in the capital city of Moroni and looking to make a buck.
Nour El Fath Azali, a former bank auditor and American business school graduate, set up a shell company in the United Arab Emirates, according to records from the Pandora Papers investigation. The company, Olifants Ltd., offered consultancy and other advisory services.
Months later, Comorian President Azali Assoumani appointed his son as a personal adviser. The younger Azali now works to persuade Emirati officials to invest in the Comoros, a small cluster of islands off the east coast of Africa with a government that international observers say is plagued by systemic corruption.
Owning shell companies and bank accounts in the UAE, one of the world’s most secretive financial havens, is a growing trend among African politicians and their business allies.
“The UAE is the center of the world,” Nour El Fath Azali, 37, recently told ICIJ media partner La Gazette des Comores.
The Pandora Papers investigation discovered secretive Emirati financial interests of politicians and powerful business leaders from 17 African countries.
The Pandora Papers, a global media collaboration that exposes the hidden financial deals of the world’s rich and powerful, is based on leaked records from 14 firms that help set up shell companies and bank accounts. Among these so-called offshore providers is SFM Corporate Services, based in the UAE’s financial capital, Dubai.
“The UAE, de facto, tolerates illicit flows and trades that other more reputable international financial centers shun,” said Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, a University of Oxford professor who leads a research project on African countries and major financial centers, including Dubai. “In exchange for its acceptance that dubious players and monies be based in the country, the UAE merely asks wealthy Africans to stay out of local politics and stay within the boundaries of local law,” Soares de Oliveira said.
Those drawn to the UAE praise its light-touch approach to business regulation and its convenient time zone, between those of Europe and Asia. UAE companies often provide generous tax exemptions to foreigners, and owners aren’t required to open an office or disclose their names on public registers.
The UAE, de facto, tolerates illicit flows and trades that other more reputable international financial centers shun
— Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Financial crime experts and tax and law enforcement officials, however, point to the UAE’s history as a conduit for corrupt proceeds.
The Persian Gulf nation has ignored money laundering for years, according to a 2020 report prepared by a team of international experts for the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force, the main international organization for coordinating global anti-money laundering efforts. The report noted that the UAE is reluctant to share information about the owners of companies created there with authorities in other countries.
Azali said, in response to questions from ICIJ, that he closed Olifants Ltd. in 2019 before it conducted any business and before he joined his father’s administration.
SFM declined to talk about specific cases, citing client confidentiality. In a statement to ICIJ, the firm said its activities are “absolutely legal in every aspect.” It said it follows the laws and regulations in the jurisdictions where it operates and it follows strict “Know Your Client” and “due diligence” processes when it takes on new clients.
“In the 15 years SFM has been operating, neither the company nor its employees/directors, have encountered any legal allegations,” it said.
https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/united-arab-emirates-a-go-to-offshore-haven-for-africas-political-and-business-elite-leaked-records-show/
“I Say Go For It” – Nick Sandmann Encourages Kyle Rittenhouse to Sue the Hell Out of the Liberal Media and Leftist Smear Merchants
A Wisconsin jury found 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse NOT GUILTY of all charges this afternoon in Kenosha.
This will come as a complete shock to any remaining Americans who trust the fake mainstream news as their source of information.
The liberal fake news media convicted Kyle Rittenhouse in the court of (their) public opinion last year. To the fake news and Joe Biden, Rittenhouse was a white supremacist and mass murderer who went to Kenosha with the intent to kill peaceful protesters.
This was a lie. It was always a lie. And today justice was served.
And now the fake news is in a collective panic.
They lied about Kyle Rittenhouse for a year. As the crazed Rev. Wright once said, “The chickens are coming home to roost.”
Earlier this week Nick Sandmann, the CNN millionaire, encouraged Kyle Rittenhouse to take all of the liars and defamers to court.
The Daily Mail reported:
The parallels between me and Kyle Rittenhouse are impossible not to draw.
Kyle was 17-years-old when he became a household name after that terrible tragedy in Kenosha.
I was 16-years-old when I was catapulted into the national conversation by video of an encounter with a Native American activist on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Kyle was almost immediately labelled a ‘white supremacist’ and a ‘domestic terrorist’.
To many, my red MAGA hat clearly meant that I was a racist.
In only hours, a former CNN host tweeted an image of me, writing: ‘Honest question. Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?’.
Kyle wasn’t given his day in court by his critics.
And neither was I.
The attacks on Kyle came from the national news media, just as they came for me.
They came quickly, without hesitation, because Kyle was an easy target that they could paint in the way they wanted to.
This is the problem with liberal media outlets in the United States. They want to get the story first, get the most views, make the most money, and advance the agenda from liberal patrons.
These outlets cover themselves when they are wrong with small footnotes at the ends of long articles, clarifying that new information has come out and that they have updated their coverage.
News shouldn’t be a scoreboard that constantly changes.
News is about coverage that includes a statement of facts that does not need to be corrected. But, the liberal media doesn’t do this.
The liberal media rushes to be the first to report.
So every single label on Kyle as a ‘terrorist’, ‘white supremacist’, and ‘school shooter’ in the streets of Kenosha, will only ever be withdrawn after the damage has been done.
And now the fake news is in a collective panic.
They lied about Kyle Rittenhouse for a year. As the crazed Rev. Wright once said, “The chickens are coming home to roost.”
Earlier this week Nick Sandmann, the CNN millionaire, encouraged Kyle Rittenhouse to take all of the liars and defamers to court.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/say-go-nick-sandmann-encourages-kyle-rittenhouse-sue-liberal-media-leftist-smear-merchants/
LIVE: Rittenhouse, Kash Patel, Mark Meadows, Bioweapon, China Ties and MORE!
Kash on now
https://rumble.com/vpi39c-live-rittenhouse-kash-patel-mark-meadows-bioweapon-china-ties-and-more-begi.html
UK Announces Deal To Sell Warships To Kiev, Raising Tensions In Black Sea
Tensions on the rise in the Black Sea. London recently announced that it will be selling warships to Ukraine. The vessels would be allocated in the Black Sea region. The possible deal belies a previous announcement by the British government that it would not sell arms to Ukraine and increases regional frictions between Ukraine, NATO, and Russia. The presence of modern and equipped Western ships in that area will generate a new escalation of instability, unnecessarily undermining international peace.
In a statement this week, UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace gave a positive signal for heavy weapons sales to Ukraine. The equipment to be traded would be focused on modern warships with high destruction power. The aim is to significantly increase Ukrainian naval power amid a regional context of tensions in the Black Sea. To that end, the British secretary also said that Kiev could pay for the ships using the amount received from the loan taken by the Ukrainian government as part of a trade agreement signed between the two countries in early November. As there is a mutual geostrategic interest in this deal – given the UK’s ambitions to weaken Russian presence in Eastern Europe – there appears to be little concern on the part of the British over how the debt generated by this deal will be paid off.
According to the data released so far, the sale includes the negotiation of two mine countermeasure ships and the joint production of eight warships with missiles, as well as a new frigate. Possible aid from London to Kiev for the construction of a naval infrastructure platform, with the modernization of the weapons systems of current Ukrainian ships, is also being negotiated.
Both Ben Wallace and his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksii Reznikov, commenting on the case, emphasized the fact that the agreement is aimed against Russia, which makes the project a real open affront to the stability of Russia-Ukraine and Russia-West relations. However, in a joint statement, they both tried to be delicate in their words and said the aim was not to make the UK and Ukraine adversary to Russia, but that the move comes amid concerns about Russia’s presence in the border region: “Our governments have no desire to be adversarial, or seek in any way to strategically encircle or undermine the Russian Federation (…) We are concerned by Russia’s military build-up and activity around the borders of Ukraine”.
https://southfront.org/uk-announces-deal-to-sell-warships-to-kiev-raising-tensions-in-black-sea/
Build Back Better: Dems Ignore Pressure to Include Measure Preventing Taxpayer Dollars From Going to Entities That Use Slave Labor
House Democrats ignored pressure from human rights advocates and Republican lawmakers to reinsert into their $1.9 trillion spending bill a measure that would have blocked federal funds from going to Chinese entities that use Uyghur slave labor.
The Democrat-controlled House on Friday passed President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act, which greatly expands spending on social programs and climate issues. Democrats stripped the Uyghur provision last week, which generated outrage from human rights groups and Republicans who pressed for the language to be reinserted. Despite adding at least a dozen last minute amendments to the bill, Democrats did not add the Uyghur provision back into the final text.
The original version of the legislation included a provision to stop taxpayer funds from going to any entity that relies on Uyghur slave labor, an ethnic minority group in China that the Communist government has forced into work camps. The situation was designated as a genocide by the Trump administration. The Biden White House has vowed to combat these ongoing human rights abuses.
When the Uyghur provision was stripped from the bill, Republican congressional officials accused Democrats of trying to appease Beijing amid efforts by the Biden administration to strike a climate accord with the CCP. Climate czar John Kerry, who is leading the push for a climate deal, was also said to be lobbying Democrats to oppose separate legislation that would ban the import of all Chinese-made goods that are produced using Uyghur slave labor, a claim Kerry's office denied.
The removal of this language angered the human rights community and prompted Republican foreign policy leaders to accuse the Biden administration and Democrats of turning a blind eye to the CCP's mass human rights abuses. While Republican lawmakers have pressed Democratic leadership, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), to explain why the measure was stripped, they have yet to receive an answer.
"Democrats gave the green light to the CCP to continue their imprisonment and unjust exploitation of over one million Uyghur Muslims by passing their socialist reconciliation bill, which removed protections that prevented our tax dollars from funding entities that use their forced slave labor," Rep. Greg Steube (R., Fla.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Washington Free Beacon. "This un-American abomination of a bill is contradictory for progressives who claim to fight for ‘justice.'"
One senior Republican congressional aide told the Free Beacon that he and his colleagues have not been able to get answers as to why the Uyghur provision was stripped, even though it could have attracted Republicans to the larger legislation.
"It's truly shameful that Democrats so brazenly removed a common-sense section prohibiting taxpayer dollars from going to slave labor and seem to have no remorse and no explanation why," said the source, who was not authorized to speak on record.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/build-back-better-dems-ignore-pressure-to-include-measure-preventing-taxpayer-dollars-from-going-to-entities-that-use-slave-labor/
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler Calls for Federal Review of Kyle Rittenhouse Case
Earlier today a Wisconsin jury found teen shooter Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of intentional homicide and other charges during the Kenosha leftist riots.
Following the announcement today dirtbag House Democrat Jerry Nadler called for a federal review of the verdict by Biden’s Department of Justice.
Joe Biden is on record calling Kyle Rittenhouse a white supremacist. Maybe Joe should sit this one out.
Democrats are just trying to intentionally divide the nation as they always do.
FOX 6 Now reported:
Following the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, who plead self-defense in the fatal shooting of two men and wounding of a third during a night of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., called for a federal review of the verdict by the U.S. Department of Justice.
“This heartbreaking verdict is a miscarriage of justice and sets a dangerous precedent which justifies federal review by DOJ. Justice cannot tolerate armed persons crossing state lines looking for trouble while people engage in First Amendment-protected protest,” Nadler wrote in a tweet posted Friday afternoon.
In order for Rittenhouse to face federal charges, there are several complicated factors that could make it unlikely for federal prosecutors to pursue a case.
For most homicide cases, federal law typically only applies in crimes that specifically violate federal law. According to Shouse Law Group, a criminal justice team in Los Angeles, the crime of murder “is prosecuted in state courts as a state crime. But murder becomes a federal crime when it occurs in violation of federal law, or when it takes place on a federal land or territory.”
Shouse Law Group writes, “The federal crime of murder is defined as the ‘unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought.’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/dirtbag-house-judiciary-chairman-jerry-nadler-calls-federal-review-kyle-rittenhouse-case/