Anonymous ID: 16361c May 24, 2018, 3:41 p.m. No.1532097   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2737

Harvey Weinstein expected to be arrested Friday in New York

 

Longtime Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein will likely be arrested Friday by investigators in New York following a lengthy investigation into multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, according to a report Thursday.

 

Weinstein, who faces accusations of rape, assault, and other forms of sexual misconduct, is expected to comply with investigators and will be charged by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, the New York Times reports.

 

At a minimum, the charges will stem from accusations of at least one victim, Lucia Evans. Evans claims that Weinstein coerced her to perform oral sex on him nearly 15 years ago.

 

It unknown if charges related to other accusers will be filed at this time, and it’s also uncertain which charges exactly are likely to be filed against him.

 

Manhattan prosecutors are also probing accusations made against Weinstein by actress Paz de la Huerta, who claimed Weinstein raped her in 2010.

 

The flurry of accusations against Weinstein began last fall when the New York Times reported on multiple settlements Weinstein reached with multiple women over multiple decades.

 

https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/harvey-weinstein-expected-to-be-arrested-friday-in-new-york

Anonymous ID: 16361c May 24, 2018, 3:55 p.m. No.1532256   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Newly unearthed emails show Roger Stone seeking dirt on Hillary Clinton from WikiLeaks founder

 

Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone tried to obtain information from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2016 in hopes of garnering harmful information on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, according to a report Thursday.

 

In September, Stone testified to the House Intelligence Committee that he "merely wanted confirmation" from someone that Assange had damaging info on Clinton, the Wall Street Journal reports. The new emails call those claims into question.

 

e the news outlet reported.

 

After Credico responded saying that information would be on the WikiLeaks website if it existed, Stone said, "Why do we assume WikiLeaks has released everything they have ???”

 

"That batch probably coming out in the next drop…I can’t ask them favors every other day. I asked one of his lawyers…they have major legal headaches riggt now..relax," Credico emailed Stone.

 

Credico told the WSJ he never communicated with anyone from WikiLeaks, but fabricated the responses because he was "tired" of Stone bothering him as he owed him a favor.

 

"I never had possessions or access to any Clinton emails or records," Stone told the WSJ, adding that his testimony was "complete and accurate."

 

Stone told the Washington Examiner that he "turned over all emails that met the precise wording of their document request from the [House Intelligence Committee]."

 

"Any claim to the contrary by the congressman from California is bullschiff," Stone added. "Bullschiff" is a term embraced by critics of the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

 

Stone also reportedly met with Assange in 2016.

 

In an email previously unearthed by the Wall Street Journal, Stone said: "I dined with my new pal Julian Assange last nite."

 

Stone has denied having contracts or communications with Russian operatives and, earlier this month, walked back his claim that he met with Assange, calling it a "shtick."

 

https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/newly-unearthed-emails-show-roger-stone-seeking-dirt-on-hillary-clinton-from-wikileaks-founder

Anonymous ID: 16361c May 24, 2018, 3:58 p.m. No.1532288   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Kentucky attorney campaigning to be judge dies one day after winning primary

 

Kentucky attorney Danny Alvarez collapsed and died Wednesday, one day after winning his primary election to become a Jefferson County District Court judge in Louisville.

 

"Our Community has lost Danny Alvarez, a true public servant, a humanitarian, and a champion for human rights and the immigrant community," Jonathan Hurst, Alvarez's campaign manager, told WHAS11 News Wednesday.

 

"Danny Alvarez was a true friend, a loving husband and a devoted father of three. Danny spent the day humbled and grateful to this community after his historic victory last night. He would want us to honor his memory by showing compassion and love to all people," he continued.

 

Alvarez's cause of death is still unknown but local media reports said the 43-year-old immigration lawyer collapsed at home and later died at Baptist East Hospital in Louisville, Ky.

 

Alvarez was set to contend a November run-off with second-place finisher attorney Tanisha Ann Hickerson, but a spokesman for the Kentucky secretary of state's office said it was not certain yet who would appear on the ballot.

 

"The margin between Ms. Hickerson and the third-place candidate was small, so there is a possibility a recanvass might be requested," spokesman Bradford Queen told the Louisville Courier Journal Thursday, referring to a process in which votes are recounted.

 

"Mr. Alvarez's name will not be certified for printing on the General Election ballot due to his death," he added.

 

https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kentucky-attorney-campaigning-to-be-judge-dies-one-day-after-winning-primary

Anonymous ID: 16361c May 24, 2018, 4:09 p.m. No.1532407   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2419

Stefan Halper is obviously a bigger scandal than the media want to admit

 

The swiftness with which the media have brushed aside Stefan Halper’s role in the Russia investigation should be a sign that he’s certainly more important than they’re admitting.

 

Halper was identified by the Daily Caller's Chuck Ross last weekend as the professor who worked in some still-unknown capacity to inform the FBI on the Trump campaign in 2016 as part of the agency’s probe of Russia’s election meddling.

 

Halper met with at least three of then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign advisers, and records show he was paid nearly $300,000 by the Defense Department in September 2016.

 

No one in the Trump campaign knew that Halper was a longtime source of information for the FBI, thus he was effectively acting as a spy. National news outlets are refusing to make that connection or are attempting to minimize Halper as a factor altogether.

 

Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius on Tuesday dismissed Halper as a mere “middleman” and chalked up his relationship with the FBI as similar to what other “underemployed ex-professors” might do.

 

Yes, survey your old college instructors and you’re just bound to find a few of them "underemployed" and passing time as secret agent men!

 

“[I]t’s laughable to imagine Halper as a superspy, infiltrating the heart of the Trump campaign,” Ignatius wrote. "[H]e likes to gossip, and perhaps that made him a good intelligence source. But this is not James Bond.”

 

If Halper is just the Nutty Professor, Ignatius might want to ask his own paper why it initially declined to publish his name, even when its reporters already knew it.

 

The Post reported on March 18 that the paper had “confirmed the identity of the FBI source who assisted the investigation” but that it would not name him “following warnings from U.S. intelligence officials that exposing him could endanger him or his contacts.”

 

In a separate report the previous day, the Post said that "the stakes are so high" for Halper, who was still anonymous at the time, "that the FBI has been working over the past two weeks to mitigate the potential damage if the source’s identity is revealed" and that the FBI "is taking steps to protect other live investigations that the person has worked on and is trying to lessen any danger to associates if the informant’s identity becomes known …"

Halper’s anonymity was so crucial that “exposing him could endanger him” before, but once he was identified, he became Professor Plum.

 

The New York Times in its own reporting last week declined to name Halper because, the paper explained, it “typically does not name informants to preserve their safety.”

 

And yet, in that same report, the Times insisted that despite Trump asserting that his campaign was spied on (it was), Halper was an “informant” and his clandestine overtures to the campaign were "not to spy, as Trump claims."

Why did he need safety if he’s not a spy but just an “informant”?

 

The distinction itself is absurd with the media insisting there’s a difference while refusing to explain what it is.

 

I asked the Times on Tuesday to explain its reasoning to dispute Trump’s characterization of Halper as a spy but a spokeswoman said they were “not going to comment.”

 

Chris Cuomo on CNN’s “New Day” described Halper as a “confidential source, who apparently contacted people in the [Trump] campaign” but challenged Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to produce evidence of spying.

 

Hey, I took money from your purse but prove to me that I robbed you.

 

When Jordan referred to the Times report on Halper’s activity with the FBI, Cuomo interrupted to note that he was never described by the paper “as a spy.”

 

This would be like describing Cuomo as a “newsman who leads a morning program on CNN.” A normal person would go, ”Why didn’t you just call him a TV anchor?”

 

Because, you fool! I never said anchor! He’s only a newsman who leads a cable show!

 

We don’t know everything about Halper. But we know he was a spy.