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A federal judge ruled Monday morning to deny Ghislaine Maxwell's request to overturn her sex trafficking convictions, but did reduce her max sentence time by 10 years.
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The judge said the argument that there was a lack of evidence in her conviction was false.
"The Government at trial presented extensive witness testimony from multiple victim witnesses and others, as well as corroborating documentary and physical evidence," documents said. "The testimony and other trial evidence established the Defendant's role in grooming and recruiting underage girls and using the cover of massage to perpetrate sexual abuse."
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The judge did agree with the defense that three of the five guilty charges were similar and repetitive — claiming conspiracy — and reduced it to only one count, lowering Maxwell's sentence by 10 years.
Counts one, three, and six were considered to be repetitious:
Count 1 – Guilty — Conspiracy to entice minors to engage in illegal sex acts
Count 2 – Not Guilty — Enticement of a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts
Count 3 – Guilty — Conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in criminal sex activity
Count 4 – Guilty — Transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sex activity
Count 5 – Guilty — Sex trafficking conspiracy
Count 6 – Guilty — Sex trafficking of children by force, fraud or coercion
She could now be sentenced to up to 55 years in prison.
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US citizen Willy Joseph Cancel killed fighting in Ukraine, family says
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U.S. citizen Willy Joseph Cancel, 22, was killed in Ukraine while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, members of Cancel's family confirmed to media outlets Friday.
Cancel's mother, Rebecca Cabrera, told CNN her son was hired in February by a private military contracting company on top of his full-time job as a corrections officer in Tennessee. When the war in Ukraine broke out, he agreed to go fight.
"He wanted to go over because he believed in what Ukraine was fighting for, and he wanted to be a part of it to contain it there, so it didn't come here and that maybe our American soldiers wouldn't have to be involved in it," Cabrera told CNN.
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She said Cancel's body had not been recovered.
Cancel was a native of Orange County, New York. The county's executive, Steven Neuhaus, said he was saddened to hear of Cancel's death.
"We will never forget Willy’s bravery and sacrifice, and Orange County’s thoughts and prayers are with his family during this difficult time," Neuhaus said in a statement.
Cancel is the first U.S. citizen known to have been killed while fighting in Ukraine, though other Americans have been killed during the war. Cancel leaves behind a wife and 7-month-old son, Fox News reported. Brittney Cancel, his widow, confirmed his death to Fox.
"My husband did die in Ukraine," she said, according to Fox. "He went there wanting to help people; he had always felt that that was his main mission in life."
President Joe Biden was asked about Cancel's death during an unrelated event at the White House on Friday.
“It’s very sad. He left a little baby behind,” Biden said.
Brittany Cancel received a call April 26 informing her of her husband's death, according to a GoFundMe page set up by a man identifying himself as Willy Joseph Cancel's father. The page raised more than $14,000 in less than a day.
"Our entire family is simply distraught and we have no idea how to continue," the page reads.
Cabrera, Brittany and Cancel's father did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's requests for comment.
State Department principal deputy spokesperson Jalina Porter said Friday that the agency is aware of the news reports but could not comment because of privacy considerations.
"We also do want to reiterate that U.S. citizens should not travel to Ukraine during this act of armed conflict – it is a very dangerous situation – and the singling out of U.S. citizens in Ukraine by Russian government security officials," she said. "U.S. citizens in Ukraine should depart immediately if it is safe to do so, using commercial or privately available ground transportation options."
In the Marines, Cancel served as a rifleman and was stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He had no war zone deployments and was given a bad conduct discharge after he was convicted of violating a lawful general order, said Maj. Jim Stenger, a Marine Corps spokesperson. No other details on the bad conduct conviction were provided.
Cancel was a 2017 graduate of Newburgh Free Academy in Newburgh, New York, the Times Herald-Record reported. He transferred to the Newburgh district after attending schools in Washingtonville, New York, from second grade until 10th grade, according to the Washingtonville superintendent.
"Willy loved being a member of the Air Force JROTC which led to him joining the U.S. Marine Corps right out of high school," Master Sgt. Christian Granda, a Newburgh teacher who knew Cancel, said in a statement.
Granda said that Cancel "was a dedicated cadet who served our community well" and that it was a privilege to teach and mentor him.
Cancel was an "active member" of the fire department in Walden, New York, before joining the Marine Corps, the Walden Fire Department said.
Until January, Cancel worked at a private prison in Tennessee; he started in May 2021, said Matthew Davio, a spokesperson for the private prison company CoreCivic. The Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, a medium-security facility, is about an hour northeast of Nashville.
“As a correctional officer, Mr. Cancel served his state and his community by helping maintain a safe, secure environment where inmates can participate in life-changing reentry programs. We are grateful for his service and saddened by his loss,” Davio said in a statement.
Dorinda Carter, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Corrections, told The Tennessean that Cancel "selflessly served his state supervising Tennessee offenders."
Brittney Cancel told Fox that her husband had aspirations of becoming a police officer or firefighter.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/chelsea-handler-recalls-health-scare-says-she-developed-cardiomyopathy-due-to-stress/ar-AAWPX5R?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=c8d9281a16314e98bb4a374819194725
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Chelsea Handler is opening up about the health scare that had her hospitalized earlier this year.
The 47-year-old comedian revealed in her E! News digital cover story that she developed cardiomyopathy back in February due to stress. "It's basically like you bruised your heart in an instant moment of too much adrenaline," she explained.
Cardiomyopathy is a form of heart disease that affects the heart muscle and makes it difficult to pump blood to the rest of the body, according to the American Heart Association.
Handler told the outlet that she quickly questioned her doctor about whether the condition was "instant" or had been developing over time.
"And he says, 'Well, it's an instance, but you've basically been very stressed for a long period of time and you probably did not recognize that,'" she recalled. "And I was like, 'Oh, s—.'"
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA says Russians disaffected by Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine may be trying to get in touch with U.S. intelligence — and it wants them to go to the darknet.
The agency on Monday began a new push to promote its presence on a part of the internet accessible only through specialized tools that provide more anonymity. The CIA has a darknet site that has the same features as its regular homepage but accessible only through the Tor internet browser, which has encryption features not available on most regular browsers.
Instructions in English and Russian on how to access the darknet site appeared Monday on the CIA’s social media channels. The agency hopes Russians living abroad can share the instructions with contacts inside the country.
While many Russians appear to support what the Kremlin officially calls a “special military operation,” longtime Russia watchers think Putin's management of the war may push away some powerful people who disagree with him. Even with immense capabilities to capture communications and satellite imagery, it remains critical for Western intelligence agencies to recruit human sources who can offer insight into the Kremlin and conditions inside Russia.
“Our global mission demands that individuals can contact us securely from anywhere,” the agency said in a statement.
A CIA official speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence matters says the agency knows “there are concerned Russians who are desperately trying to reach CIA.” The official declined to say how many people had tried to reach out since the war began.
“It's not safe to directly engage Americans physically or virtually” in Russia, the official said. “For those people that want to engage with us securely, this is the way to do it.”
Launched in 2019, the CIA's darknet site is accessible through the Tor browser. Tor, short for “The Onion Router,” routes internet traffic through multiple third parties to mask a user’s identity and destination. After downloading the Tor browser, the user typically inputs a long string of characters followed by “.onion.”
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Using Tor strips away cookies and many other means of tracking the typical internet user. And while no form of communication is completely secure at all times, intelligence officers say a potential tipster will be better protected on the darknet from Russian snooping.
Tor was originally created with support from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and run by a nonprofit since 2006. It has long been used by those seeking extra privacy: dissidents in authoritarian countries and people seeking to circumvent firewalls and censors, law enforcement and intelligence officers, and journalists including at The Associated Press, which operates its own tips drop box on Tor. It can be used by anyone seeking extra privacy. It has also been exploited by criminals.
Russians have long had to find ways to circumvent government blocks on the internet. In response to the Kremlin's crackdown since the war began, some media outlets and Twitter have promoted usage of their own “.onion” sites or the use of virtual private network software.
While officials would not disclose specifics, U.S. intelligence can be safely assumed to be working inside Russia. Calling attention to the darknet site now promotes to prospective contacts that the CIA is paying attention to their safety, said Mark Kelton, who retired from the CIA in 2015 after serving as chief of counterintelligence.
“When people decide to reach out, they're very well aware of what they're doing and what the risks are,” Kelton said. “The issue here is to reassure them that on the other end, there are people concerned with protecting them.”
Watershed events like the fall of the Berlin Wall have often presented recruiting opportunities for intelligence services in both Washington and Moscow. Putin's war in Ukraine and its spiraling consequences for Russia — thousands of soldiers killed, sanctions that have crippled the Russian economy, and a failure to meet basic military aims while images of apparent war crimes spread worldwide — could become another of those inflection points, some observers believe.
Two well-respected Russian journalists, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, wrote in a recent piece that the war failures have provoked “a vicious blame game” inside Russia's security establishment, known generally as the “siloviki.” Russia's military blames Putin for requiring a “new and curtailed strategy" that it believes has tied its hands against the Western-backed Ukrainian forces, Soldatov and Borogan wrote.
Some of the “siloviki” who refused to take the journalists' calls when the war began are speaking up more now.
“This is the very first time the siloviki are putting distance between themselves and the president. Which opens up all sorts of possibilities,” they wrote.
Personal ideology or disappointment in Putin's regime are more likely drivers of someone turning to spy against Russia than any financial rewards they might receive, Kelton said.
“Crisis is always a good time for espionage,” he said. “People in autocratic societies often are content to go along until they’re confronted with the moral and political necessity to make a choice. That historically has been a ripe opportunity for people to reach out to the United States.”
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"The First Lady"'s Young Barack Obama Is Robert De Niro's Son Julian
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"The First Lady"'s Young Barack Obama Is Robert De Niro's Son Julian
The third episode of Showtime's "First Lady," which airs on May 2, went back in time to explore the early days of its three first ladies: Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford, and Michelle Obama. The show dramatized Michelle's first meetings with her eventual husband, Barack Obama. O-T Fagbenle plays the older version of the 44th president, but the young adult version of Obama is played by Julian de Niro, one of Robert De Niro's sons.
De Niro isn't the first young actor to play Obama at this point in his life. The 2016 movie "Southside With You" also portrayed the Obamas during the years when they'd first met. In that movie, "P-Valley" star Parker Sawyers played the future president.
Julian keeps his life pretty private; his Instagram only has two posts from 2021, and he rarely attends events with his famous parents. Here's everything we know about Julian and his role in "The First Lady."
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The FBI conducted 3.4 million warrantless data searches on Americans last year
The report is the first of its kind.
David Covucci David Covucci Tech Posted on May 2, 2022 Updated on May 2, 2022, 10:21 am CDT
On Friday, the FBI released a new transparency report on digital surveillance. In the 38-page document, the agency revealed it conducted upward of 3.4 million searches on Americans’ data without a warrant last year, as part of its surveillance of foreign nationals.
The report is the first time the FBI released statistics on surveillance done under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Nearly 2 million of the searches were related to a cyberattack conducted by Russia against the U.S. The figures are part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s “Annual Statistical Transparency” report.
The report doesn’t state what cyberattack involved the massive amounts of data searches, but could potentially be related to the Solar Winds hack in late 2020.
The searches don’t reflect the number of individuals targeted, but rather the number of searches conducted by the FBI. A person can be on the receiving end of multiple searches.
The data the FBI searched was collected by the National Security Agency, which is tasked with overseas digital surveillance. While the collection of data and searches of it may technically be justified, privacy experts have called the agency’s ability to scoop up searchable data on Americans a backdoor around a requirement for warrants.
In a statement on the release of the report, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) a noted privacy voice on Capitol Hill, called for greater transparency in the report.
“For anyone outside the U.S. government, the astronomical number of FBI searches of Americans’ communications is either highly alarming or entirely meaningless,” Wyden wrote in a press release. “Somewhere in all that over-counting are real numbers of FBI searches, for content and for noncontent—numbers that Congress and the American people need before Section 702 is reauthorized.”
Section 702 was passed after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, allowing the government to spy overseas in order to thwart terrorist attacks. Congress renewed it in 2018 despite privacy concerns.
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Why a conspiracy over recent food processing plant fires exploded so quickly
Given the current climate, it's no wonder people latched on.
Mike Rothschild Mike Rothschild Tech Posted on May 2, 2022 Updated on May 2, 2022, 9:38 am CDT
A salad packaging plant in Salinas, California is destroyed in a massive fire, while at almost the exact same time, an onion processing plant in Texas is engulfed in flames.
Planes nosedive into the heart of food processing plants in Georgia and Idaho. A warehouse with 50,000 pounds of food burns, as well as an animal feed mill, a cereal processing plant, and a meat packing plant.
All of them alit, taking America’s precious food supply with them.
Is it mere coincidence? Just some bad things happening at the same time? Or is it a sinister plot to starve the United States and cull the herd of useless eaters?
People who assume that nothing happens by accident believe the latter. And they’re spreading an emerging conspiracy theory that food processing plants around the country are being burned down or destroyed as part of a concerted effort to take control of America’s food supply. Starting around April 20, conspiracy blogs and social media accounts began spreading lists of meat-packing plants, food processing facilities, cereal mills, and other buildings related to the packaging of food that had all “mysteriously” burned down or been destroyed.
To be clear, the fires are real. The salad packaging plant in California was a major processing facility of Taylor Farms, and it burned to ashes on April 13. A few weeks earlier, a fire destroyed the Penobscot McCrum potato processing plant in Belfast, Maine. And light planes did crash into areas near food processing plants in Georgia and Idaho, an animal feed mill burned in Louisiana in January, and a food bank attached to a church in Arizona went up in flames in March. And there are more.
Given both the number of fires, and the critical nature of the food processing industry, it’s not hard to understand why some people believed that these couldn’t have been coincidental—someone had to be behind them. And whoever it was probably had a very bad reason for doing it.
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