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Former FBI Director James Comey has deal for two crime novels "inspired by real work I've done"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-comey-deal-two-crime-novels-inspired-by-real-work-ive-done
Former FBI Director James Comey is on a career path both new and familiar - crime fiction.
Comey has a deal to write two novels for The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Penzler Publishers. The first is called "Central Park West," and it features an assistant U.S. Attorney looking into ties between the Mafia and the murder of a local politician. The book is scheduled for next spring.
"I'm excited to take readers inside fascinating worlds I've come to know from my time in government and the private sector," Comey, who served an assistant U.S. Attorney from 1996-2001, said in a statement. "These stories are fiction, but, inspired by real work I've done, they will offer a rarely-seen view of interesting people and institutions."
Comey is best known for his brief time as FBI director, from 2013-2017, that ended when he was fired by President Donald Trump amid the bureau's probe into allegations of ties between Russian officials and Trump's presidential campaign. Comey wrote about his career in the best-selling memoir "A Higher Loyalty."
"When our nation's leaders the president or his representatives attack the institutions of justice, the rest of us not only need to pay attention, we need to speak out," Comey told CBS News after that book was released in 2018.
Twitter to depose Elon Musk in Delaware on Sept. 26-27
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WILMINGTON, Del (Reuters) -Twitter Inc will question Elon Musk under oath in Delaware next week as part of the litigation in the billionaire's bid to walk away from his $44 billion deal for the social media company.
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A Tuesday filing in Delaware's Court of Chancery said Musk's deposition is scheduled for Sept. 26-27 and may stretch into Sept. 28 if necessary.
Subpoenas have being issued to billionaire Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle Corp, Intel Corp's former Chief Executive Officer Robert Swan and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who is currently chief executive of Block Inc.
A five-day trial is scheduled to begin on Oct. 17 in Wilmington, Delaware.
Each side has accused the other of breaking the April takeover agreement. Twitter wants a judge to order Musk, who is chief executive of Tesla Inc and the world's richest person, to buy the company as agreed for $54.20 per share.
Shares in San Francisco-based company were down slightly in early Tuesday trading at $41.54.
Let’s see what happens
Michelle Obama plans 6-city tour for 'The Light We Carry
https://www.local10.com/entertainment/2022/09/21/michelle-obama-plans-6-city-tour-for-the-light-we-carry
>Obama will open at the Warner Theatre in Washington on Nov. 15, the publication date for her book. She will then travel to Philadelphia's The Met, Atlanta's Fox Theatre, the Chicago Theatre and San Francisco's Masonic, before closing at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles.
'You Have Utterly Failed.' The Department of Justice Undercounted Nearly 1,000 Deaths in U.S. Prisons
https://time.com/6215142/deaths-prisons-jails-justice
The Justice Department undercounted nearly 1,000 deaths in prisons, jails, or during arrests during the last fiscal year, according to the results of a nearly year-long bipartisan investigation.
The 10-month investigation, outlined in a Sept. 20 report released jointly by the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and the Government Accountability Office, centered on whether the Justice Department (DOJ) has complied with the Death in Custody Reporting Act (DCRA) of 2013. DCRA requires the department to collect data from states on deaths in jails and prisons and submit to Congress a report that analyzes that data to propose solutions on how to reduce such deaths. The investigation found that DOJ missed the deaths in custody of 990 people in fiscal year 2021, that data-keeping by the DOJ has been disorderly since 2016, and that the report it is required to produce to Congress will not be complete until 2024—eight years past its due date.
Additionally, much of the data DOJ did collect is incomplete, the investigation found. 70% of the data that DOJ does have is missing at least one required set of information—race, ethnicity, age, or gender, for example— and 40% is missing a description of the circumstances of the victim’s death. After a Senate hearing on the matter on Tuesday, subcommittee chair Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat from Georgia, did not say whether DOJ would face consequences for not complying with the law. He told TIME that “step one is pursuit of the facts and of the truth. A hearing like this is part of the process of accountability.”
“We believe that gathering data on deaths in custody is a noble and necessary step towards a transparent and legitimate justice system,” Maureen Henneberg, the DOJ official leading the accounting of deaths in custody, told Senators at the hearing. “As I know this committee appreciates, it is a major undertaking to gather this information from 56 states and territories, who in turn rely on reports from thousands of prisons, local jails, and law enforcement agencies. But we firmly believe that it is well worth the effort.” In 2020, the most recent data available by the DOJ, approximately 1.5 million people were incarcerated in state and local facilities in the U.S.
“We’re talking about a pretty manageable amount information here,” Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, said to Henneberg. “You have utterly failed. I mean, literally, you’ve utterly failed.”
Family members of two men who died in jails in Louisiana and Georgia also testified. Ossoff played a clip of a phone call between Belinda Maley and her son Matthew Loflin, who died in the Chatham County Detention Center in Georgia in 2014 of heart failure. In the clip, Loflin can be heard telling his mother, “I’ve been coughing up blood and my feet are swollen. It hurts, Mom… I’m gonna die in here.” Maley, a witnesses at the hearing, was visibly shaken through the duration of the clip.
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