Who was in the car in Napa?
TYB
They were way to sketch about it, bolsters the odds imho
Israeli woman attacked by Secret Service agent ahead of Biden visit sues
(Drunk SS Agent slaps the shit out of random Israeli woman, woman sues- allegedly)
November 21, 2022
The Israeli woman allegedly assaulted in July by an off-duty Secret Service agent — who was in Jerusalem to prep for President Biden’s visit — filed a civil lawsuit Monday.
Tamar Ben Haim brought the case in DC federal court against the unidentified agent over the July 12 attack, which took place in an alleyway while she was walking home around 1 a.m.
The 30-year-old graphic designer says the man — who she saw had a gun — “began hitting and slapping her” and she thought “that these were her last moments on Earth.”
The man “held Tamar tightly, hit her on her chest, repeatedly, slapped her, causing her earring and earphone to fall to the ground,” the court papers claim.
Ben Haim screamed for help but no one came until a man accompanying her assailant pulled him off her before leaving the scene, the filing claims.
Sauce/more: https://nypost.com/2022/11/21/tamar-ben-haim-sues-over-assault-by-off-duty-secret-service-agent/
poor Potato, nobody to sniff?
Rep. Carolyn Maloney under investigation after begging for Met Gala invite
November 21, 2022
Outgoing Upper East Side Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) is being probed by ethics investigators for potentially violating House of Representatives rules and federal law by requesting tickets to the Met Gala in 2016, the chamber’s Ethics Committee revealed Monday.
The 76-year-old Maloney, whose three-decade run in Congress came to an end at the hands of fellow Rep. Jerry Nadler in a nasty August primary brought about by redistricting, called former museum President Emily Rafferty in March 2016 to beg a ticket to that year’s edition of the star-studded event after she was left off the guest list, according to a damning report from the Office of Congressional Ethics.
The OCE report included an April 2, 2016 email from Rafferty to Met executives in which she said Maloney was “unhappy to say the least that she is not receiving an invitation to the Party of the Year.”
“She went on about how much she does for the Met, always responsive when you call and proactive re the institution’s concerns in DC,” Rafferty wrote. “She has been coming to the party for years and it is the one thing she cares about … For what it is worth, I highly recommend you include Carolyn, [then-New York City Comptroller] Scott Stringer and his wife in your 80 allotted spaces.”
While going to a charitable event for free is not barred by House rules if the invitation is unsolicited, the solicitation of free tickets is not allowed.
A 2018 email from Tom Schuler, the museum’s former chief government relations officer, indicated that Maloney’s tantrum had earned her a permanent spot on the guest list.
“We have ultimately secured one seat for her each year,” Schuler wrote.
The OCE report also indicated that the gala was often top of mind for the lawmaker in subsequent years.
“Did we hear from the Met on the Met Ball? Am I invited this year??” a February 2020 email from Maloney to a staffer reads.
When the staffer responds that Maloney has not yet been invited to the glitzy showcase, and that a meeting with Schuler was being planned to solicit an invite, Maloney responds, “How do I call him?”
The event was ultimately scrapped that year due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The OCE report concluded that there was “substantial reason to believe that Rep. Maloney may have solicited or accepted impermissible gifts associated with her attendance at the Met Gala.”
The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that the matter had been referred by the OCE in June of this year and the committee had voted last month to extend its review.
“The Committee notes that the mere fact of conducting further review of a referral, and any mandatory disclosure of such further review, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgment on behalf of the Committee,” the panel noted.
Sauce/more: https://nypost.com/2022/11/21/rep-carolyn-maloney-under-investigation-for-soliciting-free-met-gala-tickets/