>Dough
>it's not too far of a stretch
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/prosecutors-in-whitmer-kidnap-plot-say-life-sentence-fits/
Prosecutors in Whitmer kidnap plot say life sentence fits
Federal prosecutors told a judge Monday that a life prison sentence would be justified for the leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, saying his goal to turn the country upside down in 2020 was a forerunner of rampant anti-government extremism.
"If our elected leaders must live in fear, our representative government suffers. A plan to kidnap and harm the governor of Michigan is not only a threat to the officeholder but to democracy itself," Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler wrote.
Adam Fox "fanatically embraced the cause and persistently pushed his recruits to action," Kessler said.
The court filing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, came a week before U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker is scheduled to sentence Fox for conspiracy crimes. He and co-defendant Barry Croft Jr. were convicted in August.
Fox's attorney hadn't filed a sentencing memo yet. At trial, Christopher Gibbons portrayed him as hapless and virtually homeless, a man with a loud, vile mouth who was living in the basement of a Grand Rapids-area vacuum shop.
Jonker has much flexibility in determining Fox's punishment, though Kessler noted that his sentencing score is "off the chart," greatly enhanced by a conviction for conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction in the scheme.
"The guidelines provide for a life sentence because Congress recognized kidnapping is an extremely serious offense," Kessler said. "When the aim of that kidnapping is to terrorize the people and affect the conduct of government, it is so pernicious that only the most serious sanction is sufficient."
In 33 pages, the prosecutor highlighted what FBI agents and informants revealed at trial, repeatedly citing Fox's own violent words, which were secretly recorded or plucked from text messages and social media.
"Fox's plot was a harbinger of more widespread anti-government militia extremism," Kessler said.
Fox and others trained with guns inside crudely built "shoot houses" in Wisconsin and Michigan and made trips to Elk Rapids to scout Whitmer's second home. The strategy included blowing up a bridge to slow down police officers responding to an abduction, according to evidence. The FBI broke up the plan with arrests in October 2020.
The government said Fox's rage at elected officials was fueled by Whitmer's COVID-19 restrictions.
"We want a revolutionary war," he said in a June 2020 video. "We want to get rid of this corrupt, tyrannical … government. That's what we want to get rid of."
Croft, a trucker from Bear, Delaware, will be sentenced on Dec. 28. Two more men pleaded guilty to the kidnapping conspiracy and testified against Fox and Croft, while two other men were acquitted last spring.
In October, in state court, three members of a paramilitary group called the Wolverine Watchmen were convicted of providing support for Fox.
There was no evidence of that at the time, and that’s what I was concerned about. And I think we were all concerned about that because if you put this e-mail juxtaposed against the statement of Jeremy about wanting to have a situation where we get down to the truth and people in good faith trying to figure out what was going on, certainly there are distortions on social media. Social media says I put a chip into the vaccine so that I can monitor people. That’s a distortion.
https://empowerproject.us/project/ali-fauci/
Ali Fauci
Senior Software Engineer
Ali is a software engineer based in San Francisco. Previously, she worked on Twitter’s Android application for several years, as well as helping with applications for eye research at UCSF, scavenger hunt events, and access to social services in San Francisco. She is passionate about the intersection of tech and social good and excited to be a part of Empower Project’s work in this area. Outside of software, Ali works as an EMT in San Francisco, and previously led a morning workout group called November Project.
>she worked on Twitter’s Android application for several years
>Elementary School Principal Jumps To His Death At Disneyland
disney.wikia.com/wiki/Club_33
https://twitter.com/Caitlyn_Jenner/status/1599998896222396416
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-05/michael-avenatti-sentenced-prison-california
Michael Avenatti gets 14 years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from clients
Dec. 5, 2022
Michael Avenatti, the once-swaggering celebrity lawyer who was undone by his proclivity for embezzlement and fraud, was sentenced Monday to 14 years in prison for dodging taxes and stealing millions of dollars from clients.
His sentencing by U.S. District Judge James V. Selna in Santa Ana concludes the last of three federal prosecutions of the former attorney, who gained notoriety for representing adult film star Stormy Daniels in her court battles against former President Trump.
Avenatti accomplished “good things in his life,” but has “also done great evil,” Selna said as he handed down the sentence. He ordered Avenatti to pay $7.6 million in restitution to victims and $3.2 million to the government.
Avenatti, 51, is already serving five years in prison for extortion and fraud convictions at two trials in New York. Selna said he must start serving the 14-year sentence after he completes the current stint behind bars, so the penalty for Avenatti’s full array of crimes is 19 years in prison.
In the Santa Ana case, Avenatti pleaded guilty in June to four counts of wire fraud for stealing money from clients and one count of obstructing collection of payroll taxes from his Seattle coffee business, now defunct.
One of the law clients he robbed, Geoffrey Ernest Johnson, was a mentally ill paraplegic on disability.
“To this day, I do not know why Michael lied and deceived me, why he broke my trust, why he broke my heart,” Johnson wrote in a statement to the court.
Johnson won a $4-million settlement of a suit against Los Angeles County. The money was wired in January 2015 to Avenatti, who kept the bulk of it and lied to Johnson about it. From his wheelchair at the sentencing, Johnson told Selna that Avenatti “really broke me.”
“Next to the incident that caused me to become paralyzed, meeting Michael and having him steal my money is the worst thing that has happened to me,” he said.
Avenatti also admitted stealing from a $2.75-million settlement that his client Alexis Gardner obtained from her former boyfriend Hassan Whiteside, a pro basketball player then with the Miami Heat. Avenatti, who during his crime spree drove a Ferrari, used most of that money to buy a private jet. Selna has approved the government’s request to confiscate the eight-seat Honda HA-420 plane.
Gardner told Selna that Avenatti was a “psychotic con man” who thought nothing of “stepping on all of the small people.” He left her fearful, she said, of anyone who shows kindness. “I don’t know if it’s real,” she said.
Avenatti, who has been incarcerated most recently at the low-security Terminal Island federal prison in San Pedro, represented himself in court despite the suspension of his law license. He asked Selna to impose no more than six years in prison that would run concurrently with the five he is already serving.
“Your honor, I am deeply sorry and remorseful for my criminal conduct,” Avenatti, dressed in sneakers and a beige prison uniform, told the judge. His conduct, he added, “has brought shame upon my family, my friends and my profession.”
At the same time, he said: “At no point in time did I set out to bilk my clients.” He added later: “I am not an evil or vile man.”
He urged Selna in a memo to consider his tough upbringing in Missouri and his representation of thousands of clients “ethically and with great success” as he was becoming one of California’s best-known plaintiff’s lawyers.
>Michael Avenatti gets 14 years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from clients
The amount of Avenatti’s embezzlement is in dispute. Avenatti said the four clients he admitted defrauding lost $3.4 million; prosecutors argued it was more than $12 million.
“There was no excuse for defendant’s criminal conduct, which was motivated solely by arrogance and greed,” Assistant U.S. Attys. Brett A. Sagel and Ranee A. Katzenstein told Selna in a memo.
Avenatti’s fraud was “cruel,” “callous” and “calculating,” they wrote, and his tax cheating was “massive.” Avenatti stole $3.2 million in federal payroll taxes that his company, Global Baristas U.S., collected from employees of its chain of Tully’s Coffee outlets but failed to pass along to the government, prosecutors said.
“Defendant did not commit his crimes to support his family, pay child support, or for any other arguably mitigating reason; to the contrary, he stole from his clients to live an extravagant lifestyle while some of his victims could barely make ends meet,” they wrote in the memo.
“Michael Avenatti is a corrupt lawyer,” U.S. Atty. Martin Estrada said after the sentencing. “He portrayed himself as someone who fought for the little guy, but in fact he only cared about himself and his own ego.”
Andrew Stolper, an attorney who worked at Avenatti’s law firm in Newport Beach and often clashed with him, said the audacity he displayed in committing such a wide breadth of crimes seemed to be rooted in narcissism.
“None of it makes any sense other than he deluded himself into thinking he could get away with it,” Stolper said. “If you sit down and try to rationally figure out why a successful lawyer would resort to stealing money from his clients and at the same time elevate himself to the national stage, there’s not enough hours in a lifetime to figure that out.”
Avenatti’s fraud and embezzlement were well underway by the time Daniels vaulted him to fame in 2018 by hiring him to sue Trump. Daniels accepted a $130,000 payment just before the 2016 election to keep quiet about her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, and Avenatti went to court to void the deal.
Avenatti’s bombastic manner made him an instant hit on cable news shows. He became one of Trump’s fiercest critics on television. He traveled to Iowa and New Hampshire to explore a run for the Democratic presidential nomination, but his legal troubles soon spiraled out of control.
FILE - In this April 16, 2018 file photo Michael Avenatti, attorney and spokesperson for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, arrives at federal court in New York. Avenatti is once again seeking to depose President Donald Trump in the porn actress' fight to invalidate a confidentiality agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election. Avenatti says in a court filing Thursday, May 24, 2018, a judge should reconsider an order delaying the case and allow him to depose Trump and obtain documents in the lawsuit.
Daniels and Trump have been involved in a legal battle for several years, and in 2022, she lost an appeal to reverse her failed defamation suit involving the former president, requiring her to pay out $300,000. Despite the verdict, she has stated she will not pay up.
"I will go to jail before I pay a penny," Daniels wrote on Twitter in March 2022 when someone mentioned the verdict to her online.
>He was promptly shot
And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe. For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last.
>Michael Fanone with Hunter Biden
As thousands of Twitter documents are released on the company’s infamous censorship program, much has been confirmed about the use of back channels by Biden and Democratic officials to silence critics on the social media platform. However, one familiar name immediately popped out in the first batch of documents released through journalist Matt Taibbi: James Baker. For many, James Baker is fast becoming the Kevin Bacon of the Russian collusion scandals.
>https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1600199056147378176
https://web.archive.org/web/20051114214451/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/28/cloning.vatican/index.html
Vatican slams 'brutal' clone claim
The claim that a cloned child has been born in an undisclosed country displays a "brutal mentality" lacking "ethical consideration," a Vatican spokesman has said.
TITLE: Human cloning firm sets up affiliate in Korea
SOURCE: The Korean Herald
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/07/13/200207130006.asp
DATE: July 13, 2002
Human cloning firm sets up affiliate in Korea
Clonaid, a human cloning firm, has established an affiliate company in
Korea, participants at the International Bio Expo in Japan said Thursday.
Participants and foreign media who attended the first biotechnology
exposition in Tokyo, said that Clonaid's vice president Thomas Kaenzig
claimed that BioFusion Tech Inc., a South Korean company owned by Clonaid,
had developed an "embryonic cell fusion system or RMX2010." The sources in
Japan said that the RMX2010 allegedly creates a stable electronic pulse
required to develop human embryos to the blastocyst stage. The blastocyst
stage is the state an embryo reaches five or six days after it has been
fertilized, which is a critical step to instigate the cloning procedure.
They also said that Kaenzig believes human cloning will become
"commonplace" within ten years, though he failed to comment on any advances
the company has made toward actually cloning a human being. Related to
this, an official at BioFusion Tech Inc. confirmed that the company was set
up two months ago as a wholly owned subsidiary of Clonaid and that there
were currently three Korean technicians and six foreign employees working
at the company. The BioFusion employee also said that about 10 Koreans have
asked for cloning services, which according to the company Web site
(www.clonaid.com) can cost around $200,000.
>BioFusion Tech Inc., a South Korean company owned by Clonaid
https://cultnews.com/2002/12/cult-cloning-facility-raided-in-korea/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2614341.stm
Clone cult firm raided in S Korea
Prosecutors in South Korea have seized documents from a biotechnology company linked to a controversial sect which claims to have created the world's first cloned baby.
After raiding the offices of BioFusion Tech Inc. in the southern city of Daegu, officials questioned members of staff to see whether they had taken part in the cloning project.
Cloning is not illegal in South Korea, but prosecutors may be investigating whether staff have been carrying out medical research without a licence.
Last week, scientists from Clonaid - a US-based firm linked to the Raelian sect - said that they had helped a woman give birth to a cloned baby girl.
However, the announcement has been viewed with deep scepticism by the scientific community at large - and no proof has so far been put forward.
Raid
"The investigators broke through windows into my house and the offices in Seoul and Daegu to seize documents," BioFusion Tech Inc. spokesman Kwak Gi-Hwa told the AFP news agency.
Mr Kwak said he and the firms president were banned from leaving the country.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency also reported that the prosecutors interrogated a South Korean woman, who had allegedly signed up for the cloning project.
BioFusion Tech Inc. - Clonaid's South Korean subsidiary - has been under investigation since July, after the firm said three South Korean women were taking part in the project and one of them was pregnant with a cloned foetus.
Clonaid began its operation in South Korea this year, and about 5,000 Koreans are believed to follow the Raelian cult.
Human cloning is not illegal in South Korea, and a bill outlawing the practice is currently being debated in the parliament.
But if officials without licences are found to have carried out any medical research, they could face up to five years in jail or $18,000 in fines, according to Yonhap agency.
Alien project
Clonaid is linked to the Raelian sect, whose founder, Claude Vorilhon describes himself as a prophet and calls himself Rael.
The Raelians believe humans are the result of a genetic engineering project run by super-intelligent extra-terrestrials.
Clonaid has been racing against the Italian fertility doctor Severino Antinori to produce the first cloned baby.
Mr Antinori has claimed that one of his patients will give birth to a cloned baby in January.
https://www.wired.com/2002/12/fda-probes-sects-human-cloning/
FDA Probes Sect's Human Cloning
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration will probe whether a sect claiming to have produced the world's first human clone illegally performed any of the alleged work in the United States, a senior agency official said Friday. The nation has no specific law against human cloning. But the FDA, which regulates human experiments, has […]
>The notion that the White House decorations include Baphomet plays into theories pushed by followers of QAnon, a far-right movement that baselessly claims there is a global cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles.
>But the posts are incorrect.
>In light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter today
Was he working at twitter, like ass in a chair in the office?
https://www.c-span.org/video/?165550-2/human-reproductive-cloning
https://www.c-span.org/video/?163421-2/human-cloning
https://www.c-span.org/video/?163425-1/human-cloning-research
YouTube senior software engineer: 'I escaped' active shooting situation
A senior software engineer with YouTube named Zach Voorhees spoke to ABC7 News and described what he saw when the shooting broke out Tuesday afternoon.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_plasminogen_activator
>all of the animals used in Neuralink's tests were sacrificed