SBF Case Moved to Clinton Appointed Judge Lewis Kaplan Who’s Allowed Garbage Trump Rape Case to Continue and Oversaw Prince Andrew Case Too

Here we go again. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s case was assigned to Bill Clinton-appointed District Judge Lewis Kaplan.

TGP reported that after allowing SBF to return home to his parents’ house before Christmas that the judge who set him free next recused herself from the case because of her husband’s conflicts.

So fast forward to today when Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal case was reassigned to Bill Clinton-appointed District Judge Lewis Kaplan, recently known for handling a Epstein-linked sexual abuse lawsuit against Britain’s Prince Andrew, and defamation lawsuits against Donald Trump, and is also known for presiding over a number of federal racketeering cases involving Mafia members. In April 2010, Kaplan was assigned to preside over the cases of 14 Gambino crime family members arrested on charges, among others, of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, witness tampering (in the 1992 trial of John Gotti), and sex trafficking of a minor.

This is good news for SBF. Judge Kaplan is part of the Deep State Democrat gang.

Judge Kaplan has allowed E. Jane Carroll to sue President Trump for alleged rape. A Case President Trump has adamantly denied.

The former president will have to sit for a deposition on 19 October and answer questions under oath, US District Judge Lewis A Kaplan ruled on Wednesday (12 October).

Mr Trump’s legal team had asked for the testimony to be delayed – a request now denied by the judge.

Roberta Kaplan, Ms Carroll’s attorney, said in a statement: “We are pleased that Judge Kaplan agreed with our position not to stay discovery in this case.”

Mr Trump has denied Carroll’s allegations. Alina Habba, his attorney, told The Associated Press in a statement: “We look forward to establishing on the record that this case is, and always has been, entirely without merit.”

In his ruling, Judge Kaplan wrote that “the defendant should not be permitted to run the clock out on plaintiff’s attempt to gain a remedy for what allegedly was a serious wrong,” and cited the “advanced age” of the parties. MrTrump is 76 years old and Ms Carroll is 78.

Carroll’s interviews on TV concerning her allegations should have been enough to throw out any case but not with Judge Kaplan. It’s against President Trump.

Judge Kaplan also oversaw the sexual abuse (Jeffrey Epstein-related) case against Prince Andrew.

A U.S. judge dismissed the sex abuse lawsuit against Britain’s Prince Andrew on Tuesday, three weeks after lawyers for the American woman who filed it reached a deal calling for the prince to make a substantial donation to his accuser’s charity and declare he never meant to malign her character.

U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan signed court papers dismissing the August lawsuit after lawyers on both sides asked him to do so earlier in the day. The judge had given them until March 17 to complete the deal or he would set a trial date. The lawsuit cannot be refiled.

The lawyers revealed three weeks ago that they had tentatively agreed to a settlement in which the prince would donate to Virginia Giuffre’s charity and make the declaration about her character.

Andrew strenuously denied Giuffre’s allegations after she sued him, accusing the British royal of sexually abusing her while she traveled with financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2001 when she was 17.

Kaplan has been around for some time after being appointed by Clinton. He’s the perfect judge for SBJ.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/sbf-case-moved-clinton-appointed-judge-keeping-crazy-e-jean-carrol-lawsuit-alive-president-trump/

Every social media firm censors for US government – Musk

Platforms remove content at the “explicit direction” of US federal agencies, the Twitter CEO has claimed

All social media platforms work with the US government to censor content, Twitter CEO Elon Musk claimed on Tuesday. Documents released by Musk following his purchase of Twitter showed that the platform colluded with the FBI, CIA, Pentagon and other government agencies to suppress information on elections, Ukraine, and Covid-19.

“Every social media company is engaged in heavy censorship, with significant involvement of and, at times, explicit direction of the government,” Musk tweeted, adding that “Google frequently makes links disappear, for example.”

https://www.rt.com/news/569016-musk-social-media-censorship/

Every social media company is engaged in heavy censorship, with significant involvement of and, at times, explicit direction of the government.

Google frequently makes links disappear, for example.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1607743022925504514

US military families sue over ISIS payments – media

Relatives of three Americans reportedly target French cement giant Lafarge after federal conviction

Citing a recent judgment against the French cement-maker Lafarge in US federal court, families of two US Navy sailors and one retired Marine who were killed in Syria, Iraq and Libya are seeking damages from the company as well, ABC News reported.

Islamic State terrorists once claimed large portions of Syria and Iraq, including the northern Syria town of Jalabiya where Lafarge had built a massive cement plant. Before ISIS and other jihadist groups operating in the area forced the plant to close, the French company paid them over $6 million in bribes – for which a US federal court fined it $777.8 million in October.

The first prosecution of a company for supporting terrorism has created a precedent that relatives of three Americans killed by terrorists say entitles them to compensation too.

"Defendants’ payments to and business partnership with ISIS provided ISIS the seed capital it needed to transform from a fledgling militia in the early 2010s into a brutal terroristic behemoth with the capability and intent to kill Americans,” the lawsuit alleges, according to ABC, which first reported on it Sunday.

Since Lafarge has already “admitted to paying millions of dollars to ISIS," the lawsuit “is intended to hold it accountable to the military families devastated by its heinous and unlawful conduct,” an attorney with the law firm Jenner & Block told ABC.

Relatives of David Berry, Chief Petty Officer Jason Finan, and Senior Petty Officer Scott Cooper Dayton described the "severe mental anguish, extreme emotional pain and suffering" they have suffered as a result of their deaths. Berry was killed in January 2015 in the ISIS attack on the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, Libya. He was a retired Marine working for a private contractor at the time. Finan and Dayton were killed by improvised explosive devices (IED) blamed on IS, one in Iraq in October 2016 and the other in Syria a month later.

The lawsuit accuses Lafarge of giving money and cement to both IS and Al-Nusra Front terrorists. Various jihadist groups had rebelled against the Syrian government in 2011, with outside backing, and ended up controlling the area around the cement plant in Jalabiya. The French company paid bribes in order to continue operating the plant, until the IS takeover in 2014 forced them to evacuate all foreign staff.

Al-Nusra was allied with Al-Qaeda but in January 2017 renamed itself as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Many of its militants posed as “moderate rebels” to obtain training and weapons from the US, which sought to overthrow the government in Damascus.

Documents published in September 2021 by the Turkish Anadolu Agency showed that Lafarge had been working with French intelligence, feeding them information about IS and other terrorist groups.

https://www.rt.com/news/569020-lafarge-isis-us-lawsuit/

Michigan Court’s Shielding Of Teachers From Public Record Requests Raises ‘Transparency’ Concerns, Experts Say

A Michigan court ruling that found public school teachers are exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests raises “transparency” concerns in classrooms, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

In March, the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit on behalf of a parent seeking curriculum taught in a History of Ethnic and Gender Studies class.

“The judge’s decision in this case should be extremely concerning to anyone who is paying attention to transparency efforts across the state,” Holly Wetzel, director of public relations at The Mackinac Center for Public Policy told the DCNF.

A recent Michigan court ruling, which found that public school teachers are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), raises red flags for “transparency” in schools, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Oakland County Circuit Court ruled on Dec. 15 that public school teachers are not required to submit work-related documents to satisfy FOIA requests because they are not considered “public bodies,” according to the decision. Experts, however, told the DCNF that the ruling should concern parents who want to know what is happening in their kids’ classrooms.

“Virtual learning during Covid brought unprecedented transparency to public schools, revealing the radical political agenda being pushed in some classrooms,” Trent England, founder of the electoral college advocacy group Save Our States, told the DCNF. “That led to outrage and a demand for school choice, so it’s no surprise school administrators are fighting to get back into the shadows. But it’s disappointing that a judge would do their dirty work.”

In March 2022, the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit against the Rochester Community School District on behalf of a local parent who attempted to file a FOIA request to obtain information about its History of Ethnic and Gender Studies class. While the district provided a unit plan for the course, it refused to provide additional documents, such as tests and quizzes, related to the class.

The parent became interested in the course after seeing a post about it on social media, according to MLive.

Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression General Counsel Ronnie London echoed the court ruling and told the DCNF that the definition of “public body” does not list “employees” under its “subsection for county/city/township” offices.

“As I understand it, the court concludes that, regardless of whether teachers are employees of their school administrations or are employees of the bargaining unit (or both, I suppose), as ’employees’ at the local level, they do not fall within the statute,” he said.

Steve Delie, director of transparency and open government at the Mackinac Center, wrote in a press release that the group is “disappointed” with the decision and claimed that it “drastically weakens transparency in Michigan’s schools and could have severe implications for transparency efforts across the state.”

“Parents deserve to know what their children are being taught, and this decision will only make that more difficult,” he wrote.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/27/michigan-teachers-foia-exemption-transparency/

Aussie Cops Ask Neighbors To Rat Out 'Anti-Government, Anti-Police, Or COVID-Vaccine Conspiracy Theorists'

Australian police are using a brutal ambush on two cops to encourage residents to rat out neighbors who are skeptical of the Covid-10 vaccine, or harbor anti-government views.

On December 12, two Brisbane police officers were gunned down by a family of rural Australians, who opened fire as the two officers approached their home. Constables Rachel McCrow, 29, and Matthew Arnold, 26 died in the attack, while a third officer, Constable Randall Kirk, was shot in the leg but managed to escape. A fourth officer, Keely Brough, fled to safety in the bushes.

Later that evening, members of the rural family were killed in a shootout with tactical police.

In response to the incident, Deputy Commissioner Tracy Linford suggested that neighbors need to assume anyone who harbors non-mainstream views is clearly a threat.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/aussie-cops-ask-neighbors-rat-out-anti-government-anti-police-or-covid-vaccine-conspiracy