>Dough
covfefe
https://heavy.com/news/francesco-villi/
https://nypost.com/2022/12/19/francesco-villi-73-identified-as-toronto-gunman-reports/
Five victims are deceased, a sixth victim is in hospital in serious condition and the suspect is deceased following an active shooter incident at a condominium building located at 9235 Jane Street in the City of Vaughan.
On Sunday, December 18, 2022, at approximately 7:20 p.m., police were called to a residential building located on Jane Street, north of Rutherford Road, for a report of an active male shooter who had shot several victims.
When police arrived, an interaction occurred between the officers and a male subject and the subject was shot. He was pronounced deceased at the scene. York Regional Police has notified the Special Investigations Unit (SIU).
The Emergency Response Unit has conducted a thorough search of the building to ensure there are no additional victims and that it’s safe. A police presence will be on scene as the investigation continues.
“We offer our sincere condolences to the victims and their families,” said Chief MacSween from the scene, adding there is no further threat to public safety.
The investigation is active and ongoing. Updates will follow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Torah_portion
Vayikra, on Leviticus 1–5: Laws of the sacrifices
Tzav, on Leviticus 6–8: Sacrifices, ordination of the priests
Shemini, on Leviticus 9–11: Concecration of tabernacle, alien fire, dietary laws
Tazria, on Leviticus 12–13: Childbirth, skin disease, clothing
Metzora, on Leviticus 14–15: Skin disease, unclean houses, genital discharges
Acharei Mot, on Leviticus 16–18: Yom Kippur, centralized offerings, sexual practices
Kedoshim, on Leviticus 19–20: Holiness, penalties for transgressions
Emor, on Leviticus 21–24: Rules for priests, holy days, lights and bread, a blasphemer
Behar, on Leviticus 25–25: Sabbatical year, debt servitude limited
Bechukotai, on Leviticus 26–27: Blessings and curses, payment of vows
>Dr. Paul Offit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Offit
Peter Hotez … says government health officials should take a bolder stand in reassuring the public. Hotez feels as strongly as Offit does about the science (saying vaccines cause autism, he says, "is like saying the world is flat"), but, like other busy scientists, he's less willing to enter the fray. "Here's someone who has created an invention that saves hundreds of lives every day," says Hotez, whose daughter, 15, has autism, "and he's vilified as someone who hates children. It's just so unfair."
source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracie_family#The_Gracie_triangle
https://www.bjjee.com/articles/the-origin-of-the-triangle-as-a-symbol-of-jiu-jitsu/
“If you imagine a perfect triangle in three dimensions – in pyramid form – you can see how you can push it to either side, and it will always be stable. It regains its solid position every time. The application of this concept works that way. When you are mounted on your opponent and have three points of contact, he can move you around and you will easily find your third point again. No matter how or where he moves you, you will be able to find his third point of support “
>leather vats
No she wasn't driving.
Her beloved corvette, she wasn't driving?
Senator Biden was driving it.
>what team is that
https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/canadian-junior-hockey-player-eli-palfreyman-dies-during-tournament-game/
https://twitter.com/AyrCentennials/status/1565028155211096067
>17
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/dr-peter-hotezs-halal-covid-19-vaccine-approved-for-use-in-indonesia/ar-AA12s3Jr
>FTX
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-bankman-fried-secret-backdoor-worth-65-billion-court-hears-2023-1
Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX lawyer says
Bankruptcy lawyers said Sam Bankman-Fried's Alameda had access to a $65 billion credit line from FTX.
The customer loans were made available via a backdoor created by FTX cofounder Gary Wang, they said.
The money was used for luxury purchases like planes, parties, and political donations, the court heard.
>Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor'
Gary "Backdoor" Wang
Bankman-Fried is under house arrest at his parents’ home in Palo Alto, California, while awaiting trial. He pleaded not guilty to multiple federal counts of fraud and conspiracy related to the collapse of his crypto empire. In what he calls a “pre-mortem overview” of FTX’s collapse, Bankman-Fried reiterates claims he made in November after the crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy and before he was arrested.
Among the key themes:
He places blame squarely on Alameda, the crypto hedge fund he founded in 2017. “Alameda failed to sufficiently hedge against the risk of an extreme market crash: the hundred billion of assets had only a few billion dollars of hedges,” he says.
He wasn’t in charge at Alameda. Bankman-Fried reiterates that he was not in charge of Alameda in the “past few years,” having appointed his onetime girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, as the sole CEO in 2022.
Alameda’s and FTX’s problems weren’t unique, Bankman-Fried writes. He frequently contextualizes the firms’ decline as part of an industry-wide downturn that ensnared several other firms, including Three Arrows Capital, Voyager and Celsius — all of which were bankrupted in the so-called crypto winter, a broad decline in the value of digital assets, similar to a bear market.
Alameda’s contagion then spread to FTX “because Alameda had a margin position open on FTX; and the run on the bank turned that illiquidity into insolvency.”
FTX was pressured into filing for Chapter 11 by the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, he says. “If FTX had been given a few weeks to raise the necessary liquidity, I believe it would have been able to make customers substantially whole,” he writes. ” I didn’t realize at the time that Sullivan & Cromwell…would potentially quash those efforts.” Representatives for Sullivan & Cromwell didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Some of Bankman-Fried’s claims directly contradict allegations by US prosecutors that FTX customers funds were being siphoned to plug holes at Alameda in violation of FTX’s terms of service. Key witnesses for the prosecution, including the former CEO of Alameda and FTX’s co-founder, have pleaded guilty and implicated Bankman-Fried in the misappropriation of customer funds.
>Three Arrows Capital, Voyager and Celsius
>This brings the total in the Delaware stash house to three sets.
https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1613522399269650434
https://sambf.substack.com/p/ftx-pre-mortem-overview
FTX Pre-Mortem Overview
Despite this, very substantial recovery remains potentially available. FTX US remains fully solvent and should be able to return all customers’ funds. FTX International has many billions of dollars of assets, and I am dedicating nearly all of my personal assets to customers.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftx-says-it-has-located-more-than-5-billion-in-cash-liquid-assets-11673452986
FTX Says It Has Located More Than $5 Billion in Cash, Liquid Assets
The bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange also said it is hoping to sell additional investment holdings with a book value topping $4.6 billion
Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX said it has located more than $5 billion in cash and other liquid assets and is hoping to sell hundreds of additional investment holdings with a book value of more than $4.6 billion.
Those assets are valued as of FTX’s bankruptcy filing in November and don’t include $425 million held by authorities in the Bahamas, company lawyers said on Wednesday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del.
"officials who handled, participated in, or have personal knowledge of the FBI's relationship and communications with" dossier author Christopher Steele.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matea_Gold
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https://cyberthreatintelligence.com/news/the-operator-of-the-largest-hosting-with-prohibited-content-sentenced-to-27-years-in-prison/
Federal Attorney Jonathan Lenzner said 36-year-old Eric Marquez was one of the largest distributors of child pornography in the world.
“Eric Márquez has stored and distributed millions of horrific photos and videos of child abuse,” said Jonathan Lenzner.
>wiki deleted
https://web.archive.org/web/20161215055309/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matea_Gold
Matea Gold is an American political journalist. She covers money and politics for The Washington Post. She previously reported for The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune.
Gold was born in Sacramento, California to Jean Bickert Gold, a kindergarten teacher, and Norman C. Gold, an educational consultant. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. While at UCLA, Gold was the editor of the Daily Bruin.
Gold reported for The Los Angeles Times for 17 years. She covered the media beat before moving to Washington, D.C. in 2010 to cover politics for The Los Angeles Times. In 2013, she joined The Washington Post.
https://www.c-span.org/person/?84415/MateaGold
https://billmoyers.com/2013/03/19/following-the-dark-money-with-matea-gold/
>Jonathan Lenzner said 36-year-old Eric Marquez was one of the largest distributors of child pornography in the world.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/36-year-old-eric-eoin-marques-sentenced-to-27-years-in-prison-for-conspiracy-to-advertise-child-pornography/
https://apnews.com/article/europe-crime-arrests-ireland-child-pornography-39479ef8aa55ea7936de01b188e5085d
Officials announced that 36-year-old Eric Eoin Marques was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for conspiracy to advertise child pornography on the dark web.
According to authorities, millions of images of child exploitation material were found and removed from the hosting server.
"Eric Marques was one of the largest facilitators of child pornography in the world," said Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner. "This is an egregious case where one individual facilitated the abuse of more than a million new child victims and attempted to keep the abuse hidden on the dark web. We are grateful to our law enforcement partners here and abroad for helping us to bring Eric Marques to justice. We will continue to do everything we can to find and prosecute those who use the anonymity of the Internet to perpetuate the cruel and heartless business of the sexual abuse of children for personal gain, in order to keep our children safe."
Marques of Dublin, Ireland is a dual national citizen of the US. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 6, 2020, after being extradited by Irish authorities. Marques arrived in the US on March 23, 2019, to face federal charges filed in Maryland on Aug. 8, 2013.
According to his plea agreement, from July 24, 2008, until July 29, 2013, Marques conspired to advertise child pornography by operating a free, anonymous web hosting server on the dark web – only accessible by means of special software which allows users and website operators to remain anonymous or untraceable.
Officials said the defendant's hosting service hosted websites that allowed users to view and share images documenting the sexual abuse of children, including the abuse of prepubescent minors, violent sexual abuse, and bestiality.
Further investigation revealed that the hosting service contained over 200 child exploitation websites that contained millions of images of child exploitation material. More than 1.97 million of these images and videos involved victims that were not previously known by law enforcement.
Officials said many of the images involved sadistic abuse of infants and toddlers to include bondage, bestiality and humiliation to include urination, defecation and vomit.
Marques admitted that this offense also involved the distribution of child pornography, which involved minors who were less than twelve years old including infants and toddlers and sadistic or masochistic material or depictions of violence.
Marques also admitted that he willfully obstructed or impeded the administration of justice with respect to the investigation into this offense.
>https://apnews.com/article/europe-crime-arrests-ireland-child-pornography-39479ef8aa55ea7936de01b188e5085d
A man described by U.S. authorities as the world’s most prolific purveyor of child pornography at the time of his arrest in Ireland was sentenced on Wednesday to 27 years in federal prison.
Eric Eoin Marques, 36, created and operated computer servers on the dark web that enabled users to anonymously access millions of illicit images and videos, many depicting the rape and torture of infants and toddlers. Law enforcement had never seen many of those images before finding them on Marques’ servers, according to prosecutors.
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang told Marques that his crimes were the equivalent of those of a drug kingpin.
“This crime was truly despicable,” Chuang said.
Prior to learning his sentence, Marques apologized to the victims and asked for mercy from the court.
“I have destroyed my reputation and my family’s reputation. Please give me a second chance,” he told Chuang.
The judge agreed to recommend that the federal Bureau of Prisons give Marques credit for eight years he has served in custody both in Ireland and the U.S. since his 2013 arrest. The judge also ordered him to pay restitution of $87,000 to victims of the child pornography that he helped distribute.
The original version of the plea agreement between Marques and prosecutors called for a prison sentence of 15 to 21 years.
Chuang rejected that deal during a hearing in May, calling it “too flawed” and saying he was inclined to give Marques a longer sentence than 15 to 21 years.
The revised agreement recommended a prison sentence between 21 and 27 years, but Chuang wasn’t bound by those terms.
Prosecutors recommended a 27-year sentence followed by lifetime supervision after his release, a requirement that Chuang also imposed.
Justice Department prosecutor Ralph Paradiso said Marques created an online community for sexual predators to anonymously abuse and exploit children and share the horrific images that they created.
“They all got together and they sexually exploited children,” he said. “They reveled in that sexual exploitation.”
Defense attorneys requested a 21-year sentence for Marques, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Ireland. Marques can return to Ireland after he completes his prison sentence.
“There is no one in this courtroom who is not repulsed by what happened in this case,” said assistant federal public defender Brendan Hurson, one of Marques’ lawyers. “He will not do this again, and he is remorseful for what he has done.”
The original plea deal wouldn’t have given Marques credit for the time he spent in custody while fighting extradition after his 2013 arrest in Dublin. But Chuang criticized that provision. The judge said in May that he can’t tell the Federal Bureau of Prisons to refrain from counting those years when Marques likely was entitled to get credit for that time.
Marques pleaded guilty in February 2020 to creating and operating a web hosting service called “Freedom Hosting” on the darknet between 2008 and 2013. The darknet is part of the internet but hosted within an encrypted network. It is accessible only through anonymity-providing tools.
Investigators found what appeared to be more than 8.5 million images and videos of child pornography on the Freedom Hosting server, according to a court filing that accompanied Marques’ guilty plea.
Marques was living in Ireland at the time of the offenses. He was extradited to Maryland in March 2019. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to advertise child pornography.
In an April court filing, a prosecutor said a government witness was prepared to testify that investigators had identified Marques as the largest purveyor of child pornography in the world and that he had made approximately $3.6 million in U.S. currency from his servers.
Marques’ lawyers say he made money from his legitimate web-hosting services, not Freedom Hosting.
Acting U.S. Attorney Jonathan Lenzner said Marques caused “unspeakable damage” to children.
“This is the first case that I’m aware of where we went to the seeds of the trade, the main engine driving so much of the illegal child pornography trade globally,” he said.
Chuang told Marques that he hopes he reads the written statements submitted by his victims.
“It is heartbreaking to see what has happened to these individuals,” the judge said.
>Eric Eoin Marques
>Acting U.S. Attorney Jonathan Lenzner said Marques caused “unspeakable damage” to children.
>“This is the first case that I’m aware of where we went to the seeds of the trade, the main engine driving so much of the illegal child pornography trade globally,” he said.
>This is the first case that I’m aware of where we went to the seeds of the trade, the main engine driving so much of the illegal child pornography trade globally
https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/dark-web-child-pornography-facilitator-sentenced-27-years-federal-prison-conspiracy
September 15, 2021
Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang today sentenced Eric Eoin Marques, age 36, of Dublin, Ireland, to 27 years in federal prison, followed lifetime supervised release, for conspiracy to advertise child pornography on the dark web. Marques, a dual national citizen of the United States and Ireland, pleaded guilty to that charge on February 6, 2020, after he was extradited by Irish authorities. Marques arrived in the United States on March 23, 2019, to face federal criminal charges filed in Maryland on August 8, 2013.
According to his plea agreement, between July 24, 2008 and July 29, 2013, Marques conspired to advertise child pornography by operating a free, anonymous web hosting service (AHS) located on the “dark web”, an area of the Internet that is only accessible by means of special software, allowing users and website operators to remain anonymous or untraceable. The defendant’s hosting service hosted websites that allowed users to view and share images documenting the sexual abuse of children, including the abuse of prepubescent minors, violent sexual abuse, and bestiality. The investigation revealed that the hosting service contained over 200 child exploitation websites that housed millions of images of child exploitation material. Over 1.97 million of these images and/or videos involved victims that were not previously known by law enforcement. Many of these images involved sadistic abuse of infants and toddlers to include bondage, bestiality and humiliation to include urination, defecation and vomit.
The sentence was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner; Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; and Assistant Director Calvin Shivers of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division.
“Eric Marques was one of the largest facilitators of child pornography in the world,” said Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner. “This is an egregious case where one individual facilitated the abuse of more than a million new child victims and attempted to keep the abuse hidden on the dark web. We are grateful to our law enforcement partners here and abroad for helping us to bring Eric Marques to justice. We will continue to do everything we can to find and prosecute those who use the anonymity of the Internet to perpetuate the cruel and heartless business of the sexual abuse of children for personal gain, in order to keep our children safe.”
“The defendant’s web service anonymously hosted hundreds of insidious criminal communities dedicated to the sexual exploitation of children, which openly and notoriously spread millions of images of child sexual abuse across the globe,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “This complex, global investigation, lengthy and successful extradition, and substantial jail sentence are proof of the Department’s steadfast and unwavering commitment to identifying and bringing to justice criminals who hide behind anonymous networks to abuse and exploit the world’s children.”
“Today’s sentencing of Eric Marques sends a clear message to perpetrators of this egregious crime that no matter where you are in the world, law enforcement will hold you accountable and bring you to justice,” said FBI Assistant Director Calvin Shivers. “The FBI combats crimes against children and stands up for vulnerable children across the globe.”
During 2012 and 2013, FBI special agents and employees using computers in Maryland downloaded more than one million files from that website. As part of the investigation, those files were reviewed and nearly all of the files depict children who are engaging in sexually explicit conduct with adults or other children, posed nude and/or in such a manner as to expose their genitals, in various state of undress, or depict child erotica. A substantial majority of the images downloaded by the FBI depict prepubescent minor children who are fully or partially nude or engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Marques admitted in his guilty plea that this offense also involved the distribution of child pornography, which involved minors who were less than twelve years old, to include infants and toddlers, and sadistic or masochistic material or depictions of violence. Marques further admits that he willfully obstructed or impeded the administration of justice with respect to the investigation into this offense.
https://www.businessinsider.com/crypto-companies-cut-thousands-amid-legal-troubles-plunging-values-2023-1
THE CRYPTO CULLING: Thousands of employees are getting the axe as companies face plunging valuations, scandals, and legal turmoil
Major crypto companies, including Crypto.com, Coinbase and Genesis, have announced layoffs in 2023.
To make matters more complicated, the SEC just filed charges against two major players in crypto.
Despite recent turmoil, prices of major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are up so far this year.
>go to davos next week and ask them
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3813314-bidens-inadvertence-excuse-the-president-is-still-short-of-a-complete-defense/
Biden’s ‘inadvertence’ excuse: The president is still short of a complete defense
This weekend, President Biden returned to his home in Delaware. While some view the home as a veritable crime scene, the White House insists it is merely an area of liberating “inadvertence.” You will find no chalked outline of boxes of classified documents or yellow police tape in Wilmington. You will also not find another expected element: a viable criminal defense.
After classified documents were found in various locations, the Justice Department launched an investigation that could take months. However, Biden’s private counsel, Richard Sauber, surprisingly announced that they already know what happened and it was a case of “inadvertent mishandling.”
What is striking about the “inadvertence” defense is what is not being claimed. A better defense is that the president had no role in or knowledge of the removal of the documents. It is always possible that documents are packed without the knowledge of a departing president or vice president. Yet, documents removed at the end of a term are generally archived as requested and packed by staff. There should be a chain of custody.
While premature and incomplete, ‘inadvertence’ is still a better defense than the one offered by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and others who suggested the classified documents may have been “planted.”
The president’s counsel thankfully did not opt for that conspiracy theory. Indeed, they have admitted the material was classified and held in unsecured locations. It is a curious defense, however, since it is not an actual defense for this crime. Rather, it is more of a mitigating factor to influence charging or sentencing. In this case, Biden must be hoping that prosecutors will not bring a charge absent some showing of evil intent.
The “inadvertent mishandling” is as viable a criminal defense as Bill Clinton’s claim that he smoked marijuana but “didn’t inhale.” It is designed to suggest that, while the act may violate the law, the conduct is excusable. For Biden, the argument appears to be, “Yes, I removed the documents, but I didn’t use them.”
The White House mantra has locked Biden into a non-defense defense. Since federal law bars gross mishandling of classified material, it is not enough to say you lacked evil intent.
Just ask Asia Janay Lavarello, who was sentenced last February for taking classified documents at just the “secret” level to her hotel room in Manila. Lavarello was working at the U.S. Embassy there and took some doctoral theses of other employees to work on her own. She had a party in the room, during which someone noticed the documents. She was given three months in jail.
Prosecutors often look for evidence of intent, particularly if they are thinking of indicting a president or former president for the first time in history. Clearly Lavarello knew she was taking the documents. The age-old question remains what the president knew and when he knew it.
Such intent by Biden could be established not only at the time the documents were removed but also during his years-long possession. Even if he was unaware of the removal of the documents, subsequent knowledge would still constitute the most serious level of violation under federal law. Knowledge also can be established by third parties who retrieved or discussed the documents with him.
One possible explanation, which I raised earlier, is that the documents might have been relevant to Biden’s work on his book, which dealt with subjects like Ukraine.
The greater problem with Biden’s defense is that it began to unravel even as it was being offered by the White House.
The record establishes that these documents were not just “inadvertently mishandled” — at best, they had to be repeatedly inadvertently mishandled. The documents had to have been moved repeatedly, since the Washington office with the Penn Biden Center (where the greatest number of files apparently were found) did not open until 2018. They also were distributed between three different locations.
As the number of moves increase, the plausibility of inadvertence decreases. Moreover, each move exposed these documents to movers, staff and others who could have come into contact with the boxes.
Biden’s response to the discovery is potentially damaging, too. On Nov. 2, his counsel reported to the National Archives that highly classified documents were found in a closet at the Penn Biden Center office. This find reportedly included Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information, known as TS/SCI.
So, on Nov. 2, the president seemingly was aware that highly classified material may be among his papers. Yet he still had private counsel — who may lack the proper security clearance — to search for more. Indeed, the president did not know what level of clearance would be required for any additional documents.
This use of private counsel would be more understandable for a former president or former vice president, but Biden is the current president. He has a host of security officers and others with clearances who can properly handle classified materials. He could have asked any of those personnel to conduct the search but, instead, used his own private counsel. This is not using government personnel for private purposes, since he was trying to retrieve unlawfully possessed government documents.
Biden’s private counsel found a second batch of classified material. Even then, the president apparently continued to use outside lawyers rather than the FBI or White House staff for additional searches. That led to a third discovery of classified material … by private counsel.
During all of these searches, Biden did not know where documents might be found, their level of classification, or the risk of unlawful access. That might also be viewed as gross mishandling. It was an inadvertent but a conscious decision to retain control of the search at the risk of further unauthorized disclosures.
In fairness, the FBI allowed time for Trump’s personal team to confirm any classified material. However, the Mar-a-Lago storage area was not only reinforced with additional locks at the FBI’s request, but the area was guarded by the Secret Service and had video surveillance. In contrast, by his own account, Biden had no idea what additional classified material was in his possession or where it had been left.
Biden has claimed he was “surprised to learn that any government documents were taken.” That is a strange statement, since the president clearly was aware that government documents were removed for his use after his term as vice president.
Even if we assume Biden meant “classified government documents,” it is a statement that could come back to haunt him if a witness establishes that he requested any of the classified documents or worked off them. For example, at least one classified document appears to have been removed from the other batches and taken into his personal library. If he or anyone working on his book dealt with clearly marked classified documents, his “inadvertence” claims could look like a post-hoc effort to deceive the public and investigators.
None of this means the cases of Biden and Trump are the same — but they are not “apples and oranges,” as claimed by some press and pundits. They are both apples, just different varieties. If two people rob a bank but one also steals a getaway car, they are both bank robbers, but their cases are different.
The key issue is not whether they are different but whether either has a defense.
>Uncle Joe, what’s in those documents…any w/ my name on them? Asking for a friend.
>17-year-old scolded for crying over transgender woman’s penis at YMCA