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What difference at this point does it make?
>Special agent in charge of FBI Boston Division to retire
https://www.masslive.com/news/2023/05/special-agent-in-charge-of-fbi-boston-division-to-retire.html
Special agent in charge of FBI Boston Division to retire
FBI Boston Division’s Special Agent in Charge Joseph R. Bonavolonta will be retiring on June 9, ending his 27-year career.
Bonavolonta has served as the special agent in charge for the FBI Boston Division since January 2019. He is also the Director of National Intelligence’s representative for the New England region.
Bonavolonta began his career at the FBI in May 1996 as an investigative specialist in the FBI’s New York Field Office. Four years later became a special agent at the New York Field Office. He has also worked at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., the Newark Field Office, and the Boston Division.
His father was a special agent in the FBI, serving 24 years, and a key source of inspiration for Bonavolonta to join the law enforcement agency, he wrote in a letter to FBI Boston staff announcing his retirement.
During Bonavolonta’s time at the FBI, he investigated the Bonanno La Cosa Nostra Family, which won him the Attorney General’s Director’s Award for Superior Performance in 2005.
“I have had many positive assignments throughout my career but serving all of you as special agent in charge has been one of the most rewarding,” Bonavolonta wrote in his announcement letter to FBI Boston.
Bonavolonta’s replacement hasn’t been announced but will be appointed by Director Christopher Wray.
“Simply put, it is time to devote more time to the people who have made the most sacrifices on my behalf, and that is my family, and I look forward to pursuing new endeavors in the private sector,” Bonavolonta said.
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/boston/news/press-releases/fbi-boston-division-announces-retirement-of-special-agent-in-charge-joseph-r-bonavolonta
“I have spent the last 27 years of my life with the FBI, and I can honestly say I wouldn’t trade in a single day," SAC Bonavolonta wrote in a letter announcing his retirement to the Boston Division. "As many of you know, I was raised in an FBI family with my father having served 24 years as a Special Agent in this organization, and there is no doubt watching the way he went about doing his job cultivated my desire to follow in his footsteps. I have always considered myself lucky to have been able to carry on the legacy he set, and I have never taken it for granted one single day. I have had many positive assignments throughout my career but serving all of you as special agent in charge has been one of the most rewarding. Simply put, it is time to devote more time to the people who have made the most sacrifices on my behalf, and that is my family, and I look forward to pursuing new endeavors in the private sector.”
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Martin Scorsese to make another movie about Jesus, he announces after meeting Pope
Scorsese, cinema’s most mainstream Catholic director, angered Catholics globally with his 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ
Martin Scorsese may follow his acclaimed crime epic about the killing of Native Americans in the US in the 1920s with another film about Jesus Christ, reports suggest.
Scorsese, fresh from a rapturous reception for his Killers of the Flower Moon at the Cannes film festival, is currently in Italy attending a series of religious and cinematic events.
Speaking at a conference at the Vatican on Saturday, Scorsese, 80, said: “I have responded to the Pope’s appeal to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus.”
He added: “And I’m about to start making it.”
Representatives for Scorsese told The Guardian they had no further information on the project other than that the director had already provided. Publicists for Mel Gibson recently rejected suggestions that he was about to shoot a sequel to The Passion of the Christ, his 2004 blockbusting depiction of the crucifixion.
Scorsese and his wife, Helen Morris, were in Rome attending a conference entitled The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination and briefly met Pope Francis.
Antonio Spadaro, editor of Jesuit publication La Civiltà Cattolica, who co-organised the conference, reported on its website that Scorsese had mixed references to his films with personal anecdotes, as well as explaining “how the Holy Father’s appeal ‘to let us see Jesus’ moved him”.
It is believed Scorsese reiterated his passion for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St Matthew during the conference, as well as discussing his own works including 1988’s The Last Temptation of Christ as well as Silence, about the persecution of Jesuit Christians in 17th-century Japan.
In 2016, Scorsese screened the film in Rome and had a first meeting with Pope Francis, who himself joined the Jesuits in the hope of becoming a missionary in Japan.
The encounter marked a thawing in relations between the Vatican and perhaps cinema’s most acclaimed mainstream Catholic director, who himself considered joining the priesthood as a boy.
In 1988, The Last Temptation of Christ angered many conservative Catholics for its depiction of Jesus (played by Willem Dafoe) as a man torn between God and earthly pleasures. The film included a dream sequence in which he has sex with Mary Magdalene.
Some cinemas refused to screen the film and other countries – including Pope Francis’s homeland of Argentina – banned it for years.
Scorsese, who spoke in Cannes of his unwillingness of play it artistically safe as his career enters a late stage, will appear at assorted film schools in Rome this week before he appears as a guest of honour at the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna on Friday.
>During Bonavolonta’s time at the FBI, he investigated the Bonanno La Cosa Nostra Family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonanno_crime_family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller
https://twitter.com/DAVID_STOIC1/status/1663298420155482116
If Senator Graham himself, who was a participant in these dramatic events at Bankova Street, thinks that his words were taken out of context and he did not mean that, he has every opportunity to make a statement. He can pick up the phone, turn on the video camera, point it at himself and record a short video clip.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/25-nato-led-peacekeepers-injured-in-kosovo-in-clashes-with-serbs-outside-municipal-building-1.6418082
25 NATO-led peacekeepers injured in Kosovo in clashes with Serbs outside municipal building
The NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force on Monday said that 25 of its troops were injured in the clashes with ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo who were trying to take over the offices of one of the municipalities where ethnic Albanian mayors took up their posts last week.
The Serbs started clashing with the police in the morning in the municipality of Zvecan, 45 kilometres (28 miles) north of the capital, Pristina. In the afternoon, KFOR soldiers called on Serbs to clear the way for two vehicles from the Kosovar special police forces.
The soldiers then used tear gas and stun grenades to protect the Kosovar officers in the vehicles and disperse protesters, according to witnesses and local media. The assembled Serbs responded by throwing rocks and other hard objects.
"Several soldiers of the Italian and Hungarian KFOR contingent were the subject of unprovoked attacks and sustained trauma wounds with fractures and burns due to the explosion of incendiary devices," said a KFOR statement.
Some Kosovo police vehicles and one belonging to journalists were damaged. Pictures showed graffiti with Serb nationalist symbols sprayed over them.
The violence was the latest incident as tensions soared over the past week, with Serbia putting the country's military on high alert and sending more troops to the border with Kosovo, which declared independence from Belgrade in 2008.
Kosovo and Serbia have been foes for decades, with Belgrade refusing to recognize Kosovo's sovereignty.
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