Hollywood mogul admits to showering Netanyahu with ‘excessive’ gifts

A retired intelligence agent turned producer testified at a corruption trial of the sitting Israeli prime minister

Billionaire movie producer Arnon Milchan told a Jerusalem court on Monday that some $200,000 worth of the gifts he sent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara may have been “excessive” but claimed he did not think they were illegal.

Milchan founded the production house Regency and has been credited with producing over 130 motion pictures, from ‘Brazil’ (1985) and ‘Pretty Woman’ (1990) to ‘12 Years a Slave’ (2013) and ‘The Northman (2022). He met Netanyahu while working for Israeli intelligence, starting in the 1960s.

Appearing via video link from Brighton, UK – declining to travel on account of ill health at age 78 – Milchan said he gave the Netanyahus gifts in the spirit of friendship and never received anything in return.

Milchan testified on Sunday that the Netanyahu’s made “routine” requests for gifts and even developed a code for certain items, such as “leaves” for cigars, “roses” for champagne, and “dwarves” for fancy dress shirts. He also said Netanyahu had assured him it was all perfectly legal, and he only realized it might have been “excessive” when Israeli investigators approached him in 2016.

https://www.rt.com/news/578764-netanyahu-hollywood-bribe-trial/

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Video: LGBT Mob Sets Upon Street Preacher, Destroys His Bible While Barking Like Dogs

The mental illness of the LGBT movement was on full display at 'Seattle Pride' over the weekend.

A sparsely-clothed LGBT mob set upon a street preacher at the weekend’s “Seattle Pride” celebration, barking in his face like dogs while hitting him with gay and transgender pride flags in an organized effort to silence him as he read from The Bible. This was before the street preacher was set upon by even more LGBT militants, who destroyed his Bible as other blatantly mentally ill homo and transsexuals continued barking like dogs.

Video footage of the LGBT mob attacks on Seattle street preacher Matthew Meinecke has gone viral online after Seattle held its annual pride festival and parade over the weekend, where Meiecke showed up to share the gospel with those he believes need to hear it the most, as he often does on the streets of one of the most left-wing cities in America.

In one video, published by The Post Millenial, a mob of homo and transsexuals surround Meinecke, barking at him like dogs and whacking him with pride flags. Despite the attacks and intimidation efforts, Meinecke never stopped reading from his Bible.

Law enforcement appeared to be nowhere to be found.

Numerous comments on the video have asked questions along the line of “What if the shoe was on the other foot?”, with internet users pointing out the media and political circus, as well as criminal charges, that would be sure to transpire if a group of Christians was to surround, bark at, and assault a ‘pride’ demonstrator.

https://nationalfile.com/video-lgbt-mob-sets-upon-street-preacher-destroys-his-bible-while-barking-like-dogs/

Judge assigned Hunter Biden plea was nominated by Trump but also donated to Hillary, Romney, McCain

The Delaware federal judge likely to sign off on Hunter Biden’s guilty plea next month was nominated to the bench by former President Donald Trump — but was backed by the First State’s two Democratic senators and has donated to both parties.

US District Judge Maryellen Noreika was randomly assigned to preside over a hearing on the first son’s plea deal, which is set for July 26 in Wilmington federal court.

Between 2005 and 2014, Noreika donated $15,500 to candidates across the political spectrum, per Federal Election Commission records.

Those donations include $5,200 to Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-Ark.) 2014 Senate campaign, $5,000 to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, $2,300 to John McCain’s presidential run in 2008, and $1,000 to former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) in 2006.

On the Democratic side, Noreika donated $1,000 to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and $1,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 2009, according to the FEC.

At the time of the donations, Noreika was an attorney at the Wilmington firm of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell.

She was nominated for a federal judgeship by Trump in December 2017.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who backed Noreika’s nomination along with Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), is a co-chair of President Biden’s re-election campaign.

Coons and Carper gave the Pittsburgh native a “blue slip” indicating their support, paving the way for her to clear the Senate nomination process within a matter of months.

“This is great news for Delaware’s federal courts as we become one step closer to having a filled bench,” Coons after the Senate Judiciary Committee approved Noreika’s nomination in March 2018, describing her as a “talented, capable” jurist.

Carper, who is set to retire after the 2024 election, similarly commended her as a “highly-respected, sought-after” attorney who “displayed a vast knowledge of the law and a thorough understanding of the courts.”

Noreika, who was confirmed in August 2018, will be tasked with deciding whether or not to accept Hunter Biden’s plea deal with Delaware US Attorney David Weiss, which was revealed in court filings last week.

Under the agreement, the first son will plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of intentionally failing to pay his federal income taxes. Each count carries a potential penalty of up to 12 months behind bars though prosecutors are likely to ask for probation.

Hunter Biden, 53, has also agreed to enter a pretrial diversion agreement for a felony count of illegally possessing a firearm while addicted to illicit drugs.

That carries a potential penalty of up to 10 years in prison, though the count is likely to be expunged if Hunter completes a two-year probationary period.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/26/judge-assigned-hunter-biden-plea-gave-to-democrats-gop/

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