>clean house
https://nypost.com/2023/08/07/ex-fbi-official-slated-to-plead-guilty-in-corruption-case/
Disgraced FBI official who probed Trump-Russia ties set to plead guilty to illegally working for Russian oligarch
Disgraced FBI agent Charles McGonigal — who investigated the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Moscow in 2016 — is slated to take a guilty plea in the case accusing him of illegally working for a Russian oligarch.
“The court has been informed that defendant Charles McGonigal may wish to enter a change of plea,” Manhattan federal Judge Jennifer Rearden wrote in a brief order filed Monday, scheduling a hearing for Aug. 15.
McGonigal, 54, — a former top FBI counterintelligence agent based in New York — was indicted in January on charges including money laundering and violating US sanctions by working for Russian billionaire and business magnate Oleg Deripaska, including trying to get him taken off of the US sanctions list.
McGonigal was legally required to report to the FBI his contact with foreign officials, but instead allegedly hid the ties, pursing business and overseas travel that conflicted with his job.
McGonigal pleaded not guilty to the four counts: Conspiring to violate and evade US sanctions, money laundering, conspiring to commit money laundering and conspiring to violate federal law against doing business with sanctioned individuals.
He has been free on $500,000 bond since his arrest.
McGonigal played a central role in the FBI’s controversial “Russiagate” investigation of former President Donald Trump, which ultimately led to Robert Mueller getting appointed as special counsel to probe potential Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
He was separately indicted in Washington DC for allegedly hiding payments totaling $225,000 from a former member of Albania’s intelligence service and taking a secret meeting with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. He pleaded not guilty in that case — which is still pending trial.
McGonigal’s lawyers didn’t immediately return a request for comment Monday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_McGonigal
Ex-F.B.I. Official in Talks to Resolve Charges of Working for Oligarch
Once the F.B.I.’s top counterintelligence official in New York City, Charles F. McGonigal was charged with concealing contacts with foreign nationals.
https://www.businessinsider.com/charles-mcgonigal-fbi-indictment-allison-guerriero-russia-deripaska-spies-nypd-giuliani-2023-1
Guerriero's troubles worsened in early 2021, when she was badly burned during a fire at her father's house. She asked friends for help through a GoFundMe. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York City, whom she knew from law-enforcement circles, let her stay in a guest bedroom. Since then, Guerriero has been a frequent on-air caller for Giuliani's radio shows. She maintains that the 2020 election was marred by widespread voter fraud, a belief pushed by Giuliani that has been repeatedly debunked. "Whatever Giuliani says about the 2020 election is what I believe," she said. During her relationship with McGonigal, Guerriero says, they never talked about politics. "I thought he was apolitical," he said, "which is something I continue to believe."
>the 2020 election was marred by widespread voter fraud, a belief pushed by Giuliani that has been repeatedly debunked
The phrase was used in 2009 by former President Bill Clinton while referring to Haiti after the political upheaval and storms of 2008. It was reiterated by UN Sec. Gen. Ban Ki-Moon in February 2010 with reference to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Back_Better
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez pledging $100 million to help Maui rebuild
The term "build back better" was first introduced to UN at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in July 2005 by former United States President Bill Clinton, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery. Clinton first visited Aceh in May 2005 in his role as Special Envoy and had earlier visited Aceh in February 2005 with former US President George W. Bush.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine
Part 6 discusses the use of "shock and awe" in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the subsequent occupation of Iraq, which Klein describes as the most comprehensive and full-scale implementation of the shock doctrine ever attempted, with mass privatization of Iraqi state-owned enterprises (including thousands of men being laid off) which is argued as contributing to the insurgency, since many of the unemployed became embittered toward the US as a result and joined insurgent groups afterward.
https://theintercept.com/2020/05/08/andrew-cuomo-eric-schmidt-coronavirus-tech-shock-doctrine/
Screen New Deal
Under Cover of Mass Death, Andrew Cuomo Calls in the Billionaires to Build a High-Tech Dystopia
For a few fleeting moments during New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, the somber grimace that has filled our screens for weeks was briefly replaced by something resembling a smile.
“We are ready, we’re all-in,” the governor gushed. “We are New Yorkers, so we’re aggressive about it, we’re ambitious about it. … We realize that change is not only imminent, but it can actually be a friend if done the right way.”
The inspiration for these uncharacteristically good vibes was a video visit from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who joined the governor’s briefing to announce that he will be heading up a blue-ribbon commission to reimagine New York state’s post-Covid reality, with an emphasis on permanently integrating technology into every aspect of civic life.
“The first priorities of what we’re trying to do,” Schmidt said, “are focused on telehealth, remote learning, and broadband. … We need to look for solutions that can be presented now, and accelerated, and use technology to make things better.” Lest there be any doubt that the former Google chair’s goals were purely benevolent, his video background featured a framed pair of golden angel wings.
Just one day earlier, Cuomo had announced a similar partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop “a smarter education system.” Calling Gates a “visionary,” Cuomo said the pandemic has created “a moment in history when we can actually incorporate and advance [Gates’s] ideas … all these buildings, all these physical classrooms — why with all the technology you have?” he asked, apparently rhetorically.
It has taken some time to gel, but something resembling a coherent Pandemic Shock Doctrine is beginning to emerge. Call it the “Screen New Deal.” Far more high-tech than anything we have seen during previous disasters, the future that is being rushed into being as the bodies still pile up treats our past weeks of physical isolation not as a painful necessity to save lives, but as a living laboratory for a permanent — and highly profitable — no-touch future.
>Maui Police Chief John Pelletier was also the Incident Commander during the Las Vegas mass shooting
>many of the unemployed became embittered toward the US as a result and joined insurgent groups
Milton Friedman was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. His parents were immigrants from present-day Ukraine. In 1932, Friedman graduated from Rutgers University. From there, he went on to the University of Chicago, where he accepted an offer to tech economic theory in 1946. An influential economist of the second half on the 20th century, he became one of the leaders of the Chicago school of economics. His works include books, articles, magazine columns and television programs.
>shorts with a length above the knee are an infiltration of capitalist fashion
>policy shift
>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12405155/Leon-Blacks-syndrome-rape-accuser-says-sent-private-investigators-house-parents-home-filed-lawsuit.html
Leon Black's Down syndrome rape accuser says he sent private investigators to her house and to her parents' home after she filed lawsuit
Black is being sued by Jane Doe who says he raped her in 2002 at Epstein's
She says he hired private investigators to visit her house and her parents'
They showed her parents photos of her young child and interrogated them
They were armed with cheesecake that they hoped would win them a coffee invite inside
>ukraine-a-country-of-misery
>Michael Richard Pence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_(nickname)
Dick is a nickname most often for Richard