Jewish Ohio Congressmen Demand Christian Woman Delete 'Bigoted' Tweet Praising Jesus: 'Jewish People Are The Chosen Ones'

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63913

Fired Virgin Islands prosecutor testifies Epstein had 'political influence' in local government

"He was flexing his political influence over or with the Governor in an effort to get a favorable result in what I considered to be definitely a law enforcement issue by the Attorney General."

Former Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George revealed in testimony last month that infamous financier Jeffrey Epstein had "political influence over or with the Governor" of the Caribbean territory.

In a July 20 testimony given in the case of Gov US Virgin Islands v JPMorgan Chase, she said, "Because not every sexual offender or any person, you know, are in the position to have the Governor make the request to the Attorney General rather than just coming and making it on their own directly to the Attorney General."

"That by itself indicated to me that he was flexing his political influence over or with the Governor in an effort to get a favorable result in what I considered to be definitely a law enforcement issue by the Attorney General."

George was fired in January, just days after she filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase alleging that the banking giant had turned a "blind eye" to Epstein’s rampant child sexual abuse and sex trafficking.

Albert Bryan Jr., the governor of the US Virgin Islands, said in a statement at the time that he "relieved Denise George of her duties as attorney general this weekend."

The lawsuit accuses JPMorgan Chase, who banked with Epstein starting in 1998, of "knowingly providing and pulling the levers through which recruiters and victims were paid."

Epstein was convicted for procuring child prostitution in 2008 in Florida but the banking giant continued to do business with Epstein through 2013. He was arrested again in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges.

https://thepostmillennial.com/fired-virgin-islands-prosecutor-testifies-epstein-had-political-influence-in-local-government

Emails show JPMorgan working with Jeffrey Epstein to lure Google co-founder Sergey Brin as client: court docs

Newly revealed emails shed fresh light on JPMorgan’s cozy ties with Jeffrey Epstein, suggesting that top bankers at the Wall Street giant bent over backwards to accommodate the dead pedophile as he helped them line up lucrative clients — including Google and its co-founder Sergey Brin.

The US Virgin Islands filed explosive court papers on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court to bolster its allegation that Epstein played a key role as an investment “advisor” to the Silicon Valley search giant and Brin, whose personal portfolio of over $4 billion was among the bank’s largest.

In an email from 2006 that was unsealed Tuesday, Mary Erdoes — a star banker who is now the CEO of JPMorgan’s asset and wealth management division — urged colleagues to set up a team in New York rather than in San Francisco, where Google and Brin are based, to manage the accounts, according to the court documents.

Erdoes wrote in the email, which had the subject line “google”: “This is NOTHING to do with the abilities of the SF team. This is solely because of our need to have a NY team cover a NY person, Jeffrey Epstein (as the advisor to the partners).”

That same day, Ann Borowiec — then a managing director at JPMorgan’s NJ Private Bank — shared a message with the subject line “big new business oppy,” informing colleagues that a New York-based team had been picked “to work with Jeffrey Epstein (advisor) on business oppy associated with GRATS that are terminating for Google founders,” the filing showed.

Borowiec was seemingly referring to Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts, which JPMorgan describes on its site as “an efficient way to transfer wealth with little or no gift tax liability.”

Also that day, Borowiec emailed several other JPMorgan employees, informing them: “We are setting up a conference call. …It is to get the necessary background on the potential investment mgt opportunity associated with Jeffrey Epstein (advisor) to the trusts set up on behalf of the Google founder’s kids.”

It’s unclear if Borowiec was referring to Brin, though banker Robert A. Keller wrote in a memo when Brin became a JPMorgan client: “We work very closely with the Sergey Brin family office … and communicate with them at least 1 x per day.”

Brin, a 49-year-old father-of-three, is now No. 11 on the Forbes list with a net worth of $104.2 billion.

JP Morgan responded to the lawsuit’s allegations today, saying, “Rather than account for its own failures to investigate and monitor this criminal under its jurisdiction, USVI blames a bank that did not have USVI’s authority to enforce any law.”

“Any association with Epstein was a mistake and in hindsight we regret it, but we did not help him commit his heinous crimes,” a JPMorgan spokesperson added. “We would never have continued to do business with him if we believed he was engaged in an ongoing sex trafficking operation.”

Google and Brin didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

Another email exchange included in the bombshell documents revealed that JPMorgan’s current chief executive, Jamie Dimon, worked with a team of other executives as well as Epstein on the bank’s acquisition of investment management firm Highbridge.

The so-called “Project Alpha” group included Jes Staley — who would later become CEO of UK banking giant Barclays before he was toppled by the Epstein scandal in 2021 — Dimon, who hadn’t yet taken over as the bank’s chief executive, billionaire Highbridge co-founder Glenn Dubin and Epstein, among others.

https://nypost.com/2023/08/15/jpmorgan-catered-to-epstein-as-google-account-advisor-court-docs/

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Fulton County Clerk Comes Up with New Excuse For Trump Charging Docs Leak

https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1691848434771447901

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs says she'd like to see charges against Donald Trump in Arizona, similar to the ones in Georgia.

https://youtu.be/ebFxBEBiw3Q

Fulton County DA wants March 4 trial date for Trump election case

She hopes to try all 19 defendants at once.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has requested a March 4, 2024, trial start date for former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants, which would place the proceedings smack dab in the middle of the Republican presidential primary.

Willis indicted Trump, along with a litany of his political allies, over his efforts to challenge the 2020 presidential election results in the Peach State. Trump has contended the case is part of a broader political witch hunt designed to derail his 2024 presidential campaign.

In addition to the March 4, 2024, start date, Willis has proposed arraignments for the week of Sept. 5 of this year, The Hill reported.

"In light of Defendant Donald John Trump’s other criminal and civil matters pending in the courts of our sister sovereigns, the State of Georgia proposes certain deadlines that do not conflict with these other courts’ already-scheduled hearings and trial dates," she wrote in a legal filing.

She hopes to try all 19 defendants at once.

Following the indictment, Trump vowed to publish a comprehensive report of election fraud in the state that he said would provide a "complete exoneration." That unveiling is slated for Monday.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/fulton-county-da-wants-march-4-trial-date-trump-election-case

Top Missouri court upholds law imposing jail time for parents over students’ school absences

The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld a law criminalizing low school attendance for parents.

Two single mothers from Lebanon, Mo., challenged the law after they were sentenced over their respective children’s absences.

Caitlyn Williams was sentenced to a week in jail after her daughter missed 16 days of first grade last school year, and Tamarae Larue was sentenced to 15 days in jail after her son missed 13 days of kindergarten. Larue instead agreed to serve two years of probation.

The pair sued the state, claiming the law is too vague and the school district could not prove the parents were to blame for the absences. The court ruled against them in a 6-0 vote, with one justice not participating.

“This nonattendance was not excused by any circumstance provided for in the statute,” Justice Robin Ransom wrote in the court’s opinion. “Given the notice provided to each parent and that each parent was in control of their young child, evidence existed to support the inference that each parent knowingly failed to cause their child to attend school on a regular basis.”

The parents based their challenge on the wording of the law, which requires students to keep “regular” attendance, though they said it was unclear what “regular” exactly meant. The court ruled that “regular” applied to the school district’s attendance expectations: 90 percent attendance.

Excused absences — due to sickness, for example — counted toward that 90 percent mark, the court said. If Williams’s and Larue’s children’s sick days were not counted toward their attendance, they would have been higher than 90 percent attendance, the parents said.

“When measured by common understanding and practices, no Missouri parent would conclude attendance ‘on a regular basis’ means anything less than having their child go to school on those days the school is in session,” Ransom wrote.

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Only a verified consistent illness or other long-standing condition or circumstance, communicated to the school in advance, would excuse that amount of absences, the court said.

The mothers’ attorney declined The Hill’s request for further comment.

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4154999-top-missouri-court-upholds-law-imposing-jail-time-for-parents-over-students-school-absences/?utm_source=ground.news

Colombian conglomerate Grupo Aval and its bank subsidiary have agreed to pay approximately US$80 million to settle corruption charges brought by U.S. authorities that have alleged the conglomerate, along with a joint venture partner, paid at least $28 million to Colombian government officials to secure an extension of a highway construction contract.

According to statements from the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Grupo Aval and its bank subsidiary, Corporación Financiera Colombiana S.A. (Corficolombiana), were accused of violating the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Corficolombiana and its joint venture partner, the notorious Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, were awarded a contract by the Colombian government for the construction of a 328-mile highway project. The U.S. Department of Justice and the SEC allege that the two entities paid the mentioned sum to government officials in order to secure the rights to construct a highway toll road.

This arrangement enabled Corficolombiana to generate illicit profits exceeding $28 million.

The Justice Department indicated that Corficolombiana has committed to ongoing cooperation in any active or future criminal investigations pertaining to this matter. The company has also agreed to bolster its compliance program and provide updates to the Department concerning remediation efforts and the implementation of compliance measures.

“Lax control environments are conducive to misconduct, as illustrated in this case where bribes were facilitated through payments tied to invoices without proper supporting documentation, as well as contracts for services that were vaguely defined and typically managed internally rather than by third parties,” remarked Charles Cain, the SEC’s FCPA Unit Chief. “This case once again underscores the significance of issuers maintaining robust internal accounting controls over third-party payments.”

Corficolombiana will pay a criminal penalty of $40.6 million, in addition to over $40 million in disgorgement and prejudgment interest.

Odebrecht has been at the center of Latin America's largest corruption scandal, which originated in Brazil with Operation Lava Jato. This investigation exposed a network of bribery and corruption involving officials, politicians, and business figures.

The subsequent probe revealed that this corruption scheme extended across the continent and beyond.

In response to the developments, Colombian President Gustavo Petro highlighted the problematic connections between judicial entities in Colombia and Grupo Aval. He urged political parties to scrutinize whether their top leaders were involved in corrupt practices and called on them to return any contributions received from the conglomerate.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/17935-colombian-conglomerate-settles-us-corruption-charges-for-80-million