Anonymous ID: 33fc8c Sept. 30, 2023, 6:42 a.m. No.19637983   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8271 >>8303 >>8408 >>8496

https://nypost.com/2023/09/26/sbf-prosecutors-may-show-jury-evidence-of-political-donations-judge/

SBF prosecutors permitted to show jury evidence of political donations

A US judge on Tuesday said prosecutors can discuss Sam Bankman-Fried’s political donations at his upcoming trial, because the contributions are relevant to the fraud charges faced by the FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder.

US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said evidence of the former billionaire’s donations were “intertwined inextricably” with charges he defrauded FTX customers by stealing billions of dollars in deposits.

“Evidence that the defendant spent FTX customer funds on political contributions is direct evidence of the wire fraud scheme because it is relevant to establishing the defendant’s motive and allegedly fraudulent intent,” Kaplan wrote.

Federal prosecutors initially charged Bankman-Fried, 31, with conspiring to break campaign finance laws, in addition to seven other fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from the now-bankrupt FTX’s November 2022 collapse.

They later dropped the campaign finance charge after the Bahamas, where Bankman-Fried was arrested in December, said it was not part of its agreement to extradite him.

Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to all charges. His trial is set to start on Oct. 3.

Before FTX’s demise, Bankman-Fried had been among the largest donors to Democratic candidates and causes ahead of the November 2022 midterm elections.

Anonymous ID: 33fc8c Sept. 30, 2023, 6:43 a.m. No.19637985   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7994 >>8024 >>8034 >>8094 >>8303 >>8328 >>8341 >>8348 >>8381 >>8408 >>8496

https://nypost.com/2023/09/29/weed-makes-you-crazy-and-gives-you-heart-disease-whys-it-legal/

Weed makes you crazy and gives you heart disease. Why’s it legal?

Post Editorial Board

 

The evidence for keeping weed illegal keeps mounting — even as the laws get looser.

A new, peer-reviewed study (on a significant data set of nearly 60,000 Canadians) has shown that adults who misuse pot have a 60% higher risk of experiencing their first heart attack, stroke, or other major cardiovascular event.

In other words: Weed’s not a harmless vice.

It’s a killer, like cigarettes.

And unlike cigarettes, it literally drives people insane.

A massive Danish study based on nearly 7 million health records drew a strong correlation between heavy cannabis use and increased risk of schizophrenia in young men.

That’s to say nothing of the fact that pot, no matter what its advocates claim, likely serves as a gateway drug: Evidence suggests a link between cannabis use in kids and later opioid use, and the drug can play a role in rewiring the reward circuitry in young brains.

Or the soaring levels of THC — the psychoactive chemical in weed — seen since the ’90s.

As use becomes more widespread, in other words, the drug is getting more and more powerful.

Given the all-consuming safetyism that defines modern progressive politics, the crusade to legalize weed (and normalize it!) is bizarre in light of the increasing evidence it’s a terrible idea on health grounds.

With macabre, albeit unintentional humor, New York City’s own topsy-turvy Health Department warns “Avoid smoking cannabis rolled or mixed with tobacco” because “there is no safe amount of tobacco use.”

And in big cities like New York, letting people get high on the streets supercharges the social decay caused by rollbacks of policing and sentencing for more serious crimes.

As does the proliferation of plainly illegal weed shops here.

Nearly a third of adults under 35 regularly smoke weed; nearly 70% of Americans back legalization, despite all this.

They need to wake up and smell the blunt smoke before the next big drug crisis arrives.

Anonymous ID: 33fc8c Sept. 30, 2023, 6:44 a.m. No.19637989   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8003 >>8271 >>8303 >>8408 >>8496

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/09/28/sam-bankman-fried-sbf-judge-lewis-a-kaplan-bail-revoked-pretrial-release-denied/

Judge Kaplan really wants Sam Bankman-Fried to stay in jail: FTX cofounder’s latest request for pretrial release is rejected

The judge presiding over the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried on Thursday denied yet another motion asking for the pretrial release of the onetime CEO of FTX, a crypto exchange once valued at $32 billion that imploded in November.

On Tuesday, Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell had asked Lewis Kaplan to let Bankman-Fried spend the trial outside of the Metropolitan Detention Center, the notorious Brooklyn prison where Bankman-Fried has spent the last month and a half in a cell after his bail was revoked in August.

Anonymous ID: 33fc8c Sept. 30, 2023, 6:46 a.m. No.19638000   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8019 >>8022 >>8027 >>8052 >>8058 >>8110 >>8271 >>8303 >>8408 >>8496

https://nypost.com/2023/09/29/dianne-feinsteins-stunning-properties-and-feuding-family/

Dianne Feinstein leaves stunning properties to her and billionaire husband’s feuding daughters

Dianne Feinstein was one of the Senate’s richest members throughout her trailblazing career — thanks to her billionaire husband.

While others in Congress struggled to make ends meet, sleeping in their offices to save on rent, Feinstein commuted from San Francisco aboard a Gulfstream G650 jet (pre-owned, the aircraft averages $61,815,000), sported expensive jewelry and flitted from one mansion to the next.

Her last disclosure, in May, put her net worth at $69.4 million.

For much of her wealth, Feinstein — who passed away Thursday in her Washington DC home, aged 90 — could thanked her second husband, Richard Blum.

He was an astute investor and the founder of Blum Capital Partners.

But this year, after his death in February 2022, and as her own health publicly failed, an ugly dispute among the couple’s children cast new light on their fortune and raised the prospect of a court battle over the estate.

Anonymous ID: 33fc8c Sept. 30, 2023, 6:49 a.m. No.19638014   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Covington Police Department arrests former teacher Alissa McCommon on new criminal charges of coercion of a witness, aggravated stalking, and harassment.

On 8 September 2023, the Covington Police Department (CPD) arrested Alissa McCommon for rape of a child. McCommon posted bond and was subsequently released by the Court on conditional bond of no contact with the victim or any minors other than her own children.

On 26 September 2023, the CPD Criminal Investigation Division (CID) received information that former teacher Alissa McCommon, 38, of Covington, TN, using a previously unknown phone number, initiated additional contact with a victim.

The evidence indicates McCommon texted a victim, using a specific code word known to the juvenile as a code word McCommon would previously utilize to confirm that the juvenile was alone, often before sending nude photographs on SnapChat. After using the code word on 28 September 2023, the evidence indicates Mccommon sent multiple text messages to victim indicating he would “regret doing this.” McCommon, using the same number, also admitted to a sexual encounter with the victim.

Covington Police Chief Donna Turner stated, “the actions of McCommon are not only appalling, but CPD is also concerned about this apparent violation of her bond conditions. Due to the nature of the communications, we are concerned others may have been contacted. “We continue to work closely with the District Attorneys’ Office as to the revocation of McCommon’s bond, as well as the additional charges that continue to develop.”

Anonymous ID: 33fc8c Sept. 30, 2023, 8:10 a.m. No.19638476   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8486

https://twitter.com/dw_russian/status/1707455129614745952

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