the absolute state of the Drudge Report
>where have we heard this before
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/may/15/david-copperfield-allegations
‘I honest to God believe I was drugged’: magician David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out
For two 15-year-old girls in the early 1990s, meeting David Copperfield, the world famous magician, seemed like the thrill of a lifetime.
Carla says she remembers the way Copperfield gave her his phone number after a 1991 show in Georgia. About two years later in San Francisco, Lily says, she felt giddy when the master illusionist picked her to join him on stage for a magic trick.
Both girls were in high school at the time and had attended Copperfield’s shows with their parents.
The women, now in their 40s, come from different backgrounds and have never spoken to each other, but they do have one thing in common. They claim the events that followed these encounters changed their lives.
Carla says she feels she was “groomed” by Copperfield for more than two years. She describes how he sent her notes and gifts, including a teddy bear and Valentine’s day balloon when she was 16. A note attached to one – a photo of which was seen by the Guardian – reads: “In 2 years I will be back”.
After Carla turned 18, Copperfield became the first man she had sex with, she says. He was more than twice her age. Copperfield’s lawyers denied he groomed Carla and said they had a “consensual relationship”.
Lily claims Copperfield groped her breasts on stage while performing a trick in front of her father and sister who watched aghast, they have confirmed, from the front row. She says she had nightmares for years about Copperfield using his magic on her.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sus
Suspect who randomly attacked actor Steve Buscemi in broad daylight identified by NYPD: report
Authorities have reportedly released the identity of the suspect accused of punching actor Steve Buscemi during a random attack while he was out walking in Manhattan on Wednesday morning.
On Tuesday evening, the NYPD announced that Clifton Williams, 50, was the man who reportedly punched Buscemi in the face, Fox 5 New York reported.
The 66-year-old star of "Fargo" and "Boardwalk Empire" was assaulted just before noon in midtown Manhattan and taken to a nearby hospital with bruising, swelling and bleeding to his left eye.
Witnesses confirmed to local station ABC 7 that Buscemi chased after Williams, but was unable to stop him.
Veteran DEA agent sentenced to 3 years for bribing former colleague to leak intelligence
https://www.yahoo.com/news/veteran-dea-agent-sentenced-3-193323865.html
NEW YORK (AP) — A former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisor was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison for bribing a longtime colleague to leak DEA intelligence to Miami defense lawyers seeking to profit off the timing of indictments and other sensitive information about drug investigations.
A federal jury last year convicted Manny Recio of bribery and honest-services wire fraud amid a flurry of misconduct cases involving DEA agents accused of corruption and other federal crimes. Recio's former colleague, John Costanzo Jr., was sentenced last month to four years behind bars for orchestrating the $100,000 bribery scheme.
“He decided to cash in on his connections," U.S. District Court Judge Paul Oetken said of Recio during a hearing in Manhattan, adding the bribery conspiracy compromised DEA investigations. “He knew better.”
A decorated investigator who worked more than two decades in the DEA, Recio made an emotional apology in front of several family members and said he accepted his conviction. He told the judge he had “lost everything” through this prosecution, including his life savings.
“I don't even have a credit card, your honor," he said. “I stand before you without any excuses.”
The DEA did not respond to a request for comment.
Recio, 55, retired from the DEA in 2018 but remained close to Costanzo as he began recruiting clients as a private investigator for several Miami defense lawyers.
Prosecutors said Recio had been motivated by greed, writing in court filings that his “spending habits, including his purchase of a 2021 Porsche Macan, demonstrate the motive that led him to seek unlawful profits through bribery.”
“The ink was hardly dry on his retirement papers before he launched into this scheme,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheb Swett told the judge. “What they did was engage in law enforcement by secret, by inside information.”
Following the conviction of the two former DEA supervisors last year, federal prosecutors shifted their focus to the defense lawyers they said bankrolled the $100,000 bribery scheme, David Macey and Luis Guerra, recently getting clearance to review hundreds of normally privileged communications with Recio. Macey and Guerra have not been charged and have not responded to repeated requests for comment.
Much of the prosecution turned on text messages and wiretapped phone calls between the lawmen after a longtime DEA snitch turned on the same agency that launched his lucrative career as the go-to fixer for traffickers, prosecutors and defense attorneys alike.
Recio repeatedly asked Costanzo to query names in a confidential DEA database to keep abreast of federal investigations that would interest his new employers. The two also discussed the timing of high-profile arrests and the exact date in 2019 when prosecutors planned to bring charges against businessman Alex Saab, a top criminal target in Venezuela and suspected bag man for the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro.
In exchange, prosecutors said, Recio secretly funneled $73,000 in purchases to Costanzo, including plane tickets and a down payment on his condo in suburban Coral Gables, Florida. The two also deleted hundreds of calls and messages to a burner phone.
Recio's defense attorneys portrayed the former DEA supervisor as a generous friend and mentor who wouldn't have met Macey and Guerra if not for Costanzo's introduction. In seeking a more lenient sentence of 18 months, they collected letters from several other defense attorneys who praised Recio's work as an investigator in complex cases in which defendants sought to cooperate with the DEA.
“His intent was never to harm the DEA mission,” defense attorney Ronald Gainor said. “What we have here is someone who made l
https://www.ketk.com/news/crime-public-safety/former-us-air-force-general-arrested-for-continuous-sexual-assault-of-minor-in-hopkins-county
Former US Air Force general arrested for continuous sexual assault of minor in Hopkins County
HOPKINS COUNTY, Texas (KETK) — A retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general has been arrested for continuous sexual assault of a minor under the age of 14.
According to a probable cause affidavit, deputies conducted a traffic stop on Saturday and identified the driver as Mike McClendon, 69, who was “named to be a person of interest in a sexual assault investigation.” Officials said McClendon was then asked to drive to the Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office to speak with investigators, later arrested and taken to the Hopkins County Jail. Records show that the offense date was January 1, 2014.
McClendon graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1975 and was awarded the air force distinguished service medal for his actions during the global war on terror which began on September 11, 2001. McClendon retired from the Air Force in 2009.
McClendon was later released from the Hopkins County Jail after posting a $100,000 bond.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/killers-mexico-look-anyone-cartels-080023183.html
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/report-sinaloa-cartel-gave-baja-214550873.html
Killers in Mexico 'can look like anyone' as cartels use women, kids as assassins, PI warns
Report: Sinaloa Cartel Gave Baja Murder Suspects to Police
With the high-profile murders of three surfers in Mexico grabbing headlines ahead of the busy American summer travel season, a private investigator is warning that killers in the country may not be who you expect.
Cartels are increasingly using women and children to carry out violent acts, Jay Armes III, who specializes in kidnappings in Mexico and works cases all over the world, told Fox News Digital.
Images and videos of cartel members in tactical gear with intimidating military-grade weapons are meant to instill fear, but "the scariest part" of violence in Mexico "is the bad guys don't look like bad guys," Armes said.
"When you capture these people and line them up, and you look at their faces, they look like your gardener, the waitress who served you dinner at a restaurant, the little old grandmother down the street," he said.
Police arrested three people in the investigation and the first suspect was charged last week for “forced disappearance,” according to a press release from the Baja California Attorney General’s Office.
“For the crime of forced disappearance committed by private individuals, the Attorney General’s Office of Baja California achieved the connection to the trial of Jesús Gerardo ‘N’, alias ‘El Kekas’, who will remain in preventive detention after his involvement in the crime committed to the detriment of two brothers of Australian origin and an American in Ensenada,” they said.
>El Kekas
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