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Collin Rugg 11:02 PM · May 29, 2024
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‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag, Causing Such a Fuss for Justice Alito, Flew at San Francisco Civic Center for 60 Years Before Being Removed Days AgoTOP KEK
In a letter to members of congress Wednesday, the justice made clear that it was his wife’s decision to fly the flag and refused to recuse himself because of it.
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
San Francisco has removed from its Civic Center Plaza the same American revolutionary-era flag — the “Appeal to Heaven” banner with its iconic evergreen tree — that some liberals are criticizing Justice Alito for flying at his New Jersey vacation home last year.
Over the weekend, San Francisco’s city park officials took down the flag, which was one of 18 raised by the city on Flag Day in 1964, and replaced it with an American flag.Officials said in a statement to the San Francisco Chroniclethat the emblem originally symbolized the “quest for American independence,” yet it has “since been adopted by a different group — one that doesn’t represent the city’s values.” (Faggots)
The flag, featuring a green pine tree on a white background with its official slogan, was flown from George Washington’s ships during the Revolutionary War. It’s now become associated with conservative movements and appeared during riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
The “Appeal to Heaven” emblem has also landed Justice Alito in the spotlight, with members of Congress like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling for “active investigations” into flags that have appeared at his properties. Observers also spotted an upside-down American flag at the justice’s house near Washington less than two weeks after January 6.
The developments prompted Senators Durbin and Whitehouse to ask Justice Alito last week to recuse himself from the pending Supreme Court case on the question of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, as well as other cases related to the 2020 election and January 6.
In a response to the senators on Wednesday, Justice Alito made clear that it was his wife’s decision to fly both flags. He said he was not aware that the “Appeal to Heaven” was affiliated with the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement.
“I had nothing whatsoever to do with the flying of that flag,” Mr. Alito said. “I was not even aware of the upside-down flag until it was called to my attention. As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused.”
The justice emphasized that his wife is “an independently minded private citizen” and has the right to “use the property as she sees fit.” Their shared vacation home in Virginia, he noted, “was purchased with money she inherited from her parents and is titled in her name.” He suggested that the request for his recusal is politically motivated.
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University of Florida employee and students sent 'drugs and toxin that causes whooping cough to China in elaborate smuggling scam'
DOJ says the scheme say dangerous drugs and toxins illegally shipped to China, Scheme ran from 2016 to 2023 fraudulently obtained biochemical samples, President of UF's Chinese Students Association, Leticia Zheng, is implicated (Portion of very long article1/2) 29 May 2024
A University of Florida research employee and students have been implicated in anillegal, multi-million dollar scheme that saw samples of dangerous drugs and toxins illicitly shipped to China over a period of seven years. The scheme, investigated by the Justice Department, saw thousands of biochemical samples bought illegally which were then delivered to a campus laboratory before being shipped overseas, according to federal court records.
Among the students tied to the scheme was the president of UF's Chinese Students and Scholars Association, Nongnong 'Leticia' Zheng. The group openly protested a Florida law signed by Gov. Ron De Santis last year that limits universities from recruiting students and faculty from China — and bans employing such students from working in academic labs without special permission.
Zheng has confirmed that a federal prosecutor notified her last year in writing she was the target of a grand jury investigation, and the Justice Department was preparing to seek criminal charges against her. She said she has been assigned a federal public defender, Ryan Maguire of Tampa and noted how government agents have threatened to imprison or deport her.
It's not clear if the UF research employee or other students — identified in court records as co-conspirators — been charged or arrested yet. The UF employee worked in the stockroom of one of the university's research labs, prosecutors said. The materials smuggled to China included what the government described aspurified, non-contagious proteins of the cholera toxin and pertussis toxin, which causes whooping cough.Cholera is a generally non-fatal intestinal infection that can cause severe dehydration.
Whooping cough is a highly contagious bacterial infectionthat can lead to violent coughing, vomiting and even respiratory distress — but is preventable with a vaccine.Other materials smuggled to Chinain the scheme included small amounts of highly purified drugs – known as analytical samples — offentanyl, morphine, MDMA, cocaine, ketamine, codeine, methamphetamine, amphetamine, acetylmorphine and methadone, court records showed.Such small samples would generally be used for calibrating scientific or medical devices.
The substances cannot be legally be exported to China.Prosecutors described one student involved as a Chinese citizen majoring in marketing in the business college last year, who agreed to change her UF email signature to falsely represent that she was a biomedical engineering student to purchase items without raising suspicions, court records showed.
One line across hundreds of pages of court documents in the case cited an excerpt of an email that her first name was 'Leticia.' Zheng, a senior marketing major in the business school, is president of the Chinese students and scholars group, which describes itself as officially approved by the Chinese embassy. Zheng was enrolled as recently as the spring semester that just ended, university records showed.
Fresh Take Florida, a news service of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, identified 'Leticia' as Zheng using biographical clues in university records shared by none of the other 58,441 UF students enrolled last semester. Zheng, who said she lived most of her life in China,said she was deceived and victimized by the scheme's organizers, who she said solicited help finding paid interns from the Chinese student organization. (Yeah Right)
Foreign students on educational visas are limited in how or whether they can work for pay. 'This case seems to be really big,' she said. 'What I was doing was, like,just a little work, and I didn't get paid that much.' Zheng said in hindsight, she noticed red flags such as a lack of paperwork or consistent payments for the administrative work she did. She said she wasn't familiar with the substances she was directed to order. (LIAR, look at her, obvious spy)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13469639/University-Florida-students-Leticia-Zheng-sent-drugs-toxin-China.html
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The man described as the scheme's ringleader — who has pleaded guilty in the case — reassured her, and she didn't realize she was in trouble until the Justice Department contacted her, she said. Zheng said she hopes to be allowed to finish her degree and saidshe doesn't understand how the university didn't have policies in place to protect her.
'I do need help, honestly,' she said, adding: 'I would like to see if there's anything that can help me not get charged and get out of this whole mess.' Earlier this year, Zheng's organization issued a statement calling Florida's new law restricting Chinese students in university labs as 'nationality-based discrimination' and said it violates principles of academic freedom and openness and impedes international exchanges.
The scheme's organizers also paid UF students other than Zheng to allow use of their UF email addresses to order the substances, prosecutors said. Organizers paid the UF research employee with Home Depot gift cards worth hundreds of dollars and paid for trips and loans, court records showed. Prosecutors said organizers also used the email addresses of two UF researchers who had already left the university by 2015. They were not described as co-conspirators.
The university said in a statement that it has been cooperating with the Justice Department for weeks but declined to answer directly whether anyone has been fired or kicked out of UF. 'We will have more details to share regarding UF's administrative actions as the DOJ's criminal case unfolds,' spokesman Steve Orlando said. 'Employees who break the law will be separated from employment, and students who break the law will face suspension.'
The scheme ran from July 2016 to May 2023, the government said.
Former RepublicanSen. Ben Sasse who took over as the university's president in February 2022, was a leading China hawk on Capitol Hill who once described the threat from Beijing as the 'defining national-security challenge of our age'
The plot was sure to supercharge the raging policy debate over countering China's ascension as a global power and curtailing its influence.
Florida has already banned TikTok from universities and colleges, and prohibited citizens of China and some other countries from owning homes or purchasing property in large swaths of the state. 'It's like some UF students are trying to make a profit on this without knowing the potential consequences,' said Eric Jing Du, a professor in the UF Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering.
Du said he worried investigations like this could lead to further crackdowns against international students. The new Florida law targets students from so-called countries of concern: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and Syria. m'This is a very complicated time,' Du said. 'I do know the contributions and hard work of the students from the countries of concern, the vast majority of them are doing the right thing and contributing to UF and Florida. I just hope the decision makers, the leadership, the Legislature won't amplify the impact of this.'
The man who prosecutorsidentified as the scheme's ringleader, Pen 'Ben' Yu, 51, of Gibsonton, Florida, near Tampa, has already pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and faces up to 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine when he is sentenced on August 2. Yu provided Zheng, the UF student, with acredit card to place dozens of fraudulent orders last year, the Justice Department said.
At Yu's direction, she wrote to the biomedical company that she was 'working in collaboration with other researchers' in biotechnology and requested 'a good price since we will be purchasing these items routinely,' court records showed. After the biomedical orders arrived at UF, the research employee would bring them or otherwise provide them to Yu, who shipped them to China, prosecutors said.
The UF researcher in charge of the lab – which included the stockroom where the supplies were delivered – was not described as a co-conspirator in legal filings. 'Ben, I believe I have 35 or 36 boxes for you today,' the UF research employee wrote in 2016…..
'Faking an affiliation with an academic research lab to obtain controlled biochemical materials, and then sending those materials to China, is not only wrong but illegal,' said Matthew S. Axelrod, the assistant secretary for export enforcement in the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security.
He said the criminal investigation should put other universities on alert. Axelrod called it 'yet another fact pattern for universities to beware of — the misuse of academic institutions by outsiders who seek to obscure the actual customer of controlled items.'…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13469639/University-Florida-students-Leticia-Zheng-sent-drugs-toxin-China.html
>>20938888 Stupid RINO Sasse didn't even know, what about the people running the labs, they are infiltrated everywhere. And her acting innocent is exactly what they are trained to do. See how she blames everyone else for her participation, and "why didn't the University protect me?" Exactly what they do.
University of Florida employee and students sent 'drugs and toxin that causes whooping cough to China in elaborate smuggling scam' Last page 3/3
Yu paid for the employee's gasoline, $10 for every hour he drove to meet him. 'I will pump the gas for you at the place where we meet,' he told the research employee, prosecutors said. Yu disguised the shipments to China as legal 'diluting agents,' court records showed.
'Faking an affiliation with an academic research lab to obtain controlled biochemical materials, and then sending those materials to China, is not only wrong but illegal,' said Matthew S. Axelrod, the assistant secretary for export enforcement in the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security.
He said the criminal investigation should put other universities on alert. Axelrod called it 'yet another fact pattern for universities to beware of — the misuse of academic institutions by outsiders who seek to obscure the actual customer of controlled items.'
It wasn't clear who Yu was working for in China. In intercepted messages, the government said he referred to his superior only as his boss. A sales executive for Massachusetts-based Sigma-Aldrich Inc., which sold the samples, also has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Gregory Muñoz, 45, of Minneola, Florida, west of Orlando, is set to be sentenced July 23. Muñoz sold products from the company to several universities in Florida, including UF, court records said. Yu emailed Muñoz in 2020 and saidhis employer needed 10 boxes of cholera toxin, which he acknowledged was a substance heavily regulated by the U.S. government.
'This is the cholera toxin,' Muñoz replied. 'Remember, we had issues in the past and they require a lot of documentation signed by the university.' Muñoz discovered in December 2022 that his employer was investigating him and warned Yu, who continued to place hundreds of new orders to ship to China in 2023, court records said. 'Wow, I am really screwed now,' Muñoz wrote. 'Anti-bribery, anti-kickback.' Last year, in February, Yu emailed Muñoz and asked, 'Do you still need Leticia to send you this order?'
A third person, Jonathan Rok Thyng, 47, who lived at the same address as Yu in Gibsonton, agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit a federal crime and faces up to 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Prosecutors said Thyng ordered some of the biomedical substances and shipped some of the packages to China. He was expected to formally enter his plea June 18. Thyng and his lawyer, Bjorn Erik Brunvand of Clearwater, also did not immediately return a phone message left by Fresh Take Florida.
Prosecutors said U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized a shipment in April 2023 that Thyng sent from Tampa to China containing biomedical items ordered by the UF marketing student and others. The Justice Department said orders placed through UF qualified for significant discounts —prosecutors said the scheme's organizers paid $4.9 million for $13.7 million worth of biomedical supplies — and included free items and free overnight shipping.
Prosecutors said in court records they would recommend leniency for Yu, Muñoz and Thyng because they promised to cooperate with investigators and accepted responsibility for their crimes. Prosecutors said all are American citizens. The Justice Department asked the judge to order Yu and Muñoz each to forfeit $100,000, which it said was how much Yu and Muñoz had earned over the years.
The scheme unraveled when the company — known as MilliporeSigma, a subsidiary of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany — discovered the ruse involving UF and reported its involvement to the U.S. government. Under new Justice Department rules, such companies that self-report export violations and cooperate can escape prosecution.
The company said in a statement Friday that it fired Muñoz and cooperated with investigators to avoid prosecution. This was the first time those rules were applied, the government said. 'Because of MilliporeSigma's timely disclosure and exceptional cooperation, a rogue company insider and his accomplice pled guilty to fraudulently diverting millions of dollars' worth of biochemicals to China, and the company will not be prosecuted,' said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco in Washington. 'As national security and corporate crime increasingly intersect, companies that step up and own up under the department's voluntary self-disclosure programs can help themselves and our nation,' she said.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13469639/University-Florida-students-Leticia-Zheng-sent-drugs-toxin-China.html
>>20938913 Yes all of them are and guess what the DOJ under Lisa Monaco is not treating it that way.
"The company said in a statement Friday that it fired Muñoz and cooperated with investigators to avoid prosecution. This was the first time those rules were applied, the government said.'Because of MilliporeSigma's timely disclosure and exceptional cooperation, a rogue company insider and his accomplice pled guilty to fraudulently diverting millions of dollars' worth of biochemicals to China, and the company will not be prosecuted,' said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco in Washington.
'As national security and corporate crime increasingly intersect, companies that step up and own up under the department's voluntary self-disclosure programs can help themselves and our nation,' she said.
It wasn't just biochemicals, it was bio toxins for infecting the world again. DOJ downplaying this for sureIt sounds like she is saying this was just a corporate crime.
>>20938936 They knew it from the beginning, "quick trials"fast death
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