A longtime Massachusetts bureaucrat allegedly stole taxpayer money meant for seniors and spent the ill-gotten funds on his own music studio recordings, loads of bourbon steak tips, a fancy lacquered portrait of himself and a Prius, according to federal prosecutors.

Thomas Clasby, ex-director of the Quincy Department of Elder Services, was charged with embezzlement and other crimes for allegedly funneling tens of thousands of dollars in public funds into his “own personal slush fund,” over the course of five years, authorities said Wednesday.

Clasby, 60, of Fitchburg, allegedly used the city’s purchasing mechanism to spend extravagantly on himself starting in 2019 – roughly 20 years into his job as head of elder services, the feds said.

https://nypost.com/2025/01/08/us-news/thomas-clasby-accused-of-stealing-money-from-quincy-department-of-elder-services/

Boston authorities confirmed they rejected all 15 immigration detainer requests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the city last year, according to a new report.

Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox filed a letter to the city council, revealing that the city’s police department did nothing with all of ICE’s detainer requests for the last year, according to the Boston Herald.

Cox cited the Boston Trust Act in rejecting the requests, a rule that protects the city’s sanctuary status and prohibits city departments from working with ICE to detain illegal immigrants on civil warrants.

ICE's Immigration detainer requests ask local, state or federal law enforcement groups to notify the immigration enforcement agency before they release an immigrant from custody that can be removed from the country.

As The Boston Herald noted, these requests ask that authorities keep the illegal immigrant in custody for up to an additional 48 hours, allowing time for ICE to take them into its own custody.

ICE maintains it files detainer requests once probable cause is established that a migrant can be removed from the country. This happens "typically after a court has convicted them of one or more crimes and when the noncitizen poses a public safety or national security threat," the outlet stated.

The police commissioner’s letter reflects city authorities’ ongoing opposition to President-elect Donald Trump's campaign pledge to carry out mass deportation operations throughout the country during his second term.

Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu told outlet WCVB in November that her city won’t cooperate with Trump’s plans.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/boston-authorities-rejected-15-immigration-detainer-requests-ice-2024

CNN is under fire as Navy veteran Zachary Young testifies in his $1 billion lawsuit against the network, telling judge and jury that a CNN report that aired November 11, 2021, had “destroyed his reputation and business.”

Young’s suit alleges that the segment — which aired on “The Lead” with anchor Jake Tapper and featured reporting by correspondent Alex Marquardt — incorrectly implied that he had profited illegally from his efforts to aid in the evacuation of “desperate Afghans” who were trying to flee the country in the wake of President Joe Biden’s disastrous military withdrawal from Afghanistan months earlier.

As reported by Fox News Digital, “14th Judicial Circuit Court Judge William S. Henry, who is presiding over the trial in Bay County, Florida, has already ruled that Young ‘did not act illegally or criminally’ despite what the network reported on air. Judge Henry has also declared the court found Young ‘did not take money from Afghans.'”

CNN’s reporting painted a very different picture, however. Twice before the November 11 segment even aired, Tapper had teased a story about “desperate Afghans still trying to escape the country being preyed on by folks demanding that they pay up big time to get out.”

Tapper then introduced Marquardt’s report, saying, “Afghans trying to get out of the country face a black market full of promises, demands of exorbitant fees, and no guarantee of safety or success.”

Marquardt’s report focused on Young, claiming that the Navy veteran had asked for “prices well beyond the reach of most Afghans” in exchange for his efforts to help them escape the Taliban-controlled country.

Young’s defense is set to focus on a number of text messages that his attorneys say make it clear that some at the network were aware prior to airing the story that it was “full of holes.”

Young’s attorney Kyle Roche, during Tuesday’s opening statements, claimed that the CNN report was “reckless” and that the network had “set out to destroy Zach’s reputation.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-under-fire-as-navy-veteran-testifies-in-1-billion-defamation-case

Dramatic video footage showed an alleged pedophile doctor being arrested by a fleet of police while driving with his stunned wife and mother-in-law.

Dr Stephen Andrew Leedy was arrested December 19 over claims he got children to sent him sex images and helped one girl kill herself, with bodycam footage of that apprehension shared Tuesday.

Officers had been on the look out for the 59-year-old palliative care specialist after a warrant for his arrest was issued in his home state of Florida.

Authorities had been searching for Leedy after they say he forced children to perform sex acts online and helped a young girl hang herself over two years ago.

On December 19 they caught up with him while he was driving with his wife Lynda Leedy and his mother-in-law.

Four cop cars can be seen swarming on his red SUV, pulling him from the vehicle and quickly putting him in cuffs as he asks: 'What is going on here?'

Leedy doesn't appear to be shocked at all as he says: ‘I’m assuming this is a case of mistaken identity, I know nothing of a warrant. I’m gainfully employed, I’m a physician. I’ve had no notice of anything.'

Officers are quick to inform him that he wouldn't have been notified of any warrant, as he is bundled into the back of one of their squad cars.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14264041/stephen-andrew-leedy-arrested-doctor-florida.html

>>22321469

It looks like Nicole Kidman’s eyes are wide shut after all.

The Oscar winner stars in Balenciaga’s spring 2023 campaign, posing in a polished office setting alongside the likes of Bella Hadid and Isabelle Huppert.

Now, social media users are calling on Kidman to condemn another series of ads from the brand, which feature children toting bags shaped like teddy bears dressed in bondage gear.

While Hadid, 26, scrubbed her Instagram of some (but not all) of her photos from the previous campaign amid the backlash, Kidman’s post is still up — and her followers have noticed.

“This brand is attempting to indoctrinate the culture with darkness,” one bold commenter wrote. “Sexualizing toddlers is never okay,” another added.

https://pagesix.com/2022/11/28/balenciaga-campaign-star-nicole-kidman-slammed-for-silence-on-ad-scandal/

>>22321489

>>22321602