>PG&E
fishy
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Every time you find yourself here, it’s because you chose to come back.
>emergency crews are currently on the scene in Contra Costa County, California, after a massive fire broke out at the Martinez refinery plant. Emergency officials have declared a Level 2 hazmat emergency
>Wait till Trump’s tariffs raise your pizza prices.
>he saw no concrete evidence
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/politics/david-lebryk-treasury-resigns-musk.html
Treasury Official Quits After Resisting Musk’s Requests on Payments
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team sought access to the government’s vast payment system, part of its bid to choke off federal funding.
Last weekend, Mr. Krause, the chief executive of a Silicon Valley company, Cloud Software Group, again pressed Mr. Lebryk for access to the system, according to two people familiar with the request. Mr. Lebryk declined, the people said.
After the request, Mr. Lebryk sought meetings with Mr. Bessent, the agency’s new secretary, and the Treasury Department’s new chief of staff, Dan Katz, to discuss the situation, according to the people familiar with the matter.
After meetings with Mr. Katz and Mr. Bessent, Mr. Lebryk was placed on administrative leave, two people said. Other career officials will oversee the payment processes after Mr. Lebryk’s departure.
>These distractions do nothing to keep planes in the air, trains on the tracks, or ports and highways secure.
>was she Air Force or Army
>33rd Gala
>Barley Snider law firm
https://www.barley.com/diversity-inclusion/
>Golden Venture 1993
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Venture
from Durham, North Carolina
>Durham
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/01/final-soldier-killed-black-hawk-collision-identified-family-friends-grieve.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/12/nyregion/chinatown-gang-leader-to-be-returned-to-us.html
The ship’s name, stencilled in white block letters on the bow, was the Golden Venture. Its cargo was nearly three hundred illegal Chinese emigrants. Before reaching the Rockaways, the ship had sailed some seventeen thousand miles, from Thailand to Kenya, around the Cape of Good Hope, then across the Atlantic to New York.
>Golden Venture
Individuals who conducted such Chinese illegal human smuggling operations are known as "snakeheads" from the Chinese translation for human-smuggler.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160305085005/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/12/nyregion/chinatown-gang-leader-to-be-returned-to-us.html
Chinatown Gang Leader to Be Returned to U.S.
April 12, 1994
Guo Liang Chi, who authorities say was the leader of the Chinatown gang most deeply involved in the smuggling of illegal immigrants from China, agreed in a Hong Kong court yesterday to a request by the United States for his extradition.
Federal investigators acknowledge that they are less interested in prosecuting Mr. Guo than in hearing what he has to say. Two law-enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said yesterday that Mr. Guo had agreed to an arrangement under which he will provide information about Asian businessmen who run alien-smuggling rings and other organized crime operations. In exchange, prosecutors are expected to seek leniency for him in court, but the officials said they did not know the details of the agreement.
Among other things, American officials believe that Mr. Guo, who is expected to arrive in New York within days, may give them new information on links between the smugglers and government officials in Taiwan and in mainland China. Law-enforcement officials have long suspected that some corrupt officials in those countries are involved in the illegal-alien trade, though it is not clear whether American officials believe that such corruption involves any high-level officials.
Widely known by his street name, Ah Kay, the 28-year-old Mr. Guo faces Federal charges that he ordered or conspired in six murders, a series of kidnappings and a scheme to smuggle immigrants as head of the Fuk Ching, an unusually violent gang that he ran for several years before it was dismantled by a wave of arrests last August.
Smuggling operations, Federal investigators say, are run by loose networks of businessmen who rely on associates on both sides of the Pacific Ocean to help recruit, transport and collect a $30,000 fee from each of the immigrants, who often work at low-paying jobs for years to pay their debts. Among those associates, investigators say, are businessmen and government officials in Taiwan and local police in China's Fujian Province.
A spokesman for the Chinese Consulate in New York denied that his government tolerated the smuggling of illegal immigrants. He cited an official Chinese news release in February about the sentencing of 18 smugglers in Fujian Province, where the vast majority of illegal Chinese immigrants come from. Efforts to reach Taiwanese officials last night were unsuccessful.
Chauncey Parker, the Assistant United States Attorney prosecuting the Fuk Ching case, declined to discuss whether any plea bargain agreement was reached with Mr. Guo, whose name is sometimes spelled Kwok Ling-kay. But three other officials said Mr. Parker traveled to Hong Kong in February to work out the terms of an agreement with Mr. Guo. Robert S. Gelbard, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics, was in Hong Kong at the same time.
>Chinatown Gang Leader to Be Returned to U.S.
A law-enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity said yesterday that while Mr. Guo could face a life sentence if convicted of the charges against him, that is expected to be reduced to 10 to 15 years in prison if he fully cooperates. Mr. Guo was also induced to cooperate, the official said, by the suggestion that leniency might be shown toward his father, Guo Qi Wu, who was charged with kidnapping and smuggling aliens in the Fuk Ching case.
Of the 19 gang members indicted in that case, 7 have apparently pleaded guilty. Mr. Parker said terms of the arrangements with those defendants, including their pleas, were not public.
The last Chinatown gang leader to be arrested in Hong Kong at the request of the United States was Johnny Eng, accused of leading the Flying Dragons. After he was caught in 1989, Mr. Eng fought extradition for nearly three years before his appeals were exhausted. Finally returned to New York City, he was convicted of drug smuggling charges in a Federal court in Brooklyn in December 1992.
Some Federal officials had expected similar resistance from Mr. Guo. Experienced Defense Lawyer
"Ah Kay is a fighter," said one law-enforcement official. Referring to China's impending resumption of control over Hong Kong, he added: "I even wondered if he would wait until 1997 and hope the Chinese would refuse to turn him over."
Instead, seven months after he was arrested beside a street vendor's stall, Mr. Guo signed a consent form at a Hong Kong magistrates court yesterday, nodding briefly when an interpreter asked him if he agreed to return to the United States, said Crown Counsel Roger McMeans. Li Xinghua, an associate who was arrested with Mr. Guo last August, did the same.
A court-appointed Hong Kong lawyer for Mr. Guo said at an initial hearing last fall that he was destitute, but he later hired an experienced defense lawyer. In New York, officials said, Mr. Guo has hired Gerald L. Shargel, a well-known defense lawyer. Mr. Shargel did not return a telephone call yesterday.
Law-enforcement officials had initially suspected that Mr. Guo might have helped organize the smuggling voyage of the Golden Venture, which ran aground off Queens last June. Ten passengers died trying to swim ashore.
But subsequent investigations have so far failed to tie him to the operation. His extradition schedule was not related to Federal Judge Reena Raggi's decision last Friday to reject the plea bargain agreements for eight so-called enforcers on board the ship, agreements that she said were too lenient.
Officials will also presumably question Mr. Guo for any light he can shed on the murder of his two brothers and two others at a house in Teaneck, N.J., last May. The authorities believe the deaths were the result of fighting among factions in Mr. Guo's gang.
>the ship had sailed some seventeen thousand miles, from Thailand to Kenya
if she worked white house events there should be lots of pics
>DoD Inspector General is already investigating Hunter Biden’s Metabiota for bioweapon development
doy dee doy
why don't you lock the bread wise guys