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Anonymous ID: 08ece7 Dec. 31, 2018, 6:38 a.m. No.4534579   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Alabama sheriff has personally kept over $1.5M through contract to house undocumented immigrants

 

A sheriff in Alabama has personally received large amounts of federal funds by housing undocumented immigrant detainees at the Etowah County Detention Center, according to a new report from AL.com.

The newspaper, citing public records and interviews with county officials, reported that Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin has received funds from the federal government to house and feed detainees at the center.

The newspaper additionally noted that Entrekin has acknowledged keeping money meant for jail food that goes unspent. He said in a press conference that he kept more than $750,000 from 2015-2017.

But, AL.com reports that the money Entrekin personally pocketed from the contract with the federal government is far bigger than that sum. Documents the newspaper reviewed show that beginning in October 2011, the surplus for feeding inmates for the following three years was $3 million.

 

Entrekin personally pocketed half of that sum, while the other half was transferred to Etowah County's general fund, according to documents and interviews the newspaper conducted with government officials.

 

https://thehill.com/latino/423293-alabama-sheriff-has-personally-kept-over-15-million-through-federal-contract-to-house

Anonymous ID: 08ece7 Dec. 31, 2018, 7:01 a.m. No.4534729   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4735 >>4776 >>4829 >>4845 >>4896

Ex-federal prosecutor predicts high court will weigh in on mysterious subpoena

 

Former federal prosecutor Joseph Moreno is predicting that the Supreme Court will weigh in on whether an unnamed foreign company should comply with a subpoena that is potentially related to special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling.

"We're learning step by step there's actually a lot going on, and one of the things that appears to have been going on was this behind the scenes court battle between the special counsel's office, and this mystery witness, who was refusing to either appear or provide documents to a subpoena," Moreno told Hill.TV's Krystal Ball.

"Originally we assumed it was a person, now we're coming to learn it looks like it's more likely a company that's owned in part or in whole by a foreign government," he continued.

"In countries like China, Russia, Ukraine, UAE, that can be fairly common. You can have banks, real estate companies, other kinds of joint ventures that are partially owned by the government," he said. "So that seems like what we're dealing with here, and so far this company has said we don't think we need to respond to this subpoena, whether it's to provide bank records, or emails, or documents, the courts have said 'hey not so fast, it looks like you do.' Ultimately the Supreme Court is going to weigh in on that."

 

Moreno's comments come after the federal government filed a sealed response on Friday to a temporary pause the Supreme Court put on an order holding an unnamed, foreign government-owned company in contempt.

CNN reported that the move would be the first known challenge to a case apparently related to the Mueller probe to reach the nation's highest court.

The unnamed company claims it was immune from criminal proceedings under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and that the subpoena was unenforceable because it would require “the Corporation” to violate “Country A’s” domestic law.

Speculation has swirled around whether Mueller is involved in the case due to its secrecies and similarities to another Mueller subpoena.

— Julia Manchester

 

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/423303-ex-federal-prosecutor-says-scotus-to-weigh-in-on-foreign-company-fighting