Kushner's peace plan 'includes land swaps with Saudi Arabia,' book claims

A draft of the plan included an oil pipeline from Saudi Arabia to Gaza, according to newly released 'Kushner, Inc.'

The book, Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, was written by Vicky Ward and released by St. Martin’s Press on Tuesday. The book’s 300 pages detail Jared and Ivanka’s path to involvement in every aspect of White House affairs and their alleged designs to use their influence for personal gain.

Ward cites “multiple people who saw drafts of the plan” created by Kushner that would involve not just Israel and the Palestinians but also Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.

“What Kushner wanted… was for the Saudis and Emiratis to provide economic assistance to the Palestinians,” Ward wrote. “There were plans for an oil pipeline from Saudi Arabia to Gaza, where refineries and a shipping terminal could be built. The profits would create desalination plants, where Palestinians could find work, addressing the high unemployment rate.”

Ward said that the plan also included land swaps, where Jordan would give land to the Palestinian territories, and “in return, Jordan would get land from Saudi Arabia, and that country would get back two Red Sea islands it gave Egypt to administer in 1950.”

Jason Greenblatt, the White House's Middle East envoy, tweeted late Wednesday that the book's claims about Kushner's peace plan are false.

"No one who has seen the plan would spread misinformation like that," he tweeted. "Whoever made these claims has bad info."

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Kushners-peace-plan-includes-land-swaps-with-Saudi-Arabia-book-claims-583932

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Unsealed documents shed new light on depth of the Cohen probe

A trove of newly released documents from the federal raids on Michael Cohen’s home and office are offering new insight on how investigators built their case against President Trump's former "fixer."

The nearly 900 pages of redacted documents show that investigators examined nearly all aspects of Cohen’s life, first as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe and then as federal prosecutors in New York took hold of the case.

They also reveal allegations the FBI looked into but did not charge Cohen with having committed, including concerns that President Trump's former lawyer could be acting as an unregistered foreign lobbyist.

Former prosecutors with the Manhattan attorney’s office told The Hill that the documents outline a typical investigation for the office.

Linda Severin, a former federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), said the strategy of investigating every avenue possible is “standard operating procedure” for the office.

She said it would be particularly important for investigators to make sure they had more than enough evidence to search Cohen’s premises given the fact that he was the president’s personal attorney.

“We never want to get it wrong,” Severin added.

Sources familiar with the work of the SDNY also said it was notable that prosecutors had a significant amount of evidence of criminal activity by Cohen before the raids, which could mean they were hoping to dig up dirt on others by searching his premises.

Mimi Rocah, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the SDNY, said investigators have to reach a high bar in order to obtain a search warrant, proving to a judge that they have probable cause to believe that someone engaged in criminal activity.

Among the revelations from Tuesday’s document dump is that investigators first obtained a search warrant for Cohen’s digital and electronic communications in July 2017, nearly a year before the federal raids. That warrant was granted by a judge in D.C. as part of the Mueller investigation.

“That’s a lot for them to have had that far back,” Rocah said.

She said prosecutors could have had enough evidence to arrest Cohen at the time of the FBI raids but that they may have been seeking evidence about other individuals.

The government is currently conducting an investigation into campaign finance violations tied to Cohen. Significant sections of the documents released Tuesday that would have included evidence on that probe were redacted, keeping details about the investigation away from the public.

Cohen has publicly implicated Trump, his former client, in a plan to make payments to women alleging affairs with the president ahead of the 2016 election. Trump has denied the allegations.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/435021-unsealed-documents-shed-new-light-on-depth-of-the-cohen-probe

An Oklahoma sheriff and most of her staff abruptly quit over dangerous jail conditions

'This is just wrong'

Nowata County Sheriff Terry Sue Barnett resigned Monday, along with most of her deputies and staff, in protest of conditions at the county's jail that they say endanger the lives of both employees and inmates, according to NBC News.

Barnett had been ordered to reopen the jail by Nowata District Judge Carl Gibson, after Barnett evacuated it because of allegedly dangerous levels of carbon monoxide that sent some workers to the emergency room. Barnett quit rather than reopen the jail.

"I've said from the beginning that if I became sheriff, I would serve the citizens by standing up and doing the right things," Barnett said in a statement. "This is just wrong, and I wasn't going to put human beings in that jail until we knew what was going on."

What happened?

On Feb. 28, Barnett evacuated her staff and all inmates from the Nowata County jail after a carbon monoxide level of 18 was detected—dangerously close to a level of 20 which Barnett said could be fatal.

The inmates were relocated to Washington County jail. Barnett said four employees had to go to the emergency room due to the carbon monoxide exposure.

Barnett said carbon monoxide isn't the only problem in Nowata County Jail. There are also exposed wires in the shower areas and mold in the jail and the jail's offices. Poor plumbing also causes methane gas leaks within the jail, said Barnett.

"The Nowata County Jail is a ticking time bomb of constitutional liability," said Paul DeMuro, Barnett's attorney. "If the county thinks it has budget problems now, it better wake up because somebody is going to die in that jail.

What now?

There are five employees left on staff with the Nowata County Sheriff's Office. Dispatchers are delegating 911 calls to nearby law enforcement stations. Nowata County is a 600 square-mile area of more than 10,000 people.

Judge Gibson declared Barnett's resignation void in court Tuesday, but Barnett maintains that the judge does not have the ability to order Barnett to work once she has submitted her resignation.

"I do not work for the judge," Barnett said.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/an-oklahoma-sheriff-and-most-of-her-staff-abruptly-quit-over-dangerous-jail-conditions

Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Wyoming Oil Lease Sale Over ‘Climate Change’

A federal judge temporarily blocked new oil lease auctions in Wyoming on Tuesday after finding the Department of the Interior “did not sufficiently consider climate change” when proposing the lease sales, The Washington Post reports.

Washington D.C. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled the government violated federal law and did not fully study the environmental impact of oil development on 300,000 acres of federal land.

Contreras did not void leases already sold, but he ordered the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to redo the environmental reviews used to approve the leases. The BLM must include in the redone reviews the effects of each new oil well on overall emissions in the U.S., including the pumped oil’s downstream effects, Contreras’s ruling said.

“Given the national, cumulative nature of climate change, considering each individual drilling project in a vacuum deprives the agency and the public of the context necessary to evaluate oil and gas drilling on federal land before irretrievably committing to that drilling,” he wrote, according to WaPo.

Former President Barack Obama appointed Contreras to the federal bench in March 2012.

Contreras’s ruling came after the activist groups WildEarth Guardians and Physicians for Social Responsibility sued the federal government over the lease sale in 2016.

“In spite of the President’s commitment to US leadership in moving towards a clean energy future … Federal Defendants continue to authorize the sale and issuance of hundreds of federal oil and gas leases on public lands across the Interior West without meaningfully acknowledging or evaluating the climate change implications of their actions,” the two groups wrote in their lawsuit, according to Ars Technica.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/20/barack-obama-wyoming-oil-drilling/

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