Anonymous ID: 481abb May 9, 2019, 10:34 a.m. No.6455341   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5428 >>5467

NTIA chief David Redl resigns

 

Redl has been at the helm of NTIA, the body tasked with advising the Trump administration's telecom policy within the Department of Commerce, since November 2017.

 

Ajit Pai, the Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, in a statement thanked Redl for his service and wished him "all the best in his future endeavors."

 

"David Redl is a longtime colleague, who served with distinction during his 18 months at NTIA," Pai said in a statement. "He was a vocal advocate within the Department of Commerce for repurposing federal spectrum for commercial use and fostering the private sector’s lead in 5G deployment. I thank David for his service and wish him all the best in his future endeavors.”

 

Redl was an adviser to Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) during his tenure as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

 

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/442943-ntia-chief-david-redl-resigns

Anonymous ID: 481abb May 9, 2019, 10:51 a.m. No.6455456   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5467 >>5468 >>5476

Honduran Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 33 Years in Prison

 

A Honduran man was sentenced today to 33 years in prison for leading a drug trafficking organization that smuggled at least thousands of kilos of cocaine into the United States over the last decade.

 

Arnulfo Fagot-Maximo, 58, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Liam O’ Grady for the Eastern District of Virginia. According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Fagot-Maximo was the leader of a drug trafficking organization based in the La Mosquitia region of the Department of Gracias a Dios, Honduras. His organization was a critical link between Colombian cocaine suppliers and other major Honduran traffickers. For over a decade, Fagot-Maximo received cocaine along the Mosquitia coast from Colombia by “go fast” boats, small aircraft and submersible vessels in quantities ranging from a few hundred to several thousand kilograms per delivery. Most of this cocaine was transferred to the Montes-Bobadilla organization in Francia, Honduras, where other traffickers received it. Eventually the cocaine was transported by land through Honduras and Guatemala, and then it was delivered to the Mexican cartels for importation into the United States. Fagot-Maximo received tens of millions of dollars in U.S. currency for the sale and delivery of this cocaine.

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/honduran-drug-trafficker-sentenced-33-years-prison

Anonymous ID: 481abb May 9, 2019, 10:53 a.m. No.6455473   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5479

The Department of Justice Files Lawsuit Alleging Disability-Based Discrimination by Owners and Developers of 82 Apartment Complexes in 13 States

 

The Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio today announced the filing of a lawsuit against Ohio-based Miller-Valentine Operations Inc. and affiliated companies, owners, developers and builders of 82 multifamily housing complexes located in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. The lawsuit alleges that the defendants failed to design and construct housing units and related facilities to make them accessible to persons with disabilities in compliance with the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The 82 complexes contain more than 3,000 units that are required by the FHA to have accessible features, and most contain public spaces that are required to comply with the ADA.

 

According to the government’s complaint, the defendants built many of the complexes with the assistance of federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits or with the financial assistance of other federal government programs.

 

“For over two decades federal laws have required multifamily housing complexes to be built with accessible features,” said Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband. “The Department of Justice is committed to protecting the rights of persons with disabilities to equal access to housing opportunities, including accessible dwellings and related facilities.”

 

“We’re in the business of enforcing federal civil rights laws to their fullest extent,” said U.S. Attorney Glassman. “It doesn’t matter to us whether the defendant is an individual in a single neighborhood or, as here, a company operating in many states. The complaint that the United States filed today alleges not only that Miller-Valentine designed and built multi-family housing complexes that are not accessible to people with disabilities, but also that Miller-Valentine took public money to build those complexes and yet still built them such that some citizens wouldn’t be able to live there.”

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-lawsuit-alleging-disability-based-discrimination-owners-and