Colombian Cartel Boss Pleads Guilty to Bribing U.S. Fed with Cash, Prostitutes

'''A top Colombian cartel boss pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court to having bribed a top federal investigator with cash and prostitutes in order to have an indictment against him successfully dismissed.

Jose Bayron “Cacheton” Piedrahita Ceballos appeared before U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola this week in Florida where he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the government by bribing a federal agent. He is scheduled for a sentencing hearing on July 19. Federal authorities extradited Piedrahita from Colombia on April 5, 2019, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

Court documents obtained by Breitbart News revealed that prosecutors named Piedrahita in a 1996 federal indictment against the Cali Cartel. He also had an active arrest warrant from June 20, 1996, until October 21, 2011, when he managed to get the drug trafficking indictment dismissed.

To get the criminal charges dismissed, Piedrahita and another Colombian drug lord, Juan Carlos “Cabezon” Velasco, gave $20,000 in cash and several prostitutes to a top-ranking U.S. Homeland Security Investigations agent in the area. Court documents revealed that HIS Agent Cristopher Ciccione was the case agent for a large-scale drug trafficking operation targeting the Cali Cartel called Cornerstone.

Velasco arranged for a meeting between Ciccione and Piedrahita in Bogota where the drug lords treated the agent with expensive dinners, drinks, and prostitutes in order to get him to help them avoid prosecution.

Ciccione obtained a visa for Piedrahita by claiming that he had cooperated with investigators and that he was never fully identified in the indictment and was not wanted in the U.S. Prosecutors also claimed that Ciccione altered government records and then tricked the U.S. Attorney’s Office into dismissing the initial indictment against Piedrahita. https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/05/11/colombian-cartel-boss-pleads-guilty-to-bribing-u-s-fed-with-cash-and-prostitutes/?__twitter_impression=true

Trump Is On The Verge Of Flipping The New York Appeals Court To Conservative Control

The Senate confirmed Judge Joseph Bianco and Michael Park to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, putting President Donald Trump on the verge of flipping the panel to conservative control.

Bianco and Park are Trump’s second and third appointees to that panel. If Trump fills the remaining two vacancies on the 2nd Circuit, Republican appointees will control the court. The two were confirmed with separate votes Wednesday and Thursday.

The 2nd Circuit is the federal appeals court that covers Connecticut, New York and Vermont. Given its jurisdiction over Manhattan, the 2nd Circuit has a large and important docket of corporate and securities law cases.

Though Trump has replaced appeals judges at a record clip, he has only flipped the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to majority Republican appointees.

Both men represent Republican determination to move judicial nominees into key posts at a steady pace. New York Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand withheld so-called blue slips for Bianco and Park. Under past Senate convention, the Senate Judiciary Committee would not convene a confirmation hearing until senators return an opinion on a judicial nominee selected for a court in their state.

Liberal groups said the GOP disregarded Senate tradition for partisan advantage, though Republicans say the blue slip rule has been enforced irregularly in the modern period.

“The Senate majority’s disregard for their fellow Senate colleagues, and for the people of New York who elected them, is fueled by partisan determination to stack our courts with nominees who will disregard the civil and human rights of us all,” said Kristine Lucius of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

Before his elevation to the 2nd Circuit Bianco was a judge for the federal trial court covering Brooklyn, Long Island, Staten Island and Queens. A graduate of Columbia Law School, he had short stints in private practice and extensive experience as a federal prosecutor and Justice Department lawyer.

“Joseph Bianco has a proven track record of fairly applying the law and adhering to the Constitution,” said Carrie Severino of the conservative Judicial Crisis Network. “I enthusiastically applaud the Senate for confirming him and am confident he will be an exceptional judge on the 2nd Circuit.”

https://truepundit.com/trump-is-on-the-verge-of-flipping-the-new-york-appeals-court-to-conservative-control/

LEFT-WING ADVOCACY GROUP SHOPS DISHONEST HIT PIECE ON TRUMP CAMPAIGN STAFFER

American Bridge, a left-wing super PAC associated with Media Matters, is trying to take down a top Trump campaign staffer with out-of-context blog posts.

An article published in Talking Points Memo (TPM) on Friday accused Matt Wolking, a Trump campaign communications staffer, of publishing “Islamophobic content and conspiracy theories” on his personal blog between 2008 and 2011.

“In an archived version of the site accessible via the Internet Archive, Wolking said over 90 million Muslims were ‘murderous thugs,’ voiced support for banning the construction of mosques, and compared the passage of the Affordable Care Act to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,” TPM claimed.

However, most of the posts included in the article are wildly misrepresented, and TPM admits in the article that American Bridge “flagged” the blog for them.

For example, TPM claims in the headline on its piece that Wolking “called Muslims ‘murderous thugs.'” But Wolking was referring specifically to the seven percent of Muslims polled by Gallup who said the 9/11 terrorist attacks were “completely justified.”

Wolking, who wrote the majority of the posts while in college, also did not “[voice] support for banning the construction of mosques.” Instead, Wolking was writing about a Church of England leader’s concerns about Sharia law and “no-go zones.”

TPM also calls it “eyebrow raising” that Wolking compared the passage of the American Care Act to 9/11, but the website did not cover Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton comparing Russian meddling and the Mueller report to the terror attacks on New York. TPM also accused the right of being “hysterical” over Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s description of 9/11 as “some people did something.”

In terms of Wolking’s blog peddling “conspiracy theories,” a source points out that the blog specifically denounced 9/11 trutherism, claims that former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, and theories that Obama was a secret Muslim.

Trump 2020 Deputy Communications Director Erin Perrine responded to TPM’s article, stating, “It’s pathetic that the third-rate Democrat opposition research firm American Bridge is now spending time combing through decade-old, college-era WordPress blogs looking for things to distort, and that they finally found someone in the media willing to play along.”

A source on the Trump campaign told The Daily Caller that American Bridge tried to shop the blog posts to The Washington Post and The Daily Beast, but only TPM was interested in running them.

American Bridge is a liberal Super PAC that was founded by David Brock in 2010. Brock is also the founder of Media Matters, a liberal “media watchdog” group that routinely organizes advertiser boycotts against conservative television hosts.

Bradley Beychok, the president of American Bridge, is the former president of Media Matters.

Media Matters’ current president, Angelo Carusone, came under fire in March over his own history of offensive blog posts. Carusone authored several posts that used ethnic slurs, downplayed sexual abuse, and pushed racist and anti-Semitic stereotypes.

In March 2018, a “reporter” with American Bridge was arrested on assault charges after pushing a female Interior Department communications official to the floor.

American Bridge did not fire the operative, Wilfred Michael Stark, and he was accused of assaulting another female Republican just seven months later. In October 2018, Stark was accused of battery against a female campaign manager in Nevada after “grabbing her arm, and forcefully twisting it behind her back and squeezing.”

American Bridge finally got rid of Stark after his second arrest.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/11/american-bridge-matt-wolking-trump-campaign-tpm/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social

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