Ever driven from Atlanta to Charleston, South Carolina, without using interstates? Okay, you can take I-20 to Augusta, but then get off on Hwy 78 through little hamlets like Williston, Bamberg, St. George, Summerville. Tell me how many actual human beings you spot while driving. It's basically just you, some soybean & cotton fields, and a whole lot of acres of loblolly pines waiting to be lumbered.
The beauty of less-densely populated areas. Less people = less crime.
Atlantanon here can't even imagine attempting to interact with the sullen drones downtown to get any information at all.
Agree 100% that given the size that Atlanta has grown to, the number is likely similar to other cities the same size, it's probably safe to use Charlotte for purpose of estimating number of sealed indictments.
You just made me think of something that might be somewhat useful:
I wonder how the number of sealed indictments by state compares to the total populations of each state, percentage wise?
If you already have that info in a spreadsheet, might be an easy extra formula column to add.
Check out this long piece about Ghislaine's TerraMar Project
https://www.businessinsider.com/ghislaine-maxwell-terramar-project-charity-jeffrey-epstin-2019-7
Ghislaine Maxwell jettisoned her environmental nonprofit just days after her longtime associate Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges.
She had founded the TerraMar Project in 2012, to encourage the conservancy of the high seas.
Business Insider reviewed the nonprofit's tax documents and found that Maxwell had been pouring thousands of dollars into the venture.
Embattled socialite Ghislaine Maxwell seemingly sank her own oceanic conservancy group less than a week after her longtime associate Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges.
Maxwell has been accused of acting as the convicted sexual predator's accomplice, recruiting underage girls and abusing them alongside Epstein — allegations that she publicly denied in 2015. The British native is the youngest child of late media mogul Robert Maxwell, who died in 1991 while cruising on the "Lady Ghislaine," a yacht named for his daughter. For years, she was also vocal in the press about her passion for oceanic conservancy.
Now her venture, the TerraMar Project, appears to have been swept off by the tide of scrutiny and criticism that sprung up in the wake of Epstein's arrest.
The nonprofit's stated intent, according to tax documents published on ProPublica and reviewed by Business Insider, was "to create a global ocean community to give a voice to the least protected, most ignored part of our planet — the high seas." Business Insider's emails to Maxwell's legal representatives were not returned.
Attempts to get in touch with anyone at the TerraMar Project were also unsuccessful. The nonprofit's phone number has been disconnected and its website now features a single statement: "The TerraMar Project is sad to announce that it will cease all operations. The website will be closed. TerraMar's mission has always been to connect ocean lovers to positive actions, highlight science, and bring conscious change to how to people from across the globe can live, work and enjoy the ocean. TerraMar wants to thank all its supporters, partners and fellow ocean lovers."
So what was this nonprofit up to before its founder's links to Epstein became an proverbial anchor-around-the-neck? In a 2013 interview with CNN International, Maxwell described her thinking around the high seas, which she described as a land called "TerraMar."
"All citizens of the world are citizens of TerraMar, or citizens of the high seas, if you will, part of the global commons," she said, adding that her organization's website would foster a "sense of identity" by giving out digital TerraMar passports.
"You will get a digital passport with your name and your ID number, and we will — you will be able to follow the progress of the high seas, anything that happens significant on the high seas, now, you'll be able to find out what's going on," she said. "We have a million and a half marine species, and you can select one to be the ambassador to TerraMar and be the spokesperson for that species. You can sponsor a piece of the ocean."
When it was first founded in 2012, the nonprofit was house in Maxwell's Manhattan mansion, which she's since put on the market for $18.995 million, according to Curbed. The charity later moved to a Woburn, Massachusetts, address that it shared with the Max Foundation Tr, Maxwell's private foundation.
The filings with the Internal Revenue Service make out the TerraMar Project to be a relatively small enterprise, money-wise. The nonprofit reported that its funds were mostly flowing into website development, office expenses, travel, phone and utilities fees, merchant fees, contractor fees, professional fundraising services, and insurance policies. The tax documents note that no employees of the nonprofit were ever paid an annual salary of over $100,000.
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By 2017, the organization was $550,546 under water, in terms of revenue. Maxwell herself appears to have been keeping the nonprofit afloat, consistently donating hundreds of thousands dollars year after year to cover "general expenses." As of 2017, the TerraMar Project owed its founder $539,092.
The five years' worth of tax filings note that Maxwell also poured a considerable amount of time into her nonprofit. Each filing states that the TerraMar Project's founder put in 60 hour workweeks at the foundation. (OH RIIIIIIGHT)
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I'd consider it an honor to shake Bill Binney's hand.
Bannon's brain is about 1000 miles past ours. Bannon finished the task he chose for himself, then left to go tackle bigger jobs.
>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-pompeo-adviser-fired-after-unhappy-staffers-revolt
"background in academia"
WTF would she know about anything?
Well done, to whoever fired her. Any woman who substitutes bitchiness for real leadership needs to be shown the door.
Kek, and the "special on HBO"?
HBO
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This is Breitbart's right hand man.
Background in intelligence.
He probably fucks with the media before coffee every day.
Is it working? We're talking about him, aren't we?