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Anonymous ID: 32f2e8 Jan. 4, 2020, 2:50 p.m. No.7715820   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5849 >>6111

Former Democratic lawmaker sentenced to prison for misusing funds

 

 

A former Democratic state lawmaker in Maryland was sentenced to six months in prison for taking money from her campaign for personal use.

 

Former Maryland Del. Tawanna Gaines, 67, was also given two months of home detention after she completes her prison sentence and must pay $22,565 in restitution.

 

“I took my oath very seriously, but I fell short,” she said in court on Friday, according to the Associated Press.

 

Gaines is required to report to prison by Feb. 24.

 

Gaines, who served in the House of Delegates since 2001, pleaded guilty in October to wire fraud. She resigned days before her guilty plea.

 

She admitted to spending $22,000 in campaign donations on personal expenses, including an Amazon Prime membership, a cover for her swimming pool, hair appointments, and dental work.

 

Her daughter, Anitra Edmond, who was the campaign treasurer for her mother, pleaded guilty in November to a similar charge. Edmond is scheduled to be sentenced in February.

 

Gaines is the third Democratic state lawmaker from Prince George’s County to plead guilty or be convicted of misconduct in federal court since 2018. Former Dels. William Campos and Michael Vaughn are serving 4 1/2 and four years in prison, respectively, for accepting bribes from businesses to change the liquor store sales laws in the county.

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-democratic-lawmaker-sentenced-to-prison-for-misusing-funds

Anonymous ID: 32f2e8 Jan. 4, 2020, 2:53 p.m. No.7715840   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Just Two Companies Accounted For Nearly 20% Of The Market's Entire 2019 Return

 

Two weeks ago, when looking back at 2019, Morgan Stanley concluded that the observed market action was indicative of one of the most bizarre years ever, because while the S&P ended up returning a whopping 29% in 2019, just shy of 2013's 29.3% and the second best year for the market since 1997, earnings actually dropped, which means that all the market upside came from multiple expansion. There was another bizarre aspect to 2019: it was a year when despite the blockbuster overall return of the S&P, "bullish" strategies actually underperformed.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/just-two-companies-accounted-nearly-20-markets-entire-2019-return

Anonymous ID: 32f2e8 Jan. 4, 2020, 3:01 p.m. No.7715921   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5955 >>5986 >>5997 >>6047 >>6060 >>6067 >>6111 >>6128

Iran’s Foreign Minister Threatens to Expose Western Diplomats Who Took Bribes to Create the Iran Nuclear Deal

 

May 13, 2018

 

When Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal on Wednesday, European companies were faced with a stark choice. Do they continue doing business in Iran and risk being prohibited from doing business with the United States and with any bank who does business with the United States? Or do they pull out of Iran? The answer to that question will become more clear in the next few weeks as Steve Mnuchin and the green eyeshades guys in Treasury begin to reimpose pre-2015 sanctions (I have to say, Mnuchin is the first Treasury Secretary I’ve seen who seems positively gleeful about slapping malefactors with sanctions, I hope it becomes a tradition).

 

Iran has released this video:

 

https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/05/13/irans-foreign-minister-threatens-expose-western-diplomats-took-bribes-create-iran-nuclear-deal/