Former Nazi camp guard who lived in US for years to be deported

Memphis judge orders that Friedrich Karl Berger, who served at Neuengamme concentration camp, be sent back to Germany

By AP

Today, 5:23 am

https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-nazi-camp-guard-who-lived-in-us-for-years-to-be-deported/

Erdogan and his delegation travelled to Moscow to meet with Putin. Putin had them stand under the statue of Catherine II, the Empress of Russia who crushed the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774). It doesn’t get more humiliating than this for Erdogan.

https://twitter.com/imamofpeace/status/1235764404861497346?s=21

Drake's OVO sues companies in LA and Australia saying they used the company's owl logo

By Adam S. Levy For Dailymail.com

05:24 GMT 06 Mar 2020 , updated 05:24 GMT 06 Mar 2020

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8081517/Drakes-OVO-sues-companies-LA-Australia-saying-used-companys-owl-logo.html

Bush-appointed judge rips Attorney General Bill Barr for 'lack of candor' and 'misleading' statements about Robert Mueller's report and demands to see the unredacted copy

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton issued the stinging rebuke on Thursday

Said Barr made 'misleading public statements' about Mueller's report

Barr issued a summary of the report before the redacted version was out

Judge said his 'lack of candor' spun the findings in favor of Trump

By Associated Press and Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8081453/Bush-appointed-judge-rips-Attorney-General-Bill-Barr-lack-candor.html

04:21 GMT 06 Mar 2020 , updated 04:30 GMT 06 Mar 2020

Saudi Arabia reopens Mecca, Medina holy sites after coronavirus closure

By REUTERS MARCH 6, 2020 04:46

https://m.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Saudi-Arabia-reopens-Mecca-Medina-holy-sites-after-coronavirus-closure-619976

Troy Collings: North Korea's 'first budget travel agent' dies aged 33

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The head of the first budget travel agency to North Korea, Troy Collings, has died of a heart attack at 33.

He was the co-founder and managing director of Young Pioneer Tours - an agency which focused on younger tourists who wanted to travel to the secretive communist country.

Driven by the goal of making visiting North Korea affordable, the company had a big impact on tourism to the North.

Mr Collings, who was from New Zealand, died last week, the company said.

"Troy was instrumental in establishing Young Pioneer Tours as one of the leading travel companies for North Korea," the firm said in a statement.

"We here at YPT have lost a visionary and a true pioneer to the travelling industry.

"Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know or to be led on a tour by Troy have lost a dear friend."

Mr Collings co-founded the company with Gareth Johnson in 2008…..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-51732244

Iranian diplomat and former Ambassador to Syria Hossein Sheikholeslam died Thursday of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, according to the state-run Fars news agency.

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/iran-news/iranian-diplomat-hossein-sheikholeslam-dies-of-coronavirus/2020/03/06/

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Two Former Texas Executives Charged with Fraud and Obstruction of Justice

Two former executives of EarthWater Limited (EarthWater), a Dallas-based company, were charged in a superseding indictment with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud and obstruction of justice.

Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas and Inspector in Charge Delany DeLeon-Colón of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s (USPIS) Criminal Investigations Group in Washington, D.C., made the announcement.

Beth Ellen DeGroot, 60, and Harley E. “Buddy” Barnes III, 61, both of Plano, Texas, were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud and one count of obstruction.

Barnes and nine other individuals had been previously indicted by a Dallas grand jury for their alleged roles in a high-yield investment fraud scheme involving EarthWater. To induce victims to purchase EarthWater stock, the defendants allegedly falsely promised victims the opportunity to earn a high-rate of return in a short period of time by offering them stock at a low price on what they falsely claimed was the eve of EarthWater’s initial public offering (IPO). In truth, EarthWater had no ability or actual plans to go public……

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-former-texas-executives-charged-fraud-and-obstruction-justice

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Founder of Russian Bank Charged with Tax Fraud

Allegedly Concealed $1 Billion in Assets and Income when Renouncing U.S. Citizenship

The founder of a Russian bank was arrested last week in London in connection with an indictment charging him with filing false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson for the Northern District of California, and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Kareem Carter. The Sept. 26, 2019, indictment was unsealed today.

According to the indictment, Oleg Tinkov was the indirect majority shareholder of a branchless online bank that provided its customers with financial and bank services. The indictment alleges as a result of an initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange in 2013, Tinkov beneficially owned more than $1 billion worth of the bank’s shares. The indictment further alleges that three days after the IPO, Tinkov renounced his U.S. citizenship – a taxable event requiring Tinkov to report to the IRS the constructive sale of his worldwide assets, report the gain on the constructive sale of those assets to the IRS, and pay tax on such gain to the IRS. Although Tinkov allegedly beneficially owned more than $1 billion of TCS shares at the time of his expatriation through a British Virgin Island structure, the indictment charges that Tinkov filed a false 2013 tax return with the IRS that reported income of less than $206,000, and a false 2013 Initial and Annual Expatriation Statement reporting that his net worth was $300,000….

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/founder-russian-bank-charged-tax-fraud

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Department of Justice, Homeland Security and International Partners Announce Launch of Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

The Justice Department and Homeland Security, along with government counterparts from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, announced today the publication of Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. Developed in consultation with several leading technology companies, the 11 voluntary principles outline measures that companies in the technology industry can choose to implement to protect the children who use their platforms from sexual abuse online and to make their platforms more difficult for child sex offenders to exploit.

“Today marks a historic event,” said U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr. “For the first time, the Five Countries are collaborating with tech companies to protect children against online sexual exploitation. We hope the Voluntary Principles will spur collective action on the part of industry to stop one of the most horrendous crimes impacting some of the most vulnerable members of society…….

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-homeland-security-and-international-partners-announce-launch-voluntary

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Federal Jury Convicts Founder and Chairman of a Multinational Investment Company and a Company Consultant of Public Corruption and Bribery Charges

Former North Carolina State Political Party Chairman Previously Pleaded Guilty to Lying to the FBI in Connection with the Bribery Scheme

A federal jury sitting in Charlotte, North Carolina, has convicted the founder and chairman of a multinational investment company and a company consultant of public corruption and bribery charges, for orchestrating a bribery scheme involving independent expenditure accounts and improper campaign contributions.

Greg E. Lindberg, 49, of Durham, North Carolina, the founder and chairman of Eli Global LLC (Eli Global) and the owner of Global Bankers Insurance Group (GBIG), and Lindberg’s consultant, John D. Gray, 69, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, were convicted of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds after an approximately three-week trial before U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. A third co-defendant, Eli Global executive John V. Palermo, 64, of Pittsboro, North Carolina, was acquitted by the jury. A fourth co-defendant, Robert Cannon Hayes, 74, of Concord, North Carolina, previously pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI….

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-jury-convicts-founder-and-chairman-multinational-investment-company-and-company