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Anonymous ID: 4bdb68 March 30, 2020, 10:49 a.m. No.8624879   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4906 >>5171 >>5261

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is deemed an essential business by the US government because 'its future value to national security', allowing it to continue operations amid the coronavirus outbreak

 

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com

18:45 BST 30 Mar 2020 , updated 18:45 BST 30 Mar 2020

Anonymous ID: 4bdb68 March 30, 2020, 11:04 a.m. No.8625017   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5054 >>5072

For the first time, attorney Tom Ajamie opens up about his pro bono investigation into questionable practices at amfAR that led to the disgraced movie mogul's demise.

In January 2017, Tom Ajamie sat in a luxury hotel suite at Main & Sky in Park City when Harvey Weinstein came bounding in for an awkward face-to-face meeting. The Houston-based financial fraud attorney had been hired by the amfAR board to investigate a suspect transaction involving Weinstein. Ajamie had recently submitted his eight-page confidential report, the details of which Weinstein appeared to know well. But as the two-hour meeting kicked off, the Oscar-winning producer was focused on a different subject entirely.

 

"He began screaming at me, 'You’re telling everyone I rape women. You’re causing problems for me. I have a very good reputation. And you’re the source of all these rumors'," Ajamie recalls. "Harvey was manic. One minute he’d be yelling, and then he would calm down. He was all over the place. Yelling, screaming, cajoling, begging, trying to explain, often talking in circles, confused, not confused, justifying his actions — 'I slept with dozens and dozens of women, and you know they all won Academy Awards'."

 

Fast-forward three years, and Weinstein is now a convicted rapist and has been bouncing around New York correctional facilities amid health issues. Although Ajamie’s amfAR investigation never received the same level of attention as Weinstein’s sexual predation, it remains the key event that led to his downfall. After all, it was during the eight-month inquiry, which Ajamie’s firm did pro bono, that he learned of Weinstein’s open secret.

 

"Everyone I interviewed started off by saying things like, 'You know he’s a sexual predator, right?' as opposed to jumping right to this issue of financial transactions,” Ajamie says. "As a lawyer who’s done dozens of these investigations, it was very odd."……

Anonymous ID: 4bdb68 March 30, 2020, 11:07 a.m. No.8625054   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5072

>>8625017

At Main & Sky, he faced off with Weinstein — Ajamie, the Hollywood outsider, was unimpressed with the mogul’s name-dropping. (Weinstein was in Sundance with Jay-Z for the premiere of their TV series Time: The Kalief Browder Story, and days earlier, it was reported that Malia Obama would intern for him.) Attorney Lisa Bloom, who arranged the meeting, was the only other person present.

 

Near the end of the meeting, Weinstein leaned close to Ajamie and told him to sign an NDA. “He said, ‘David Boies wants you to sign this nondisclosure. You have to keep everything you learned about me secret,’ ” recalls Ajamie.

 

He refused. Soon after, he was contacted by New York Times writers Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. "I told them what I was able to tell them," he says. The rest is history.

Anonymous ID: 4bdb68 March 30, 2020, 11:22 a.m. No.8625205   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5230 >>5276 >>5299

Vatican allows Catholics to pray directly to God for forgiveness

 

A Vatican tribunal issued a notice last week stating that due to the pandemic, Catholics need not meet with a priest to be given absolution for their sins.

 

“This Apostolic Penitentiary holds that, especially in places most impacted by the pandemic contagion and until the phenomenon subsides, there are cases of grave necessity” meeting the criteria for general absolution, the notice about confession said.

 

The Apostolic Penitentiary, is chiefly a tribunal of mercy, responsible for issues relating to the forgiveness of sins in the Catholic Church.

Anonymous ID: 4bdb68 March 30, 2020, 11:34 a.m. No.8625334   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-merkel/germanys-merkel-to-work-from-home-despite-negative-coronavirus-test-idUSKBN21H31A