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Obama CDC Boss Who Admired China’s Response Put in Charge of Contact Tracing

This Obama CDC guy has been hired by Cuomo to provide Contact Tracing for NY, NJ, CT. Pay close attention to the connections here.

Two years ago, the NYPD was frog-marching Thomas Frieden, Obama's former CDC boss, with his hands cuffed behind his back after he was charged with third-degree sexual abuse and forcible touching. Frieden had been accused of groping a female friend, but was shortly released without bail on his own recognizance, pled guilty to disorderly conduct, and had the charged sealed and dismissed. And that shouldn’t have been surprising. Not only had Frieden headed New York City’s Health Department for seven years, going to war against fat and big sodas, but he had remained a close Bloomberg ally. And the billionaire was a major funder of Vital Strategies, Frieden’s public health organization.

Now Governor Cuomo has announced that New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut will be launching a tri-state contact tracing program. “Mike Bloomberg has volunteered to help us develop the program," Cuomo, whose policies may have killed over 5,000 nursing home residents, tweeted. "It will be expensive, challenging & require an army of tracers." Bloomberg’s presence means that Vital Strategies and Frieden will be at the center of the undertaking. Before going on to run the CDC under Obama, Frieden had served as the Director of Global Health for Bloomberg Philanthropies even while working as Bloomberg’s Health Commissioner. When Frieden was arrested for allegedly groping a woman's buttocks, Vital Strategies CEO Jose Luis Castro had eagerly come to his defense. “I have known and worked closely with Dr. Frieden for nearly 30 years and have seen firsthand that he has the highest ethical standards both personally and professionally,” Castro insisted. “In all of my experiences with him, there have never been any concerns or reports of inappropriate conduct.”

That is to say, Frieden had stayed above the waist with Castro when both men had worked at New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and now at the helm of Vital Strategies. Both Frieden and Castro had started out small, Frieden as a community organizer at Vanderbilt, and Castro, who had a BA in Political Science from Pace and an MPA in administration from UPenn, as a lecturer on political science at Pace. Both had traveled the same road through New York's Department of Health, the World Health Organization, and then Bloomberg’s billion-dollar philanthropic empires. Should either man have a major role in contact tracing millions of people in the tri-state area? Both officials had been tasked with fighting tuberculosis. During Frieden's tenure as New York’s director of the Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, the Health Department announced that it would detain patients who didn’t voluntarily complete treatment for tuberculosis on Roosevelt Island, the former home of the infamous Blackwell's Penitentiary, where they would remain for up to a year under guard on the island.

Frieden said at the time that he had no idea how many patients would require long-term detention. Previously, 50 people had been detained with average stretches in the medical joint of over a month. Back then, I was in high school. I had tested positive for TB with a skin test. I later learned that TB skin tests have such a high false positive rate that they’re highly dubious. But nonetheless, I was prescribed a high dose of antibiotics. I remember feeling weak and collapsing on the couch every evening after taking them, unable to get homework done or even stay awake for more than an hour after being dosed. I never finished the endless course of treatment, but didn’t end up under guard at Blackwell’s either. Frieden left New York City's battle with tuberculosis, which his own department's numbers showed was largely coming from third world immigrants, to work for WHO. Castro continued serving as the Director of Operations for the Bureau for another two years. Frieden returned as Bloomberg’s Commish to wage war on soda and fat, before heading off to mismanage infectious disease policy on a national level.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/obama-cdc-boss-who-admired-chinas-response-put-daniel-greenfield/

>>9349876

No…

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. indicts North Koreans, Chinese for illegal financial deals

U.S. prosecutors have indicted a group of 28 North Koreans and five Chinese nationals part of a global network of companies charged with circumventing U.S. sanctions by covertly accessing the American financial system, according to court papers unsealed Thursday. The North Koreans carried out the transactions using the state-run Foreign Trade Bank of North Korea in Pyongyang and hundreds of front companies around the world in a massive operation to avoid U.S. financial sanctions, the indictment charged. In total, investigators identified at least $2.5 billion in illegal payments by foreign banks to the North Korean front groups. At least $63.5 million of the funds have been seized by the U.S. government between 2015 and 2020 from the North Koreans through forfeiture actions. The 14-count federal grand jury indictment represents the largest enforcement action against North Korea by the Justice Department, which has played a stepped-up role under the Trump administration in enforcing tougher sanctions policies toward both North Korea and China.

“The defendants in this case used more than 250 front companies to allegedly obscure $2.5 billion in illicit financial dealings conducted by North Korea’s Foreign Trade Bank,” said Michael R. Sherwin, acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. The Foreign Trade Bank has been sanctioned by both the U.S. government and the U.N. Security Council. “Through this indictment, the United States has signified its commitment to hampering North Korea’s ability to illegally access the U.S. financial system and limit its ability to use proceeds from that illicit action to enhance its illegal weapons of mass destruction programs,” Mr. Sherwin told The Washington Times. The investigation into the illicit financial activities has been underway since at least 2018. The charges include conspiracy, bank fraud, violations of weapons of mass destruction sanctions regulations and money laundering. The locations of those named in the indictment are not known and the legal actions appears to be a so-called “name and shame” step to expose the illicit financial operations by Pyongyang.

The Foreign Trade Bank was hit with Treasury Department sanctions in March 2013 when it was added to the department’s special designated persons list aimed at curbing North Korean ballistic missile and weapons of mass destruction programs. It was the first time the Justice Department indicted a group of North Koreans for illicit financial activities. The indictment also revealed that at least four Chinese banks and several Chinese companies, including two telecommunications companies and an electronics company, helped the North Koreans purchase equipment and moving cash. Most of Chinese banks and companies were not identified by name. Two of the Chinese firms were identified as Dandong Kehua, described in the indictment as a co-conspirator, and Panda International Information Technology, a company sanctioned in 2014 by the Commerce Department.

According to the 16-page indictment, the North Koreans conducted extensive dollar transactions for the trade bank. They include Ko Chol Man and Kim Song Ui, who both worked at bank presidents, along with bank vice presidents identified as Han Ung and Ri Jong Nam. Mr. Ko was sanctioned in 2017 as a North Korean government official. Two of the North Korean defendants worked for a covert branch of the Foreign Trade Bank in Shenyang, China, and three others operated North Korean front companies identified as Sumer International Group Ltd. and Headsoon Trading. The conspiracy charge involves allegations that the North Koreans illegally used the U.S. financial system beginning in March 2013 and continuing to the present. In addition to using American financial services, the North Koreans also purchased products and services for North Korea. Other front companies that were part of the North Korean financial operations were identified in the indictment as Shenyang Bright Century, and Minggzheng Trading Ltd. Other North Korean front companies operating in China were identified as being located in Beijing and Zuhai, China.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/28/us-indicts-north-koreans-chinese-illegal-financial/

>>9349916

Baker Cap

Trump signs social media executive order that calls for removal of liability protections over 'censoring'

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-signs-executive-order-on-social-media-companies

>>9350333

NY Post has a story as well..

>>9350344

Watch for protectionist laws next.."for the safety of our citizens we must…." it's coming same playbook different day.