>https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1272674003199672321
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-congress-bezos-idUSKBN23M285
Amazon says CEO Bezos willing to testify before U.S. Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amazon Inc said on Monday its founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos was willing to testify to a congressional panel investigating potential violations of U.S. antitrust law by big technology companies.
The company’s attorney sent a letter to members of the House Judiciary Committee, saying Amazon had cooperated with the probe. “This includes making Jeff Bezos available to testify at a hearing with the other CEOs this summer,” said the letter from Robert Kelner of Covington and Burling LLP.
The big four tech platforms - Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google, Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Amazon and Facebook Inc (FB.O) - are under investigation by a House Judiciary Committee panel and the U.S. Justice Department. The Federal Trade Commission is probing Facebook and Amazon and U.S. state attorneys general are looking at Facebook and Google.
Representative David Cicilline, chair of the committee’s antitrust panel, said testimony from the CEOs was “essential to complete this bipartisan investigation into the state of competition in the digital marketplace.”
“The Antitrust Subcommittee will continue to use the tools at our disposal to ensure we gather whatever information is necessary,” he said in a statement.
Kelner’s letter said that Amazon and the committee would need to “resolve a number of questions regarding timing, format, and outstanding document production issues, all necessarily framed by the extraordinary demands of the global pandemic.”
This would be the first time that Bezos has appeared before Congress, according to a source familiar with the company.
In early May, the committee demanded Bezos’ testimony in the wake of a report that the online retailer uses data from third-party sellers to create competing products. Amazon’s associate general counsel, Nate Sutton, had denied under oath last July that Amazon used sensitive information from independent sellers to develop Amazon products.
The letter also noted that Amazon had given the committee’s antitrust panel more than 225,000 pages of documents and notes that the committee has not given a “binding commitment” that they would be confidential.
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>How 'bout dis one.
>https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/NXIVM-leader-Raniere-sentencing-re-set-for-June-23-15235543.php
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NXIVM leader Raniere sentencing is re-set, firmly, for June 23
NEW YORK – The sentencing of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere is now firmly scheduled for June 23 — one way or another.
And one way may be a virtual court appearance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 59-year-old Raniere, a former Halfmoon resident known within his cult-like NXIVM organization as “Vanguard,” had been scheduled to be sentenced in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on May 21.
Senior U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis set the June 23 date, according to a court filing Wednesday that said the proceeding will be held in the judge’s courtroom ”or by live videoconference as the circumstances require.”
"No further adjournments will be granted," the court filing said.
The personal growth guru faces the possibility of life in federal prison on his convictions of all charges last June. Jurors found Raniere guilty of sex trafficking, forced labor conspiracy and racketeering charges that includes underlying acts of child exploitation, possession of child pornography, identity theft, obstruction of justice, wire and visa fraud, human trafficking and money laundering,
Raniere has been locked up in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since his conviction.
Garaufis, who has rescheduled Raniere’s sentencing several times, adjourned the most recent sentencing date following a joint request from the defense and prosecution.
Raniere lawyers Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos told the judge that due to the pandemic, which has infected at least one inmate in the detention center, lawyers are presently not permitted to visit inmates.
Garaufis set the June 23 sentencing for 10 a.m. The judge told attorneys to provide the names of people who wish to be heard at Raniere’s sentencing no later than June 19 at 10 a.m.
A potentially large number of victims could deliver impact statements. Raniere’s victims included former members of NXIVM and his secret master
slave group, Dominus Obsequious Sororium (DOS), which in Latin means “Lord/Master of the Obedient Female Companions.”
On Raniere’s orders, DOS “slaves” were required to obey all demands of their “masters,” all of whom ultimately answered to Raniere, the “grand master” of DOS whose involvement in it was kept hidden from NXIVM and most DOS members. He demanded, among other directives, that they survive on 500-a-day calorie diets, pleasure Raniere sexually and be branded with his initials in their pelvic regions by someone using a cauterizing pen.
Former NXIVM president Nancy Salzman, her daughter Lauren Salzman, Seagram’s heiress Clare Bronfman, actress Allison Mack and NXIVM bookkeeper Kathy Russell, all still await sentencing. Each pleaded guilty before the trial. Lauren Salzman was a key witness for prosecutors.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20140115140208/http:/www.jeffreyepsteineducation.com/
New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, recently announced that he will personally fund the creation of four charter schools in New York City. The announcement was welcomed by New York financier and education philanthropist, Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, a long-time supporter of Bloomberg, has financed numerous charter schools across the country including the Maya Angelou schools in Washington DC, the highly acclaimed Bard High School Early College in New York City and the Harlem Link Charter School.
Bloomberg's funding will come through his foundation, the Young Men's Initiative, which is also funded by George Soros' Open Society Foundations. Once approved by the state Board of Regents, the co-ed charter high schools will open in September 2014, alongside four public schools in five high-poverty neighborhoods: in Brooklyn, the South Bronx, Queens and East Harlem. Both the public and charter schools will share a board of trustees, with Melanie Hartzog, a former City Hall official for Health and Human Services, as a proposed member.
In addition to funding charter and Head Start schools, The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation continues to be a staunch supporter of cutting edge science and science education. Jeffrey Epstein also founded the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University in 2003 with a $30 million grant. He is a former member of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, Rockefeller University, New York Academy of Science and sits on the board of the Mind, Brain and Behavior Committee at Harvard University.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-oliver-continues-his-war-on-racist-tucker-carlson
>http://www.alsmithfoundation.org/the-dinner/
>http://www.alsmithfoundation.org/the-dinner/
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