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Anonymous ID: 38e525 June 22, 2020, 6:36 a.m. No.9706007   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6038 >>6212 >>6434 >>6612 >>6635

ATOM45 USAF Constant Phoenix se from Offutt AFB, NE

 

The aircraft is a modified C-135B or EC-135C platform. The Constant Phoenix's modifications are primarily related to its on-board atmospheric collection suite, which allows the mission crew to detect radioactive "clouds" in real time. The aircraft is equipped with external flow-through devices to collect particulates on filter paper and a compressor system for whole air samples collected in holding spheres. The cockpit crew is from the 45th Reconnaissance Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., and special equipment operators are assigned to Det. 1, Air Force Technical Applications Center at Offutt AFB.

https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104494/wc-135-constant-phoenix/

 

VENUS30 USAF C-40B south to Kinston Regional Jetport for some fly bys and now ne

This AC is used by KANSAS and the State Dept.

Anonymous ID: 38e525 June 22, 2020, 6:54 a.m. No.9706098   🗄️.is đź”—kun

$1 Billion Gold Case Pits Maduro, BOE in Fight of Law, Politics

 

A lawyer for the government of embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro urged a London court not to confuse law and politics in a battle over $1 billion in gold held by the Bank of England. While nations including the U.S. dismissed his 2018 re-election as rigged, the Maduro administration sets the budget, appoints officials and collects taxes, making him Venezuela’s legal head of government, Nick Vineall argued at a hearing on Monday.

 

Venezuela’s central bank sued the Bank of England for access to the gold that it says is urgently needed in a joint effort with the United Nations Development fund to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The bullion has been in limbo since U.S. officials successfully lobbied their British counterparts last year to block Maduro’s attempt to withdraw the gold. “One must be careful to disentangle the law from the politics,” Vineall said. “It’s vital to remember that recognition of a government doesn’t imply approval. Conversely, approval in a political sense does not imply recognition.”

 

The Venezuelan opposition, led by Juan Guaido who is backed by the U.S. and more than 50 other countries, has also laid claim to the gold. While the U.S., Canada and others have broken off diplomatic relations with Venezuela, the fact the U.K. has not means that the British government continues to recognize the legitimacy of the current government, Vineall said. “Her Majesty’s government maintains full, reciprocal and normal relations with Venezuela, he said, “and that is consistent with the recognition of Mr. Maduro’s government.”

 

Justice Nigel Teare, who is overseeing the case, didn’t give an indication of when a ruling is expected.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-22/venezuela-lawyer-says-don-t-confuse-law-politics-in-gold-fight

 

from May 21

Guaido Wants Role in BOE Spat Over $1 Billion in Venezuelan Gold

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/guaido-wants-role-in-boe-spat-over-1-billion-in-venezuelan-gold-1.1439450

Anonymous ID: 38e525 June 22, 2020, 7:47 a.m. No.9706496   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6557

U.S. Supreme Court sets limits on SEC's power to recover ill-gotten gains

 

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday placed limits on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s practice of forcing defendants to surrender profits obtained through fraud as part of its enforcement of investor-protection laws in federal courts, but stopped short of disallowing such action.

 

The court reaffirmed the agency’s authority to seek disgorgement, a part of its civil enforcement arsenal aimed at passing on funds acquired in fraudulent schemes to the original investors. But, in an 8-1 vote ruling authored by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court limited the scope of what can be sought via disgorgement by saying that it cannot exceed the net profits of the conduct at issue. The court also said that disgorgement generally must go to the “wronged investors.”

 

Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas was the sole dissenter, saying that disgorgement was not an authorized remedy.

 

The decision was issued in an appeal by a California couple, Charles Liu and Xin Wang, of a 2016 civil action brought against them by the SEC in federal court. The court sent the case back to lower courts for other unresolved legal issues to be considered. The couple had been ordered to disgorge almost $27 million, the amount they raised from foreign investors for a cancer treatment center that was never built.

 

The SEC has said that in the most recent full fiscal year it collected $1.5 billion in disgorgements and penalties and paid $1.2 billion to harmed investors.-where is the other $300m? Liu and Wang argued that Congress never gave the SEC authority to seek disgorgement, and that it is a form of punishment that courts cannot impose for the SEC.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-sec/u-s-supreme-court-sets-limits-on-secs-power-to-recover-ill-gotten-gains-idUSKBN23T239

The SEC "collects" it and then "hands" it out-