Justice Department Announces Findings of Investigation into Narcotics Bureau of Springfield, Massachusetts Police Department

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-findings-investigation-narcotics-bureau-springfield

American Man Charged with Exploiting Children in Laos

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/american-man-charged-exploiting-children-laos

Media Claim ‘Trump Rally’ Led to Tulsa Coronavirus Surge; Ignore Sharpton Rally, BLM Protests

The media are claiming that public health officials blamed President Donald Trump’s campaign rally last month in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for a local surge in coronavirus cases — even though they never did so, and there were other large public events.

The Associated Press ran the headline: “Health official: Trump rally ‘likely’ source of virus surge.”

But the story itself notes that Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart said that there were “several large events,” and never explicitly singled out the Trump rally:

Tulsa County reported 261 confirmed new cases on Monday, a one-day record high, and another 206 cases on Tuesday.

Although the health department’s policy is to not publicly identify individual settings where people may have contracted the virus, Dart said those large gatherings “more than likely” contributed to the spike.

“In the past few days, we’ve seen almost 500 new cases, and we had several large events just over two weeks ago, so I guess we just connect the dots,” Dart said.

The video of the press conference confirms that Dart stopped short of blaming the Trump rally explicitly.

In addition to Black Lives Matter protests outside the Trump rally, there were also protests earlier in the month.

And there was also a large rally for Juneteenth the day before the Trump rally, headlined by Al Sharpton — a fact that the AP story fails to mention.

From the USA Today on June 19:

About a mile away from the arena where President Trump will hold a Saturday rally, the Reverend Al Sharpton spoke to a field filled with people on the campus of Oklahoma State University – Tulsa, near where the city’s infamous 1921 race massacre took place.

Sharpton, one of several speakers for this year’s Juneteenth celebration in Tulsa, said “they tell their children that Lincoln freed the slaves. The fact is the slaves freed Lincoln.” He also rejected claims that protesters for the Black Lives Matter movement were violent.

“We are not violent, we’re fighting violence,” he said to the crowd.

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, when asked about the Tulsa public health official’s report at a press briefing, reiterated that the president and his team had followed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/07/08/media-claim-trump-rally-led-to-tulsa-coronavirus-surge-ignore-sharpton-rally-blm-protests/

Attorney General William P. Barr Announces Launch of Operation Legend

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-announces-launch-operation-legend

Dem Campaign Consulting Firms Took Millions In PPP Loans As They Cashed In On 2020 Election

Democratic campaign consultants have received millions in federal coronavirus relief funds even as they’ve taken in a windfall of fees from Democratic candidates and committees, according to government records released on Monday.

Multiple firms working with Joe Biden's campaign—including Anzalone Research Inc. and Blue Wave Political Partners—received substantial loans from the Trump administration’s Paycheck Protection Program.

Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner (GQR), a political research firm founded by Bill Clinton’s longtime pollster Stanley Greenberg, also benefited from the PPP loan program while taking in millions from Democratic clients, according to Federal Election Commission records.

These companies applied for loans despite the fact that 2020 is a presidential election year, a time that tends to be lucrative for the political consulting industry. All but one of these firms brought in significantly more campaign-related income in the 2020 election cycle than in the 2018 cycle, FEC reports show.

Ethics watchdogs criticized the money-grab by campaign consultants, noting that the program was intended to benefit small companies that are struggling from the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

"We knew this would happen as programs like PPP tend to benefit well-connected individuals and firms, leaving the neediest scrambling for the scraps connected firms left behind," said Tom Anderson, director of the National Legal and Policy Center’s Government Integrity Project.

Anzalone Research received between $350,000 and $1 million in PPP loans in April, while Belardi Wong ALC and Chapman, Cubine, and Hussey Inc. each took in between $1 million and $2 million. Anzalone Research and Belardi Wong have both been paid over $400,000 by the Biden campaign, according to FEC records. Chapman, Cubine, and Hussey has been paid over $1.7 million by Biden.

FEC records show all three firms earned more from campaign work in the current election cycle than in the 2018 cycle. Anzalone Research was paid $2.8 million between January 2019 and May 2020, a slight increase from $2.3 million during the same time period in 2017 and 2018. Belardi Wong earned $866,000 from 2020 campaign spending, nearly 10 times as much as the prior cycle. Chapman, Cubine, and Hussey’s campaign income more than quadrupled, from $1.4 million to $6.3 million.

https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/dem-campaign-consulting-firms-took-millions-in-ppp-loans-as-they-cashed-in-on-2020-election/

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US Attorney General Launches Operation to Combat Surge in Violence in Kansas City

US Attorney General William Barr is launching an operation to counter a surge of violence in the state of Missouri's Kansas City, where homicides are up by 40 percent, the Justice Department said in a press release.

"Today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Operation Legend, a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative across all federal law enforcement agencies working in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight the sudden surge of violent crime, beginning in Kansas City, MO", the release said on Wednesday.

According to the release, more than a hundred federal agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Marshals Service, Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives will provide substantial support to state and local officials as they aim to counter the surge in violence.

Furthermore, US Attorney for the Western District of Missouri Timothy Garrison will ensure additional resources are available to take on the expected increase in prosecutions, the release said.

Kansas City has had 100 homicides so far this year, which is a 40 percent increase compared to the same period last year, the release noted.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202007091079834304-us-attorney-general-launches-operation-to-combat-surge-in-violence-in-kansas-city/