Ohio county starts hotline to report people not wearing masks

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County’s enforcement of Gov. Mike DeWine’s mask order will largely rely upon complaints filed by the public, rather than proactive policing, County Executive Armond Budish announced Friday. Individuals who see others failing to abide by the mask requirement should call in complaints to the county’s new hotline at 216-698-5050, or file complaints online at cuyahogacounty.us/maskexperience. County workers will then contact the subject of the complaints — either individuals or businesses — to let them know a complaint has been filed, Budish said. Complaints also will be forwarded to the Board of Health, and the relevant city or village.

“This is not intended to be going out and finding people not wearing masks. We want people to wear their masks… We want people to do it voluntarily,” Budish said. If the county receives repeated complaints or cases of “serious non-compliance,” the Sheriff’s Department could investigate or potentially file charges. Local municipalities and police departments also could respond to violations however they see fit, which could include proactive policing, Budish said. Even though sheriff’s deputies or local police can enforce the order, Budish said “there’s not enough people in law enforcement throughout the county to track down people, chase them around and figure out who we can go after for not wearing a mask.”

People can also file complaints directly with the Board of Health or their local governments, though Budish said the county established its hotline to better allow the Board of Health to focus on contact tracing and testing rather than mask enforcement. If the Board of Health determines certain places are continuously ignoring the mask order, the board may reach out to local authorities to address the problem, Health Commissioner Terry Allan said. Otherwise, the board intends to work with people and give them time to understand and comply with the governor’s mandate, Allan said. Violating the governor’s order is a second-degree misdemeanor, punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a $750 fine, Budish said.

https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2020/07/ohio-county-starts-hotline-to-report-people-not-wearing-masks.html

Ghislaine Maxwell filmed US politicians with underage girls, former pal claims

Ghislaine Maxwell once boasted she had video of two “high profile” US politicians, along with other powerful figures, having sex with underage girls, claims a former jewel thief who described the disgraced socialite as a nymphomaniac. The reformed thief and author, who uses the pseudonym William Steel, said he long suspected Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell were abusing underage girls after meeting them in a jewelry store in Palm Beach as he tried to sell his stolen wares, he said in an interview with The Sun. Steel, who claims he once swiped computer discs from the couple and sent them to authorities, did not reveal the identities of the people he says he saw in the videos. Steel admitting having sex with Maxwell, noting she would do “everything and anything in bed,” but said he never touched anyone underage, according to the tabloid. “I was forced to watch their videos because they were trying to impress me,” said Steel. “They wanted to convince me of their power and who they held in their grip. I saw videos of very powerful people — celebrities, world figures — in those videos having sex, threesomes, even orgies with minors.”

Steel, the author of Sex and the Serial Killer about multimillionaire Robert Durst, said he had initially included in his book some of the scenes he saw at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion, where the billionaire convicted pedophile was accused of sexually abusing girls as young as 14. The descriptions, including Epstein putting his hands down the back of a young girl’s shorts, were ultimately removed from the book for legal reasons, he said, and never published. Steel said he has come forward because he wants to see Maxwell, a British socialite and former Epstein gal pal, convicted for her alleged crimes. Maxwell was arrested July 2 at her New Hampshire hideout, and is currently in a Brooklyn lock-up, charged with helping Epstein sexually abuse young women. Steel said he is giving all of his information to authorities and is willing to testify in court.

Epstein and Maxwell got in touch with him to buy stolen goods for the girls they were allegedly grooming as sex slaves said Steel, who stole millions of dollars in art and jewels in the US. “It was mostly tennis bracelets, charm bracelets, women’s Piaget watches,” he said. Steel said while Maxwell was very loyal to Epstein, she also knew he would prove her undoing. “She said to me that she often thought she needed to do something about Epstein, telling me, ‘He is going to be the death of me,'” he said, adding she had an escape plan she called the “Polanski plan” after filmmaker Roman Polanski, who fled the United States for France after raping a 13-year-old girl in 1977. “She told me about her Polanski plan where she would flee to France because they couldn’t extradite her,” Steel said. Last week, Maxwell asked a federal judge to grant her bail. Epstein died in an apparent suicide Aug. 10 while awaiting trial at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan.

https://nypost.com/2020/07/11/ghislaine-maxwell-allegedly-filmed-politicians-with-underage-girls/

'NYMPHOMANIAC' Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ‘filmed powerful people having sex with underage girls’

https://www.the-sun.com/news/1120265/epstein-maxwell-people-sex-under-age-girls/