Fort Lee-Part 4

David Wildstein was Christie’s enforcer and go-to guy at the Port Authority, which runs the New York City-area airports as well as the bridges and tunnels that connect New York and New Jersey. He shut down two out of three local access lanes to the George Washington Bridge at the direction of Kelly. Their alleged goal was political payback against the mayor of Fort Lee who would not endorse Christie’s re-election bid.

"Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," Kelly wrote in an August 2013 email.

New Jersey governor  fired Kelly and cast aside Bill Stepien, the man who ran his political organization.

Prosecutors said that to "maximize the congestion and thus the punitive impact", the trio "caused these lane and toll booth reductions to start on the first day of the school year in Fort Lee, without any advance notice to Mayor, Chief of Police and the residents of Fort Lee."

Wildstein admitted in Newark federal court that the bridge's access lane closures were the result of political retribution. He admitted that Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni chose the first day of school to maximize the punishment and used the traffic study as a "cover story."

What makes one do things like that thinking they wouldn't get caught? 

Just a thought.

Young Haters?

Violence and looting overtook much of West Baltimore. As night fell, looters took to Mondawmin Mall and a Save-A-Lot and Rite Aid in Bolton Hill, loading up cars with stolen goods. "I don't understand how stealing jeans is going to bring justice to Mr. Gray."

About 10 fire crews battled a three-alarm fire at a large senior center under construction, as police officers stood guard with long guns.  Shots were fired at an officer in the area.

Fifteen police officers were injured in the clash with school-age children that began around 3 p.m.    Police arrested 27 people.

The mayor declared a curfew across the city, “thugs” are “destroying our city.”
Police commissioner implored parents to take control of their children who might be taking part in the rioting.  Structures that were being destroyed took great effort to erect in ailing communities that need them. 

What are these young people angry at? Is it the Police, Society, Poverty, Education, or Lack of Family life?

Just a thought.

Clergy...??

Rev. Creflo Dollar appealed in a video to "friends from around the world," soliciting donations to replace his current 1984 Gulfstream G-1159A Airplane. 

Dollar said. "Just because the world doesn't have it, doesn't mean that you can't."

If you knew what we did, then you wouldn't ask  " What does a preacher need with an airplane?

 

A Gulfstream G650 [$65 million] can fly 18 passengers and four crew members. The jet comes with two Rolls-Royce engines, high-speed Internet and two multichannel satellites and allows for a four-and-a-half-hour commute from New York to Los Angeles.   It is the biggest, fastest, most luxurious, longest range and most technologically advanced jet by far.

The pastor has said the two incidents involving his old plane including one in which a mechanical failure caused the jet to skid off a runway in London while his wife and their three daughters were aboard have shown him it was time to turn to God for a new airplane.
 

Prosperity gospel is a theology that promises wealth and health to those who tithe 10% of their income to the church.

The people need to know what he does with a private airplane? and if   he can operate without it in God's Name.?

Just a thought.

Judgement...

On April 15, 2013, at 2:49 PM, with more than 5,600 runners still in the race, two pressure-cooker bombs–packed with shrapnel and other materials hidden in backpacks, were placed on the ground amidst crowds of marathon-watchers–exploded within seconds of each other near the finish line along Boylston Street.

The blasts instantly turned the sun-filled afternoon into a gruesome scene of destruction and chaos. Three spectators died: a 23-year-old woman, a 29-year-old woman and an 8-year-old boy, while more than 260 other people were wounded. Sixteen people lost legs; the youngest amputee was a 7-year-old girl.

On April 18, at around 10:30, Sean Collier, a 27-year-old police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was shot dead in his patrol car on the school’s Cambridge campus.  

They carjacked a Mercedes SUV at gunpoint, drove around with their hostage, forcing him to withdraw money from an ATM and discussing driving to New York City.

Police in the Watertown spotted the suspects in the stolen SUV. A gun battle broke out, exchanging fire with the police and hurling explosive devices at them. One officer was seriously injured.

Dzhokhar drove the stolen SUV straight at the police, running over his brother before speeding away. 

Awaiting the right judgment. Just a thought.

Gone Bananas??

Image is not related.

A federal judge ripped self-proclaimed “Banana King” Thomas Hoey Jr. as “a danger to the community” as he sentenced him to an additional 12 years  behind bars for his role in the 2009 death of Kimberly Calo, who overdosed on cocaine that Hoey supplied during a three-way sex romp.

“Thomas Hoey Jr. is a self-absorbed, self-pitying, selfish man who is a danger to the community,” “He preys on women …. The public needs to be protected from further crimes from his defendant.”

Members of Calo’s family weren’t buying the banana baron’s remorse. “he seems more sorry he got caught,” Calo’s brother, told the judge. “Every day this man is out he will continue this operation. Every day he is jail, he will not hurt another woman.”

Hoey also forced the other gal involved in the three-way hotel orgy, to lie to a grand jury about his role in the 41-year-old Calo’s death. She was convicted for lying to a grand jury, died of a coke overdose.

Hoey is currently serving 4 years in prison after being convicted of beating up current girlfriend Alison Bretherick in 2012. 

He was slapped with additional criminal charges for allegedly dipping into the pension fund at Long Island Banana Co. and using more than $800,000 of the cash to fund his lavish lifestyle.

Just a thought.

Health-care scheme

 

Federal investigators say a small blood lab in New Jersey paid doctors kickbacks to send blood work to the lab as part of a $200 million health-care fraud scheme.

"There was an excess of a dozen doctors who actively participated in the scheme like there was nothing wrong with it," according to Scott Lampert, special agent in charge at Health and Human ‎Services. "This was in excess of a $200 million health-care fraud scheme one of the largest that I've ever seen," Lampert said.
They knowingly ordered unnecessary blood tests.

The lab's top guy, according to investigators, was making so much cash that he dropped millions on items including vintage cars, fancy homes and more. 

An employee of Walmart, Mc Donald and others make $10/hour and support their families with minor support from the State just to keep their head above the water and here is Doctors, fortune enough to reach this level of social status and with income of hundred thousands of dollar /year, and still have the need to scam the Tax Payer.  What a Shame brought to the profession and their families.  

Just a thought.

Deport....

A 24-year-old Algerian who moved to France in 2009, prosecutors said was already being watched because he had expressed interest in traveling to Syria, but intelligence had not yet found grounds to put him under strict surveillance. The man had been in contact with someone in Syria who directed him to attack a Paris church.

Authorities believe that the suspect was involved in the murder of a woman he had never met.  Police were able to connect her to the suspect using ballistics data.

The suspect directly contacted authorities because he needed an ambulance after allegedly shooting himself accidentally, officials said.

Medics and police found a trail of blood leading to his car. Inside the vehicle, investigators found guns, a bulletproof vest, a laptop computer, a USB key and notes on potential targets. A search of his apartment revealed more weapons and unspecified evidence linking him to religious extremism.

The suspect has been treated for his wounds in a nearby hospital but is not speaking with authorities, prosecutors said.

 

It's about time for certain people to lose their legal status to enter France.    

 

Just a thought.

Elastic Heart

Sia, is an Australian singer, songwriter and music video director. Musically and artistically precocious. Sia relocated to New York City in 2005 and began touring across the United States. She released her fourth and fifth studio releases, Some People Have Real Problems and We Are Born.

Sia's music incorporates hip hop, funk and soul as a base for her vocal styling. In 2014, she was ranked the 97th richest Australian person under the age of 40 by BRW magazine, with a reported net worth of AU$ 20 million.

Listen to her beautiful song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5lwLlaIfzY&index=4&list=WL

Sarao....

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Navinder Singh Sarao, 37, was arrested Tuesday in the U.K. and charged with multiple counts of fraud.

Prosecutors say Sarao used illegal trading techniques that contributed to an abrupt stock market crash on May 6, 2010, when the Dow Jones industrial average fell 600 points in a matter of minutes before bouncing back.

The episode raised concerns about the underlying structure of the stock market and highlighted the dangers of so-called computer generated high-frequency trading.

According to the criminal complaint, Sarao flooded the market with multiple, large sell orders for futures contracts called E-Minis, which traders use to speculate on the direction of the S&P 500 index.

This created the appearance of heavy supply in the market and drove prices down. Sarao allegedly canceled most of the orders before they were executed.

He profited when the market fell and also when it rebounded by buying and selling futures contracts. On the day of the Flash Crash, the complaint says Sarao made nearly $9 million trading E-Minis. From 2010 to 2014, he allegedly made about $40 million.

He didn't pay the bond.. so the scam continue and so is jail.

Just a thought.

Wrong hair...

The FBI is notifying hundreds of defendants in 46 states that their convictions involved flawed expert testimony. It now admits that nearly Every Examiner in an elite forensic unit overstated hair matches that favored prosecutors.

This is one of the country's largest-ever forensic scandals and includes dozens of death row convictions, reports CBS News correspondent Julianna Goldman.
Cleveland Wright spent 28 years behind bars serving time for a 1978 murder.  Wright was exonerated in 2014, but has not been compensated.

The Innocence Project and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers found from the 1970s through 1999, in 268 cases where FBI hair analysis led to a conviction, 257, or 96 percent, had errors in analysis.

Eighteen of those defendants were living on death row 12 had been executed.

"There's a certain aura about FBI agents. They are very sharp, and very trustworthy; it doesn't mean their experimentation was done properly," Kobilinsky said.
Errors do not mean there was no evidence of guilt, but defendants may have grounds for appeal.

Just a thought.