January, 2019

So, the 7th line indicates that Perkins Coie had an account at US Bank with the amount of $2.9 million that was seized by the Federal government. The case is regarding the human trafficking surrounding Backpage.com. Many think this is a clue about bigger things to come.

The case is really about money laundering and Perkins Coie representing in this capacity might already be conflicts of interest. Perkins Coie is representing Backpage. Escrow account for retainer, etc, could certainly be a possibility.

"one of the defendants consented to the forfeiture of funds in several attorney IOLTA accounts. The Perkins account isn't listed in this plea, but it's very likely client funds were parked there for this purpose."

So looks like speculation still. But if this is the case, it seems it would indeed be retainer-type accounts which were forfeited in a plea deal.

The money is unearned retainer fees from IOLTA accounts, which means that it has not yet been earned by the firms and is still Backpage’s money.

Thumann placed the driver, 50-year-old Francisco Rangel Rodriguez, a Mexican national, under arrest for drug possession and transported him to the jail. Lt. Beyer told Breitbart News that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers placed an immigration detainer on the suspect. He said they do not yet know how or where the drugs were smuggled into the U.S.

The McAfee 2020 Campaign is, as of this day, in exile. I am being charged with using Crypto Cuttencies in criminal acts against the U. S. Government. More videos coming shortly. Stay tuned. pic.twitter.com/C75zcbnKTD

— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) January 22, 2019

The law states that comprehensive reproductive health care is a fundamental right, and more specifically that people in New York have the right to seek an abortion within 24 weeks of the start of their pregnancy, or at any time if the pregnancy is not viable or a risk to the mother's health.
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The law also changes the previous penal code to make the definition of homicide now exclude the abortion of a fetus older than 24 weeks.

Three people from Lansing are in police custody Tuesday night after being accused of planning to join a terrorist organization. Prosecutors say the group was trying to fly to Somalia to join ISIS.

They were arrested on Monday. Investigators say they pledged themselves to ISIS through recorded videos. All three people face up to 20 years in federal prison.

The reason Sarah Sanders does not go to the “podium” much anymore is that the press covers her so rudely & inaccurately, in particular certain members of the press. I told her not to bother, the word gets out anyway! Most will never cover us fairly & hence, the term, Fake News!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2019

Hogan Gidley, the deputy press secretary, addressed the lack of press briefings on Fox News earlier Tuesday morning. “She’s [Sarah Sanders] going to come back when she finds a reason to,” he said on “America’s Newsroom.”

Eyebrows were raised among Democratic officials and activists on Jan. 21 when Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) announced her 2020 presidential nomination bid and listed Marc Elias as her campaign’s general counsel.

Elias, head of the Perkins Coie LLP law firm’s political law practice, is among the Democratic Party’s top campaign finance experts and a recognized power-player at the highest levels.

President Donald Trump’s administration said on Tuesday it will urge the Supreme Court to rule by the end of its term in June on a bid to implement a plan, blocked by a judge, to ask people in the 2020 national census whether they are U.S. citizens.

The Justice Department said in a court filing it will seek immediate Supreme Court review of the high-profile dispute even before a lower appeals court time has time to consider the case.

In a January 20 report titled — “‘It was getting ugly’: Native American drummer speaks on his encounter with MAGA-hat-wearing teens” — the Post‘s Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Antonio Olivo, and Joe Heim erroneously stated Philips is a veteran of the Vietnam War despite having not been deployed.

On Tuesday, news of the Post’s correction began circulating on social media. “Earlier versions of this story incorrectly said that Native American activist Nathan Phillips fought in the Vietnam War. Phillips served in the U.S. Marines from 1972 to 1976 but was never deployed to Vietnam,” the correction reads. The update does not have a time or date stamp.

House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff defended himself Tuesday against Donald Trump Jr.’s accusation of leaking by stating he didn’t “leak” testimony, but rather he exposed it.

“That’s not a leak, it is exposure of his non-cooperation and his stonewalling of our committee,” Schiff responded when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer confronted him about Trump’s allegation.

Little Adam Schitt should be very nervous.

BUILD A WALL & CRIME WILL FALL! This is the new theme, for two years until the Wall is finished (under construction now), of the Republican Party. Use it and pray!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 23, 2019

NBCUniversal invested $400 million in BuzzFeed and the two companies have a “strategic partnership,” raising eyebrows about why the Peacock Network isn’t more transparent when covering the controversial website.
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“Their $400 million investment is just the tip of the iceberg. They use BuzzFeed content throughout the NBC system and should have disclosed their ownership when reporting especially unconfirmed stories, especially highly contentious reports suggesting the president committed a criminal act,” Bibb said. “Another egregious failure on the part of NBC news chief Andy Lack.”

The Senate will hold competing votes Thursday on President Trump’s proposal to spend $5.7 billion on a border wall and on a Democratic bill that would fund the government through Feb. 8 without a wall, marking the first time the Senate has stepped off the sidelines to try to end the monthlong government shutdown.

The procedural move by Senators Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, and Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, is the first time the parties have agreed to do virtually anything since the shutdown began Dec. 23. With most Republicans united behind Mr. Trump’s insistence that any legislation to reopen the government include money for a border wall and most Democrats opposed to the linkage, neither measure might draw the 60 votes required to advance.

On Sept. 27, 2018, the IRS entered into a contract with Palantir Technologies of Palo Alto, California, to handle the task of data assimilation. The contract calls for Palantir to provide hardware, software and training to IRS employees to “capture, curate, store, search, share, transfer, perform deconfliction, analyze and visualize large amounts of disparate structured and unstructured data.”
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If the IRS’ $99 million spy software works as promised, the agency will have unprecedented ability to track the lives and transactions of tens of millions of American citizens.

Remember Palantir is? It is a cia-funded spy project co-founded by Peter Thiel.

From Forbes in 2012:

In the wake of NSA leaker Edward Snowden's revelations of the agency's mass surveillance, Palantir's tools have come to represent privacy advocates' greatest fears of data-mining technology -- Google-level engineering applied directly to government spying.

Peter Thiel’s data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers.

This isn't even a fraction of it's potential. We will break this down in a future analysis and report that you know and love from us.

It looks like Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi has no intention of allowing the House chamber to be used for a State of the Union address.

A North Carolina judge on Tuesday rejected Republican Mark Harris’ bid to be certified as the winner of a congressional vote at the center of an election fraud investigation, saying doing so would be a “dramatic intervention.”

Harris claimed victory over Democrat Dan McCready, after initial results of the November election showed he had won the Ninth Congressional District race by 905 votes. Harris filed a petition earlier this month to certify the results of the vote.

Irving Holcomb, 32, Ashton Battles, 21, and Rene Gonzalez, 29, were arrested by the Odessa Police Department at an Odessa motel on Friday, Jan. 18.

Police were dispatched to a Southeast Odessa motel just before 11:00 p.m. on Friday in reference to a welfare check possibly involving human trafficking of a 14-year-old girl. When officers arrived, they made contact with all three males and a 14-year-old girl inside a motel room.
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Officers also saw multiple firearms in the hotel room which led to a search warrant being obtained. Police found Gonzalez to be intoxicated and Battles to be in possession of methamphetamine.