Feds Seize Luxury Watches, Art, Memorabilia From ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Producer…
July 17, 2019
Wolf of Wall Street producer Joey McFarland handed over a trove of movie memorabilia including vintage posters from Hollywood classics King Kong and Cool Hand Luke as well as a drawing by Jean-Michel Basquiat as the U.S. government continues to reclaim items alleged to have been purchased via money stolen from Malaysia's scandal-plagued 1MDB sovereign wealth fund.
Bloomberg reported that according to a filing presented in a Los Angeles federal court Monday, McFarland had received the valuable vintage posters, artwork as well as a cache of luxury watches from fugitive Malaysian businessman Jho Low, the alleged mastermind behind the theft of billions from the 1MDB fund. Around $5 billion has been discovered missing from the fund since the thefts were first discovered in 2015.
Minnesota city reinstates Pledge of Allegiance after overwhelming protests…
July 17, 2019
[The St. Louis Park City] Council member Thom Miller started the meeting by moving to reinstate the pledge, letting each member speak about the issue before they unanimously voted in favor of overturning the past decision. “I’ve concluded that I made a mistake and I’m sorry and I’m asking for forgiveness,” city council member Steve Hallifan said at the meeting, according to FOX9. “It’s impacting our staff’s productivity and mental health. Our wonderful staff. It’s costing us money,” council member Margaret Rog added.
House Passes Resolution Condemning Trump Tweets as Racist…
July 17, 2019
The House vote was 240 to 187, largely along party lines, with four Republicans joining 235 Democrats and one independent, Justin Amash of Michigan, in voting in favor of the resolution... In the end, a handful of Republicans broke with leadership: Reps. Susan Brooks of Indiana, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Will Hurd of Texas and Fred Upton of Michigan.
Poland refuses to hand over Christian man who fled from Sweden after authorities put his daughters in Muslim foster family…
July 17, 2019
“The court decided that the European arrest warrant issued by the Swedish authorities violates the freedoms and human rights of citizen Denis Lisov…,” said judge Dariusz Łubowski, adding that “he was put in a no-win situation, a genuine deadlock. His children were taken away, simultaneously he was faced with impossible conditions under which they could be recovered because he was not granted the right of permanent residence. The [Swedish] authorities did not guarantee him proper rights to contact his children. The selected foster family lived a considerable distance from his place of residence”... According to a psychologist’s opinion, the children are very closely attached to their father and want to live with him. “They did not feel safe in the foster family, which might have deepened their stress and result in disorders,” said the judge, adding that “the father was unable to watch this and the Swedish authorities’ actions violated the children’s good. The Swedish authorities’ actions glaringly disregarded the sensitivity of children coming from a Russian-European family.”