Turkish Bank Charged In Manhattan Federal Court For Its Participation In A Multibillion-Dollar Iranian Sanctions Evasion Scheme…
October 15, 2019
TÜRKİYE HALK BANKASI A.S., a/k/a “Halkbank,” was charged today in a six-count Indictment with fraud, money laundering, and sanctions offenses related to the bank’s participation in a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran. The case is assigned to United States District Judge Richard M. Berman.
U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman stated: “The facts that emerged at the full, fair, and public trial of Halkbank’s deputy general manager, which culminated in a jury’s January 2018 guilty verdict against him, illustrated senior Halkbank management’s participation in this brazen scheme to circumvent our nation’s Iran sanctions regime. As alleged in today’s indictment, Halkbank’s systemic participation in the illicit movement of billions of dollars’ worth of Iranian oil revenue was designed and executed by senior bank officials. The bank’s audacious conduct was supported and protected by high-ranking Turkish government officials, some of whom received millions of dollars in bribes to promote and protect the scheme. Halkbank will now have to answer for its conduct in an American court.” ...
Watch: ‘Democratic Dozen’ Take Stage In Biggest Primary Debate Ever…
October 15, 2019
Pelosi and Schiff discuss Trump impeachment inquiry in news conference at the Capitol | Pelosi holds off on vote to authorize Trump impeachment inquiry — for now…
October 15, 2019
Old Clip from 2008 Re-Emerges Showing Brokaw Grilling Biden on Hunter’s Job With MBNA…
October 15, 2019
“That’s a reference to your son being hired right out of law school by a big company here in Delaware that is in the credit card business, MBNA. He got about $100,000 a year, as I recall. You received $214,000 in campaign contributions from the company and from its employees,” Brokaw said. “At the same time, you were fighting for a bankruptcy bill that MBNA really wanted to get passed through the Senate, making it much tougher for everyone to file bankruptcy.”
Top drug distributors in talks to settle opioid litigation for $18 billion, report says…
October 15, 2019
McKesson Corp., AmerisourceBergen Corp. and Cardinal Health would collectively pay the $18 billion over 18 years as part of the deal, the WSJ reported. OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a tentative agreement last month to settle some 2,000 opioid lawsuits filed by local governments, Native American tribes and states...
Lebanon Pleads For International Help with Cyprus and Greece already reported to have sent aircraft to help extinguish the “Worst Fires In Decades” Lurch Near Beirut…
October 15, 2019
Hariri also vowed those behind it would bay "pay a heavy price". The Lebanese Army is said to be spearheading response efforts alongside over one hundred firefighters and additional volunteers to put the fires out, fueled by an especially dry season. Many homes in the Chouf mountains of densely populated central Lebanon were gutted by the forest fires...
Pray For Debbeih ! Pray for #lebanon 🇱🇧 🔥 #BAU pic.twitter.com/8n9UW0tvLp
— Hussain Chehimi (@Hasoon_Ch) October 14, 2019
Project Veritas PART 2 – CNN Leadership Picks Winners and Losers on Eve of Debate. “…They(CNN) like Warren a lot”
October 15, 2019
Federal judge strikes down Obama mandate requiring doctors to perform gender transition surgery, deeming it in violation of conscience protections …
October 15, 2019
Tuesday's order, a response to lawsuits by an association of medical professionals filed soon after the mandate went into effect, confirms two prior rulings against the regulation. The mandate was implemented by the Department of Health and Human Services in 2016, toward the end of the Obama administration, and required doctors to perform gender-transition procedures on any patient referred to them by a mental health professional. Doctors who refused to do the procedures because of moral objections risked losing their job.
See 8kun’s Preview and Logos…
October 15, 2019
Better not pout, you better not cry. 8kun is coming to town. Stay tuned Anons! 8kun is launching soon. While waiting, here be logos...
Family of 7 discovered living in Dutch farm cellar for years waiting for world to end…
October 15, 2019
The discovery was made after the 58-year-old man's 25-year-old son walked from the farm to a pub in Ruinerwold, where he was "completely confused" and police were called, RTV Drenthe reported. The owner of the pub, Chris Westerbeek, told Dagblad van het Noorden the 25-year-old looked "unkempt" with long hair and said he "needed help and had never been to school"... The father and the five children, all between the ages of 16 and 25, lived in the space and had no contact with the outside world, according to the television station. All of the man's children reportedly had no idea there were other humans out in the world... The farm had a "huge" vegetable garden and many sheds, but was described as rather "messy," according to the newspaper. RTV reported the family was completely self-sufficient, living off the vegetable garden and a goat.
Single Fentanyl Bust Was Enough to Kill 5 Million People…
October 15, 2019
Agents working in Temecula stopped a 2009 Ford Escape last Wednesday and made contact with a 54-year-old male U.S. citizen. Authorities noticed the headrests of the backseats were apparently tampered with and not of factory stock. Agents discovered two metal boxes concealed in the headrests containing 12 plastic-wrapped packages. Nine of the bags were determined to hold 22 pounds of fentanyl and three others held 2.64 pounds of cocaine. The combined value of the fentanyl and cocaine was determined to have an estimated street worth of $236,400, according to a federal media release.
Former Rep. Pete Sessions subpoenaed by grand jury investigating Giuliani and associates…
October 15, 2019
A federal grand jury in New York has issued a subpoena to former Texas congressman Pete Sessions seeking records and other information on his interactions with President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and two Giuliani associates charged last week with a scheme to funnel foreign money to U.S. politicians, according to two people familiar with the investigation. The subpoena seeks records about Sessions’s dealings with Giuliani and two business associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who before their arrest had been helping Giuliani investigate Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden.
Felicity Huffman starts serving prison time in college scam…
October 15, 2019
“Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman — aka prisoner No. 77806-112 — reported Tuesday to a federal prison in California to serve a two-week sentence in a college admissions scandal that ensnared dozens of wealthy mothers and fathers trying to get their children into elite schools. [...] The prison has been described by media as “Club Fed,” making its way onto a Forbes list in 2009 of America’s 10 Cushiest Prisons...
Man is jailed for 25 years for orchestrating $1.3 billion fraud scheme that stole money from at least 7,000 investors nationwide – including ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos…
October 15, 2019
Robert Shapiro, 62, was issued a 25 year sentence on Tuesday in Miami federal court after previously pleading guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion. Through his now-defunct investment firm, Woodbridge Group of Companies, Shapiro masterminded the scheme, swindling 7,000 investors out $470 million. During the five year ploy, Shapiro promised investors – most of them elderly – that their cash would be used to build and buy luxury properties for high returns. Instead, Shapiro bought the properties himself through a web of legal entities to obscure ownership, compiling hundreds of millions in real estate value. Under the confines of a classic Ponzi scheme arrangement, Shapiro’s firm paid off old investors using funds donated by new ones. His victims included retired doctors, teachers and at least one high-profile investor — ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos...
Giuliani says he won’t comply with a congressional subpoena…
October 15, 2019
Giuliani told ABC News “if they enforce it, then we will see what happens.”...
A New Study Suggests Tainted Talcum Powder Can Cause a Rare Cancer…
October 15, 2019
A new 33-patient case study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine provides some of the strongest proof yet that exposure to asbestos-tainted talcum powder may cause malignant mesothelioma, a rare and deadly cancer that affects tissues lining internal organs. This isn’t only an important scientific discovery—it could also give new ammunition to plaintiffs in the thousands of cases brought against brands selling talcum-powder-based products alleged to cause cancer, like Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder.
Malware That Spits Cash Out of ATMs Has Spread Across the World…
October 15, 2019
A joint investigation between Motherboard and the German broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) has uncovered new details about a spate of so-called “jackpotting” attacks.
We need to know exactly where these ATM’s are so we can avoid them! C:\
Hunter Admits it would’ve been impossible for him to be on any boards without his daddy being the VP…
October 15, 2019
🚨HOLY, WOW🚨
Hunter Biden admits he used his father’s office for personal gain:
“It is impossible for me to be on any boards without saying that I’m the son of the vice president of the United States — lots of things would not happen in my life if my name wasn’t Biden.”
Sick pic.twitter.com/jIWQgn6tDh
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) October 15, 2019
Feds Drop Homemade AR-15 Case for Fear of Hurting Wider Gun Control System…
October 15, 2019
... Roh allegedly had machines to manufacture AR-15s in a warehouse outside Los Angeles. Customers could come to the warehouse and allegedly build their own rifles “for about $1,000.” Roh allegedly maintained his business, even after ATF officials warned him ‘in person…that he was breaking the law.” Roh was eventually indicted, only to have federal authorities drop charges after prosecutors grew worried that a ruling in the case would be detrimental to the larger gun control system. They specifically worried the 1968 Gun Control Act could be endangered and that a trial might “seriously undermine the ATF’s ability to trace and regulate firearms nationwide.”
350+ ethical hackers got together in cities across Australia to hunt down missing people in first such hackathon. Organizers called the results “astounding,”…
October 15, 2019
During the six hours the competing teams hammered away at the task of searching for clues that could potentially solve 12 of the country’s most frustrating cold cases. 100 leads were generated every 10 minutes... At the start of the event, contestants were allowed to view the missing persons case details by logging into the capture-the-flag platform. The organizers haven’t released results of the mass gathering of OSINT. All leads generated on the missing person cases were handed over to the National Missing Persons Coordination Centre.