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Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she'll acquit

A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic. “This is completely beyond the pale,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said in court on Monday. “This is outrageous behavior. This is stuff that happens in mob movies.” These seven are the first of 70 defendants expe ...

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Trump appeal to remove Willis from Georgia election subversion case set for October, likely putting trial past Election

Published 4:00 PM EDT, Mon June 3, 2024 CNN — The Georgia Court of Appeals has set a tentative date of October 4 to hear oral arguments in the effort to have Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis removed from prosecuting the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others. The possibility that the disqualification fight could stretch to October, as well as an ongoing question about how the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on presidential immunity could impac ...

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Louisiana lawmakers approve surgical castration option for those guilty of sex crimes against kids

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A person found guilty of a sex crime against a child in Louisiana could soon be ordered to undergo surgical castration, in addition to prison time. Louisiana lawmakers gave final approval to the bill Monday that would allow judges the option to sentence someone to surgical castration after the person has been convicted of certain aggravated sex crimes — including rape, incest and molestation — against a child younger than 13. A handful of states — including California, ...

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'Suspend!' Marjorie Taylor Greene smacked down by GOP chair at hearing with Dr. Fauci

David Edwards June 3, 2024 12:56PM ET Democrats called for the words of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to be taken down after she refused to call former National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci "doctor." .......................... "Do the American people deserve to be abused like that, Mr. Fauci?" Greene asked. "Because you're not doctor, you're Mr. Fauci in my few minutes." Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) interrupted to say Greene was breaking ...

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Sandy Hook families ask bankruptcy judge to liquidate Alex Jones' media company

June 3, 2024 / 12:17 PM EDT Relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are asking a bankruptcy judge to liquidate conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' media company, including Infowars, instead of allowing him to reorganize his business as they seek to collect on $1.5 billion in lawsuit verdicts against him. Lawyers for the families filed an emergency motion Sunday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston, saying Free Speech Systems has "no prospect" of getting a reorga ...

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Biden travels to Europe to commemorate the defeat of dictators

(NBC News) President Joe Biden leaves the campaign trail this week and flies to France for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, where he’ll give speeches touting American alliances that beat back dictatorships bent on world conquest. Biden is in a long string of presidents who have delivered that sort of message over the years as they built and sustained a Western bloc rooted in free markets, democratic governance and individual freedoms. As yet unknown is whether he'll be the last.

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Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign

(Pro Publica) Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares and cash from Trump’s media company. The benefits have flowed from Trump’s businesses and campaign committees, according to a ProPublica analysis of public disclosures, court records and securities filings. These pay increases and other benefits often came at delicate moments in the legal proceedings against Trump. One aide who was given a plum position on the board of Trump’s social media company, for example, got the seat after he was subpoenaed but before he testified.

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Trump Embarrasses Himself By Claiming Rising Seas Create Beachfront Property

(PoliticusUSA) Trump said: "The single biggest threat, not global warming, when they say that the seas will rise over the next 400 years, one eighth of an inch, you know, which means basically have a little more beachfront property." According to a 2022 NASA study, sea levels are projected to rise at least a foot over the next 20-30 years in the US. The rise will be even higher in Southeast and along the Gulf Coast. The country is not going to have more beachfront property. The country will have what is described as catastrophic flooding. Rising sea levels don’t create beachfront property, and the levels are going to rise much faster than Trump suggested.

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Producer of D'Souza's 2000 Mules retracts film, apologizes

(Mediaite) In a new statement, Salem apologized for the film and said it would cease distributing it. The move came after a man featured in the movie sued Salem for defamation. “In publishing the film and the book, we relied on representations made to us by Dinesh D’Souza and True the Vote, Inc. (‘TTV’) that the individuals depicted in the videos provided to us by TTV, including Mr. Andrews, illegally deposited ballots,” the company said in a statement. “We have learned that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has cleared Mr. Andrews of illegal voting activity in connection with the event depicted in 2000 Mules.”

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'Suspend!' Marjorie Taylor Greene smacked down by GOP chair at hearing with Dr. Fauci

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Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she'll acquit

8 hrs ago - A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed child ... (AP)

Trump appeal to remove Willis from Georgia election subversion case set for October, likely putting trial past Election

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