Crime

FBI Nabs J6 Riot Suspect Via “Pumpkin Patch” Photo

NBC News reports: A New Jersey man who wore a throwback Philadelphia Eagles beanie to the Jan. 6 riot was arrested by the FBI this week after online “sedition hunters” identified him with the help of facial recognition and Facebook photos from a 2020 family trip to the pumpkin patch. Lee Giobbie, a 40-year-old financial adviser from Eastampton, New Jersey, …

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Notorious Cultist Disbarred After Robocalls Conviction

Reuters reports: Washington lawyer and Republican operative Jack Burkman is poised to lose his law license after pleading guilty to telecommunications fraud in Ohio. The D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility said Tuesday that Burkman earlier this month consented to disbarment. Burkman and his associate, Jacob Wohl, pleaded guilty in October 2022 to telecommunications fraud after using robocalls to intimidate people …

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PA Police: Cultist Beheaded Father And Displayed Head In YouTube Rant Against Biden, LGBTQs, And Top Feds

Philadelphia’s ABC affiliate reports: A Pennsylvania man has been charged after his father was found beheaded inside their family home Tuesday night in Middletown Township, Bucks County. The victim’s son, identified as 32-year-old Justin Mohn, has been charged with murder and abuse of a corpse, among other charges, according to police. Mohn is accused of not only beheading his father, …

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Man Charged With Threat To Kill Texas House Speaker

Beaumont’s CBS affiliate reports: Daniel Troy Leblanc, 44, is held on a $500,000 bond set by Justice of the Peace Ben Collins Sr. The judge has ordered that if Leblanc posts bond, he avoid all contact with House Speaker Dade Phelan and wear a GPS ankle monitor. According to the DPS, on Monday, January 15, Special Agents from the Texas …

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FBI Investigates Hate Crime Arson At GA Trans Clinic

Decaturish reports: The Decatur Fire Department confirmed on Jan. 26 that a fire at a gender clinic inside a historic building was intentionally set. As first reported by Decaturish, records show that fire investigators were probing whether an arsonist targeted a gender-affirming medical clinic at the historic Blair Building on Oct. 30, 2023. The city denied our request for police …

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Drug Ring Case Nets Feds $340 Million In Bitcoin

The Washington Post reports: A British resident accused of using the dark web to sell illicit drugs around the world has agreed to surrender bitcoin valued at hundreds of millions in what officials said is believed to be the largest seizure of cryptocurrency in the history of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Banmeet Singh, 40, who was extradited from the United …

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Navarro: Four Months Is A “Death Sentence” For Me

The Messenger reports: Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro complained about his recent four-month prison sentence, calling it a “death sentence” for someone his age. “They even want to put me in prison before I can have my appeal in this case,” Navarro griped to Sean Hannity Friday evening on Fox News. “They want Trump in prison and out of …

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Court Upholds Pharma Douche’s Ban From Industry

Reuters reports: Martin Shkreli, known for once hiking the price of a life-saving drug more than 4,000%, cannot return to the pharmaceutical industry after a federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld his lifetime ban. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a lower court judge acted properly in imposing the ban and ordering …

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Accused Scamsters Bankrolled Turning Point Event

The Daily Beast reports: When Trump-loving youth group Turning Point USA hosted a four-day extravaganza last month featuring right-wing media’s leading lights, it did so with cash from two groups the feds say bilked millions from elderly Republicans and anti-communist émigrés from China. The event’s sole “Diamond Sponsor”—reflecting the highest level of support—was Fisher Capital, a precious metals dealer that …

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Pastor Accused Of Selling $3.4M In “Valueless” Crypto

The Denver Post reports: Speaking to online followers Aug. 22, 2022, Rev. Eli Regalado had a divine message. “It was last October that the Lord brought this cryptocurrency to me. He said, ‘Take this to my people for a wealth transfer.’ It has been confirmed a hundred times since,” the pastor said, according to a lawsuit filed in Denver this …

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DOJ Seeks Six Month Sentence For Peter Navarro

Politico reports: Prosecutors say Peter Navarro — a former trade adviser to Donald Trump — should go to jail for six months and pay a $200,000 fine for defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 select committee. “The Defendant chose allegiance to former President Donald Trump over the rule of law,” argued Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Aloi in a …

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Kenyan Jesus Cult Leader Charged With Terrorism

Al Jazeera reports: A Kenyan court has charged cult leader Paul Mackenzie with “terrorism”-related crimes over the deaths of 429 of his followers. The self-proclaimed pastor was charged along with 94 others on Thursday over the deaths of followers whose bodies have been exhumed from the Shakahola forest near the Indian Ocean. The charges, announced during an appearance before a …

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Club Q Mass Shooter Gets Federal Hate Crime Charges

The Associated Press reports: The shooter who killed five people and endangered the lives of over 40 others at a LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs appeared in federal court to face federal hate crimes Tuesday. Anderson Lee Aldrich, 23, pleaded not guilty to the federal charges Tuesday. Last year Aldrich was moved to the Wyoming State Penitentiary due to safety …

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Qanon Quebec Man Pleads Guilty To Setting Wildfires

The CBC reports: A Quebec man who posted conspiracy theories online that forest fires were being deliberately set by the government has pleaded guilty to starting a series of fires himself that forced hundreds of people from their homes. Brian Paré, 38, pleaded guilty Monday to 13 counts of arson and one count of arson with disregard for human life …

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Menendez And Wife File Requests For Separate Trials

The New York Times reports: Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey and his wife, Nadine Menendez, were both charged last fall in a broad federal corruption case in which they were accused of accepting cash and gold bribes. Now their marriage itself is the centerpiece of a new legal argument. Both Mr. and Ms. Menendez are seeking to split their …

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Inspiration For QAnon Child Sex Trafficking Movie Hit With Criminal Sex Complaints In Four California Cities

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: Celeste Borys, one of the women suing Tim Ballard, flew to California with her lawyer last week to file criminal complaints alleging the founder of Operation Underground Railroad sexually assaulted her in four jurisdictions, according to her attorney. Borys, who was Ballard’s executive assistant from March 2023 until last fall, previously filed a criminal complaint …

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CEO In $1.3 Billion Crypto Scam Exposed As Paid Actor

Ars Technica reports: An actor who was hired to pretend to be the highly qualified CEO of a shady, collapsed cryptocurrency hedge fund called HyperVerse has apologized after a YouTuber unmasked his real identity last week. An Englishman currently living in Thailand, Stephen Harrison confirmed that HyperVerse hired him to pose as CEO Steven Reece Lewis. Harrison told The Guardian …

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Ax-Wielding Kansas Proud Boy Sentenced To 4.5 Years

From the Justice Department: William Chrestman, 51, of Olathe, Kansas, was sentenced to 55 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly. Chrestman pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding and threatening a federal officer, both felonies, on Oct. 16, 2023. According to court …

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CT Mayoral Candidate Pleads Guilty To Rioting Charge

New Haven’s Fox affiliate reports: Former Derby Alderman and mayoral candidate Gino DiGiovanni Jr. has entered a guilty plea for his involvement in the January 6 insurrection. DiGiovanni pleaded guilty Friday to one count of Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds. The crime carries a maximum sentence of one year of imprisonment and a fine of $100,000. …

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Feds Seek Death Penalty In 2022 Buffalo Mass Shooting

The Associated Press reports: Federal prosecutors said Friday that they will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket. Payton Gendron, 20, is already serving a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole after he pleaded guilty to state charges of murder and hate-motivated domestic terrorism in the …

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