Author: Jim Mustian
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CIA terminates whistleblower who prompted flood of sexual misconduct complaints
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The CIA this week terminated a woman whose whistleblower account of being assaulted in a stairwell at the spy agency’s headquarters prompted a flood of colleagues to come forward with their own complaints of sexual misconduct
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Suspect in Club Q nightclub mass shooting expected to take plea deal: Report
The suspect in the mass shooting at Club Q last November is expected to strike a plea deal to state murder and hate charges that would ensure at least a life sentence for the attack that killed five people and wounded 25, several survivors told The Associated Press. Word of a possible legal resolution of last…
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Cohen meets Trump prosecutors amid renewed hush money probe
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NEW YORK • Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said he met for 2½ hours Tuesday with Manhattan prosecutors who have revived a yearsold investigation into payments made to a porn star to keep her quiet about an alleged extramarital tryst. Cohen said he had been “ordered not to disclose” any of the people present…
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DOJ opens probe into La. State Police
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BATON ROUGE, La. • The U.S. Justice Department is opening a sweeping civil rights investigation into the Louisiana state police amid mounting evidence that the agency has a pattern of looking the other way in the face of beatings of mostly Black men, including the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene. The federal “pattern-or-practice” probe…
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Former police boss denies cover-up in Ronald Greene death
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BATON ROUGE, La. • Gov. John Bel Edwards trusted Louisiana State Police to “do the right thing” and took a hands-off approach in police matters, even after Black motorist Ronald Greene died in a violent confrontation with troopers following a high-speed chase, the former head of the agency told state lawmakers Tuesday. Kevin Reeves distanced…
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A fraud case against Trump? Not a slam dunk, experts say
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NEW YORK • For years, Donald Trump punctuated his reality TV spiels and presidential speeches with claims that his business and his many gold-plated properties were “huge,” “amazing,” the biggest and the best. Now the New York attorney general’s office says it has uncovered evidence that his comments were not just puffery for the public.…
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Trump Org lawyers make last pitch against prosecution
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NEW YORK • Lawyers for the Trump Organization met again Monday with prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in a last bid to forestall a potential indictment stemming from a long-running investigation into the former president’s company. Trump Organization lawyer Ron Fischetti told The Associated Press the meeting came as a grand jury nears…
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New York court suspends Rudy Giuliani’s law license
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NEW YORK • An appeals court suspended Rudy Giuliani from practicing law in New York on Thursday because he made false statements while trying to get courts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential race. An attorney disciplinary committee had asked the court to suspend Giuliani’s license on the grounds that he’d violated professional…
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Trooper’s mic records talk of beating, choking Black man
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NEW ORLEANS • In graphic, matter-of-fact chatter picked up on his body-camera mic, a Louisiana State trooper implicated in the death of a Black man can be heard talking of beating and choking him before “all of a sudden he just went limp.” “I beat the ever-living f- — out of him,” the trooper said…
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After 11,000-plus deaths, U.S. nursing homes plead for more testing
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NEW YORK • After two months and more than 11,000 deaths that have made the nation’s nursing homes some of the most terrifying places to be during the coronavirus crisis, most of them still don’t have access to enough tests to help control outbreaks among their frail, elderly residents. Neither the federal government nor the…