[Aiken Standard] An active duty colonel at Fort Gordon, his wife and a third person have been indicted in case alleging bribes and kickbacks totaling $20 million, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Army Col. Anthony Tyrone Roper, 55; his wife Audra Roper, 49; and Dwayne Oswald Fulton, 58, a former employee of a defense contracting firm, all of Augusta, were indicted this week by a federal grand jury in Savannah, the news release said.
Further indictments are possible. A retired colonel referred to only as "CDL" in the indictment "aided and abetted by the Defendants and others, provided false and fictitious information and paid bribes to public officials. This could get interesting.
The indictment doesn't specify who the other public officials are.
According to the news release, the indictment states the scheme began in 2008, continuing almost a decade. The scheme involved soliciting and accepting cash bribes in exchange for rigging more than $20 million in U.S. Army contracts, the release states.
According to the indictment, Anthony's responsibilities included oversight of the U.S. Army's efforts to build and modernize its information and communication network.
The indictment states he sought and received bribe payments in exchange for steering and awarding Army and private company contracts.
The scheme utilized various shell companies, such as Quadar Group and OzTEK Research LLC, the indictment continues. Very likely sub-contractors (subs). Could we please have the names of the 'Prime Contractors and the Gov't Contract Officer Representative (COR)?
"The indictment further alleges that in an attempt to hide their bribery and fraud schemes, the Defendants attempted to obstruct an official investigation into their criminal conduct," the release states.
According to the indictment, the suspects would offer and give bribes, that included cash and no-show jobs in exchange for official acts.
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The COR is likely a homesteading civilian. He or she will (or should) have the historical knowledge. Either's sworn statements would be delightful however.
[DAILYWIRE] A Virginia imam is advocating for female genital mutilation, or FGM, despite the fact that the practice is illegal in the United States.
Imam Shaker Elsayed of the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, appears to believe that abusing women under the guise of religious purity codes is morally virtuous.
Mutilating a little girl’s genitals today can prevent “hypersexuality” in the future, says Imam Elsayed in a sermon to parishioners. After suggesting that the more extreme forms of mutilation may need to be avoided, the imam lectures his parishioners about seeking guidance from Muslim gynecologists familiar with the illegal procedure.
FGM is "the honorable thing to do if needed,” he preaches, detailing the supposed virtues of the horrifying practice. Imam Elsayed explains:
"[Cut] the tip of the sexually sensitive part of the girl so that she is not hypersexually active...in societies where circumcision of girls is completely prohibited, hypersexuality takes over the entire society and a woman is not satisfied with one person or two or three."
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Personally, I'm in favor of castrating Imams, and also cutting their tongues out - and they should be considerably less of a bother thereafter.
[Ynet] A leader at one of Virginia's largest mosques has resigned after the imam there made comments in support of female genital mutilation.
Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, who was director of outreach at the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, posted his resignation Friday on his website.
Abdul-Malik says he's leaving after "many reprehensible statements" by Dar Al-Hijrah's senior imam, Shaker Elsayed, including his recent comments on genital mutilation
Incidentally, interesting name the congrgation chose: Dar Al-Hijrah.
[RT] The US government estimates as many as 100 girls may have had their genitals cut at the hands of a bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... , Michigan doctor and his co-conspirators, a federal prosecutor said during a court hearing.
Assistant US Attorney Sara Woodward disclosed the information while trying to convince the judge to keep the doctor and his wife locked up.
"Due to the secretive nature of this procedure, we are unlikely to ever know how many children were cut by Dr. [Jumana] Nagarwala," US Attorney Woodward said, referring to the lead defendant in the case, according to the Detroit Free Press.
"The Minnesota victims were not the first victims," she added.
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[RT] "The Department of State has worked closely with European partners to diversify European energy supplies through new sources of natural gas, vital interconnectors and new facilities to import LNG. The United States congratulates Poland on this significant step to diversify its own sources of energy and to strengthen Europe’s energy security," Washington said in a statement.
While Europe has been trying to find alternatives to Russian gas, the cost of shipping from the US remains high and demands significant infrastructure investment.
The LNG shipped to Poland is from the Sabine Pass liquefaction facility on the Gulf of Mexico coast. As of now, it is the only LNG exporting facility in the US since the start of the shale revolution. Last year, the first delivery of American LNG to Europe arrived in Portugal.
Poland has been one of the fiercest opponents of Russian gas expansion in the European market and wants to become a huge re-seller of LNG in Europe after building an LNG terminal at the port of Swinoujscie.
While Russia supplies about 10 billion cubic meters (bcm) a year of Poland’s gas needs, the new Polish terminal has a capacity of 5 bcm which can increase to 7.5 bcm. Last year, LNG made up less than 10 percent of Polish gas consumption.
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This bit of very good news for our economy would have never happened under a Soetoro regime.
The nuclear cooperation deal between Japan and India, first negotiated in November, just cleared a big hurdle in Tokyo. The Nikkei Asian Review reports:
Japan's ruling party on Wednesday pushed a nuclear cooperation deal with India through the upper house of parliament, clearing the way for Japanese exports of materials and technology to the South Asian country.
The deal is contentious because India has not signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, or NPT. […]
India stands to become the first nonsignatory to get access to Japanese nuclear tech. The governing Liberal Democratic Party accounted for most of the "aye" votes in the Diet, or parliament.
Following the approval, the government intends to revise relevant rules under the Nuclear Regulation Authority ‐ Japan's industry watchdog. Once India takes similar steps and the governments exchange documents, the deal will take effect, possibly by this summer.
On both economic and strategic grounds, this is a natural fit for both countries. Japan has immense nuclear expertise, but little domestic appetite for the technology after the Fukushima disaster; India is thus a natural export market. And Tokyo and New Delhi have been getting closer for several years now as they seek to balance against a rising China. *cough* Pakistan *cough*
The deal's opponents argue that Japan is tacitly endorsing India's status as a nuclear armed-state, even though it has provisions that would void the deal if India resumes nuclear tests. But somehow, we suspect the United States‐which signed its own civilian nuclear deal with India in 2008, despite India's status outside the NPT regime‐is not too upset to see China's two most prominent regional rivals getting cozier. Let's see....doesn't India have some nuke warheads laying around? What could they offer in trade, hmmmm?
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Someone at a party to a Japanese diplomat: "Japan has world class manufacturing and a nuclear power industry. It could probably build nuclear weapons in 3 weeks if it wanted to."
Japanese diplomat: "It might take that long."
This deal is not about Japan acquiring primitive Indian nukes. Maybe India will be testing some advanced Japanese designs?
A woman is suing a Texas restaurant and its manager after flaming queso sent her to the hospital with second- and third-degree burns.
Erika Saenz, a 27-year-old from Austin, was eating at Dos Salsas Cafe in Cedar Park on May 20 when the queso exploded and left her with "life-altering burns," the Austin American-Statesman reports.
Saenz and her family ordered the restaurant's tableside "Quesos Flameados." When it was brought to the table, the waitress attempted to spray a flammable chemical on the cheese and light it on fire, but the flames "went sideways" and engulfed Saenz, according to her lawyer, Adam Loewy.
She jumped to the ground as her family doused her with water. She was later taken to a burn unit in San Antonio with severe burns on her face, chest, neck and arms, Loewy said.
He said she has been released from the hospital but will need plastic surgery.
Loewy said the queso appetizer is usually brought out of the kitchen already on fire, but in this case the waitress tried to ignite it at the table.
"I think this is the height of negligence that they would have a dish like this in which they have no fire training for the waitress," he said.
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I suppose they may have been thinking that if they allowed a US military uniform, they'd be sued to Hell and back if they didn't allow a fake suicide vest. And even more if they checked to see if it really was fake.
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I hope someone takes up the case of this Marine and he sues those who prevented him from participating in the commencement in his dress blues. Make the decision makers personally pay out of their pockets--not the taxpayers.
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Principal Chip Pettit defended the decision and alleged it was not meant to disrespect the military, or Stanley, or veterans, or the school community.
“This tradition is not intended to be disrespectful to students, parents, or our community, but as a source of pride for our students,” Pettit told NBC Chicago. “It is also not intended to be disrespectful to our students choosing to serve in the military, our active duty servicemen and women, and our veterans.”
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It is a high school graduation, not boot camp graduation. Wear the cap and gown like everyone else. Wear your USMC uniform when you report to your first duty station. The world doesn't revolve around what a PFC feels he/she is entitled to wear. I want to put my 1stSgt chevrons back on and have a brief counseling session with this Marine.
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Say VS, when I graduated at my university, we wore our uniforms under our cap and gown. Then in the graduation ritual, they had us take off the cap and gown, and perform the oath of office amongst the those assembled. Technically, we had the 'official' oath taking and paper signing the night before, but the public display was and had been a part of it all. Then we all departed, with a designated exit where the First Shirt stood to give each of us our first salute with a silver dollar tendered.
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[DAILYWIRE] A Virginia imam is advocating for female genital mutilation, or FGM, despite the fact that the practice is illegal in the United States.
[RT] The US government estimates as many as 100 girls may have had their genitals cut at the hands of a 
A woman is suing a Texas restaurant and its manager after flaming queso sent her to the hospital with second- and third-degree burns.
