[ICE Newsroom] Defendant’s extensive collection included images of child rape.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. ‐ A Mount Vernon, Wash., man was sentenced in federal court Friday to 15 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for possession and distribution of child pornography, as a result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Eric Bongiorni, 32, was arrested by HSI Blaine special agents in March 2016 after a court-authorized search warrant revealed numerous images and videos of child sexual abuse on his electronic devices.
According to court documents, an undercover HSI special agent downloaded child pornography in February 2016 that was shared over a peer-to-peer file sharing network linked to the IP address belonging to Bongiorni. The subsequent law enforcement investigation disclosed Bongiorni is a registered sex offender with a 2009 conviction in Skagit County Superior Court for three counts of child molestation.
Bongiorni pleaded guilty in February admitting to collecting child pornography since 2003. One device seized from his home contained 436 images and 267 videos of child pornography.
[Breitbart] A Baltimore man was sentenced to four years behind bars for illegally trafficking food stamps.
U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Mohammad Shafiq, 51, to four years in prison and three years of supervised release after his sentence ends, in addition to making him pay $3.7 million in restitution, the Baltimore Sun reported.
Shafiq was the latest defendant to be sentenced in a series of prosecutions of 14 retailers in the Baltimore area. A federal grand jury indicted the retailers in August 2016 for food stamp and wire fraud.
The 14 retailers stole a total of $16 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture by illegally exchanging food stamps for cash, according to the indictment. Twelve out the 14 defendants pleaded guilty, and two were sentenced this week, according to the Sun.
Multiple stores across the country have been cited for millions of dollars in food stamp fraud. Investigators found more than $20 million worth of food stamp fraud at retailers in Florida, and 140 stores in Chicago were cited for food stamp fraud.
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Really, they are more carrion eaters. The money the government tosses around is mostly roadkill in the economic scheme of things, and guys (and gals) like this are feeding on the remains.
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They prey on "unbelievers": some commit terr-acts, some rape and steal, some do fraud
[Guardian] The life story of Simon Mann reads like pages torn from a thriller. Now the former mercenary and SAS officer is to publish a thriller of his own: an international action adventure written to stay sane in prison in Africa.
"I wanted to write something for my son Freddie, who was 13 at the time, and I realised he would want to read something grown-up."
The manuscript of Kass, hidden by him in prison, was also written partly in honour of Mann’s favourite book, The Thirty-Nine Steps. In a surprising twist, Mann’s novel, full of crime, violence and treachery, is written from the point of view of a woman.
Skipping down a bit to 'who is Mann:'
In 2004, in an affair known as the Wonga coup, Mann and 69 mercenaries attempted to replace Equatorial Guinea’s dictator, Teodoro Obiang, with an exiled opposition politician, Severo Moto. A series of stories in the Observer told how details of the plot had been revealed to the British government, and that "Scratcher" was a nickname given to Mann’s associate, Margaret Thatcher’s son Mark.
Mann’s memoir, Cry Havoc, came out in 2011, but was heavily censored by government lawyers. "It is extremely painful to have a truthful story messed up when it is your one chance to tell it," said Mann, who claims 20% of his story was lost. Neither time nor ink will permit a fair examination of Mann's 2004 failed efforts in Equatorial Guinea. A fascinating study in non-gov't sanctioned regime change however. I've always believed Thatcher's involvement was an attempt to right his mum's Afrikan wrongs. Others thought he was simply a wanna-be.
[Guardian] The British economy needs a net inward migration flow of 200,000 people a year, double the Conservative target, if it is to avoid the "catastrophic economic consequences" linked to Brexit, a study by an employer-backed thinktank has said.
The Global Future report says the UK’s low productivity, ageing population and shortage of labour in key areas, such as the NHS, show that net migration of 200,000 will be needed annually.
The report, backed by three employer groups, criticises Labour and the Conservatives for refusing to be honest with the British public about the level of migration the UK requires. It warns that if the UK refuses to be flexible about its sources of labour, it could face a decade of slow growth similar to that of the Japanese economy.
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To be fair, it is the Guardian, selling the Narrative in what purports to be a factual article. Plenty of Tory politicians believe the same thing, and don't differentiate between productive Europeans and dole-seekng "refugees". But given that Princess Katherine is rumoured to be pregnant with her third, and many actresses are making the same choice, improved prosperity and security at home ought to goose law-abiding, middle class British fertility numbers.
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Assuming that was true that they needed those numbers, why not promote British to have children or immigration from Australia, New Zealand, and Canada rather than bring in folks from foreign cultures that have previously caused problems?
Even bringing in Bonded laborers from Latin America would be smarter than their previous plans to keep the numbers up.
[AlAhram] North Korea's main spy agency has a special cell called Unit 180 that is likely to have launched some of its most daring and successful cyber attacks, according to defectors, officials and internet security experts.
North Korea has been blamed in recent years for a series of online attacks, mostly on financial networks, in the United States, South Korea and over a dozen other countries.
Cyber security researchers have also said they have found technical evidence that could link North Korea with the global WannaCry "ransomware" cyber attack that infected more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries this month. Pyongyang has called the allegation "ridiculous".
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and has used the money — called the “bishop’s fund” by some critics — to bolster mismanaged or underfunded military programs
Been playing that game for generations. Looting one fund to pay for the 'golden child' procurement programs. What was the original cost projection of the F35 and the number of airframes they expected to receive? What is it today? How much money has been diverted? Like maintenance and upkeep of the existing fleet? Or killing off the A-10 to find more money to cover the costs?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] A Baltimore man was sentenced to four years behind bars for illegally trafficking food stamps.
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