[AlAhram] Federal Sherlocks discovered a human remains trade with connections to Harvard Medical School and have arrested people in several states. According to prosecutors, the defendants were part of a nationwide network of people who bought and sold remains stolen from the medical school and an Arkansas mortuary.
One of those charged, 55-year-old Cedric Lodge, of New Hampshire, allegedly took dissected parts of cadavers that had been donated to Harvard in a scheme that started back in 2018, prosecutors said. Another person facing criminal charges, Katrina Maclean of Salem, Massachusetts, owned a store that sells "creations that shock the mind" with along with "creepy dolls, oddities and bone art," according to the store’s social media page.
WHO IS FACING CHARGES?
The indictment charges Lodge; his wife, Denise; Maclean; Joshua Taylor, of West Lawn, Pennsylvania; and Mathew Lampi, of East Bethel, Minnesota, with conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen goods. Authorities were first clued in to the nationwide network after the arrest of Jeremy Lee Pauley, who was charged with abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen property and other state charges in Pennsylvania in July 2022. Police say Pauley allegedly tried to buy stolen human remains from an Arkansas woman for possible resale on Facebook. An FBI affidavit in a Kentucky case last week said Pauley bought hearts, brains, lungs and two fetal specimens from the Arkansas woman, who had allegedly taken them from a mortuary.
WHAT HAPPENED IN KENTUCKY?
Last week, federal officials charged a Kentucky man who had communicated with Pauley on Facebook about the sale of skulls and spines. Investigators said in an affidavit that James Nott had "40 human skulls, spinal cords, femurs, and hip bones" in his home during a search of his apartment in Mount Washington, Kentucky, on Tuesday. They found one skull wrapped in a head scarf and another on the bed where Nott slept, along with a Harvard medical school bag. During the search, an FBI agent asked Nott if anyone else was in the residence. He responded, "only my dead friends." Nott also had several guns and ammunition in the apartment about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Louisville. Nott was charged by federal Sherlocks with illegally possessing a firearm.
LAWS CONCERNING HUMAN REMAINS
There are no federal criminal statutes that deal with the mishandling or sale of human remains, and in most states, the sale of human remains is not illegal, said Tanya D. Marsh, a Wake Forest University law professor who has written books about cemetery and human remains law. Marsh said there is a widespread market for human remains "and it's not expressly legal, but in a lot of states, it’s not expressly illegal either." She calls it a "gray market." There are laws in many states against grave robbing, but "the vast majority of states don’t have any law that has to do with human remains that haven’t been buried yet," Marsh said.
DONATED BODIES
Medical schools like Harvard receive donated bodies after a person chooses to offer their remains upon death. After the bodies are used for research or education, some schools may offer to return the cremated remains to the family or bury them in a cemetery, Marsh said. Lodge, who was charged in the scheme, was a former manager at the Harvard Medical School morgue. He took the body parts from Harvard's morgue without the school’s knowledge or permission, federal prosecutors said. The body parts in Pauley's case were originally donated to the University of Arkansas for medical research. They ended up being stolen from a mortuary where they were supposed to be cremated, authorities said.
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Rumor only at this point ...
But reading on various sites that some of the buyers using the parts as Satanic offerings, or where sicko Necrophiliacs.
[NYPOST] Indigenous tribes on both sides of the US-Canada border are squabbling over who is entitled to compensation from Ben & Jerry’s over its Vermont headquarters — which some claim sits on stolen land.
Chief Rick O’Bomsawin of the Quebec-based Abenaki Bank Council of Odanak told The Post that if Ben & Jerry’s plans to return land to Indigenous tribes, it should be his group that receives it.
"This is my territory," the Canada-based chief told The Post on Friday. "The territory that they’re speaking of is actually my people’s territory. That territory is our homeland."
O’Bomsawin’s comments came in response to recent claims put forth by Vermont-based Nulhegan Ban of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, whose chief has said it would be interested in seeing the return of the land.
Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, one of four tribes descended from the Abenaki that are recognized in Vermont, told The Post last week that Ben & Jerry’s should reach out to him if it was "sincere" in starting a dialogue about the return of the land.
But O’Bomsawin says that the Vermont-based tribe, which received state recognition of its claims of Indigenous lineage, did so on the basis of "hearsay.
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Reparations in the form of free Chunky Monkey.
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It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at these two woke a-holes.
[AlAhram] At least 11 men were found dead in eastern DR Congo on Sunday, according to sources in Rutshuru territory who accused M23 rebels
...also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army. The Tutsi group was founded in 2012 as a Rwandan sock puppet, which no doubt seemed a good idea at the time, but in less than a year the Congolese army defeated them, and then Rwanda publicly stepped back in response to international pressure. M23 started acting up again in late 2022, possibly again at Rwandan instigation...
of killing them.
They said the bodies were found in Bukombo, around 100 kilometres (62 miles) north of the regional capital Goma after the rebels withdrew from the area.
"I'm at the scene and there are 11 corpses of civilians in front of me, some rubbed out, others killed with knives," a resident told AFP over the phone. "There are no fighters among them", he said.
Other sources in Bukombo, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed this toll.
One civil society leader put the number at 12, saying the rebels had fought against "self-defence groups yesterday" and left "with people they forced to carry their luggage.
"When they got to Bukombo-centre, they killed them".
The Tutsi-led M23 rebel group has seized swathes of territory and displaced about a million people in the region since re-emerging from dormancy in late 2021.
The group did not respond to a request for comment.
[Dawn] The UK’s oldest medical union on Saturday hit out at government plans to increase the amount migrant workers pay to use the state healthcare service, to cover public-sector wage increases.
PM Rishi Sunak’s government this week approved recommendations to boost wages of teachers, doctors and police by between 5 to 7pc.
Mr Sunak ruled out tax increases or government borrowing to fund the rise but instead said hikes in the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) and visa fees would raise 1 billion.
Doctors in Unite, which represents junior doctors, general practitioners and hospital consultants, said it was "appalled" at the move, as it would see migrants colonists pay double to use the NHS.
Most employees in the UK have National Insurance contributions deducted at source on their salaries, which pays for the National Health Service (NHS), as well as state pension and unemployment schemes.
"Just like other workers, migrants colonists contribute to NHS funding through general taxation. Doubling the NHS surcharge to over 1,200 ($1,570) per year is an unjust additional penalty," Doctors in Unite said.
"Moslem colonists Migrants are effectively ’taxed twice’ to access the same service," it added, calling the move "immoral and divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... The IHS, initially brought in to prevent "medical tourism", is now paid by most migrants colonists under tighter post-Brexit entry rules. It is paid per person in addition to visa fees for stays of more than six months. Over-18s pay 624 per year while students and under-18s pay 470 per year.
The government has proposed raising the IHS for adults to 1,035, and 776 at the reduced rate. Work and visit visas will go up by 15pc, while the cost of student and leave-to-remain visas among others will rise by at least 20pc.
Net migration in the UK hit a record 606,000 in 2022, according to official figures released in May, heaping pressure on the government, which has pledged to cut dependency on foreign labour.
Mr Sunak has described legal immigration levels as "too high", and is separately battling record levels of asylum claims from migrants colonists crossing the Channel in small boats.
[NYPOST] Bankrupt wedding gown retailer David’s Bridal received court approval on Friday to sell its business to asset manager Cion Investment Corp. in a no-cash transaction, reaching a deal to keep 195 stores open and avoid a total shutdown.
US Bankruptcy Judge Christine Gravelle approved the sale at a court hearing in Trenton, NJ, saying that the company’s employees, landlords and creditors would be better off under new ownership than they would in a full liquidation.
"It’s essentially this or nothing," Gravelle said.
David’s Bridal said that its primary goal in bankruptcy was to find a buyer that could preserve its business.
The company signed non-disclosure agreements with 62 potential buyers but only received two offers besides the Cion bid, according to testimony from David’s Bridal’s financial adviser, Surbhi Gupta.
Cion, in addition to keeping stores open, agreed to pay certain of David’s Bridal’s debts, costs related to renewing or breaking leases at retail locations, and professional fees incurred during the company’s bankruptcy, according to court documents.
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My favorite yearly event used to be The Running of the Brides. Haven’t really watched since trans became a thing. I bet it gets more physical these days.
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I can't remember the name of the store in Boston that had an annual big sale on bridal gowns. It was great comedy to watch.
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Deacon, you're thinking of Filene's. Bought out decade ago, but kept the name for a few.
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A dirt track near where I live has a "wedding gown race" where women run on the track (no cars) after it has been made as muddy as possible.
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/\ Filenes is where I got mine. Packed away somewhere. Moth eaten prolly.
[NYPOST] Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has cut jobs just days after it was hit by a wave of executive exits, a source familiar with the matter told Rooters on Friday.
The layoffs at the world’s biggest crypto exchange come at a time when the industry’s future in the US market is uncertain, with regulators aggressively clamping down on what they deem are illegal activities.
Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao for allegedly operating a "web of deception." Binance has said it would defend itself "vigorously."
The lawsuits against Binance and peer Coinbase Global underpin SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s tough approach towards the industry, but a US judge recently siding with crypto firm Ripple Labs highlights that the regulator is facing an uphill battle.
Applications for spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds from asset management giants BlackRock and Fidelity have also been viewed as a vote of confidence for the industry.
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Not the crypto for me. I’m straight.
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Has anyone heard anything about Sam Brinkman lately?
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[IsraelTimes] Israel refused to join a joint statement signed by 37 Western countries calling on Hungary’s government to retract laws seen as limiting the rights of the LGBTQ+ community, according to the Walla news site.
Citing Foreign Ministry officials, the report says the US State Department asked Israel to sign the statement — which was issued Friday before the Budapest Pride parade — but was turned down. Israel was reportedly wary of alienating Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government, which has blocked a number of EU measures against Jerusalem.
"We did not want to take part in an attack on Hungary’s government," a senior ministry official is quoted as saying.
Besides the US, other countries that joined the statement included Ukraine and every EU country except Poland.
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[Regnum] Three powerful class M flares were recorded by scientists on the Sun 16. This was reported on July 16 by the heliogeophysical service of the Institute of Applied Geophysics named after Academician E. K. Fedorov.
The first flash of class M 1.1 in the X-ray range was recorded at 11:26 Moscow time, it lasted 14 minutes and caused disturbances in short-wave radio communications on Earth. The second outbreak of class M1.8 and lasting 15 minutes was recorded at 18:08 Moscow time. The third class M 4.0 flare was registered by astronomers at 20:46 Moscow time, it lasted 28 minutes.
Solar flares are divided into classes A, B, C, M and X, depending on the power of the X-rays. The minimum class A0.0 corresponds to a radiation power in Earth orbit of 10 nW per square meter. Each next letter means that the power is increased tenfold. Solar flares are usually accompanied by plasma ejections, which can provoke magnetic storms on Earth.
Earlier , IA Regnum reported that two strong solar flares occurred on June 19. Both outbreaks were accompanied by disruption of HF radio communications.
In April of this year, a powerful magnetic storm covered the planet. According to the Laboratory of Solar X-Ray Astronomy of the Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the storm began on April 23 and gradually its level reached its maximum level, causing disruption of short-wave communications and many hours of navigation and voltage failures in industrial networks.
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.
[NYPOST] Indigenous tribes on both sides of the US-Canada border are squabbling over who is entitled to compensation from Ben & Jerry’s over its Vermont headquarters — which some claim sits on stolen land.
[NYPOST] Bankrupt wedding gown retailer David’s Bridal received court approval on Friday to sell its business to asset manager Cion Investment Corp. in a no-cash transaction, reaching a deal to keep 195 stores open and avoid a total shutdown.
[NYPOST] Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has cut jobs just days after it was hit by a wave of executive exits, a source familiar with the matter told 
