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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sen. Carlos Uresti indicted for wire fraud, other crimes
[KSAT] SAN ANTONIO - State Sen. Carlos Uresti (TX-19) has been indicted by a federal grand jury.

The senator is facing multiple charges including wire fraud, securities fraud, engaging in monetary transactions with property derived from specified unlawful activity; and, one count of being an unregistered securities broker.

Uresti was first elected in 1997 as a Texas Representative and elected to the Senate in 2006.
Notice it gets down to here before we see what party he is part of...
The Democrat and San Antonio native attended law school at St. Mary's and opened his own legal office in downtown in the early 1990s.
Aaaaand there it is. Ignored by most of the media from here on out
The U.S. Attorney's Office Western District of Texas issued the following statement detailing the alleged crimes.

In San Antonio today, a federal grand jury returned two separate indictments against District 19 Texas State Senator Carlos I. Uresti announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division. Three other individuals were also charged by the grand jury.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/17/2017 08:08 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think I see a pattern - lawyer politicians commit fraud and other crimes.
Posted by: Glenmore on the road || 05/17/2017 9:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Well I read the detail but missed the charge of child trafficing.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/17/2017 10:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Links unrelated to the Senator. They have been removed.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/17/2017 11:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Removing Democrats from office -- one indictment at a time.
Posted by: Iblis || 05/17/2017 14:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Share a cell on the Blago Block with Corrine Brown
Posted by: Frank G || 05/17/2017 14:46 Comments || Top||


First FISA Request on Trump Tower Came After Bill Clinton, Obama's AG Loretta Lynch Had Private Meeting On Plane
[Liberty Alliance, 5 March 2017] On June 27th of 2016, Bill Clinton met secretly with Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

A week later FBI Director James Comey laid out in a press conference the many scandalous activities taken by Hillary Clinton while she was President Obama’s Secretary of State and then he said the famous words:

Our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."

The request, uncharacteristically, was denied.

Fast forward to October 2016. Wikileaks began releasing emails of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, rolling out batches every day until the election, creating new mini-scandals. These emails were virtually ignored by the mainstream media who were in the bag for Democrat Hillary Clinton but were spread widely by websites that chose to share the truth like this one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/17/2017 07:14 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Appears someone went on the offensive just after Sky Harbor.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/17/2017 7:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe Bill knew Illary was going to lose and tried to take out the opposition.

This looks far bigger than Watergate from here.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/17/2017 8:50 Comments || Top||

#3  The whole demoncrat and Clinton machines are completely corrupt and have killed to protect themselves.

All need to be purged from government.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/17/2017 9:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Perhaps bigger than Watergate, but nothing provable. More importantly, the swamp denizens do not want to prove it. They DO want to 'prove' ANYTHING against Trump, and it does not even need to be true, just plausible - with Trump that should be a low bar to get over.
Posted by: Glenmore on the road || 05/17/2017 9:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Inside the Hunt for Russian Hackers show a dead end trail from Omaha to Trump Tower that could have been planted remotely, as Vault 7 reveals.
Posted by: Whavish Thusoling5684 || 05/17/2017 10:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Putin has reiterated the offer.
Posted by: Whavish Thusoling5684 || 05/17/2017 11:12 Comments || Top||

#7  I doubt that any Dems really want to take Putin up on his offer. The Dems want to keep some issue, any issue (even made-up issues) in the echo chamber of the MSM and slowly bring Trump down with death by a thousand cuts. Even some of the Pubs are jumping in with their two cents such as McCain and Graham. With the Dems, even if they are supporting a criminal, there is unanimity of the Party behind that criminal as we have seen.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/17/2017 15:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Anyone else see frightening similarities to the early 30's? This is undercutting basic confidence in government, I cannot see this healing for a long, long time, and add the plummeting race relationships ties to one side, and I cannot see it ending with even strained tolerance....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/17/2017 18:03 Comments || Top||

#9  CBS is reporting that a Special Counsel has been appointed to oversee the Russian influence investigation!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/17/2017 18:11 Comments || Top||

#10  Robert Meuller
Posted by: Frank G || 05/17/2017 19:59 Comments || Top||

#11  Lets have a full investigation into Comey, and by association, Lynch.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 05/17/2017 20:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Washington DC: Allegedly Erdoğan Security Details Attacks Armenian Protesters
[TheGuardian] The Armenian National Committee of America has captured scenes of violent protests on the streets of Washington, DC after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with US President Trump at the White House. According to witnesses, the brawl erupted when the Turkish president’s security detail attacked protesters carrying the flag of the Kurdish PYD party outside the residence. (Video at Link)
Posted by: Angarong Angaviter4237 || 05/17/2017 02:10 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  "Democracy is like a train. Once you reach your destination, you have to jump off and beat some people up"
-- some Turkish dude
Posted by: SteveS || 05/17/2017 10:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Hard to watch this video of the Erdogan security detail shown kicking viciously a man in the face and other attacks instead of acting with established decorum for these diplomatic missions.
Our DSS while protecting those visiting foreign dignitaries needs to be looked at when these people act like thugs and are allowed to do serious harm and not be prosecuted.
Posted by: Jan || 05/17/2017 11:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Everyone one of the security detail should be thrown out of the USA and banned for good.
Posted by: Penguin of the Desert || 05/17/2017 11:36 Comments || Top||

#4  "He looked like a Kurd"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/17/2017 14:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Burn down the embassy. Shoot anyone trying to leave.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/17/2017 16:32 Comments || Top||


White House will not say if Israel provided info Trump discussed with Lavrov
[Al Ahram] The White House declined to comment on Tuesday on media reports that Israel was the source of sensitive information that President Donald Trump shared with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a White House meeting last week. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said he would not comment on the reports. He also declined to say whether the White House would share transcripts of Trump's meeting with Lavrov with lawmakers who have asked for them.
Posted by: Fred || 05/17/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, at least now we know that the info was correct.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/17/2017 1:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Hmm. Me wonders if Israel is covering for Trump's big mouth.
Posted by: gorb || 05/17/2017 3:22 Comments || Top||

#3  "It was an intel source we have inside Hezbollah"

that oughtta twist some panties
Posted by: Frank G || 05/17/2017 10:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Real question - why is it proving difficult to figure out who leaked this info. Wouldn't be down to the folks in the room to know what was discussed? That would leave a couple americans and russians. Anyone have any insight on this?
Posted by: Yosemite Sam || 05/17/2017 10:14 Comments || Top||

#5  # Yosemite Sam, I believe one of the guys in the room said the Washington Post made up the story, and then Trump semi-admitted the story was true (nothing wrong with sharing that kind of info that keeps planes from being blown up).
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/17/2017 10:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Russia has offered to share their transcripts.
Posted by: Whavish Thusoling5684 || 05/17/2017 11:07 Comments || Top||

#7  The President has Executive Privilege and legally can declassify whatever he wants.
Posted by: Whavish Thusoling5684 || 05/17/2017 11:09 Comments || Top||

#8  Regarding Russian transcripts, would a foreign ambassador be allowed into a meeting wearing a wire?

Also, who would trust transcripts that could be invented wholesale.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/17/2017 14:44 Comments || Top||

#9  He also declined to say whether the White House would share transcripts of Trump's meeting with Lavrov with lawmakers who have asked for them. Lawmakers? Well, technically, that's true but they are a whole lot of other things too.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/17/2017 14:59 Comments || Top||


Last Night's Tucker Carlson and Prof Stephen Cohen Explosive Interview (Video)
Professor Cohen presents a pretty good theory regarding the potential origins of the current Russian derangement virus. His reference to a 'fourth branch of Government' is a view shared by at least one or two.

Could be a simple coincidence. Interestingly, however, whilst everyone scurries around the White House to 'unmask' the leaking staffer(s), the real leakers may have been the first ones officially notified of the substance of POTUS' recent discussions with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Russian ambassador Kislyak.

"That's too coincidental to be a coincidence."
~ Yogi Berra

Germán López Gorraiz, 21 Nov 2016, Donald Trump and the Fourth Branch of the US Government
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/17/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Would it be pro-muslim NSA etc interests causing this after all their backers do have the most to lose from
a) Peace in Syria
b) Strong alliance against islam.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/17/2017 9:13 Comments || Top||

#2  These leaks and calls for impeachment are cover or distractions by the left to protect Clinton and Obama followers from prosecution.
There is a pattern to their timing.
Expect Comey to cause a lot of problems, I suspect he was fired in such a humiliating way because Trump felt Comey had a lot to do with the leaks. Now it's McCabe's turn.
Posted by: jvalentour || 05/17/2017 9:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Similar article in text. I hate watching five minutes of video, and the accompanying commercials, just to get to the 20-second bottom line.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/17/2017 12:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Thanks for post that piece Bobby.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/17/2017 14:43 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2017-05-17
  Female Bombers Attack NE Nigeria Village, Kill Two
Tue 2017-05-16
  Accused bomber Rahimi seeks reduced charges in New Jersey case
Mon 2017-05-15
  Kurdish forces reach the northern gates of Raqqa after liberating four more villages
Sun 2017-05-14
  Iraq: ISIS leaders killed during ‘meeting’ in al-Qaim
Sat 2017-05-13
  Syrian Army Makes Gains in Rebel Area of Damascus
Fri 2017-05-12
  Turkish court sentences notorious British ISIS member wanted by US, UK
Thu 2017-05-11
  Jakarta’s Christian governor jailed for blasphemy
Wed 2017-05-10
  US ignores Turkey’s objection, approves arming Kurdish forces in Syria
Tue 2017-05-09
  Egypt issues life sentence for Muslim Brotherhood chief
Mon 2017-05-08
  Confirmed: Head of ISIS In Afghanistan Killed In Raid By 50 U.S. Special Ops, 40 Afghan Commandos
Sun 2017-05-07
  Ismail Haniyeh elected new head of Hamas
Sat 2017-05-06
  New Jersey Man Charged With Attempting to Support ISIS, Planning NYC Bombing
Fri 2017-05-05
  US drone strike leaves 7 ISIS-K militants dead in East of Afghanistan
Thu 2017-05-04
  Kurd, Turkish army troops fighting near Rojava
Wed 2017-05-03
  Taliban kill 27 ISIS militants in East of Afghanistan


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