[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two men from Louisiana in the US have been charged with defrauding airlines out of $550,000 by filing dozens of false lost-baggage claims, a statement released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday revealed.
The two men, Pernell Anthony Jones, 31, and Donmonick Martin, 29, are accused of running the scam on several airlines following 180 flights in and out of Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans, despite never traveling with checked bags. Donmonick?
"Jones was charged in a two-count Bill of Information with Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud," the statement read, adding that if he were to be convicted, he faces a maximum term of twenty years in prison "as to each count and/or a fine of $250,000 or the greater of twice the gross fain to the defendant or twice the gross loss caused by the offense."
He also faces a term of supervised release of up to three years "as to each count and a $200 mandatory special assessment fee."
The other culprit, Martin, was charged with "one count of Conspiracy to Commit Fraud," the statement read. The 29-year-old now faces a maximum of five years in prison and the same $250,000 fine to each count.
Martin also faces up to three years of supervised release and a $100 mandatory special assessment fee.
"According to court documents, beginning in or around 2015, Jones and his co-conspirators submitted over 180 claims to commercial airlines, including American, Alaska, Southwest, United, and JetBlue, requesting over $550,000 in reimbursement for luggage that Jones falsely alleged had been lost," the statement read.
The airlines paid over $300,000 in fraudulent claims.
"The Bill of Information alleges that Jones would take flights with commercial airlines under false or fictitious identities using fraudulent identification cards. When he arrived at the destination airport, Jones would falsely claim that his baggage had been lost and would request reimbursement to compensate him for his lost luggage."
Martin, however, was charged for his role in the scam which involved going into the airport in January 2020 under a "fictious identity" and "falsely telling American Airlines that his bag had been lost on a flight."
"Martin’s Bill of Information also alleges that, on four occasions, Martin agreed to accept reimbursement funds from airlines for false claims for lost baggage," the statement added.
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Given they used false or fictitious identities using fraudulent identification cards should they also be brought up on other TSA related charges
Also, if and when released from jail ...
2 suggestions.
1. Banned from all future Airline travel.
2. Placed on a Travel Watch list.
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Wakandans Donmonick and Pernell
Hatched a scheme so green, it was vernal:
Their identities tho fictious
Concealed hearts brave 'n' ambictious
Fo' in Wakanda, da dope springs eternal
[JustTheNews] A lecturer removed from the classroom after refusing to grade on a racial curve is now suing UCLA and his dean for costing him at least $500,000 in consulting contracts in just the past year — and an estimated $10 million long term.
Gordon Klein also accused the public university, where he's taught accounting since 1981, of retaliation by halting his long string of merit-pay increases after his email response to a student went viral.
It has ignored his requests for security escorts in light of "serious physical threats," including anti-Semitic death threats he reported as recently as March, Klein alleges. He said a psychiatrist diagnosed him with PTSD last summer.
UCLA and its Anderson School of Management engaged in a "disingenuous publicity stunt to promote that it was at the forefront of rooting out racism" and to chill the speech of Klein and other faculty, the state lawsuit alleges.
Klein claims breach of contract, violation of privacy, retaliation and "negligent interference with prospective economic advantage," and is seeking both compensatory and punitive damages.
Student activists had been threatening harassment against faculty in multiple UCLA schools if they didn't offer black students preferential treatment, including "no-harm" final exams, following the death of George Floyd in May 2020.
New York's state health department issued an order last month mandating that all healthcare workers receive at least their first COVID-19 shot by September 27
Hundreds of healthcare workers across the state have been suspended without pay and will lose their jobs in the coming days if they do not get the vaccine
Of the 43,000 employees at the New York City's 11 public hospitals, about 5,000 were not vaccinated according to head of NYC Health + Hospitals on Monday
Some hospitals say over 90% of staff are vaccinated, but others reported vaccination rates of under 70% last week
Healthcare workers fired for refusing to get vaccinated will not be eligible for unemployment insurance
NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITAL SYSTEM FIRES 175 UNVACCINATED WORKERS IN ONE OF THE LARGEST MASS TERMINATIONS FOR DEFYING VACCINE MANDATE
Novant Health, which has more than 35,000 employees in 15 hospitals and 800 clinics, mandated that its employees get vaccinated late July.
They had until September 15 to comply. Last week, about 375 employees were suspended for not being vaccinated, but 200 received the jab before Monday's deadline, Spokesperson Megan Rivers said.
Rivers didn't say how many workers were granted exemptions, but Novant Health acknowledged that some were and required them to undergo weekly coronavirus testing. They also must wear N95 respirator masks or other personal protective equipment and eyewear protection while working in Novant Health facilities.
The large wave of terminations follows the Delaware-based healthcare system ChristianaCare, which fired 150 employees earlier this week for not getting vaccinated.
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And in a week or two, she'll bemoan the health care worker shortage she caused. Galaxy class stupidity (and / or mendacity) has been on display for the past eighteen months.
#3
"The Total number of American Citizens that died within 14 days of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine is 48,465 according to hard data revealed in the Medicare Tracking System." This is just the beginning.
#6
McDonalds can't hire enough people at the skill level they need. The notion that these facilities will have no problem finding qualified applicants is risible.
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Given the number of adverse reactions case numbers seen in other countries finally available and the number seen in US Hospital ER's leaking out. I can understand why some medical staff are refusing the VAX.
But as the numbers today clearly show despite a 75% VAX in the USA as of today, we remain the #1 nation for "claimed" infections?
Also given the US Official sources have told us repeatedly that Medical Staff Infections ran high causing patient beds and treatment to be in short supply.
So why require Medical Staff with Natural immunity and show C-19/21 defensive Anti-Bodies?
Defensive Anti-Bodies, which seems to last as long or longer than the 5-6 month VAX.
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They set up a covid testng site at a gas station here n Marietta last weekend. Never have before, looked to me like they are trying to get those numbers up.
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You can put Haitians in scrubs,
but you can't make them scrub.
#10
the immune response is very complex and varies from one person to another but antibodies are not the only anti-covid agent; T cells also are involved in this and there are undoubtedly a few other types of cells involved, some we haven't identified yet
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how's it feel to get used by the left 'healthcare heroes'?
that was record time going from hero to zero, i wager
#1
Who is paying for their transport and logistics, and how is that not a criminal conspiracy to violate our sovereignty and US immigration law? These people are among the poorest on earth, this is not something they can do on their own!
What is our intel community, Navy, FBI, DHS and DOJ doing about it, and are their no whistleblowers left to reveal the actual conspiracy to allow this?
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^ I don't have a single good answer to any of those questions.
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Folks....for fokks sake, "we" are doing this. "We" are paying for this, "we" are coordinating this. The Truth? We're no longer part of the System. They're above the System. Over it. Beyond it. We're "not them." We're "they." Know your place. Know the new rules, or suffer.
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#1. The DNC. DNC Latinos want more Latinos here. DNC Blacks want more blacks here. They want to eventually "South Africa" the US.
[AlAhram] The World Health Organization reported that the global number of new coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... cases and deaths continued to fall in the past week, with an estimated 3.3 million new infections and about 55,000 deaths, marking a 10% drop in both
In its regular assessment of the pandemic issued on Tuesday, the U.N. health agency said the biggest drops in new cases were seen in the Middle East, the Western Pacific and the Americas.
WHO first reported a substantial decrease in cases in mid-September at 4 million new cases, with declines seen in all areas of the world, the first time in more than two months that COVID-19 cases had fallen.
WHO said all regions reported more than a 15% decline in deaths, except for Europe, where the number of deaths was similar to the previous week and Africa, where there was about a 5% rise.
In Asia, the number of deaths dropped by nearly a quarter. WHO warned there would likely be more spikes of COVID-19 as the Northern Hemisphere enters winter. The disease spreads more easily during winter as people spend more time indoors. Social distancing restrictions also are being relaxed in many countries that have a relatively high level of vaccination.
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USA Still # 1 for claimed infections
Note: Despite this week the US C-19/21 vaccinated rate being now 75%. )
US Cases Claimed Now 786,527
US Cases Claimed Last week 917,795
Down -14%
US Cases per Million 2,359
US Deaths Down -8%
US Deaths claimed per Million 35
BUT CHEER UP
If you lived in Cameroon they had a +688,900% increase in claimed infections with only 0.03% vaccinated. But for some strange reason Cameroon's death rate is only 3 Per/Million vs. the USA's 35 per/million with 75% vax rate?
STRANGER YET
China with only 255 reported infection cases and ZERO Deaths?
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US "Serious/Critical" cases have dropped 20% since Labor Day.
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If Cameroon is one of those African countries with River Blindness, they dole out Ivermectin for that. Cause or correlation?
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Not necessarily chloroquine, though "The current treatment protocol for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Cameroon is artesunate plus amodiaquine, and artemether-lumefantrine as first-line treatment for uncomplicated falciparum malaria."
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Brady Mistic is suing two police officers after he was slammed to the ground and physically assaulted by them for running a stop sign in 2019
He is also suing the city of Idaho Springs and the Clear Creek County Board of Commissioners
Mistic hadn't realized that he was being pulled over and had parked his car and was walking towards a laundromat when he saw police vehicles' flashing lights
In his lawsuit, he said he used his hands to try to communicate to the officers that he was deaf, but to no avail
He was then jailed for four months for 'resisting arrest' and , where he was mistreated and couldn't communicate due to the jail staff's lack of adequate training
One of the two officers involved in Mistic's arrest has been arrested while the other is still on active duty
"He was using his hands to communicate. We thought he was just Italian"
South African investigators call for a former health minister to be punished and a senior official to face criminal charges over a $10 million #COVID19 fund scandal.https://t.co/NHxpGzAUqj
[AlAhram] The EU's top court on Wednesday cancelled two trade deals that had allowed Morocco to export farm products and fish to the bloc from the disputed Western Sahara, a ruling hailed by the Polisario independence movement.
Morocco, a key trading partner with the 27-member European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , views the Western Sahara as an integral part of its territory, but the Polisario, recognised internationally as the representative of the Sahrawi people, has long sought independence there.
The EU's Court of Justice ruled that the deals, allowing exports from the former Spanish colony as well as the rest of Morocco, had been signed "without the consent of the people of Western Sahara", adding that the Polisario's status allowed it to bring complaints against the bloc.
Therefore they had "infringed the European Union's obligations in the context of its relations with Morocco under EU and international law," it said.
In conclusion, the ruling annulled EU-Moroccan agreements "amending the tariff preferences granted by the European Union to products of Moroccan origin and, second, the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement", it said.
The accords will however remain in place for two months in order to "preserve the European Union's external action and legal certainty over its international commitments", it ruled.
- 'GREAT VICTORY' -
Morocco controls around 80 percent of the territory and has offered autonomy, while insisting it must retain illusory sovereignty.
At stake are an overland route to West African markets, plentiful phosphate resources and rich Atlantic fisheries along the territory's 1,100-kilometre (680-mile) coastline.
The Polisario's EU envoy Oubi Bachir welcomed the ruling, tweeting that it was "A great victory for the Sahrawi people!"
After the court ruling, Morocco and the European Union issued a joint statement underlining that their trade partnership would continue.
"We remain fully mobilised to continue the cooperation between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco, in a climate of serenity and commitment," the bloc's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said.
The two sides signed an association deal in 1996, giving Morocco preferential tariffs including on products from the Western Sahara.
The farm products protocol was renewed in 2012, and the fishing one in 2019.
Rabat's main benefit is lower costs of exporting its agricultural goods to the bloc, while the EU benefits from access to Atlantic fishing waters.
The fishing protocol, cancelled by Wednesday's ruling, had allowed up to 128 European ships to access Moroccan and Western Sahara fishing waters for four
An African migrant was seen leaping off a third-floor balcony in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico in a desperate attempt to evade immigration officers
Video obtained by DailyMail.com shows a Cameroonian man breaking his ankle after trying to escape a hotel surrounded by Mexican National Guard soldiers
The man is seen lying on the ground and screaming in pain, saying: 'Jesus, Jesus, Jesus' after being found by officials
Mexican authorities have rounded up about 1,000 mostly Haitian migrants after many fled Del Rio, Texas and returned to the Mexican side of the border
Some are being kept in hotels that are heavily guarded by immigration officers
The hotels are raided nighty with officers rounding up migrants to fly them to Tapachula, Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies said
'They told me what their strategy is and what their orders are - it's to clear out all the Haitians who fled from the [Texas] camp,' he told DailyMail.com
[FinanceYahoo] China is in the grip of a power crunch as coal supply shortages combined with strong power demand from manufacturers, industry and households push coal prices to record highs and trigger widespread curbs on usage. almost all their coal is imported and they are having price control issues, port related logistics problems, as well as utility management related issues
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almost all their coal is imported from Australia.
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This Wiki article sheds some light, and I'm sure there are a variety of other reasons for the coal shortage resulting from a pyramid scheme and graft economy.
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I read somewhere that China was supposed to be the leaders in Thorium-based nuclear reactors and also pebble bed reactors.
Watch: A military drone that can cruise for 20 hours at 15,000 meters was among #Chinese warplanes, missiles, and other weapons technology shown for the first time at the opening of the country’s biggest air show.https://t.co/3UqwSgwwvTpic.twitter.com/ZQn7Nma3jP
[DailyWire] The International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday that the only people allowed to attend the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, China, are those who live in China.
Whooosh! There goes any chance of local businesses making any profits to offset the horrendous cost of building the central stadium and other sports venues.
“Tickets will be sold exclusively to spectators residing in China’s mainland, who meet the requirements of the COVID-19 countermeasures,” the IOC said. “Specific requirements on COVID-19 countermeasures for spectators from China’s mainland and the details of ticketing arrangements are under discussion and development, and will be released to the public in due course once they are finalized.”
Not that we’d be silly enough to risk our health by going there now, but it will be interesting to see how China deals with forged Covid passports from the folks at home.
The measures were put in place after consultations with international experts and the Chinese authorities, the release said.
There have been widespread calls for the U.S. and U.S. companies to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics over communist China’s oppression of religious minorities in the country.
Oh? Possibly this isn’t about infection, but merely saving face when nobody comes to their party.
“Our position on the 2022 Olympics has not changed,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said earlier this year of Democrat President Joe Biden’s position on the 2022 Winter Olympics. “We have not discussed, and are not discussing any joint boycott with allies and partners.”
Because dissing the people who hold his reins would be impolite.
The move comes as international pressure is once again in ramping up from the World Health Organization and other entities to get to the bottom of the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
The People’s Liberation Army scientists dunnit, with some funding and connivance from Dr. Anthony Fauci and his arrogantly foolish little friends in the American government. What’s your next question, O Daily Wire journalist?
“A new team of about 20 scientists—including specialists in laboratory safety and biosecurity and geneticists and animal-disease experts versed in how viruses spill over from nature—is being assembled with a mandate to hunt for new evidence in China and elsewhere,” The Wall Street Journal reported. “The possibilities that the new team is charged with examining include whether the Covid-19 virus could have emerged from a lab,
...yes. Next?
according to WHO officials, a hypothesis that has especially angered China.”
Given that they invested heavily in WHO personnel, they no doubt feel they’ve bought the right to be angry.
The new effort comes after Beijing restricted the WHO’s first investigation into the origins of the pandemic, refusing to hand over raw patient data from early cases to investigators. China has sought to deflect attention over the possibility that the pandemic started in one of China’s labs that had serious safety issues by falsely blaming the United States, claiming without evidence that the coronavirus could have come from a lab in the U.S.
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Not that we’d be silly enough to risk our health by going there now, but it will be interesting to see how China deals with forged Covid passports from the folks at home.
???
China is the safest place in the world from the virus.
The "vaccine passports" aren't paper books. Inside Alipay app is a "health code" function. The authorities scan the code and if a virus carrier is later found to be near you, your code turns colors and you can be found or quarantined. I'm not sure how that could be forged.
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So, it's going to be the first Zoom Olympics? Which network bent over and paid the ChiComs boocoo dinero for the television rights? Are their crews and commentators going to be allowed in?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa...!
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CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — Dollar Tree embedded in its very name what it stands for: Behind these doors, everything can be had for just $1.
The mantra to which the Chesapeake, Virginia, company has held true for decades will now be only mostly true.
After expanding nationwide from only a handful of stores in Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia, Dollar Tree is breaking the mold and will sell items in some locations that exceed the tantalizing $1 grab-n-go price.
The cost of clothes, cars, food and just about everything else has soared this year as the global economy emerges from a pandemic uppercut and Dollar Tree has not been untouched. ..
The company had already begun testing higher prices at several hundred of its nearly 8,000 locations in a section of the store called "Dollar Tree Plus" with items that can go for as much as $5. Items that can go for $1.25 to $1.50 will soon be found in the mix at some locations amid the typical assortment of $1 products.
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It'll be the 'Buck and a Quarter Tree'.
("Actually, it's a buck and a quarter quarterstaff, but I'm not telling him that." For the Daffy Duck fans out there.)
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The 19-year-old student who tossed an egg at French President Emmanuel #Macron during an international food fair in Lyon, #France has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital.https://t.co/HxxO71LCXO
[Breitbart] Companies that fail to adhere to the Biden administration’s coronavirus rules, including the anticipated employer vaccine mandate, could face fines up to $700,000 thanks to Democrats, who snuck the severe monetary penalties into the controversial 2,465-page spending bill.
The far-left’s $3.5 trillion spending bill includes severe penalties that can be levied against companies that fail to comply with the Biden administration’s coronavirus rules outlined by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which crafted an emergency coronavirus rule over the summer. It was published in the Federal Register, essentially deeming the Chinese coronavirus a "workplace hazard."
However, this month, Biden also directed OSHA to develop a directive requiring employers with over 100 employees to either mandate vaccines or implement mandatory testing requirements.
Page 168 of the Democrats’ massive spending package outlines fines as high as $70,000 for "serious infractions" of the rules, but it can go up to $700,000 for "willful or repeated violations."
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There is no end to the mischief that can be hidden in 2,465 pages. Bills longer than 5 pages should be illegal.
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See, there are Trillionaires. Its called Congress, and they do what they want.
The more they make this swing, the more severe the snap.
I would like to be there when they find out the people pulling the rope are really in charge, and not only are they no longer necessary, but dangerous to the new rules.
#4
This is a blockade, usually considered an act of war. Even if we secede, they will still come at us with this kind of shit and more. Better to plant them in their own territory.
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[Sputnik] A rehearsal for the Sunsuper Riverfire air show took place on 23 September in Brisbane, Australia. A Boeing C-17A Globemaster III strategic aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) flew between skyscrapers and office buildings at a breathtakingly low altitude of about 300 feet.
New footage of the Tuesday flight appeared on YouTube on Wednesday, depicting an incredible view from the pilot’s cabin.
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Rubber bullets fired into crowds. C-17's flying between skyscrapers. Is there actually something in the water down there ?
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When I was a teen, two military jets -- Tomcats, from memory -- flew over our house at treetop level. That is not an exaggeration -- one had to pull up a little to clear a stand of persimmon trees behind the house.
I wasn't butthurt -- I was curious as to what had them in such a hurry.
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Guess if you are going to shoot down orphaned puppies and douse grandma in pepper spray, might as well have a military flyover. Bold call.
Managing to turn the original Mad Max into the bad guy.
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.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two men from Louisiana in the US have been charged with defrauding airlines out of $550,000 by filing dozens of false lost-baggage claims, a statement released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday revealed.
Ref #4: Yes, the pattern is rather obvious. 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
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...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
[Breitbart] Companies that fail to adhere to the Biden administration’s coronavirus rules, including the anticipated employer vaccine mandate, could face fines up to $700,000 thanks to Democrats, who snuck the severe monetary penalties into the controversial 2,465-page spending bill.
