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I bought an old map of Australia from 1900. I was stunned to learn that we used to have a state called “Alexandraland”! byteseu.com/395313/ #Australia
I bought an old map of Australia from 1900. I was stunned to learn that we used to have a state called "Alexandraland"!
#Australia

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New details in court filings pertaining to FTX executive Ryan Salame, including areas of criminal exposure prosecutors were investigating: foreign bribery, narcotics trafficking, hiring sex workers for FTX VIPs, and arranging preferential access to tokens.

#FTX #crypto #cryptocurrency

DS: New areas of criminal exposure: (1) evidence that Salame was involved in FCPA scheme in the Bahamas, in which he supervised efforts to pay bribes to immigration authorities to help get FTX employee and associates into the country; (2) evidence of distribution quantity narcotics trafficking; (3) paying for prostitutes, including for FTX VIP clients; (4) failure to pay taxes on 2021 bonus; (5) have evidence that RS arranged to obtain unauthorized preferential access to tokens on FTX.
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Later, Salame’s lawyers claimed they don’t recall that meeting. Prosecutors argue that Salame’s petition should be denied outright, but if it isn’t, that communications between him and his counsel need to be examined to see whether he was misled by lawyers.

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Were the Court to hold a hearing, however, Salame has put in issue the communications between him and his criminal counsel, at least regarding the terms of his guilty plea, and waived the attorney client privilege. The attorney-client privilege “may implicitly be waived when defendant asserts a claim that in fairness requires examination of protected communications.” United States v. Bilzerian, 926 F.2d 1285, 1292 (1991). It is, therefore, routine to find an implied waiver where, as here, a defendant claims that he did not knowingly and voluntarily plead guilty, was forced to plead guilty, or otherwise puts at issue the communications with his counsel. See, e.g., United States v. Anderson, 201 F.3d 432, at *4 (2d Cir. 1999) (unpublished disposition) (defendant impliedly waived attorney-client privilege where he used purported discussions he had with his counsel as a basis to repudiate a provision of his plea agreement); United States v. Arias, 166 F.3d 1201, at *1 (2d Cir. 1998) (summary order) (defendant implicitly waived the attorney-client privilege when he argued that his attorney had coerced him into pleading guilty). By claiming that the Government made a promise during the April 28, 2023, meeting, Salame necessarily has put at issue his communications with his counsel about (i) what defense counsel said the Government said in their meetings; (ii) what defense counsel told Salame about the scope of the plea agreement; and (iii) what discussions, if any, Salame had with
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Side note because it’s amusing to me, but: prosecutors point out that Salame admitted to bankruptcy fraud (a crime for which he was not ultimately charged) “while trying to explain it away” in this tweet:

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Ryan Salame @rsalame7926 I didn't try to withdraw "tens of millions more" - I had 100% of my funds on FTX and queued up various sized withdrawals until one worked (and then I canceled the rest). I also didn't think FTX was bankrupt then, I still don't think it was ever bankrupt even now. But yah not my best moment, I'll admit to that, but I had no money in the bank and everyone was getting lawyers and they wanted a large retainer.
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It would be pretty horrifying if Salame and Bond were in fact misled by their attorneys — not least because they say they decided to have a baby based on the government’s promises not to continue investigating Bond.

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Sheb: Took over case from FTX Wanted to reach out, let you know we are close, give you a chance to present. GP: Surprised and alarmed that investigation is still ongoing and almost at conclusion Members of the FTX prosecution team led us to believe that if Salame resolved case, office would stop investigating Ms. Bond Also represent Salame, father of her baby April 28, 2023 – right after seizure, conversation with FTX team – Sassoon, Rohrbach, Kudla, Rehn, Raymond During that conversation, Danielle reading from set of talking points – noted that Bond’s status had changed, if we reached resolution, office would conclude investigation into Ryan other than SBF stuff Thought that meant would cease investigating plea Taken aback, didn’t expect that Pled guilty in September, significant motivation was having investigation into Ms. Bond conclude Had been operating under that understanding until message this week Because of FTX team statements, Salame prejudiced by saying non-SBF conduct not investigated Bond would not have spoken with government as co-signer Had a baby together based on Gov’t representation Shifted focus away from preparing away from potential defense, based on what we have done so far, don’t see criminality Cognizant that you were not part of those conversations last year Intend to raise issues up the chain Sheb: What about May 25 call? JL: Will check Sheb: FBI agent on surety interview? JL: We were aware, not different questions
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Both attorneys present at the May 25 call are partners at Mayer Brown, and hardly budget bin lawyers. Jason Linder, the one who acknowledged prosecutors’ statement that Bond’s prosecution was separate, is a former senior federal prosecutor for the DOJ. The other was an AUSA.

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outside the legal teams and actors involved you're probably the foremost expert on FTX. It's wild that it doesn't have more coverage considering its real and imagined scale. P.s. have you considered writing it up as a PhD. That's pretty much what I did - an analytical organisational biography of Fox Searchlight. I think it would be great!
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Funnily enough, this happened to me trying to buy a 3D TV for work many years ago. (I used to review Blu-rays and I was getting several 3D offers a week.)

Something went wrong, so I tried again. And again. And again. And then all of them went through and nearly all of my credit limit was taken up by 3D TVs. I was able to call support and cancel all but one order, but it took 2 to 3 business days to get the credit back and this was a Friday.

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Huh. Once again in fun bandcamp trends, "Devil's Gonna Git You" from our Revolting Music from the Public Domain album has a substantial number of plays organically. It's the number 1 played song of the past week! That's really interested to me, and it always surprises me what's trending with us.

I should say, this is from #AnalogRevolution which is the label I run with @ajroach42

Anyway. If you want to check out the song yourself, you can do so here:

analogrevolution.bandcamp.com/…

#AnalogRevolution @Andrew (Television Executive)
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On I-65 in Alabama on the East side is a sign just past Prattville that says "The Devil is Going to Get You if You Don't Go to Church" with a picture of a red horned devil with a pitchfork. The song title may hit the curiosity button those who've traveled that.

(I'm religious and married to a PC-USA Presbyterian Reverend and neither of believe that sign, but find it interesting culturally).

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@cainmark I used to live in Alabama, and I love that sign for its distinct aesthetic. People make shirts of it, and I kinda want one to crop is a slightly slutty manner.
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Testing the boundaries for ethnic cleansing in the West Bank...
The current operation in the West Bank is meant to test the boundaries of what Israel will be allowed to get away with. It is setting the stage for the forced ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
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My 10 Books of Summer - not exactly according to plan

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For quite a while I've been tagging posts with #music or other #videos with the decade in which the œvre was finished or published. Some others did the same, and now we have quite a library of the arts on D*. Try a search for #1920s, for example.

That is something I really love about D*.

#diaspora

#music #Diaspora #videos #1920s

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We’ve been on the inside of this hangry, poopy-diapered two-year old’s nonstop applesauce slinging temper tantrum for so long now, we often don’t even recognize how far gone we are.
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A Kamala Harris win and a Democratic sweep would give the biggest boost to the economy, Goldman Sachs says. Harris' middle-class tax credits would outweigh the decreased investment driven by higher corporate taxes.

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Trump Says Elon Musk Agreed to Run ‘Financial and Performance Audit’ of Government and Recommend ‘Drastic Reforms’ mediaite.com/politics/trump-sa…

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The Guardian
Stock plunge wipes out Trump Media’s extraordinary market gains

Truth Social shares closed below $17 on Wednesday, reversing all gains since the company’s rapid rise from January

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Dear Fediverse hivemind. The charity I'm volunteering for is working on a #nodejs project, and I'm wondering about what #security #infosec tools we should be including in our CI/CD pipeline. Were this a #python project I'd be suggesting Bandit but I'm out of my depth and floating un-tethered in #node space. Please advise, and thanks in advance!
#security #python #infosec #nodejs #Node

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I released a new version of the Percentages With Animation Compose with the new version of the #JetpackCompose 1.7.0 and others improvements 👇

#AndroidDev #Android #Kotlin #KotlinDev #Compose #MobileDevelopment #GitHub #OpenSource #Coding

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#opensource #android #github #Kotlin #coding #MobileDevelopment #androiddev #Compose #JetpackCompose #kotlindev

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Trump wants another Supreme Court bailout. Here's how federal judges can stop him. (Norman Eisen/The Hill)

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Nose to tail...

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Definitely Bandcamp Friday this time.

latest is an album of Ambient Down-Tempo Electronica called - "A Constellation of Lies" It comprises of three 11 min Anti-Bangers.

chillway.bandcamp.com/album/a-…

Free codes from GetMusic, but there are only 20 left.

getmusic.fm/artists/hy-vyb

I've added tracks to my cinematic/game Fantasy album, and one to my UK Drill Instrumental Album, and have a couple of EPs set to free and a general 30% of sale on everything.

#BandcampFriday

Have a good one!

#bandcampfriday

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Surprise!

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I am shocked, shocked to discover that the Russian state was funding far-right "influencers" in the state of Tennessee and I am sure they had absolutely no idea where the money was coming from theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

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from Barack Obama

It doesn’t have to be this way.

🚨If Kamala is President & the House & Senate are Blue, we can FINALLY get some meaningful gun legislation passed. This is our chance, don't blow it!!

Vote Blue up and down the ballot! - EB

#EnoughIsEnough #Kamala

#EnoughIsEnough #Kamala
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