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DOJ charges Russia-backed TV network contributor with violating U.S. sanctions and money laundering (NBC News)

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Lawyer Ex Machina is out - Pres Michel loses his motion, a security researcher is sued for revealing the level of damage in a ransomware attacks and cops want videos from Teslas parked near crime scenes #lawfedi #lawlibrarians #legalAI buttondown.com/LawyerExMachina…
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Διάφανα Κρίνα - Κλόουν την Τετάρτη
Διάφανα Κρίνα - Κλόουν την Τετάρτη

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The U.S. government has charged a Russian-born U.S. citizen & former adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign with working for a sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds.
(via @apnews)

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Unusual Whales is having a sale until Sept 9.

15-20% off!

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#News #finance #economics #stocks #Options

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"Organizing for Sustainability
A Guide to Developing New Business Models"
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This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Is supported by a self-paced MOOC, also Open Access, holding seven chapters and over 50 teaching units ready to use: bit.ly/3oFZ3jj

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Strange but true...Peter O'Donnell, creator of Modesty Blaise, took inspiration from Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline and, somehow, shaped that into a story that included a murder at a cricket match.

#Music #Songs #ComicBooks #Cricket #PopMusic

#music #cricket #songs #comicbooks #popmusic

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At NO price.

If the GOP do not start punishing losers when in power, the last 8 years were for nothing.

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Nick Fuentes Blasts Trump for Admitting He Lost the 2020 Election byteseu.com/395321/ #America #Politics #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USPolitics #USA #USAPolitics
Nick Fuentes Blasts Trump for Admitting He Lost the 2020 Election
#politics #UnitedStates #USA #US #america #USPolitics #unitedstatesofamerica #usapolitics

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BREAKING: The U.S. government charges former Trump 2016 campaign adviser Dimitri Simes with working for a sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds. nbcphiladelphia.com/news/polit…

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How to Breed a Pet Ferret

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Democracy NEVER EXISTED ! ! (Democracy vs. Power / Military)

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#power #Economy #military #Banks #debt #government #democracy #Profit #war #greed #Manipulation #etc #loans #arms #Selfish #division #takeovers #unfairness

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Manitoba Government Announces Universal School Nutrition Program Available Across Manitoba byteseu.com/395315/ #Canada #CanadaPolitics #Politics
Manitoba Government Announces Universal School Nutrition Program Available Across Manitoba
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Je pense qu’il est temps de citer la meilleure analyse politique du moment :
Gaston Lagaffe, debout dans son fameux pull à col roulé vert, son jean à revers et ses espadrilles molles, les mains sur les hanches, s’exclamant « M’ENFIN !? »
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The thing about propaganda is it's often very easy to see through if you just set your biases aside.

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Trump Was Asked About Childcare And He Fell Apart politicususa.com/2024/09/05/tr…
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@DemocracyMattersALot

It hurts my brain to read transcripts of his statements. It’s not even word salad — it’s word slop.

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@ScruffyJunco

The transcripts are devastating! We should transcribe and publish everything. When you see his remarks in writing, it’s so much clearer that everything he says is garbage.

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@#TuckFrump @Scout

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it sucks being diabetic.


Was staring at those for a while today. Looked so delicious...

#pastry #Nice #France

#France #nice #pastry

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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"!
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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.
#Crypto #cryptocurrency #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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