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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

JUDICIARY: Oversight of the Trump Administration’s Muslim Ban - Update On The Religious Freedom v. Parental Rights

Good identity management of other countries and risk was the underlying focus of responses from witnesses in reference to multiple attestation in other databases like INTERPOL.

Identity management is dealing with trafficking tiny humans, like "saving the children" through domestic and international adoptions.

The "ban" on entering the U.S. is about trafficking tiny humans, but no one wants to talk about that.

This has nothing to do about religion, unless you consider the application of christian chattel law when it comes to the right of entrance, right of exit when it comes to trafficking tiny humans in the name of the latest and greatest union of international beliefs when it comes to Religious Freedom in the battle to conserve those traditional family values of weaponizing religion to take over an elected government.


The Issue
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https://muslimadvocates.org/issue/religious-freedom/
Religious freedom is one of the bedrock principles upon which the United States was founded. Yet, American Muslims have increasingly faced bigotry, discrimination, and hostility to their very right to worship. Muslim Advocates works to protect American Muslims to build and maintain mosques and to worship free from discrimination.
Religious freedom is a shield to protect people from religious discrimination, not a sword to deny people their most basic rights.
Learn more about Muslim Advocates’ efforts to ensure that mosque permits are approved free from discrimination, that people in institutions can worship freely, and that the cause of religious freedom isn’t hijacked by those who seek to turn this basic principle on its head.
If you replace "Muslims" with "Christian" and "mosque" with "church" you have yourself a template a "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) for stealin' the children, land and votes.

One serious conflict of interest that has yet to be mentioned is the U.S. Commission on International Freedom was spearheaded by Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, who just so happens to be a really big fan of Mike Pence, and his election campaigns, and child welfare contracts.

On October 27, 2018, the International ReligiousFreedom Act (IRFA), which created the U.S.Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), reached its 20th anniversary. In the two decades since, a greater and more diverse number of actors across the globe are working to protect the fundamental freedom of thought, conscience, and religion as prescribed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In fact, the U.S. Department of State’s 2018 Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom became a fulcrum for change in these efforts—more foreign governments than ever before are taking action to uphold these rights in their own countries and around the world. p7
https://www.state.gov/international-religious-freedom-reports/

How come no one called State Department Sam Brownback, appropriator of the Foreign Faith Based Funding to participate?

With children come trust funds.

Trust funds have administrators.

Trust funds have benefactors.

Trust funds have trustees.

Administrators, benefactors and trustees can all be corporations.

Corporations are people, too, according to Mitt Romney.

Corporations have parental rights.

A corporate parent can acquire, transfer, procure and purvey tiny humans, where there is no way to trace the chain of command of the birth certificate to the allodial title, where the moveable chattel is tied to the land, but which land if the corporate parent is foreign?

If a child is under the legal guardianship of a foreign corporation, what is the citizenship of the child?

Children grow up to become adults where those identities can be used, over and over again, particularly when traveling for private "militia" purposes like interfering in U.S. elections and other stuff I have watered down into the tagline of "stealin' the children, land and votes.

No one wants to unravel that Gordian VISA Knot of human trafficking being lobbied advocated under the guise of propaganda, which has falsely advised Trump for the purposes of procuring faith based funding economic redevelopment contracts.

Witnesses

Panel One: 
Mr. Edward Ramotowski 
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa Services, Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Ms. Elizabeth Neumann 
Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention and Security Policy, Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Mr. Todd Hoffman 
Executive Director, Admissions and Passenger Programs, Office of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Panel Two: 
Mr. Abdollah Dehzangi 
Baltimore, MD
Mr. Ismail Ahmed Hezam Alghazali
Brooklyn, NY
Ms. Farhana Khera 
President and Executive Director, Muslim Advocates
The Honorable Andrew R. Arthur
Resident Fellow in Law and Policy, Center for Immigration Studies
116th Congress

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Saturday, June 8, 2019

The Death Of Tony Rodham Is Announced - No Word On Where All The Haitian Gold Went

It was announced on Twitter by his sister, Hillary Clinton, that Tony Rodham has died.

There has yet to be a pronouncement of date, time, place and manner of death, but that is a family matter.


Perhaps, she is talking to him as we watch Bill, her husband, share with us of Hillary's ability to communicate with the dead, like Elenore Roosevelt, to figure out what to do with his Haitian gold mines and slave labor operations legacy.




Perhaps, the gold could be found and given back to the children of Haiti because you know the profits were laundered through some child welfare NGOs into children's trusts.

Bush Clinton Haiti Fund

http://gulfcoastfunds.com/managementteam/

EB-5

Haiti: How Bill and Hillary Clinton Wrecked an Entire Country

Tony Rodham, Terry McAuliffe and some dude.
With his sister serving as secretary of state, Tony Rodham, the brother of likely Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton, became a kind of traveling salesman in China for a politically connected green car company that was building a factory in a distressed corner of Mississippi.

“When I first got involved, Tony was taking part in jaunts to China, and they would do presentations. Somebody in China did recruiting and found people who were interested and could qualify,” said former Gov. Kathleen Blanco (D-La.), who until December sat on the board of Rodham’s Gulf Coast Funds Management, a company criticized this week for using political pressure to try to speed up a federal agency’s approval of visas.

Blanco told POLITICO that while Rodham was listed as president and CEO, he appeared to have little day-to-day involvement in the firm. His principal role was recruiting investors for Gulf Coast’s main client, GreenTech Automotive, a start-up automotive company linked to Terry McAuliffe, now Virginia’s governor. Both Gulf Coast and GreenTech are owned by Virginia businessman Xiaolin Charles Wang, who brought on partners with deep Democratic Party political connections as he tried to get the business going.

Blanco said both she and former IRS Commissioner Margaret Richardson left Gulf Coast’s board in December. The ex-governor also said she believed the firm was no longer actively recruiting investors.

“I think the company fulfilled its mission. Our goal was to raise money that was supposed to be used to create jobs in Mississippi and Louisiana. That was our obligation,” Blanco said.

Rodham, who did not respond to messages and emails sent to the firms, has said nothing publicly about an inspector general report issued this week that offers a detailed account of pressure exerted on a Department of Homeland Security official to try to speed up review of visa requests. The report says that both Rodham and McAuliffe contacted U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas for help and that agency employees believed the men were getting preferential treatment because of their political ties.

McAuliffe defended his actions Thursday on a radio talk show, saying the delays were inexplicable and his company needed answers.

Federal authorities have been examining the dealings of Rodham’s investment company for at least two years,beginning their inquiries months before McAuliffe launched a campaign for Virginia governor.

The Securities and Exchange Commission had an “ongoing … investigation” into Gulf Coast in 2013, according to documents released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa.) The records showed that the SEC subpoenaed records from a bank for Gulf Coast. GreenTech confirmed in September 2013 that it, too, received an SEC subpoena and said the firm was cooperating with the inquiry.

Gulf Coast’s only known investment is in GreenTech. Gulf Coast sought money from overseas investors through a federal government program that allowed wealthy foreigners to obtain green cards by investing in American businesses. Rodham’s investment company was part of a federal program that encourages foreign investors to front up $500,000 to fund American businesses, and to pay roughly $55,000 to obtain a U.S. green card.

In an SEC filing last year, GreenTech said it had raised $47 million in private equity investments of at least half a million dollars apiece and was looking to raise a total of $60 million. The filing did not say how much of the money came from foreign investors seeking U.S. residency through the so-called EB-5 visa program.

While Mayorkas said he’d not heard of McAuliffe before their interactions, fraud detection officials at USCIS were well aware of the political ties of Gulf Coast’s president and CEO, Rodham.

“The Principal Administrator is the brother to current secretary of state and former First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton,” an unnamed USCIS official wrote in an internal memo that was released by Grassley and appears to date from after Clinton’s departure from the Cabinet in 2013.

Until recently, the address listed for Gulf Coast Funds on its website was for an eighth-floor suite in a Tyson’s Corner building right next to the Ritz Carlton. The suite — on the same floor as offices for Turkish Airlines and Condur Company LLC — is now completely empty. The building also houses several financial companies like Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Charles Schwab & Co.?

Gulf Coast Funds is now based out of the same, small office suite as its sister company GreenTech Automotive in a neighboring building. The walls of the 11th-floor office are lined with pictures of GreenTech’s vehicles, but a sign in the reception area bearing the company’s name also lists “Gulf Coast Funds” below it. A receptionist in the building’s lobby said she knew that GreenTech’s offices were located on the 11th floor but was unaware that Gulf Coast Funds shared an office with the company.

Employees working in the office Thursday declined to answer a reporter’s questions or to provide their names and affiliations. They also said Wang was not in the office and was unavailable for an interview.

While Gulf Coast has a modest website, it lists only GreenTech as a client. A page on the site listing the firm’s “management team” appears to have been deleted in recent days.

GreenTech completed construction of a factory building in Tunica, Miss. last year. A news release on the firm’s website said production was to begin in November, but the facility is still getting up an running, according to a local official.


“Their employment in Tunica is approximately 80 employees and they are actively seeking more employees in skilled trades. The company continues to build their workforce, install equipment and test vehicles,” Lyn Arnold of the Tunica Chamber of Commerce said in an email Thursday.

Gulf Coast was founded in 2007 by David Voelker, a Republican businessman who donated to candidates of both parties, and George Brower, who hoped to stimulate business investments after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region. Voelker was the key force behind the project, Blanco said, but later sold the firm to Wang, a Virginia businessman.

“When Wang bought it, he thought it was a solid company,” Blanco said. McAuliffe and Rodham came aboard after Wang took over, the former governor said. McAuliffe’s goal was to bring part of GreenTech or another a manufacturing firm to rural Virginia, using the investor-visa financing. No such deal was ever cut.

Blanco said the company became controversial only in 2013, when McAuliffe began running for governor and cut his ties with both Gulf Coast and GreenTech. Suddenly, the political connections that seemed to be an asset for the business venture made it a target. That angered Wang, the former governor said.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers the keynote address at the Dreamforce convention Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, in San Francisco. Clinton said Tuesday the nation needs to close a 'word gap' between low-income children and their more affluent peers. Other topic included her support of 'net neutrality', her new granddaughter Charlotte and the importance of philanthropy. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)


Hillary's nerd squad

“It looked to me like everyone was working and working in a legitimate way,” Blanco said. “When it got politicized, it got fractured. When Terry started running for governor, everything became intensely political, and Charlie became upset with the political piece of it.”

In 2013, GreenTech Automotive filed an $85 million libel lawsuit against a Virginia-based, self-styled watchdog group, the Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity, which investigated the company and raised questions about its political connections and business prospects.

A federal judge in Mississippi dismissed the libel claims against the group and its writer last July. GreenTech’s appeal of that ruling is pending before a federal appeals court. GreenTech also refiled the libel suit in September in a state court in Alexandria, Virginia.


Mayorkas has adamantly denied any wrongdoing and described himself as “impervious” to political influence. However, in a response to Homeland Security investigators he described his dealings with McAuliffe as “difficult and unpleasant.” The former immigration official, who now serves as deputy secretary of homeland security, also said he received “caustic,” “inflammatory” and expletive-laden phone calls from McAuliffe, a charge the now-governor didn’t deny Thursday.

”I was angrier than heck at all these people,” McAuliffe told WRVA radio in Richmond on Thursday, noting that the calls came before he was elected in 2013. “Just as I do as governor. … I pick up the phone and I raise heck. I do what I think is right.”

Blanco said Thursday that she remembered people affiliated with Gulf Coast being mystified at the lack of action by immigration officials, but she didn’t recall what the firm’s management decided to do about it. She said she was disappointed by the flap but sympathetic to McAuliffe’s efforts to try to get federal officials to approve the firm’s applications.

“I don’t like anything I’m involved with to have anything negative said about it, but it was a very legal program,” the former governor added. “What are people supposed to do when they find a level of frustration with the bureaucracy?”

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Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Cocktails & Popcorn: Matt Schneider Said "At Least"- Where is Bob Ficano, Turkia Mullin, Brendan Dunleavy, Raymond Wojtowicz??

I truly hope we did not forget about Bob Ficano.

I wonder what Bob is up to these days.

I wonder what Turkia Mullin is doing.

Where is Brendan Dunleavy?

Where is Raymond Wojtowicz?

We should talk to Kwame Kilpatrick.

Someone should invite them for a lovely evening of cocktails & popcorn and livestream the interviews.

Guilty Detroit Metro airport boss gasps at verdict in $5M bribery case

Defendant James Warner, a former field inspector at Detroit Metro Airport who is charged with taking bribes, leaves the Theodore Levin Federal Courthouse in downtown Detroit on May 21, 2019.
James Warner
Detroit — A former Detroit Metropolitan Airport official faces the longest corruption crime sentence in U.S. history after being convicted Wednesday of receiving more than $5 million worth of bribes.

James Warner, 52, of Commerce Township, gasped and arched his eyebrows as the jury forewoman said "guilty" 10 times for charges that included bribery, theft and money laundering conspiracies, and obstruction of justice, a charge that carries a possible 20-year prison sentence.

Warner could be sentenced to more than 30 years in federal prison. The sentence would eclipse the current record, a 28-year federal prison sentence being served by former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

Warner will be sentenced Oct. 8 by U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts.

"The government is going to come at him guns blazing and seek the maximum sentence," said Peter Henning, a Wayne State University law professor and former federal prosecutor. "Whether Judge Roberts gives that to him is an open question."

Advisory sentencing guidelines call for 24-30 years in federal prison.

U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider, who was in the courtroom Wednesday, said his office will pursue a sentence within the guideline range, "at least."

U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider
U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider said, "at least".

Roberts has broad discretion and can ignore the guideline range.

Henning does not expect a record-setting sentence even though Warner was accused of receiving five times as much money as Kilpatrick.

"Being an elected mayor versus an airport official, I’m not sure they’re exactly comparable even though (Warner) took much more money," Henning said.

Prosecutors wanted Warner taken into custody Wednesday, calling him a flight risk and a danger to himself, citing what they believe was a suicide attempt in 2017.

More than $1 million remains unaccounted for and the money could bankroll a flight from justice, Assistant U.S. Attorney Eaton Brown told the judge.

Warner’s lawyer Robert Harrison disagreed. All of Warner’s assets have been frozen or seized, Harrison said, adding that Warner is not suicidal.

The judge read letters from Warner’s doctor before deciding to let Warner remain free until October. The letters convinced the judge Warner was not suicidal and she was satisfied he does not have money to fund an escape.

Warner and his lawyer declined comment.

Jurors deliberated for about four hours before reaching the verdict following a trial that lasted parts of three weeks. In a rare move, Warner testified in his own defense.

Warner, an airport manager and field inspector who also worked for West Bloomfield Township, is the rare indicted public official to stand trial on corruption charges and risk a decades-long federal prison sentence.

Kwame Kilpatrick, left, and Dean Reynolds.
Kwame Kilpatrick and Dean Reynolds
Two of the most recent politicians to stand trial in federal court —Kilpatrick and Clinton Township Trustee Dean Reynolds — were convicted and sentenced to double-digit prison sentences.

Kwame Kilpatrick, left, and Dean Reynolds.

Warner's alleged appetites distinguish him from the dozens of public officials who have been accused or convicted of corruption-related crimes in the last decade in Metro Detroit. He fabricated invoices, overcharged the airport for work performed by contractors and received more than $5 million worth of kickbacks during a four-year period, prosecutors said.

The alleged bribery conspiracy outlined by prosecutors started in May 2010 when Warner was working as a field inspector at the airport approving maintenance and repair contracts. He headed three related schemes involving Metro Detroit contractors, including Romulus businessman William Pritula, 70, whose company William Pritula & Sons held facilities and maintenance contracts at the airport, prosecutors said.

Warner drafted and submitted inflated invoices for work Pritula was hired to perform at the airport, according to the government. The payments totaled more than $18 million.

In return, Warner received approximately half of the profits from the contracts, or more than $5 million, according to the indictment.

Pritula pleaded guilty to bribery last year and could be sentenced up to 10 years in prison in September. He agreed to forfeit $5.4 million to the government.

Federal court records describe Warner as a greedy, potty-mouthed felon.

"If it weren't for me, your ass would be out," Warner told one airport contractor, according to the indictment.

That contractor, authorities allege, was Gary Tenaglia, 65, of Rochester, who was charged last year and accused of defrauding the Wayne County Airport Authority of $1.5 million.

Warner allegedly gave Tenaglia inside information so the contractor's company, Envision Electric, could win contracts. In return, Warner received 10 percent of each invoice, prosecutors said.

During one dinner, Warner and Tenaglia discussed contracts and kickbacks, prosecutors said.

"During the meal, James Warner wrote '5k,' a proposed kickback amount, on a napkin," prosecutors wrote in the indictment. "He folded it and slid it across the table to Gary Tenaglia. After Gary Tenaglia acknowledged the meaning of the writing on the napkin, James Warner retrieved the napkin and ate it."

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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

GO BLUE: Stephen Ross Gets Busted For Stealin' From Our Most Precious Treasures

I was in awe with the legal magnitude of this decision, of the D.C Court of Appeals, of the Tax Court, on stealin'.

I prefer the term Corporate Shape Shifter.

Michelle Obama prefers the term corporate layering.

This is what the Detroit Land Bank Authority did under TARP, except there was a situation of such gross negligence in their racketeering of fake LLCs for the simple fact that University of Michigan actually teaches the virtues of the Michigan land bank model and falsely advises in crafting legislation.

I could go into detail, or I could just send you to my database of their antics.

Get to know Stephen Ross because he was the one who came up with the hustle of scamming the Treasury by claiming to help "The Poors" in housing while generating substantial profits in Corporate Shape Shifting through foreign corporations in tax adverse lands.

It seems he has amassed a $15 billion dollar fortune from the trafficking of tiny humans with investments from the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, EB-5, Brookfield, with Japanese and Israeli financial interests.

The entire philanthropic community has become nothing more than an operation of Social Impact Bonds, a residual of the peculiar institution.

I see another transposable legal model.

I also see another building block in the justice chain.

#maytheheavensfall

Appeals court denies $33M charitable deduction by UM donor Ross, partners




Washington — A federal appeals court has ruled that real estate developer Stephen M. Ross and his partners may not deduct as a charitable contribution $33 million for commercial land donated to the University of Michigan in 2003.

In so ruling, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a 2017 decision, below, by the U.S. Tax Court and a 40-percent penalty imposed by the Internal Revenue Service.

Ross is UM's largest alumni donor, with hundreds of millions in pledges to the university and with his name on the university's business school.

According to the court, RERI Holdings LLC, of which Ross is a member, had acquired and donated a future interest in a piece of commercial property to UM in 2003.

RERI had argued that the donation was a bona fide deduction valued at $33 million, but the IRS had maintained that RERI artificially inflated the property value to offset the tax liability of its owners.

RERI had paid $2.95 million in 2002 for a remainder interest in the property at issue, later gifting that remainder interest to UM in 2003 as part of Ross' pledge to donate $5 million to the university.
UM later sold the property to HRK Real Estate Holdings LLC — indirectly owned by another RERI member — for $1.94 million, which was credited toward Ross’s pledge to UM, according to the court.

On its 2003 tax return, RERI claimed a charitable contribution deduction of $33 million for the transfer of the property.

After an audit, the IRS rejected $29 million of RERI’s deduction, finding the property was worth only $3.9 million. The IRS also imposed a penalty equal to 20 percent of the tax underpayment.

In the Tax Court, the IRS later asserted that RERI was entitled to no deduction for a charitable contribution on the grounds that the transaction was “a sham for tax purposes or lacks economic substance.” It also revised its penalty to 40 percent of the tax underpayment.

The Tax Court after a four-day trial sided with the IRS, concluding that RERI had failed to substantiate the value of the donated property as required by federal regulations.

The tax court judge also concluded that RERI had "grossly" misstated the property's value, which the judge found was worth just $3.46 million on the date of the donation to UM.

The Tax Court noted a “significant disparity" between the property's claimed fair market value of $33 million and the $3 million that RERI had paid to acquire it just 17 months before gifting it to the university.

"In short, we agree with the Tax Court that RERI fell short of the substantiation requirements by omitting its basis in the donated property," the appeals panel wrote. 

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Thursday, March 14, 2019

JUDICIARY: Interview Of Lisa Page - Legal Genius


It seems Loretta Lynch did the tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton as a way of "recusing" herself from the investigation, as, possible, a cross contamination of an ongoing investigation by announcing accepting the recommendations of Comey and career prosecutors make.

Whatever the reason, it was legally strategic.

It seems the investigation started right about the day after the 2016 Primary Election in Michigan and went full throttle after the 2016 General Election, but hey, what do I know?

Lisa Page is an immigrant, but I wonder if she was adopted.

Lisa has two children.  Adoption?

Did Bob Mueller give Lisa the Stinky Touch in his request to have her join the investigative team?

Me thinketh so.

FBI, David Corn, Glenn Simpson, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, John McCain's staff and Buzzfeed all had multiple versions of the Trump Dossier in their emails.

Buzzfeed does not have the greatest reputation when it comes to cover politics, so, I am just going to say it was not the greatest idea to even include them in the mix.

Oddly, she did not mention Mike Cernovich when she dropped Buzzfeed.

Then Christopher Steele had the final version.

Interesting, she referenced Watergate prosecutors, in a comparative analytical kind of way.

Funny, she did not once mention John Conyers which leads me, again, to think that her "gung ho" work on the investigation was a distraction of other stuff, like trafficking tiny humans, but hey, what do I know?


It also seems Obama knew about the trafficking of tiny humans, which is why he called to back off the Clinton probe, because there was another, ongoing investigation, which is why Comey backed off.

Everyone was watching them.

You know what they say, "Your friends are close, but your enemies are closer", which is why Mueller wanted her on the team, but hey, what do I know?

I know the second day interview was about the Clinton emails, which I already know that those emails were secured from a different location...in Detroit, but hey, what do I know?

I know that I am just going to say that Lisa Page is one of those "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending).
Rep. Doug Collins, the ranking member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, has released transcripts of former FBI Assistant General Counsel Lisa Page's interview with the committee. The transcripts from Page's interviews on July 13 and July 16, 2018 are provided below.


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