If The Pope Can Do It - All Churches, Mosques, Temples Should Open Its Property Doors To The Homeless Starting In Detroit

All churches, cathedrals, mosques, temples should immediately open their doors, cash out their foreign child welfare trust funds, and serve the people they made needy by stealin' the children, land and vote.

As a matter of fact, we should start with the Archdiocese of Detroit, where they can turn over all that property they are running through the Detroit Land Bank Authority, instead of having to drop even more money on the construction of more human plantations for the youth aging out of their state, privatized foster care and adoption contracts.

Child Welfare Propaganda - Even A Kid From Ghana Can Spot Trafficking Tiny Humans In The Name Of The Tax Exempt God

Give them permanent homes, not a human asset management center.

Ruth Ellis Center building 43 units of supportive housing for LGBTQ young adults

The Archdiocese of Detroit has beautiful buildings that have been magically trying to be leveraged and flipped, so they do not have to pay settlements for the horrors these young adults suffered while under its aegis, who why not use these shuttered schools instead of letting them rot, for the purposes of getting more federal bailout money, because everyone already stole all the TARP money.

How Is The Catholic Church Hiding More Than $2 Billion In Assets?

I am pretty darn sure lots of these homeless youth came out the Denby Salvation Army historic institution.

Denby Salvation Army Detroit Foster Care House Of Horrors For Sale - Again

What better and immediate way to provide relief for the life of hell these children survived under the Catholic Church.

Always remember, before they were young adults, they were children.

FUN FACT! THE MEL TROTTER HOUSE IN GRAND RAPIDS BARS GAY YOUTH FROM ITS HOMELESS SHELTER

19th Century Vatican palace turned into homeless shelter at Pope Francis' behest

After the building was renovated last November, it opened its doors to the homeless.

"The Detroit Land Bank Authority is not going to like this."

ROME, Italy — Sitting off St, Peter's Square next to the Vatican, the beautiful 19th century palace would have commanded top dollars if it were a hotel, but Pope Francis had other ideas, so it has been converted into a homeless shelter.

The Palazzo Migliori, named after the family who donated it to the Roman Catholic Church, had served as the headquarters for an order of religious women, who vacated it last year.

But the Calasanziane order that occupied the building for 70 years and used it to help and care for young single mothers has since relocated to another location.

One option considered was turning the building into a hotel as it's located just off St. Peter’s Square, where pontiffs deliver sermons to thousands of worshippers. The location is also very popular with tourists, who pay hundreds of dollars to stay close to it.

But Francis had a very different idea of the kind of guests he wanted for this prime location — the poor and the homeless.

After the building was renovated in November, it opened its doors to the homeless.

“Beauty heals,” Francis said when he inaugurated the building at the time.

“This place feels more like home. I have my own bed, room and bathroom,” Mario Brezza, 53, told NBC News. “It’s so different from the dormitories I have tried until now, where sometimes you feel like an animal in a crowded stable."

Brezza, who had his leg amputated because of a "serious circulatory disease" lives on a $300 monthly disability allowance. He is among 50 or so homeless men and women who now sleep in the palace’s 16 bedrooms.

Volunteers also provide them with hot meals.

Among them is Sharon Christner, 23 who traveled from Pennsylvania as part of a research project on homelessness and social issues.

“Even if they wanted to use it for charity, a lot of people would have rented this place out, make a lot of money and give it to the poor,” Christner said. “But what is special about this place is that it’s not about maximizing dollar signs, but giving people a really beautiful place to be, with the idea that beauty heals.”

Carlo Santoro, a member of the Sant’Egidio Community, a lay catholic association in charge of many charitable projects linked to the Vatican, including Palazzo Migliori, said the place was a “real paradox.”

“It is a beautiful palace next to St. Peter’s Square and Basilica, and yet it’s home to those who until recently did not have a house to go to," he added.

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Warren Busts Human Trafficking Ring - How Many Came Out Foster Care

How many came out foster care?

Hey, when you age out foster care, ya gotta eat.

I guess Vista Maria is taking back in their former foster kids.

Warren nets 46 arrests related to human trafficking, prostitution

Warren — Warren police touted 46 arrests Friday in an ongoing human trafficking investigation called Operation Crusade, involving drugs and prostitution.

One “John” traveled from Manistee and the prostitutes charged in the three-day roundup range in age from 18 to 60, said Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer. The crimes were committed in hotels and multi-unit apartment complexes in the city, investigators said.

Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer displays some of the 46 people arrested by the Warren Police Department’s Special Investigation Division and Special Operation Unit. The arrest are part of Operation Crusade II which focused on human trafficking prostitution and pandering.

“The mayor is concerned about people coming in from outside the city, using Warren as a hub to have prostitution and drugs,” Dwyer said. “It’s just not going to be tolerated by him or myself.”

No victims of human trafficking were identified in this week’s arrests. “So far none of these prostitutes who were arrested are admitting they are victims of human trafficking but time will tell,” Dwyer said.

In the operation’s first round in May that netted 35 arrests, three victims were discovered, Dwyer said. The department has connected those women with agencies to help them recover.

This week’s arrests resulted in 20 felony charges, including transporting a prostitute, which is a 20-year felony, along with 69 misdemeanors. Dwyer said the individuals have all been arraigned.

Dwyer stressed that prostitution is illegal and charges are warranted against the women. But he also called the prostitutes victims because they’ve become addicted to drugs with the help of their pimps.

Of the 46 arrests, 25 were women. Detective Craig Bankowski said some of the women were charged in connection with transporting prostitutes.

Dwyer said they want human trafficking victims to come forward and that their investigation is ongoing.

“Let the Warren police department assist you,” Dwyer said. “Everything that is done is confidential.”

“We want to make sure victims of human trafficking are identified and treated as human beings.”

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DOJ: Former Operators of Michigan Adult Foster Care Homes Sentenced for Income and Employment Tax Crimes

I hope we are not finished with these adult foster care homes because these are the "promised land" for many aging out of foster care who do not wish to live on the streets.

FUN FACT! A CORPORATE PARENT IS ONLY OBLIGATED TO GIVE A RESIDENT $40 A MONTH FROM THE $771.00 MONTHLY SSI PAYMENT

The owners and operators of multiple Michigan adult foster care homes were sentenced today for federal tax crimes. Jeremiah Cheff was sentenced to 27 months in prison, and Nicolette Cheff was sentenced to two years of probation, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider for the Eastern District of Michigan.

According to court documents and the evidence presented at trial, Jeremiah and Nicolette Cheff (“the Cheffs”) owned and controlled the financial and business operations of 16 foster care homes that cared for individuals with mental illnesses and developmental and physical disabilities.  From September 2010 through September 2014, the Cheffs withheld payroll taxes from employees’ paychecks, but failed to timely file payroll tax returns and pay over the withheld funds to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).  Jeremiah Cheff also failed to file several individual income tax returns and, when the IRS attempted to collect unpaid payroll taxes, he sent the IRS a false financial instrument claiming to be worth $80,000 and falsely claimed to a revenue officer that he had paid the taxes due.

On April 11, 2017, Nicolette Cheff pleaded guilty to failing to file an Employer’s Quarterly Federal Tax Return and failing to file an Individual Income Tax Return.

On May 20, 2019, a jury found Jeremiah Cheff guilty of 60 counts of willfully failing to account for and pay over payroll taxes. He was also convicted of corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the IRS, and failing to timely file his 2013 through 2015 individual income tax returns.

In addition to the term of imprisonment imposed, United States District Judge Linda V. Parker ordered Jeremiah Cheff to serve two years of supervised release, and ordered both to pay restitution in the amount of $199,647 to the IRS.

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Zuckerman and U.S. Attorney Schneider commended special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, who conducted the investigation, and Trial Attorneys Jeffrey A. McLellan and Carl F. Brooker, IV, of the Tax Division, who prosecuted the case.

Additional information about the Tax Division and its enforcement efforts may be found on the Division’s website.

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DOJ: Sessions Calls Out Christians On Their Child Welfare Hypocracies

For those of you just now tuning in, I just put out a defensive position on the U.S. Attorney General's policy enforcement surrounding immigration law.

Michigan CPS Runs Out Of Tiny Humans To Traffic, Switches To Profit From Warehousing Immigrant Tiny Humans Instead

Sessions follows the laws to the letter.

Sessions does not make law, congress does.

Congress has not done jack when it comes to the trafficking of tiny humans.

It seems my Sessions just called out the perpetrators of trafficking tiny humans...christians, and they do it in the name of the tax exempt god.

Christians have run the child welfare world since the beginning of the peculiar institution, under chattel law, funded throughout history by the Holy See.

They rule the world of foster care and adoption through its imperialistic morality parades.

Separating child from parents is what we call being Legally Kidnapped through Child Protective Services, without warrant, ex parte proceedings, without right to face one's accuser, to be tried as guilty until proven innocent for the crime of hailing from "The Poors", always said with clinched teeth.

If selling chattel is the oldest form of survival and trafficking tiny humans goes through federally funded Public Private Partnerships of the child welfare programs of foster care and adoption industry, which includes immigration. then who are these Christians to challenge their own belief systems by attacking the U.S. Attorney General for carrying out the laws of the land and separating children from families?

Do I detect a bit of castigation, my dear, Jeff?

You do not really want to know what happens to these children, in the name of the tax exempt god, because Jeff knows and is trying to end it, once and for all..

Whatever shall the christian community do now?

The world is waiting.

Attorney General Sessions Addresses Recent Criticisms of Zero Tolerance By Church Leaders

Fort Wayne, IN

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Thursday, June 14, 2018

Remarks as prepared for delivery

Thank you, Tom for that kind introduction; thank you for your eight years of service to the Department of Justice, and congratulations on your appointment as United States Attorney.

Thank you to the Fort Wayne Rotary Club, the Fort Wayne Business Forum, the Allan County Bar Association—and most of all thank you to law enforcement officers from the federal, state, and local levels.

Thank you all for being here.

It is good to be back in the Hoosier state.  On my previous trip, I enjoyed being with your dedicated and professional Attorney General Curtis Hill as we explored the 10 Point Coalition neighborhood.

This is an exciting and important time. We have an historic opportunity to—finally—fix an immigration system that has been broken for decades.

The American people have been begging and pleading with our elected officials for an immigration system that is lawful and that serves our national interest—one that we can be proud of.  There is nothing mean-spirited about that.  They are right, decent and just to ask for this.

But for more than a decade now, the elites and Washington insiders have prioritized the interests of certain corporate interests and activist groups over what is best for the American people.

Beginning in 2009, the previous Administration released most aliens apprehended at the border who requested asylum into the United States with a document asking them to show up for a hearing at some later date.    Word spread quickly that by asserting a fear of returning to one’s home country, one could remain in the United States.

The results are just what one would expect.  The number of illegal entrants has surged. Asylum claims skyrocketed, and the percentage of meritorious asylum claims— those actually granted— declined.

That’s because the vast majority of the claims are not valid.  For the last five years, only 20 percent of claims have been found to be meritorious after a hearing before an Immigration Judge. In addition, some fifteen percent are found invalid by during the initial screening by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.

In addition, in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security reviewed more than 5,000 initial asylum screenings.  By 2016, only seven years later, that number had increased to 94,000.  The number of these aliens placed in immigration court proceedings went from fewer than 4,000 to more than 73,000 by 2016—nearly a 19-fold increase.

This cannot continue.

Compounding this problem, the previous administration wouldn’t prosecute illegal aliens who entered the country with children.  It was de facto open borders.

The results were unsurprising. More and more illegal aliens started showing up at the border with children.  To illustrate, in 2013, there were fewer than 15,000 family units apprehended crossing our border illegally between ports of entry.  Five years later, it was more than 75,000—a five-fold increase in five years.  It didn’t even have to be their child—it could be anyone.  You can imagine the horrible abuses that resulted.

The open borders, pro-amnesty crowd encouraged that—and they have the gall to attack those of us who want to end this lawlessness and the dangers these children face.

And then there was the time that President Obama used his pen and phone to do something he said he couldn’t legally do.  In July 2012—a few months before he was up for re-election—President Obama announced that he would give legal status to 800,000 illegal aliens—along with work authorization and other benefits, like Social Security.  Congress had rejected this proposal on multiple occasions—but President Obama did it anyway.

Again, the result was not a surprise: the number of unaccompanied alien children arriving at our border nearly doubled in one year.  The next year, it doubled again.

That could hardly be a coincidence.  The President had sent the wrong message.  Criminal networks spread the lie that kids could get amnesty.   As a result, tens of thousands of vulnerable children made the dangerous journey North—with terrible humanitarian consequences.

And then, in 2014, the Obama Administration doubled down and attempted to expand its unlawful amnesty to any illegal alien here since 2010.

Towards the end of the last administration, prosecutions for illegal entry and reentry both declined, and sanctuary policies were encouraged, eroding relationships with state and local law enforcement officers that had taken decades to build.

Sanctuary policies are when cities or states refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.  If they’ve got somebody in custody who is wanted for deportation—they release them back into the community.  At their root, they are a rejection of all immigration law.  If you won’t deport somebody who came here illegally and then committed another crime—then who will you deport?

Meanwhile in Congress, efforts to end illegal immigration have been blocked at every turn.  Any law enforcement policies are attacked by open borders radicals and well-paid lobbyists.

Every time something is proposed that would end illegal immigration, it gets blocked.  If it works, it gets blocked.  If it doesn’t work—if it won’t end illegal immigration—then the elites and the Washington insiders are all for it.

Eric Holder—my predecessor as Attorney General of the United States—supports sanctuary laws.  Here is his legal defense of sanctuary policies: “states have the power over the health and safety of their residents and the allocation of state resources.”  That’s it.  It’s almost a non sequitur.  The question is whether cities and states have the right under the Constitution to actively undermine the supreme law of the land—a question that has been settled repeatedly in the negative since 1819.

Our elites—who seem to think that they are also our betters—don’t like our immigration system; they know they don’t have the votes to change it—and so they have willingly embraced illegality.  It is outrageous.

But the Trump administration is working to restore legality to the system and undo the damage that was done in the Obama years.

Unfortunately there has been a lot of misinformation out there on what we at the Department of Justice are doing.  The reports have been so wrong that some people might even call it “fake news.”

So let me clear a few things up.

Yes, we are pursuing a “zero tolerance” prosecution policy at the border.

Under the laws of this country, illegal entry is a misdemeanor.  Re-entry after having been deported is a felony.

Under the law, we are supposed to prosecute these crimes.  Accordingly, I have ordered our prosecutors to pursue 100 percent of the illegal entries on the Southwest border that DHS refers to us.

If you cross the Southwest border unlawfully, then the Department of Homeland Security will arrest you and the Department of Justice will prosecute you.  That is what the law calls for—and that is what we are going to do.  Having children does not give you immunity from arrest and prosecution.  It certainly doesn’t give immunity to American citizens.

However, we are not sending children to jail with their parents.  The law requires that children who cannot be with their parents be placed in custody of the Department of Health and Human Services within 72 hours.

We currently spend more than $1 billion a year in taxpayer dollars taking care of unaccompanied illegal alien minors.  Most are in HHS custody.  They are provided food, education in their native language, health and dental care, and transported to their destination city—all at taxpayer expense.

It should be noted the perils to which these parents subject their children.  Hundreds of aliens die every year trying to make it to the border to illegally enter this country.  In many cases, children are trafficked, abused, or recruited by criminal gangs.  No one should subject their child to this treacherous journey—and yet the open borders lobby encourages it every day.

But the Trump administration is ending the Obama-era incentives to bring children here illegally.  Last September, the Trump administration ended DACA.  We agree with President Obama: he didn’t have the legal authority to give any legal status to illegal aliens without Congress.  That’s why this unlawful policy is over.

And now that DACA is over, the criminals can’t spread the lie that kids can get amnesty.

Our policies are discouraging people from making children endure that treacherous journey.  Everything the open borders lobby is doing is encouraging that and endangering these children.  It’s that simple.

There’s only one way to stop this and that is for people to stop smuggling children.  Stop crossing the border illegally with your children.  Apply to enter lawfully.  Wait your turn.

We have also returned the asylum process to what Congress intended it to be.

If you don’t meet the requirements for asylum in this country, then you do not receive asylum here.  That should not be a controversial idea.

Let me take an aside to discuss concerns raised by our church friends about separating families. Many of the criticisms raised in recent days are not fair or logical and some are contrary to law.

First- illegal entry into the United States is a crime—as it should be. Persons who violate the law of our nation are subject to prosecution. I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order.

Orderly and lawful processes are good in themselves and protect the weak and lawful.

Our policies that can result in short term separation of families is not unusual or unjustified. American citizens that are jailed do not take their children to jail with them. And non-citizens who cross our borders unlawfully —between our ports of entry—with children are not an exception.

They are the ones who broke the law, they are the ones who endangered their own children on their trek. The United States on the other hand, goes to extraordinary lengths to protect them while the parents go through a short detention period.

Please note, Church friends, that if the adults go to one of our many ports of entry to claim asylum, they are not prosecuted and the family stays intact pending the legal process.

The problem is that it became well known that adults with children were not being prosecuted for unlawful entry and the numbers surged from 15,000 in 2013 to 75,000 four years later. That policy was a declaration of open borders for family units.

Importantly, children are far more at risk attempting entry in remote areas.

I have given the idea of immigration much thought and have considered the arguments of our Church leaders. I do not believe scripture or church history or reason condemns a secular nation state for having reasonable immigration laws. If we have them, then they should be enforced. A mere desire to benefit from entry to the nation does not justify illegal entry. And, there are of course adverse consequences to illegal actions.

Once again, let me state that this nation has perhaps the most generous laws in the world.

My request to these religious leaders who have criticized the carrying out of our laws to also speak up strongly to urge anyone who would come here to apply lawfully, to wait their turn, and not violate the law.

Under the INA, asylum is available for those who leave their home country because of persecution or fear on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.  Asylum was never meant to solve all problems—even all serious problems— that people face every day all over the world.

You may have heard that I have “restricted” asylum eligibility or “denied” asylum eligibility to certain people.  But that’s not exactly right.

I have not made new law—I have simply restated and implemented what Congress has passed: asylum is generally not for those who have suffered a private act of violence.  It is for members of groups who are persecuted by the state or whom the state will not protect from persecution.  Members of those groups cannot go somewhere else in their home country.  Most victims of private crimes can.

Think about it.  There are victims of crime all over the world—1.2 million violent crimes are committed every year in this country alone.  Are all 1.2 million of these victims automatically entitled to asylum in Canada, the United Kingdom, or anywhere else they choose?

We have to make a choice: do we continue to allow the word to spread that you can come here illegally and there will be no consequences—or do we finally send the message that we enforce our laws?  In the Trump administration, we enforce the law.

There is no right or entitlement—legal or moral—to come to this country.  Immigration is a privilege that the American people have chosen to grant in certain cases.  And let me note how generous the American people are: we allow in 1.1 million legal immigrants on a path to citizenship every year.  Another 700,000 come here explicitly for jobs.  Another half a million come here to attend our universities and colleges.

But we’ve got a choice here.  We either have open borders or we have laws.  It’s one or the other.

Some people in the media have chosen to attack us for enforcing the law.  That doesn’t surprise me.  But I’m not ashamed of the United States of America.  I am not going to apologize for carrying out our laws.  That is my duty.

President Trump ran for office promising to end the illegality and to fix our system.  We are carefully and lawfully stopping the abuses in our system.

It is not a bad thing, but a good thing that President Trump is keeping his word.  We intend to follow the mandate that he has received from the people.  I embrace it.

President Trump made a generous offer to the Democrats in Congress.  He offered to give DACA recipients true legal status if we can build a wall, close the loopholes, and switch from chain migration and the visa lottery to a merit-based system.  The Democrats’ refusal of this offer is baffling.  He simply asked that they agree to a permanent solution to the problem.  Why wouldn’t you want to end the illegality?

Our goal is not radical.   What is radical is the open borders policies that have been pushed on us time and again by the elites and the Washington insiders.

Our goal is that immigrants should apply, wait their turn, and that people stop making that dangerous trek across the desert rather than coming here unlawfully.  If they meet the standards, then they can be admitted—and those standards should advance the national interest.

If we succeed in this—if we finally get a system we can be proud of—then we will start a virtuous cycle of lawfulness, safety, and prosperity.

The American people have been patient.  We have been waiting for 30 years.  They want us to seize this opportunity that we have right now.  It’s time that we finally deliver a lawful system of immigration that benefits them.

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TRUMP Calls Out Child Protective Services For Trafficking Tiny Humans At Border

Well, I bet that is going to dampen a few NGO revenue maximization enterprises.

That horrible law is child welfare law.

Pay attention to how the media and child welfare groups start to lose their narrative because what goes on, once these kids enter the U.S. is even darker.

Trump Chief Of Staff John Kelly, Immigration & CPS

Trump calls for Democrats to end ‘horrible law’ that he says separates children from parents at border

President Trump on Saturday called on Democrats to end a “horrible law” that he says separates children from their parents when they cross the border -- and also accused them of “protecting MS-13 thugs.”

“Put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from there [sic] parents once they cross the Border into the U.S.” he tweeted.

Trump made the remarks amid a pushback from Democrats and activists at a “zero tolerance” policy enforced by the Justice Department. That policy refers all illegal border crossings for prosecution, including illegal immigrants with children.

Put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from there parents once they cross the Border into the U.S. Catch and Release, Lottery and Chain must also go with it and we MUST continue building the WALL! DEMOCRATS ARE PROTECTING MS-13 THUGS.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2018

Those parents are housed at adult detention centers, and consequently their children are separated from them, registered as “unaccompanied minors” and handed to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Trump has blamed Democrats for the separation of children from their parents before. Last week he told Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen that the breaking up of families occurred because of “bad laws that the Democrats gave us.”

The Associated Press reported that he appeared to be referring to a 2008 law to combat child trafficking -- a bipartisan law authored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., but signed into law by Republican President George W. Bush.

While the law says nothing about separating families, it does say that children travelling alone from countries other than Mexico and Canada must be released in the “least restrictive setting” -- namely a family or shelter.

The Justice Department’s zero-tolerance policy, designed to deter prospective illegal immigrants, means that illegal immigrants are no longer released with their children into the U.S. and consequently that their children are separated from them.

“If you cross the border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. It’s that simple,” Sessions said earlier this month. “If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you. And that child may be separated from you, as required by law.”

SESSIONS SAYS ALL ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED; CHILDREN MAY BE SEPARATED FROM PARENTS 

But Trump called on Democratic lawmakers to end the practice, apparently as part of a deal that includes the ending of so-called “catch and release” whereby illegal immigrants are released into America while they wait for their court hearing. He also said that the diversity lottery visa and so-called chain migration -- where immigrants can sponsor family members for visas -- must end.

“Catch and Release, Lottery and Chain must also go with it and we MUST continue building the WALL!” he tweeted.

He also returned to accusing Democrats of “protecting” MS-13 gang members. He has said repeatedly that their opposition to strong border policies, as well as the promotion of “sanctuary policies” in states like California and New York, mean criminal gang members get released back into communities.

“Democrats are protecting MS-13 thugs,” he tweeted.

Trump was criticized by Democrats for describing MS-13 members as “animals.” This week he accused Democrats of “trying to defend” them, noting that he was criticized for his remarks by Democratic leaders Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY.

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Ohio Ex-Judge & School Board Member Tim Nolan Sentenced To Trafficking Tiny Humans

Welcome to the world of child welfare!

via GIPHY

I wonder how much money he raised for those political campaigns and how he did it?

Please take note of his associations with the FBI.

Have a great day because it only gets deeper and much darker form here.

Ex-Campbell County Judge Timothy Nolan to serve 20 years, pay $100K fine after plea

Former Judge Tim Nolan on Friday agreed to spend 20 years in prison for human trafficking.

He used drugs, threats of arrest and threats of eviction to force women and girls under the age of 18 into sex acts, according to the charges read in court by Judge Kathleen Lape.

Nolan pleaded guilty to 21 counts dating back to 2004. In addition to human trafficking and attempted human trafficking, the charges included giving drugs and alcohol to minors.

Under the plea agreement, Nolan will serve 20 years in prison and pay a $100,000 fine. He would be eligible for parole in four years, his attorney said. The judge will sentence him on March 29.

The case has shocked the region. Nolan served as a district judge in the late 1970s and early 1980s and had become a well-known political figure. He campaigned locally for President Donald Trump, was vocal on many conservative/tea party issues, and was elected to the Campbell County School Board in 2016.

Nolan, 71, entered the courtroom in Newport in a gray suit with a calm expression as he surveyed the few people in the gallery, mostly media. No family from either side were in the courtroom. 

After pleading guilty, Nolan thank his attorneys, the judge and a doctor who was involved in his case "who made me realize things."

"Thank you, judge, for your tolerance in this case," Nolan said.

For 10 minutes, Lape read the counts to Nolan, who pleaded guilty to each one.

The counts provided terse descriptions of what Nolan was alleged to have done. In some instances, he asked a minor to give her a backrub and engage in sexual conduct for money, according to the charges.

Here is what the charges read by Lape revealed:

• Nolan paid some victims with heroin and painkillers in exchange for sex.
• At least one victim lived on his property in southern Campbell County. He threatened eviction unless sex acts were performed. 
• He threatened some victims with arrest, including telling one victim he'd call friends in the FBI and other law enforcement to arrest her.

Nolan faced more than 100 years in prison on 28 felony charges, including four counts of human trafficking of a minor. The total number of victims covered by the 21 charges he pleaded to is 19, including some juveniles.

“The punishment in this case does not undo the trauma inflicted on the victims, but it brings closure and some justice,” said Attorney General Andy Beshear in a statement. “I want to thank the Campbell County Police Department and our special prosecutions team for working this case.”

How did this former judge and community leader end up pleading to human trafficking?

It wasn't clear on Friday.

His attorney, Margo Grubbs, initially made Nolan available for an interview in the courtroom before bailiffs stopped it.

Grubbs said Nolan took responsibility for his actions. She made a cryptic reference to generational differences in how sex is viewed.

"He took full personal responsibility for these acts that in his potential day and generation would not necessarily be considered to rise to the level of human trafficking," Grubbs said.

What is the change? The power differential between men and women, she said. She hinted that there was more to the story but would not elaborate.

"I'm saying the underlying facts as alleged by victims do not necessarily equate to what really happened, because we all know in life there are two sides to every story," Grubbs said. "The sad part of it is, often times the criminal defendant finds themselves at an insurmountable obstacle in order to prove complete innocence."

Some of Nolan's pleas were Alford pleas, which means he doesn't admit to the behavior but believes there's overwhelming evidence to convict him. It means Nolan can appeal some of the charges.

"Mr. Nolan has been a public servant to the people of Campbell County for a majority of his life, and at some point there has to be a redemption for those who committed offenses but has to be balanced by what they have given," Grubbs said. 

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Day 69.4. Reprisals and Virginia Missing Teens

Slowly, he begins his descent into the dark world of child welfare fraud.

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Stealin': The Real Reason Michigan Special Education Is Underfunded

To properly place the 'g' at the end of the word 'stealin' would raise these egregious actions to a level  of legitimacy in the activities of these private educational corporations to be prosecuted by the Michigan Attorney General for fraud and false claims, amongst other relevantly applied options of civil and criminal charges.


So the word is 'stealin'.

They were stealin' money from disabled kids.

They were stealin' to pay unregistered foreign agents to pump up some more stealin' policies and programs to make themselves more money off children of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth).

They were stealin' to fund political campaigns...like Bill Schuette's gubernatorial campaign.

They were stealin' because Michigan Attorney General is too busy campaigning to protect the state's vulnerable children from financial crimes like false claims and Medicaid fraud in child welfare.

They were stealin' because the new special education policy is to make these kids at the age of 16 to drop out of school, particularly if it is an alternative educational cyber school, to go to mandatory Work First program, where they will sit in a room 8 hours a day until a good slave wage factory job opens up.

It is either that or SNAP benefits get cut off which are only about $180 a month, but if the kid is lucky enough to have made it through an SSI appeal process, which takes years, they will get about $20 to $100 to eat.

"Work or die", which is another reason kids end up being trafficked.

Gotta eat.

This is what Michigan calls its Youth In Transition, special educational programming.

So much for persuing an education.

This report was generated by groupthink, where reality was excluded from the construction of any of its exogenous variables to address the students, and not why these foreign, social impact investment programs need more money.

Children who live in poverty have a hard time learning, let alone finding a quality and affordable place to live, but, of course, this was not included in the study becuase it is not a profitable component of stealin'.

Study: Michigan special education is underfunded by $700M

"In short, school districts must reduce the amount they spend on all students by $459 per pupil to cover the shortfall in special education funding," the report says.

The report concludes that Michigan's special education students need more resources to reach their full potential. It also recommends more training for teachers and the expansion of an early intervention program.

Some of those recommendations, including prohibiting the use of seclusion and restraint in dealing with students — except for in emergency situations — have become law since they were suggested.

That subcommittee was asked to review funding models in other states and identify areas of priority that Michigan needs to invest in.

The amount of money the state spends on special education has declined 15.6% — from $238 million during the 2011-12 school year to $201 million in 2015-16, according to the report.

While enrollment has also been on the decline, the amount of funding has decreased far faster than the enrollment declines. For instance, Michigan had 197,788 special education students during the 2016-17 school year, down from 214,615 over a five-year period. That represents a 7.8% decline.

Marcie Lipsitt, an outspoken advocate for special education students and parents, was among the 11 people who served on the subcommittee. She said she's pleased that one of her key issues - training for teachers - made it into the recommendations. Additional money won't matter if teachers aren't capable of effectively working with students, she said.

"It's recognizing that making substantial changes to our teacher preparation programs is critical to improving the outcomes of children with IEPs," Lipsitt said.

The report highlights why the funding matters:

• Michigan's efforts to meet federal special education requirements has been identified as needing assistance for two or more consecutive years by the U.S. Department of Education. 
• Educational outcomes for Michigan special education students "are lagging behind those of other states."
• Special ed students are more than 20% more likely to have below average academic growth in English language arts and math.
• 62% of students with individualized education programs (IEPs) were not proficient in reading at the 8th grade level; 82% were not proficient in math.
•  55% of special education students graduate within four years, compared to nearly 80% for all students.
• Students with disabilities score more than 200 points lower on the SAT than students without disabilities.

Meanwhile, the report identified seven areas of priority for investment. Among the recommendations:

•  Expand Early On in Michigan services. Early On is a program that provides early intervention services to infants and toddlers with developmental delays and/or disabilities.
• Provide financial incentives for pre-kindergarten and K-12 schools to implement best practices in special education services.
• Increase support for community-based employment transition services for students starting at age 16.
•  Increase support for professional development for teachers to prepare them to meet the needs of all students.
• Reduce inequities based on ZIP code.
• Provide schools with both the per-pupil grant the state provides for all children and an amount equal to 28% of a child's special education expenses. Currently, schools receive one or the other - depending on which is greater.
• Fund regional family support service resource centers.

Special Education Funding Subcommittee Report Submitted to Lt. Governor Brian Calley November 2017 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

The following is a communication sent to me by a parent attempting to access her child's special educational records from the private educational service provider K-12 that only took the Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette about 6 months to respond:

Citizen Inquiry No.: 2017-cp07051438917-A-C

Attorney General Bill Schuette has asked me to respond to your complaint regarding the JTS Ecourse Schools.   I regret the delay with responding to your inquiry.  This Department receives hundreds of letters and e-mails each week, making some delays inevitable.

It appears your issue is one that may fall under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).  The U.S. Department of Education is the federal agency that administers this Act.  You may find information regarding filing a complaint at the following website:  https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/file-a-complaint.

You may wish to consult a private attorney.  An attorney would directly represent your interests and is the one whose advice would be most helpful to you.  If you need assistance with locating an attorney, I suggest you call the State Bar Lawyer Referral Service at 1-(800) 968-0738. The service is available Monday through Friday between 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  You will be provided with the name of an attorney in your area who accepts cases like yours. The lawyers are required to have malpractice insurance, and although the lawyers are not free, they will charge a reduced fee for the first visit.    If affordability is a chief concern to you, be sure to inform the operator that you need pro bono assistance and would like information on legal aid programs and law school clinics.  You can also explore the State Bar’s website at www.michbar.orgunder the tab "For the Public."

The Attorney General is responsible for providing legal advice and representation to various state department and officials.  State law, however, does not permit the attorney general to act as an attorney for private individuals. Therefore, the office of Attorney General is unable to advise or represent you in this matter.

On behalf of Attorney General Bill Schuette, I hope you find this information helpful.

Raymond O. Howd

Division Chief

Health, Education & Family Services Division

Not only does the State of Michigan sell off children's educational data, unreported to the highest bidder, it makes the parent, more than likely a member of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) as the parent probably cannot hold a regular job due to the fact that they are caring for the child with special needs and spending the rest of the time searching for services, real services, not those phantom services that only exist on a pretty shiney brochure, but, Bill Schuette wants "The Poors" to hire an attorney to access student educational records.

Now follow me.

If a parent is successful in securing a pro bono attorney to represent their special needs student, that means, by the time the case is litigated because you know darn well there is going to be a battle in discovery, being that we are dealing with a private, and not a public, educational organization, the child in need of special educational services will have lost at least a year in school.

This is another reason why the enrolled number of special educational students has dropped.

Sometimes, when you think these people cannot steal anything else, they will steal your will to fight because the Michigan Attorney General already allowed these private corporations to steal your children and their legacies.

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Michigan Foster Care Youth In Transition Audit Says To Wait For Transition

The Michigan Department of Human Services and the Department of Community Health have merged to become the Department of Health and Human Services.

Great.

Now that the Departments have merged the Auditor General can review the Youth in Transition, Age Out of Foster Care Program to see how it has addressed the 2012 recommendations to address the previously found material conditions.

In a nutshell, how can DHHS address program effectiveness when it does not maintain data on what happens to youth who transition from foster care?

Therefore, we must wait for DHHS to make the final transition of the merger to find out the horrors for youth who transition out of foster care.

For your viewing pleasure, I present to you, satirical levity, to distract you from the realities of life for foster kids who age out the system.

Michigan Foster Care Age Out Audit 2015

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Foster Youth Medicaid Bill Has Seriously Flawed Reasoning

What we've got here is a failure to communicate about issues with Medicaid and child welfare.

Former foster youth trying to survive after being tortured in care and dumped on the streets when they age out.

To begin, allow me to make a substantial correction to the reasoning behind this legislation to provide foster youth Medicaid.

The legislative analysis is still on the drawing table so I will save them some time and present my own version.

Foster youth do have legal guardians.

Not every state is structured the same, but for purposes of brevity in proving my point, I introduce Michigan as my example.

The legal guardian for more than 7,000 foster youth in Michigan is....  MCL 400.203 Sec.(3)(1)!

The Superintendent of the Michigan Children's Institute, Bruce Hoffman.  (It used to be Bill Johnson but I guess he was needed full time to cover up the fraud in its child welfare contracting.  Bruce Hoffman was always number 2.)

Then there is that nasty legal technicality of termination of the Michigan Superintendent's parental rights to these state wards, which of course is defined as "legal and physical guardianship and custody", and has never been examined, except by me.

Michigan Quo Warranto Petition by Beverly Tran

Of course, I would be remiss if I did not bring up the fact that foster care is not what the pretty shiny brochures make it out to be.  So, any child who survives foster care, whether it be through aging out, reunification or just not dying in care, should be designated, automatically, unless there is a petition to opt out, to be formally designated as disabled, under Social Security Administration, Social Supplemental Disability Income, better known as SSI.

Medicaid becomes an automatic provision of SSI, meaning the foster youths are guaranteed health care.

As it stands, former foster youth do not have access to proper health care, particularly services and resources for the hell they have survived under state care.

Much of the horrors of foster care stay with these survivors for their entire lifetime.  Why limit to just 26 years?

To further support my position on transitioning foster youth in need of more assistance than what is currently provided, Michigan is still under federal monitoring of its child welfare system because it still sucks.

Lastly, keeping foster youth under the auspices of a state for the purposes of accessing health care is just plain stupid because I can already see the flood gates open to new and improved Medicaid fraud schemes in child welfare.

If we, as a nation, cannot stand up and admit that the entire U.S. child welfare system can only be measured by its success in creating the highest international levels of child poverty in the industrialized world, then at least we can throw these former foster youth a few scraps to survive on the streets once they are kicked out by the same "caring" foster parents who no longer receive maintenance payments for their care.

Keep it simple.  Keep it real.  Keep it logical.  Just get SSA Commissioner Michael Asture to get a HALLEX policy transmittal.

Feel free to copy and paste my research, below.

Claimant is disabled under section 1614(a)(3)(C) of the Social Security Act. Pursuant to § 416.924(a), the sequential evaluation steps of determining a child disability provides that the Administration “will consider all relevant evidence in a child's case record, that we will consider all impairments for which we have evidence and their combined effects, and that we will evaluate any limitations in a child's functioning that result from a child's symptoms, including pain.”  (H.R. Conf. Rep. No. 725, 104th Cong., 2d Sess. 328 (1996), reprinted in 1996 U.S. Code, Cong. and Ad. News 2649, 2716. The House report contains similar language. See H.R. Rep. No. 651, 104th Cong., 2d Sess. 1385 (1996), reprinted in 1996 U.S. Code, Cong. and Ad. News 2183, 2444.)

Continuing with reference to Pub.L. 104­193 Section 211(a) of Public Law 104­193 amended section 1614(a)(3), claimants, foster youth, are disabled as the condition has lasted and is expected to last for a continuous period of more than 12 months, as supported with the duration of this administrative claim, 12 months being the average length of stay in foster care and 12 months being the tolling period to initiate termination of parental rights.

Claimants, foster youth, are typically not working, and have impairments which is of the required duration and which significantly limits the ability to work, considering some foster youth who were able to be reunified with their original guardians are under the age of 16 years. [See 20 CFR §§416.920(a) through (c )(1989)]

This is a better policy companion to SB 1852.

This is the time to end the "groupthink" and start to listen to an original source.

Bass, McDermott Introduce Healthcare Maintenance Legislation for Former Foster Youth

As they continue to address the needs of the hundreds of thousands of young people who are currently a part of the foster care system and the tens of thousands who leave the system each year, Reps. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) and Jim McDermott (D-Wash.)—Co-Chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth—announced they introduced H.R. 3641, the “Health Insurance for Former Foster Youth Act of 2015,” legislation that will close a loophole and guarantee that foster youth will still receive health insurance through Medicaid until they turn 26 years old regardless of their state of residence.

One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act was to ensure that young people could stay on their parents’ insurance until they turn 26. Because foster youth do not have legal guardians, the law addressed foster youth by guaranteeing that as long they were in the foster care system by the time they were 18 years old, they would be able to receive Medicaid until they turned 26.

However, because of ambiguity in one section of the law, foster youth who leave the foster care system may find themselves without health insurance through Medicaid if they decide to move out the state—even if they are attending college, working, or need to leave for personal reasons.

Although 13 states have addressed this issue, foster youth in the remaining 37 states and the District of Columbia face the choice of leaving the state for new opportunities or losing their health insurance. One of these young people is Lezlie Martinez, a 19-year-old former foster youth from San Diego, California.

Ms. Martinez was planning on moving to Colorado because of the lower cost of living there, and her boyfriend will soon be moving to the state—meaning that she will have a support system for herself as well as for her two-year-old son.

However, Colorado is a state that is not offering free Medicaid to former foster youth, and now Ms. Martinez is faced with having to decide between having healthcare while living in one room with her son or moving to Colorado so she can provide a better life for her child and herself but face losing her health insurance.

“This changes everything,” said Ms. Martinez as she is forced to confront decisions about not just her future, but for her child as well.

“The Affordable Care Act was designed to help young people like Lezlie, not force them to choose between school in another state or healthcare where they currently live,” said Bass. “I commend the states that have addressed this problem, but now it is time for Congress to provide a permanent fix in federal law.”

The “Health Insurance for Former Foster Youth Act” is particularly important to ensure that foster youth maintain uninterrupted access to health insurance. According to the Congressional Research Service, between 35 and 60 percent of youth who enter foster care have at least one chronic or acute health condition such as asthma, cognitive abnormalities, visual and auditory problems, dental decay, and malnutrition that require long-term treatment, and 50 to 75 percent of foster youth exhibit behavioral or social competency issues that may require mental health treatment. In 2013, nearly 50,000 youth exited the foster care system between the ages of 16-20.

“I am proud to join with Congresswoman Bass in introducing this important legislation. Young adults in the foster care system deserve our special care and concern, as they came into the system through no fault of their own. These young adults are among the least served populations and its vitally important that Congress does all it can to provide them affordable and reliable access to medical care. I believe this legislation will do just that by making small clarifying fixes to the Affordable Care Act,” said Congressman McDermott.

Congressmembers G.K. Butterfield (D-NC), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Tony Cardenas (D- CA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Danny K. Davis (D- IL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), John Garamendi (D-CA), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Robin Kelly (D-IL), Ron Kind (D-WI), Jim Langevin (D- RI), John Lewis (D-GA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D- NJ), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Charlie Rangel (D- NY), Louise Slaughter (D-NY), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Frederica Wilson (D-FL), and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) joined the legislation as original co-sponsors.

Over 140 prominent advocacy organizations support the legislation, including First Focus Campaign for Children, The Alliance for Children’s Rights, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), American Psychological Association, Children’s Defense Fund, Child Welfare League of America, and Foster Family-based Treatment Association.

H.R. 3641 is companion legislation to S.1852, introduced by Senator Bob Casey (D-PA).

114th CONGRESS 1st Session

H.R. 3641

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to ensure health insurance coverage continuity for former foster youth.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 29, 2015

Ms. Bass (for herself, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Doggett, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. Cárdenas, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Rangel, Ms. Norton, Mr. Payne, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Kaptur, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Ms. Slaughter, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Kind, Mr.Lewis, Mr. Butterfield, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Van Hollen, and Mr. Ellison) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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A BILL

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to ensure health insurance coverage continuity for former foster youth.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Health Insurance for Former Foster Youth Act”.

SEC. 2. COVERAGE CONTINUITY FOR FORMER FOSTER CARE CHILDREN UP TO AGE 26.

(a) In General.—Section 1902(a)(10)(A)(i)(IX) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(10)(A)(i)(IX)) is amended—

(1) in item (bb), by striking “are not described in or enrolled under” and inserting “are not described in and are not enrolled under”;

(2) in item (cc), by striking “responsibility of the State” and inserting “responsibility of a State”; and

(3) in item (dd), by striking “the State plan under this title or under a waiver of the” and inserting “a State plan under this title or under a waiver of such a”.

(b) Effective Date.—The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.

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