Tales Of The New Crown: Boo Boo Barr Suddenly Announces Publication of Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework Jeff Sessions Put Together After Getting The Cooties Touch

Sometimes, it takes a rogue to catch a rogue... which may be why we have not heard from Boo Boo Barr since he got the cooties touch.

In 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions

established a Cyber-Digital Task Force within

the U.S. Department of Justice to evaluate the

impact that recent advances in technology

have had on law enforcement’s ability to

keep our citizens safe. Acknowledging the

many ways in which technological advances

“have enriched our lives and have driven our

economy,” the Attorney General also noted

that “the malign use of . . . technolog[y] harms

our government, victimizes consumers and

businesses, and endangers public safety and

national security.”

#maytheheavensfall

Attorney General William P. Barr announced today the release of “Cryptocurrency: An Enforcement Framework,” a publication produced by the Attorney General’s Cyber-Digital Task Force.  The Framework provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging threats and enforcement challenges associated with the increasing prevalence and use of cryptocurrency; details the important relationships that the Department of Justice has built with regulatory and enforcement partners both within the United States government and around the world; and outlines the Department’s response strategies. 

“Cryptocurrency is a technology that could fundamentally transform how human beings interact, and how we organize society.  Ensuring that use of this technology is safe, and does not imperil our public safety or our national security, is vitally important to America and its allies,” said Attorney General Barr.  “I am grateful to the Cyber-Digital Task Force for producing this detailed report, which provides a cohesive, first-of-its kind framework for those seeking to understand federal enforcement priorities in this growing space.”

“At the FBI, we see first-hand the dangers posed when criminals bend the important technological promise of cryptocurrency to illicit ends," said FBI Director Christopher Wray.   “As this Enforcement Framework describes, we see criminals using cryptocurrency to try to prevent us from 'following the money’ across a wide range of investigations, as well as to trade in illicit goods like criminal tools on the dark web. For example, the cyber criminals behind ransomware attacks often use cryptocurrency to try to hide their true identities when acquiring malware and infrastructure, and receiving ransom payments. The men and women of the FBI are constantly innovating to keep pace with the evolution of criminals' use of cryptocurrency."

“The United States has been enormously successful blocking terrorists, rogue regimes, and their supporters from funding their activity using traditional currencies,” said Task Force member John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.  “As the Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework explains, we will adapt our strategy and tools to 21st century financing, including to combat the use of cryptocurrencies to evade enforcement and harm our national security.”

“Cryptocurrencies and distributed ledger technology present tremendous promise for the future, but it is critical that these important innovations follow the law.  The Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework provides the public with important information intended to help them understand and comply with their obligations under the legal regimes that govern these new and fast-developing technologies,” said Task Force member Brian C. Rabbitt, the acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division.  “While the Department of Justice and its partners are committed to supporting the advancement of legitimate cryptocurrency technologies and uses, we will not hesitate to enforce the laws that govern these technologies when necessary to protect the public.”

Task Force member Beth A. Williams, who serves as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy, lauded the release of the Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework:  “The Department of Justice is committed to protecting the public from current and emerging cyber threats, including those involving cryptocurrency and related technologies.  This Framework reflects the Department’s extensive cooperation with domestic and international partners in ensuring that we are adequately addressing these challenges, to the benefit of lawful cryptocurrency users and the public at large.”

The Enforcement Framework opens with an introductory essay authored by the Task Force’s chair, Associate Deputy Attorney General Sujit Raman. 

Then, in Part I, the Framework provides a detailed threat overview, cataloging the three categories into which most illicit uses of cryptocurrency typically fall: (1) financial transactions associated with the commission of crimes; (2) money laundering and the shielding of legitimate activity from tax, reporting, or other legal requirements; and (3) crimes, such as theft, directly implicating the cryptocurrency marketplace itself. 

Part II explores the various legal and regulatory tools at the government’s disposal to confront the threats posed by cryptocurrency’s illicit uses, and highlights the strong and growing partnership between the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Commission, and agencies within the Department of the Treasury, among others, to enforce federal law in the cryptocurrency space.

Finally, the Enforcement Framework concludes in Part III with a discussion of the ongoing challenges the government faces in cryptocurrency enforcement—particularly with respect to business models (employed by certain cryptocurrency exchanges, platforms, kiosks, and casinos), and to activity (like “mixing” and “tumbling,” “chain hopping,” and certain instances of jurisdictional arbitrage) that may facilitate criminal activity.    

The Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework is the second detailed report issued by the Attorney General’s Cyber-Digital Task Force, which was established in February 2018 to answer two basic questions:  How is the Department of Justice responding to global cyber threats?  And how can federal law enforcement accomplish its mission in this area more effectively?  An earlier Task Force report, published in July 2018, canvassed a wide spectrum of cyber threats, ranging from transnational criminal enterprises’ sophisticated cyber-enabled schemes, to malign foreign influence operations, to efforts to compromise our nation’s critical infrastructure, and articulated the Department’s priorities in detecting, deterring, and disrupting cyber threats.

Additional Cyber-Digital Task Force members include Andrew E. Lelling, United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, and two senior FBI executives.  Components from across the Department contributed to the Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework’s drafting.

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Tales Of The New Crown: DOJ Asks Illegitimate Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer For Public Nursing Homes Cooties Data

Michigan *Public Private Partnership* Nursing Facilities
(Not to be confused with the cooties PPP)

Well, this is quite the kerfuffle!

It seems, Matt Schnieder, Detroit, MIED U.S. Attorney, has referred the matter to the Civil Rights Division of DOJ, which seems to cloying Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer with those silenced cries for due process, a right of civility, for those individual residents of the State, who have unfortunately lost their lives to the cooties, by invoking CRIPA.

But, herein lies the issue - what about the private nursing homes?

Yes, that is correct, Michigan has privatized just about anything in the industry of human asset management.

By specifically using the term "public", this immediately stands up to me as a federally certified facilities, meaning, CMS authorizes cost reimbursement for Medicaid and Medicare.

Just for fun, because you know I love to disprove my first impressions when it comes to stealin', I conducted a random experiment, by controlling for randomness by closing my eyes and picking one *Public Private Partnership* nursing facility, and looked up Shorepointe Nursing Center.

ID Number: 801417624        
Summary for:  WBH NCC #1, LLC              
The name of the DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY:   WBH NCC #1, LLC
     
Entity type:   DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Identification Number: 801417624 Old ID Number: D1960E
   
Date of Organization in Michigan:   06/07/2007

Purpose: All Purpose Clause

Term: Perpetual
               
The name and address of the Resident Agent:
Resident Agent Name: RAJ PATEL
Street Address: 26001 JEFFERSON
Apt/Suite/Other:
City: SAINT CLAIR SHORES State: MI Zip Code: 48081
Registered Office Mailing address:
P.O. Box or Street Address: 25500 MEADOWBROOK RD STE 230
Apt/Suite/Other:
City: NOVI State: MI Zip Code: 48375

Act Formed Under:   023-1993 Michigan Limited Liability Company Act

The last time I checked, an LLC is a private, not public, I decided to see what Raj had to say about this.

Optalis nursing home chain further expanding reach ‘ahead of the curve’

A growing skilled nursing and senior living company is looking to expand its reach throughout the United States.

Optalis Healthcare, based in Novi, MI, gearing up to either build or acquire more facilities in Michigan, Ohio and Florida, Crain’s Detroit Business reported. CEO Raj Patel, however, declined to specify the number of facilities or give any details about future acquisitions, stating plans “are still under review.”

“We are very optimistic that we are in front of the bell curve with a large amount of seniors eight to 10 years away from when they really need services,” Patel told the news organization. “Age 65 is the new 55. Many seniors don’t need a lot of services until they get into their high 70s, early 80s. We are innovative and ready for the big wave.”

The 15-facility company purchased five Detroit-area, Beaumont-affiliated properties (four SNFs and one senior living facility) from Premier Health Care Management in September. Patel called the deal a “perfect fit to the Optalis growth plan in the southeast Michigan market.”

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2020/04/02/letter-frontline-responders-nursing-facilities-need-help-state/5115831002/

TRANSLATION: RAJ BOUGHT UP A BUNCH OF OLD ASCENSION PROPERTIES THEN STARTED STEALIN' BECAUSE THEY RUN THE EXACT SAME MEDICAID FRAUD SCHEMES IN CHILD WELFARE

The only question is, which Raj Patel?

https://www.macombdaily.com/news/local/medstar-buys-52-new-ambulances-takes-over-medical-transport-helicopter/article_5253ea08-dbc8-11e9-a80b-236d125ba94b.html

Here are the assumed names:

Assumed Name                                                            Creation Date Renewal Date Expiration Date
EAGLE POINTE APARTMENTS                                 3/18/2013  2/31/2018 ???
SHOREPOINTE NURSING CENTER PROPERTY 9/18/2007 10/2/2017 12/31/2022

And, here is the LLC.

ID Number: 801417628        
Summary for:  WBH NCC #2, LLC              
The name of the DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY:   WBH NCC #2, LLC
       
Entity type:   DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Identification Number: 801417628 Old ID Number: D1960J
   
Date of Organization in Michigan:   06/07/2007

Purpose: All Purpose Clause

Term: Perpetual
               
The name and address of the Resident Agent:
Resident Agent Name: TIMOTHY C SPIRO
Street Address: 100 W. LONG LAKE ROAD
Apt/Suite/Other: SUITE 250
City: BLOOMFIELD HILLS State: MI Zip Code: 48304
Registered Office Mailing address:
P.O. Box or Street Address: 100 W. LONG LAKE ROAD
Apt/Suite/Other: SUITE 250
City: BLOOMFIELD HILLS State: MI Zip Code: 48304
  
Act Formed Under:   023-1993 Michigan Limited Liability Company Act

They even have a lien which means there is intellectual property and a foreign parent. 


File Number Lien Type Debtor Name                 Filing Date Lapse Date Status
2008000844-6 UCC Lien WBH NCC #2, LLC 01/02/2008 01/02/2023 Active

Were these Mooney Real Estate Holdings, LLC transactions?

Death toll rises as coronavirus sweeps through Michigan nursing homes

I am not going to broach the subject of how or why Ascension St. John was flipping properties, because I already did, but we shall soon revisit these days of yore.

See, there is no FOIA for private state contractors, so, Michigan self reports, which means they are not held to GAGAS or any external audit.

Try filing a FOIA for school records for a former foster child and see what happens.

So, if there is no FOIA in child welfare, what the hell makes you think there is FOIA in nursing home data?

The only logical action by DOJ would be to use the CRIPA prong test.

CRIPA, in part, says:

(II) residing in such facility or institution for purposes of receiving care or treatment; or 

(III) residing for any State purpose in such facility or institution (other than a residential facility providing only elementary or secondary education that is not an institution in which reside juveniles who are adjudicated delinquent, in need of supervision, neglected, placed in State custody, mentally ill or disabled, mentally retarded, or chronically ill or handicapped);  or (v) providing skilled nursing, intermediate or long-term care, or custodial or residential care.

(2) Privately owned and operated facilities shall not be deemed  "institutions" under this subchapter if-- (A) the licensing of such facility by the State constitutes the sole nexus between such facility and such State;
(B) the receipt by such facility, on behalf of persons residing in such facility, of payments under title XVI, XVIII [42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1381 et seq., 1395 et seq.], or under a State plan approved under title XIX [42 U.S.C.A. § 1396 et seq.], of the Social Security Act, constitutes the sole nexus between such facility and such State;  or
(C) the licensing of such facility by the State, and the receipt by such facility, on behalf of persons residing in such facility, of payments under title XVI, XVIII [42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1381 et seq., 1395 et seq.], or under a State plan approved under title XIX [42 U.S.C.A. § 1396 et seq.], of the Social Security Act, constitutes the sole nexus between such facility and such State; (3) The term "person" means an individual, a trust or estate, a partnership, an association, or a corporation;

So, what if the CRIPA prong test?

The CRIPA prong test is when DOJ asks for information in the course of a civil rights investigation, where, in this instance, happens to be individuals who died from the cooties in public nursing homes, and the State Governor says, "No".

That is how you automatically know they are stealin'. [see above].

Then, there is still that lingering issue about DOJ asking MIED to look into the constitutionality of Gretch's Executive Orders, where, I have addressed her illegitimacy to be granted under that indelible seal to hold office.

What a messy!

I guess Gretch has two choices: (1) produce the data; or, (2) bear her armiger, but, hey, what do I know?

#maytheheavensfall

Dept. of Justice requesting COVID-19 nursing home data from Gov. Whitmer

(FOX 2) - The Department of Justice is requesting data from Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in regard to the COVID-19 order that may have resulted in deaths of elderly nursing home residents.

The data is being requested to help inform whether the Department of Justice will initiate investigations under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA).

Other governors were asked to also provide data, including New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. These states required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients, often without adequate testing.

The DOJ is asking for the following information from Gov. Whitmer:

• The number of public nursing home residents, employees, other staff, guests and visitors who contracted COVID-19, regardless of where it was contracted
• The number of public nursing home residents employees, other staff, guests and visitors who died of COVID-19 including those who died in a public nursing home or after being transferred to a hospital or other medical facility, hospice, home care or any other location
• All state-issued guidance, directives, advisories or executive orders regarding admission of persons to public nursing homes, including those previously superseded, as well as the dates each such document was in effect
• The number of persons who were admitted to a public nursing home from a hospital or any other facility, hospice, home care or other location after testing positive for COVID-19 during the period the guidance or orders were in effect

The information requested is due within 14 days.

You can see the letter sent to Gov. Whitmer here.

... "This is nothing more than election year politics by an administration that is more concerned with the president's re-election campaign than protecting Michigan seniors."

— Governor Gretchen Whitmer's Press Secretary Tiffany Brown
Gov. Whitmer's office released the following statement later in the day Wednesday after receiving the letter:

"Protecting the health, safety, and wellbeing of our seniors and most vulnerable residents has been a top priority throughout this crisis. The fact that this letter was sent during the middle of the Republican National Convention week to four Democratic governors should make it crystal clear that this is nothing more than election year politics by an administration that is more concerned with the president's re-election campaign than protecting Michigan seniors. We will review this letter and respond as appropriate, however, Americans would all be better served if the Trump administration stopped the partisan games and focused on delivering a real plan to defeat COVID-19."

In a town hall with FOX 2 back in July, Gov. Whitmer said she was following the best advice she had at the time when making this decision.

Whitmer said that the state was following guidance from the Center for Disease Control and prevention when COVID-19 patients were housed with non-coronavirus patients in nursing homes.

"We know that this experience has played out across the planet frankly but we’ve seen it in real-time here in the U.S., first in Seattle then of course across the U.S.," she said. "In every step of the way we've followed the CDC best guidance and our policies reflected that. All of the efforts that we've taken to keep people safe by closing down the ability for outsiders to come in, our policy with regard to...we never once required that nursing homes took COVID-19 patients. Many chose to and when they did they followed the promulgated practices from the CDC about separation and not having intermingling at all," she said.

And she did admit that following best practices ended with lives being lost to the virus.

"In the early days, following the CDC was the gold standard. That's what we were doing," Whitmer said. "Our nursing home death numbers are far too many but are better than in many other states. At the time we followed the protocols the CDC has prescribed."

In the end, Whitmer said if she had the knowledge she has now, she would do things differently but says it was CDC guidance.

"We followed the protocols that they prescribed and that's the best any state was able to do, frankly," she said. "We always have a mindest we are going to be conservative and follow the science. And sometimes that makes us a leader and in other ways, it's made us average with other states. With nursing home experiences, it's the latter."

The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is evaluating whether to initiate investigations under the federal “Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act” (CRIPA), which protects the civil rights of persons in state-run nursing homes, among others.

The Civil Rights Division seeks to determine if the state orders requiring admission of COVID-19 patients to nursing homes is responsible for the deaths of nursing home residents.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, New York has the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States, with 32,592 victims, many of them elderly.

New York’s death rate by population is the second highest in the country with 1,680 deaths per million people. New Jersey’s death rate by population is 1,733 deaths per million people - the highest in the nation.

In contrast, Texas’s death rate by population is 380 deaths per million people; and Texas has just over 11,000 deaths, though its population is 50 percent larger than New York and has many more recorded cases of COVID-19 - 577,537 cases in Texas versus 430,885 cases in New York.

Florida’s COVID-19 death rate is 480 deaths per million; with total deaths of 10,325 and a population slightly larger than New York.

DOJ CRIPA Request For COVID-19 Nursing Home Death Data Letter to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer 08-26-2... by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Prelude To Detroit: Warren Buffett & Dan Gilbert Have Tales To Tell

Oh, Warren,

Take my hand and let us go down the rabbit hole.

#maytheheavensfall

Pulling pranks, bidding for Yahoo, and launching a $1 billion basketball stunt: Rocket founder Dan Gilbert and Warren Buffett are close friends with a colorful past

Warren Buffett & Dan Gilbert
in Detroit

Rocket Companies, which owns Quicken Loans, went public on Thursday, boosting founder and chairman Dan Gilbert's fortune to about $34 billion.

Gilbert is close friends with Warren Buffett and has partnered with the investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO several times over the years.

For example, Gilbert and Buffett pranked Quicken employees with a fake sale in 2014, Berkshire insured a $1 billion Quicken marketing stunt the same year, and Buffett agreed to finance a bid for Yahoo by Gilbert and other investors that ultimately failed.

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Rocket Companies' founder and chairman Dan Gilbert saw his net worth soar to $34 billion after the parent company of mortgage lender Quicken Loans went public on Thursday.

Gilbert — who is also the majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team and the founder and controlling shareholder of StockX, the online sneaker marketplace — now boasts a fortune roughly half the size of Warren Buffett's, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

The famed investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO will likely be cheering Gilbert on, as the pair have been friends and occasional business partners for years.

"I'm an enormous admirer of Dan and what he has accomplished in Quicken Loans," Buffett told CNBC in May 2016.

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Rocket didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Pledges, prizes, and pranks

Gilbert and Buffett first met at a conference years ago, and became acquainted over lunch in Buffett's hometown of Omaha, according to Reuters.

In 2012, Gilbert signed the Giving Pledge, which Buffett launched with Bill and Melinda Gates to encourage the world's wealthiest people to give away at least half of their fortunes to philanthropic causes.

Gilbert roped in Buffett two years later, when Quicken's marketing team wanted to hold a competition with a $1 billion reward for any contestant who filled out a perfect bracket for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

No one succeeded, but Quicken paid Berkshire an estimated $10 million premium to insure the prize, according to Crain's Detroit Business.

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Gilbert also interviewed Buffett at an event called Detroit Homecoming in 2014. The pair revealed backstage that they pranked most of Quicken's management team on April Fools' Day that year: Gilbert falsely claimed that Berkshire had bought the company, and Buffett played along on a video call, Crain's Detroit Business reported.

"I go along with whatever he comes up with, and so far I haven't gone to jail," Buffett joked at the time.

Buffett also agreed to finance a group of investors including Gilbert when they tried to buy internet titan Yahoo in 2016, Reuters said. The consortium's bid ultimately failed.

There's no mention of Buffett beyond the basketball stunt in Rocket's initial public offering filing. However, in light of their tie-ups over the years, it would be no surprise if Gilbert name-checks him during future interviews and earnings calls.

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Rocket Companies IPO jumps 19.5%; company promises Detroit neighborhood investments

Shares of Rocket Companies Inc., the parent of billionaire Dan Gilbert's mortgage lending giant, closed up more than 19% on their first day of trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange.

An unspecified amount of the $1.8 billion the company is set to earn from its initial public offering will support initiatives in its hometown, such as increasing internet access in Detroit neighborhoods, CEO Jay Farner told The Detroit News.

The first public shares of Rocket, which includes Quicken Loans, ended trading up 19.5% to $21.51 on the exchange under the RKT symbol — a milestone for the Detroit company that was an early harbinger of the city's revitalization and recruiter for young tech talent. The firm is slated to become the seventh-largest IPO of 2020, according to Dealogic, with 100 million shares available at $18 each.

The price was lower than the original $20 to $22 range the company had suggested last week for the IPO. Despite the decrease, shares did reach a high of $22.70 around 2 p.m. and were in line with last year's 18% average first-day price rise.

"The purpose of this was not to raise capital," Farner said in an interview. "Whether it was $3.3 billion or $2 billion, the goal was to take the company public, which is an important step and gives us more flexibility into the future."

The stock's performance was a "Goldilocks stock-price bump," said Erik Gordon, a faculty member at the University of Michigan's Ross Business School.

It was "high enough to make money for investors who bought stock at the opening price and not so high as to make you think the company sold the stock for too little," he said.

The smaller IPO, Farner said, is expected to bring about a long-term investor base thinking three to five years in the future. Although Rocket is in the mortgage business, it is seeking to pitch itself as a tech disruptor in the industry by allowing homebuyers to apply for loans completely online.

The company represents about 9% of the highly fragmented mortgage industry, Farner said, but it hopes to grow it to 25% over the next decade. Rocket Companies closed $145 billion in loans in 2019 and recorded $893.4 million in profit on revenue of more than $5.1 billion.

Although COVID-19 had put a pause on IPO plans in the spring, low interest rates have spurred a frenzy of refinancing and homebuyer activity that contributed to record months in March, April and May, Farner said. Coupled with an upward trending market since March, the company decided now was the time to go public.

"I think the market is really recognizing or confirming that we have some pretty special technology that we can grow and scale and do so profitably," he said.

Going public should help Rocket reach its goal, Farner said, providing opportunities for greater name recognition and funds to improve its market share. It also provides for an employee stock option — something Gilbert has wanted to provide to the company's more than 20,000 employees, most of whom work downtown and many of whom are highly sought tech talent.

"It was challenging to do that in our previous structure," Farner said. "You see that a lot in Palo Alto, California. Here in Detroit, I think, it's less common. We're proud that we can offer our employees the opportunity to be owners of the business."

The funds will support the company's greater efforts in Detroit, as well, Farner said. A company spokesman declined to disclose how much of the offering would support those initiatives.

"We're selling only about 5% of the organization," Farner said. "We wanted to take that and be able to use it for some of the initiatives here in the city of Detroit, not just today, but though for example the Gilbert Family Foundation to provide even more capital to continue to help our city down the road."

The Gilbert Family Foundation has contributed to COVID-19 relief efforts in Detroit as well as supported efforts in education and blight removal. IPO funds also will support efforts around the Connect 313 Fund, an initiative to increase internet access in the city.

"Technology empowers us to get a loan, to buy a home or find a home, get a mortgage; it increases education," Farner said. "It's crazy 30% of people here don't really have that. We are working with others to solve that problem."

Gilbert will maintain a majority controlling stake in the company with 79% of shares under a multi-tiered system. He will have final say over major decisions such as the election of board directors, proposed mergers, or sale of the company's assets. Gilbert's net worth totals $7.5 billion, according to Forbes.

Gilbert founded the company in 1985. In 2010, he moved its headquarters from Livonia to downtown Detroit. He joined Farner and other executives in New York to ring the opening bell in New York. They wore face masks amid the pandemic.

“Rocket has spent the last 35 years becoming America’s largest mortgage lender by taking the road less traveled,” Gilbert said in a statement. “I have full confidence in Jay and the rest of the senior leaders to build on the blueprint that got the company to where it is today and find innovative ways to reach new clients in the future.”

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COBERTT: Biometric Gates - Parental Rights

Told ya.

See?

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DOJ: Two Former Church Members Admit Forced Labor Conspiracy - Just Doing The Work Of The Lord With CPS

Oh, those wild and crazy christians!

They were just doing the work of the lord, you know, that salvific mission of salvaging the souls of the savages through human asset forfeiture of their last worldly good of that string, being unraveled from the social safety net.

I bet they have life insurance policies on these people.

See, if these christians would have done what they do in Child Welfare, they would never have been busted because all they had to do was file up as a GAL and transfer Parental Rights to their corporate entity.

They do the same thing in Foster Care and other Social Impact Bond programs for children of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth), but they typically bill Medicaid.

Slavery was never abolished in the U.S,

Always remember, every corporation should hire a child!

Jose Gaytan and Sonia Murillo

SAN DIEGO – Jose Gaytan and Sonia Murillo, defendants affiliated with Imperial Valley Ministries, pleaded guilty to labor trafficking charges in federal court today, admitting that they participated in a forced labor conspiracy.

Gaytan and Murillo were previously indicted with ten other defendants on charges they held program participants against their will, coerced participants to surrender welfare benefits, and compelled participants to panhandle for the financial benefit of the church leaders.

Both Gaytan and Murillo admitted to conspiring with the other defendants to benefit financially from the forced labor conspiracy. In particular, both Gaytan and Murillo admitted defendant Victor Gonzalez, the former pastor of IVM, instructed all directors in charge of IVM properties to screw or nail windows shut and keep doors locked from the inside in order to prevent IVM participants from leaving. Gaytan added that Gonzalez and another IVM leader told him it was necessary to continue recruiting participants into IVM and prevent participants from leaving in order to increase fundraising proceeds for the benefit of IVM.

Murillo implicated additional defendants who punished her for allowing IVM participants to leave. Both Gaytan and Murillo added that various co-defendants had directed them to falsely instruct female participants that Child Protective Services would take their children, or fail to return them, if they left IVM.

IVM operated a non-denominational church headquartered in El Centro, and had opened approximately 30 affiliate churches throughout the United States and Mexico, including Los Angeles, Santa Ana and San Jose, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; Phoenix, Arizona; and Brownsville, Texas. IVM’s express purpose is to “restore” drug addicts at faith-based rehabilitation group homes and raise money to open churches in other cities to do the same.

In addition to their church and main office, IVM owns and operates two women’s group homes and a men’s group home in the El Centro area. IVM also operated homes in Calexico and Chula Vista. Many participants were recruited from outside of El Centro, including San Diego, and as far away as Texas. IVM members allegedly induced participants to accompany them to receive free food and shelter with the false promise that they would be provided resources to return home. Many participants, including those who did not require rehabilitation services, claimed they were later held at IVM properties against their will.

The indictment alleges that all of the defendants confiscated identification documents in order to prevent IVM participants from leaving IVM and to maintain their labor. IVM leaders checked in participants at the IVM group homes, where they were required to sign agreements to adhere to rules, including never leaving the house unaccompanied, and turning over all identifications and personal items.

Both Gaytan and Murillo admitted they helped enforce the IVM rules by checking in new IVM participants, obtaining and using their Electronic Benefits Transaction cards obtained through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and requiring participants to panhandle on behalf of IVM. Gaytan and Murillo also pleaded guilty to a separate offense of Benefits Fraud based upon their unauthorized acquisition of SNAP benefits from others, in violation of Food Stamp Regulations.

Gaytan entered his guilty plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda Lopez and Murillo entered her guilty plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge F.A. Gossett. Both are scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz on May 5, 2020.

“The most vulnerable among us are entitled to the protection of the law,” said U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer. “We encourage everyone to help identify forced labor victims in all locations or situations where exploitation is possible.” Mr. Brewer added that his office would be hosting a forum on forced labor on April 23, 2020, to bring together law enforcement agencies, non-governmental organizations, and community organizations that may encounter potential victims of forced labor, all in an effort to increase the identification of victims and prosecute those who exploit them.

Brewer praised FBI agents and prosecutor Chris Tenorio for excellent work on this important case.

DEFENDANTS                                            Case Number 19CR3255-BTM                                     

Jose Gaytan                                                    Age: 47                                   El Centro, CA

Sonia Murillo                                                  Age: 51                                   El Centro, CA

SUMMARY OF CHARGES

Conspiracy to Commit Forced Labor and Benefits Fraud – Title 18, U.S.C., Section 371

Maximum penalty: five years’ imprisonment and $250,000 fine

Food Stamp Act (Benefits Fraud) – Title 7, U.S.C., Section 2024(b)

Maximum penalty: 20 years’ imprisonment and $250,000 fine (If the benefits were $5,000 or more)

AGENCY

Federal Bureau of Investigation

*The charges and allegations contained in an indictment or complaint are merely accusations, and the defendants are considered innocent unless and until proven guilty.

*This case is the result of the ongoing efforts of the Violent Crime and Human Trafficking (VCHT) Section. Formed in 2019, by U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer, the VCHT is tasked with leading collaborations between federal and local law enforcement in the investigation and prosecution of cases involving violent crimes, firearms and gang cases; sex trafficking and child exploitation; civil rights, and labor trafficking. The VCHT Section oversees the Southern District of California Coordinators for Project Safe Neighborhoods, Human Trafficking, and Project Safe Childhood. The VCHT Section also provides federal prosecutors to the downtown San Diego Violent Crimes Task Force-Gang Group, the North County Gang Task Force, and the East County Gang Task Force.

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Imperial Valley Ministries Had a Growing Empire Before Forced Labor Charges

A Southern California ministry whose leaders are charged with using deadbolt locks to detain homeless residents and making them turn over panhandling money was no fly-by-night operation. Imperial Valley Ministries was known in the remote desert region for decades of work helping drug addicts turn their lives around.

The ministry operated a ranch for men, a group home for women and a small headquarters office on one of the busiest streets in El Centro, a city of 45,000 people in a region of scorching summers, high unemployment and bountiful winter harvests that supply supermarkets across the United States. Residents were seen at intersections in burgundy T-shirts with the ministry's name emblazoned in white letters, asking idled motorists for money in exchange for a flyer about the ministry's work and a choice of peanuts or candy.

IMPERIAL VALLEY MINISTRIES
Church Leaders Indicted For Alleged Labor Trafficking In San Diego, Other Cities

It became so successful that it established a network of about 30 affiliate churches across the country in cities as far-flung as Charlotte, North Carolina, and Las Vegas.

A list of 29 house rules cited in an indictment unsealed Tuesday describes how the ministry kept a tight hold on residents in a cult-like atmosphere. They were prohibited from discussing "things of the world" and reading anything but the Bible, forced to surrender all identification and personal belongings, avoid family contact for the first 30 days and relinquish all earnings.

"You can't leave the house unless accompanied by someone and with the permission from the director -- never by yourself," the rules sheet read. "You can't go to the front yard, unless told so by the counselor."

Victor Gonzalez, the ministry's 40-year-old former pastor of Brownsville, Texas, his 39-year-old wife, Susan Christine Leyva, and 10 others have pleaded not guilty to crimes, including forced labor and benefits fraud. The defendants allegedly confiscated magnetic-striped cards that are used for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps.



Gonzalez, his wife and nine others appeared Wednesday at federal court in Brownsville and El Centro. Five defendants in El Centro were found to be in the country illegally and denied bond because they were considered flight risks. No one responded to phone and email messages left Wednesday with the ministry, and it was unclear if the defendants had attorneys.

For all the horrors outlined in a 29-page indictment, the ministry drew little public suspicion until the FBI raided its properties in May 2018.

"We certainly encountered a lot of people who were very appreciative of going cold turkey and getting off of drugs," Christopher Tenorio, an assistant U.S. attorney based in San Diego, said Wednesday.

The ministry was founded in the 1970s and opened its first group home in 1992. Tenorio said the founders, who were not named in the indictment and are now elderly, turned over the reins to Gonzalez, a resident, in 2013, which is when abuses began to escalate.

Windows were nailed shut at some group home locations, leading a 17-year-old victim to break a window, escape, and run to a neighboring property to call police, authorities say. Ministry members allegedly told people that they would not receive transportation home, that loved ones had rejected them and they must stay because only God loved them. Punishments included withholding food.

Residents panhandled up to 54 hours a week to provide money to the church, according to the indictment. Some were refused medical treatment.

The ministry expanded to about 30 cities through affiliates allied with the Christian Restoration Movement, none of whom have been charged. Locations included Los Angeles; San Jose, California; Phoenix; Oklahoma City; St. Louis; Louisville, Kentucky; and Memphis, Tennessee.

The ministry sent someone from Imperial Valley to establish the affiliates, who were required to send back 10% of their tithes, Tenorio said. Some affiliates broke ties after the FBI raids.

The ministry allegedly recruited homeless people from the streets from far-flung cities, offering help and driving them in white vans to El Centro. It operated a home in Chula Vista, a San Diego suburb, for people to stay temporarily.

Spread the Love Charity, which provides day shelter, counseling and other services to homeless people, noticed about two years ago that former residents of Imperial Valley Ministries were showing up, saying they wanted to go home but had no money, said Jessica Solorio, its founder. She called the ministry but no one responded to her messages until the FBI raid, after which time Gonzalez came to her office and reimbursed her for dozens of bus tickets.

"I never knew of anything bad," said Solorio, who opened her charity in 2015. "They tried to help people off the streets. They had a ranch with animals to keep them busy. There was never anything from the outside looking in that looked horrible."

The FBI asked Solorio to let them know when people came from the ministry. Agents interviewed former residents, leading to the raid.

At the time, Gonzalez publicly pinned the raid on a woman who, he said, claimed in 2016 that her daughter was being held against her will.

"We tried to help her out as much as we could," Gonzalez said, as reported by KYMA-TV of Yuma, Arizona. "We tried to help her out even to bring her son, and the mom was always in denial."

The ministry drew mixed reviews online. One woman who called it "a cult" said she was grateful that her daughter turned sober during a seven-month stay but that the ministry pitted her child against her family and forced residents to stay on the streets peddling candy until they met a quota.
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Bethany Christian Rebrands Human Asset Management For Human Trafficking - No Mention Of Foster Care

Christian Commodification of the Human Person Workshop

Christian organizations all over the place are jumping into the newest game of sustainability called human trafficking, or rather, christian commodification of the human person.


Bethany Christian rebrands human asset management, but this time it is to "aid foreign born trafficking victims" with no mention of foster care.

The majority of kids caught up in human trafficking come out foster care, but do not tell that to Bethany Christian!

In the spirit of fuchsia...

Program launched to aid foreign-born trafficking victims in Detroit

Detroit — Foreign-born trafficking victims in Metro Detroit can now find sanctuary through an assistance program launched by a Grand Rapids-based family service organization.

But what about those who came out foster care, like Bethany Christian?

After Bethany Christian Services' success with the Trafficking Victim's Assistance Program in West Michigan, it decided to replicate its model, opening offices in Detroit and New Jersey.

Success...on paper, that is.

Karen Hanks, the coordinator of the program, said the organization has seen a spike in cases in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw counties where victims are often hidden in plain sight....in foster care.

"Labor trafficking cases are often overlooked for a variety of reasons," said Hanks, who has been working with the program since May. "All of the cases we currently have are all labor trafficking, almost exclusively to foreign nationals, who come here on a false promise and are vulnerable."

How did they get in the country, is the question.

Those at the highest risk of trafficking are immigrants here illegally, migrant workers, or foreign-born persons solicited into coming to the United States to pursue education or work opportunities. Hanks said it's very difficult for a U.S. citizen to be pulled into labor trafficking because they know their rights and find opportunities to seek help, whereas a foreigner is already vulnerable and may not know English....unless they aged out foster care.

"It’s much easier to trick them and they may end up in a situation they don’t even realize," she said. "It's people who often come here illegally, but it shouldn't make a difference when people are being exploited."...unless they are trying to survive out of foster care.

Because foreign nationals don't qualify for federal programs, Hanks said it's difficult to locate safe housing, funding and help with re-entry. Bethany's program is focused on helping victims return to a normal life at no cost....because there will be upcoding for cost reimbursements in Medicaid services for questionable programs as these undocumented individuals are now under the legal auspices of Bethany Christian, the new corporate parent for human asset management.

They aid with counseling services, food, clothing, housing, employment and family reunification when possible....to bill Medicaid. The program is funded and overseen by a grant from the U.S. Committee of Refugees and Immigrants and is time and financially limited to one year....to transition into other private, Social Impact Bond programs.

For the year, a single client receives a maximum of $6,000, a family receives $7,500. Victims are often referred through their immigration lawyers while they are going through the legal system. Bethany does not profit from the program, saying it strictly works to help those suffering from severe abuse, Hank said.

A not for profit, foreign corporation does not profit, it maximized revenues.

"Victims have been through sexual assault, confinement, threats to their family and family in their home country have been carried out," she said. "Though they grieve, they want to stay in the U.S. and fight their cases and that means separation from families and their culture. Some have been reunited with their families but sometimes it takes two to three years of trying to survive, deal with the courts, keeping their physical and mental health intact. It's all very overwhelming."...and so is trying to survive foster care.

While there's no database of victims or a way to officially track calls as they come in, Bethany relies on the National Human Trafficking Hotline, which has 4,600 cases reported nationally this year, 172 reported in Michigan....and that does not include those who escaped foster care.

The hotline ranks Michigan seventh. The majority of calls are in sex trafficking in the restaurant and foodservice industry, traveling sales crews, domestic work, hospitality and housekeeping services. Most are reported at residences, hotels, massage and spa businesses. Women account for 146 of the cases and minors account for 47 cases....but Michigan is #1 in child trafficking, but, hey, what do I know?

In December, a lawsuit filed by a woman who alleges she was held captive and forced into prostitution at two southeast Michigan hotels brought attention to the perpetrator's use of overnight lodging as a basis for sex trafficking....but foster kids have no civil rights, just ask Nancy Edmunds.

Later on that month, Warren police touted 46 arrests its ongoing human trafficking investigation called Operation Crusade. The crimes were committed in hotels and multi-unit apartment complexes in the city, investigators said....Warren has most of the hotels. In Detroit, they are called trap houses, or your basic blighted Detroit Land Bank Authority property.

"Traffickers … continue to exploit their victims unchecked because staff, managers and executives do not know what to look for," according to the Polaris Project....particularly when you are dealing with foster care, which is the industry of child trafficking.

In 2018, 383 human trafficking cases were reported in Michigan through the hotline, a jump from 313 tallied in 2017, according to the website. ...without citing the Auditor General findings of failures in its CPS system.

The Detroit office, which opened in February, has four clients aged 20-40 years old....because it does not count foster care youth who are being trafficked.

Hank said she definitely expects more cases and worries about the shortage of case management workers....due to the high turnover of dealing with what goes on in foster care.

"The process can be very overwhelming for victims, and very emotional for us. It's rewarding just for them to know they have an ally is great comfort for them," Hanks said tearfully. "The community can also help. Our biggest need is financial donations and partnering with the task force to recover victims. The community can also get educated on being alert and keeping your eyes open.

So, riddle me this: If a youth, who is undocumented, enters the Bethany Christian salvaging the souls network, and is placed under legal guardianship of the corporation, and not the state, what is the citizenship of the youth, if there is no documentation of parental rights termination or transfer?

"See something, say something."

Contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline confidentially at 1-888-373-7888 or text 233733.

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Michigan Fails To Explain Foreign Corporate Parental Rights & The Residuals Of The Peculiar Institution Of Gerrymandering In Human Asset Management Private Prisons

How can Michigan construct proposed legislation to end prison gerrymandering when it does not even legally define what gerrymandering is?

SCOTUS Realizes Gerrymandering Is Constitutional Stealin' The Children, Land & Votes Under The Thirteenth Amendment Exception Clause

Now, that I have provided the legal origins of the entire doctrine of gerrymandering, we shall move into the next phase, by identifying the cui bono, or rather the national origins of the financial benefactors in the passage of this Bill.

SENATE BILL NO. 759
January 28, 2020, Introduced by Senator SANTANA and referred to the Committee on Elections.
A bill to require that the pre-incarceration address of incarcerated individuals be reported when providing information for voting district population counts; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state officers and entities.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. As used in this act:
(a) "Department" means the department of corrections.
(b) "Pre-incarceration address" means the address at which an incarcerated individual resided before the individual's current incarceration.
Sec. 2. For purposes of reporting the residency of an individual who is incarcerated in a correctional institution operated by the department, as that information relates to a population count that is used for the establishment of a voting district, the department shall report the individual's pre-incarceration address.

Found in this Bill, we have a term, that is arbitrarily and capriciously defined as "pre-incarceration address".

'Your Body Being Used': Where Prisoners Who Can't Vote Fill Voting Districts

When an individual is duly order by the court of law to be placed under the auspices of the State, there is a transfer of the grant of parental right of the chattel, meaning, the prison, being a private prison in most cases, becomes the corporate parent.

The corporate parent has the legal right, by proxy, to execute the right to vote, which is done through absentee ballots.

The term which has been traditionally used to describe this prison gerrymandering is called vote packing, which I watched bloom in Detroit.

So, if voting is based upon residency, and not domicile, how come no one has raised this issue of law?

I am going to go out there and just say that we are dealing with the application of private commercial law over the management of human capital assets, such as the right to vote.

The majority of individuals who go to prison, are sentenced under the moral turpitude laws of poverty, meaning, they committed crimes because they were tired of being hungry, or, what I call as being victims of "Whoops" human socioeconomic human lab rat experimental programs gone horribly wrong.

Either way, someone needs to explain to me why gerrymandering is even considered legal, because it is just another fancy way of saying stealin' the children, land and vote.

Gerrymandering was named after Elbridge Gerry, former Vice President and grand father of Eldridge Gerry founded the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, where what we know today as Child Protective Services was known as the Gerry Society.

Michigan bill aims to end 'prison gerrymandering' before 2020 census

Proposed legislation would change how Michigan's prisoners are counted in legislative and congressional districts, a move that researchers say could shift political power away from rural areas that claim a significant number of incarcerated people as constituents.

Senate Bill 759 aims to end the practice of counting prisoners as residents in the districts where they're currently incarcerated, which critics call "prison gerrymandering."

The bill, introduced by Sen. Sylvia Santana, D-Detroit, would require that prisoners' last-known addresses be used when establishing voting districts. Santana said the change is necessary to draw districts "of equal and fair proportions."

“Prisoners are people, too, and they should be counted in their home communities if we are to build a truly representative democracy," she said.

Like prisoners in all states except Maine and Vermont, the roughly 38,000 people serving time in Michigan Department of Corrections facilities cannot vote.

Advocates argue that counting prisoners in the districts where they're incarcerated, even though they're not part of surrounding community and cannot vote, unfairly boosts the populations of those areas.

"Communities with prisons have their political power inflated because their populations are inflated because of people who are in prison, and other communities see their votes sort of diluted," said Cara Brumfield, senior policy analyst for the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality’s Economic Security and Opportunity Initiative.

More: Analysis: Detroit will be toughest US city to count population for 2020 Census

More: Michigan population increases for 8th straight year, but remains under 10 million

Political districts are redrawn every 10 years after the census.Santana hopes to change the law by April 1, designated as Census Day, when the U.S. Census Bureau says every home should have received an invitation to participate in the census.

Santana's legislation stands to have the greatest effect on state House districts that claim a high percentage of prisoners as constituents, said Aleks Kajstura, legal director of the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit advocating to count incarcerated people as residents of their home addresses.

"There would be less representational power concentrated in these few districts that have these huge incarcerated populations," she said. "There wouldn't be anywhere in the state that would gain the same amount of power that these districts lost."

There were three House districts drawn after the 2010 census that claimed prisoners as more than 5% of their population, Kajstura said.

Just more than 7% of people in District 70 were incarcerated when the mid-Michigan district was drawn after the 2010 census, according to Kajstura. That district is represented by Rep. Jim Lower, R-Greenville, who said Thursday that he didn't have enough information to form an opinion on Santana's bill. He added that voter turnout in his district, which includes three prisons in Montcalm and Gratiot counties, is low compared to surrounding areas.

It's unlikely that the proposal would have a significant effect on congressional districts. It wouldn't affect elections at the municipal or county levels because state law excludes state prisoners from being counted for representation purposes.

Advocates have been fighting for years for the U.S. Census Bureau to change its longstanding practice of counting prisoners as residents of the district where they're incarcerated.

The bureau hasn't altered its policy, but seven states have passed legislation similar to Santana's bill. After the census count, those states will adjust the data to reallocate incarcerated people for redistricting. Similar legislation is pending in eight other states, Kajstura said.

A state-level change to where Michigan's prisoners are counted would have no bearing on the distribution of federal funds for services and infrastructure because funding formulas don't use redistricting data, Kajstura said.

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Why Are There So Many Homeless Children & Failing Schools - Because Betsy DeVos, et al, Planned It

I just busted one of her precious, experimental data collection schools for homeless and age out foster youth schools in a Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare scheme.

The Director over there at Covenant House, who just happens to be from Malta, is using dirty data to promulgate her agenda of the foreign invasion.

Someone needs to ask Betsy about RDV and her other real estate fraud schemes where she and her co-conspirators acquired properties from fake ass foreclosures through the Kent County Land Bank, and Detroit Land Bank Authority, flipped them four or seven times in fake ass mortgages, wiped out in quiet titles, where the money is run out the country, probably through Spectrum Health.

Go ahead, I am waiting for the first reporter to actually do a real interview with her.

Here is the link to find everything you wanted to know about her pending situation with the falling of the heavens.

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=betsy+devos

FUN FACT! BETHANY CHRISTIAN GOT THE BORDER BABY CONTRACTS

Yes, that is correct, Betsy forecasted that the U.S. would experience an increase of homeless and foster children.

Has anyone ever asked her how she was able to do that?

Has anyone ever asked her about the Michigan Children's Trust Fund?

Has anyone ever asked her how all that stolen child welfare money from the schools is ending up going through the RNC funding campaigns, like Trump's campaign?

Here is that link, again.

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=betsy+devos

#maytheheavensfall

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Ron Brierley Being Defrocked From Knighthood For His Trafficking Tiny Humans Transposable Model

 Ron Brierley being knighted

When you own a corporation, you are held to a higher realm of laws, known as Ethics.

Upon being defrocked, you fall from the heavens to be tried by the laws of the land, and in this instance, it looks like the laws surrounding the commerce of trafficking tiny humans.

He was a knight.

He stole the children's legacies in reverse mortgages, which is one of the first asset forfeiture operations of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth.)

TRANSLATION: WHEN GRANDMA AND GRAMDPA HAVE THEIR PENSIONS STOLEN AND EXFILTRATED OVERSEAS THROUGH FAKE ASS CHILDREN'S TRUSTS, THEY WILL SELL THEIR GRANDCHILDREN'S LEGACIES SO THEY DO NOT HAVE TO EAT DOG FOOD, WHEREBY THE DISTRICTS ARE REDRAWN, PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE SHUTTERED, AND THEY CAN CONTROL THE VOTE BY INSTALLING THEIR OWN CHRISTENED CITY, COUNTY & STATE ADMINISTRATORS TO IMPLEMENT MORE CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE LAWS & POLICIES PASS BY THEIR CHOSEN "ELECTED ONES".

It is just another transposable model for stealin' the children, land & votes.

Gerrymandering.

Heartland buys reverse mortgage firm

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Millionaire businessman Sir Ron Brierley charged with possessing child pornography

Ron Brierley 

Sir Ron Brierley was trying to board a flight to Fiji when he was arrested. (Supplied: Alchetron)

Multi-millionaire businessman and one of Australia's most feared corporate raiders Sir Ron Brierley has been charged for alleged possession of child pornography.

Key points:
Sir Ron Brierley founded one of New Zealand's biggest investment firms
He was allegedly found with child pornography on his laptop at Sydney Airport

The 82-year-old was granted conditional bail and will continue living at his Point Piper mansion
The 82-year-old investor was arrested at Sydney International Airport after being stopped by Border Force officials as he was attempting to board a flight to Fiji.

NSW Police have been investigating the matter since August after an anonymous tip-off from a member of the public.

https://www.heartland.co.nz/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Bank

The financier was allegedly found with a "large amount" of child pornography images on his laptop when detectives seized his carry-on luggage about 6.30am yesterday.

Mr Brierley, who is a former trustee of the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust, was taken to Mascot Police Station where he was charged with six counts of possessing child pornography.

The New Zealand-born businessman was given strict conditional bail, including that he continue living at his Point Piper mansion, and is due to appear before the Downing Centre on February 10, 2020.

A car is parked outside a nice house with palm trees and a blue sky
PHOTO: Sir Ron Brierley's Point Piper home. (ABC News: Rani Hayman)
With no capital, Sir Ron founded R. A Brierley Investments in 1961, which grew to become one of New Zealand's biggest companies.

https://www.scgt.nsw.gov.au/

In 1988, he was knighted for his "services to business management and the community".

Mr Brierley mentored many Australian business leaders, including BHP director Malcolm Broomhead and the co-founder of Afterpay, Anthony Eisen.

Mr Brierley stepped down from his last role in a listed company in June this year when he retired as chairman of Mercantile Investments.

"Due to age and health issues, I can no longer give the total commitment to the company which it requires and which shareholders deserve," Mr Brierley said in a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange earlier this year.

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