Author: Freedom Watch
Lawyer pleads guilty to involvement in Capitol riot after he was identified through TikTok videos By Bethany Dawson Business Insider September 25, 2022 A disgraced South Carolina attorney has pleaded guilty to charges related to the storming of the Capitol. David Johnston was identified from TikTok and Facebook live videos. He was charged alongside his neighbor Chad Clifton, with whom he traveled to Washington DC. Continue Reading…..
FBI misled judge who signed warrant for Beverly Hills seizure of $86 million in cash Los Angeles Times September 24, 2022 Newly unsealed court documents show that the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles got their warrant for that raid by misleading the judge who approved it. They omitted from their warrant request a central part of the FBI’s plan: Permanent confiscation of everything inside every box containing at least $5,000 in cash or goods, a senior FBI agent recently testified. The FBI’s justification for the dragnet forfeiture was its presumption that hundreds of unknown box…
Jurupa Valley Man Who Joined Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Admits to Felony Charge By City News Service Press Enterprise September 24, 2022 A 45-year-old man who was among seven people from Riverside County charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol pleaded guilty this week to aiding and abetting in the obstruction of an official proceeding. Andrew Alan Hernandez of Jurupa Valley admitted the felony count under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which agreed to drop five related charges in exchange for the admission. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, in Washington, D.C.,…
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Hoping for a PGA Tour-LIV truce? ‘Off the table,’ Jay Monahan says Golf Channel September 22, 2022 Jay Monahan was asked if he could see any sort of peace or alliance between the two tours, he quickly dismissed the idea. “Listen, I think I’ve been pretty clear on this: I don’t see it happening,” Monahan said. “When you look at where we are, and you think about words and actions, we’re currently in a lawsuit, so coming together and having conversations, to me, that card is off the table, and it has been for a long period of…
New York attorney general files civil fraud lawsuit against Trump, some of his children and his business | CNN Politics By Kara Scannell, Tierney Sneed, Marshall Cohen, Hannah Rabinowitz CNN September 21, 2022 (CNN)The New York state attorney general filed a sweeping lawsuit Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, three of his adult children and the Trump Organization, alleging they were involved in an expansive fraud lasting over a decade that the former President used to enrich himself. In the more than 200-page lawsuit, Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, alleges the fraud touched all aspects of the…
Mike Lindell says vendors are bailing on his MyStore platform because they don’t want to be associated with an FBI investigation Yahoo News September 21, 2022 MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says four vendors have bailed on his MyStore e-commerce platform. Lindell told Insider these businesses “don’t want to deal with MyStore” for fear of an FBI probe. Lindell’s phone was seized by the FBI last week at a Hardee’s drive-thru in Minnesota. Continue Reading…..
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By Sarah Al-Arshani Business Insider September 19, 2022 Over 900 people have been arrested and charged in connection with the Capitol riot, according to Insider’s database. A growing number of them have subsequently been charged with additional separate crimes, CBS News reported. The additional charges could complicate their efforts to get lenient sentences in their Capitol riot cases. Continue Reading…..
Michigan man gets 5 years in prison for role in Capitol riot AP NEWS September 17, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — A Michigan man was sentenced on Friday to five years in federal prison for his role in the U.S. Capitol attack by a mob that disrupted Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. Chief Judge Beryl Howell also sentenced Anthony Robert Williams, 47, of Southgate, Michigan, to three years of supervised release after his prison term and ordered him to pay $2,000 in restitution and a $5,000 fine, according to a U.S. Justice Department news release.…