News / MN Newsletter // December 21

December 21, 2018

FBI - Whitey Bulger, FBI Informants, and Prison Murders - Update India's conviction of a mass killer falls short of justice - Religion News Service Former USC assistant coach Tony Bland agrees to plea deal in college basketball bribery case - Valdosta Daily Times Weiner: A peek behind Mueller’s curtain - Gaston Gazette Wolf grants clemency to two more inmates, including one midstate woman | News - witf.org FSB officer from hitmen gang sentenced to 24 years in prison on Chekist Day - https://en.crimerussia.com/ India's conviction of a mass killer falls short of justice - Religion News Service Religion News Service (RNS) — This week, the Delhi High Court sentenced senior Indian politician Sajjan Kumar to life in prison for his role in the anti-Sikh genocidal violence of 1984 that left thousands of innocent Sikhs dead. Read More Former USC assistant coach Tony Bland agrees to plea deal in college basketball bribery case - Valdosta Daily Times Valdosta Daily Times LOS ANGELES — Former USC associate head coach Tony Bland agreed to a plea bargain Thursday in the wide-ranging federal investigation into college basketball bribery and corruption. Read More Weiner: A peek behind Mueller’s curtain - Gaston Gazette Gaston Gazette He probably won't schedule news conference anytime soon. The week after the 2016 presidential election, I flew to Mexico to talk to Robert Mueller. The invitation to interview him about national security before an international conference audience came on short notice. Read More Wolf grants clemency to two more inmates, including one midstate woman | News - witf.org witf.org FILE PHOTO: Gov. Tom Wolf speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his office in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Read More FSB officer from hitmen gang sentenced to 24 years in prison on Chekist Day - https://en.crimerussia.com/ https://en.crimerussia.com/ Alexey Korotkov was found guilty of killing seven people. In addition to imprisonment, he was sentenced to a fine of 500 thousand rubles ($7.3 thousand). Read More

FBI News Review at 10 Hours GOP throws an email probe; nobody testifies - Albuquerque Journal "house judiciary committee" - Google News: A Republican lawmaker invoked Paul Manafort's adult children in a bizarre defense of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen - AOL "fbi surveillance" - Google News: What we have learned so far - Power Line "fbi surveillance" - Google News: TRUMP SIGNALS 'DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN' -- D.C. shaken by Mattis resignation -- TRUMP TO SIGN FIRST STEP ACT -- Interior Secretary Denham? - Politico Crime and Criminology from Michael_Novakhov (8 sites): "political crimes" - Google News: Let's take the first step this Christmas on corrections reform - Bangor Daily News GOP throws an email probe; nobody testifies - Albuquerque Journal Albuquerque Journal .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Read More "house judiciary committee" - Google News: A Republican lawmaker invoked Paul Manafort's adult children in a bizarre defense of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen - AOL FBI from Michael_Novakhov (25 sites) A Republican lawmaker likened the Trump administration's discontinued child separation policy at the US-Mexico border to the children of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign chairman.Manafort, who faces increased scrutiny after allegedly breaching his plea agreement to charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice in the special counsel's investigation, is the father of two adult children.Manafort's children include Jessica, an independent filmmaker who reportedly changed her last name to distance herself from an unwanted "public perception," and Andrea, who described her father as someone with "no moral or legal compass" and a "a sick f---ing tyrant."A Republican lawmaker likened the Trump administration's discontinued child-separation policy at the US-Mexico border to the fate of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who faces increased scrutiny after allegedly breaching his plea agreement to charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Read More "fbi surveillance" - Google News: What we have learned so far - Power Line FBI from Michael_Novakhov (25 sites) In her weekly Wall Street Journal column (accessible here via Outline) Kim Strassel notes what we have learned so far regarding “one of the greatest dirty tricks of our political times.” Kim, strike “one of the.” Making points we have made several times, noting a loose thread and calling for the declassification of documents revealing the rest of the story, Kim writes: Read More "fbi surveillance" - Google News: TRUMP SIGNALS 'DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN' -- D.C. shaken by Mattis resignation -- TRUMP TO SIGN FIRST STEP ACT -- Interior Secretary Denham? - Politico FBI from Michael_Novakhov (25 sites) Read More Crime and Criminology from Michael_Novakhov (8 sites): "political crimes" - Google News: Let's take the first step this Christmas on corrections reform - Bangor Daily News FBI from Michael_Novakhov (25 sites) It’s a first step. No, not Gov.-elect Janet Mills’ cabinet announcements. Or the budget template that Gov. Paul LePage will leave on the desk upon his departure. Rather, it is the so-called First Step Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation supported by everyone from Donald Trump to Bernie Sanders, George Soros to the Koch brothers. Read More

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