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Hundreds Still Missing After Dam Collapse in Brazil

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Police have arrested five people over the devastating dam collapse in Minas Gerais, Brazil that killed at least 65 people, with nearly 300 still missing. Three of those arrested work for Vale, the mining company that owned and operated the dam. The other two worked for a German company that carried out inspections on the dam last year.  Attorney General Andre Mendonca said Vale is responsible for the disaster, the second of its kind in three years involving the mining company.

Authorities called the 2015 Mariana dam collapse the worst environmental disaster in the country’s history. That collapse killed 19 people and wreaked havoc on the environment, leading mining company Samarco — a joint venture between Vale and BHP Billiton — to reach a deal in 2016 with the Brazilian government to pay up to $6.2 billion.  In a video over the weekend, Vale chief Fabio Schvartsman called the Brumadinho dam break “inexcusable” and asked the Brazilian public for forgiveness. He said the company will aid victims and noted that Vale put “immense effort” into improving its dams after the disaster in Mariana.

Soon after the most recent collapse, the state judiciary froze more than $260 million from Vale, with a presiding judge citing the company’s responsibility for the disaster. The money will be deposited into a judicial account to compensate for any costs to the state as a result of rescue operations or victim support. Minas Gerais state has fined Vale $99 million for damage caused by the dam break and said the money will be used for repairs.

The Civil Defense of Minas Gerais said 291 people were still missing and 192 people have been rescued from the area.  Authorities say 427 people were in the Córrego do Feijão mine in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais when the dam burst.  Hundreds of people are still missing and the collapse buried most of the mining town-Brumadinho.  The disaster shed light on potential risks at nearly 700 other mining dams in the state of Minas Gerais and drew attention to what some described as a lack of appropriate regulation.

The collapse unleashed a muddy sea of mining debris into the region and the extent of the damage is still being calculated.  Authorities temporarily halted search and rescue and placed 3,000 people under evacuation orders amid fears that another dam nearby was about to rupture. The orders were lifted after authorities determined dam VI was no longer at risk of bursting.  In an effort to find missing people, the Federal Attorney General’s Office obtained an injunction in the Federal Court of Minas Gerais ruling that mobile carriers should provide data from the cell phone signals of people who were in the region where the dam broke.

Officials say they expect to contain the sludgy mine waste known as tailings within two days. The Brazilian National Water Agency said they are monitoring the tailings and coordinating plans for supplying water to the affected region.  Officials said during a press conference that the priority now is assisting victims and their families. After that, officials said they’d focus on environmental damage and the mining process.

Several videos circulating of the disaster show the devastation of the dam collapse.  One video shows the exact moment the dam collapsed, sending a sea of mud and debris swallowing up the area as unsuspecting cars are scene, likely for the last time.   Videos of the rescue efforts show helicopters hovering feet above the ground as firefighters’ pluck people from the muck.

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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, February 3rd, 2019.

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 Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, February 3rd, 2019.

 

In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!        

Congratulations  – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!!   Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, February 3rd, 2019 was:

         

DEBBIE BLOXOM

Ashmore,  IL

Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card

 

Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone  or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION.  The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift Card.


Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site.  Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers. 

 

Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:

 

 

Trivia Last Weeks Winner

 

1/28/19

 

 

Wilma Mast

 

Amy Marie Wilkinson

 

Kathleen Hickman

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Joanna Hacker

 

Tabitha Sinks

 

Angela Janisse

 

Be Schwerin

 

Tracy Heyer

 

Tracy Shafer

 

Patricia Oehlert Vazquez

 

Kayla Hernandez

 

Christina Radcliff

 

Michelle Webb

 

Nancy Pfirrman Schools

 

Tonya Velazquez

 

Derek Jennings

 

Diane Hamric

 

Tina Auth

 

Melissa Mae

 

Kendra Lynne Ramsey

 

Jennifer Ramlet

 

 

1/29/19

 

 

Nikki Hunsaker

 

Brandy Williams

 

Kimberly Taylor Hall

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Amie-Lee George

 

Heather Wheeler Shaw

 

Anna Nichols

 

Sarah Harrison

 

Sheila Carvell

 

Beeg Reeb

 

Rosanne Clark

 

Tabitha Sinks

 

April Ashcraft

 

Sunney Michelle Johnson

 

Diane Hamric

 

Suzie Mize Lockhart

 

Be Schwerin

 

Stacy Nelson

 

Dale Fish

 

Angela Janisse

 

Vickie Gipson

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Alyssa DiFazio

 

 

 

 

1/30/19

 

 

Tracy Shafer

 

Shannon Rush

 

Brittany Whitley

 

Sunney Michelle Johnson

 

Trish Hysell

 

Sherry Lilly

 

Josephine Casey

 

Amber Conaway

 

Amie-Lee George

 

Aarti DM

 

Kara Kilhoffer

 

June Rivera

 

Angela Janisse

 

Amber Jacobs

 

Christy Hawkes

 

Paula M Bondy

 

Tanya Holmes

 

Heather Wheeler Shaw

 

Debbie Bloxom

 

Sheila Carvell

 

 

1/31/19

 

 

Amie-Lee George

 

Sarah Harrison

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Jessica Steiner

 

Jennifer Lang

 

Kathleen Marks

 

Erica Hansen

 

Diane Hamric

 

Shannon Rush

 

Isis Sample

 

Christy Hawkes

 

Sheila Carvell

 

Patricia Oehlert Vazquez

 

April Ashcraft

 

Angela Janisse

 

Paula M Bondy

 

Dee Washington

 

Wendi Black

 

Georgiann D’Angelo

 

Wayne Gallas

 

Eleazar Ruiz

 

Jeanne Marie Rousseau

 

 

 

2/1/19

 

 

Jennifer Ramlet

 

Jessica Steiner

 

Mikey Mellor

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Amber Jacobs

 

Alyssa DiFazio

 

Sunney Michelle Johnson

 

Christine M Miller-Borowczyk

 

Tiffany Greene Elliott

 

Phylicia Phillips

 

Melissa White

 

Nai Merri

 

Isis Sample

 

Angela Janisse

 

Shannon Rush

 

Sarah Harrison

 

Nacole Patrick

 

Marcy Coull

 

Dave Miller

 

Debbie Gremlin

 

Ashley Agner

 

Kathleen Marks

 

Brandi K Chaney

 

Cyndi Jansheski

 

 

2/2/19

 

 

Missy Nicole Adams

 

Amy Chavis

 

Shannon Rush

 

Brittany Doerfler

 

Angela Janisse

 

Cheryl Hall

 

Kacie Rogers

 

Dale Fish

 

Mary Pettiford

 

Karron Redfield             

 

Tabitha Sinks

 

Steph Mitchell

 

Cassandra Berholtz

 

Barbara Carter

 

Sarah Haught

 

Brooke Scott

 

Marcy Coull

 

Debbie Bloxom

 

Alexis Maureen

 

Nicole Blaha

 

Brittany Seiler

 

 

 

2/3/19

 

 

Lisa David Carr

 

Amie-Lee George

 

Patricia Oehlert Vazquez

 

Jennifer Ramlet

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Carrie Vucinaj

 

Dave Miller

 

Jenn Smith Jackson

 

Christine M Miller-Borowczyk

 

Nicole Blaha

 

Jen Freese

 

Trish Marks

 

Kimberly Snyder

 

Kendra George

 

Amber Jacobs

 

Alyssa DiFazio

 

Amber Gildark Lowery

 

Jane Peterson

 

Brooke Scott

 

Pallavi Deshmukh 

 

 

 

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Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!

Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better. 

Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!

You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!  

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Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Charged With 11 More Crimes

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A federal grand jury has filed 19 new charges, including 11 counts of hate crimes resulting in death and two counts of hate crimes involving attempted murder, as well as several others. Robert Bowers, the accused gunman in last year’s mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, now faces 63 criminal counts.  The indictment against Bowers cited his online attacks on the Jewish charity HIAS, including posts from the day of the shooting.

On October 27, 2018, eleven Jewish worshipers were shot and killed in what has been described as the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.  Bowers, 46, allegedly opened fire on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11 people and injuring 7 others.  He had made anti-Semitic comments on the extremist-friendly social network Gab shortly before the attack.  The Tree of Life synagogue housed three congregations and approximately 75 people were inside the building at the time.

As morning services were underway, just before entering, Bowers posted a final message to Gab, once again referencing the conspiracy theory. “HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people,” he wrote. “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.” Bowers entered the synagogue at 9:50am and opened fire.  By 9:54am police began receiving multiple calls from people barricaded in the building reporting the attack.  Survivors say Bowers was shooting for around 20 minutes and at one point yelled “All Jews must die!”

Police arrived at 9:59 am and Bowers fired on police from the entryway, apparently on his way out of the building.  Police returned fire, causing the gunman to retreat into the building.  At 10:30 a.m., tactical teams entered the building and exchanged fire with Bowers.  Bowers was wounded during the exchange and retreated to a room on the third floor of the synagogue.  Two SWAT members were also wounded during the exchange.  At 11:08 a.m., the Bowers crawled out of the room and surrendered.  Bowers was allegedly armed with three handguns and an AR-15.

In his posts on his Gab profile, Bowers called Jewish people “the children of Satan” and in the days before the shooting, Bowers authored increasingly anti-Semitic posts.  On October 10, he posted about the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), a Jewish charity that was hosting charity events for immigrants. One of the events was at the Dor Hadash congregation, which was housed at the Tree of Life synagogue.  Bowers accused HIAS and its associated congregations of bringing “hostile invaders to dwell among us.” The claim is part of a white supremacist conspiracy theory that falsely claims Jewish people are trying to promote immigration to make countries less white. Bowers also posted anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi memes.  He was charged in federal court that month with dozens of offenses including 11 murder charges. Bowers had previously pled not guilty to the charges against him in October. If convicted, he faces the death penalty.

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Two Men Admit Role in Minnesota Mosque Attack

 

 

 

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Two members of an Illinois militia group admitted to bombing a Bloomington mosque in 2017 in a bid to terrorize Muslims into leaving the United States.  Michael McWhorter and Joe Morris rented a truck and drove more than 500 miles to bomb a Minnesota mosque.  Both men pled guilty to five counts related to the mosque attack, as well as the attempted bombing of an Illinois abortion clinic and other crimes.  A third suspect, 47 year old, Michael Hari, whom prosecutors said directed the bombing, remains in federal custody.

Hari is a former sheriff’s deputy from Illinois who runs a security company and submitted a bid to build President Trump’s border wall.  The plea agreements portray Hari as the ringleader of a militia group called the White Rabbits, which included Hari, McWhorter, Morris and at least five other people. Hari’s trial is set for July.  The plea agreements say the men targeted the mosque to interfere with the free exercise of religion by Muslims and to let Muslims know they were not welcome in the United States.

According to the plea agreements, the men were headed toward Minnesota when Hari told McWhorter and Morris that he had a pipe bomb in the vehicle and they were going to bomb a mosque.  When the three men arrived at Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington on Aug. 5, 2017, Hari gave Morris a sledgehammer and told him to break a window.  McWhorter then lit the fuse on the pipe bomb and threw it inside.   Morris then threw the gasoline mixture inside, causing an explosion, fire and extensive damage.  No one was injured in the attack, which happened just as morning prayers were about to begin, terrifying members of the local Muslim community.

Hari allegedly picked Dar al-Farooq because it was far enough away from the White Rabbits’ central Illinois hometown that he thought they wouldn’t be suspected. He also allegedly believed it was a focal point for terror recruiting, a claim that law enforcement has not substantiated.    Morris’ attorney, Robert Richman, said Morris merely followed the lead of Hari, a man he’d known as a father figure since he was 9.  “Hari essentially weaponized Joe Morris,” Richman said.

McWhorter and Morris also pleaded guilty to their roles in a failed attack on a Champaign, Illinois, abortion clinic in November 2017. A pipe bomb that Morris said he and Hari threw into the clinic did not explode.  Court documents also state that Hari, McWhorter, Morris and others also participated in an armed home invasion in Ambia, Indiana, and the armed robberies or attempted armed robberies of two Walmart stores in Illinois.  Morris and McWhorter also admitted to attempting to extort Canadian National Railway by threatening to damage tracks if the railroad didn’t pay them money.  Morris and McWhorter could each face at least 35 years in prison.  A fourth man, Ellis Mack of Clarence, already pled guilty to two counts in Illinois and is scheduled to be sentenced in April.

 

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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, January 27th, 2019.

 

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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, January 27th, 2019.

 

In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!        

Congratulations  – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!!   Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, January 27th, 2019 was:

         

BECKY HARTMAN

Davenport,  FL

Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card

 

Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone  or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION.  The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift Card.


Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site.  Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers. 

 

Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:

 

Trivia Last Weeks Winner

 

1/21/19

 

 

Brittany Light

 

Kacie Rogers

 

Jennifer Vega

 

Christina Domingue

 

Jean Simmons Homfeld

 

Holly Cajigas

 

Jodi Stevens

 

Pamela Gonzalez

 

Darlene Whyte

 

Kim Avery

 

Pamela Gonzalez

 

Kristina Harris

 

Diane Hamric

 

Joann Tompkins-Winborn

 

Traci Anderson

 

Sarah Harrison

 

Andrea Ayala

 

Be Schwerin

 

Tina Mimick

 

Nicole Blaha

 

Dale Fish

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Amie-Lee George

 

 

 

 

 

 

1/22/19

 

 

April Ashcraft

 

Sunney Michelle Johnson

 

Darlene Whyte

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Eleazar Ruiz

 

Amber Gildark Lowery

 

Wendi Black

 

Jenny Merritt

 

Crystal Young

 

Derek Jennings

 

John McKnight

 

Be Schwerin

 

Eva Biggs

 

Mya Murphy

 

Joanie Waterman

 

Dawna McKnight

 

Patricia Oehlert Vazquez

 

Samantha Smith

 

Tracy Heyer

 

Aarti DM

 

Christy Marie

 

Emily Rice Bowersock

 

 

 

 

1/23/19

 

 

Derek Jennings

 

Kristina Rosson

 

Karen Brunet Moore

 

Tonya Velazquez

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Eleazar Ruiz

 

Dana Marie Germain

 

Amanda Saltsman

 

Carrie Vucinaj

 

Tanya Holmes

 

Kim Floyd

 

Patricia Oehlert Vazquez

 

April Ashcraft

 

Kathleen Marks

 

Jessica Steiner

 

Jodi Stevens

 

Jennifer Ramlet

 

Amber Gildark Lowery

 

Marilyn Wall

 

Kimberly Snyder

 

 

 

 

 

 

1/24/19

 

 

Kimberly Snyder

 

Ashley Agner

 

Tiffany Greene Elliott

 

Marilyn Wall

 

Brenda Hartwig

 

Sheila Carvell

 

Eleazar Ruiz

 

Christina Radcliff

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Sunney Michelle Johnson

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Dale Fish

 

Kathleen Hickman

 

Rosanne Clark

 

Vickie Gipson

 

Nancy Scharnhorst

 

Kendra George

 

Morgan Alexandra

 

Melissa Mae

 

Pamela Gonzalez

 

 

 

 

1/25/19

 

 

Kimberly Snyder

 

Eleazar Ruiz

 

Alexandria Fields

 

Beth Kumjian

 

Alicia Johnson

 

George Pownall

 

Mya Murphy

 

Deborah Farris

 

Abby Noelle

 

Rosanne Clark

 

Crystal Young

 

Debbie Bloxom

 

Mary Pettiford

 

Diane Hamric

 

Trish Marks

 

Becky Hartman

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Dean Bruss

 

Lori Capobianco

 

Wilma Mast

 

 

 

1/26/19

 

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Samantha Brwn

 

Amy Marie Wilkinson

 

Shona Ort

 

Vickie Gipson

 

Paula M Bondy

 

Tonya Velazquez

 

Amber Jacobs

 

Martha Prescott

 

Kimberly Snyder

 

 

 

 

 

1/27/19

 

 

Kimberly Snyder

 

Annette Broxton

 

Kathleen Hickman

 

Wayne Gallas

 

Nitasha Shank

 

Jeanne Marie Rousseau

 

Summer July

 

Emily Rice Bowersock

 

Ashley Stamey Phillips

 

Jenn Smith Jackson

 

Jillian Dollarhide

 

Sarah Harrison

 

Eleazar Ruiz

 

Maria Bouchard

 

Christina Radcliff

 

Dale Fish

 

Kristina Rosson

 

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Kim Avery

 

Shona Ort

 

 

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Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better. 

Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!

You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!  

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Four Charged With Plotting To Attack Islamic Community In NY

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Three men and a teen were arrested for allegedly plotting to attack Islamberg, a small predominantly Muslim community near Binghamton, New York.  Brian Colaneri, 20, Vincent Vetromile, 19, Andrew Crysel, 18, were arrested along with a 16-year-old in connection to the alleged plot.  The suspects were said to be in possession of multiple improvised explosive devices and firearms, and were charged with criminal possession of a weapon and conspiracy.

Police uncovered the plot when the 16-year-old boy was reported to police in Greece, New York, for  making a lunchroom comment.  He allegedly showed another student a photo of a schoolmate who, he told others, looked “like the next school shooter.”  While interviewing the boy about the comment he made investigators were told that he was allegedly working with three men to attack Islamberg.  Greece Police Chief Patrick D. Phelan said “The initial investigation was about the comment made by the student and then our investigation took us to this plot that we had no idea about.  I don’t know that there was a specific date. They had a plan in place,” Phelan said.

Phelan told reporters that three improvised explosive devices in the shape of mason jars wrapped in duct tape were found at the home of the juvenile.  “They were homemade bombs with various items – black powder, BBs, nails, inside a container,” Phelan said.  The bombs are currently being examined by the FBI to see if they would have been capable of detonating.  Police searched five locations and seized 23 weapons and numerous electronic devices, including phones and computers.   Some of the guns were owned by the suspects and others were owned by family members but the suspects had access to them.

Colaneri, Vetromile and Crysel are each charged with three counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the first degree and one count of conspiracy in the fourth degree. Information about the 16 year old was not released by police due to his age.  Phelan credited the students who reported the lunchroom comment with saving lives.  “If they had carried out this plot, which every indication is that they were going to, people would have died,” the chief said. “I don’t know how many and who, but people would have died.”

Islamberg is a rural community in Delaware County that is operated by The Muslims of America, an indigenous American Muslim organization based in the U.S.  It was settled by followers of Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarik Gilani in the 1970s to escape crime and crowding in New York City.  It’s a gated community with dirt roads and several dozen small homes in New York’s Catskills Mountains.  There are  200 or so members of the community, where children are home-schooled and residents worship at a mosque built on the 70-acre property.   Police and analysts have dismissed accusations that the community is a terrorist training ground, but the claims have persisted for decades.

This is not the first time Islamberg has been the target of an alleged hate crime plot.  In 2017, a Tennessee man was convicted on federal charges for what authorities called plans to burn down Islamberg’s mosque in 2015. Robert Doggart, now 67, is serving a 20 year sentence in federal prison.  Doggart was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in April 2015 after saying in wiretapped telephone calls that he planned to recruit a militia and travel to Islamberg for an attack.  While there, he intended to “carry out an armed attack” that included burning down a mosque or “blowing it up with a Molotov cocktail or other explosive device.” The wiretaps also recorded him saying “I don’t want to have to kill children, but there’s always collateral damage.”

 

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Three Officers Acquitted In Alleged Laquan McDonald Cover-Up

 

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A Chicago judge has acquitted three police officers accused of covering up the 2014 murder of 17 year old Laquan McDonald by a fellow officer Jason Van Dyke.  Van Dyke was convicted in October of the second-degree murder of Laquan McDonald, which was captured on an infamous police dashboard camera video.  McDonald was shot 16 times, including numerous times as he lay wounded in the street.  The three police officers — David March, Joseph Walsh and Thomas Gaffney — contradicted what the video showed and prosecutors alleged it was part of a cover-up.  None of them fired any shots that night. Several other officers had witnessed the shooting and given questionable accounts, but a grand jury declined to indict any others.

The acquittal came despite discrepancies between the three officers’ police reports and dash cam video showing that McDonald posed no threat and walked away from officers before he was shot 16 times by Officer Jason Van Dyke.  Associate Judge Domenica Stephenson rejected the prosecutors’ arguments that the officers had shooed away witnesses and then created a narrative to justify the 2014 shooting, which prompted citywide protests, the firing of the police chief and a wide-ranging federal investigation into the police force.  Prosecutors repeatedly cited the footage as they built a case against the officers on charges of conspiracy, official misconduct and obstruction of justice.

Judge Stephenson said that even though the officers’ accounts of the shooting differed from the video, that it did not amount to proof that they were lying. “Two people with two different vantage points can witness the same event,” she said, and still describe it differently.  The judge said that key witnesses for the prosecution had offered conflicting testimony, and said there was nothing presented at trial that showed that the officers had failed to preserve evidence, as prosecutors allege.  Challenging the point that officers had shooed away a witness as part of a cover-up, the judge said it was not obvious that the police had known the witness had seen the shooting.

The witness in question, Alma Benitez, had stopped for a bite to eat at a nearby Burger King, on her way home from her night shift at a sandwich shop.  Benitez was interviewed by television news crews at the scene and featured in several news reports the next day saying McDonald was clearly not a threat to the officer. She told new crews that Van Dyke had no reason to open fire.  “It was super-exaggerated, you didn’t need that many cops to begin with. They didn’t need to shoot him. They didn’t. They basically had him face to face. There was no purpose why they had to shoot him.”

In a federal lawsuit filed in September 2016, Benitez alleges she had tried to take photos and video of the scene with her cellphone but wasn’t sure the recordings worked.  Once police “became aware” she was trying to record the incident, they demanded she surrender her phone and accompany officers to the detective headquarters, where she was detained and questioned for six hours.  Benitez claims she was allowed to leave the station around 4am, only after she demanded to see a lawyer and that she was “threatened and harassed” on multiple occasions after she was featured in news reports.  The suit accuses several officers and detectives of then writing false reports misstating what Benitez and other witnesses at the scene had told them.

Weeks before the city agreed to pay $5 million to McDonald’s estate, a letter written by lawyers representing McDonald’s family alleged that at least two other witnesses to the shooting were treated in similar fashion.  The letter alleged that all three were questioned for hours at the Area Central police headquarters and pressured into changing their accounts to match the official police version.  The letter also reported that Benitez was so appalled by what she witnessed that she actually screamed out ‘stop shooting!’ as Officer Van Dyke continued to discharge his weapon while Laquan was laid in the street.”

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Kenya Hotel Attack Leaves 21 Dead

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A terrorist attack at a luxury hotel and office complex in the Westlands area of Nairobi, Kenya has left 21 civilians dead and dozens more wounded or missing.  Five attackers were also killed during the siege that began around 3pm on Tuesday, January 15th and ended just before 10am the next day.   More than 700 people were safely evacuated during the attack.  In a statement, the Somalia-based Al-Shabab group claimed the assault was retaliation for President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.  The attack began at a bank inside the compound after a car bomb explosion ripped through three vehicles in the parking lot, followed by a blast from a suicide bomber in the lobby of the seven-story Dusit Hotel.  The explosion triggered vehicles parked nearby to burst into flames. After the blast the remaining terrorists opened fire on guards, forcing them to open the gates of the complex at 14 Riverside Drive.

Kenyan authorities believe there were four to six attackers armed with guns and grenades.  Security camera footage released to local media outlets showed at least four armed men inside the complex as well as footage of the suicide bomber who calmly walked into the lobby and self-detonated a suicide vest.  The coordinated attack lead to a standoff that continued through the night, with people trapped in various parts of the buildings hours later.  The Recce company, the anti-terrorism unit of the Kenya Police, were sent in to combat the militants.  A member of the British SAS and an unspecified number of United States Navy SEALs, who were in the country to conduct training, also took part in the response.  Australian embassy security detail also exchanged fire with the terrorists as they made their way into the complex.

According to Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinett, sixteen Kenyans, one Briton, one American and three unidentified people of African origin are among the dead and twenty-eight others have been hospitalized.  Among the dead was U.S. businessman Jason Spindler, who in 2001 survived the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.  He was co-founder and managing director of I-DEV International, a firm advising on business strategy for emerging markets.  A British man is also among the dead and was later identified by the development organization Gatsby Africa as Luke Potter, head of its forestry and tea portfolio.

A few of the victims identified in the attack were: James Oduor, who worked at one of the offices inside the complex.  Oduor was trapped inside the complex in the hours after the initial blasts and sent out a tweet at 2:05am that read “Waaah. What’s happening at 14 Riverside fam? Any news from out there?”  Another victim, Bernadette Konjalo, worked at the Dusit Hotel, and was shot as she ran away from an armed attacker after helping hotel guests find safety.  Also killed were Kenyan development consultants Feisal Ahmed, 31, and Abdalla Dahir, 33, who worked for Adam Smith International (ASI).  Described as “inseparable buddies’ by friends, the two were killed as they were having lunch at the Secret Garden restaurant in the grounds of the hotel when the suicide bomber struck.  Mr Ahmed’s widow is reportedly seven months pregnant.

After the attack, the militant group Al-Shabab, said “In a response to the witless remarks of US President Donald Trump and his declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” the group targeted “Western and Zionist interests worldwide … in support of our Muslim families in Palestine.”  In 2013, Al-Shabaab militants targeted the luxury shopping center of Westgate, which is 2 miles away from the site of Tuesday’s attack, killing 67 people in a siege that lasted several days. The group also killed nearly 150 people, most of them students, in an attack on Garissa University College in Kenya in April 2015.

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El Chapo Trial Reveals Alleged High Level Corruption

 

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According to witness testimony during the trial of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto once accepted a $100 million bribe from drug traffickers.  Alex Cifuentes, who has described himself as Guzman’s onetime right-hand man, discussed the alleged bribe under cross-examination by one of Guzman’s lawyers in Brooklyn federal court.  Peña Nieto has not responded to the claim but has previously denied charges of corruption.

Cifuentes testified that he had told U.S. prosecutors Pena Nieto reached out to Guzman first, asking for $250 million, before settling on $100 million.  Cifuentes told the prosecutors that the bribe was paid in October 2012, when Pena Nieto was president-elect.  Pena Nieto was president of Mexico from December 2012 until November 2018 and previously served as governor of the State of Mexico.  Cifuentes also testified that Guzman once told him that he had received a message from Pena Nieto saying that he did not have to live in hiding anymore.

Guzman, 61, has been on trial since November after he was extradited to the United States in 2017 to face charges of trafficking cocaine, heroin and other drugs into the country as leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.  El Chapo had eluded capture for years, in part by widespread corruption along with elaborate means of escape from authorities.   He once narrowly escaped a raid at a safe house through a staircase that led to underground tunnels which was hidden under a bathtub.  He was captured by Pena Nieto’s government in February 2014 but broke out of prison for a second time 17 months later, escaping through a mile-long tunnel dug right into in his cell.  The jailbreak humiliated the government and damaged the president’s already questionable credibility.  Pena Nieto personally announced news of the kingpin’s third capture when he was again arrested in northwestern Mexico in January 2016.

Cifuentes is one of many witnesses who have testified against Guzman so far after striking deals with U.S. prosecutors, in a trial that has opened a window into the secretive world of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world’s most powerful drug trafficking organization.  Many witnesses at the trial have also made accusations of high-level corruption.  Much of the evidence against Guzman has come from the prosecution’s star witness, Jesús Zambada.  Zambada testified that the Sinaloa cartel allegedly paid off a host of top Mexican officials to ensure their drug business ran smoothly.  He testified that in 1994, traffickers paid $50 million in protection money to former Mexican Secretary of Public Security García Luna, so that corrupt officers would be appointed to head police operations.  Zambada said that when former Mexico City Mayor Gabriel Regino was in line to become the next secretary of security, that the the cartel bribed him as well.  Both Garcia Luna and Gabriel Regina deny the accusations.  Zambada has also testified that paid a multimillion dollar bribe to an aide of current Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in 2005.

Edgar Galvan testified in that trusted hitman Antonio “Jaguar” Marrufo had a sound-proofed “murder room” in his mansion on the US border, which featured white tiles with a drain on the floor to more easily clean up after slayings.  Galvan’s role in the organization was to smuggle weapons into the US, so that Marrufo could use them to “clear” the region of rivals.  At the time, Galvan was living in El Paso, Texas, while Marrufo was living in Ciudad Juarez, just across the US-Mexico border.  Both men are now in jail on firearms and gun charges.

 

 

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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, January 20th, 2019.

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 Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, January 20th, 2019:

 

In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!        

Congratulations  – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!!   Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, January 20th, 2019 was:

         

KENDRA GEORGE

No. Miami Beach,  FL

Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card

 

Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone  or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION.  The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift Card.


Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site.  Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers. 

 

Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:

 

 

Trivia Last Weeks Winner

 

 

 

1/14/19     

     

 

Nicole Blaha

 

Tina Herrin

 

Sheila Carvell

 

Tabitha Sinks

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Christy Hawkes

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Amanda Saltsman

 

Marcy Coull

 

Tina Auth

 

Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett

 

Michelle Webb

 

Tonay Velazquez

 

Renee Klumb Brandt

 

Johanna Landsaw-Davis

 

Darlene Whyte

 

Betsy Brandon Riddle Smith

 

Hunter Coffey

 

Dean Bruss

 

Beth Kumjian

 

Karen Brunet Moore

 

 

 

1/15/19

 

 

Sarah Harrison

 

Sunney Michelle Johnson

 

Kendra George

 

Jennifer Ramlet

 

Tanya Holmes

 

Amy Marie Wilkinson

 

Jodi Stevens

 

Jessica Ownby

 

Kim Avery

 

Angela Janisse

 

Carol Jean

 

Eleazar Ruiz

 

Nikki Hunsaker

 

Edward John

 

Tina Mimick

 

Joanie Waterman

 

Christy Hawkes

 

Kimberly Taylor Hall

 

Amber Gildark Lowery

 

Eva Biggs

 

Christy Marie

 

Trish Hysell

 

 

 

1/16/19

 

 

Jennifer Ramlet

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Tonya Velazquez

 

Jennifer Vega

 

Christy Hawkes

 

Traci Anderson

 

Alexis Maureen

 

Deborah Farris

 

Patricia Goodman

 

Karen Brunet Moore

 

Kristina Rosson

 

Mikey Mellor

 

Carole Jacobs

 

Geri Rus

 

Angela Janisse

 

Marilyn Wall

 

George Pownall

 

Sunney Michelle Johnson

 

Lisa Puckett

 

Rosanne Clark

 

Sarah Bellestri Shih

 

Stacy Nelson

 

 

 

 

1/17/19

 

 

Christy Hawkes

 

Sunney Michelle Johnson

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Kathleen Marks

 

Joanie Waterman

 

Brittany Light

 

Kelsey Polacek

 

Kendra George

 

Patricia Oehlert Vazquez

 

Angela Janisse

 

Lisa Puckett

 

Beth Kumjian

 

Melissa Mae

 

Karen Goodwin Delaney

 

Traci Anderson

 

Nancy Pfirrman Schools

 

Priscilla Shimp

 

Diane Hamric

 

Christy Keen

 

Jenifer Garza

 

LaKishia Wagers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1/18/19

 

 

Samantha Smith

 

Amanda Nicole Young

 

Eva Biggs

 

Angela Janisse

 

Karen Brunet Moore

 

Kayla Hernandez

 

Tanya Holmes

 

Nancy Pfirrman Schools

 

Be Schwerin

 

Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett

 

Becky Hartman

 

Kimberly Taylor Hall

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Michelle Webb

 

Sarah Harrison

 

Jamie Aderhold

 

Kim Avery

 

Mike Adamski

 

Amber Critchley

 

Christy George

 

 

 

 

1/19/19

 

 

Ashley Agner

 

Lisa Puckett

 

Eve Marie Dutkiewicz

 

Jennifer Lee Nalley

 

Christy Hawkes

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Brandy Williams

 

Sarah Harrison

 

Jenn Smith Jackson

 

Jennifer Ramlet

 

Michael Ingelido

 

Derek Michelle Polk

 

Tracey Shafer

 

George Pownall

 

Jodi Ann Ratliff

 

Christina Montes

 

Rosanne Clark

 

Wayne Gallas

 

Kacie Rogers

 

Marcy Coull

 

Josephine Casey

 

Marilyn Wall

 

Nicole Blaha

 

 

 

 

1/20/19

 

 

Brandi K Chaney

 

Brandy Williams

 

Priscilla Shimp

 

Tracy Heyer

 

Karen Brunet Moore

 

Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis

 

Kimberly Snyder

 

Dean Bruss

 

Kim Avery

 

Karen Bondehagen

 

Amanda Sue

 

Sunney Michelle Johnson

 

Be Schwerin

 

Kendra George

 

Nicole Blaha

 

Holly Cajigas

 

Kimberly Taylor Hall

 

Sarah Harrison

 

Ashley Stamey Phillips

 

Alexis Maureen

 

 

 

 

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Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!

Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better. 

Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!

You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!  

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