Accused NSA whistleblower Reality Winner has pled guilty to retaining and transmitting a document to a news organization after reaching a deal with the U.S. government to serve a 5-year prison sentence. Winner had faced up to 10 years in prison on charges she violated the Espionage Act by leaking a top-secret document to The Intercept about Russian interference in the 2016 election. She’s been imprisoned for the last year at the Lincoln County Jail in Georgia.
Winner, a former Air Force linguist, was arrested last June and accused of sharing a classified report about Russian interference in the 2016 election with the news media. Ms. Winner, who was honorably discharged from the Air Force in 2016, was working as a contractor for the National Security Agency when she obtained a copy of a report that described hacks by a Russian intelligence service against local election officials and a company that sold software related to voter registration.
The Intercept, an online news outlet that a prosecutor said Ms. Winner admired, published a copy of the top secret report shortly before Ms. Winner’s arrest was made public. The report described two cyberattacks by Russia’s military intelligence unit, the G.R.U. — one in August against a company that sells voter-registration-related software and another, a few days before the election, against 122 local election officials.
An F.B.I. affidavit made public after her arrest last year said there was a visible crease mark on the file, a scan of which The Intercept had provided to the government while trying to authenticate it. That prompted investigators to surmise it was a printout. Audit trails showed six people had printed copies, but only one — Ms. Winner — had used a work computer to send emails to The Intercept.
A search warrant application said she had found the report by plugging keywords into the N.S.A.’s system that fell outside her normal work duties. Computer security experts noted that the printer appeared to leave barely visible microdots on the printout identifying the serial number of the printer and the date and time of the printing: 6:20 a.m. on May 9, 2017.
The Justice Department prosecuted Ms. Winner under the Espionage Act, a World War I-era law that criminalizes the unauthorized disclosure of national-security secrets that could be used to harm the United States or aid a foreign adversary. Her decision to plead guilty to one felony count allows the government to avoid a complex trial that had been scheduled for October.
Winner is the second person known to have reached a plea agreement in a leak prosecution case under the current administration. Former F.B.I. agent, Terry J. Albury, pled guilty in April, but prosecutors in that case have hinted that they will ask that he serve 46 to 57 months in prison. The Justice Department has recently filed charges in at least two other leak-related cases. James Wolfe, a former Senate Intelligence Committee staff member, was arrested and charged with lying to the F.B.I. about his contacts with reporters, including a Times reporter with whom he had a personal relationship and whose phone records the department secretly seized, during a leak investigation. In another case, Joshua A. Schulte, a former C.I.A. software engineer, was charged with violating the Espionage Act and other laws based on accusations that he sent a stolen archive of documents and electronic tools related to the agency’s hacking operations to WikiLeaks, which called them the Vault 7 leak.
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In Annapolis, Maryland, five people were left dead and two others injured after a gunman armed with a shotgun and smoke grenades stormed the newsroom of the Capital Gazette newspaper on the afternoon of June 28th. The suspect, Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, was taken into custody at the scene and was charged on Friday morning with five counts of first-degree murder. Police say Ramos refused to cooperate with the authorities or provide his name and was identified using facial recognition technology.
The attack was covered in real time by some of the journalists who found themselves under siege. A message saying “please help us” with the address of the office building was tweeted from the account of Anthony Messenger, a summer intern. A crime reporter, Phil Davis, described how the gunman “shot through the glass door to the office” before opening fire on employees. “There is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you’re under your desk and then hear the gunman reload,” Mr. Davis wrote.
Davis said during a phone interview that the gunman was silent as he stalked the newsroom, stopping once to reload as journalists huddled in fear under their desks. Once the police arrived, staff members put their hands in the air and shouted, “We’re not him,” Mr. Davis recalled. The gunman was hiding under a desk as the police moved in. He did not exchange gunfire with officers when he was taken in.
Police say Ramos had a long history of conflict with the Capital Gazette, which produces a number of local newspapers along Maryland’s shore, suing journalists there for defamation and waging a social media campaign against them. “This was a targeted attack on the Capital Gazette,” said William Krampf, acting chief of the Anne Arundel County Police Department. “This person was prepared to shoot people. His intent was to cause harm.”
In July 2012, Mr. Ramos filed a defamation lawsuit in Maryland’s Prince George’s County Circuit Court against Capital Gazette Communications, its then editor and publisher and a former reporter, claiming that his reputation had been damaged after the newspaper published a story in 2011 about Mr. Ramos’s guilty plea in a harassment case. Three months later, he filed a fuller complaint alleging invasion of privacy. The lawsuit was later dismissed by Judge Maureen M. Lamasney after a March 2013 hearing, in which Mr. Ramos, who represented himself, was unable to identify anything that was falsely reported in the July 2011 article nor could he cite examples about how he had been harmed. According to the appellate decision that later affirmed the dismissal, Ramos showed no understanding of defamation law.
During a press conference, Acting Deputy Chief William Krampf told reportrs that the suspect had made violent threats against the paper and the paper had been threatened the day of the shooting. Krampf could not specifically confirm what the threats entailed or if the shooter targeted anyone specifically but did say the shooting was a targeted attack. Those killed in the shooting were identified as longtime editor and columnist Rob Hiaasen, editorial page editor Gerald Fischman, columnist and editor John McNamara, sales assistant Rebecca Smith and editor and community reporter Wendi Winters.
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Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of Antwon Rose, a 17-year-old unarmed African-American high school senior who was shot and killed on June 19th by an East Pittsburgh police officer. Rose was shot in the back as he was trying to flee a traffic stop by Police Officer Michael Rosfeld. Officer Rosfeld came upon Antwon and another teenager, Zaijuan Hester, when he stopped a car they were riding in that had been seen leaving a drive-by shooting in the nearby town of North Braddock. Zaijuan, 17, was charged in connection with that shooting.
Prosecutors in Pennsylvania have charged Officer Michael Rosfeld with criminal homicide for the fatal shooting. The charge against Officer Rosfeld capped days of protests in the Pittsburgh area, and came two days after the funeral for Antwon at Woodland Hills Intermediate School, in Swissvale, Pa., where he was a rising senior. Allegheny County district attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr., said that Officer Rosfeld had failed basic police procedures in the moments before Antwon was shot, gave statements to investigators that were contradicted by witnesses and had a troubling employment history with other police departments. Zappala said he’d ask a jury to consider first-degree murder charges against Rosfeld, though the charge of criminal homicide opens the door for a possible conviction on lesser charges—including involuntary manslaughter. Rosfeld surrendered to authorities and was released after posting $250,000 bail.
Officer Rosfeld pulled over the Chevrolet Cruze that matched the description of a vehicle seen near an earlier drive-by shooting in North Braddock, in which a 22-year-old man was struck in the abdomen. Without waiting for backup, Officer Rosfeld approached the driver’s side of the car and had the driver step out. As he was placing the driver in handcuffs, Antwon, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, and Zaijuan, who was in the back seat, jumped out. Witnesses said Antwon flashed his hands in the air, showing that they were empty, and then turned to run away.
A video of the encounter posted on Facebook shows the teenagers running from police vehicles as three shots are fired, and Antwon falling to the ground. Witnesses told the police that they heard Officer Rosfeld fire three shots — all of which hit Antwon. One struck the right side of his face, another hit his right elbow and a third, which was the fatal wound, hit his back and then struck a lung and his heart, an autopsy found.
Officer Rosfeld initially told investigators that Antwon had turned his hand toward him and was holding “something dark,” and that he thought it was a gun. Yet when he was asked again about what had transpired, Officer Rosfeld said he did not see a gun. According to the criminal complaint, “When confronted with this inconsistency, Rosfeld stated he saw something in the passenger’s hand but was not sure what it was.” “Officer Rosfeld stated that he was not certain if the individual who had his arm pointed at him was still pointing at him when he fired.”
An empty 9 millimeter magazine, which fit into a 9 millimeter pistol recovered under the car’s front passenger seat, was found in Antwon’s front right pocket. The pistol had been reported missing in Monroeville, Pa., that same day.
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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, July 1st, 2018 was:
HUNTER COFFEYHUNTER COFFEY
Salton City, CA
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” on 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:
6/25/18
Jill Nauyokas
Beth Embrey
Alisa Jones
Toi Minnifield
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Cassandra Berholtz
Beth Meemo
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Cyndi Jansheski
Brandi Kerr
Penny Fisher
Sheila Carvell
Sajida Hasham Salemohamed
Jodi Stevens
Marilyn Wall
Kellina Fernell Murphy
Ashley Agner
Trish Musgrave
Jenn Anthony
Tanya Holmes
6/26/18
Nacole Patrick
Ashley Agner
Jennifer Ramlet
Jenifer Garza
Priscilla Shimp
Jodi Stevens
Sheila Carvell
Brooke Scott
Brandy Marie Williams
Brandi Kerr
Ally Martiz
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Kathleen Marks
Bea Patrick
Alexandria Fields
Edward John
Tom Cavalli
April Ashcraft
Jennifer Cameron
Naomi Whitlatch
6/27/18
Kristina Rosson
Jenifer Garza
Amanda Rosario
Tonya Velazquez
Ashley Agner
Tanya Holmes
Mary Mcmenamy
Naomi Whitlatch
Lauren Bradley
Sherri McQueen Gilstrap
Priscilla Shimp
Debbie Smith
Hunter Coffey
Audessa Vaught
Althea Thomas
Wilma Mast
Diane Hamric
Andrea Workman
Morgan Fam
Karen Bondehagen
6/28/18
Brittany Light
Marcy Coull
Samantha Brwn
Jenifer Garza
Kacie Rogers
Kelly Jo Francisco
Morgan Fam
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Ang Richards
Brooke Scott
Michelle Tyler Jeske
Jill Nauyokas
Jennifer Lee Clack
Dawn Raasch
Dustin Lawson
Andrea Workman
Trish Musgrave
Sherri Kidwell
Britta Brown Lawson
Karen Brunet Moore
Brandi K Chaney
Traci Anderson
Kim Avery
Dale Fish
April Ashcraft
Sandy K High
6/29/18
Anggie Marie
Brittany Light
Jenifer Garza
Jill Nauyokas
Tracey Smith
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Trish Musgrave
Tonya Velazquez
Kayla Clemons
Michelle Webb
Bre Kershaw
June Rivera
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Angela Janise
Diane Hamric
Nicole Blaha
Jennifer Cameron
Vinessa Vasquez
Annette Broxton
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
6/30/18
Trish Musgrave
Jill Nauyokas
Mary Mcmenamy
Deborah Farris
Lenis Abshire
Trish Hysell
Morgan Fam
Chrissy Kim
April Denise Council-Redmond
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Kacie Rogers
Tonya Velazquez
Nicole Blaha
Jenifer Garza
Kim Avery
Diane Hamric
Jessica Miller
Tina Herrin
Mya Murphy
Debbie Gremlin
7/1/18
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Jill Nauyokas
Trish Hysell
Heather Marocco
Amber Chandler
Kathleen Hickman
Summer July
April Ashcraft
Sheri Boydston
Pheobe Gerou
Karen Rimiller Presley
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Jennifer Kinner
Christy Martinez
Hunter Coffey
Brittany Light
Ashley Agner
Lenis Abshire
Brandi K Chaney
Alexis Maureen
Amy Marie Wilkinson
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Nationwide outrage and protests has grown over the practice of forcibly separating immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, in violation of international human rights law. At least 3,700 immigrant children have been separated from their parents since October and Border Patrol says it has separated more than 2,300 kids since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a “zero tolerance” policy in April. The separated children have been sent to detention facilities in at least 17 states.
It had long been a misdemeanor federal offense to be caught illegally entering the US, punishable by up to six months in prison. However, the administration didn’t always refer everyone caught for prosecution. Those apprehended were swiftly put into immigration proceedings and unless they met the threshold to pursue a valid asylum claim, were quickly deported from the country. The “zero tolerance” policy plan makes no special arrangements for those who claim asylum when apprehended and refers all apprehended for prosecution-thus the increase in family separations. While they will be allowed to pursue their claims and could eventually be found to have a legitimate right to live in the US, they could still already have a conviction for illegal entry.
Outrage grew as images of immigrant children housed in chain-linked cages covered with foil blankets circulated through social media and news outlets. Investigative news source ProPublica obtained audio of children desperately crying for their parents at an immigrant detention facility. ProPublica: “The desperate sobbing of 10 Central American children, separated from their parents one day last week by immigration authorities at the border, makes for excruciating listening. Many of them sound like they’re crying so hard, they can barely breathe. They scream ‘Mami’ and ‘Papá’ over and over again, as if those are the only words they know.” The audio can be hard to listen to for many and sparked mass outrage from both sides of the political parties.
Governors of eight states—Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia, Rhode Island, Colorado, New York, North Carolina and Connecticut—said they would either withhold or recall their National Guard troops from the border, in protest of the practice of separating children. The resources in question from each state are relatively small, so the actions a more of a strong symbolic political gesture.
American Airlines and United Airlines have asked the administration to stop transporting immigrant children who have been separated from their families aboard their companies’ planes. American Airlines said in a statement, “We have no desire to be associated with separating families, or worse, to profit from it.” United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz said, “Our Company’s shared purpose is to connect people and unite the world. This policy and its impact on thousands of children is in deep conflict with that mission and we want no part of it.”
On Wednesday, the US President signed an executive order claiming to end the separation of children from their parents at the border, by detaining them together while their legal cases go through the courts. The order does not say where the families will be detained or whether children will continue to be separated from their parents until the facilities are ready. Critics warn the order will lead to the indefinite detention of entire families. The order has not outlined any plans for reuniting children already separated from their families.
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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, June 24th, 2018 was:
DAWN RAASCH
Allen Park, MI
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” on 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:
6/18/18
Jill Nauyokas
Sherri Kidwell
Tonya Velazquez
Christine Le
Amber Chandler
Heather Marocco
Murphy Mya
Priscilla Shimp
Karyn Koehler
Jennifer Lee Clack
Nicole Blaha
Don Redfield Jr.
Helen Saez Deverter
Sarah Harrison
Tanya Holmes
Ashley Agner
Georgiann D’Angelo
Dawn Raasch
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Jade Good
Kathleen Hickman
Sarah Frank
6/19/18
Dale Fish
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Brittany Light
Melissa Maestas
Jennifer Lee Clack
Marie Beauregard
Andrea Workman
Tina Mimick
Jane Peterson
Nelle Bailey
Mike Adamski
Mikey Mellor
Tonya Velazquez
Trish Musgrave
Marisela Zuniga
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Chrissy Kim
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Darlene Whyte
Sherry Lilly
Trish Hysell
Suzie Mize Lockhart
6/20/18
Gina Taylor
Angela Janisse
Naomi Whitlatch
Be Schwerin
Preeti Chand
Alexandra Vindiola
Susanne Killion
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Angel Shearl
Eleazar Ruiz
Alisa Jones
Johanna Landsaw-Davis
Brandi K Chaney
Sherri Kidwell
Annette Broxton
Jenn Smith Jackson
Priscilla Shimp
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Trish Musgrave
Dawn Raasch
6/21/18
Kathleen Marks
Eleazar Ruiz
Jill Nauyokas
Nicole Blaha
Misty Shallcross
Brandi K Chaney
Theresa Sigourney
Jade Good
Beth Embrey
Melissa White
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Jenifer Garza
Marilyn Wall
Trish Musgrave
Wendi Black
Russell Stuessy
Deborah Farris
Jane Peterson
Alyssa DiFazio
Jennifer Cameron
Diane Hamric
Kristina Harris
Murphy Mya
6/22/18
Kathleen Marks
Brittany Whitley
Lia Bonita
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Dale Fish
Lori Capobianco
Diane Hamric
Jennifer Lee Clack
Marcy Coull
Jill Nauyokas
Heather Way
Sarah Harrison
Sherri Kidwell
Nicole Rea
Morgan Fam
Hunter Coffey
Jennifer Kinner
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Kelsey Polacek
Nancy Pfirrman Schools
Michelle Tyler Jeske
Karron Redfield
Dean Bruss
6/23/18
Eleazar Ruiz
Joanie Waterman
Wilma Mast
Nicole Blaha
Sarah Haught
Jen Freese
Mary Achio
Jenifer Garza
Kiki Roberson
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Jean Simmons Homfeld
Michelle Webb
Mary Ann Cody
Nacole Patrick
Sheila Vives
Bea Patrick
April Ashcraft
Amber Chandler
Christy Martinez
Melissa White
6/24/18
Tabitha Sinks
Tracy Shafer
Jill Nauyokas
Nikki Hunsaker
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Cyndi Jansheski
Nancy Pfirrman Schools
Amanda Rosario
Melissa White
Vickie Gipson
Eleazar Ruiz
Sarah Harrison
Kathleen Hickman
Felicia Block
Angela Janisse
Angel Shearl
Hunter Coffey
Jennifer Marie
Alicia Dansby
Carole Jacobs
Jenifer Garza
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Massachusetts has filed a lawsuit against 16 top executives of Purdue Pharma, the maker of the popular drug OxyContin, claiming they misled doctors, patients and the public about the dangers posed by the opioid-based painkiller. Attorney General Maura Healey said “Their strategy was simple: The more drugs they sold, the more money they made—and the more people died. We found that Purdue engaged in a multibillion-dollar enterprise to mislead us about their drugs. Purdue pushed prescribers to give higher doses to keep patients on drugs for longer periods of time, without regard to the very real increased risk of addiction, overdose and death.” Texas, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota and Tennessee have filed similar lawsuits in state courts against the drug maker, whose headquarters are in Stamford, Connecticut.
The Texas’ lawsuit accuses Purdue Pharma, the privately held manufacterer of OxyContin, of violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by aggressively selling its products “when it knew their drugs were potentially dangerous and that its use had a high likelihood of leading to addiction,” state Attorney General Ken Paxton said. “As Purdue got rich from sales of its opioids, Texans and others across the nation were swept up in a public health crisis that led to tens of thousands of deaths each year due to opioid overdoses,” Paxton said.
State officials in Arizona, Alabama, Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and West Virginia, — sued various pain-killer manufacturers and distributors for their roles in helping the opioid epidemic grow. In 2007, Purdue Pharma did not admit wrongdoing when it paid $19.5 million to settle lawsuits with 26 states and the District of Columbia after being accused of aggressively marketing OxyContin to doctors while downplaying the risk of addiction. Nevada, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas were part of that agreement while Florida and North Dakota were not.
Opioids were the cause of nearly 42,250 deaths in 2016, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Research suggests that since heroin and opioid painkillers, (including prescription ones) act similarly in the brain. Opioid painkillers are often referred to by some doctors as “heroin lite” and taking one (even “as directed”) can increase one’s susceptibility to becoming hooked on the other. Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50, with opioids as the number-one driver.
Deaths from opioids (including fentynals) have been rising sharply for years with an estimated 100 drug overdoses a day across the country. Experts say the epidemic could kill nearly half a million people across America over the next decade as the crisis of addiction and overdose accelerates.
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The off-duty FBI agent who accidentally shot a man while doing a back flip on the dance floor of a Denver bar has been charged. Chase Bishop, 29, whose gun went flying out of his holster at Mile High Spirits bar in Denver, was charged with second-degree assault. The incident was captured in a viral video with many outraged that he had not been charged by the Denver Police. Police had initially released Bishop to an FBI supervisor while awaiting toxicology results before deciding whether to charge him.
A spokeswoman for the Denver District Attorney’s Office said Bishop turned himself in after a warrant for his arrest was issued on Tuesday. He was being held in Downtown Detention Center in Denver but jail records say Bishop posted a $1000 bond and was released. Additional charges could be filed based on the results of a blood alcohol content test, which has not yet been received, authorities have said. Denver District Attorney Beth McCann said the assault charge was filed before that report comes back “because sufficient evidence has been presented to file it. If an additional charge needs to be filed after further evidence is received, we can file those charges then.” Results from the BAC test are expected within a week.
The incident happened at 12:45am on June 2. Bishop’s gun discharged and struck fellow patron Tom Reddington in the leg. Bishop immediately picked up the weapon but accidentally squeezed off a single round. He then placed the gun in his waistband and walked off the dance floor with his hands in the air, the video shows. Reddington said “We sat down at one of those picnic tables — I heard a loud bang and I thought some idiot set off a firecracker. Then I looked down at my leg and see some brown residue… All of a sudden from the knee down it became completely red. Then it clicked that I’ve been shot.” Reddington told “Good Morning America” that he asked for someone to call 911 before blacking out. A security guard and fellow club-goers applied a tourniquet to his leg. “I soaked through several blankets, several towels, a few gauze pads,” Reddington said. Reddington is expected to fully recover.
Though Bishop offered no assistance to Reddington on the night of the shooting, his attorney said his client would like to meet with the man who was injured and is praying for his recovery. Attorney David Goddard asked that Bishop be allowed to travel because he lives and works in Washington, D.C. Prosecutors did not object, and Denver County Court Judge Andrea Eddy gave Bishop permission to travel. Chase Bishop, 29, made his first appearance in a Denver courtroomon Wednesday, where a judge issued a standard protection order stating that he must have zero contact and stay at least 100 yards away from the victim, Tom Reddington.
Bishop did not enter a plea and declined to answer any questions as he left the courthouse. The FBI field office in Denver declined to comment on the incident “to preserve the integrity of the ongoing investigation,” said Amy Sanders, a spokeswoman. Sanders said the field office would fully cooperate with Denver police and prosecutors “as this matter proceeds through the judicial process.”
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Aaron Persky, the California judge who drew national attention in 2016 when he sentenced Stanford student Brock Turner to just six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, was recalled on Tuesday. He is the first judge recalled in California in more than 80 years. Almost 60% of voters were in favor of removing Judge Persky from the Santa Clara County Superior Court, where he had served since 2003. Prosecutor Cindy Hendrickson was elected to replace him.
The recall stemmed from the case of Brock Turner, who was caught sexually assaulting a woman near a dumpster in 2015 after she had blacked out from drinking. In 2016, a jury found the 20 year old Stanford swimmer guilty on all three felony charges against him: sexual penetration with a foreign object of an intoxicated person, sexual penetration with a foreign object of an unconscious person, and intent to commit rape.
The maximum sentence in Turner’s case was 14 years but Judge Persky had sentenced him to six months. During sentencing Judge Persky said he thought Mr. Turner would “not be a danger to others” and expressed concern that “a prison sentence would have a severe impact” on him. His decision along with the fact that he did not mention the impact of the assault on the victim, outraged victims’ advocates nationally.
Turner served only three months before being released in September 2016. He also received three years of probation and was required to register as a sex offender. Stanford forced him to withdraw and barred him from campus. His victim, known publicly only as Emily Doe, described her suffering in a more than 7,000-word statement that went viral soon after it was published. The sentence and resulting backlash, prompted California lawmakers to change the law. Within four months, they enacted mandatory minimum sentences in sexual assault cases and closed a loophole in which penetrative sexual assault could be punished less harshly if the victim was too intoxicated to physically resist.
Talk of a recall campaign began immediately after he handed down his sentence. The recall campaign was led by Ms. Dauber, whose daughter is friends with Emily Doe — had collected enough signatures to put the question on the ballot. In a statement, Judge Persky said he had a legal and professional responsibility to consider alternatives to imprisonment for first-time offenders. LaDoris Cordell, a retired judge and a spokeswoman for Judge Persky, called the recall an attack on judicial independence and said it had “encouraged people to think of judges as no more than politicians.”
Among the effort’s most prominent backers were Anita Hill and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. Ms. Dauber said the results “demonstrated that violence against women is a voting issue,” and that “if candidates want the votes of progressive Democratic women, they will have to take this issue seriously.”
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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, June 17th, 2018 was:
MARY MURPHY
Aurora, 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” on 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:
6/11/18
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Anggie Marie
Amy Chavis
Kathleen Marks
Jill Nauyokas
Misty Shallcross
Wendi Black
Jennifer Ramlet
Tracey Smith
Chuck Derr
Brittany Light
Cheyenne Shaw
Dawn Raasch
Mary Murphy
Marilyn Wall
April Ashcraft
Kiki Roberson
Dawna McKnight
Diane Hamric
Kelsey McKnight
6/12/18
Kathleen Marks
Sarah Harrison
Kendra George
Christy Hawkes
Chris Maxwell
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Tonya Velazquez
Pheobe Gerou
Ashley Agner
Wendi Black
Sheri Boydston
Kim Floyd
Brandi K Chaney
Tabitha Sinks
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Murphy Mya
Karen Bondehagen
Jenn Smith Jackson
Jennifer Cameron
Jill Nauyokas
Wilma Mast
Jazmine Nichole
6/13/18
Brittany Light
Marilyn Wall
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Kim Avery
Amber McGrath
Dale Fish
Brandi K Chaney
Jill Nauyokas
Priscilla Shimp
Preeti Chand
Alisa Jones
Georgiann D’Angelo
Chris Maxwell
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Crystal Young
Darlene Whyte
Sarah Harrison
Amy Conyers
Susan Clarke Jette
Michelle Webb
Eleazar Ruiz
Dawn Raasch
6/14/18
Wilma Mast
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Tabitha Sinks
Jenifer Garza
Nacole Patrick
Trish Musgrave
Jade Good
Trish Marks
Alicia Dansby
Jill Nauyokas
Christina Domingue
Bea Patrick
Mary Ann Cody
Stacy Lynn Nelson
Tonya Velazquez
Kristina Harris
Chrissy Kim
Brooke Scott
Kiki Roberson
Kimberly Snyder
6/15/18
Kathleen Marks
Amanda Peters
Pheobe Gerou
Jenn Anthony
Jenifer Garza
Nicole Blaha
Kendra George
Trish Hysell
Mary Ann Cody
Tabitha Sinks
Dawn Raasch
Kiki Roberson
Christina Montes
Becky Holland
Vinessa Vaquez
Christy Martinez
Mary Achio
Mary Murphy
Nai Merri
Bea Patrick
Joan Tompkins-Winborn
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Murphy Mya
6/16/18
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Brittany Light
Jill Nauyokas
Amber McGrath
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Jennifer Alice Duran
Jenifer Garza
Beth Embrey
Murphy Mya
Betsy Brandon Riddle Smith
Jennifer Marie
Sheila Carvell
Jennifer Leffler
Alexandra Vindiola
Amber Chandler
Lauren Bradley
Chrissy Kim
Deborah Farris
Maria Bouchard
Lenis Abshire
Mary Achio
Kristina Rosson
Christy Martinez
Becky Holland
April Ashcraft
6/17/18
Priscilla Shimp
Jennifer Ramlet
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Marilyn Wall
Kimberly Snyder
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Isis Sample
Sheila Carvell
Alexandra Vindiola
Amanda Brewer
Harley Magoon
Stella Methvin
Kathleen Hickman
Andrew W Sauer
Amber Chandler
Dale Fish
Jill Nauyokas
Mary Mcmenamy
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Mary Pettiford
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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