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RE: Noteworthy News
June 27, 2024 at 6:44 pm
(June 27, 2024 at 5:43 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Five Charged in the Case of a Juror and a Gift Bag Stuffed With $120,000
Quote:Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged five people with conspiring to bribe a juror in a high-profile federal trial in Minneapolis. The charges described a brazen plot that included extensive surveillance of the juror and talking points drafted to help her argue for an acquittal.
The attempted bribe took place early this month on the eve of the final day of a weekslong trial, prosecutors said, the first in what they have described as a far-reaching fraud scheme.
Prosecutors have charged 70 people in the case with stealing tens of millions of dollars from a federal food-aid program meant to feed hungry children, taking advantage of lax oversight during the Covid-19 pandemic.
What they described as the attempted bribe imperiled the first trial in the case, which involved seven defendants. The jury this month convicted five of them of felonies including wire fraud and money laundering. Two were acquitted.
Three of the people charged Wednesday with attempted bribery were defendants in the trial. Two of them — Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, 35, of Savage Minn., and Abdimajid Mohamed Nur, 23, of Shakopee, Minn. — were among those convicted. A third defendant charged in the bribery scheme — Said Shafii Farah, 42, of Minneapolis — was acquitted at trial.
According to prosecutors, the defendants — who were all Somali immigrants — selected the juror who received the cash because she was the sole person of color on the jury. They sought to persuade her that the government was motivated by animus toward immigrants, according to talking points they hoped the juror would use in deliberations. “We are immigrants: they don’t respect and care about us,” the talking points said. It concluded by saying: “You alone can end this case.”
Time for deportation, methinks.
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RE: Noteworthy News
June 27, 2024 at 8:23 pm
^ They got the money from their Nigerian Prince uncle.
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RE: Noteworthy News
July 1, 2024 at 10:30 am
China is working on a robot guide deg for the visually impaired.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthc...024-07-01/
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RE: Noteworthy News
July 1, 2024 at 10:35 am
(July 1, 2024 at 10:30 am)brewer Wrote: China is working on a robot guide deg for the visually impaired.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthc...024-07-01/
Only because they turned down my idea for a robot velociraptor for the slow...
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RE: Noteworthy News
July 1, 2024 at 7:01 pm
(July 1, 2024 at 10:30 am)brewer Wrote: China is working on a robot guide deg for the visually impaired.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthc...024-07-01/
What's 'Murica working on? Getting Trump reelected.
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RE: Noteworthy News
July 7, 2024 at 12:53 am
Nazis marched through downtown Nashville today while shouting “reclaim America.” Make no mistake about it: if Trump wins in November, they'll be everywhere
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Noteworthy News
July 7, 2024 at 9:10 am
Only criminals need to hide their identity.
Well, I guess the exception would be superheros and the face of god(s).
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