Monthly Archives: September 2013

Officer receives 14-month sentence for excessive force, falsifying report

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“Cossette was convicted by a federal jury in June during a trial that included police surveillance videotape of Cossette pushing a handcuffed Temich backwards in a holding cell. The push caused Temich to strike his head on a concrete bench and lose consciousness. Temich suffered a serious gash to the back of his head that required 12 stitches. The FBI began its investigation when former officer Brian Sullivan and officer Donald Huston complained to City Manager Lawrence Kendzior that Cossette had a pattern of using excessive force on prisoners but was getting favorable treatment because he was the chief’s son.”

http://www.myrecordjournal.com/meriden/meridennews/2451013-129/former-meriden-cop-receives-to-14-month-sentence-in-brutali-new.html

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Wife of Belleville man shot 24 times by police files wrongful death claim

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“The wife of a Belleville man who was shot two dozen times by police and killed in his family’s apartment after a domestic dispute in July plans to file a multimillion-dollar wrongful death suit against the town’s police department, according to court papers.  Belleville police used excessive force and violated Dante Cespedes’ civil rights when they opened fire inside the family’s apartment on July 9, according to a notice of claim filed in Superior Court in Newark last week.  Prosecutors have said Cespedes lunged at the officers with knives.”

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2013/09/woman_files_multi-million_dollar_suit_against_belleville_after_police_shot_husband_24_times.html

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How Private Prison Companies Make Millions Even When Crime Rates Fall

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“The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest owner of private prisons, has seen its revenue climb by more than 500 percent in the last two decades. And CCA wants to get much, much bigger: Last year, the company made an offer to 48 governors to buy and operate their state-funded prisons. But what made CCA’s pitch to those governors so audacious and shocking was that it included a so-called occupancy requirement, a clause demanding the state keep those newly privatized prisons at least 90 percent full at all times, regardless of whether crime was rising or falling. Occupancy requirements, as it turns out, are common practice within the private prison industry.”

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occupancy-quota-cca-crime

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Oklahoma inmates access Facebook with smuggled cellphones

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“Dozens of Oklahoma inmates — some of them convicted murderers — have been active on Facebook from behind bars, even though it is against prison rules, an investigation by The Oklahoman found.  Reporters spent hundreds of hours on Facebook to find inmate users, primarily by their Facebook photos.  Many inmates put ‘selfies’ online, photos of themselves taken by holding a cellphone camera away from their bodies. One of the most prolific photo-takers is a convicted murderer, Clifford Putman, 26. He has more than 200 photos on Facebook dating to June 2012.”

http://newsok.com/wrong-number-contraband-cellphones-are-major-problem-at-oklahoma-prisons/article/3885598

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Robber ran major drug ring from prison

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“In state prison since 2004 for robbery, inmate Marsial ‘Oso’ Garcia still found a way to operate a major drug ring, federal authorities say. He used smuggled cellphones, authorities say.  Garcia, 31, pleaded guilty last week in Oklahoma City federal court to cocaine distribution and a money-laundering conspiracy involving more than $200,000. He will be sentenced later. Beginning in November 2011, from prison, Garcia arranged with suppliers in California and elsewhere to send ‘multi-pound quantities of marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine and other illegal narcotics’ to Oklahoma for distribution, according to a federal indictment against 11 other defendants.”

http://newsok.com/article/3885599

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800 U.S. police round up 129 gang suspects in Mexican Mafia raid

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“About 800 local, state and federal law enforcement officers arrested 129 suspects indicted on a variety of murder, extortion, racketeering, drug and weapons charges in Orange County as part of ‘Operation Smokin’ Aces.’  Police said they seized 22 pounds of methamphetamine, 1.5 pounds of heroin and 3 pounds of cocaine, and the FBI said undercover officers purchased 38 handguns and 29 rifles in connection with the sweep. Investigators said members of the prison gang ordered assaults on 12 inmates, including one man whose head was stapled 20 times, in the Orange County Jail for failure to pay drug taxes.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/25/police-round-up-129-gang-suspects-in-huge-mexican-mafia-raid-in-orange-county/

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Justice Department: ATF misplaced 420 million cigarettes in stings

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“Government agents acting without authorization conducted dozens of undercover investigations of illegal tobacco sales, misused some of $162 million in profits from the stings and lost track of at least 420 million cigarettes, the Justice Department’s inspector general said Wednesday. In one case, ATF agents sold $15 million in cigarettes and later turned over $4.9 million in profits from the sales to a confidential informant — even though the agency did not properly account for the transaction.  The audit came as a new blow to a beleaguered agency still reeling from congressional inquiries into the ATF’s flawed handling of the Operation Fast and Furious weapons tracking probes in Mexico.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/justice-department-atf-misplaced-cigarettes-97344.html

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‘Monsanto Protection Act’ attached to Obamacare defunding bill

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“The House Republican government funding bill, which passed in the House last week, contains a three-month extension of the Monsanto Protection Act, which shields companies like Monsanto and Dow Chemical from legal action resulting from Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) crops. The Act also places the authority of whether or not GMO crops can be grown and sold domestically into the hands of Federal Department of Agriculture rather than with the courts or public referendum. The Democratically-controlled Senate is making no plans to work to keep the rider active beyond its current expiration date.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/25/senate-democrats-move-to-end-monsanto-protection-act/

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The American Economy is Not a Free-Market Economy

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“Those inclined to dismiss Lewis’s claim as exaggerated must confront the solid body of evidence he amasses. Everyone knows that governmentally-sponsored mortgages helped to fuel the housing bubble that burst in 2008 with disastrous consequences. As Lewis points out, though, the situation is much worse than most people imagined. ‘By the end of 2007 government-sponsored mortgages accounted for 81% of all the mortgage loans made in the US and by 2010 this had risen to 100%.’  Government dominance is of course bad for the economy, but it works to the benefit of a small group of the powerful. A great strength of the book is that Lewis names names: he tells us who the predators are.”

http://mises.org/daily/6540/The-American-Economy-is-Not-a-FreeMarket-Economy

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IRS official caught in tea party scandal retires with $50,000/year pension

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“Lois Lerner, the IRS official who presided over a partisan program that targeted conservative organizations because of their political beliefs, will retire on Monday with a full pension package, a source at the Department of Treasury told MailOnline. Lerner, 62, has been a federal government employee since at least 1981, making her eligible for the most robust retirement package the federal government offers career employees. In May Lerner herself launched the scandal that would eventually claim her job, by answering a planted question about how the IRS handled politically oriented groups that applied for tax-exempt status.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430174/Lois-Lerner-embattled-official-heart-IRS-tea-party-scandal-retire-pension-likely-50-000-year-Congress-seeks-answers.html

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