Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Columbia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, September 10, 2019 Former Blackwater Employee RE-Sentenced for Fatal 2007 Shooting at Nisur Square in Iraq Judge Cites Seriousness of Crimes and Number of Victims WASHINGTON – Three former security guards for Blackwater USA were sentenced September 5, 2019, for their roles in the Sept. 16, 2007, shooting at Nisur Square in Baghdad, Iraq, that resulted in the killing of 14 unarmed civilians and the wounding of numerous others. The sentencing, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, was announced today by U.S. Attorney Liu and Timothy R. Slater, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office. Paul Alvin Slough, 39, of Keller, Texas, was sentenced to 180 months; Evan Shawn Liberty, 36, of Rochester, N.H., was sentenced to 168 months; and Dustin Laurent Heard, 37, of Maryville, Tenn., was sentenced to 151 months. All were found guilty by a jury on Oct. 22, 2014, following a 2 ½-month trial. On August 4, 2017, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia remanded the case to the district court for re-sentencing. The defendants were sentenced by the Honorable Senior Judge Royce C. Lamberth. The jury found Slough guilty of 13 counts of voluntary manslaughter, 17 counts of attempted manslaughter, and one firearms offense. Liberty was found guilty of eight counts of voluntary manslaughter, 12 counts of attempted manslaughter, and one firearms offense. Heard was found guilty of six counts of voluntary manslaughter, 11 counts of attempted manslaughter, and one firearms offense. At the sentencing hearing, Judge Lamberth explained, “We have 13 Iraqi citizens who were all innocent victims who were killed and 17 more who were injured. The defendants' orders were for self-defense, and they were firing wildly into cars. [Some of the victims were] turning around in the other direction. There was just wild shooting that could never be condoned by any court.” Judge Lamberth said that the sentences reflect “what kind of country is the United States. We hold our Armed Forces and our contractors accountable for their actions.” And he noted that “the government found and exposed and delivered to the world a trial where the truth of what happened in Nisur Square came out and was there for the world and the public to see, and I think the government of the United States deserves great credit for how the truth came out in this case and in this trial.” Judge Lamberth emphasized that he “squarely reject any notion … that there is any question as to the factual guilt of each of the three defendants . . .” The case was investigated by the FBI Washington Field Office’s Northern Virginia Violent Crime Squad, which has extraterritorial investigative responsibilities, and prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/...ntenced-fatal-2007-shooting-nisur-square-iraq
Look up Blackwater founder Look up Betsy Devos Look up Eric Prince and then get back to me. Being ill informed and responding with bullshit lies is not a pretty way for you to represent yourself.
New York's Collins resigns House seat ahead of expected guilty plea for insider trading By Andrew O'Reilly | Fox News New York Republican Chris Collins is leaving congress. His resignation was announced after his lawyers set up a ‘change of plea hearing.’ The upstate New York lawmaker previously plead not guilty to insider trading charges. It now appears he, his son and the son’s prospective father-in-law will plead guilty. Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., submitted a letter of resignation on Monday ahead of his expected guilty plea later this week to insider trading charges, Fox News has confirmed. It's an about-face for the embattled lawmaker, who pleaded not guilty earlier this month. Collins' resignation came just hours after it was reported that there will be a "change of plea hearing" when he appears in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday. That appears to indicate that Collins, his son, Cameron, and his son’s prospective father-in-law, Stephen Zarsky, will plead guilty. Collins originally pleaded not guilty to a slew of charges brought against him last year. He maintained his innocence when he was arraigned earlier this month on a superseding indictment that prosecutors hoped would speed up the case against the New York Republican. The superseding indictment against Collins streamlined the charges against him by keeping only five of the original eight securities fraud counts from the original indictment. The new indictment also dropped two of the original eight securities fraud charges against the congressman's son while leaving the remaining charges in place. "The government has made these modifications in the original indictment in an effort to avoid unnecessary pretrial litigation that could delay the resolution of the matter," Geoffrey S. Berman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, wrote in a recent letter to the judge in the case. The fraud counts against Collins relate to securities of an Australian biotechnology company called Innate Immunotherapeutics; the 69-year-old congressman served on the board. Prosecutors allege Collins passed along secrets to his son in June 2017. They say the son traded on the inside information and passed it to Zarsky. They added that Zarsky traded on it and tipped off at least three others. According to the original indictment, Collins specifically got early word that a drug the company had developed for the treatment of multiple sclerosis wasn't performing well in a medical trial and passed the tip to his son. Prosecutors said the three avoided more than $768,000 in losses by trading ahead of the public announcement of the failed drug trials. The advocacy group Public Citizen filed a request for an investigation of Collins' stock dealings with the Office of Congressional Ethics and the Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2017. The congressman, who has served New York's 27th District since 2013, surrendered to federal agents in Manhattan in August 2018. Following the charges brought against Collins last year, then-House Speaker Paul Ryan removed Collins from his post on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and called the insider trading charges "a clear violation of the public trust." https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ne...d-of-expected-guilty-plea-for-insider-trading
DRAINING THE SWAMP Damn! In one conversation, the Biden's went down. Hunter and Joe, down the drain! We didn't even need to get into China. Who will be next?
Oh! I doubt Joe is going to get indicted, perhaps, I don't know. He clearly is bad actor, and a pencil necked bully in powerful position. Clearly a swamp dweller and now, so identified. He ain't going to be President! His own people will eat him rather let him continue. His coke head son had his last 83K/month gig too. All good! Hear that gurgle? Swamp draining! Sounds good!!
Yeah! After all, when was the last time we ever elected a president with a n'er-do-well son? Oh, 2016? Never mind then. barfo
I mean, no, not really. Did you, with your incredibly ironic Swamp talk? Everyday we as a nation inch further apart...most of us see the inept thug in office, who belittles women and children and blacks and Latinos and the disabled, who can hardly construct a coherent sentence, as the Swamp Thing he is. Most of us in the nation, I believe, regardless of affiliation, see Trump as the wedge driving us apart, the man who blames energy efficient lights and the sun itself for his tangerine glow. This guy is who everyone thought he was. But worse. Most of us see this. A few, however, have chosen party over country, have chosen a super weird, paranoid, insecure bully over the country that we all share and love. It is akin to a cult whose members turn away from the good people in their life for the leader that fills some bizarro hole in their hearts or heads. I'm not even kidding. You have all been gaslighted to hell and we over here are the brothers and sisters and parents and friends that you've distanced yourselves from--as your leader insists, we are the enemies, the traitors, the spies, the liars, the characters in the fantasy that y'all are part of. Except, just like all cult leaders, in the end, he is just trying to fuck you. Enjoy.
Well done! I hope you feel as though you did a days work. I believe you do feel as you type. God only knows how you got here like a separate species from me, and I do think your kind do count a few more.
Trumps much much worse. His dipshit kids are traipsing around the world while daddy is in office making deals and planning for future deals for the kiddos.
I didn't vote that I liked your post because of the almost insignificance of the dishonesty of Collins but rather it was because you presented it. I already knew what happened here but I appreciate your man-up about it. Edit: It had to be difficult for you to do. I firmly believe that it's not the mark of a man when the choice is easy. It's the mark of a man when the choice is difficult to accept aka man-up.
Draining the swamp south of the border... Mexico mayor tied to truck, dragged through streets amid reported anger over unfulfilled campaign promise By Travis Fedschun | Fox News Angry mob attacks Mexico mayor over unfulfilled campaign promises The jail in a southern Mexico town was pretty busy after the mayor was attacked. A group of farmers stormed Mayor Jorge Luis Escandón Hernández's office and caused damage to real estate, in addition to assaulting him. Eleven people were arrested in southern Mexico on Tuesday after the mayor of their village was dragged out of his office, beaten, and then tied to a pickup truck and dragged through the streets of the town, according to officials. The State's Attorney General's Office in Tuxtla Gutiérre said in a news release that the incident happened early Tuesday in the town of Las Margaritas, when a group of people stormed Mayor Jorge Luis Escandón Hernández's office and caused damage to real estate, in addition to assaulting him. The angry group of farmers was demanding the mayor build a road he promised to construct during his campaign, Mexican news outlet Excelsior reported. Video taken by bystanders outside the building showed the men pulling the mayor out of the building and forcing him into the back of a truck. Another surveillance video captured the moment the mayor was dragged along from the back of the struck through the streets of Santa Rita, in Las Margaritas. State police were eventually able to rescue the mayor, according to Excelsior newspaper. The incident caused a brawl between the locals and the police, leaving at least 20 injured and 11 arrested, La Republica reported. The State Attorney General's Office said in a news release that Hernández is "safe and sound" and that he was examined by doctors after the incident. This was the second attack this year by locals demanding the mayor fulfill his campaign promise to build the road, according to the BBC. Four months ago, a group of men trashed his office when he was not found there. The state's prosecutors' office condemned the violent attack and pledged to deploy more officers to "guarantee the rule of law and security throughout the state territory." https://www.foxnews.com/world/mexico-mayor-dragged-car-angry-locals
