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Category: Crime

  • A Clintoon “Private” Email Update

    Well, it’s time for a long-overdue periodic update on the Neverending Saga of the Clintoon Private Email Server. And for anyone who’s a Hillary “fanboy”, well . . . things ain’t lookin’ so good these days.

    Why? Well, let’s just look at the current “biggies”:

    • Over 1300 emails containing classified information were sent to Clintoon at her “private” email address. At least two were indeed classified Top Secret.

    • New email has been discovered that appears to show Clintoon “encouraging” subordinates to strip classification markings from documents and send them to her on her unsecure system anyway.

    • Oh, and did I mention that the FBI is now looking hard at the confluence of DoS and Clintoon Foundation business exhibited by Ms. Clintoon while SECSTATE? Looking hard, as in “with an eye towards possible public corruption charges”? Corruption, as in possible evidence of “pay for play” quid pro quo?

    And, on the non-email side:  it seems the Department of State recently found a rather large cache of unreviewed documents from the time Clintoon was SECSTATE.  They’re under court order to provide those to Judicial Watch if relevant to an ongoing lawsuit – and it appears many of those newly-discovered documents will be relevant.

    Yeah, it seems things aren’t going too well for Team Clintoon these days. As the elder President Bush’s wife Barbara might have put it, “It couldn’t happen to a nicer witch.”

  • Norman MacDonald; arrested for stealing vets’ donations

    Norman MacDonald; arrested for stealing vets’ donations

    Norm MacDonald

    AW1Ed sends us a link to a brief story about this Norman MacDonald fellow who stole more than $10,000, but less than $100,000 from the Southern Maryland Veterans Association when his job to collect up donation money;

    Between the dates of June 1, 2015 – December 24, 2015, McDonald was employed by SMVA and responsible for collecting donation containers from various locations in Calvert County.

    I hope they take his portrayals of Colonel Sanders and Burt Reynolds into consideration during sentencing.

  • Truck driver desecrates veterans’ graves

    Elwood, Illinois Police have arrested Faraz Namdari, of Chicago for driving his semi-truck over the graves of veterans at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery acording to the Herald News;

    Disobeying the “No Truck” signs posted at the entrance to the cemetery off Route 53, the driver told police he was traveling Monday afternoon to a warehouse located at the nearby intermodal facility operated by CenterPoint Properties, according to a news release from Elwood initiative Safe Roads Illinois.

    There is no motivation given in the article, but an earlier, more local source caught the police chief speculating about the driver’s motivations;

    Hayes also told WJOL that he’s never seen anything like this in all his years in law enforcement, “I’ve got to tell you, this was very blatant, to the point were I felt this person was intentionally trying to degrade the grave sites of our fallen veterans and our national cemetery. If I were able prove that he’d receive more then citations.”

    Your mileage may vary, but I think the Chief is on to something.

  • Con man, Jeremy Wilson, poses as wounded warrior

    Con man, Jeremy Wilson, poses as wounded warrior

    Jeremy Wilson

    Peter the Bubblehead sends us link to the UK’s Daily Mail which tells the tale of Jeremy Wilson, a 42-year-old con man who just got out of jail in November for some of his scams. His latest involved Wilson posing as a wounded soldier.

    He had used bogus military documents to pose as a military war hero, ‘basically a wounded warrior’, to lease the vehicle in Boston, said NYPD Sgt. Mark MacDonnell.

    The fraudster had changed the license plates affixed by the dealer and replaced them with ‘Purple Heart’ tags, according to MacDonnell.

    The conman was wearing a ‘Wounded Warrior’ hat, military-style dog tags and a Harvard Law School sweatshirt when he was busted, MacDonnell said.

    Wilson also used the large amount of funds he fraudulently obtained to rent out a two-bedroom apartment at 10 Hanover Square, an expensive residential high-rise in Manhattan….

    What? No service dog? That’s probably how they caught him.

    From NBC News;

    Wilson is believed to have past convictions for similar scams in Indianapolis, Pennsylvania and California, investigators said, although they said they are still sorting out his many aliases. He was recently released from federal prison after his latest fraud-related conviction, police said.

    After Wilson ran up more scams in New York, Homeland Security investigators and NYPD detectives duped him into turning himself in this week, officials said. They towed the BMW from his Hanover Square building in the Financial District and told him it had been taken as possible evidence from a shooting and that he could come retrieve the vehicle. When Wilson showed up at the 10th Precinct station, police arrested him.

  • Marine Justin Knight saving the world

    Marine Justin Knight saving the world

    Justin Knight

    Amy sends us a story about her friend, US Marine Justin Knight, who was at a bar the other day when he saw four men run out of a local meat market with their arms loaded with cash. Knight wanted to follow the men, but they had a head start on him, so he hopped on his motorcycle and followed them. When he caught up to them at an apartment complex, they were counting the money, so Knight waved down a near by sheriff’s deputy who gave chase and arrested three of the thieves, one escaped.

    It seems that the four men might have been involved in several robberies of the same type;

    There have been several robberies in the last 3 weeks where the crooks have gotten away with ten of thousands of dollars from Barri Financial Group, a check cashing service offered inside most La Michoacana Markets.

    “They were hitting on the windows, saying give me the money or we are going to shoot,” says Krystal Zambrano, Barri employee.

    On Thursday Krystal Zambrano was working at the Barri counter when she says the suspect shoved a gun to her head and demanded cash.

    Justin says that he can’t stand a thief, and it looks like he busted three of them who might be responsible for ten robberies.

  • Donald Chen; Stamford cop/Army Reservist scams PD

    Donald Chen; Stamford cop/Army Reservist scams PD

    Dan Chen

    According to Stars & Stripes, Stamford Connecticut police officer Donald Chen told his department that he needed leave to deploy with his Army Reserve unit. While he was on leave, his Reserve unit contacted the department because they couldn’t find Chen. Police, you know, being investigators in the business of tracking people down, finally located Chen;

    Police soon developed information that Chen may have been in Hawaii on vacation with his girlfriend. Then, Chen contacted investigators assigned to the case, first by e-mail then by phone, saying that he was in Taiwan with his father, who had a heart attack and was undergoing heart surgery, [police Chief Jon Fontneau] said.

    Police investigators circled back to Chen’s family in Queens and found out from his mother that his father was alive, well and working in New York City.

    Confronted with that and other information at odds with his Taiwan story, Chen admitted that he was not in Taiwan and his earlier statements were lies and was indeed in Hawaii, Fontneau said.

    So, Chen was allowed to resign from his police officer job before he could be fired. A job he had occupied for less than two years. I don’t understand this stuff – the police department continues to pay Reservists while they’re on deployment. That’s rare and an important benefit, so why do folks thank their employers for being so generous by scamming the system? Apparently, the police department is checking on his earlier deployments, so he may have pulled this before. He turned himself in after a warrant was issued for issued for his arrest.

  • Lockerbie 27th Anniversary

    Lockerbie 27th Anniversary

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    Thunderstixx reminds us that today marks the 27th anniversary of the downing of Pan Am flight 103, the Boeing 747 Clipper Maid of the Seas, on it’s way from Frankfurt, Germany to Detroit Michigan by Libyan terrorists costing 259 lives of passengers and crew of the craft and an additional 11 lives on the ground in Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. In 2003, after Saddam Hussein was ousted from Iraq, Muammar Gaddafi admitted that Libyan intelligence officials had been involved in the terrorist act in response to the 1986 attack on Gaddafi’s family that was in response to the LaBelle Disco Bombing in Berlin. Libya’s motivation also seems to be influenced by the downing of two jets and the sinking of some Libyan vessels in the Gulf of Sidra in the early 80s.

    Gaddafi paid compensation to the families in 2003, although he denied his involvement in the planning. In 2011, a Libyan govenment official admitted to Swedish media that Gaddafi had ordered the attack. Of course, there are “false flag” theories that blame the CIA for the bombing which don’t hold water.

  • Matthew Thomas Deleo, former military police officer arrested for planned burglary

    Mick sends us links to the story about Matthew Thomas Deleo who was a former Navy master-at-arms who developed a plan to burglarize Navy stocks of uniforms and sell those uniforms to foreigners;

    Sweeney testified that Deleo had previously sold $145,000 worth of military equipment on Ebay to people living in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. When arrested, agents recovered communications a member of the group was having with a person in Russia.

    According to Navy records, Deleo left the Navy in January 2013 after five years. He was last stationed in Virginia Beach with Coastal Riverine Squadron Two.

    From another link;

    Former military police officer Matthew Thomas Deleo was arrested near Yorktown, VA and charged with stealing authentic military uniforms and selling them to foreign countries. He used his status in the Navy Reserves to gain access to Naval Weapons Station Yorktown-Cheatham Annex and steal uniforms from its warehouses. He and three accomplices then sold the uniforms on Ebay to customers in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.

    “That poses a great threat,” Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Alyssa Nichol said during Deleo’s arraignment. “This is very, very dangerous. It is a threat to national security and it is not an overstatement to say so.”

    Apparently, their arrest was at the end of a drug-addled road trip;

    From the witness stand Thursday in U.S. District Court, Naval Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent J. Sweeney recounted a drug-fueled trip from Rhode Island to Yorktown and that along the way the party stopped to buy heroin and cocaine. He said the group – led by Deleo – drove down Friday in a large pickup hauling an enclosed trailer. He said they stayed Friday and Saturday night in a cabin on the Annex.