Trump Campaign Official Joins Armed White Terrorists Occupying Federal Building

A Trump campaign official, the husband of a New Hampshire state representative, who was present at Bundy Ranch during that showdown, has arrived in Burn, Oregon, where armed militants have taken over a federal building. One of the terrorists, Brian Cavalier, abandoned the occupation when it was discovered he "stole his valor" and lied about his military career.

Jerry DeLemus, when he was "defending" rancher Clive Bundy's "right" to steal from the federal government.
Bundy was discredited when he suggested African Americans were "better off as slaves."

By SputnikNews
Jerry DeLemus, one of the leaders of Veterans for Trump, and husband of Representative Susan DeLemus, arrived with a videographer on Wednesday evening, stating that he plans to try to help the men sort through rumors and see if he can help them figure out a resolution that would allow them to go home.

DeLemus was at Bundy Ranch and worked as chief of security during the 2014 standoff in Bunkerville, Nevada. He was the one who asked Jerad and Amanda Miller to leave — the duo who went on to kill two Las Vegas police officers and an armed civilian who intervened, before killing themselves.

He has also previously attempted to organize an Islamophobic “Draw Muhammed” contest in his state.

“I’m not worried about taking a risk,” DeLemus told the Daily Beast at the time. “It’s more important to defend our way of life in this country, our constitutional rights, for everybody.”

On Wednesday, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was asked about the standoff, and responded by saying, “you have to maintain law and order, no matter what.”

Drama has also begun to unfold at the bird sanctuary, after the Daily Mail reported that Brian “Booda” Cavalier, 44, also known as “Fluffy Unicorn,” the personal bodyguard of Cliven and Ammon Bundy, had been lying about serving in the Marines. He has left the standoff since the report was published.
“I have seen some of the posts regarding Booda, Blaine (Cooper) and Ryan Payne (and) I will try to get to the bottom of all this scuttlebutt,” DeLemus wrote on Facebook.

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Donald Trump's 'University' Ripped Off Millions From Trusting Students: Judge Demands Financial Records — RICO Lawsuit

Trump labeled a racketeer and conspirator. Perhaps that's how he made his billions.

By Elizabeth Warmerdam
Donald Trump must disclose how much money he made from Trump University, in the discovery phase of a RICO class action accusing him of defrauding students of millions of dollars, a federal judge ruled.

U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel on Tuesday ruled that Trump's financial transactions involving Trump University are relevant to lead plaintiff Art Cohen's claims.

Curiel sustained Cohen's objections to Magistrate Judge William Gallo's discovery ruling this month that Cohen not be allowed to question Trump about the capital contributions he made directly or indirectly to Trump University.

In his October 2013 lawsuit , Cohen claims that Trump "devised and executed a scheme to make tens of millions of dollars" by misrepresenting that Trump University was an actual university taught by a faculty of professors at least partly selected by Trump himself.

Trump claimed that Trump University would teach some of his real estate investing secrets. The class was certified in October 2014.

To lure students, Trump spent up to $6 million a year on a national advertising campaign, which included YouTube, email, website and postal mail solicitations, the complaint states.

Cohen says he paid more than $36,000 for the program before realizing that Trump does not teach students his real estate investing secrets, contribute in any meaningful way to the curriculum, or handpick the instructors.

Judge Curiel found that evidence of Trump's profits is relevant and discoverable.

Trump failed to show "that a broad federal right to financial privacy exists that bars discovery regarding any financial transactions of a defendant accused of defrauding large numbers of people," Curiel ruled.

Cohen claims that Trump had substantial control over the university, provided the operating capital, participated in its operations and management, and made money from it.

"Thus, Trump's payments to, and receipt of funds from, Trump University would be relevant to supporting plaintiffs' claims," Curiel ruled. He added that such information is not readily available to Cohen outside of discovery.

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When Retailers Steal Untold Millions From Customers: They Get Away With Calling It 'A Mistake'—And Execs Don't Go To Jail

Whole Foods CEO admits overcharging: 'Straight up, we made some mistakes' — as if their prices weren't already astronomical.

Double Parasites: John Mackey, left, and Walter Robb, Whole Foods co-CEOs.

By Samantha Masunaga
A week after a New York City investigation found that Whole Foods Market Inc. stores were overcharging for pre-packaged products, the company's co-chief executives admitted pricing mistakes were made.

The statement comes a year after the Austin, Texas, grocer agreed to pay nearly $800,000 in penalties for overcharging in California stores.

"Straight up, we made some mistakes," Co-Chief Executive Walter Robb said in a video posted Wednesday. "We want to own that."

Co-Chief Executive John Mackey said the "very, very small percentage" of "mis-weighing errors" occurred in fresh products like sandwiches, cut fruit and fresh squeezed juices.
"It's understandable, sometimes, that mistakes are made," Robb said. "They're inadvertent."

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NYPD Cop Caught on Video Robbing Deli During Raid for Untaxed Cigarettes (Video)

Thief cop was recorded reaching behind counter and stealing money. The leader of his corrupt squad is already facing 15 lawsuits for civil rights violations.

By Cassandra Fairbanks

As four of Cyrus’ colleagues arrested two employees of the deli over the victimless crime of selling loose cigarettes, Cyrus decided to help himself to the store’s rent money which was in a box under the counter.

The manager of The Yemen Deli and Grocery, Ali Abdullah, was given a receipt saying $593 had been seized from the cash register as well as packs of cigarettes as evidence. There was no mention of the money from the cash box. After reviewing the CCTV footage Abdullah saw that an officer had reached down and grabbed it and placed the cash in his pocket.

Upon seeing this, the manager immediately called the police department who sent a supervisor to the deli to review the footage.

As we saw after the death of Eric Garner, the NYPD has apparently made it their mission to waste their time, and therefore far more of our tax dollars, cracking down on this silly petty tax crime.

“Loosies,” are single cigarettes which many small mom and pop stores will sell for fifty cents to a dollar, illegally, as they are not taxed. They have become increasingly popular with the taxes on cigarettes skyrocketing and much of America in poverty, making packs no longer affordable for many.

Sgt. Fritz Glemaud, who supervised the raid, and Sgt. Valerie Santos, who was allegedly told about the theft and failed to report the complaint, were put on desk duty with their guns and badges taken from them following the incident. Sgt. Glemaud is no stranger to complaints. He is one of the most sued officers in the city, with 15 suits filed against him so far, all alleging civil rights violations.
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Top Ratings Company That Gave Bogus Mortgage Securities Triple-A Ratings Given 'Get Out of Jail Card' for $1.5 Billion Payoff

Standard & Poor's  claimed that their defrauding of pension funds was "legal" because their lies about the "high quality" of toxic mortgage securities was "free speech." The ratings corporation also claimed the Justice Department sued them to revenge the downgrading of the United States' credit rating.

Apparently you can package garbage as securities and those securities can get high ratings from S&P — If you know
the right people.

S&P reaches $1.5 billion deal with U.S., states over crisis-era ratings

By Aruna Viswanatha and Karen Freifeld
Credit rating firm Standard & Poor's will pay $1.5 billion to resolve a collection of lawsuits over its ratings on mortgage securities that soured in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, concluding one of the U.S. government's most ambitious cases tied to the housing collapse.

The settlement comes after more than two years of litigation as S&P tried to beat back allegations that it issued overly rosy ratings in order to win more business.

S&P parent McGraw Hill Financial Inc (MHFI.N) said it will pay $687.5 million to the U.S. Department of Justice, and $687.5 million to 19 states and the District of Columbia, which had filed similar lawsuits over the ratings.

Late Monday, the firm reached a separate $125 million settlement with public pension fund California Public Employees’ Retirement System, which had sued S&P in 2009, claiming its inaccurate ratings caused the firm hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

The United States sued S&P in 2013 after initial settlement talks broke down, seeking $5 billion and accusing the ratings agency of defrauding investors. S&P argued that its ratings were protected under the First Amendment right to free speech, and described the lawsuit as retaliation for the firm downgrading the credit rating of the United States.

Under the settlement, S&P acknowledged it has not uncovered evidence to support the allegations of retaliation. "This was important to me," Attorney General Eric Holder said, referring to the allegation as "utter nonsense."

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T-Mobile Stole 'Hundreds of Millions' From Customers Via Extra Charges Hidden As Bogus 'Third Party' Fees

Photo by Mike Mozart.

By Jim Puzzanghera
Federal regulators on Tuesday accused T-Mobile of bilking customers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in third-party charges on phone bills for premium services such as flirting tips and celebrity gossip that customers never authorized.

In a lawsuit filed in Seattle, the Federal Trade Commission said T-Mobile engaged in a practice known as cramming: putting unauthorized, misleading or deceptive charges on phone bills.

Customers typically were billed $9.99 a month for the SMS text message subscriptions from third-party providers. T-Mobile received 35% to 40% of the fees, with the rest going to the provider of the service.

T-Mobile did not obtain permission from customers for the charges, which were “nearly impossible” to notice because they were buried in lengthy bills, the FTC said. The improper charges date to at least 2009 and the company should have known the charges were unauthorized because of high requests from consumers for refunds.

“It’s wrong for a company like T-Mobile to profit from third-party charges when there were clear warning signs those charges were fraudulent,” said Jessica Rich, the agency’s consumer protection director.

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