Author: Angel - NYC

Huffington Post

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — A Chicago lawyer and certified public accountant was convicted Friday for his role in a 10-year tax fraud that generated $7 billion in phony tax losses, a scheme authorities have called the largest tax fraud in history.

Paul Daugerdas, the 63-year-old former head of the Chicago office of the now defunct Texas-based law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist, was found guilty of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, evade taxes, commit mail and wire fraud and other crimes after a seven-week jury trial in federal court in Manhattan, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.   Continue reading “Paul Daugerdas, Chicago Lawyer, Convicted In ‘Largest Tax Fraud In History’”

New York Post – by Michael Benjamin

In his last months in office, Mayor Bloomberg is moving at the speed of Banksy to leave his indelible marks on the city.

In another of his trademark “nanny” policies, Bloomberg is championing legislation to raise the smoking age to 21, ban merchants from displaying legal tobacco products behind the counter and end discount coupons.   Continue reading “Nanny Bloomberg’s last months”

The Guardian – by Ewen MacAskill and James Ball

Barack Obama hailed United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon as a “good friend” after the two had sat down in the White House in April to discuss the issues of the day: Syria and alleged chemical weapons attacks, North Korea, Israel-Palestine, and climate change.

But long before Ban’s limousine had even passed through the White House gates for the meeting, the US government knew what the secretary general was going to talk about, courtesy of the world’s biggest eavesdropping organisation, the National Security Agency.   Continue reading “Portrait of the NSA: no detail too small in quest for total surveillance”

Texas GOP Vote – by Jan Morgan

Not long ago, I was approached by a man and woman from the UK who wanted some training and the chance to shoot guns. They were in the United States on vacation and one of the items on their vacation list was to find a certified instructor and have the once in a lifetime chance to “experience what it’s like to be American for a few hours with the legal right to shoot rifles and guns.”   Continue reading “UK Visits US Gun Passion”

Land Line- by Greg Grisolano

A Texas trucking company owner is suing the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and other law enforcement agencies in connection with the November 2011 shooting death of a company employee.

Craig Patty, owner of Craig Thomas Expeditors, is suing Javier Pena, head of the Houston DEA office, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, and at least a dozen or more unknown government employees for their role in orchestrating a botched drug sting that ended in a gun battle.   Continue reading “Texas trucking company owner sues DEA, sheriff over botched drug sting”

WEAR TV

Governor Rick Scott is reinstating Liberty County Sheriff Nick Finch to his job after a jury acquitted him of official misconduct and falsifying public records.

Liberty County, population just over 8,000 is Florida’s smallest county. It’s name inspired from our founding fathers. Guns here are a way of life.   Continue reading “Florida governor reinstates sheriff in gun rights case”

RYOT – by Chandler Smith

A new study published in PLoS One and lead by Dr. Kerry O’Brien from the University of Manchester ties gun ownership and opposition to stricter gun control policies to symbolic racism in white Americans.

Symbolic racism, also considered “modern” racism, is described as a less blatant form of prejudice embraced through the approval of certain social policies designed to disadvantage blacks in the United States. Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, this form of racism has replaced old fashioned hate like the approval of Jim Crow Laws with stringent conservative policies like the opposition to social safety nets such as welfare.   Continue reading “Propaganda Alert: The More Racist You Are, the More Likely You Are to Own a Gun, According to Study”

Corvallis Gazette Times –  by CANDA FUQUA

ABC News

A man toting a semi-automatic rifle, some 150 rounds of ammunition and a grudge against “pigs” and TSA agents shot his way past a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport in a deadly rampage that sent hundreds of travelers fleeing in terror.

When the shooting stopped, a Transportation Security Administration officer was dead. Gerardo I. Hernandez, 39, became the first TSA officer in the agency’s 12-year history to be killed in the line of duty.   Continue reading “Gunman With Evident Hate for TSA Opens Fire at LAX”

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle – by Colleen Long & Larry Neumeister

Yahoo News – by LARRY NEUMEISTER and COLLEEN LONG

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court block of a judge’s ruling that found the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy discriminated against minorities may be short lived, depending on the outcome of next week’s mayoral election.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday that the ruling by U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin would be on hold pending the outcome of an appeal by the city, a fight that could be dropped if Democrat Bill de Blasio, who is leading the polls by 39 points, has his way.   Continue reading “NYC Stop-And-Frisk Appeal Could Be Over After Election”

Huffington Post –  by Kathleen Miles

An undercover police officer tricked a teenager with autism into buying pot for him, a lawsuit filed by the boy’s parents alleges.

The 17-year-old, who isn’t named in the lawsuit, was arrested with 21 other high school students on drug-dealing charges as part of a sting operation last December at Chaparral High School in Temecula, Calif. and neighboring schools. His parents, Catherine and Doug Snodgrass, on Wednesday announced a lawsuit in state Superior Court that seeks unspecified damages from the Temecula Valley School District, alleging negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.   Continue reading “Cop Tricked Teen With Autism Into Buying Pot, Lawsuit Claims”

Huffington Post

A gunman opened fire at LAX, injuring several people and prompting an evacuation at the airport, ABC News reports.

Few details were immediately released, but CBS reports that there was an evacuation at Terminal 3, as well as multiple injuries. A suspect with a high-powered rifle was shot and secured by cops at about 9:30 a.m. local time, authorities told CBS. It’s unclear how the alleged gunman got through security.   Continue reading “LAX Shooting: Officials Confirm ‘Incident’ At Airport, Witnesses Hear Gunshots”

AmmoLand – by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)-  With the war against self-defense currently being waged via the Democrat-led attack on “Stand Your Ground” laws, it’s important to revisit Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s words from McDonald v Chicago (2010): “Individual self-defense is ‘the central component’ of the 2nd Amendment right.”

McDonald v Chicago was a case brought by Otis McDonald against gun bans that prevented him from having a firearm with which to defend his life and property.   Continue reading “Justice Alito: Self-Defense is ‘The Central Component’ of the 2nd Amendment”

AmmoLand

WASHINGTON D.C. –-(Ammoland.com)- U.S. Senators Mark Pryor (D-AR), John Boozman (R-AR), Thad Cochran (R-MS), and Mary Landrieu (D-LA) today introduced the Farmer and Hunter Protection Act to prevent the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) from unfairly penalizing farmers and sportsmen for rolling their fields during hunting season.

During the summer of 2012, weather conditions in the Southeast caused some harvested rice fields to re-head, creating accidental second growth crops. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may now view these second growth crops that have been rolled as baited fields, even though this practice was recommended by local cooperative extension services as a way to return nutrients to the soil. Inadvertent baiting of a field can level a fine of up to $100,000 for a farmer, $15,000 for a hunter, and prohibit hunting on the land.   Continue reading “Bipartisan Group of Senators Fight to Protect Farmers & Hunters from Burdensome Regulations”

Wisconsin State Journal – by DEE J. HALL and JEFF GLAZE

ABC News – by COLLEEN CURRY

New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s move to stymie smoking among young New Yorkers moved one step closer to realization Wednesday when the City Council voted overwhelmingly to bump the tobacco-purchasing age from 18 to 21.

“We know that tobacco dependence can begin very soon after a young person first tries smoking, so it’s critical that we stop young people from smoking before they ever start,” Bloomberg said in a statement.   Continue reading “Young Smokers Top NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s List of Dislikes”