Crime

In an unusual decision, the man accused of first-degree murder in the death of veteran Toronto Police Const. Jeffrey Northrup this summer will be released on $335,000 bail.

But why? We aren’t allowed to know.

Umar Zameer, 31, must live under house arrest with his sureties and be under electronic surveillance.

Release for an accused police killer is rare, but the reasons for Justice Jill Copeland’s decision are covered under a publication ban that is routine in bail decisions.

Ontario Provincial Police have charged a married couple linked to the alleged theft of $11 million in provincial COVID-19 relief funds.

Sanjay and Shalini Madan face money laundering and possession of stolen property charges.

They appeared in a Toronto bail court on Sunday. Sanjay has been remanded in custody until a hearing Wednesday while Shalini was released.

Police charged Sanjay Madan, 56, with two counts of fraud and two counts of breach of trust. He and Shalini Madan, 52, were also charged with laundering the proceeds of crime and possession of stolen property.

Outrageous fraud is common in the world of venture capital

With so much media focus on Elizabeth Holmes — currently on trial for fraud — you might think that cases like these, of outright fraudsters raising huge money from gullible venture capitalists, are few and far between. But as a VC myself I can tell you: most venture funds have their own Theranos story — they just prefer to keep them quiet.

I admit to a fascination with the Theranos trial. This is an interesting report from a “Secret VC.”

A bankruptcy court gave members of the pharma family immunity from further civil suits. They don’t have to admit wrongdoing – and they may end up richer than they started

Corporate money has a powerful and malign influence on so many aspects of American life. But even by that low standard, events this week in a New York bankruptcy court are shocking. The legal system has effectively allowed one of the country’s richest families to buy its way out of accountability for what a White House commission called “America’s national nightmare” of mass opioid addiction.

On Wednesday, the court approved a deal for the dissolution of the opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma, which kicked off the opioid epidemic two decades ago with its illegal drive to sell a high-strength painkiller, OxyContin. Purdue’s owners, members of two branches of the now-notorious Sackler family, are estimated to have made more than $10bn from the drug – even as the opioid crisis claimed more than 600,000 lives, with the toll climbing higher by the year.

“Nation Building”. Indeed, someone built this new USA. China? Corporations? Bought and paid for politicians? It looks like a planned event to me. https://t.co/j6JFa6dZaC

— DonaldBest.CA (@DonaldBestCA) September 6, 2021

A change in law in New York has allowed for the filing of more than 9,000 child abuse claims – including cases against Prince Andrew, Bob Dylan and high-profile Catholic priests – previously blocked by the state’s statute of limitations.

Tom Andriola was 25, standing on the edge of Bryce Canyon in Utah, and an impulse to jump kept flashing through his mind.

It had been 14 years since Mr Andriola’s adopted older brother sexually abused him, but the memory was still raw. There, on the edge of the canyon, in the seclusion of the park, his wife became the first person he told.

“I truly thought if I spoke anything about this, that he was going to come and kill me,” Mr Andriola recalled.

This past June, federal prosecutors, working with the Baltimore Police Department, indicted 15 members of a lethal gang known as “CCC” or “Triple C” (which, in a revealing indicator of our cultural decline, reportedly stands for Cruddy Conniving Crutballs, not the Civilian Conservation Corps). Gang members had allegedly committed 18 murders and attempted 27 more between 2015 and 2020. Though that’s less than 1 percent of Baltimore’s stratospheric homicide total during that period, onlookers might still be tempted to find in the news grounds for optimism that Baltimore’s long-running crime wave is cresting.

Baltimoreans know better.

Since Friday night, at least seven people were killed and 41 others were wounded in citywide gun violence in Chicago, as crime rates continue to escalate throughout the city.

On Saturday, a man, 52, and two women, 62 and 24, were outside a gas station in Austin on the West Side, when someone in a black Dodge Charger opened fire at about 2:55 a.m., Chicago Police said.

According to police, the 62-year-old suffered gunshot wounds to the head, abdomen and lower backside, while the 24-year-old suffered gunshot wounds to the back.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) snapped at reporters following questions about officer Ella French’s murder and the lead-up to officers turning their backs to the Mayor at the hospital.

He was a terrible human being. No one is really sad that he’s gone, but there are a lot of questions about Jeffrey Epstein and his untimely death. Was it suicide? That’s the official designation. I don’t think there’s anyone in America who isn’t suspicious of what happened to the wealthy and connected hedge fund manager who reportedly had tapes of debauchery with prominent individuals. His “pedophile island” was also reportedly wired for sound. He had connections to some of the most powerful people on the planet, including the Clintons and members of the British Royal Family. It’s not hard to see how there could be many, MANY people with a vested interest in seeing Epstein dead after his indictment for trafficking underage girls, which was handed down in July of 2019. On August 10, 2019, he was dead.