Lawyer for refugee accused of rape and murder of 13 year old says victim was asking for it

Ibrahim Ali’s lawyer says the 13-year-old girl he’s accused of murdering in a British Columbia park wasn’t the “innocent” depicted in a “rose-coloured” portrayal by the Crown at trial.

Kevin McCullough told the B.C. Supreme Court jury in his closing arguments that the version of the girl’s lifestyle presented by the Crown is “at best, a partial picture” or “at worst, a lie.”

He says the Crown’s case rests on the belief it would have been out of character for the teen to have sex with Ali.

h/t MW

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Canada a “safe zone” for Transnational Crime and Foreign Interference networks

Money Laundering

The network of an elite Chinese Mafia suspect with significant industrial assets in British Columbia has been implicated “in recent RCMP investigations of CCP police stations in Canada, and other countries,” according to a sweeping new report from a United States anti-corruption NGO.

The report cites a collection of stunning cases and statistics to argue that transnational criminal networks with ties to China, Iran and Russia are using Canada to launder tens of billions annually, and related economic and political operations are undermining safety and democracy in the West.

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Palestinian student shooting suspect pleads not guilty as mom reveals his mental health struggles

A 48-year-old man pleaded not guilty to attempted murder in the shooting of three Palestinian college students in Burlington, Vermont on Saturday night — as the alleged gunman’s mother revealed he had previously struggled with depression.

Jason Eaton, 48, was taken into custody Sunday afternoon after he was identified as a suspect. He pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempted murder in the second degree on Monday and is being held without bail.

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Four of Nine Las Vegas Teens Arrested in the ‘Extremely Disturbing’ Beating Death of Schoolmate, 17, Are Charged as Adults With Murder

In a teen-on-teen killing that has shocked Las Vegas, four teenagers have been charged as adults in the beating death of 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis, who was set upon by ten boys in what police say was a fight over headphones and a vape pen.

Police have arrested nine of the ten boys believed to have been involved in the fight. The four boys ages 16 or older – Dontral Beaver, 16, Damien Hernandez, 17, Gianni Robinson, 17, and Treavion Randolph, 16 – have been charged as adults with second degree murder.

This is being memory holed.

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Canadian town is on edge as three friends mysteriously VANISH – as cops refuse to link cases and conspiracy rumors swirl among locals

A tiny Canadian town is on edge after three friends mysteriously vanished – but cops won’t link their cases.

Lawrence Bertrim, 43, Robbie Thomson, 34, and Steve Tate, 34, have disappeared in the past 14 months from Smith Falls, Ontario.

Residents have been left uneasy as no arrests have been made and the Ontario Provincial Police insist on investigating each case separately.

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Life Behind Bars: Crypto Tips and Paying With Fish

FTX founder learns that mackerel is a jailhouse currency and shares a dorm with other high-profile defendants

Sam Bankman-Fried, convicted of fraud in the meltdown of FTX, has traded in crypto for a new currency: mackerel.

The fallen crypto king, who is cooling his heels at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center while he awaits sentencing for seven felony offenses, has learned the fundamentals of prison economics while sharing a dormitory with a former Honduran president awaiting criminal trial and a recently convicted former top cop of Mexico, people familiar with the matter said.

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TikToker Mizzy jailed as judge gives verdict on his pranks: ‘they’re not funny’

TikToker Mizzy has been told his pranks “are not funny” by a judge as he was jailed for the first time.

The social media star, whose real name is Bacari-Bronze O’Garro, was found guilty of two counts of breaching a court order prohibiting him from sharing videos of people without their consent at his trial last month.

In one of the offending videos, passersby were visible in the background as Mizzy said to the camera: “The UK law is a joke.”

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CNN Won’t Accept That Americans Are Actually Worried about Shoplifting

Sometimes, as Sigmund Freud never quite said, politics is just politics.

One would not always know this by reading the American press. Unencumbered by extraneous talents and achievements, a sizeable number of this country’s journalists have come to exhibit an excessive faith in the only tool that they are capable of wielding: words. These days, to open up a newspaper or website is to get the feeling that the authors and editors who are featured within believe that reality is optional, that the truth must be subordinated to the narrative, and that all human experiences have been crafted out of soft putty. Once, we described members of the media as “reporters.” Presently, “scriptwriters” might be more apt.

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New Hondas, Toyotas and American pickups — but not EVs: What’s behind the list of Canada’s most stolen vehicles

Canada’s auto theft rates continue to skyrocket, with the Honda CR-V retaining its dubious spot as the country’s most stolen vehicle atop a list that includes some of Canada’s other most popular SUVs and pickup trucks — but not electric vehicles.

Those are among the newly released findings of Équité Association, a private insurance industry association which compiles data from Canadian law enforcement agencies and insurance records.

Smart thieves avoid EV’s.

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An MMA fighter asks the right question about Epstein’s clients

I like MMA, having trained in it (in a mostly risk-free, exercise way) for many years. I also really like MMA fighters, who have proven to be people who are brave, not only in the ring but also outside of the ring, when it comes to standing against woke leftism. The most recent example is Joel “King Bau” Bauman, who walked into the fight arena wearing a shirt that asks just the right question about Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book.

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Bankman-Fried’s Parents Stand By Their Sam—And Face Their Own Legal Perils

Barbara Fried wanted to get close to her son.

During breaks in the monthlong criminal fraud trial of her firstborn child, Sam Bankman-Fried, she would sometimes leave her seat and walk up to the railing that separated him from the gallery. Watching him and his lawyers, often in silence, she was just inches away yet no more able to intervene on his behalf or prevent the conviction that many saw coming.

Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried had hovered nearby when their son soared to prominence as the crypto industry’s biggest star, and advised him as his company collapsed and the government made its case against him. And after a federal jury delivered a guilty verdict that could send him to prison for decades, his parents are trying to prepare him for what comes next.

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Ontario security guard tackles hammer-wielding smash and grab teen robber at jewelry store

A mall security guard appeared fearless as he tackled a teenage robber who was wielding a hammer while he and his accomplices carried out a smash and grab robbery at a jewelry store in Canada.

Footage shot on a cellphone by shocked bystanders captured the moment six mall cops rushed to the scene as they witnessed the robbery in progress at White Carat Co. Diamond in the Brampton Mall on the outskirts of Toronto, Ontario on Wednesday at 6:30pm.

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Sam Bankman-Fried and the corruption of the elites

The rise and fall of the ‘crypto king’ is a damning indictment of our entire financial system.

Last week, Sam Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive and founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was convicted of fraud and money laundering following a month-long trial in New York. SBF – or the ‘crypto king’, as he is sometimes known – was arrested last year when FTX went bankrupt and some $8 billion in customer funds went missing. He now faces decades in jail.

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