The head of Canada’s largest provincial police force strongly criticized the country’s bail system in the wake of an on-duty officer’s shooting death — drawing attention to a legal practice that is frequently misunderstood and beset with inequity.
Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Thomas Carrique said he was “outraged” that Randall McKenzie, the suspect alleged to have shot Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala on Dec. 27, was out on early bail and had a lifetime ban from owning a firearm.
The Bahamas securities regulator has said it has seized assets worth $3.5bn (£2.9bn) from the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX and plans to return them to creditors and former customers.
The Securities Commission of the Bahamas said it had transferred all digital assets under the custody or control of FTX Digital Markets, a Bahamas subsidiary of the FTX operation, to its own digital wallets for “safekeeping”.
Can’t blame anyone who says the fix is in!
Sam Bankman-Fried had four White House meetings THIS YEAR: Bombshell report reveals disgraced crypto mogul met with top Biden aides as recently as September
Disgraced cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried met with four Biden officials this year before the collapse of his FTX empire and his arrest in the Bahamas.
The Democratic donor, 30, awaiting trial for what prosecutors say is one of the biggest financial frauds in U.S. history held talks with senior White House advisor Steve Ricchetti on September 8, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
He has had at least two other meetings with Ricchetti on April 22 and May 12 and another with top aide Bruce Reed.
And … Did Sam Bankman-Fried Secretly Cash Out $1.5M?
Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Dec. 29 echoed the words of Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Commissioner Thomas Carrique by calling for certain reforms to the federal justice system, particularly regarding bail applications, when commenting on the recent death of an on-duty OPP officer.
“Too many innocent people have lost their lives at the hands of dangerous criminals who should have been behind bars—not on our streets,” Ford said in a statement.
These are the people of the Healing Lodge. The white man’s ways of justice are racist!
A criminology student has been arrested for the murders of four University of Idaho students more than six weeks ago.
Arrest records obtained by DailyMail.com show that Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was arrested after FBI and local cops swooped in Scranton, Pennsylvania, at around 3am this morning.
Sources say that authorities knew who they were looking for and hunted the suspect down to Pennsylvania in the Pocono Mountains – more than 2,400 miles from Idaho.
Kohberger is being held for extradition in a criminal homicide investigation based on an active arrest warrant for first degree murder issued by the Moscow Police Department and Latah County Prosecutor’s Office.
It is understood that Kohberger is a college student but does not attend the University of Idaho, according to police sources.
From AP – Suspect in deaths of Idaho students arrested in Pennsylvania
— Linda (@LindaFawcett2) December 30, 2022
Eight teenage girls facing second-degree murder charges for the swarming and killing of a formerly homeless man made their first court appearance Thursday.
And one of the accused teens was released on bail.
On three occasions in the past four months, Alabama’s department of corrections has bungled its lethal injections procedure.
At 7.57pm on 17 November, prison guards entered the “death cell” at Holman correctional facility in Atmore, south Alabama, where Kenneth Smith was awaiting execution by lethal injection for the 1988 murder-for-hire of a preacher’s wife.
The guards put Smith in handcuffs and leg irons, then led him to the execution chamber and strapped him tightly to the gurney. As he lay there, he prepared himself for imminent death.
Indicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried used customer cash from sister firm Alameda Research to invest $200 million in two separate companies, according to a report.
One of Bankman-Fried’s investments went toward the banking app Dave, which disclosed a $100 million windfall last March that purportedly came from FTX Ventures, CNBC reported on Wednesday.
The other $100 million investment backed Mysten Labs, a Web3 firm focused on digital infrastructure, according to the business network.
It looks worse every day, now he has been caught lying about the source of funds for these two “investments.” He is scheduled to make a plea Jan 3. I have no idea which way he will go, but he seems “entitled” enough to claim innocence.
TORONTO — Eight teenage girls facing second-degree murder charges in the death of a homeless man in Toronto are set to appear for a bail hearing in the new year.
Toronto police have said three 13-year-olds, three 14-year-olds, and two 16-year-olds allegedly swarmed and stabbed a 59-year-old man in the downtown core in mid-December and he later died in hospital.
New details have been released about the two people charged with first-degree murder in the death of Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Const. Grzegorz “Greg” Pierzchala.
According to the OPP, Randall McKenzie is a member of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, located near Brantford, while Brandi Stewart-Sperry is from Hamilton.
At a Wednesday evening press conference, OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique said he could not say what the possible motive behind the shooting could be.
How come no farmers have been rounded up?
Sentence guesstimates? Killed a policeman so 5 years with 2 year healing lodge stint included and early release for having internalized the white man’s racism.
It took about 30 seconds for thieves to steal Dave Hutchinson’s vehicle right out of his underground parking spot in his downtown Toronto condo.
He asked the concierge to see the surveillance video once he discovered his Range Rover was missing.
The footage showed a white van pulling up to his vehicle, someone getting out and within seconds they were driving it out of the parking lot.
“The fact they did it so easily, they didn’t break glass, they didn’t break into anything … it’s terrible,” he said.
According to the Star “Adults” have “Juveniles” steal luxury vehicles for 10K a pop. Car-jackings make headlines and demand a police response. It is incredible how easy it to steal a car and most like that Range Rover are gone in seconds. I wonder how much resources the TPS has to expend on car theft?
NEW YORK, Dec 28 (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to enter a plea next week to criminal charges he defrauded investors and looted billions of dollars in customer funds at his failed FTX cryptocurrency exchange.
The 30-year-old is expected to be arraigned on the afternoon of Jan. 3, 2023, before U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan federal court, court records on Wednesday showed.
Sam Bankman-Fried hires top private investigator who worked for Ghislaine Maxwell
Disgraced crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried has hired a top private investigator who friends have dubbed a ‘real hound dog’ because he is so relentless.
Bankman-Fried was seen being escorted out of court in New York after being freed on $250million bail by Jimmy Harkins, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Harkins is a highly-decorated former NYPD detective who has previously worked for Calvin Klein, John Gotti Jr and played a cop in the Martin Scorcese film The Irishman
Hiring a PI does not suggest he’s entering a guilty plea.
But then there’s this, some are asking why Sammy wasn’t banned from internet access as part of his bail conditions…
Alameda Wallets Suddenly Become Active Day After SBF’s Bail-‘Out’
The crypto wallets associated with now-bankrupt trading firm Alameda Research, the sister company of FTX, were seen transferring out funds just days after the former CEO Sam Bankman Fried was released on a $250 million bond.
Latest officer death heartbreaking, but expert says recent police deaths not a trend
OTTAWA — When Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala was shot while responding to a call Tuesday afternoon he became the sixth Canadian police officer to die since September, but an expert is warning the numbers do not represent a trend.
Michael Arntfield, a criminologist and professor at Western University, said the recent deaths are concerning and are an indication of how dangerous policing has become, given the growing responsibilities police are taking on.
Great timing by the CBC for this article…
Experts call for change as number of police shootings in Canada increases annually
James Hanna was kind to animals and children. He was big on hugs and loved to travel.
His family says he was excited about his future, but that was stolen by a stray bullet fired from an Edmonton police officer’s gun. The 59-year-old was in his basement suite watching television when he was killed in February.
Police have said officers were chasing a robbery suspect on foot when they fired. That man, a 36-year-old with a fake gun, was also killed.
Beyond the seemingly ready-made crypto-strangling legislation that Senator Liz Warren (D-MA) and other Constitution-flouters pushed within days of the Nov. 11 FTX bankruptcy announcement, one of the most curious and disturbing facets of the Ukraine-tied, media-adored, and now-collapsed crypto-currency exchange has just come to light.
On December 22, Politico’s Ryan Lizza, Rachael Bade, and Eugene Daniels reported that a close ally and adviser to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (“SBF”) was part of a direct backchannel communications portal with leftist activists and…the White House.
And, curiously, the members of that FTX-White-House-Leftist-Activist portal appear to have shut it down the day after FTX filed for bankruptcy.
Makes sense given Mommy’s links to the DNC.
… Around 2:40 p.m. Tuesday, the 28-year-old Pierzchala responded to a call reporting there was a car in a ditch along Indian Line Rd. near Hagersville at 2:40 p.m.
Minutes later he would face an armed man who had allegedly failed to show up for court to face gun charges.
h/t Mauser
Federal prosecutors are investigating an alleged cybercrime that drained more than $370 million out of FTX just hours after the cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy last month.
The Department of Justice has launched a criminal probe into the stolen assets that is separate from the fraud case against FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, according to a person familiar with the case. US authorities have managed to freeze some of the stolen funds, the person confirmed. However the frozen assets only represent a fraction of the entire loot.
Are Mom & Dad really paying the tab?
Sam Bankman-Fried’s family pays $10K a week for armed security, sources say
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Amid death threats and sudden global infamy, accused FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried and his parents have turned their posh Stanford home into a heavily guarded fortress.
The family is shelling out roughly $10,000 a week to have a private Bay Area security firm patrol the leafy, 3,000-square-foot residence with several armed guards working around the clock, sources told The Post.
