Steve Bannon arrested for defrauding donors.
Arrested for defrauding donors by promising them the money would go to building a wall on the Mexican border.
Steve Bannon was arrested for defrauding donors by promising them the money would go to building a wall on the Mexican border. Steve Bannon and crew were arrested by agents of the US Postal Inspection service, i.e. the criminal investigating arm of the United States Postal Service.
He's being charged in a Federal court, the SDNY. Which means that Trump can and will pardon him, eventually.
The acting US Attorney for SDNY is Audrey Strauss. Strauss was deputy to the former US Attorney for SDNY, Geoffrey Berman. You may recall that two months ago, Bill Barr tried to force out Berman, by lying that Berman had resigned when he had not, so that they could replace Berman with Trump loyalist, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton.
Berman refused to resign until the Senate approved Clayton, which is why Barr had to accept Strauss as Berman's replacement.
It seems like the writers have gotten a second wind in the run up to the season 4 (and please let it be a series) finale.
Timelies all!
Apparently whatever work that needed to be done in front of our parking spots was done, because the signs are gone.(The work was actually done in front of the house a few doors down, but they needed people out of their parking spots so they could park their truck lengthwise.)
Steve Bannon and crew were arrested by agents of the US Postal Inspection service, i.e. the criminal investigating arm of the United States Postal Service.
That is delicious
Huzzah for the parking space, Sheryl!
Aw, my co-workers parents lost their house. They (the parents) were out of the country, though, and the person staying there got out safely. I imagine I'll be hearing more stories like that over the next few days. Been a really weird day at work. Tomorrow probably will be also.
But! I managed to get my life insurance AND my car insurance paid. I am super duper responsible!
And apparently the Postal inspectors were brought to the yacht where Bannon was hiding by the US Coast Guard. Yay!
I am still in Colorado, and was planning to drive home this weekend, but now... not so much. Here I have A/C and plenty of company and a big yard to toss the frisbee for the dog; at home I have none of that, plus fires and terrible air quality. So I'm staying for another week or so.
Stay safe, Bayistas!
As for the political news, a rumor flew around that Curt Schilling had been arrested too, which would have been-- ::chef's kiss:: But apparently it wasn't true: he would have been named in the indictment (which I read), and he wasn't.
Still a very interesting and schadenfreudey day.
Oooh, I had to read that a couple times before I realized you were talking about fire and not eviction.
ETA: -t
It's good that you have that option, Consuela. Breathing clean air is mighty pleasant.
It is an unrecognized privilege, I suspect.
Oh, ha, chrismg, I see what you mean. Did not mean to be cryptic, it was very obvious in my head!
Go, clean air, it's your birthday!
....or something like that.
