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Violent Crime Rising in Canada

On September 4, the James Smith Cree Reservation in Saskatchewan was gripped by terror. Myles Sanderson and his brother Damien went on a stabbing spree, murdering 10 people and injuring 18. Over the next three days, hundreds of police officers were on a manhunt across the province, finding Damien stabbed to death at one of the 13 crime scenes they visited. On Wednesday, September 7, police were finally able to stop Myles after a high-speed chase on Highway 11 near the town of Rosthern. Myles died while in custody after being in medical distress.

The mass murder shocked the country and made headlines around the world. In the aftermath of these tragedies, the question is often asked: How could something like this happen? Unfortunately, the answer is predictable as it is shocking.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2022December 25, 2022•0•Crime

Everybody loves a good heist story …

Details of $463K Christmas Day bank heist revealed in labour battle between Brink’s and fired guard

On Christmas Day 2016, four people wearing flesh-toned masks and winter clothing made what you might call the ultimate in unauthorized withdrawals from five bank machines in Langley, B.C.

They stole nearly half a million dollars in a Yuletide heist that has never resulted in charges, or even public disclosure — until now.

The main suspect in the robbery — a former Brink’s Company guard — has been fighting to get his job back since the global security firm fired him in November 2018. And Brink’s has been trying to get him to pay back $463,220 it shelled out to make things whole for the victim bank.

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2022December 24, 2022•0•Crime

Krasner’s Philly: Win your freedom after 25 years on Death Row, get executed on the street

It continually baffles me why these Democratic bastions go for the most mediocre – sometimes outright malevolent – hands down worst choices every single time. City residents watch their world dissolve around them, solely through the actions of the very individuals they return to office time and time again, yet nothing but nothing will shake them free of their mindless devotion to their own destruction. New York City’s a terrific example of that mindset.

by Blazingcatfur•December 24, 2022December 24, 2022•0•Crime

MANDEL: Victim of anti-Black racism gets conditional sentence for gun charges

… There’s a perception by many that the courts are too lenient, that as the city reels under waves of violence, the judiciary is more worried about the criminal and not the community he just threatened.

This judgment is probably not going to help that perception.

WTF? World class stupid.

by Blazingcatfur•December 24, 2022December 24, 2022•0•"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Woke", Crime, WTF?

Sam Bankman-Fried’s ex Caroline Ellison faced 110 years in jail before plea

Disgraced FTX crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison was facing up to 110 years in prison before she agreed to cooperate with the federal government, her plea agreement shows.

The former Alameda hedge fund CEO, 28, pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges in an agreement signed on Monday.

The agreement also indicates that Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang had agreed to “cooperate fully” with the feds, in exchange for which they will likely get much lighter sentences.

It appears prosecutors want Sam’s butt in a sling as the pleas to date specifically contradict the Mini-Madoff’s dindunuffin narrative.

It will be interesting to watch if this goes to trial. What if any sentence will be handed the Democrat’s 2nd largest donor?

Judge kept FTX execs’ plea deals secret to get founder to US

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge kept secret that two of Sam Bankman-Fried’s closest associates had turned against him so the cryptocurrency entrepreneur wouldn’t get spooked and fight extradition from the Bahamas, according to court transcripts made public Friday.

U.S. prosecutors in New York waited until Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed crypto exchange FTX, was in FBI custody before revealing that his business partners, Carolyn Ellison and Gary Wang, had secretly pleaded guilty to fraud charges and were cooperating, which can earn them leniency at sentencing.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams announced the guilty pleas when Bankman-Fried was in the air late Wednesday.

by Blazingcatfur•December 24, 2022December 24, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Crime

Chicago and Philadelphia deadlier for young men than Afghan war front-lines

Young men in Chicago and Philadelphia’s worst neighborhoods are more likely to be shot and killed than those who fought on the bloodiest front-lines in Afghanistan and Iraq, a new study shows.

Brandon del Pozo, a former New York City cop and now Brown University scholar, says gun deaths among young men in those city’s ghettos are worse than seen by troops deployed in America’s war on terror.

Del Pozo, who started out in law enforcement patrolling streets in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, called his research an ‘urgent wake-up call’ for tackling gun crime and murder rates in the grittiest cities.

by Blazingcatfur•December 23, 2022December 23, 2022•0•Crime

Alameda’s ex-CEO tells judge she hid billions in loans to FTX execs

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives received billions of dollars in secret loans from the crypto mogul’s Alameda Research, the hedge fund’s former chief told a judge in her guilty plea for her role in the exchange’s collapse.

Caroline Ellison, former chief executive of Alameda Research, said she agreed with Bankman-Fried to hide from FTX’s investors, lenders and customers that the hedge fund could borrow unlimited sums from the exchange, according a transcript of her Dec. 19 plea hearing that was unsealed on Friday.

“We prepared certain quarterly balance sheets that concealed the extent of Alameda’s borrowing and the billions of dollars in loans that Alameda had made to FTX executives and to related parties,” Ellison told U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams in Manhattan federal court, according to the transcript.

Holy Crap.

More … Chief executive of FTX sister company pleads guilty to seven offences

by Blazingcatfur•December 23, 2022December 23, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Crime

Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at parents’ residence to start house arrest

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was spotted early Friday arriving at his parents’ Palo Alto, California, home where he will remain under house arrest after being released on a record $250 million bond.

Two vehicles were seen pulling up to Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried’s residence located in an exclusive neighborhood on the edge of Stanford University’s campus at around 4:30 a.m.

A Stanford campus police vehicle was seen outside the home, where the accused cryptocurrency fraudster will be spending his time with mom and dad, both law professors.

by Blazingcatfur•December 23, 2022December 23, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Crime

Dems “blinded” themselves to cause of Philly crime

Violent crime has been a huge issue since the pandemic. Things seemed to be fine when everyone was locked down, but the moment people found an outlet to get out of the house, it seemed like a lot of them lost their damn minds.

Now, of course, we’re knee-deep in a discussion on violent crime. Democrats tend to favor gun control as the only viable solution.

by Blazingcatfur•December 23, 2022December 23, 2022•0•Crime, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Idaho police chief says he has NO regrets about investigation into quadruple murder and is confident of a ‘conclusion’ – before admitting he STILL has no clue

The Idaho police chief heading the investigation into the deaths of four college students has said he has no regrets over how the probe has been conducted, insisting that the initial stages were handled correctly while also suggesting that he is confident a ‘conclusion’ will be reached.

But Chief James Fry who heads up the Moscow Police force, in the small city of 25,000 people has also admitted he has no clue where the killer is.

by Blazingcatfur•December 23, 2022December 23, 2022•0•Crime

Inside the fentanyl factories churning out death and misery across America

The ‘one pill can kill’ synthetic opioid is 50 times more powerful than heroin and is fuelling an overdose crisis

In the basement of an apartment complex in Inglewood, Los Angeles, a metallic hum rings out as high-speed pill-pressing machines pump out thousands of tablets an hour, each laced with a deadly synthetic opioid.

The drugs are ready to be packaged and sold in their millions to customers across America through the dark web.

by Blazingcatfur•December 23, 2022December 22, 2022•0•Crime

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be released on $250 million bail

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will released on $250 million bail in a deal designed by federal prosecutors and Bankman-Fried’s defense attorneys, a New York federal judge ruled.

Judge Gabriel Gorenstein said that Bankman-Fried would require “strict” supervision following his release to his parents home in California.

Gotta wonder how much cash is hidden offshore.

by Blazingcatfur•December 22, 2022December 22, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Crime

Sam Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder plead guilty to fraud charges

The ex-girlfriend of disgraced crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried and a co-founder of FTX pleaded guilty to fraud charges in the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange and are both cooperating with federal prosecutors, officials announced Wednesday night.

Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Bankman-Fried’s crypto hedge fund company Alameda Research, and Gary Wang, a co-founder of FTX, pleaded guilty to the criminal offenses before Bankman-Fried landed in New York to face his own charges, Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement.

The charges filed against the pair were “in connection with their roles in the frauds that contributed to FTX’s collapse,” Williams said.

by Blazingcatfur•December 22, 2022December 22, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Crime

STROBEL: John Tory’s inaction on crime in the city ‘totally unacceptable’

Weak platitudes and woke diversions won’t save our great city from sinking deeper into the muck

I’ll say this for John Tory: He’s consistent.

“UNACCEPTABLE,” the mayor says of the swarming murder that has shocked his city to its core.

I suspect Toronto is fast reaching its “Diversity” tipping point.

Our “leaders” will do nothing to reverse this.

Get out while you can.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2022December 21, 2022•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Crime

Extradition of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to the US begins

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried completed his extradition paperwork Wednesday and is set to be transported from the Bahamas to the US, where he will face a slew of criminal charges over allegations he defrauded $1.8bn from investors.

The fallen crypto king said he consented to extradition because he wants “to make the relevant customers whole,” according to court papers — a turnaround after he had initially said he would fight the process.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2022December 21, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Crime