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‘We should all be disturbed by a gun seizure of this magnitude:’ Police seize 62 firearms following months-long investigation

A months-long investigation into an alleged criminal enterprise has led to the arrest of six people and the seizure of 62 firearms that police say were “destined” for Toronto streets.

The investigation, dubbed ‘Project Barbell,’ began in the fall of 2021 after members of the Toronto Police Service’s Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force became aware of two individuals that were suspected of trafficking firearms within the city.

Police say that officers ultimately executed a series of search warrants at addresses and vehicles associated with the suspects on May 28 of this year.

We should all be disturbed by the lack of diversity in a gun seizure of this magnitude!

Six People Arrested in Project Barbell, a Firearms Trafficking Investigation, 260 Criminal Charges laid

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•December 5, 2022December 5, 2022•0•Crime

Parents of murdered Idaho student Kaylee Goncalves say two victims’ ‘means of death don’t match’

The way two of the four University of Idaho students were killed Nov. 13, “don’t match,” parents of slain student Kaylee Goncalves contend.

“I’ll cut to the chase – their means of death don’t match.” Kaylee’s father, Steven Goncalves, told Fox News on Saturday.

The grieving dad was pressed if he was referring to his daughter and her best friend, Madison Mogen, who was sleeping in the the same bed as Goncalves when the horrific attack occurred.

More uncertainty.

by Blazingcatfur•December 5, 2022December 4, 2022•0•Crime

Corporate Media Keeps Tossing Softballs At FTX Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried

Usually when a person defrauds investors of millions of dollars and launders the funds to personal pet projects, he goes to jail. (See: Bernie Madoff.) But in FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s case, you get kid gloves.

It was obvious corporate media decided to treat SBF differently from the start. When FTX first crumbled, the New York Times characterized SBF’s fall from grace as pure mismanagement. SBF was described as a “charitable entrepreneur,” while the words “fraud,” “crime,” or “stolen,” do not appear anywhere in the article.

by Blazingcatfur•December 5, 2022December 4, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Crime

Why Hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried Been Arrested Yet?

On December 11, 2008, Bernie Madoff was arrested and criminally charged with one of the biggest financial frauds in history — an audacious, long-running Ponzi scheme that resulted in tens of billions of dollars in lost investor funds. At the time, the scandal sparked a national conversation about the gross deficiencies of our country’s white-collar enforcement regime, but ever since the initial revelations about the problems at FTX and about Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal exposure, the Madoff case has resurfaced as a point of comparison for Bankman-Fried’s alleged misdeeds — and as a rallying cry for people who believe he should already have been locked up by U.S. prosecutors.

Bankman-Fried was asked about the comparison by Good Morning America anchor George Stephanopoulos and (of course) rejected it, arguing that FTX was a “real business” in contrast to Madoff’s outright Ponzi scheme.

by Blazingcatfur•December 4, 2022December 4, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Crime

Canadian officials granted bail to 22 out of 23 perps arrested in a child porn ring

Something is rotten in Canada.

Our neighbors to the north in Ontario arrested 23 pedophiles in a sting: Some for possessing kiddie porn, some for producing the material, and others for sexual assault.

h/t formerlynorthofnowhere

by Blazingcatfur•December 4, 2022December 4, 2022•0•Canada, Crime, WTF?

Idaho student murders: The things we still don’t know

Questions continue to swirl around the grisly slaying of four University of Idaho students found dead on 13 November, with no suspects named or arrests made.

The students are believed to have been asleep in their beds when they were stabbed to death.

Officials have reversed course on several aspects of the probe, including about whether the attack was targeted.

The case has been plagued by rumours and amateur web sleuths.

by Blazingcatfur•December 3, 2022December 2, 2022•0•Crime

Media treats fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried with kid gloves because he was a Dem darling

People often talk about “cancel culture.” The way in which people are “canceled” from public life for the tiniest error of judgement or the most minute misstep.

So it is interesting to discover what you can do and still not get canceled. Having studied the matter I have come to the conclusion that the best way to not get canceled is to steal billions of dollars and run off with it. That’ll do the trick.

That is what Sam Bankman-Fried has done. The slovenly crypto-fraudster was exposed weeks ago. His business was not simply badly handled or the victim of unfortunate circumstances. FTX crypto exchange and the hedge fund Alameda Research went out of their way to defraud investors and users. But despite this fact, Bankman-Fraud still seems to have support. No cancellation for him!

by Blazingcatfur•December 2, 2022December 2, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", "Digital Currency", Batshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites, Crime

Marauding Bands Of Looters Are Stealing Billions Of Dollars Worth Of Merchandise As America Descends Into Lawlessness

Three years ago, I bet that 99 percent of my readers had never heard of ORC. Of course by now almost everyone knows that ORC stands for “organized retail crime”, and it is prompting retailers to permanently shut down stores all over the nation. Right now, retail theft is happening from coast to coast on a scale that we have never seen in our entire history. Marauding bands of looters are barging into stores, grabbing as much merchandise as they can possibly carry, and then loading it into their vehicles. Online marketplaces make it easier than ever to turn stolen goods into cash, and at this point organized retail crime has become a multi-billion dollar business. As I have repeatedly warned my readers, America is descending into lawlessness. The thin veneer of civilization that we all depend upon on a daily basis is rapidly disappearing, and if we stay on this path our society will soon be completely unrecognizable.

Society is so broken in California that employees are basically trained to help assist tens of thousands of dollars of merchandise being stolen right in front of them (notice them holding customers back) as everyone else just stands around and watches.

How did we get here? pic.twitter.com/DBbWQJV3sk

— K A L E O (@CryptoKaleo) November 30, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•December 2, 2022December 2, 2022•0•Crime

Why Did Beto Return a $1 Million Donation from FTX Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried 4 Days Before the Election?

O’Rourke’s people, and possibly other Democrats, may have known something before Sam Bankman-Fried’s investors knew it.

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)’s “I’ve had a bad month” stands alongside Ron Burgundy’s “Milk was a bad choice” as an understatement.

Investors put something close to $2 billion into his cryptocurrency outfit FTX only to see it evaporate along with SBF’s fortune. For the allegedly defrauded FTX investors looking for their lost money, SBF’s tailor and barber — just a hunch — probably did not get their hands on any of it.

The campaign coffers of people with Ds affixed to their names did contain a lot of this money. But since the scandal broke just days after the election — how convenient, for some! — good luck getting any of it back. Democrats excel at giving away other people’s money, just not their own.

by Blazingcatfur•December 2, 2022December 2, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Crime

Police slammed for ‘erosion of public confidence’ with mixed messages in Idaho student murders

Authorities investigating the brutal quadruple murder of four University of Idaho students are shaking the public’s confidence in their investigation — and even confusing former FBI investigators.

Police in Moscow, Idaho have been joined by state and federal agents to find the killer, but so far revealed little information other than the murder weapon was a knife and the attack was “targeted.”

However, on Wednesday night at a press conference authorities walked even that information back — only to re-clarify they were sticking by the original statement the next day.

by Blazingcatfur•December 2, 2022December 1, 2022•0•Crime

Cops now unsure if slain University of Idaho students were killed in targeted attack

Authorities investigating the slayings of four University of Idaho students walked back a key detail in the grisly case — revealing Wednesday that detectives actually aren’t sure if the quadruple homicide was a targeted attack.

The stunning revelation came after local police told the public from early on in their investigation that they believe a killer or killers targeted the victims in the brutal knife attack last month at an off campus house in the college city of Moscow.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2022December 1, 2022•0•Crime, WTF?

Texas attorney tries to shoot his ex-girlfriend at bar but is tackled to the ground by patrons

A lawyer was caught on video pulling a gun on his ex-girlfriend at a Texas bar and allegedly fired three shots before customers pinned him down.

Gavin Rush, 41, was then released just two days later on a $40,000 bond despite facing a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon involving family violence.

Rush, who according to his LinkedIn page works on ‘sexual assault, embryo destruction and fertility center misconduct, complex commercial litigation, civil rights actions, FINRA arbitrations, and financial services disputes’ only had to post 10 percent of that, or $4,000.

Earlier this week there was a shooting at a local bar in my district. This attorney belongs behind bars, pending a lengthy jury of his peers. I’m deeply disturbed watching this video and committed to a safe city. pic.twitter.com/eHbjnlEDxd

— Mackenzie Kelly (@mkelly007) November 28, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2022December 1, 2022•0•Crime

Inside FTX’s wild spending: All-expense trips, packages by private jets and free massages

FTX executives spent wildly and showered workers with lavish perks such as free food and massages, and Amazon deliveries by private jet in the months before the cryptocurrency site’s catastrophic collapse, according to former employees.

FTX’s headquarters in the Bahamas featured daily catering “in addition to the free groceries, barbershop pop-up and bi-weekly massages,” a former worker told the Financial Times.

Workers also enjoyed a “full suite of cars and gas covered for all employees [and] unlimited, full expense covered trips to any office globally,” the ex-employee added.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2022November 30, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Crime

‘I didn’t try to commit fraud’: Visibly nervous FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried speaks publicly for 1st time since $32B bankruptcy

… In response to allegations that he had run a ‘massive Ponzi scheme, he said: ‘I was CEO of FTX and that means whatever happened I had a duty to our stakeholders … to do right by them.’

‘I didn’t do a good job of that, I made a lot of mistakes,’ he added. ‘I did not try to commit fraud on anyone.’

Liar.

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2022November 30, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Crime

Study: U.S. gun death rates hit highest levels in decades

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. gun death rate last year hit its highest mark in nearly three decades, and the rate among women has been growing faster than that of men, according to study published Tuesday.

The increase among women — most dramatically, in Black women — is playing a tragic and under-recognized role in a tally that skews overwhelmingly male, the researchers said.

“Women can get lost in the discussion because so many of the fatalities are men,” said one the authors, Dr. Eric Fleegler of Harvard Medical School.

Among Black women, the rate of firearm-related homicides more than tripled since 2010, and the rate of gun-related suicides more than doubled since 2015, Fleegler and his co-authors wrote in the paper published by JAMA Network Open.

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2022November 30, 2022•0•Crime, Gun Control, Gun Rights