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$300K bail for man arrested in Englewood shooting that left 13 wounded
Marciano White told police he hid in a closet when shooting started. When police arrested him, he had a gun in a bag; he said he'd found it inside the apartment.
By Andy Grimm
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A shooting early Sunday in the 5700 block of South May Street left 13 wounded.
Rachel Hinton/Sun-Times
When police responded to an Englewood row house where more than a dozen people were wounded when gunshots were fired during a memorial party early Sunday, they spotted Marciano White walking down the street clutching a black bag, a Cook County prosecutor said Monday.
Inside the bag, they found a .357-caliber pistol and several pay stubs belonging to White. He admitted he was at the party — but said he hid in a closet when he heard gunfire. In the chaos that followed, White said he emerged from the closet, spotted the pistol on a staircase, and grabbed it as he fled the house because he was worried about "the situation and the neighborhood."
As of Monday, White was the only person arrested in connection with the shooting, though Assistant State's Attorney James Murphy said at a bond hearing for White that investigators have yet to test whether the gun in White's bag fired any of the shots that wounded a total of 13 people.
White, who has two prior convictions on drug offenses, was charged with possession of a firearm by a felon and as an armed habitual criminal, and was ordered held on $300,000 bail.
Man charged after Englewood house party turns 'chaotic' as shooting wounds 13, including a teen
White's lawyer, Assistant Public Defender Scott Finger, noted there was no proof White shot at anyone during Sunday's melee. White's two prior convictions were for non-violent offenses from more than 10 years ago, Finger said.
"I haven't heard any eyewitness that says he's the one that did the shooting," Finger said.
Finger told Judge Susana Ortiz that White's family had pulled together $5,000; White will have to post $30,000 to secure his release.
Police have said the shooting started amid a dispute inside the house in the 5700 block of South May at a party honoring the memory of Lonell Irvin, a 22-year-old man shot dead in April during an attempted carjacking in the Loop.
The first shots were fired in the house, and two people appeared to shoot "randomly" at fleeing guests, Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Fred Waller told reporters Sunday.
Marciano White said he hid in a closet when the shooting started at a memorial party Sunday in Englewood.
Chicago police
A total of 13 people, ranging in age from 19 to 48, were wounded, including four people who were in critical condition immediately after the shooting. Those in critical condition included a 16-year-old boy.
"It's a chaotic scene. Listening to the radio, you can hear people who didn't even know that they were shot were responding as they went home. So I'm imagining some people had some graze wounds and didn't realize they were shot," Waller had said.
It was not clear if White was one of the persons of interest Waller said were questioned in the hours after the shooting. The gun found in the bag held five live rounds of ammunition and one spent shell, but Murphy said investigators had yet to determine if the gun matched any of the shells fired at the scene. Results of a gunpowder residue test on White, which could determine whether he had fired a weapon, also were pending, Murphy said.
Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Fred Waller and Ald. Stephanie Coleman (16th) speak at a press conference about a mass shooting that wounded 13 Dec. 22, 2019, in the 5700 block of South May Street.
Kathy Chaney/Sun-Times
Police have said that the shootout seemed to have been a "personal-type dispute inside the party that spilled out into the street," CPD spokesman Tom Ahern said Sunday.
At a press conference later Sunday morning at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where six of the victims were taken, Mayor Lori Lightfoot described the shooting as a "terrible tragedy and, frankly, an incredible act of cowardice," and called on witnesses to come forward.
"Someone in that room knows exactly what happened," Lightfoot said.

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Q: JPA Array index out of range I am using JPA in my WAS 6.1. I try to execute this line:
@Entity
@Table(name="some_Table")
@NamedQueries({
@NamedQuery(name="getAllAccountTypeService",
query="SELECT a FROM AccountTypeServiceAssoc a " +
"WHERE a.delete.deletedDate IS NULL ")

.....

Query query = em.createNamedQuery("getAllAccountTypeService");
return query.getResultList();

I get this on my SystemOut.log:
 org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceException: Array index out of range: 48
Where is the array in the above code that is going out of range? The error comes in this Line #100:
EnumValueHandler.java(This is a jpa class)
 public Object toObjectValue(ValueMapping vm, Object val) {
   97           if (val == null)
   98               return null;
   99           if (_ordinal)
  100               return _vals[((Number) val).intValue()];
  101           return Enum.valueOf(vm.getType(), (String) val);
  102       }

I cannot figure out what is _vals and what is val
Thank you for your help.
EDIT: Thank you for the answer. The column is indeed mapped to an ordinal like this:
@Column(name="SVC_ID")
@Enumerated(EnumType.ORDINAL)
protected ServiceType service;
But where do we set the range of the Ordinal? That makes 48 outside the range.

A: One of the fields of the entities that are loaded is an enum, mapped as ordinal.
This means that the ordinal of the enum is stored in the database, and is used when loading the object to find the corresponding enm instance.
And instead of one of the valid ordinals (from 0 to 4 if there are 5 values for that enum), the cell in the database contains the value 48 (which would require en enum with at least 49 instances).
In short, the data in the database is invalid, or should not be mapped with an enum.

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Sun World names CEO and plans expansion into other fruit crops
Sun World International has named David Marguleas as its CEO, as the company plans to 'expand its focus'.
Marguleas most recently served as Sun World's executive vice president and managed the firm's breeding, technology and licensing business, Sun World Innovations.
Following the recent sale of its farms, Sun World will be the breeding and licensing company's new name.
"David's experience is tailor-made for this business going forward," said Frates, a principal with Renewable Resources Group (RRG), the investment firm that acquired Sun World in 2013.
"He built a premier global breeding and licensing operation from scratch and knows produce and IP licensing inside and out. We're fortunate to have David lead Sun World during a period of accelerated growth."
Sun World currently operates an important fruit breeding program that produces new table grapes and stonefruit for more than 1,500 growers in 14 countries.
The California-based company says it will leverage its breeding and licensing expertise into other fruit crops.
"Today's consumer seeks a richer eating experience and Sun World has long been at the forefront of bringing more flavorful produce to market," Marguleas said.
"The 'new' Sun World remains committed to bringing improved grape and stonefruit varieties to growers in most of the world's fruit-producing countries. We're now also poised to diversify into other tremendously economically important fruit crops – through organic growth, acquisitions or both -- and to expand our IP and genetics' footprint," he added.
Merrill Dibble, the CEO of Sun World until the recent sale of its farming assets, is coordinating the smooth transition of those operations and will serve as the head of RRG's agricultural operations.
To help direct the new Sun World growth strategy, Jeff Jackson joins the company as its executive vice president, focusing on business development. Jackson is an accomplished produce industry executive with deep farming, supply chain, sales and marketing experience.
He has served in senior management roles at Chiquita, Moraitis, Earthbound Farms and Tanimura & Antle. Jackson joins Marguleas and executive vice president and CFO Keith Mitchell, who directs all finance and administrative functions, as a key member of Sun World's senior management team.
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Marcel Danesi discusses his book on memes and pop culture
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Interview by Leila Mzali
Leila Mzali: How did you initially become interested in the study of youth and pop culture? How did you realize that memes, while perhaps often dismissed as trivial, were a rich area of research?
Marcel Danesi: I have been teaching pop culture for over two decades. As a young person, I was a musician who played in all kinds of bands. I developed a "feel" for pop music, relating it to my classical training. From this, I became intellectually interested in pop culture as it is based on musical trends. In the last decade I became aware that trends no longer emerge and spread through the traditional channels and media, but that they start as meme fragments online and then migrate and grow into full-fledged movements, which, however, given the nature of cyberspace, often dissipate quickly. So, a "mainstream" musical trend may evolve out of a meme, but it tends to be short lived. The technology has changed the way pop culture is evolving.
Leila Mzali: You touch briefly on Carr's research on the affects of technology on our brains. Some of the most notable adverse effects you described include shortened attention spans, and reduced recall. While this research is alarming, do you believe that there is anything that we stand to gain through immediate access to information? Specifically, is there anything beneficial to the ephemeral nature of meme exchange?
Marcel Danesi: Yes there is. We can access information quickly and broadly without having to go search for it physically in real space. This allows us to use more information than ever before. Te problem is that it is difficult to extract from the information meaning and relevance. And it seems that we are becoming more and more addicted to information for its own sake. This means that without a meaning-making template to assess it, the information quickly goes from memory, and this mindset may be spreading to other forms of human cognition.
Leila Mzali: You discuss a few examples of violence that were directly or indirectly linked to the Slenderman meme that rose to popularity in the 2010s. How does this example of media's potential impact on our brains and behavior differ from other historic examples of pop culture inciting violence (ex: Surrealist art and the Black Dahlia murders)? In the context of Baudrillard's hyperrealism, what do you think it is about meme culture that has arguably launched this phenomenon into overdrive?
Marcel Danesi: This is a great question for which there is no answers–since an answer can only come from a retrospective point of view. We are living in hyperreality right now, guided by technology. This likely means that what happens on a screen, such as a video game, is directive of how we perceive actions and then how we behave accordingly. We have gone through the "looking glass," to use Lewis Carroll's metaphor. And what is on the other side is more alluring than real life, which is chaotic, boring, and much more dangerous physically.
Leila Mzali: You note that meme culture allows for amplified access to a 'Global Village' and obsolesces national boundaries. Taking into account the participatory nature of meme culture, is there a regional or national society that you find interacts with meme culture in particularly noteworthy or interesting ways?
Marcel Danesi: I am not sure. Memes that are translated soon seem to lose their value or impact. This includes interpreting images, which are subject to cultural coding.
Leila Mzali: You ultimately conclude that meme culture may be an organic and precedented transitional phase of pop culture, according to McLuhan's media laws. As a scholar who has devoted much attention to pop culture, do you think that we stand to lose something grave by transitioning out of elements of pop culture into new elements meme culture? Considering the typically unintended consequences of reversal and obsolesce that accompanies these transitional phases of media, would you say that there is a public plea or call to action in your work?
Marcel Danesi: I do. Pop culture, as such, and as different from folk culture is a modern experiment. Ironically, it became possible to have a mass pop culture because of early technologies (recording, radio, and so on). It is now technology that may be rendering it obsolescent and ultimately obsolete. That experiment may be over, and there is likely to be another one around the corner, as technology and the marketplace form a new partnership through which artists, thinkers, musicians, etc. may find new ways to make meaning.
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Q: Parse and extract values from time format in python I am trying to parse and extract values from my time data 2018-03-11 13:15:31.734874+01:00.
I'm using strptime() to do this with the %Y %m %d %H:%M:%S.%f %Z format but I am getting this error:
ValueError: time data '2018-03-11 13:15:31.734874+01:00' does not match format '%Y %m %d %H:%M:%S.%f %Z'

Also, I don't know how to handle the +1:00 in my time data. Can anyone help?

A: %Y %m %d  should be changed to %Y-%m-%d to match with the time string. Also, you need to remove the last : from the input to use with %z.
Here is how you should do:
import datetime
s = '2018-03-11 13:15:31.734874+01:00'
print(datetime.datetime.strptime(''.join(s.rsplit(':', 1)), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f%z'))

# 2018-03-11 13:15:31.734874+01:00

A: At first:
%Y %m %d will not match 2018-03-11. You need to adapt it to the time string! %Y-%m-%d instead should work.
Secondly:
IF you are in python3, the %z was added for time stamps. However the timestamp has to be without the colon, e.g. +0100instead of +01:00. Therefore, if you use python3 this works:
>>> time_string = '2018-03-11 13:15:31.734874+01:00'
>>> time_string = ''.join(time_string.rsplit(':', 1))

>>> datetime.datetime.strptime(time_string, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f%z')
datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 11, 13, 15, 31, 734874, tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0, 3600)))

Btw the time_string after the editing looks like that:
>>> time_string
'2018-03-11 13:15:31.734874+0100'

IF you are in python2, the %z won't work, here you have to use the parse function of the dateutil module, which is straight forward.
>>> from dateutil.parser import parse
>>> parse('2018-03-11 13:15:31.734874+01:00')
datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 11, 13, 15, 31, 734874, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, 3600))

A: There are two problems here to solve.
First is the format string. It should be %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f%z to match exact date separators and timezone sequence (without space).
From strftime and strptime Behavior:

%z (lower case)     UTC offset in the form +HHMM or -HHMM (empty string if the object is naive).    (empty), +0000, -0400, +1030

Second is the colon (:) in timezone offset '+01:00'. That can be left out using substring: s[:-3]+s[-2:] or string substitute.
So the final answer is as below.
from datetime import datetime
s = '2018-03-11 13:15:31.734874+01:00'
datetime.strptime(s[:-3]+s[-2:], '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f%z')


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Drake Automotive Group has secured an exclusive licensing arrangement with Carroll Shelby Licensing to design, manufacture and sell wheels using the Carroll Shelby Wheel brand name.
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Killing on Contact: What is Gray Death?
A new lethal drug known as "gray death" has been described as dangerous to even touch. Authorities are sounding alarm over the drug, which is a mixture that often contains heroin, synthetic opioids, fentanyl, and elephant tranquilizers. The exact combination can vary and like many drugs, not knowing what exactly is in it can be deadly to the user.
According to drug experts, gray death can kill in even very small doses. It has reported that an officer overdosed after just accidentally touching it. Gray death has been found in Georgia, Alabama, Ohio, and Pennsylvania and has had several overdose related deaths linked to its use.
Why are they calling it gray death?
As the name implies, it usually has a gray color similar to concrete. The mixture can sometimes be found as a powder that can look very similar to concrete mixing powder or can also be sold in tablet form. The name itself hasn't scared off users, who often are chasing the next greatest high. While it has death in its name, users often rationalize that they are more experienced so fatal overdose won't happen to them.
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New Evidence Says DNC Hack an Inside Job, Not Russia Related
Posted by Mish | July 10, 2017 1:38:32 | Economics
In the Russia hacking probe, the DNC Denied FBI Direct Access to their Servers. Why?What is the DNC is hiding? Who the DNC is protecting?
Server access denial makes it a lot easier to point a finger at Russia especially when that is story mainstream media and Democrats wish to perpetuate.
However, new analysis now suggests neither Russia nor a Romanian named Guccifer 2.0 was involved at all. Rather, the alleged DNC hack was an inside job.
A person who bills himself as The Forensicator provides the analysis in Guccifer 2.0 NGP/VAN Metadata Analysis.
The Forensicator uses timestamp analysis and transfer rate analysis and concludes the files were copied locally, then a subset of the files was selected for the leak.
His analysis is beyond my expertise to comment on, but it is readable and well presented. It deserves a close look.
Guccifer 2.0 Story
"Guccifer 2.0" is a person or persona stating they were the hacker(s) that hacked into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) computer network and then leaked its documents to the media, the website WikiLeaks, and a conference event.
The U.S. Intelligence Community concluded that some of the genuine leaks that Guccifer 2.0 has said were part of a series of cyberattacks on the DNC were committed by two Russian intelligence groups.
This conclusion is based on analyses conducted by various private sector cybersecurity individuals and firms, including CrowdStrike, Fidelis Cybersecurity, Fireeye's Mandiant, SecureWorks, ThreatConnect, Trend Micro, and the security editor for Ars Technica.
The Russian government denies involvement in the theft, and "Guccifer 2.0" denied links to Russia. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that multiple parties had access to DNC emails and that there was "no proof" that Russia was behind the attack. According to various cybersecurity firms and U.S. government officials, Guccifer 2.0 is a persona that was created by Russian intelligence services to cover for their interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Theory #1: Russia
Putin hired Guccifer 2.0 to hack the DNC server. Guccifer 2.0 succeeded, then managed to download massive amounts of data in minimal time over relatively slow connections. A subset of those files later appeared on Wikileaks.
Theory #2: Inside Job
Someone at the DNC did not want Hillary to win. That person, having local access, was able to transfer large numbers of files quickly. A subset of those files later appeared on Wikileaks.
Maddow Fake Drama
The Guccifer 2.0 story is very similar to mess Rachel Maddow is in.
For details, please see MSNBC Fake Drama: Timestamp Says Maddow's Exclusive "Scoop" Story is Full of Holes.
One by one, all of these "Russia is Responsible" theories look weaker and weaker with each passing day.
74 thoughts on "New Evidence Says DNC Hack an Inside Job, Not Russia Related"
July 10, 2017 1:47:32 at 1:47 PM
HBGuy said:
Seth Rich, an acknowledge Bernie supported, was rumored on Zero Hedge to be the leaker several weeks ago. MSM as usual are only now cluing in. Didn't fit the Russia-Trump collusion narrative, but it derailed the RINO agenda by several months.
CJ said:
The DNC is ignoring the murder of their own employee Seth Rich. Assange at wikileaks has posted a substantial reward to find the killers, so it seems like the money trail shows who really wants to find the truth.
Checkout Matt Couch. He's in Washington DC right now, investigating the murder from a fresh perspective. So far he has found that the attending physician was not who was reported to be, and many other facts in the case have been disproved, plus there's a lot of new evidence. the is an interview on periscope and youtube from this weekend that discloses this new stuff.
With SETH RICH INVESTIGATOR & Citizen Journalist @RealMattCouch LIVE in Washington DC
Winston said:
July 11, 2017 9:14:38 at 9:14 AM
"he has found that the attending physician was not who was reported to be"
I knew that from the get-go considering that the police report on the incident gave a time of death only a few hours after the shooting while the BS from the "attending physician" indicated a MUCH longer survival time. Goes to show that if someone makes up some credible-sounding story using proper jargon, all kinds of suckers buy it without question as does the mainstream media but only IF it fits their left wing narrative.
JimMtnViewCaUSA said:
July 10, 2017 10:20:22 at 10:20 PM
There's a humor twitter account called "Sean Spicier", named after Trump Admin Spokesperson Sean Spicer.
Here's a recent quip that says it all
"To be honest, we knew all along the Russian lawyer didn't have dirt on Hillary. The fact that he was still breathing was a dead give away."
heatherngillis said:
More than ignoring. The Rich family "spokesperson" is a professional "crisis communicator" closely connected to the DNC. One could easily speculate as to whether the Rich family is being impeded from speaking out without the "spokesperson"
Yes, sounds like Seth Rich was murdered for more than one reason….
hocuspocus13 said:
Seth Rich was working with
Kim Dot Com
How does "Theory #2" involve Russia? An inside job would exclude Russia.
Russia is a distraction
The most telling evidence is there's no investigation into finding the DNC insider who released the emails. Even if it wasn't an inside job, you would think they would look into it somewhat. Why would you put all your eggs into the Putin narrative? The only logical conclusion is they don't want to look for the insider because the Putin-Trump narrative may collapse as a result.
The Russian narrative was spawned from the Paul Manafort revelation on June 14, 2016 and recycled several times into what it evolved into today. The amount of garbage that CNN/MSLGBT has spun out of this is the astounding part.
The main reason for not having the FBI investigate the "Hacking" of the DNC servers is that examination of the contents might well result in a great many indictments of many top level Democrats. Blaming Russia was always a smoke screen. So an insider, such as Seth Rich takes a data dump, sends it to Wikileaks and is murdered for his efforts. What to do? Claim that the Russians hacked the servers and then distorted the data. Everyone will believe it, right?
john clark said:
Seth Rich was a Russian dupe murdered by a professional Russian agent now summering in Russian occupied Crimea. Game , set and match to Putin. "If you like your Crimea, you can keep your Crimea"!
Maybe he was and maybe he wasn't. Is there any proof? By the way, the Crimea was always Russian. Read your history.
justaned said:
The Ottoman Empire would dispute that claim, I think. 😉
Of course they would but there were prior claims to the Ottomans, were their not? That whole Black Sea area has been a history of conquest and genocide. Certainly the Mongols and Tartars have had their hands in that history.
http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2014/03/the-vikings-the-rus-kiev-the-entangled-history-of-russia-and-ukraine/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs
https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/turkey-not-very-turkic-a-genetic-history-of-the-turkic-peoples/
Mike said:
"Theory #2: Russia" should read "Theory #2: Inside Job" (or similar)
C Huson said:
I have a guess why the DNC didn't allow the FBI to examine the server after Crowdstrike did their report. There are several DNC operatives who were former State Department employees, and who kept their "top secret" classification. The Obama administration was disseminating classified reports "as widely as possible," so these eployees may have received and stashed the reports.
My guess is there were top secret documents placed on the server by these ex-State Department employees, and the DNC didn't want to risk the FBI discovering them as part of an analysis.
By the way, the analysis seems plausible from what I know of file systems on Linux and Windows. I am, however, not a security expert, only a programmer the last 45 years.
What are the odds that a private investigator or security expert hired to find something, would come up with just what the employer wanted them to find (and/or not find)? Ans: 100%.
You may not be smart enough to figure this out, but "Hackinator" gave you all the basic data to confirm or shoot down his results (location of the files he analyzed and the MD5 checksum to confirm it's the same archive.) This is the mark of a true scientist: independent verification is the touchstone of the advancement of knowledge. You're so brilliant, prove him wrong. But that requires actual knowledge and work….
Do you ever ask yourself if the world is actually a better place for your being in it?
Sorry, "Forensicator." I may get a trademark on "Hackinator." 🙂
This reminded me of today's Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/
"I have a guess why the DNC didn't allow the FBI to examine the server after Crowdstrike did their report."
So do I – Crowdstrike gave them the analysis they wanted and they didn't want that conclusion possibly contradicted via the analysis by anyone else, something which could possibly lead to proof of an inside job with a further possible trail leading to the murdered Seth Rich. Now, that would be incredibly damning, wouldn't it? Even their lapdog MSM couldn't ignore that.
Also, illegal activity and classified or illegally obtained private information on adversaries (Trump & Sanders) might also be found during the investigative process.
The DNC had nothing to gain and everything to lose with such an investigation.
Hey! Sherlock
ossqss said:
Did we ever see any real evidence on russia at all being involved?
I heard opinions without substantiation…..
Tons of evidence! From "anonymous sources", i.e., the imaginations of leftwing reporters.
Well, actually, we were told by anonymous sources that there was tons of data.
Now you traffic conspiracy theories?
Seems like he is refuting a dumb conspiracy theory, and substituting an honest investigation.
There is no Russia connection. After a year of absurd allegations, not one has panned out — not even a glimmer of circumstantial evidence. The media's ridiculous obsession with election rigging is just speeding up the number of homes dropping cable TV (not that the cord cutting trend needed much help) — AT&T/Time Warner should tell CNN to grow up, cord cutting is bad for their business.
And there are important things that need doing in Washington, like repealing (no replace!) the Obamacare insurance scam and reducing debt growth by controlling spending across the board.
No one will forgive the democrats if their conspiracy rubbish prevents people from getting jobs and medical CARE (not unusable insurance).
Obamacare must go. Now. Spending must be controlled. Now. Poor governments do not have the luxury of helping the poor, so you had better drop the act and get with the program
Did you miss the news today? Over and over again, previously undisclosed contact with Russians and Trump associates come to light. Why are they hiding all this shit until someone else discovers it?
I saw yet another conspiracy theory, this time Jared Kushner supposedly had a meeting with a guy who's dog pees on the same fire hydrant as another dog that visited St Petersburg in a past life.
This show jumped the shark last season. Its just stupid now.
OMG Kushner has been exposed talking to a Russian last year! That clinches it, get a rope.
Meanwhile just ignore Crooked Hillary selling a big part of US uranium to the Russians. It is an undeniable fact so the left has to ignore it and come up with ridiculous distractions.
Trump has met with many foreigners. Did they ALL hack the DNC?
Diogenes said:
Putin and friends were investors in a company run by Podesta and which he was a board of directors member. Connected to Russia? Yes, bought and paid for, in DNC style.
Ron J said:
"Did you miss the news today?"
No, but i did see the propaganda. Law expert Jonathan Turley has already dismissed the propaganda for what it is.
It's just Shamrock's cognitive dissonance, Medex. Logic and facts have no effect on that.
Some jackass who calls himself the forensicator is a more reliable source than US intelligence agencies? Twilight zone.
Evidence we can see and independently verify is more compelling than a man who committed perjury in sworn Congressional testimony (Clapper).
Those Intelligence agencies are really just 3 agencies: the CIA, NSA and FBI. And all 3 include in their reports that they have no conclusive evidence.
Heck, they STILL havent examined the crime scene! (that would be the DNC's computers)
Ah, yes, our esteemed intelligence agencies.
The NSA knew about ransomware vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows software and did nothing to alert Microsoft about them. Specifically, the WannaCry virus is something their negligence contributed to.
James Clapper gave sworn testimony that the NSA does not spy on American citizens, which proved to be false. Lastly, James Comey leaked to The New York Times a private conversation he had with the US president. When does this become criminal and not just incompetence? We already know they're incompetent as this investigation shows.
Well there was/is some kind of conspiracy going on, and all that is available about it is still theory.
You have to do better than just label it as theory to take it down.
We have been waiting for more than a year for actual evidence: nothing. Just "anonymous" accusations published in discredited newspapers, plus the unsupported opinion of a man guilty of perjury.
Show us actual evidence that we can verify independently, or else shove your "slam dunk WMD"s where the sun don't shine.
We have actual work to do
Sad part is people have to spend their time defending themselves from other people's accusations. It is madness, but we know the accusations will not end because some will never stand the resulting loss of face, they actually need a story like this not to excuse loss of election but to vindicate winning in future. As long as they control the narrative Trump remains guilty till proven innocent. I just don't understand why people aren't being tried over this, it gives the impression that they are the authority, that Trump is hiding. I am sure consistently making false accusation against a president carries some severe penalties. As with WMD, people don't react at the moment and a country gets destroyed in a war we are still fighting to this day. They don't care if you have work to do. When Iraq started I switched off and concentrated on what I had to do… but then Libya, Syria, refugees, regional politics hinging on all of this as a distraction, a reality. People aren't going far if they spend their time fighting shadows instead of being grounded in their day to day, I have the feeling though that attention will be taken one way or another. What to do.
Pi314 said:
The technical analysis is credible. I doubt any of the private sector cybersecurity individuals and firms (CrowdStrike, Fidelis Cybersecurity, Fireeye's Mandiant, SecureWorks, ThreatConnect, Trend Micro, and the security editor for Ars Technica) would dispute the analysis. No doubt that DNC server might have been subjected to other attacks, including possibly Russian, but the leak documents now appear to be an inside job. In fact, DNC can probably identify the person who did it given this latest time data.
Podesta fingered him some time ago, his name is Seth Rich.
Credibility Of Cyber Firm That Claimed Russia Hacked The DNC Comes Under Serious Question
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-23/credibility-cyber-firm-claimed-russia-hacked-dnc-comes-under-serious-question
"If the company's analysis was "delusional" when it came to Ukraine, why should we have any confidence that its analysis on Russia and the DNC is more sound?
"Answer: We shouldn't.
The Evidence That Russia Hacked The DNC Is Collapsing
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-25/evidence-russia-hacked-dnc-collapsing
LFOldTimer said:
The liberals remind me of Inspector Clouseau in the old Pink Panther films. Every theory they've concocted to incriminate Trump has been shot down in flames. So now in desperation they're going after Trump's kid – which will fail too. ha. What a bunch of incompetent bozos. No wonder they lost both Houses and the WH. lol.
Putin laughs at them too. I haven't seen a single shred of evidence that points to the Russia government even attempting to rig the presidential election. Were Russian agents bribing Hillary supporters to change their votes over to Trump? Where the hell is the evidence? I must have missed it. I haven't spoken to one Hillary supporter who claimed to have been extorted by the Russians leading up to election day.
Congress knows that if they don't start another big war that we're going to get flushed economically. So now they're provoking Putin into a corner like a rattlesnake and goading him to strike first so that we can blame him for whatever follows. The problem is that Putin is about 4 moves ahead of them. And they hate him for it.
I'm sorry I've forgotten already by now what was the big revelation coming from wikileak that was supposed to change my vote. Something about dissing other politicians behind their backs or smoke filled room manipulation of the democratic party operations. Isn't this standard procedure in politics as well as corporate leadership.
Most go with results – buy from the company with the best product or support the politician with the best track record. In this case we have an exceptionally poor track record with Hillary.
Seenitallbefore said:
I have another theory. This whole Russia thing is a plot of the deep state. They are using it to paralyze government with endless investigations to keep from enacting any of the Trump agenda.
Very plausible.
I'd like to see one tenth the effort expended on Trump turned to investigating Hillary's server instead. The FBI didn't insist on examining the server. It gave immunity to several DNC staffers in exchange for nothing, it allowed people to be prepped by lawyers prior to interviews, indeed to have the lawyers present during questioning. All in all, VERY perfunctory.
Still, if you want to have a severe "What the heck??!!??" moment, google and read the stories about the Awan brothers. Just amazing …
That is explained here… It's not Russia, It's the Ukraine with George Soros:
Or possibly to pressure WikiLeaks into at last revealing outright who their source was, thereby destroying something that their entire credibility is built upon.
Jeremiah Shultz said:
July 11, 2017 11:09:54 at 11:09 AM
But if it is in fact Seth Rich, he is dead and cannot suffer any harm due to the revelation.
The only problem I see right now is with the timeline of "Guccifer 2.0″'s release of the stuff he claimed to have hacked from the DNC vs. the timestamps of the RAR files of the email release from Assange.
The first public report of the hack appears to have been in the Washington Post on June 14. This seems to be the only event that does not fit the initial date of July 5. But if you read the Hill article on the Guccifer releases, they are not emails but rather documents, spreadsheets and databases. This would seem to indicate the emails came from somewhere else.
backwardsevolution said:
Ding, ding, ding!
"Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), including William Binney, a former technical director of the NSA, asserts that the DNC email release was caused by a leak not a "hack."
The distinction is important: a hack is done over the Internet; a leak is done transferring files onto a memory stick with little or no record. VIPS believes the emails were taken by an insider who transferred the files onto a thumb drive. If the files had been transferred over the Internet, the NSA would have a record of that since virtually every packet is stored."
NSA stores and records all information. All along the line, when emails are sent, they can track where they're going. Edward Snowden pointed this out. If the NSA did have a record of the emails being hacked, they would have provided the evidence already! Since they haven't, that means the emails were not hacked, but were transferred to a thumb drive. This is an inside job.
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/09/ten-problems-with-anti-russian-obsession/
William Binney was one of the men who set up the surveillance and tracking procedures at the NSA. He's now retired.
Switches the attention on to if there was "Russian espionage" instead of remote access, changes the picture but doesn't seal it. You are going to have to get an employee admitting the reasoning, and then checking with other facts to find if true. We aren't likely to hear the whole story, whatever it is. Where people are shown to have lied though will be good enough to discredit them and their version of events.
packysite said:
Honestly fake news needs to be called "Democrats BS of the day" what's really bugging me though is no indictments from AG Sessions for Obama, Hillary, Bill, Loretta Lynch, Susan Rice, Podesta, and the Hospital where Seth Rich was taken for Gun Shot wounds that medical witnesses personnel said were minor scrapes, and not even close to being life threatening. Word on Twitter was after being treated he was moved to a room where no one was allowed to check on him. FBI agents, DC were on guard outside the door. Doctors and other medical personnel attempted to visit and take vital signs all night but were denied entry. Finally in the morning he (Seth Rich) was pronounced dead. The body removed but no coroner was brought in. These Clintons need to indicted and brought to justice.
Packy
Old Guy said:
Back from six weeks visiting my family in California, Washington, and New Mexico. Learned the millennials have disconnected from the mainstream media, the snowflakes are still melting. Most never read the leaked emails about the leadership in the DNC and Hillary rigging the elections in her favor colluding with the media to make Hillary our savior. I pointed the email leaks out to some and many read them and wee upset but many still run on emotion.
I asked why the disconnect with the big four news channels and their reply is they do not trust the mainstream media outlet and they are tired of the reporting. Many do not believe any of the Russian hacking stories. I told them why do you believe all the hype about Trump and again it was emotion based.
A good friend of my son, a smart young lady with her masters degree, was still melting because she felt we owed her free healthcare because she liked to smoke pot and could not pass a drug test to land her a good job. I told her she wasted her parents money getting a degree if she did not want to work and pointed out getting covered in tattoos is unacceptable in most professional environments. She got upset and started calling me names. Ending the conversation stating "it must be nice to be an affluent white guy". I just had to laugh and replied must be nice to have rich affluent white parents that footed your tuition in college. She graduated debt free. She replied it was nice.
There are those who will work and those that think we owed them a living. Nothing is going to change their minds. She even got upset when she read the emails and I pointed out they were true.
All of this nonsense is nothing more then a diversion from the real issues and the truth that many in the DNC leadership and Hillary should be prosecuted for rigging the primaries in her favor.
I was hoping this crap would be over when I returned home. No TV was refreshing, although the wife was about to die because she could not watch the young and the restless LOL. I recorded them and today she will most likely start binge watching them. I am doomed!!!!!!!!!
Dan Rogers (@danjrog) said:
Look at the Google Trends on this:
https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=2016-01-01%202017-07-11&q=trump%20russia,seth%20rich
Seth Rich murdered 10th of July
Trump Russia propaganda started a week later.
Pretty amazing coincidence.
redstate said:
You Trumpers are pathetic. We now have confirmed collusion, and y'all are still clinging to conspiracy theories in desperate attempt to deflect away from what you call the "Russian Narrative". Hey Mish, is it still fake news if Trump Jr. admits to it?
Mish said:
Confirmed "collusion".
You are delusional
"You Trumpers are pathetic. We now have confirmed collusion"
Not according to Jonathan Turley, a law expert.
The DNC colluded with the Hillary campaign against Sanders and with Hillary and the American MSM against Trump.
The MSM collusion against Trump still continues. Over 90% of political donations by MSM people goes to the Democrat Party. The news reflects that fact.
There is a tremendous media fraud going on. Locally, KTLA runs slanted anti Trump stories, never quoting Law expert Jonathan Turley or Harvard law professor Alan Derschewitz, to balance the reporting. They never interviewed William Binney on hacking. Fortunately, our news is not restricted to MSM propaganda operations. Unlike the days of Walter Cronkite, they can no longer control the narrative.
Yesterday's "bombshell" Trump MSM news has already been dismissed by law expert Jonathan Turley. No laws were broken.
Beware of MSM fraud.
From a commenter on Redstate (you know how liberal those guys are…)
"Let me see if I understand the trajectory of this story so far: 1) "We had no meetings with the Russkies"; 2) "Ok we met with some Russkies to talk about rainbows and unicorns and adopting little Russian babies but they asked for the meeting and Paul thinks rainbows are pretty so he dropped by"; 3) "Ok, they promised us some dirt we could use to bury that Clinton monster so we took the meeting but really we were focused on rainbows and adopting Russian babies"; 4) "Ok, we heard from a Russian beauty pageant friend that the Russian government had dirt on the Hilldebeast so we reached out to the lawyer and asked for a meeting. Also babies. Also, the President did not know about the meeting nor did he attend. Also FakeNews"
frozeninthenorth said:
Hey Mish
I do you enjoy being the place were all the crazies go to rant?
Who got the data out of the DNC — I don't know, but I presume that the FBI will eventually figure it out. It is there job, as it is the job of the justice department. As for Marc Rich's death, who know maybe he was the source. No one will know since no one has examined his computer (as of 1 month ago), no one at the FBI had asked for his computer…
Maybe he's the one, maybe he was killed for his "knoweldge" but maybe there's nothing there.
THe one issue that is certainly a problem is the fact that the neither the FBI or the DOJ were very interested in the DNC's or March Rich's computer for a long long time.
The behavior of the President of your country make no sense for a guy who has nothing to hide, in fact he behaves in a way that seems to damage his "brand" and legitimacy. Don't know why he does it, but really its not that important. Again its the job of the FBI and the DOJ to figure this stuff out.
I can say that it was the Russians, or the Martians, but I have no real idea
Nor doesn anyone else
Trump is a narcissist
From that – everything he says and does makes sense to him
It's a "slam dunk" that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
Oh, and those "mobile biological weapons factories" described by Colin Powell at the UN that the Iraqis said were hydrogen generators for artillery spotting balloons and which an ABC warfare expert at the time said were most definitely not mobile biological weapons factories were, upon post-invasion inspection… wait for it… hydrogen generators for artillery spotting balloons.
Mobile weapons laboratory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_weapons_laboratory
Six000MileYear said:
It would be in war-mongerers' best interest to initiate a conflict any way they could.


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If Trump Is Laundering Russian Money, Here's How It Works
For Donald Trump, there was the purchase of the $12.6 million Scottish estate and the $79.7 million for golf courses in the United Kingdom, not to mention the $16.2 million for the Northern Virginia Winery. All in cash.
For Michael Cohen, it was the lucrative day in 2014 when he sold four Manhattan buildings for $32 million—three times what he'd paid for them less than three years before.
Recent days have been filled with a seeming tidal wave of fresh revelations from the spiraling investigation around Donald Trump's ties to Russia, particularly around suspicious financial transactions involving Trump fixer Michael Cohen, who appears to have used the same shell company LLC to pay hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels, collect six- and seven-figure consulting deals from companies like AT&T and Novartis, and receive payments from a company with close ties to oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
The subtext of many of the recent tales—from Donald Trump's massive cash-spending spree to Cohen's $32 million flip of New York real estate—is that the atypical transactions are worthy of greater scrutiny. After all, why was the self-proclaimed "King of Debt" suddenly waist-deep in cash and on a spending spree in the midst of the global real estate crash? Where was Cohen's money coming from—and where was it going?
It's the old adage from the Watergate investigation: "Follow the money."
The implication, particularly in the more fever-swampy portions of Twitter, is that there was money laundering afoot—probably Russian in origin. The "quid" perhaps, before the election and the "pro quo" afterward. But is that a real possibility—and if it was money laundering, by whom and how?
The payments appear to mirror suspicious activity that led to the earliest charges and investigative avenues of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, the money laundering and conspiracy charges leveled against former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort and aide Rick Gates. (Gates has since pleaded guilty; Manafort's case continues to move forward toward trial later this year.)
But to Treasury officials and law enforcement who have long pursued money laundering and terrorist financing probes, it's not what Donald Trump or Michael Cohen did in any single transaction that raises red flags—it's how they conducted business day in and day out. The layers of shell companies, the contracts involving pseudonyms, the law firm cut-outs to make deals.
"Many of the activities, when viewed in aggregate, point to a deliberate attempt to create opacity," says Amit Sharma, who used to work on countering terrorist financing after 9/11 at the Treasury Department. "When you take two steps back, you see a murkiness and level of complexity with which the Cohen and Trump companies have operated—what are they hiding? Why are secondary and tertiary entities signing under pseudonyms and 'cover' names? Truly legitimate, transparent companies don't need to do that. Does this point to corruption and/or conspiracy? It certainly looks that way! Are all activities pointing to specific money laundering transactions? Not necessarily."
The fundamental approach to Trump and Cohen's empires should raise eyebrows—and evidently has with Mueller's probe and prosecutors in the Southern District of New York—precisely because of the apparently great lengths they undertook to evade basic transparency. While not necessarily illegal—some of the tactics are, in fact, regular parts of complex businesses—the pattern of activity points to an attempt to evade one of the basic precepts of modern banking and anti-money-laundering efforts: Know your customer.
"What we call 'covered institutions,' that's any financial institution overseen by US financial regulations, they have to have a comprehensive anti-money-laundering regime. It basically come down to one central question: Do you know your customer? Who's behind the account, who has control over an entity or can facilitate transactions on its behalf, what are its sources of funds, and what is the normal, expected nature of its business or pattern of activity for that person or entity?" Sharma says. "Anytime a bank or financial institution spots activity that doesn't match the regular pattern, they're required to file suspicious activity reports with the Treasury Department." (Those exact type of reports were triggered by odd withdrawals and payments by the Russian embassy around the time of the US election, and are the subject of part of Mueller's probe, according to Buzzfeed.)
Yet while regulations—especially since 9/11—require in-depth documentation and identification for basic banking for individuals, it has been much easier—until literally today—for corporate entities to hide their identities behind lawyers and shell companies. "Financial institutions are mandated to collect all this data on its customers, but up until now, financial institutions have not had to do the same for companies," Sharma says. "For companies, often it has simply been the business location and Tax ID number and we don't know the underlying ownership. We don't know whether it's a Russian oligarch." (In fact, new Treasury Department rules that require stronger due diligence on banks to understand who actually owns—or has a controlling interest in—a company only come into effect today, May 11, 2018.)
As Sharma says, "Trump and his companies have exercised this practice for many years—it seems that every new project, every product, every new building, he's starting a new company or legal entity to manage it. This has been the case for overseas operations and activities as well. People do this to protect themselves from liability and to create protective measures that don't roll directly up to them personally. In any given structure, he may own a portion of a parent company that owns a controlling interest in a holding company that may own a portion or receive economic benefits of the real estate."
In 2016 The Wall Street Journal's Jean Eaglesham, Mark Maremont, and Lisa Schwartz outlined a specific example of just that sort of structure: "Donald Trump owns a helicopter in Scotland. To be more precise, he has a revocable trust that owns 99 percent of a Delaware limited liability company that owns 99 percent of another Delaware LLC that owns a Scottish limited company that owns another Scottish company that owns the 26-year-old Sikorsky S-76B helicopter, emblazoned with a red 'TRUMP' on the side of its fuselage." All told, the Journal reported, 15 entities were used at that point to "own" Trump's fleet of two airplanes and three helicopters.
Layer on layer of corporate structure makes it hard for investigators, tax officials, or prying lawyers to figure out who owns what, the underlying source of money for specific transactions, whether taxes are being appropriately paid in a given jurisdiction, or who might be partners in what enterprises.
That's where "Section 311" comes in.
In 2001, as part of the USA Patriot Act, the Treasury Department was given a new tool against money laundering, known as "Section 311," after the relevant section of the law, to designate foreign financial institutions, jurisdictions, or entities as "of primary money laundering concern."
A Section 311 designation was meant to help authorities highlight suspicious patterns of activity without having to prove any single transaction was illegal—it's the rough equivalent for money laundering of the criminal RICO statute, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, that allows prosecutors to take down entire mafia families, drug cartels, and street gangs without having to prove everyone involved knew about or participated in all the various individual crimes.
"We deliberately put these tools together to go after really bad people—organized crime, terrorists, dictators, Chinese Triads," Sharma says. "You didn't have to point to a single illegal transaction. The totality of the transactions should give you pause enough that we would want to be sure US institutions scaled back or ceased doing business with them."
The designation, which effectively forces US financial institutions to sever ties with the entity, makes it all but impossible for an entity to participate in the global financial system. In the years since, the US Treasury Department has used Section 311 to go after the banks and front companies that help North Korea evade sanctions, to go after Iran's nuclear program and terrorism financing, to isolate Syria, to punish banks that helped Saddam Hussein launder money, and to pressure off-shore havens, like the Pacific island of Nauru, that the US believes are complicit in money laundering.
Sharma says that if what we have seen with Michael Cohen's business dealings existed anywhere overseas, where it intersected with an investigation or a politically exposed person or national security issue of import to the US, it would ring all sorts of alarm bells at Treasury. What seems to be continually revealed is a pattern of atypical financial transactions, and too much of it seems structured specifically to hide and evade critical information or people involved.
That desire for opacity, though, doesn't necessarily point to money laundering. A specific charge of "money laundering" requires that the initial funds be traced to a so-called "predicate," a recognized serious crime. "It could be fraud, smuggling, selling high technology, proceeds of child pornography. There are hundreds of predicate crimes in the United States; the global standard is 'all serious crimes,'" explains former Treasury agent John Cassara. The complexity of tracing money all the way through the financial system, from a legitimate asset back to a crime, or vice versa, makes these cases some of the most challenging investigators undertake. "These are very, very difficult cases—it takes a lot for the investigators, the prosecutors, the US attorney to understand," Cassara says.
Part of the reason the cases are so tough is that there are plenty of other, nonillegal reasons wealthy people create opacity, including to minimize taxes, to limit personal or corporate legal liability, or to shield assets in divorce proceedings.
The truth of the matter is that the global financial system is simply too large for officials to look at very closely.
Money laundering is a huge—literally physically huge—problem: Illicit drug sales in the United States alone are estimated at around $60 billion to $100 billion a year, which translates, Cassara says, into about 20 million physical pounds of currency, far too much to be moved easily or spent easily. "The bad guys have a logistics issue. They want to try to get into a bank or nonbank financial institution, so they can spend it," he says.
Globally, the International Monetary Fund estimates that between 2 and 5 percent of the world's gross domestic product is laundered money from illicit activity. "The number I normally use is the total is in the range of $4 trillion to $5 trillion, about the amount of the entire federal government budget," says Cassara, who spent 26 years investigating such cases and has written multiple textbooks on anti-money-laundering efforts.
Given that scale, the hard work of thousands of investigators and tax officials the world over amounts to a drop in the proverbial bucket; authorities only seize or charge about 1 percent of suspected money laundering cases. "By any measurement, we do a terrible job of enforcing this," Cassara says. "I have the utmost respect for my colleagues, but if you just compare the bottom line with the results, as [financial crime expert] Raymond Baker used to say, total failure is just a decimal point away."
That shockingly low level of enforcement helps explain how Manafort's scheme—which Mueller's team says involved more than $18 million, funneled through entities that included oriental rug shops just a few miles from the Treasury Department itself—ran undetected and unprosecuted for so long.
Each year, the Treasury Department fields upward of 18 million pieces of financial intelligence, including more than 2 million suspicious activity reports from banks and financial institutions—far more than it can effectively process. Globally, there are 145 foreign financial reporting centers, like the Treasury Department's so-called FINCEN, its intelligence and enforcement unit, which translates into tens of millions more reports and warnings. It's relatively easy for even large-scale financial crimes to hide in that mountain of evidence. "Your inbox was always full," Cassara says.
Today, Cassara says, money launderers have to be incredibly stupid or incredibly unlucky to be caught. "Since 9/11, the amount of financial intelligence has grown exponentially, so bad guys are taking steps to evade those efforts," Cassara says.
But what's the point of buying, say, $934,350 in oriental rugs (as Manafort is alleged to have done), or buying luxury condos in London (as Russian oligarchs are said to be fond of)? How exactly do money laundering schemes work?
While it's easier to grasp how to hide cash at the street level—like in Breaking Bad, when Walter White purchases a cash-intensive car wash and simply cooks the book to show he's washing more cars than he is—money laundering at the global level follows the same three-step process:
Step 1: Placement
The first challenge is simply getting the money somewhere into the global financial system, which is often easier said than done. Banks are required to file reports anytime someone deposits more than $10,000 in cash, so sneaking large amounts of cash into the financial system can pose a huge challenge. Breaking large transactions into smaller ones, say multiple deposits of $9,999, to evade the transaction reports is known as "structuring" or "smurfing," and is illegal itself. Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert spent time in prison for "structuring," as part of his effort to pay hush money to one of the men he sexually abused as a high school coach, rather than for the underlying abuse. "Placement is where criminals are most vulnerable, because the money is closest to the original crime," Cassara says. "It's much easier to catch them at the crime than to say 'there's a suspicious shopping center or golf course' and work backwards."
Tracing "laundered" money back to illicit proceeds is key to any investigation.
Step 2: Layering
The second challenge is hiding the origin of the illicit money. That's where the layers of LLCs can be helpful. Every time money moves—from one entity's account to another, from one bank to another, from one country to another—it helps hide the original source. "It's confusing and makes it difficult for investigators, tax officials, or a former wife to follow that money trail. It's using this labyrinth of LLCs and tax havens, in the US and overseas, to make it difficult and time-consuming to trace," Cassara says. "It gets hard because of issues of [investigative] competence, venue, jurisdiction."
Often, this "layering" step takes place with the help of lawyers and law firms; the revelations of the Panama Papers and the follow-on Paradise Papers laid out just how large a global business it is to help elites hide their assets. "Many of these folks have go-to structures and lawyers they use to go through the layering process," Sharma says. "A lot of laundering happens through nonfinancial businesses and professions.…The Russians use a ton of folks in Turkey, UAE, and Cyprus. That fact pattern is well-known and long-standing."
While the Panama and Paradise Papers revelations focused primarily on overseas entities and tax havens, the United States is actually one of the worst global offenders: The so-called "Delaware company" structure is notorious for its lax documentation and opacity, as NPR's Planet Money found out when they set up shell companies in Belize and Delaware in 2012.
Step 3: Integration
Once the money is in the global financial system and its origins properly obfuscated, the final challenge is making the money accessible—that is, integrating it into the legitimate economy. At the high end of money laundering, this often means purchasing real estate.
"Real estate is a big issue for money laundering and has been for a long time," Cassara says. "If you've got a condo or a shopping center or a golf course, the money has already been placed, it's already been layered, it's the final stage—integrated. The authorities aren't going to look at that. Once you see property, in whatever form it is, it's assumed that's good, that's a legitimate investment."
Large-scale money laundering, like what corrupt regimes or oligarchs need, requires—like any good investment portfolio—a well-balanced portfolio. "If you've got that much money, you need diversification," Cassara says. "You're going to put so much into gold, so much into stocks, so much into golf courses. By that point, they're many steps away from illicit proceeds."
Real estate is particularly attractive for money laundering because of the large numbers involved—a single large transaction to purchase a golf course, a luxury condo, or shopping center is an easy way to make a whole lot of money look legitimate at once without raising any eyebrows with banks or regulators. It's also a good way to evade so-called "capital controls," which limit, for instance, the amount of money Chinese citizens can transfer out of the country.
The goal in such efforts isn't necessarily to have access to immediate cash—sometimes the end goal is simply to own a physical asset. "Parking" illicit gains from corrupt regimes, including Russia or China, in luxury real estate in the West is a common pattern because it historically holds value and, if you're the buyer, you only trigger taxes by selling, not with the initial transaction. "Real estate tends to hold its value, luxury real estate typically even goes up—it's a great way to preserve it without losing it," Sharma says.
Such absentee owners—more interested in parking their assets than actually occupying a residence—has led to the phenomenon of what locals call "lights out London," entire luxury buildings or wealthy neighborhoods where hardly anyone is ever home. More than 85,000 offshore shell companies own British real estate, and one report last year found nearly $6 billion worth of properties owned by politicians and public officials with "suspicious wealth."
Similar concerns have been raised about Libyan purchases in Dubai, Chinese purchases in Vancouver, and Russian purchases in Miami, among other cities. It's such a problem in New York real estate that the Treasury Department is moving to end anonymous all-cash purchases.
And then there's the oriental rugs. Perhaps the oddest part of the lengthy, detailed indictment of Paul Manafort is the nearly $1 million he evidently funneled through various antique rug shops. As Adam Davidson wrote at The New Yorker last fall, "It's hard to imagine a person who spends $12 million over six years but only shops at a handful of stores, and nearly always happens to have a bill that ends in multiple zeroes: $107,000, then $20,000, then $250,000. At an unnamed men's-clothing store in New York, Manafort spent $32,000, $15,000, $24,000, and other multiples of a thousand. For money-laundering experts, this fact alone would be cause for suspicion. It is extremely rare for even a single purchase to end in three zeroes."
The rugs and clothing appear to be an example of what officials call "trade-based money laundering," using physical goods to evade currency reporting limits. There are, after all, only three ways to move money around the globe: Through bank transfers, through cash, or through physical trade. "I argue that trade-based money laundering is actually the largest of the three money laundering ideologies but it's the one we've done the least to enforce," Cassara says. "When a buyer and a seller are working together, the price of an object can be whatever they want it to be—it could be pens, it could be gold, it could be carpets….The reason it's so effective is that global merchant transactions is in the tens of millions of dollars [a day]. Try to find the suspect transaction in that sea."
It's relatively easy for a determined money launderer to falsify invoices, either inflating or deflating price, with the willing cooperation of a commercial partner—like an oriental rug store, where you purchase a rug that's worth $5,000 for, say, $20,000 and the store owner returns the difference to you in cash. Or buy a rug worth $20,000, and buy it from Shop A for $5,000 and sell it to Shop B for the full price—the difference becomes all clean money. "I sold those rugs to another shop, that cash from Shop B, paid to me, is effectively washed," Sharma explains.
That so many of the transactions and behaviors of the Trump business empire and Michael Cohen's empire appear to hew so closely to the well-known patterns and stages of money laundering deeply troubles Sharma.
"It falls into fact patterns that we've seen in other areas of Russian and Eastern European organized crime," he says. "We're staring at a government—that goes right to the top—that engages in very way of doing business and the exact same fact patterns that we set these tools up to combat. That's mind-boggling to me."
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Funding Non-Programming Activities

Programming is only part of the work that goes on in an open
source project.  From the point of view of the project's volunteers,
it's the most visible and glamorous part.  This unfortunately means
that other activities, such as documentation, formal testing, etc., can
sometimes be neglected, at least compared to the amount of attention
they often receive in proprietary software.  Corporate organizations
are sometimes able to make up for this, by devoting some of their
internal software development infrastructure to open source
projects.

The key to doing this successfully is to translate between the
company's internal processes and those of the public development
community.  Such translation is not effortless: often the two are not
a close match, and the differences can only be bridged via human
intervention.  For example, the company may use a different bug
tracker than the public project.  Even if they use the same tracking
software, the data stored in it will be very different, because the
bug-tracking needs of a company are very different from those of a
free software community.  A piece of information that starts in one
tracker may need to be reflected in the other, with confidential
portions removed or, in the other direction, added.

The sections that follow are about how to build and maintain
such bridges.  The end result should be that the open source project
runs more smoothly, the community recognizes the company's investment
of resources, and yet does not feel that the company is
inappropriately steering things toward its own goals.

Quality Assurance (i.e., Professional Testing)

In proprietary software development, it is normal to have teams
of people dedicated solely to quality assurance: bug hunting,
performance and scalability testing, interface and documentation
checking, etc.  As a rule, these activities are not pursued as
vigorously by the volunteer community on a free software project.
This is partly because it's hard to get volunteer labor for
unglamorous work like testing, partly because people tend to assume
that having a large user community gives the project good testing
coverage, and, in the case of performance and scalability testing,
partly because volunteers often don't have access to the necessary
hardware resources anyway.

The assumption that having many users is equivalent to having
many testers is not entirely baseless.  Certainly there's little point
assigning testers for basic functionality in common environments: bugs
there will quickly be found by users in the natural course of things.
But because users are just trying to get work done, they do not
consciously set out to explore uncharted edge cases in the program's
functionality, and are likely to leave certain classes of bugs
unfound.  Furthermore, when they discover a bug with an easy
workaround, they often silently implement the workaround without
bothering to report the bug.  Most insidiously, the usage patterns of
your customers (the people who drive your
interest in the software) may differ in statistically significant ways
from the usage patterns of the Average User In The Street.

A professional testing team can uncover these sorts of bugs, and
can do so as easily with free software as with proprietary software.
The challenge is to convey the testing team's results back to the
public in a useful form.  In-house testing departments usually have
their own way of reporting test results, involving company-specific
jargon, or specialized knowledge about particular customers and their
data sets.  Such reports would be inappropriate for the public bug
tracker, both because of their form and because of confidentiality
concerns.  Even if your company's internal bug tracking software
were the same as that used by the public project, management might
need to make company-specific comments and metadata changes to the
issues (for example, to raise an issue's internal priority, or
schedule its resolution for a particular customer).  Usually such
notes are confidential—sometimes they're not even shown to the
customer.  But even when they're not confidential, they're of no
concern to the public project, and therefore the public should not be
distracted with them.

Yet the core bug report itself is important
to the public.  In fact, a bug report from your testing department is
in some ways more valuable than one received from users at large,
since the testing department probes for things that other users won't.
Given that you're unlikely to get that particular bug report from any
other source, you definitely want to preserve it and make it
available to the public project.

To do this, either the QA department can file issues directly in
the public issue tracker, if they're comfortable with that, or an
intermediary (usually one of the developers) can "translate" the
testing department's internal reports into new issues in the public
tracker.  Translation simply means describing the bug in a way that
makes no reference to customer-specific information (the reproduction
recipe may use customer data, assuming the customer approves it, of
course).

It is somewhat preferable to have the QA department filing
issues in the public tracker directly.  That gives the public a more
direct appreciation of your company's involvement with the project:
useful bug reports add to your organization's credibility just as any
technical contribution would.  It also gives developers a direct line
of communication to the testing team.  For example, if the internal QA
team is monitoring the public issue tracker, a developer can commit a
fix for a scalability bug (which the developer may not have the
resources to test herself), and then add a note to the issue asking
the QA team to see if the fix had the desired effect.  Expect a bit of
resistance from some of the developers; programmers have a tendency to
regard QA as, at best, a necessary evil.  The QA team can easily
overcome this by finding significant bugs and filing comprehensible
reports; on the other hand, if their reports are not at least as good
as those coming from the regular user community, then there's no point
having them interact directly with the development team.

Either way, once a public issue exists, the original internal
issue should simply reference the public issue for technical content.
Management and paid developers may continue to annotate the internal
issue with company-specific comments as necessary, but use the public
issue for information that should be available to everyone.

You should go into this process expecting extra overhead.
Maintaining two issues for one bug is, naturally, more work than
maintaining one issue.  The benefit is that many more coders will see
the report and be able to contribute to a solution.

Legal Advice and Protection

Corporations, for-profit or nonprofit, are almost the only
entities that ever pay attention to complex legal issues in free
software.  Individual developers often understand the nuances of
various open source licenses, but they generally do not have the time
or resources to follow copyright, trademark, and patent law in detail.
If your company has a legal department, it can help a project by
vetting the copyright status of the code, and helping developers
understand possible patent and trademark issues.  The exact forms this
help could take are discussed in Chapter 9, Licenses, Copyrights, and Patents.  The
main thing is to make sure that communications between the legal
department and the development community, if they happen at all,
happen with a mutual appreciation of the very different universes the
parties are coming from.  On occasion, these two groups talk past each
other, each side assuming domain-specific knowledge that the other
does not have.  A good strategy is to have a liaison (usually a
developer, or else a lawyer with technical expertise) stand in the
middle and translate for as long as needed.

Documentation and Usability

Documentation and usability are both famous weak spots in open
source projects, although I think, at least in the case of
documentation, that the difference between free and proprietary
software is frequently exaggerated.  Nevertheless, it is empirically
true that much open source software lacks first-class documentation
and usability research.

If your organization wants to help fill these gaps for a
project, probably the best thing it can do is hire people who
are not regular developers on the project, but
who will be able to interact productively with the developers.
Not hiring regular developers is good for two reasons: one, that way
you don't take development time away from the project; two, those
closest to the software are usually the wrong people to write
documentation or investigate usability anyway, because they have
trouble seeing the software from an outsider's point of view.

However, it will still be necessary for whoever works on these
problems to communicate with the developers.  Find people who are
technical enough to talk to the coding team, but not so expert in the
software that they can't empathize with regular users anymore.

A medium-level user is probably the right person to write good
documentation.  In fact, after the first edition of this book was
published, I received the following email from an open source
developer named Dirk Reiners:

One comment on Money::Documentation and Usability: when we had some
money to spend and decided that a beginner's tutorial was the most
critical piece that we needed we hired a medium-level user to write it.
He had gone through the induction to the system recently enough to
remember the problems, but he had gotten past them so he knew how to
describe them. That allowed him to write something that needed only
minor fixes by the core developers for the things that he hadn't gotten
right, but still covering the 'obvious' stuff devs would have missed.

His case was even better, as it had been his job to introduce a bunch of
other people (students) to the system, so he combined the experience of
many people, which is something that was just a lucky occurrence and is
probably hard to get in most cases.

Providing Hosting/Bandwidth

For a project that's not using one of the free canned hosting
sites (see
the section called "Canned Hosting" in
Chapter 3, Technical Infrastructure), providing a
server and network connection—and most importantly, system
administration help—can be of significant assistance.  Even if
this is all your organization does for the project, it can be a
moderately effective way to obtain good public relations karma, though
it will not bring any influence over the direction of the
project.

You can probably expect a banner ad or an acknowledgment on the
project's home page, thanking your company for providing hosting.  If
you set up the hosting so that the project's web address is under your
company's domain name, then you will get some additional association
just through the URL.  This will cause most users to think of the
software as having something to do with your
company, even if you don't contribute to development at all.  The
problem is, the developers are aware of this associative tendency too,
and may not be very comfortable with having the project in your domain
unless you're contributing more resources than just bandwidth.  After
all, there are a lot of places to host these days.  The community may
eventually feel that the implied misallocation of credit is not worth
the convenience brought by hosting, and take the project elsewhere.
So if you want to provide hosting, do so—but either plan to get
even more involved soon, or be circumspect about how much involvement
you claim.


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Loss of Dynamic RNA Interaction and Aberrant Phase Separation Induced by Two Distinct Types of ALS/FTD-Linked FUS Mutations.
Molecular Cell
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Cytosolic delivery of inhibitory antibodies with cationic lipids.
African-centric TP53 variant increases iron accumulation and bacterial pathogenesis but improves response to malaria toxin
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Penn Medicine, United States of America (USA) (1.43)
Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) (0.82)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) (0.47)
JHU-CIS Program in Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology, and Biophysics (CMDB), United States of America (USA) (0.31)
National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA) (0.29)
Temple University, United States of America (USA) (0.29)
Princeton University, United States of America (USA) (0.24)
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), United States of America (USA) (0.18)
Scripps Research, United States of America (USA) (0.18)
Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA) (0.16)
Top 10 international collaborators by Share (15 total)
University of Helsinki, Finland (0.67)
Lyon University Hospital (HCL), France (0.15)
Centre de Recherche en Acquisition et Traitement d'Images pour la Santé (CREATIS), France (0.14)
Ahmedabad University (AU), India (0.14)
Chung-Ang University (CAU), South Korea (0.12)
Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IPS-CAS), China (0.08)
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China (0.08)
Centre Léon Bérard (CLB), France (0.08)
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France (0.08)
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University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), United States of America (USA)
The Wistar Institute, United States of America (USA)
Ribosome pile-up controls the rate of protein production
DNA-based nanorobotic arm sets record pace
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Designer liquids boost battery performance


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