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‘Sovereign’ Cocaine Distributor Sentenced To Life In Prison
Accused cocaine distributor Clinton Williams Jr. put on sideshows in federal court in Pensacola, Fla., arguing that he was a “sovereign citizen,” recasting a serious, cross-border criminal case as a “civil” dispute and insisting that Senior U.S. District Judge Lacey A. Collier had no authority over him. “Throughout the prosecution, Williams continually told the Court…
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[JANUARY DONATION POST]: Blog $150 Short This Month [JAN. 9 UPDATE: Blog OK Now]
UPDATED 3:34 P.M. ET (U.S.A.., JAN. 9): Dear Readers, A sum of approximately $150 is needed to get the Blog through January. [Jan. 9: Blog OK for January now, thanks to readers.] Key bills vital to the Blog’s continued operation are coming due. This is the first donation post since October. Please help if you’re…
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URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Feds Filed Forfeiture Complaint Against Property Linked To MPB Today MLM Operator, Who Is Subject Of Fraud Probe
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Gary A. Calhoun is the subject of a criminal probe linked to a civil-forfeiture action in federal court in the Northern District of Florida, according to court filings by his attorney. Calhoun, 56, is the operator of the MPB Today MLM, which is tied to a grocery-delivery business in Pensacola…
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JUNEAU COUNTY STAR TIMES: Judge Tells Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ That ‘Fidelity To Nonsense Is No Virtue’
UPDATED 8:55 P.M. ET (JAN. 6) TO CORRECT GEOGRAPHY ERROR . . . In a plea deal, a purported Wisconsin “sovereign citizen” and father of 11 children was ordered to spend 90 days in the Juneau County Jail for illegally transferring the ownership of property in a case that started as a bank-fraud prosecution. John…
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BULLETIN: Gary Calhoun, Operator Of MPB Today ‘Grocery’ Program, Arrested On Racketeering Charge
Gary Allen Calhoun was arrested and booked in Escambia County, Fla., on a racketeering charge last month, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. Details of the case were not immediately clear early this morning. Calhoun, 56, of Pensacola, appears to have been released on bond. A note in the booking information references the Florida…
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PP Blog Experiences Unusual Traffic Pattern
UPDATED 10:03 A.M. ET (JAN. 5, U.S.A.) The PP Blog has experienced an unusual traffic pattern on a couple of occasions today. Like previous strange patterns, “readers” displaying a range of international IPs sought to pull the same story virtually simultaneously. Today’s unusual pattern involved repeated calls to the Blog’s database to load a story…
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STAR TRIBUNE: Ponzi Pitchman Bo Beckman Sentenced To 30 Years; Judge Scolds Trevor Cook’s Key Rainmaker For Wordplay
UPDATED 7:52 A.M. ET (U.S.A.) The Star Tribune of Minneapolis/St. Paul is reporting that Jason Bo-Alan Beckman has been sentenced to 30 years in the $194 million Trevor Cook Ponzi scheme and that the sentencing judge scolded Beckman for using the English language as a weapon against investors he harmed. Beckman was Cook’s key rainmaker…
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WHACK-A-MOLE: In Aftermath Of Zeek Collapse, ‘ProfitableSunrise’ Emerges
EDITOR’S NOTE: For the definition of “whack-a-mole,” see the Online Slang Dictionary . . . UPDATED 6:12 A.M. ET (U.S.A.) ProfitableSunrise will take you and provide an extraordinary interest payment daily in the form of numbers on a screen — but only if you “fully accept the fact that all communication between you and Profitable…