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URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Gary Calhoun, MPB Today Operator, Pleads Guilty To Racketeering Charge In Florida

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (UPDATED 1:06 P.M. ET U.S.A.) Gary Calhoun, the operator of the the MPB Today MLM “program” and a companion grocery-delivery business known as Southeastern Delivery, has pleaded guilty to a state-level racketeering charge in Florida. He was charged in December. Calhoun, 56, of Pensacola, was not immediately sentenced. But he…

Feb 5, 2013
OBAMA IN VIDEO: ‘You Don’t Want To Mess With Mary Jo’; President Announces Nomination Of Mary Jo White To Lead SEC

UPDATED 5:56 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) President Obama formally introduced Mary Jo White to the American people today. White, 65, is Obama’s choice to lead the SEC. “You don’t want to mess with Mary Jo,” Obama said. White is the first woman ever appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Today marked another…

Jan 24, 2013
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Mary Jo White, Famed Terrorism And Financial-Crimes Prosecutor, Gets Nod From President Obama To Head The SEC

UPDATED 12:53 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) In a move that may signal that the White House sees the SEC as an agency that is playing an increasingly important role in matters of national security and economic security, President Obama is set to nominate famed attorney and former federal prosecutor Mary Jo White to head the SEC.…

Jan 24, 2013
UPDATE: Leaming — Again: After Earlier Claiming He’d Been Targeted For ‘DEATH,’ AdSurfDaily Figure And Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Now Claims’ He’s Been Subjected To ‘POISON’ And ‘TORTURE’

In 2009, AdSurfDaily figure and purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming claimed a city in Washington state targeted him for “DEATH” and threatened to kill him by “HUNTING” him down “in screaming packs and mobs” and using “several armed street gangs” that served as police, according to records. Leaming, now 57, further claimed the Pierce…

Jan 23, 2013
IN MEMORY: Stan Musial, 1920-2013

Stan Musial, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and a recipient of America’s highest civilian honor — the Presidential Medal of Freedom — died yesterday in Ladue, Mo. He was 92. The St. Louis Cardinals announced the death on the team website at 7:45 p.m. ET. “We have lost the most beloved member…

Jan 20, 2013
BULLETIN: AdSurfDaily Figure And Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Kenneth Wayne Leaming Now Seeks To File Another Lawsuit

BULLETIN: (UPDATED 12:35 P.M. ET U.S.A.) AdSurfDaily figure and purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming has reached out from jail again in a bid to sue the government and officeholders. Leaming, 57, is detained in the SeaTac federal-detention facility near Seattle on charges of filing false liens against at least five public officials involved in…

Jan 18, 2013
ASD Figure Kenneth Wayne Leaming’s Birther Lawsuit Against Obama, Holder Gets Tossed

After he was charged with filing false liens and other crimes and jailed near Seattle, AdSurfDaily story figure and purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming apparently thought it prudent to sue President Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Leaming, 56, advanced a theory that Obama was not born in the United States, was not…

Oct 14, 2012
BULLETIN: Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Tim Turner Of Purported ‘Republic for the united States of America’ Charged In Alleged ‘Seminar’ Scam In Which He Taught Attendees How To File Bogus Liens Against Public Officials; Tax Crimes Also Charged, Justice Department Says

“Turner is alleged to have attempted to pay his own taxes with a fictitious $300 million bond and to have assisted others in attempting to pay their taxes with fictitious bonds purporting to be worth amounts ranging from $10 million to $100 billion.” — U.S. Department of Justice, Sept. 18, 2012 BULLETIN: James Timothy Turner,…

Sep 18, 2012
BULLETIN: KABOOM! FTC Gains Asset Freezes Against Mortgage-Relief Scammers Trading On Image Of President Obama And Masquerading As ‘Law Firm,’ Agency Says

BULLETIN: A federal judge in the Central District of California has approved asset freezes and appointed a receiver in a case in which the FTC alleged several companies and a scammer-in-chief were running two mortgage-relief fraud schemes. The scam, the FTC said, traded on an image of President Obama and used at least three .org…

Mar 22, 2012
President Raises Piracy Issue In State Of The Union Address Just Days After Justice Department Brings Megaupload Copyright-Infringement Case; Overall Fraud Battle Will Expand, Obama Tells Nation

Speaking to the nation in his State of the Union address to Congress, President Obama last night referenced U.S. efforts to combat piracy. Although the remarks were in the context of battling knock-off goods that infringe trademarks and affect American manufacturing jobs, Obama delivered the message just days after the Justice Department brought racketeering and…

Jan 25, 2012
BULLETIN: Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, Accused White House Shooter, Formally Indicted On Charges Of Attempting To Assassinate President Obama; Case Assigned To Judge Collyer

BULLETIN: Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, the Idaho man accused in November of shooting at the White House, now has been formally indicted on charges of attempting to assassinate the President of the United States. Ortega-Hernandez, 21, also was accused of assaulting three U.S. officers or employees with a deadly weapon. Whether the officers or employees were…

Jan 17, 2012