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(08 Apr) Supreme Court permits Trump to use wartime law for deportations, for now and with limits
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@Some_Emo_Chick@mastodon.social‘Elon Musk WHM’ Was a Prolific Money Launderer for Hackers and Drug Traffickers. It Was Secretly the FBI
In 2023 the FBI quietly arrested a notorious money launderer called ElonmuskWHM. Then the FBI secretly ran his operation for nearly a year to catch (and give money to) more criminals.
#news #tech #technology #security #moneylaundering #fraud #criminal
In 2023 the FBI quietly arrested a notorious money…
404 MediaHe escaped once. In 2005, when he was 12 or 13, he broke off a piece of the door’s center paneling; but rather than fleeing the house, he simply slipped down to the kitchen to scrounge for food. When his breakout was discovered, he told the police, his bedroom door was reinforced with plywood. Threats of withholding food, or violence, kept him from trying again.
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“He didn’t get to see a movie. He didn’t get to go to a concert, he didn’t get to fall in love & get his heart broken,” Tessman added. “It kills me.”
Inside his room, which was secured with a slide lock from the outside, the man read & reread a handful of books, he told the police, looking up words he didn’t know in a dictionary. He “ultimately educated himself,” the police affidavit reads.
Pannone was not the only one trying to uncover that secret: For decades, the man’s half sister, Heather Tessman, whom their biological mother had given up for adoption before her son was born, fruitlessly dug through yearbooks of local schools she found online, …hunting for the brother she had met once, when she was 3 yrs old.
“You can’t find a person who doesn’t exist,” Tessman, 35, who lives in Vernon, CT, said in an interview.
Lopes can still picture a too-skinny kid with an infectious smile. The boy was standing on the peeling porch next door, but ventured no further.
“I said, ‘Where have you been?’” Lopes recalled. “I’m home-schooled,” was his answer.
In a warrant for Mrs. Sullivan’s arrest, the man said that his stepmother & his father forbade him to have friends. “I have been kept a secret my entire life,” he told the police.
Frustrated, Pannone tried another way.
He asked for the help of the Lopes family, who lived next door to the Sullivans & whose son, Peter, was then a 10-yr-old Barnard student. Pannone asked Peter & his family to keep an eye on their neighbor.
Peter Lopes, who is now 29, has not lived in the neighborhood since 2009, but said he remembered the last time he saw his classmate…shortly after the boy was pulled out of Barnard.
But the child was still always hungry and disheveled. Over the five years the boy attended Barnard Elementary, Mr. Pannone said he made call after call to the Department of Children and Families. Each time, he said, they would investigate and report back that the child was fine.
“You knew something was not right,” Mr. Pannone said in a recent interview. “He appeared to be a happy-go-lucky kid, but we knew that something was amiss.”
Tom Pannone, who was a principal at Barnard Elementary School, says he can remember the uneasy feeling he had about the child enrolled at his school in 2001. The boy arrived daily with a dirty plastic lunchbox; at least once, Pannone found him in a bathroom before school started, devouring his packed lunch. It was there that he saw the boy standing at a urinal, drinking the water as he flushed. Mr. Pannone called the boy’s stepmother, he said, & the behavior stopped.
“She is adamant that she had done nothing wrong,” her lawyer, Ioannis Kaloidis, said in an interview 
. Kaloidis laid blame on the biological father, #KreggSullivan, who died in January of last year [do she kept it up for over a year after the father’s death. Sure, she’s totes blameless 
]. (The biological mother had given up her parental rights to Sullivan, to whom she was briefly married.)
Late last month, the man’s stepmother, #KimberlySullivan, 57, was arraigned in Waterbury Superior Court. She has been charged w/ #kidnapping, #assault, #cruelty, unlawful #restraint & reckless #endangerment. If convicted of all charges, she could serve the rest of her life in prison.…She pleaded not guilty.
That year, his son was pulled from school, purportedly for *#HomeSchooling. In interviews w/police officers last month, the man told them that for a brief time he received school work sheets, but all formal education stopped shortly after. The next time he left his home, 20 years later, it was in the arms of the firefighter.
“He looked,” said Detective Steve Brownell of the Waterbury PD, who interviewed him later at the hospital, “like a Holocaust survivor.”
But many in the community had feared for the boy’s safety for a long time.
For years before the man’s disappearance, his teachers, classmates, neighbors & his elementary school principal all believed he was suffering silently. They repeatedly called the Waterbury #Police & the #Connecticut Dept of #Children & Families [#DCF] to intercede for a child they said was so hungry that he ate from the trash & stole his classmates’ food.
The revelations that began in that ambulance ride on Feb 17 cracked wide one of the most shocking secrets to ever tarnish Waterbury, a small, former manufacturing city in the southern part of Connecticut. The police now believe what the man said in the ambulance that evening: For the past 20 yrs, an 8X9’ room on the top floor of a disheveled house at 2 Blake Street was a prison cell for a boy — now a man — last been seen by the outside world when he was in the 4th grade.
The ride in the ambulance, he said, was the first time he had been let out of the house since he was 12.
Then, he made a confession. He was the one who set the fire. He used a lighter forgotten in the pocket of an old jacket that his stepmother had given him. If he did not die in the fire, he had reasoned, he might finally be set free.
The patient started speaking & did not stop. He gave his name, said that he was 32 years old & had spent most of his life held captive by his father & stepmother, who locked him in his room for ~23hrs a day.
At the hospital, he continued his story. He had been trapped for 2 decades…. He hadn’t seen a doctor or a dentist in 20 years. Sometimes he was fed a sandwich. His teeth were so decayed they often broke when he ate. He was 5’9”, but weighed only 68 pounds.
Holy crap this is like “Flowers in the Attic”
He Was Held Captive in His Room for Decades. Then He Set It on Fire.
Firefighters found a 32-year-old man who weighed 68 pounds. The police say his stepmother locked him away when he was 12.
#criminal #law #ChildAbuse
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/nyregion/ct-waterbury-captive.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=E004F32E-5307-499D-A68D-D66207D3456D
Firefighters found a 32-year-old man who weighed 68…
The New York TimesSpecifically, #ToddBlanche said the #Justice Dept will largely not bring cases that violate the #Bank Secrecy Act or contain unregistered #broker dealer violations & other registry requirements under the #Commodity #Exchange Act.
The memo said the National #Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team would be disbanded effective immediately.
#Trump #felon47 #broligarchy #techbros #cryptobros #technocracy #plutocracy #kleptocracy #MafiaState #USpol #criminal #law
Trump’s order also toys with innovative new abuses of power.
It directs the nonpartisan, independent Election Assistance Commission
to tighten ID measures
— a directive far beyond the scope of presidential authority.
But precedent, and the rule of law, have not often dissuaded the Trump administration.
Ominous language in the order directs states to provide voter roll information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
(The text also goes out of its way to praise the rather dystopian biometric voter ID measures in use in India.)
Later, the executive order stipulates that state voter lists must be made available for
review by the DHS and “the DOGE Administrator”
— this presumably referring to private citizen and public embarrassment Elon Musk.
In other words, the infamously intrusive DHS,
now with the infamously disruptive DOGE,
will be given some sort of authority over state voter rolls,
many of which are already subjected to baseless and illegal purges.
We can only imagine what sort of further mangling the flunkies of DOGE might have in mind.
After all, we’ve seen what kind of technical “upgrades” and other impending disasters they intend to carry out at the Social Security Administration (SSA).
(In fact, the executive order even contains a roundabout means of facilitating DOGE and Trump’s access to the SSA,
dictating that the SSA commissioner must provide SSA data for voting eligibility determinations.
This may be intended to circumvent legal barriers to DOGE intervention.)
Speaking of #security #threats,
the Trump administration has already hampered the "Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency" ( #CISA ), placing its 17-member election security team on administrative leave
and “under review.”
CISA is tasked with addressing election threats,
from cyberattacks to violence against poll workers.
Here, it seems likely that Trump is pursuing another petty #vendetta.
The president is evidently a bit bitter about CISA’s efforts to contradict his misinformation about COVID and the 2020 election,
as comments from DHS chief Kristi Noem
(who claimed the agency has ventured “far off mission”)
have hinted.
Yet another blow to electoral integrity arrived with the defunding of the Center for Internet Security
and the subsequent closure of its subsidiary, the "Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center"
( EI-ISAC ).
EI-ISAC,
alongside the "Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center",
served as a technical support and advisory arm on internet security.
Shuttering it may now leave open possible avenues for cyberattacks,
foreign interference, and other uncertain threats, according to Politico.
Unfortunately, Trump’s recent executive order contains even more diktats:
requiring the reporting of foreign nationals to the DHS,
unsourced claims of illicit foreign contributions to direct-democracy ballot initiatives
(which the right generally does not like),
and additional stringent demands to serve up voter information to unaccountable agencies,
for purposes unknown.
The most chilling section, though, might be the one titled “Prosecuting Election Crimes.”
It defines as a #criminal anyone who
“registered or voted despite being ineligible,”
“committed election fraud,”
“provided false information [on] forms,”
“threatened voters or election officials,”
or “engaged in unlawful conduct to interfere in the election process.”
Worth noting that some of these definitions are enormously subjective.
If it comes to prosecuting activists or political opponents
— which has become an acute possibility
— the listed violations will surely provide for some generously broad legal interpretations.
Lastly, the Trump administration appears keen to ensure its threats do not ring hollow. 
The order promises to penalize recalcitrant states by conditioning their funding on obedience.
The administration reserves itself the right to
“cease providing Federal funds to States that do not comply[.]”
We’ve already been treated to the ugly sight of Trump withholding funds as a cudgel.
Perhaps he’s emboldened by his success in goading elite universities to kiss the ring,
some so eager to grovel and demonstrate fealty to escape his wrath that they folded preemptively in fear
— or just complicity.
Voting rights advocates are hoping that at least some in the judiciary will not capitulate so easily.
His order on voter policy could disenfranchise millions,…
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