"State Police lost thousands of e-mails related to trooper overtime fraud case; The lack of evidence could put the prosecution of the high-profile criminal case in jeopardy" by Matt Rocheleau Globe Staff, August 14, 2020
An attorney for a former Massachusetts State Police lieutenant charged with overtime pay fraud says the law enforcement agency has lost tens of thousands of e-mails related to the high-profile criminal case, pointing to records that suggest the department can’t locate most e-mails prior to 2018.
Attorney Timothy M. Burke argued Wednesday in a state court hearing that the charges against retired Lieutenant David Keefe should be thrown out because the state can’t locate the e-mails that Keefe had sought as possible exculpatory evidence, showing he was on duty during the times prosecutors say he skipped work but still collected pay.
Keefe, charged with fraud and larceny, retired in March 2018, one day before more than 20 state troopers were publicly accused of payroll fraud.
Amazing how that works out, huh?
The damn mafia racket's malfeasance is now sabotaging prosecutions of themselves and their members.
In this upside down world, the cops have become the robbers and the robbers are, well, still robbers!
For nearly a year, Burke, along with prosecutors from Attorney General Maura Healey’s office, have sought these e-mails from State Police to no avail. According to new Suffolk Superior Court filings, state software technicians told investigators recently that the State Police — like many other state agencies — had switched e-mail programs in the spring of 2018, and that many e-mails are no longer available.
How conveeeeeenient!
Keefe was among 46 troopers implicated in 2018 — and under investigation for months before the e-mail switch — in a sprawling overtime pay fraud scandal that has resulted in nine convictions. The latest revelation, legal experts said, could put his prosecution in jeopardy.
“Preserving and disclosing exculpatory evidence is a bedrock principle of the criminal justice system,” said Brockton-based attorney John A. Amabile, president-elect of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. “It’s one of the most important pieces of administering criminal justice fairly.”
Who knew lawyers could tell funny jokes, too.
The circumstances are particularly troubling, Amabile added, because it was carried out by a police department, and after the defendant already had been under investigation.
Like, you mean, a cover-up?
Uh, those never happen in AmeriKa unless Trump does it.
The State Police previously acknowledged it destroyed key documents, namely years-old traffic citation records, that could have shown more trooper misconduct. The records were destroyed a year into the department’s internal audit of overtime abuse. The agency claimed the destruction was part of a routine annual process. The agency also came under fire for trying to destroy other records, while still more documents went missing amid investigations.
(Blog author's mouth goes agape and left hand into the air. They are "under fire," huh. Globe? Not the kind of fire the citizenry is under or the strange blazes in California that can't seem to be extinguished, but the poor, beset upon, criminal cover-up cabal known as the State Police, woa! Avoid them at all costs)
It’s unclear how many other agencies have lost access to troves of public employee e-mails, which would appear to violate state rules requiring that correspondence be kept for at least three years, or in some cases longer.
Oh, boy.
The state of Ma$$achu$etts is above its own tyrannical rules, don't you know that?
A State Police spokesman declined to comment, referring questions to Healey’s office, which also declined to comment but plans to respond later in court. Officials from Governor Charlie Baker’s executive information technology office refused to answer specific questions about e-mails.
That's called passing the buck.
That tyrannical f**ker had the reputation as Mr. Fix-It, and based on everything going on in this state, he hasn't fixed $hit! The MBTA is a mess but still is run as if there is no COVID (still thinking big), the DCF is still in shambles because its a child-trafficking operation, all of state government is still a ce$$ pool, the entire thing a personal patronage $y$tem for the well-connected, the state is at the top of the death tolls for the alleged viru$, and our economic livelihoods have been totally smashed by this monster -- and yet a once-around people (1777, 1812?) now meekly sit on their warped, leftist hands and accept the edicts from King Charles.
The State Police fraud scheme was allegedly hatched more than two decades ago by top commanders who pushed troopers to write citations under an unlawful ticket quota system. As long as troopers handed in enough tickets to meet the quota, supervisors allegedly turned a blind eye and didn’t require them to actually work their shifts. A federal judge in January 2020 said the troopers’ conduct appeared to amount to a criminal conspiracy and he has pushed federal prosecutors to examine the case more deeply.....
Sad that it took the feds to root out corruption in Ma$$achu$etts, and the whole thing began because the elite of Bo$ton and the Globe wanted to get rid of the state cops in the $eaport di$trict and replace them with the much more malleable BPD and it mushroomed out into this.
Look, the "Staties" have always had a bad reputation in this state, but what is noticeable now is all levels of "law enforcement" is corrupt.
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"The bodies of a young man and a young woman were recovered Friday afternoon from an SUV submerged in 40 feet of water off the Black Falcon Terminal in Boston’s Seaport District, State Police said....."
I suppose they would know where they are buried.
"A missing New Bedford woman was identified Saturday as one of two people whose bodies were recovered from an SUV pulled from Boston’s Seaport District on Friday, authorities said. Tatianna Morales, 21, was reported missing earlier this week, according to New Bedford police officials. The man whose body was recovered was identified as Djovany Pierre, 21, of Roxbury, according to State Police. The two were found inside a white, Ford SUV that was submerged in 40 feet of water, officials said. The Suffolk district attorney’s office is leading the investigation into their deaths, State Police said. No further information was immediately available Saturday evening."
A COVID-induced double-suicide?
Also see:
Pedestrian struck, killed, near Wollaston Beach in Quincy
The State Police sure get around, and what is odd is the Globe displayed this photograph at the bottom of the weather page.
Better call the environmental police:
"Environmental police officer probed for use of body camera" by Matt Rocheleau Globe staff, August 15, 2020
Civil rights advocates have long called for police officers to wear body cameras, but this isn’t what they meant.
A Massachusetts Environmental Police lieutenant is under internal investigation after he allegedly began wearing a body camera, apparently without approval from higher-ups, and recorded footage while on duty that was later posted to Facebook, officials said.
His actions raise serious legal concerns, specialists said. The head of the union that represents the agency’s sworn employees said other officers alerted the union to the videos. It’s unclear what the videos showed.
It’s also not the first time that allegations of unauthorized recordings have surfaced.
Former Colonel James McGinn was fired in 2018 amid accusations that he installed unauthorized surveillance cameras, hired a private investigator to follow an officer, and fixed two traffic tickets for a friends. Last summer, McGinn filed a federal lawsuit asserting that he was wrongfully terminated as retaliation for reporting unethical and illegal conduct within the agency. The suit is still pending.
McGinn, a former State Police sergeant, had served as Governor Charlie Baker’s personal campaign driver before Baker appointed him to lead the agency in 2014.
OMFG!
Time to get Baker out of the oven and give him a bath, Massachusetts!
“With the history of secret cameras and private investigators, we take this very seriously,” Conners said.
I wish I could, although I'm sure it vanishes down the memory hole like the decades, nay, centuries worth of scandals in this God-forsaken Commonwealth(ha)!
Sergeant Thomas Conners, president of the Massachusetts Environmental Police Officers Association, said he doesn’t know other details about the recordings, such as how long the lieutenant wore a body camera and recorded footage, why he did it, how many videos were posted to Facebook, or what they showed.
Well, someone must have seen them and friend a like, who friended a like, who friended a like, and so on, and so on, and so on.
Peter Elikann, a Boston-based criminal defense attorney, said the case raises legal concerns. If the lieutenant didn’t turn the footage over for subsequent court proceedings, it could amount to obstruction of justice, he said.
How Trumpian!
“It is illegal for law enforcement to withhold any exculpatory evidence that might be helpful to a defendant,” said Elikann, the former chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section Council, “and it is concerning that a police officer might be making that judgment call on his or her own.”
C'mon, man, you guys are busting me up.
Such concerns were raised following similar revelations in 2017 that a State Police trooper, Nicholas Holden, had recorded video and audio of traffic stops and arrests without department approval and then failed to provide most of the footage to prosecutors for court proceedings, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported. Earlier this month, Holden was fired over an unspecified social media post, MassLive reported.
Elikann also said that if the lieutenant recorded audio of other people while he was not in uniform and did not obtain their permission to do so, he may have violated the state’s wiretapping law, which requires that a person provide consent to be recorded.
“Normally, with a uniformed officer, there would be no expectation of privacy when engaged in an interaction as part of their public duties,” Elikann said, but “if this officer was either undercover or not in a uniform, or even if the other officers didn’t know it, there could be a problem with that.”
Aren't police protectors of our privacy?
That's what I was taught in $chool: the government protects your rights because it's the law.
Elikann said posting the videos on social media also could violate the law. Even if someone else uploaded the videos, “he would still be in violation to carelessly lose control and custody of police evidence.”
EVEN IF!
Conners said he hopes management takes swift action. He said the agency’s new head, Colonel Shaun Santos, who took the reins in February, has worked well with the union and its members, but “the rank-and-file have serious concerns and trust issues with certain other managers,” including fear of retaliation, Conners said. “It’s not all of them. It’s a few specific ones,” he added, declining to provide names.....
Going to weed out all the leakers and rest of the good cops, huh?
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Here is your bottle of water while you await the hearing in your cell:
"‘Significant drought’ declared in all regions in Mass., residents urged to limit water use" by Matt Berg Globe Correspondent, August 14, 2020
Following unusually high temperatures in July and so far this month, state officials have declared a Level 2 drought for all regions of Massachusetts, urging citizens to limit their water consumption, state officials announced Friday.
So not only will there soon be famine (fortunately, the kings and the heroes have that covered), the state is now going after an even more vital resource: water.
Looks like full-blown Communi$m is nigh.
I'd say when do they cut off the air, but they have already poisoned it.
Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Kathleen Theoharides declared a “Level 2 – Significant Drought” in all of the state’s regions, according to a joint statement from Energy and Environmental Affairs, the Drought Management Task Force, and the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.
“The combination of three months of limited rainfall and well above normal temperatures through July and early August have led to very dry conditions in every region of Massachusetts,” Theoharides said in the statement. “All levels of government are coordinating to address these critical drought conditions.”
When do the arsons begin?
This is so Ukraine 90 years ago, and it's almost incomprehensible to most.
Oh, I weep for my poor fellow citizens -- and for me.
Officials said the conditions “warrant detailed monitoring of drought conditions, close coordination among state and federal agencies, emphasis on water conservation, more stringent watering restrictions, and technical outreach and assistance for the affected municipalities.”
“It is essential that residents and businesses across the Commonwealth take extra care to conserve water both indoors and outdoors and be mindful of the increased risk of wildland fires when using any fire or smoking materials,” Theoharides said.
Of course, so many of us are "non-e$$ential," according to them.
The state “strongly urges” residents and businesses to limit indoor and outdoor water consumption, according to a statement from Craig Gilvarg, EEA spokesman. Residents should only use hand-held hoses or watering cans, and should limit their use to either before 9 a.m. or after 5 p.m.
Think I will go let the faucet run (just kidding).
Because dry conditions may lead to an increased threat of brush fires, MEMA officials insisted that citizens be extra cautious when using charcoal grills, matches, and open flames outdoors.
And if not, I'm sure some agenda-pushing state saboteurs will start some. WAKE UP and SMELL the COVID RE$ET, folks!
How do you think they get there -- while blaming it all on their climate change crap!?
The decision to declare a Significant Drought was made following a recent meeting with federal and state officials who compose the Drought Management Task Force, the statement said. The declaration will remain in effect until water levels return to normal.
Which will be NEVER, right?
The state recorded the second-hottest July on record last month, officials said. Few areas received normal amounts of rainfall, and most areas had a deficit of 1 to 3 inches.
It was hot, but it's the hottest month of summer and who knows if the Globe is telling the truth there?
They lie and distort everything else; why would this be any different?
Temperatures in August have been 2 to 4 degrees above average so far, and above average temperatures are predicted over the coming weeks and months, the statement said.
Good, I want it to cook and kill COVID, like it already has.
The majority of the regions are experiencing a “classic long-term drought,” while regions such as Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, and the Islands are experiencing conditions similar to a “flash drought,” officials said.
Better stock up on water now!
A flash drought is classified as “a rapid onset drought with decreased precipitation, above normal temperatures, and incoming radiation resulting in abnormally high evapotranspiration all combining to increase fire danger and decrease crop moisture levels,” the statement said.
The task force noted that streamflow improved throughout July because of scattered rain, but worsened overall in most regions throughout the first two weeks of August.
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At least the morning dew of the dreaded but inevitable fall will help
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"Online home goods retailer Wayfair has pulled a beach towel depicting the Hindu deity Lord Ganesha, according to a Hindu organization that raised objections. Rajan Zed, president of Universal Society of Hinduism, said in a statement Thursday that the Boston-based company had apologized and removed the towel from its website within an hour of the organization raising concerns. Zed called the “Hindu Elephant Beach Towel,” which retailed for about $26, “highly inappropriate’’ and thanked Wayfair for understanding the Hindu community’s concerns. He said Wayfair “should not be in the business of religious appropriation, sacrilege, and ridiculing entire communities’’ and suggested it and other companies send their senior executives for training in religious and cultural sensitivity. Lord Ganesha is worshiped by Hindus as a god of wisdom and is invoked before the beginning of any major undertaking, according to Zed. The Reno-based society said Wayfair previously removed a cutting board, pillow, and bathmats with images of Lord Ganesha after Hindus protested."
What is most indicting is the Globe ignored the pimping of "just what I need (ugh)" over there.
"The Mohegan Sun casino said it will lay off an unspecified number of employees due to impacts from the pandemic. The southeastern Connecticut casino on sovereign tribal land opened June 1 despite opposition from Governor Ned Lamont over the potential danger of spreading coronavirus in large group settings. About 3,000 of roughly 5,000 workers returned to work at that time. The company said Thursday it is ending its furlough program on Sept. 30. Mohegan Sun President and General Manager Jeff Hamilton said the move will reduce workforce among employees not called back to work before the end of September. “This difficult decision . . . was driven by the unprecedented circumstances created by the pandemic, including reduced capacity and the inability to open all of the property amenities,” Hamilton said in a prepared statement reported by NBC Connecticut. The company said it was working with employees to find new positions."
At least there are plenty of seats at the tables, even if(!) you're up the creek without a $addle:
"Duck Creek Technologies Inc., a software provider for insurers, climbed as much as 65 percent in its trading debut after raising $405 million in an initial public offering priced above the targeted range. The Boston-based company sold 15 million shares for $27 apiece, according to a statement Thursday, after marketing them for $23 to $25 each. The shares opened at $42 Friday and were up 49 percent from the offer price to $40.30 at midday before closing up 48.15 percent at $40. After a spring lull in IPOs amid the uncertainty and volatility brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, issuers and bankers aren’t taking much of a summer break. Less than halfway through the month, companies, including so-called blank-check companies, have raised $9.7 billion in US IPOs. That’s busier then the entire month of August for every year since 2000, when $10.3 billion was raised. There are more deals to come. Airbnb Inc., the most anticipated listing of the year, plans to file for an IPO within weeks and could go public this year after posting better than expected second quarter results."
It's all in the $tars, folks!
"Stock indexes barely budged on Wall Street Friday, leaving the S&P 500 just shy of its record once again. The S&P 500 edged down 0.58, or less than 0.1%, to 3,372.85 after drifting between small gains and losses throughout the day. They’re the latest meandering moves for the market, which has taken a pause after erasing almost all of the steep losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In each of the prior two days, the S&P 500 made a brief run above its record closing high, which was set in February, only to fade in the afternoon. It remains within 0.4% of its record. Consumer spending is the main locomotive for the U.S. economy, and a report on Friday showed some more improvements for U.S. retailers, though less than economists expected. Sales at grocery stores, gas stations and other retailers rose 1.2% last month from June. It’s the third straight month of gains, following a historic plunge in the spring, but it marked a sharp slowdown from June’s 8.4% growth. It also fell short of the 2% growth that economists were expecting. The report showed that the economy is now “more in a gentle phase of recovery,” said Mike Zigmont, director of trading and research at Harvest Volatility Management. “It’s positive, but it’s not as ballistic as it was before,” he said."
Have you recovered from your losses yet?
As for the grocery store experience:
Hey, “that man over there isn’t wearing a mask.” This becomes one of the now too common moments that each of us working in grocery stores during the pandemic has come to dread: confrontations with customers that span from mild to ugly to violent. I walk over to the unmasked man. “Excuse me, sir, I need to ask you to put on a mask. It’s a store requirement.” “I already talked to your manager,” he says, smirking. “I have a medical condition.” There it is: the two words — medical condition — that are the bullet in this game of Russian Roulette with the health and lives of the rest of us. From the smirk on his face and the “nyah-nyah” way he says it, I believe he is lying....."
Implicitly blaming Russia for the Chinese virus, is the Stasi enforcer?
"Again, shoppers turn out, boost retail sales; July’s 1.2% rise far short of May, June by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports | August 14, 2020
WASHINGTON -- Americans increased their spending at retail stores and restaurants in July for a third-straight month, but some evidence suggests that sales are weakening with the expiration of government rescue aid that had put more money in people's pockets.
The increasingly onerous lockdowns have nothing to do with it!
Friday's report from the Commerce Department showed that retail purchases rose by a seasonally adjusted 1.2% last month. The gains of the past three months have now restored retail purchases to levels reached before they plunged in March and April when the pandemic shuttered businesses and paralyzed the economy, yet with Americans' overall income now likely shrinking, economists expect spending to slow further.
It's growing for a certain cla$$ of people, growing beyond their wilde$t dreams.
Consumers pulled back on big-ticket items like cars, building materials and sporting goods in July, but spent more on food, gasoline, and health and beauty products, the Commerce Department said. Spending increases were generally modest, with one exception: Electronics and appliance stores grew 23% from June as families stocked up on laptops, headphones and webcams to prepare for a virtual start to the school year in many parts of the country.
Who$e agenda benefits there?
"Gains were extremely uneven," Diane Swonk, chief economist at Grant Thornton, wrote in a note to clients. "Retail sales showed signs of slowing in July, which underscores our concern that the rebound is losing momentum."
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"The pandemic has plunged the nation into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and though there are signs that the wealthy have recovered, economists say it probably will take years for the rebound to reach most Americans. More than 30 million people are collecting unemployment benefits, with Black and Hispanic families among those who have been hardest hit by the crisis. Grocery stores, meanwhile, are doing brisk business as Americans increasingly do their dining at home. The rise in electronics and appliance sales in July, analysts said, is part of a broader shift toward at-home learning. Parents are cutting back on the purchases of backpacks, uniforms and school supplies, but are spending more on computers, printers and other technology for online classes. Back-to-school technology sales are expected to grow 28 percent this year as parents hold off on buying new clothes and shoes for their children....."
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Something i have fond memories of, shopping for new school clothes, has now been taken from kids, and the wealthy have done more than recovered, WaCompo. They are making obscene fortunes hand over fi$t.
"The coming months will be crucial for retailers, analysts say, as they try to make up lost ground during the back-to-school and holiday shopping seasons, which are typically the two largest sales periods of the year....."
Yeah, a "lot is up in the air right now" as they act like COVID doesn't exist, and "while households are spending, they are anxious about their well-being, so they are being pragmatic,” said Jack Kleinhenz, chief economist for the National Retail Federation, an industry trade group. "We have to remember that there's uncertainty about economic policy and that the resurgence of the virus is putting pressure on the fledgling recovery," with Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail, saying, “where shoppers elected to spend their money remains very uneven, and while online apparel is performing very well, visits to clothing shops, especially those located in malls, are extremely suppressed. Impulse buys are down and spending on certain categories, like workwear, has all but been wiped out.”
Oh, the agony of defeat:
"Miami businessman pleads guilty in Vermont ski fraud case" by Lisa Rathke, Associated Press August 15, 2020
A Miami businessman accused of being the mastermind behind the largest fraud case in Vermont's history pleaded guilty on Friday over a failed plan to build a biotechnology plant using tens of millions of dollars in foreign investors' money.
He thieved from the wrong people.
Ariel Quiros, 64, the former owner of Jay Peak and Burke Mountain ski resorts in northern Vermont, changed his plea to guilty on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering and the concealment of material information. Nine other charges were dropped.
Quiros pleaded guilty via video conference to the three separate charges, one at a time, after being asked by US District Court Judge Geoffrey Crawford.
During the hourlong hearing, Quiros answered “Yes, Your Honor” or “No, Your Honor” to a series of questions from Crawford.
“Mr. Quiros’ guilt was beyond doubt," Michael Pieciak, the commissioner of the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation said in a statement issued after the hearing. "Our department’s ten-month investigation traced every penny of investor money and determined that much of it had inappropriately been funneled to support Mr. Quiros’ lavish lifestyle.”
Given our virtual world, will he receive a green-screen sentence?
Quiros, of Key Biscayne, Florida, and three others were indicted over a failed plan to build a biotechnology plant in Newport, Vermont, using millions raised through the EB-5 visa program, which encourages foreigners to invest in U.S. projects that create jobs in exchange for a chance to earn permanent U.S. residency.
Under the plea agreement, Quiros would serve just over eight years in prison. The final sentence will be up to Crawford at sentencing, which will be held at a later date.
It was a “ massive eight-year fraudulent scheme in Ponzi-like fashion against foreign investors,” but the mayor of Newport is glad the wheels of justice were turning and he hopes that the receiver will begin the process of recouping lost loot.
About a half-dozen projects other than the biotechnology plant were largely completed, Pieciak said. Among the projects that were completed include the Jay Peak Hotel, an indoor water park, ice arena and golf course.
“The fraud in the Northeast Kingdom caused significant harm to the community, and although a guilty plea will not undo that harm, it will help the community heal and continue to move forward,” Pieciak said in his statement.
There were about 800 investors in all the projects.
“About 200 are still waiting for the green card - which are now at risk due to the fraud,” he said.
Quiros and Stenger settled civil charges with the SEC, with Quiros surrendering more than $80 million in assets, including the two ski resorts. A court appointed receiver has been overseeing Jay Peak and Burke with plans to eventually sell them.....
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There will be no skiing in the future -- unless you are part of the cho$en cla$$, which will have vast expanses to enjoy!
Also see:
The officer was the hero in one viral video, but another told a different story
That comes despite the new push on training officers to respect the diversity as they patrol the parks.
Robert Trump, the president’s younger brother, dead at 71
Oddly enough, Jim Stone has looked into it and "it appears Trump's brother got drunk and went on an extended very salient twitter rant. There are a few people claiming in social media that this Twitter has to be fake, but I looked into this very closely and it does not appear to be fake. If anyone rips this, and rips me, saying it is fake, don't buy that without scrutinizing that claim closely. I obviously can't prove this is real, but there's no evidence at all that it is not real. Read it and LOL, this is a long and good one, and for strong supporting evidence it's probably real, scroll to the bottom."
The brother apparently had info on Michael Cohen and was going to unmask Kamala Harris while hammering Obama, and had said COVID would disappear after November's election and that Bill Gates would be in prison by the end of the year -- and now he shows up dead?
Somebody is lying, and who even knew Trump had another brother?
While the Globe is worried about mail-in ballots (as they well should be given the audience at Fox as they set up the grounds to holler fraud when Trump should win in a landslide) and House race, I'm going to take the long view of history for there may yet be hope:
"In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued Proclamation 86, which prohibited the states of the Union from engaging in commercial trade with states that were in rebellion — i.e., the Confederacy."
To later be assassinated.
"In 1978, James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., told a Capitol Hill hearing he did not commit the crime, saying he’d been set up by a mysterious man called “Raoul.”
Another in an endless line of lone gunman patsies.
"In 2002, terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal reportedly was found shot to death in Baghdad, Iraq; he was 65."
Sort of miss Saddam Hussein now; could use his help against ISIS™.
Beyond those were plane crashes in 1987, 2010, and 2015, while "last year, New York City’s chief medical examiner ruled that the death of jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein was a suicide, confirming that Epstein hanged himself in his jail cell as he faced sex trafficking charges."
I hear the sounds of music coming from somewhere, but it isn't Bo$ton:
"The music scene they know and love may soon be unrecognizable because of the coronavirus pandemic, which has plunged the U.K. economy into its worst recession on record. Live music venues have been forced to shut doors for nearly five months — and scores are at imminent risk of permanent closure. The British government announced that indoor and socially-distanced live music could resume on Saturday, but this doesn’t mean that the country’s vibrant live music scene will be immediately restored. “The truth is that actually only 11% of venues will be able to open in a financially viable manner,” said Mark Davyd, founder and CEO of the Music Venue Trust. Clubs have already amassed millions of pounds in debts since March, with more expected in the coming months....."
