"Harvard sanctions professor with close Jeffrey Epstein ties, closes program he ran" by Jeremy C. Fox Globe Correspondent, March 26, 2021
A Harvard professor who had close ties to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be barred from advising students for two years and the program he ran will be shut down, after the university found that he violated policies on professional conduct, officials said Thursday.
Martin Nowak, a biology and math professor, will continue to teach but won’t be allowed to lead any new research projects or take on new advisees for two years, and Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics will be shut down “as soon as it is feasible,” Dean Claudine Gay said in an e-mail to Nowak’s colleagues.
Nowak said Friday that the events of the past year have “caused great and productive reflection on my part,” and that he regrets his role in developing the relationship between the Ivy League school and Epstein.
The Asians lost their best defender when Trump left as the Glob hides the Black on Asian racism.
Nowak is ready to continue his research, which includes the resistance of COVID-19 to vaccination, the disease of clonal hematopoiesis and the dynamics of cancer and its treatments, according to a statement from his lawyer, Ellen J. Zucker.
Zucker suggested Harvard unfairly blamed Nowak for the university’s ties to Epstein.
“It is a tired truth of organizational dynamics that individuals, and not institutions, are too often left alone to take responsibility when things go wrong,” she said.
Nowak violated several university policies and “demonstrated a pattern of blameworthy negligence and unprofessional behavior” in his dealings with Epstein, Gay said in her e-mail. Epstein died by suicide in jail in 2019.....
That official lie made made me tighten up with a cramp!
I'll bet he enjoyed the slap on the wrist and not the march to the field, although I'm sure there is one member who they wouldn't mind seeing shot(?), and the Globe has basically back-burnered any look into the affair for what has become increasingly obvious: it was a blackmail trap by a wealthy interloper from the sewer to exert leverage on the political stooges who were then installed into power.
I can't remember who bought the New York City apartment, but I'll bet it is as haunted as the Bloomstein place.
Related:
"Two men have been indicted by a statewide grand jury on sex trafficking charges in Eastern Massachusetts, and two others were indicted for allegedly purchasing sex for a fee, state Attorney General Maura Healey’s office announced Friday. Gabriel Jean Marie, 35, of Brockton, and Tremaine Wilder, 32, of Taunton, each face three counts of trafficking persons for sexual servitude, and one count of conspiracy, Healey’s office said in a statement. Patterson Skeete, 56, of Jamaica Plain, and Michael Webster, 37, of Randolph, were both indicted for sex for a fee. Jean Marie and Wilder allegedly trafficked their victims in Brockton, Westwood, and Boston. Jean Marie is alleged to have recruited victims, prosecutors said. Both men then allegedly posted advertisements on websites, transported the victims, and paid for hotel rooms, the statement said. Both are expected to be arraigned in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Plymouth Superior courts. Skeete and Webster allegedly bought commercial sex, facilitated by Jean Marie and Wilder. Both are expected to be arraigned in Norfolk Superior Court."
It's all about her run for governor and they found the body of one woman with threats also made against children as the Globe dogwhistle literally steers you in that direction:
"Police shut down 3 Pawtucket massage parlors; A Lincoln woman has pleaded no contest to racketeering charges and forfeited about $650,000" by Amanda Milkovits Globe Staff, March 24, 2021
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — A Lincoln woman accused of operating some of the most-notorious Asian massage parlors in Rhode Island has pleaded no contest to racketeering and forfeited about $650,000.
Looks like Raimondo is getting just the relaxation she needs after bolting to Wa$hington.
This is the first time that the attorney general’s office has used the state Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute, known as RICO, to go after the operators of illicit massage parlors.
“Among the most effective methods to halt and deter serious illegal conduct is to target criminals where it often hurts the most – their pockets,” Attorney General Peter F. Neronha said in a statement. “Here, we were able to seize and forfeit substantial assets from the defendant, who was profiting from illegal sex acts behind the scenes of an otherwise legitimate business. I am pleased that we were able to shut down this operation, because of great investigatory work by the Pawtucket Police Department and our prosecution team.”
The one good thing about the Communi$t takeover and Great Re$et is the filth will be removed from the outside society and streamed into your cell, 'er, abode, and where will Bob Kraft now go to relieve the stress of running a big-time football team?
Until now, these three massage parlors in Pawtucket have weathered decades worth of attempts to close them.
In 2009, state lawmakers closed a 30-year-old loophole that had permitted indoor prostitution, and then in 2016, cities passed ordinances to crack down on brothels barely disguised as “body works” spas.
The one Ep$tein escaped through?
Still, massage parlors have hung on in the cities and suburbs, operating in strip malls and drab buildings, with mysterious owners and a shifting cast of workers.
Customers — almost always men, and many from out of state — would be buzzed into the spas day and night. About $60 or so covered a basic massage; the sex acts were extra and paid for in cash. The women often lived in the spas or were shuttled back to local apartments, never left alone. They were cycled through every few weeks, with routes tracing back to a hub in Flushing, N.Y. Men paying for sex would describe them in lurid detail in chat rooms and online sex sites.
Law enforcement knew all this, but struggled to stop it. Police raids had little effect on business beyond raising questions about whether law enforcement was arresting trafficking victims.
After Pawtucket police cracked down on three massage parlors in March 2019, “they opened two weeks later,” said Lt. Timothy Graham. “We said, ‘We have to figure out a way that they stay closed.’”
CVD sure helped and this is obviously preparing us all for the hard fist coming down soon in $ervice to the greater genocidal project and Great Re$et.
Far East Acupressure, Harmony Spa, and Pleasant Massage Therapy had been operating for years; Far East and Harmony even brought a lawsuit against the city over its body works ordinance.
Then, the police, prosecutors, and Homeland Security decided on a different strategy. Instead of going after the women who work inside the massage parlors, they’d follow the money. Sgt. David Medeiros, who was a detective serving on a Homeland Security task force at the time, took the lead, Graham said.
Other states are starting to do the same. Donna Hughes, a professor of women’s studies at the University of Rhode Island who studies trafficking, said the money is where law enforcement should focus.
I hate to ask, but don't I know you from somewhere?
“We know these are criminal networks. A lot of the massage parlors are connected and have headquarters in other places,” said Hughes. “The only way you bring down criminal networks is you have to go as far to the top as you can and reach all the players.”
It's turned into a $troke job, folks!
There’s also a different approach to understanding how the women working at the massage parlors will react. “We know a lot about domestic trafficking of minors, because they come to trust you and they talk. The Asian women are controlled by criminal networks,” Hughes said. “Even if they have choice in what they’re doing, they’re not going to go against a criminal network. If they are paying off a debt... they are not going to risk talking. There’s a whole culture of silence.”
I'm not even going to state the obvious.
Where is Bill Clinton anyway?
Graham said that’s what happened when police and Homeland Security agents raided the Pawtucket spas in late 2019 and arrested 16 women and three men. “None of the women would speak to us,” Graham said. “We had Korean interpreters, we made sure they had someone available, but they were not happy with us.”
Homeland Security checked the immigration status for the women who were arrested; there are trafficking visas for victims. Most had addresses in Flushing, N.Y., Graham said.
Some of those charged at the time have had their cases dropped, as prosecutors have focused on a few who are believed to have been the owners or managers of the businesses. In February 2020, a Providence County Grand Jury indicted four women believed to be owners and operators of the three Pawtucket massage parlors — charging all with racketeering, conspiracy, maintaining a common nuisance, and pandering — all felonies.
Grace Kwon, 57, who operated the Harmony Spa and was also connected to Pleasant Massage Therapy, pleaded no contest on March 17 and was sentenced to three years suspended with probation. She also forfeited about $650,000 in proceeds and assets. The Pawtucket Police Department will get 80 percent of the forfeiture, and the attorney general’s office will get the remainder.
The money came from bank CDs, bank accounts, money orders, and more than $609,000 cash that police found in her house in Lincoln, Rhode Island. They found that she was “washing money” — several thousand dollars at a time — at Twin River casino, Foxwoods, and Mohegan Sun, according to court records.
So glad they are here and everywhere, aren't you?
Conduits for criminal money laundering sold as a job-bringing backbone of a future economy that will not be now because off CVD, yaaaaay!
A lawyer for Kwon did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
Yon C. Wood, 70, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Jenny Li, 59, of Attleboro, Mass., are scheduled for a disposition in their cases at Providence County Superior Court on April 28.
Jean Son Derrico, 62, of Flushing, N.Y., disappeared last year; a judge has issued a bench warrant for her arrest.
The attorney general’s office said that Kwon could reopen her spa, provided it is a legitimate business.
As of this week, all of the storefronts where the spas used to operate were vacant.
Fire in the hole when following the money?
I KNEW I saw her before:
"Professor’s essay with ‘anti-transgender perspectives’ signals an ongoing problem; Students and staff say they were shocked but not surprised by Gender and Women’s Studies professor Donna Hughes’s essay, which compared “the gender identity movement” to right-wing conspiracy theory QAnom" by Alexa Gagosz Globe Staff, March 25, 2021
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — University of Rhode Island students and staff members say news of a URI women’s studies professor espousing “anti-transgender perspectives” is just a glimpse of what they say are deeply rooted issues at the university and “a whole lot of hurt.”
URI Gender and Women’s Studies professor Donna Hughes, a scholar who helped found the academic study of human trafficking, published an essay in late February on 4W, an online platform that describes itself as a fourth-wave, radical feminist outlet “outside of the liberal mainstream.”
In the essay, Hughes decries “the trans-sex fantasy” and compares “the gender identity movement” to right-wing conspiracy theory QAnon. She describes hormonal and surgical interventions as “horrors that de-sex” young people, and asserts that “The biological category of sex, particularly women’s sex, is being smashed.”
“When I first became aware of this piece, I was shocked but not surprised,” said Annie Russell, the director of the university’s Gender and Sexuality Center, which offers education programs related to LGBTQA+ people and issues.
No offense, but why not just sing the damn alphabet at this point?
Russell told the Globe that she learned of the 4W piece on March 19, and immediately told her direct supervisors. She said she made it clear to the administration, including university president David Dooley, that she thought it critical that the university not be silent. She organized an online forum Monday, so members of the university’s LGBTQA+ community could discuss the essay and its impact. Approximately 120 people registered for the event, she said — far more than she anticipated.
On Tuesday, the university quietly published a statement on its website condemning Hughes’s anti-transgender statements while saying it “honors and respects” her right to freedom of speech.
On Wednesday, Hughes defended her essay in an email to a Globe reporter.....
That was when I fell asleep on the table, zzzz.
I feel sorry for the woman because she only points out the obvious, that women are being relegated to second-class status again and you want to know who rules you?
Those that can holler rape and not be criticized:
"High school student in Quincy targeted with ‘pro-rape speech’ online" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, March 25, 2021
School officials are launching a sexual assault awareness campaign at both high schools in Quincy after a student was allegedly targeted with “pro-rape speech” online. The perpetrators will face discipline, Superintendent Kevin W. Mulvey said.
His statement, posted Sunday on the school district’s website, said officials learned Friday about an “alarming incident involving Quincy High School student misconduct, specifically, sexual harassment and hate speech.”
“This misconduct, which included pro-rape speech on social media, was extremely disturbing to the targeted student and the entire school community. This is offensive and dangerous behavior that will not be tolerated by the Quincy Public Schools,” Mulvey said.
Only if it is outside his fiefdom and above his pay grade, and who knows what may be goi9ng on inside his $y$tem.
Mayor Thomas P. Koch, who chairs the School Committee, said “this kind of behavior is absolutely never tolerated in this community.”
“When the superintendent was made aware of this out-of-school incident, it was thoroughly investigated, and there will be serious consequences for those involved,” he said.
Mulvey said the district is committed to working with students to promote healthy relationships.
“Clearly, there is work to be done within the school community to combat the minimization and glorification of sexual assault,” Mulvey said. “To that end, a sexual assault awareness campaign will be introduced immediately at both high schools.”
The program will teach students about the importance of healthy relationships, respectful communication, and appropriate responses. The school district has reached out to DOVE Inc., a domestic violence prevention group in Quincy, and Walker Therapeutic and Educational Programs to assist with the campaign.
School Committee member Courtney Perdios thanked Mulvey and other administrators for recognizing that “although the incident occurred on social media and not inside one of our school buildings, the impacts it had on other students and families within our school community were serious and needed to be addressed.”
“While I am saddened and angry that this situation occurred, I am proud of the way QPS stood with the targeted student, and all victims of sexual assault, to reaffirm that sexual harassment and hate speech will not be tolerated in our school community,” she said by e-mail.
The two schools are North Quincy High School and Quincy High School. North Quincy’s principal, Robert Shaw, said he was not aware that any students at his school were involved.
Starting to feel like a jerk-job!
The kid's defense is he was a fast learner and learned from the be$t!
Now relax and take the shot so you can go play volleyball?
"South Boston convention center will welcome thousands for a volleyball competition in May; Facility will get around strict meeting limits by using rule for sporting events" by Jon Chesto Globe Staff, March 26, 2021
The Boston Convention & Exhibition Center will host its first big event since the COVID-19 pandemic wiped the facility’s slate clean a year ago, by drawing thousands of people to the South Boston complex in May for a youth volleyball competition.
The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority said state health secretary Marylou Sudders approved the event’s safety plan on Friday. The MCCA is getting around the strict pandemic-related limits on indoor events — the state now limits indoor meetings to 100 people, while the city of Boston goes further with a 60-person cap — because this one is being treated as a sporting event in a large-capacity venue. The new rules for venues that can accommodate 5,000-plus people allow for up to 12 percent of their regular occupancy limits. It’s under these rules, which took effect on Monday, that TD Garden and Fenway Park are opening up for sports fans.
The MCCA said the New England Regional Volleyball Association event on May 21 through May 23, called the Mizuno Boston Volleyball Festival and run by JVC Tournaments, will translate to an estimated 8,500 hotel room nights in the city.
“People around here, including myself, are giddy today,” said David Gibbons, the executive director of the convention center authority.
At no point during the day will attendance exceed 4,000 people, or 9 percent of the convention center’s capacity, according to a document submitted to Sudders’ office. That letter also says the flow of events will be coordinated to ensure a minimum of six feet of distance between spectators, there will be no food service on site, and everyone in the building, including the teenage athletes, will wear masks.
The annual volleyball competition was the last event at the BCEC before everything shut down in March 2020, according to a convention center spokesman. It took place on March 7 and 8 last year.
The MCCA has a few events scheduled for June and July of this year at its Boston facilities, which also include the Hynes Convention Center, but for those to go forward, Gibbons said he’ll need the Baker administration to increase capacity levels for indoor meetings. Both convention centers have been largely empty, though the BCEC was used as a field hospital last year and the Hynes is now a COVID-19 vaccination site.....
Some see it as a home away from home and not a concentration camp or prison.
I must confess at this point that I watched the better part of two periods last night. The joy and exhibition was tempered by the fact that it was only friends and family in a mostly empty and darkened arena. They are on again at 5 today so I will probably tune into some of it as the game is graceful with such skilled athletes. Sadly, we are no longer to be apart of it as the world is reserved for the elite cla$$ and their $ervants.
