šŗšø - Five current and former IRS employees have been charged in a scheme to fraudulently collect COVID-19 aid.
According to court documents, the defendants tried to obtain a total of USD 1 million by submitting false applications.
According to the Department of Justice, the defendants used the money for cars, luxury goods and personal travel. Brian Saulsberry of Memphis obtained USD 171 400 and is accused of buying a Mercedes and cushioning a personal investment account.
Tina Humes, also of Memphis, received USD 123 612 according to the DOJ, and is accused of using it to buy jewelry and go on a trip to Las Vegas.
This is part of a larger effort to crack down on COVID-19 fraud schemes that has led to 150 prosecutions and the seizure of USD 75 million dollars.
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š®š±š”š± Israeli officials are āpissedā after Brad Parscaleās massive pro-Israel influencer campaign fails spectacularly.
After the U.S. and Iran agreed to a ceasefire deal on June 17, a senior U.S. official was monitoring the online reaction when they noticed something surprising.
President Donald Trumpās aides had expected his supporters to celebrate the agreement. Instead, online influencers in Trumpās MAGA movement were excoriating it on social media.Ā One shared an Israeli op-ed titled, āYou Could Have Been the Greatest President of AllāBut You Failed.ā Several posted the same video of Qatarās prime minister appearing to snub Vice President J.D. Vance in Israel, arguing it showed regional powers dismissing the Trump Administrationās ānaivete.ā Others accused Trump of surrendering before achieving his stated objective of eliminating Iranās nuclear program. Many of the posts appeared almost simultaneously, with similarities in language and tone.
The official ...
šŖšŗāš£ The EU ordered YouTube to take down a video from a Finnish podcast which criticised the Chat Control initiative.
Puheenaihe podcast is a Finnish current affairs program with 60k subscribers. In this episode, Peter Sund, CEO of the Finnish Information Security Cluster (Kyberala ry) offered pointed criticism of the EU's new Chat Control directive, which was enacted under questionable circumstances.
Because the media is in Finnish, it is highly likely the censorship request came from a Finnish government official or a related party.
This makes it troublesome.
Because the Finnish constitution §12 guarantees freedom of expression.
Preventing political publications is a criminal offence: Abuse of Official Position, punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to two years.
The particular episode remains available in the EU on Apple Music and Spotify.
Note that this is not automated YouTube copyright take down system or other automated system, because then the video would be ...
Flock Safety CEO Says If You Don't Like His Pervasive Surveillance Cameras, You're A Terrorist
The CEO called anti-surveillance group DeFlock "terrorists" ā then openly admitted his AI tracks license plates, audio, Bluetooth, and anything that moves in view of his cameras.
This is not freedom. This is Big Brother.