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Judge says recommended 9- to-11 year prison sentence for Matt Gaetz pal may be too low
November 30, 2022
Former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg will face a judge this Thursday to be sentenced federal charges that include child sex trafficking and aggravated identity theft -- charges that prosecutors say deserve a guideline prison term of 9.25 to 11 years, Click Orlando reports.
Greenberg’s attorney argued that his client deserves a more lenient sentence because he has provided assistance to investigators on other criminal cases.
"U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell indicated the federal guideline sentence may not adequately punish Greenberg for his extensive and unrelated crimes, including stalking a political rival, defrauding the Small Business Administration in a COVID-19 relief scheme, defrauding Seminole County by running a personal cryptocurrency business run out of the tax collector’s office, and manufacturing fake driver’s licenses," Click Orlando's report stated.
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Meghan and Harry allies say Palace racism reports vindicate couple's long-standing fears
November 30, 2022
Allies are standing in support of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, after the recent revelations that Prince William's godmother, Lady Susan Hussey had a racist exchange with Ngozi Fulani, of the community initiative Sistah Space.
The high-ranking Buckingham Palace pal has resigned since the incident became public, but the exchange is just another in a line of racist incidents coming from the British Royal Family.
Fulani wrote about the exchange she had with Lady Hussey, in which the palace aide asked where Fulani was from. She explained that she was born in Britain, but Hussey persisted, asking where she was really from, the implication was that because she was Black, she wasn't actually from Britain.
"No, what part of Africa are YOU from? Hussey asked.
"I don't know, they didn't leave any records," Fulani said.
"Well, you must know where you're from, I spent time in France. Where are you from?" Hussey came back.
"Here. The UK," explained Fulani.
"No, but what Nationality are you?" Hussey asked again.
"I am born here and am British," Fulani tried to explain again.
"No, but where do you really come from, where do your people come from?" Hussey asked again.
"'My people,' lady, what is this?" Fulani asked.
"Oh, I can see I am going to have a challenge getting you to say where you are from. When did you first come here," Hussey ked pressing, not realizing what she was revealing about herself.
"Lady! I'm a British national, my parents came here in the 50's when—" Fulani said before Hussey was cut off.
"Oh, I knew we'd get there in the end, you're Caribbean!" Hussey said.
"No, lady, I'm of African heritage, Caribbean descent, and British nationality," Fulani explained.
Over the past several years Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan have spoken out about the racism they've experienced in the Palace and even from their own family members. Harry revealed in the interview with Oprah that he and his father didn't speak for a while and made it clear that his grandparents, the Queen and Prince Phillip were always welcoming and loving toward Meghan.
At one point, however, there was a discussion about what "color" Harry and Meghan's children would be, given that she is Black. An interview with the former counterterrorism police chief revealed that the couple faced “disgusting and very real” threats from right-wing extremists. He was in charge of the royal protection while working at the Metropolitan Police.
Speaking to Britain’s Channel 4 News, Neil Basu said, “If you’d seen the stuff that was written, and you were receiving it … you would feel under threat all of the time."
Nadine White, race correspondent and columnist for the Independent spoke with Fulani about the incident and the public outcry that has followed.
"Ngozi Fulani tells me she hasn't heard from the palace [or] received [an] apology after the resignation of the aide who made racially offensive remarks." She also tweeted that the incident is continued evidence of "racism in the royal family" and "calls for anti-racism training to be rolled out across royal households."
The Palace said that they have reached out, so it isn't clear whether that happened after the report or if it wasn't true.
It's being seen by Harry and Meghan fans as vindication for their ongoing comments about the danger they faced and their desperate need for security. Things got so bad at one point that while pregnant with their son, Archie, Meghan was thinking about suicide. After seeing what his mother went through, Harry said that it was important they take major steps to ensure he and his family always felt safe and were able to have a life outside the palace.
"It’s funny how some people clutch their pearls when people bring up British colonialism," said Yashar Ali, New York MagazineNew York Magazine. "Especially when they bring it up in the context of the royal family and its courtiers. But here’s a perfect example of a colonial attitude in Prince William’s godmother. Not the only one!"
Managing director of Word In Black, Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier, tweeted about the words from Lady Hussey that are all too familiar to people of color.
"The good ol yeah, but where are you REALLY from?" she said. "And these people tried to act like Meghan Markle made it all up. SMH... Also this isn't just a random *staff member* -- it's Prince William's GODMOTHER, Lady Susan Hussey."
The first reports about the news were that Hussey was nothing more than a palace aide, when in fact, she's a member of the insiders.
Political commentator Matthew Stadlen noted, "The obvious question now is: Just how prevalent is racism at the heart of the Royal Family?
All of this comes as Prince William and Kate are arriving in America for the first time in eight years. The trip begins in Boston, Massachusettes, ironically the state in which the "shot heard round the world" took place that began the American Revelution against the British in 1775.
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MAGA world is relying on this little-known 'legal nerd' to represent them in court
November 30, 2022
Stanley Woodward is a veteran attorney who has recently taken on clients ranging from Jan. 6 rioters to ex-Trump aides, making him "the most prolific Trump-world warrior you’ve never heard of," according to a new report from Politico.
"Those who know Woodward say Trumpian figures are drawn to him precisely because he’s what many lawyers who end up in Trump circles are not," Politico's report states. "He’s neither a bomb-thrower nor a headline-seeker. He’s a law nerd in a world of political operatives. And it’s the separation he has from the Trump loyalty-at-any-cost mentality that’s made him in demand among MAGA figures embroiled in the legal morass that followed Trump since Jan. 6."
Trump’s Save America PAC has shelled out $120,000 to Woodward's law firm between Oct. 2020 and Sept. 2021. While not much is known about Woodward's politics, his law firm partner, Stanley Brand, says the fact that their client list contains so many people linked to Trump is purely "happenstantial."
"No one I’m aware of has asked us what our political bona fides are,” said Brand. “What they care about is, how do we practice defense? There’s no litmus test for us.”
Politico reports that Woodward has forged "amicable relationships" with judges and the prosecutors he litigates against -- which has revealed itself at various moments during the Oath Keepers trial.
"A few days after his late-October scooter accident, Woodward returned to the courthouse, right arm in a sling, to resume Meggs’ seditious conspiracy defense," Politico reports. "His return was greeted by DOJ and defense attorneys, as well as U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta, with a warm round of applause. On Nov. 14, when Mehta and another Oath Keeper defense attorney debated whether to introduce evidence about his client’s use of the potent pain medication Opana, someone jokingly chimed in, 'Mr. Woodward can testify.'"
Read the full report over at Politico.
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