Inver Grove Heights Man Sentenced for Possessing Child Pornography

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Inver Grove Heights Man Sentenced for Possessing Child Pornography

A 35-year-old Inver Grove Heights man was sentenced earlier today in federal court in Minneapolis for possessing more than 600 images of child pornography. United States District Court Chief Judge Michael J. Davis sentenced Matthew Charles Stuart to 90 days in prison on one count of possession of child pornography. In addition, Stuart will serve 15 years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. He was indicted on December 16, 2009 and pleaded guilty on February 8, 2010.

In his plea agreement, Stuart admitted that on June 2, 2009, he possessed more than 600 images of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct. In addition, Stuart admitted downloading the images onto his home computer from the Internet.

This case was the result of an investigation by the Inver Grove Heights Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an affiliate agency of the Minnesota Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Richard Newberry, Michelle E. Jones, and Karen B. Schommer.

The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to combating the sexual exploitation of children. For more information about these efforts, visit the Department’s Project Safe Childhood website at www.projectsafechildhood.gov Read more at minneapolis.fbi.gov

 

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Drunk Driving, Beating Your Wife, and Other Things That Won't Get You Fired from the FBI

CNN laid hands on some internal FBI documents rounding up the Bureau's disciplinary actions since 2008. Guess what? Putting your wife in the hospital gets a 45-day suspension, but fudging an expense report or smoking marijuana gets you fired.

The FBI helpfully collects all the disciplinary actions—suspensions, terminations, etc.—adjudicated by its Office of Professional Responsibility and sends them out to employees as a sort of warning. CNN recently obtained some of the synopses of OPR cases, and it sounds like G-Men have all the fun—like making sex tapes with your reporter girlfriend, looking up the criminal records of "hot" celebrities in confidential databases, and getting high.

But it turns out that the FBI has some strange priorities, letting agents slide with a suspension when they start screwing a confidential source and jeopardizing investigations and bringing the hammer down when they lie about expenses. (It's good to know, though, that screaming "Rodney King!" out your car window at a traffic stop, losing control of your vehicle, and almost running over a police officer—as one FBI employee did—will still cost you your job in the bureau.

Here are some hilarious hijinks that didn't result in termination:

Punching a nurse: Throwing a phone at your wife, causing medical injury: Selling illegal firearms: Searching for dirt on "hot" celebrities: "Extensive and repeated" sexual contact with an informant: And here's what will get you fired: Shoplifting: Faking taxi expenses: Smoking pot: Sharing confidential information with your girlfriend and threatening to release your sex tape when you break up: Screaming "Rodney King!" at cops making a traffic stop and almost running them over: You can read all the FBI documents here (pdf). [Photo via Shutterstock.] Send an email to the author of this post at john@gawker.com. Read more at gawker.com

 

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The Last Thing You Want to Hear While Trapped on a Snowbound Bus

Hundreds of commuters were trapped in Chicago overnight Tuesday due to the snow. Passengers aboard one bus ended up panicking and tried to escape on foot, only to be beaten back by the storm. They probably had this maniacal driver.

From the AP:

With so little information out there, motorists said the mood slipped from jovial to apprehensive and even to panic. "The bus driver kept yelling,' We are all gonna die,'" said Ron Nelson, a 51-year-old salesman who was on a bus bound for a northern neighborhood where he lives. It wasn't clear if the driver was joking and "nobody thought it was funny," Nelson said at a hospital, where he was taken.

Hilarious joke! We're just spit-balling, but here are three things that would have probably been better for the bus driver to yell than "We are all gonna die":

1. "Only some of us are going to die." 2. "I can't wait to have some soup." 3. Anything other combination of words.

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Time to Enjoy Your Last Cigarette In Central Park

New York's city council just banned smoking in all parks by a vote of 36-12. Signs announcing the ban will be posted within 90 days, says the AP. Now what will shirtless middle-aged dudes do while rollerblading?

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Pictures of Julian Assange's Famous Leaky Condom Leaked

The Swedish rape and sexual molestation investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange hinges in part on a broken condom. Did Assange tear it on purpose? Pictures of that fateful condom have now been leaked, along with the entire police report.

Here are pictures of the split condom that started Nobel Peace Prize nominee Julian Assange's legal troubles, for which he is currently under house arrest fighting extradition to Sweden. [Click to enlarge]

One of Assange's two accusers, leftist activist Anna Ardin, claims he initially refused to wear the condom, then deliberately ripped it during sex after reluctantly agreeing to use it. (She also says he roughly held her down and tore her clothes.) After the encounter, Ardin saved the condom and turned it over to the police, who performed forensic analysis on it.

According to the analysis, "small scratches were observed in a few areas close to the split edge." However, the damage showed "no trace of what could be assigned to tools." Also, investigators did not find the words "Official CIA Trick Condom" on the condom anywhere.

These photos are part of a 100-page Swedish police report on the Assange case, including uncensored interviews and investigators' notes, which was originally posted anonymously to a file-sharing site. Among the new revelations is that Julian Assange doesn't flush the toilet. But the documents vanished soon after a Wired post about the report went live this evening. Luckily we saved a copy! Maybe we'll leak it to Wikileaks.

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Canadian Border Less Secure than Mexican Border

According to a new report, less than one percent of the U.S.-Canada border has an "acceptable level" of security. Mounties could be invading as we speak! Do you want your children listening to the Tragically Hip? Build a wall now!

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Sixth-Grader Finds Candy Heart That Says 'Nice Tits'

Usually, Valentine's Day candy hearts say boring things like "I LOVE YOU" and "MY BABY" (or, once, "WEB SITE.") But if you're lucky you'll get something exciting—like the 12-year-old who got a candy heart that said "NICE TITS."

Valentine's Day is around the corner, which means it's time to start collecting our favorite "Candy Heart Printed With Obscenity, Presumably Through Comedy of Errors" stories! Today's comes from North Highlands, Calif., where (reports KCRA) 12-year-old Ciara Bush found, well:

"I thought it was kinda shocking," said Ciara Bush, "I was reading them and I brought it to my mom after I saw it." Her parents were stunned at what they saw. "Nice Tits," said Derrick Deanda, reading the message printed on the small piece of candy.

(That excerpt reads kinda differently if you take out everything after "Deanda," doesn't it?) This is hilarious and horrible and traumatizing and so forth, because everyone knows the candy heart should have actually said "NICE BREASTS." It is also a good example of why we shouldn't teach children to read.

Boringly, though, most likely there was just some kind of mix-up at the candy-heart manufacturing plant and one of the novelty obscene candy hearts—seen pictured above—was put into one of the bags of innocent candy hearts that say things like "I LOVE YOU" and "SEXT ME," where it was eventually found by young, now permanently-scarred Ms. Bush. How romantic!

[KCRA; image via Julie Lane's Flickr]

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Wiki Tiki: 40 US politicians identified as slush funds are seized at Vatican Bank

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Wiki Tiki: 40 US politicians identified as slush funds are seized at Vatican Bank

Huge Financial Corruption

100s Of Arrests Due In US/EU?

Over 750 prominent European and US citizens to be arrested within weeks as a result of a multinational investigation into financial corruption.

Source : Rense.com posted on January 9th 2011

Slush fund accounts of major US politicians identified and seized at Vatican Bank (Rome). Connection established with Daniel Dal Bosco RICO indictment, which cites Giancarlo Bruno, Silvio Berlusconi & Ban Ki Moon.

On Wednesday 5th January 2011, it emerged that US establishment-related slush fund accounts had been located in, and seized from, the Vatican Bank in Rome. The source of funds for these accounts in almost every instance was found to be the US Treasury.

Beneficiaries of the covert Vatican accounts include Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and each of the Obama children, Michelle Obama’s mother, all the Bushes and the Clintons, including Chelsea Clinton, Joe Biden, Timothy Geithner, Janet Napolitano, several US Senators, including Mitch McConnell, several US Congressmen including John Boehner, several US Military Chiefs of Staff, the US Provost Marshal, the US Judge Advocate General, the US Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Roberts, several US Judges, the Pope, and several cardinals.

Big money was found in each of the accounts. The longer the beneficiaries have been in office, the greater the account balances were found to be. They range from a few million USD to more than a billion USD in the case of John Roberts. The total number of slush fund accounts so far identified at the Vatican Bank is said to be between 600 and 700. This number is likely to grow as international élite corruption investigations spread worldwide.

The disclosures have split the Roman Catholic Legatus organisation down the middle. Elizabeth Windsor (Queen Elizabeth II of England) is in the know and is intimately involved in the swirling and fissiparous covert power plays. Source : Ministry Values

The discs are full of details about the Swiss bank accounts belonging to more than 2,000 American, European and Asian individuals and multinational companies, Elmer has said. Among them, are some 40 politicians, as well as business leaders, celebrities, organized crime leaders and three major financial institutions. One of those banks is Bank Julius Baer, the former employer of Elmer. SOURCE : abcnews

The data included the offshore accounts of about 40 politicians, he said, and covered accounts at three banks, including his former employer. SOURCE : bbc.co.uk

As the Vatican proclaims its innocence, the courts are holding firm. An Italian court has rejected a Vatican appeal to lift the order to seize assets.

The Vatican Bank was founded in 1942 by Pope Pius XII to manage assets destined for religious or charitable works. The bank, located in the tower of Niccolo V, is not open to the public, but people who use it described the layout to the AP. Source : news.yahoo.com Read more at island-adv.com

 

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Talk Show Host: Obama Could be Impeached over Egypt

A nationally syndicated radio talk show host has called for Barack Obama to be impeached if he is secretly pushing Egypt to become an Islamist country ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood. Tammy Bruce called for Rep. Darrell Issa to investigate whether the Obama administration is helping the radical Islamic fundamentalist organization rise to power after the departure of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Media reports indicate a member of the Obama administration has met with the Muslim Brotherhood, and the United States may have supported a plan to take down Mubarak since at least 2008. “If it is found that Obama secretly facilitated or *encouraged* an Islamist takeover of Egypt, an ally, he should be impeached,” Bruce wrote.

Her call came in the form of four separate tweets, which she posted on her Twitter feed this afternoon:

“If it is found that Obama secretly facilitated or *encouraged* an Islamist takeover of Egypt, an ally, he should be impeached.”

“Impeachment? We have a President in up to his elbows in an Islamist takeover of Egypt while he ignores a Fed Judge order to void ObamaCare”

“The House impeaches–if there are grounds it should be done. @DarrellIssa needs to *immediately* determine Obama’s involvement w Egypt”

“@DocBruceP It’s more than *losing* Egypt, if Obama *facilitated* the overthrow of an ally in favor of our *enemy* that’s impeachment”

A Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt could have widespread and devastating effects throughout the Middle East and around the world. A leading member of the Brotherhood, Muhammad Ghannem, reportedly told the Iranian television channel Al-Alam that Egyptians should prepare for war with Israel.

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