Foreclosed homes, empty lots are next 'Occupy' targets
Rachel Maddow reports on an offshoot of the Occupy movement dedicated to defending struggling Americans for foreclosure and eviction.
By Miranda Leitsinger, msnbc.com
‘Occupy’ protesters and housing rights activists are planning to help families resist eviction from foreclosed homes and take control of vacant properties in some 25 U.S. cities on Tuesday, an effort aimed at focusing attention on the ongoing housing crisis and giving the movement a new focus after the dismantling of many of its encampments.
The protesters have been crafting proposals – often quietly to prevent police from learning about their intentions beforehand -- to defend families facing eviction or return others home. In Minneapolis, for example, they plan to help a Vietnam War veteran stay in his home, in New York, protesters will try to help a family get back into their house, and in Chicago, two sisters and their seven children will be moved into an abandoned single-family home, activists said.
"It’s part of a national day of action that we hope will kick off a wave of defenses and home re-occupations,” Max Berger, 26, told the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly late Thursday while requesting $6,400 in funding to buy tools for the project. "This is not just about one event; this is a huge frontier for us. We can do these kinds of actions all the time, and we should. And it doesn’t have to be just us. We got to do this one right so we can inspire people to do it theirselves.”
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They said agents had deposited the drug proceeds in accounts designated by traffickers, or in shell accounts set up by agents.
The officials said that while the D.E.A. conducted such operations in other countries, it began doing so in Mexico only in the past few years. The high-risk activities raise delicate questions about the agency’s effectiveness in bringing down drug kingpins, underscore diplomatic concerns about Mexican sovereignty, and blur the line between surveillance and facilitating crime. As it launders drug money, the agency often allows cartels to continue their operations over months or even years before making seizures or arrests.
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DEA launders Mexican profits of drug cartels... Some of same concerns from Fast and Furious gun program arise in these operations
WASHINGTON — Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials.
They said agents had deposited the drug proceeds in accounts designated by traffickers, or in shell accounts set up by agents.
The officials said that while the D.E.A. conducted such operations in other countries, it began doing so in Mexico only in the past few years. The high-risk activities raise delicate questions about the agency’s effectiveness in bringing down drug kingpins, underscore diplomatic concerns about Mexican sovereignty, and blur the line between surveillance and facilitating crime. As it launders drug money, the agency often allows cartels to continue their operations over months or even years before making seizures or arrests.
Repeating Public Mic: FOLLOW THE MONEY PEOPLE – FOLLOW THE MONEY PEOPLE - SUPER PAC GROUP(S) "CITIZENS UNITED V FEC" FEEDS THE NEED FOR GREED AND INDEED SUSTAINS THE CONTINUING CORRUPTION! “Insider Trading 4 Personal Greed; Money, Sex, Dope and Guns... NWO!”
20 Arrested in Alleged Mob-Linked Sex-Trafficking Ring in New York
All the defendants -- alleged members of both the Gambino and Bonanno crime families -- are expected to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein in Manhattan federal court Wednesday afternoon.
The ring would provide women to owners and operators of strip clubs in Queens and Long Island and would charge the clubs "protection" money, authorities said.
"The defendants procured and sent these women false job offers for waitressing and other positions they would then include on their visa applications. However, once the women arrived in the U.S., they worked as exotic dancers at the strip clubs, in violation of visa rules prohibiting employment in the adult entertainment industry," prosecutors said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/30/20-arrested-in-alleged-mob-linked-sex-trafficking-ring-at-new-york-strip-clubs/#ixzz1fahq7Ix4
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/30/20-arrested-in-alleged-mob-linked-sex-trafficking-ring-at-new-york-strip-clubs/#ixzz1fahq7Ix4
